On this day in 1992, Neil Diamond played the first of six sold out shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City, according to This Day in Music. Diamond...
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Billboard must be really good: These are labeled as the top country songs for the week of August 18. Seriously, they probably can deduce what will happen from...
Warren Zevon wrote songs that were unlike any others. Wikipedia starts its entry with the right tone. Zevon, it says, is “noted for including his...
The Spice Girls are reuniting for the closing ceremony of the Olympics, according to Entertainment Weekly.
Statesboro Blues, a song that of course is familiar to contemporary music fans, is credited to Blind Willie McTell. McTell is an interesting figure in the...
Adam Yauch, the co-founder of the Beastie Boys, wrote in his will that no “image or name or any music or any artistic property” can be used in...
Yesterday, I mistakenly set out to write a post about Paul Robeson’s birthday, which isn’t for eight months. I had the good sense (if I do say so...
As a rule, I know very little about performers who were born after I graduated from high school. That’s the case with Santigold, who used to be Santogold...
This is just a test. The links below don’t go anywhere. There’s nothing to see here other than a test. dd this is a test of the new template leets...
Many good ideas on what to post come from the “this day in music”-type sites around the Web. I was visiting one earlier today and accidentally...






