Music Corner: What Would Jay-Z Do?

Unfortunately, I must report the apparent demise of The Go! Team. They didn’t break up or anything, but their new album sucks. This makes me sad. More on that in a moment. In the meantime, some things that don’t suck:
mp3:
Guilty Simpson — Man’s World
Ben Lee — What Would Jay-Z Do?
Evil Harrisons [...]

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Nighty Night

(Update: James Brown link fixed, thanks Ma Bell.)
For the uninitiated, “mashups” are the musical equivalent of ADHD — a bunch of songs fused together, testing your senses and memory. dj BC does them right. I linked to his ridiculously tremendous mashup of the Nintendo Wii soundtrack and Vanilla Ice’s “Play That Funky [...]

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Nighty Night

Martin Sexton, with a cover of “Hey Joe”.

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Friday Music Corner — Better Late Than Later

It seems there’s some new New Pornographers floating around! [Hype Machine]
Look!  Twenty-three songs in honor of Lindsay Lohan!  [MFR]
Good Lord, is Jenny Lewis a cute one. [Rock Sellout]

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Friday Music Corner — And So It Begins

As I mentioned last week, in addition to the usual batch of mp3’s, I’ll be telling you about some of my personal favorite albums. The general rules are in last week’s post. Upon further contemplation and the advice of the readers, I’m not going to rank the albums in any particular order. [...]

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Joe Paterno, Floridian Drug Mule

I knew that holier than thou creep would slip up eventually!
PALM BAY — A traffic stop for a car that ran a red light yielded 99 grams of cocaine and a trafficking arrest for a 23-year-old Palm Bay man, police said.

Joseph Paterno, of 1245 Palm Bay Rd., was charged with trafficking cocaine after Palm Bay [...]

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MCF: The Price Of Not Paying Attention

I had no idea that Jason Isbell left one of my favorite bands, Drive By Truckers. He was one of the three singers, and probably my favorite of the three, so this is a little disappointing. Anyway, here’s the rest of the band a few weeks ago in California, courtesy of Captain’s Dead.
Also, [...]

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Music Corner Friday — An Experiment

While I’ll certainly continue to drop occasional mp3’s in posts throughout the week, Friday will be the day where you can count on some free songs.  I think it’s a good way to end the work week for all of us, especially after dissecting the previous week’s games, the upcoming game, and whatever else is [...]

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Music Friday — That’s My Dog!

I clearly should’ve thought of this earlier, but here’s a tribute to the end of Michael Vick’s football career. Unless he’s planning to take on the Mean Machine, of course.
Met this little guy during my first hour in New Orleans in January:

mp3:
Alamo Race Track — “Don’t Beat This Dog”
Temple Of The Dog — “Call [...]

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The Coste Is Never Clear

Great article about Phillies’ backup catcher / folk hero Chris Coste in today’s Philly paper:
In Ottawa, few knew Coste’s story and he had only an inkling of the groundswell back home. It hit him only when optioned to Reading in May (after a brief call-up), when fans in the Phillies-friendly towns of Trenton, Harrisburg [...]

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Music Monday — All Drama And Turtle

I have a love/hate relationship with “Entourage”. I laugh, but it always seems like the show could be a thousand times better (although the last few episodes have been very good). If this show doesn’t end with a Johnny Drama and Turtle spinoff, there’s something very, very wrong with the world.
Anyway, here’s a [...]

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Music Monday — 40 Days Until Death And Destruction

Only 40 days until Penn State takes the field at Beaver Stadium. Forty days until Dan Connor returns and scatters opponents’ teeth like Chiclets shot from a Jugs machine.

With this in mind, here’s all the Penn State Blue Band music you’ll need for the upcoming season. These songs are courtesy of fightmusic.com, and [...]

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