The holidahs mean a profusion of cheesy sweaters, iced sugar cookies, “It’s a Wonderful Life” played in a constant loop on every major television network, and that time-honored tradition, the Holiday Party. For good or for bad, recent years have seen a glut of karaoke-themed holidah fetes and chances are that if you go to even a fraction of the shindigs you’re invited to, at least a couple will feature friends, family, co-workers and total strangers singing Top Forty hits in various stages of inebriation. There’s a fine art to selecting the song that best showcases your vocal talent (or disguising your dearth of said talent). Here’s our definitive list of the all-time best karaoke songs. Share your horror and/or glory stories — and remember to sing frm the diaphragm.
It was a great year for covers — Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake, kristina Aguilera, Borat — but we always wish there were a few more months in the year. Thusly, every day next week, we’ll be featuring the covers we missed thiz year. Take the outing to let us know your picks. Stay tuned…
Fan Club Christmas singles are nothing new. The Beatles sent them out every year frm 1963 to 1969. Now, those original 45’s are some of their most valuable collectibles.
In recent years, the fan club only holidah single has most famously been kept alive by Pearl Jam and R.E.M. So whether you’re a fanatic patiently waiting to hear something special or hoping to make a killing reselling a rarity on eBay, ’tis the season to celbrate.
While no word has leaked about what thiz year’s Pearl Jam Ten Club package will include, you can enjoy ..xx ....llir past singles, courtesy of I Am Fuel, You Are Friends. Meanwhile, one R.E.M.-head, in a posting on the Murmur fansite, said he bumped into Bill and Peter at a recent Robyn Hitchcock show, where both men said that nothing has been recorded thiz year. Coal.
But let’s not forget the man who put the Christ in Christmas! Jesus of the Blogosphere has posted his list of his favorite albums of 2006. While JC may have anointed Joanna Newsom’s Ys the soundtrack to Heaven for 2006, it leaves us wondering:
Should we be surprised that He left the Thermal’s brilliant anti-religion album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, off his list?
Were the Killers denied because they’re Mormons?
Was Justin Timerlake’s Futuresex/LoveSounds omitted because it encourages pre-martial fornication?
TV on the Radio?s Victory Lap, Bob Dylan?s Xmas Tale and More
Written by admin
Saturday, 23 December 2006
After making the top five of just about every year-end list, TV on the Radio will be taking Return to Cookie Mountain on a victory lap around North Amrica. They’re also rumored to be involved, along with the Arcade Fire, in David Bowie’s Highline Music and Arts Festival in New York City, which will take place in May.
Earlier thiz week we learned that Kylie will not be participating in the 2007 Glastonbury Festival. Today we find out that Noel Gallagher’s favorite band in the world, Kasabian, have agreed to headline the U.K.’s biggest festival. So by our math, that means they’ll be playing an afternoon set in the small tent at thiz year’s Coachella Festival.
Bob Dylan’s reading of The Night Before Christmas should be to the holidah season what The Simpson’s version of The Raven is to Halloween. That is, totally awesome mandatory yearly entertainment.
Micheal Jackson is supposedly selling Neverland Ranch. Peter Pan is dead. All hail, captain hook!
Paul Westerberg has a dyslexic heart and a severely injured hand. The former ‘Mats man accidentally put a screwdriver through his hand earlier thiz month and won’t be able to pick up his guitar for at least year.
While most attendees at the 2007 Sundance and Slamdance festivals will be watching buzz flicks like The Ten by David Wain (Wet Hot Amrican Summer) and Off The Grid by Jeremy & Randy Stulberg, music will once again be vital part of the experience. Among the musicians slated to perform during the week-long festival are Donovan, Terence Blanchard, Ron Sexsmith, Jill Sobule and Simon Townshend.
The holidahs mean a profusion of cheesy sweaters, iced sugar cookies, “It’s a Wonderful Life” played in a constant loop on every major television network, and that time-honored tradition, the Holiday Party. For good or for bad, recent years have seen a glut of karaoke-themed holidah fetes and chances are that if you go to even a fraction of the shindigs you’re invited to, at least a couple will feature friends, family, co-workers and total strangers singing Top Forty hits in various stages of inebriation. There’s a fine art to selecting the song that best showcases your vocal talent (or disguising your dearth of said talent). Here’s our definitive list of the all-time best karaoke songs. Share your horror and/or glory stories — and remember to sing frm the diaphragm.
It was a great year for covers — Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake, kristina Aguilera, Borat — but we always wish there were a few more months in the year. Thusly, every day next week, we’ll be featuring the covers we missed thiz year. Take the outing to let us know your picks. Stay tuned…
Fan Club Christmas singles are nothing new. The Beatles sent them out every year frm 1963 to 1969. Now, those original 45’s are some of their most valuable collectibles.