Some 17,000 music tracks, photographs, videos, lectures are all available stramed online at the Cultural Equity Research Center – cataloged and search-able. For those that do not know who Alan Lomax is … (from Wikipedia): From 1937 to 1942, Lomax was Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress […]

Apparently musicians have been long puzzled what is the first chord of “A Hard Day’s Night” … Washing and separating the tracks – there is now an answer via Randy Bachman’s CBC radio show (audio only).    

Free to listen/stream or download HERE.

This is the unedited version so not for kids, not safe for work (certain scenes …) And yea, you know the off brands, they just don’t have the wall strength when you give it that extra squeeze, you don’t want splashing or cracking … The great American cup – across all socio-economic lines … and […]

If you ever thought, I like the Beatles but I just don’t have time to listen to all 226 of their tracks … Problem solved. Every Beatle sung-track in one track … Via Ramjak at Soundcloud. All you need is … 8 minutes and 22 seconds … Every Beatles tune, played together, sequenced in order […]

Of course, I agree with many on the list of Top 20 but … The top 20 riffs: 1. Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses 2. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 3. Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin 4. Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple 5. Enter Sandman – Metallica 6. […]

You take a bizarre, operatic song that is already weird (though a great 1,000% over the top rock operatic song) – then add the greatest living acting personality, William Shatner … you have the weirdest wake up call of the day … YOU CANNOT LOOK AWAY. I dare you. I defy you. 🙂 … but […]

First, his story is amazing – and while it’s easy to mock reality shows, at least with these competition, literally anyone can walk off the street and be ultimately judged on their talent … His singing actually begins at around the 3-minute point but his life story is pretty amazing. It’s interesting how music really […]

Amazon UK has :30 second previews of the soundtrack … Click on the PLAY portion of each listing. The US listing & pre-order is up but no previews yet.

The UK Guardian has done a fun roundup of alternative versions of the James Bond movie themes that either were pitched or commissioned but ultimately swapped out for the ones you know … Johnny Cash singing Thunderball? Alice Cooper – Man with a Golden Gun? Blondie – For Your Eyes Only? Check out the article […]