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  • Melinda Doolittle in her First-Ever Nightclub Engagement

    MELINDA DOOLITTLE IN HER FIRST-EVER NIGHTCLUB ENGAGEMENTNOVEMBER 17 – 21, NEW YORK CITYFEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed ''Best of New York'' by New York Magazine, will debut MELINDA DOOLITTLE in her first-ever nightclub engagement from November 17 – 21. The “American Idol” finalist will perform an intimate ...
    Posted to Idolatry by Louise7 on October 31, 2009

  • Incontrovertible Proof of Norah Jones' Dullness

    A few years ago, I had to have an MRI. If there's one thing they want you to know, it's that you MUST NOT MOVE while you're in the machine. They used all this foam to keep my head immobile--I was all pinned in like a precious Asian pear--but they also piped music into the chamber. Music that, I can only assume was guaranteed not to cause a person ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by JuneThomas on October 29, 2009

  • Rosen -- please stop it.

    Seriously, man. You go down like a clown every time you try to do this pseudo-social science isht. I think a lot of people already addressed the spurious nature of ideas like ''real'' ''[pick racial/ethnic group here]'' ''music in the popism v. rockism/ stephen merritt/frere-jones' indie rock = white people ''controversies'' over the last few ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by Paula26 on October 23, 2009

  • The Singing Nun

    Since nobody has mentioned this yet, what about the Singing Nun in the background when Don goes to Miss Farrell's apartment? I found the contrast between the virginal singing in the background and Miss Farrell's ''I don't care about your marriage'' attitude about the affair to be the perfect prelude to the coming sexual revolution. The song ...
    Posted to TV Club by Dubois on October 19, 2009

  • DORF is real, but what are underlying causes?

    I agree that the DORF problematic badly afflicts ''cosmopolitan'' liberal white upper bourgeois taste (and especially places like Northampton). I have written on the problem of whiteness in music and the authenticity quest that sends white musicians and listeners after a holy grail of unmediated, non-commercialized expression, whether in premodern ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by adamtinkle on October 18, 2009

  • How Absurd

    Have you considered the possibility that it is you, and not all the listeners of NPR that has no musical taste? I HATE rap of any kind. The mere sound makes my stomach upset. And no, it isn't my narrow tastes. I loath only rap and modern R&B, which sounds a lot like cats fighting to me. The horrible gospel inspired vocal tricks every modern ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by CDBoch on October 15, 2009

  • the fastest way to discredit yourself as a music journalist

    is to write that there is and should be a correlation between Billboard chart results and critical reviews. That's like saying the Black Eyed Peas' ''Tonight's Gonna be a good night'' deserves a spot amongst every critics year-end top ten list. In the modern music climate, 90% of the time the reason a song can make it to the top of the charts ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by hanshollerbach on October 15, 2009

  • jody rosen = absolute rubbish

    This piece (of crap) immediately brought to mind Bloom's 'school of resentment'. Is Rosen suggesting that there are quotas to be filled here? That NPR should be required to include a certain number of African American artists on their lists of good music, especially since they're popular? NPR is listener supported radio, so it behooves them to ...
    Posted to Brow Beat by otto_otto on October 14, 2009

  • Vampire Music

    I am kind of disappointed that your catalog of vampire-things in pop culture did not include music. One such highlight that comes to mind would include Bauhaus' ''Bela Lugosi's Dead'' (1979, the end of the ''Anne Rice Era''), which later appeared on the soundtrack to The Hunger, a movie which the writer seems to pan. The other would be the Anne ...
    Posted to Culturebox by Tom Prezelski on September 23, 2009

  • I kinda liked the Target idea

    First of all, there are LOTS of bands--including U2--who have had Target-only albums. Also, how many times did we all see that iPod commercial when Viva la Vida was coming out? So to single out the Black-Eyed-Peas here is silly. Second, I don't have a problem with a band or an actor supporting a store that a majority of their fans are able to ...
    Posted to Ad Report Card by ahaak on June 22, 2009
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