\"FRANK\" HAS TO HAVE BEEN AMY'S BEST ALBUM FROM BEGINNING TO END! WE HAVE DEFINITELY LOST A VERY TALENTED YOUNG LADY! BACK TO BLACK DID NOT DO HER JUSTICE. FRANK IS THE ONE!
It used to be that when America fought a war, we'd see on TV the caskets draped in the flag of our country. We'd know the price paid, and we'd feel that loss in a visceral way.
Minutes after CNN announced that Amy Winehouse had died, they started playing, on a loop, the image of her body in a bag being removed from her London apartment. The 27-year-old soul singer-songwriter lost the battle of depression, addiction… more »
There's really no debating that 2007 will be remembered, first and foremost, as the year Radiohead gleefully suicide-bombed those last stubborn fragments of the old music industry and swept the smoldering remnants into the new millennium. That story has already been told several thousand times over, though, so let's instead turn our attention to its polar opposite: Daptone Records, a tiny time-capsule studio and label in Brooklyn which channels the decades-gone glory days of R&B… more »
While Virgo is often considered to be the one sign driven by an almost insane desire for perfection and purity, a fair number of the artists that fall under its arc - from August 23rd to September 22nd - can hardly be called Puritanical. A quick check finds Charlie Parker, the archetypal bebop mainliner, shooting junk while deconstructing the songbook of his day in blistering triple-times. Then there's Gene Simmons. While Simmons has eschewed alcohol… more »