Posts Tagged ‘music’
3.22.19 5 days and counting: An ‘Across the Universe’ spotlight on Lawrence Watt-Evans
In honor of our OMG WE GOT FUNDED NOW LET’S HIT STRETCH GOALS OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS ALSO NOW SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN* excitement for our speculative fiction, alternate universe book of Beatles short stories, Across the Universe, I am spotlighting one of our already-committed authors each day. All of our authors should be committed,…
Read More3.22.19 ‘Across the Universe’ Beatles Spec-Fic Anthology Now Open to Submissions – UPDATED
The anthology I am co-editing with Michael Ventrella, Across the Universe, is now open for submissions! Through a Kickstarter campaign (which successfully reached two stretch goals by the time it ended March 28), we were able to raise enough to go ahead with this project, and we have confirmations from authors Spider Robinson, David Gerrold,…
Read MoreSad songs say so much: the enduring appeal of songs that hurt your heart
You don’t have to look far to find songs about sadness. Popular music of all genres has trafficked forever in lyrics that tell terrible tales, suggest dark motives and insist that we all live in a vale of tears. Plus, there’s a catchy chorus.
Read MoreGoing ‘Through the Years’ with Casey Kasem and an imaginary ‘Weekly Top Million’
Dear Casey, You were the voice of music for me as a kid. Not literally: You didn’t sing, you didn’t play an instrument. But in my preadolescent days, there wasn’t a single Sunday that went by where I wasn’t glued to the radio for the four hours it took you to work through the Billboard…
Read MoreKaty Perry is not an anti-Semite. Probably.
I don't wander out in the world looking to get offended. If you go out looking for a fight, a fight will find you. But sometimes you don't have to look. That said, I have to ask: Katy Perry, really? For those who may not know, Katy Perry has a video coming out Thursday in…
Read MoreLife lessons in song, courtesy “American Idol” and Peter Cetera
"American Idol" is back on again, and it really is oh, so easy to look at those people and say: "Shit, I could do that." And though there's less meanness and crappy singers on than in the Simon Cowell years, it's even easier to say, "Those people are morons. Can't they hear themselves?" Answers: No,…
Read MoreWhy ‘American Idol’ has nothing to fear from me
Singing has a checkered past with me. I love singing, I love music, but put me in front of people to do it and things haven't always gone so well. (As a kid I was at a summer camp where we were all asked to perform in a pseudo talent show; I thought I could…
Read MoreNew religion
Skipped SXSW, the film/interactive/music extravaganza nuttiness in Austin, TX this year. Didn't miss it. Even more strangely, I didn't blink much when I learned that The Band of My Youth would be headlining a show at Stubb's, one of the best rib joints in the city, and home to big acts during the madness (including…
Read MoreTake the needle from the record
Thriller I had Thriller. Somewhere out there, 36 million (or thereabouts) did, or still do. I remember how it folded out in gatefold style (albums, folks, albums) to reveal Michael Jackson lounging in a white suit, black shirt (unbuttoned just slightly) and a tiger cub crawling on him. I can't say it was sexy, I…
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One of these days I'll have a TV in the same room as my computer (or my TV and my computer will have made sweet, sweet love and joined together in holy matrimony) and I'll be able to liveblog "Rock of Love Bus." Since I can't, I'll just have to scamper off to watch it…
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