Music

American Idol: Final Four!

by JJ on May 11, 2011

We are down to four remaining contestants for season 10! Please note: SPOILERS past this point! There will be 2 songs from each contestant again tonight: the first song will be one that inspires them and the second will be from the song book of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Lady Gaga will be this [...]

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Having music during any workout for me is a MUST! With the weather giving me more chances to walk outside, I am pumped to get some new tunes loaded on my iPod to keep me motivated! Also, I was able to get a great treadmill on Craigslist a few weeks ago, so that will keep [...]

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American Idol: Top Five!

by JJ on May 4, 2011

We are down to the top five! This week, the contestants got to work with Sheryl Crow–a good choice of guest artist! SPOILERS AHEAD! First up this week is James–he’s singing a 30 Seconds to Mars song–he’s definitely in his element and has the ability to woo a crowd. He’s got the pipes! Jacob is [...]

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Simple Can Be Better

by Dresden on May 3, 2011

Minimal Movie Posters is a new site that takes our favorite movies and reimagines the movie one-sheet as minimalistic art. It is reader submitted and some of the pieces are quite stunning. A few years ago Sound of Design took famous album covers and reworked them in a similar fashion. We wonder if you can [...]

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Today in History: Get On Up!

by JJ on May 3, 2011

On May 3, 1933 James Brown, “The Godfather of Soul” was born! This is an artist who remains on my iPod. I dare you not to tap your feet while listening to this song:

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American Idol: Six Remain!

by JJ on April 27, 2011

Good evening! Let’s get right to the show: the top SIX are left standing and tonight Scotty, Lauren, James, Jacob, Haley and Casey will perform songs from Carole King’s repertoire. Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds was an addition to the critiquing panel as the contestants were preparing their songs this week. Oooo they are doing solos AND [...]

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Getting ready for a night out on the town with your girlfriends? Or even a night in with a bottle of wine, a good movie and conversation? A good play-list of tunes to get ready for the evening is a necessity in my book! Here are my Top Five songs that are gonna be blasting [...]

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American Idol: Top Seven!

by JJ on April 20, 2011

Tonight the top 7 can sing any song from the 21st century–so a pretty wide open selection! I’m interested to see what everyone picks. We are starting off the evening with the “cast-off’s” doing a rendition of Pink’s “So What”–poor Paul is the only guy up there, and I’m not sure he had a lot [...]

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Weird Al asked permission to release this song and the story is that Gaga wanted to see the lyrics first. She is said to have refused permission for him to parody the song. He did it anyway.

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I met my husband when we both were in the Glee Club at the University of Pennsylvania. As such, we both have shared a stage with John Stephens* Legend. Even back then, he had a knack for turning a soulful song even more soulful. For example, when he was in the jazz A Capella group [...]

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