While recovering from Strep throat this week, I spent countless hours in bed nestled between my two dogs, laptop on lap-top, watching old Fleetwood Mac concert footage. In my medicated haze I could barely remember my own name, let alone song titles, so I checked out Wikipedia’s Rumours page for a list of songs I [...]
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The Beastie Boys Revisit Fight for Your Right
The Beastie Boys expand on their classic 1987 video for ‘(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)’ with a 30 minute short starring Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen. Written and directed by band member Adam Yauch, the film is being touted as a sequel to the original music video. While I didn’t love [...]
READ MORE »Killer Queen
I’ve been on a real Queen kick ever since I accidentally came across Queen Rocks Montreal-a show filmed in 1981 at the old Forum- on TV last week. I knew Freddie Mercury was a great performer, but I don’t think I quite understood the magnitude of his presence, and I certainly didn’t know he had [...]
READ MORE »Eight Days of Hanukkah – by Sen. Orrin Hatch
One of the most amusing, and downright heartwarming stories to come out of this holiday season, stars none other than Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah and a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yup, that’s right, THAT Orrin Hatch. (On an editorial side note, I’m running with the [...]
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Fleetwood Mac proves you can never break the Chain
After years of internal fighting and estrangement, Fleetwood Mac’s members reunited for a series of concert dates, culminating in a performance at Warner Brother’s Studio in Burbank California that would become The Dance. Available in both audio and video format, The Dance proved to be the last collaboration put out by the band before member [...]
READ MORE »Top 10 Video: Protest Songs
Music is born out of the soul of a person who needs to finally be heard. Slavery, Vietnam and the Great Depression are all movements that inspired protest music. Host Lesley Bishin walks you through the movements and the songs that were created in her segment “Protest Songs” for the Mojo Supreme Network: CLICK HERE [...]
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