By Pvnch on The Earport via YouTube
With Queenz Flip, Young Chop and Jojo Capone.
Posted on March 31, 2020
Virtual Wacos
Yard Dog Party Lives
“On Friday, March 20th, 2020, the Waco Brothers took to the web and played a live set from Jon Langford’s art studio in Chicago in place of the canceled annual Bloodshot Records Yard Dog Party in Austin, Texas, where they’ve performed for 24 straight years.”
Posted on March 28, 2020
Kenny Rogers In The Beachwood
By Steve Rhodes
“Kenny Rogers, a prolific singer who played a major role in expanding the audience for country music in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Friday at his home in Sandy Springs, Ga. He was 81,” the New York Times (and many others, of course) reports.
“Singing in a husky voice that exuded sincerity and warmth, Mr. Rogers sold well over 100 million records in a career that spanned seven decades. He had 21 No. 1 country hits, including two – ‘Lady,’ written and produced by Lionel Richie, and ‘Islands in the Stream,’ composed by the Bee Gees and performed with Dolly Parton – that reached No. 1 on the pop chart as well.
“By the time he stopped performing, Mr. Rogers had placed more than 50 singles in the country Top 40, of which 20 also appeared in the pop Top 40.”
I liked Kenny Rogers well enough – who didn’t? – but “The Gambler” nearly got ruined for me by an ass who lived in the floor below me when I was in Wicker Park – the only dick we had in that house in my 18 years there.
Posted on March 21, 2020
Prosecutors Are Increasingly – And Misleadingly – Using Rap Lyrics As Evidence In Court
By Erik Nielson/The Conversation
Rapper Darrell Caldwell, better known to fans as Drakeo the Ruler, was on his way to stardom. Hailed as one of the most original rappers to emerge from Los Angeles in a generation, he had garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram, tens of millions of views on YouTube and the attention of media outlets like Spin, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
Now he’s on trial for his life, and prosecutors are planning to do what they’ve done to hundreds of other accused hip-hop artists: Use his own lyrics as evidence against him.
Posted on March 17, 2020
Drake’s “Chicago Freestyle” Explained
By Genius
Two-thirty baby won’t you meet me by The Bean?
Plus: “When To Say When.”
Posted on March 4, 2020