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When Is It Too Early To Start Playing Holiday Music?

Heck, the Halloween candy is still on sale, and we already can't escape good cheer and holiday schmaltz. Sure, nothing compares to hearing the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York," Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping" for the first ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bing Crosby,  Arcade Fire (musician),  Devendra Banhart,  Karen O,  Nelly Furtado

Do We Listen To Female Recording Artists (Or Even Their Fellow Fans)?

I guess an easy answer would be some do, but many still don't. Granted, I have only anecdotal evidence, but it doesn't surprise me while digging through some of my last.fm contacts music libraries, I found that male artists far outweigh female ones. ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rufus Wainwright,  Kate Bush,  Rihanna,  Katy Perry (musician),  American Idol

The Science Of Predicting Hits

Many of us like to believe that there's a little magic behind the making of a hit single. Take a song like "I Gotta Feeling" by The Black Eyed Peas. That's a good song, judging by sales: It's on top of the Billboard pop chart. David Meredith, CEO of ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Black Eyed Peas,  NPR,  Radiohead (musician)

Separating The Art From The Artist

I like my idols flawed and human. If I'm going to give my fan dollars away, I'd rather give them to an honest foul-up than a soulless automaton parroting the same canned (read: correct) answers every time he meets the press. Drunken outbursts don't ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Kanye West,  John Phillips,  Mackenzie Phillips,  Woody Allen

When Childhood Icons Die

When hearing of Kurt Cobain's untimely, but not surprising, suicide 1n 1994, my initial reaction wasn't grief or shock, but fear that this would be one of those"defining moments" of my generation. Like the Baby Boomers before us had Elvis and John ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Jim Carroll,  Kurt Cobain,  John Hughes (politician),  Michael Jackson,  John Lennon

More Of The Music That Made You

From Being There's "Sunken Treasure," Wilco's Jeff Tweedy sings, "I got my name from rock and roll." I've noticed the older I get, the more I write about my favorites from years gone by -- the music that shaped me, or at least shaped my tastes -- ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  4 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Ryan Adams,  Jeff Tweedy,  Wilco (musician),  NPR,  The Rolling Stones (musician)

Trends and Tributes

Still, Hughes' taste in music was impeccable. He set the benchmark for a new era in film soundtracks where songs were as much the stars as the actors on the screen. He could hear a hit the same way a good A&R man smells the next big thing. Apparently, ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  21 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  The Smiths,  Thom Yorke

More On The Future Of Record Stores

Not with a bang: “It was the final day of business for the Virgin Megastore chain in North America, which at its peak had 23 locations but by Sunday was down to two… when the [Union Square] store opened, perhaps 90 percent of the merchandise had ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  7 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Virgin Megastore,  NPR

Mercury Prize 2009 Shortlist

The Mercury Prize exist solely to champion UK music by Promoting the 12 Albums of the Year by British or Irish artists There are no less than five female solo artists on the Mercury music prize shortlist – a record. Does this mark a sea change in pop? " ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  24 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Kenickie (musician),  Damien Rice,  Kasabian (musician),  Bat for Lashes

Some(song) Saved My Life Tonight

Sure, people much younger than me knew who Michael Jackson was and experienced him being out there as the “King of Pop” for many years muscially, as well as his ongoing legal and financial troubles the last almost-couple of decades. But most of them ...

From KPERFETTO, BlogHer,  10 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Michael Jackson,  Britney Spears,  Linda Thompson,  Tom Waits

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