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Top Album Of The Week

Various
Sweet Honey in the Rock: A Tribute
Appleseed

let's face reality here. sweet honey in the rock: a tribute album is out of this world. the title is "live! jazz at lincoln center" and is a double album where the vocal quintet performs glorious music that was originally created by artists such as abbey lincoln, odetta, billie holiday, nina simone, miriam mekeba, carmen mcrae, bessie smith, sarah vaughan and many others. their voices have always been a glorious instrument among music lovers. singing unaccompanied, and here with music, lies within its repertoire rooted in the tradition of african choral style and its many extensions.

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Give These a High Five

  • Delicious Kirsten Thien 
    Screen Door
  • Songs of Inspiration The Wilburn Brothers 
    Varese Sarabande
  • Near the Sun Julie Peel 
    American Laundromat
  • Life Elvis Lloyd Carden 
    Guitar House
  • The Recipe Amiri 
    HipNott

 

 
AC/DC's Angus Young with Shelton		  
Shelton with Ozzy, seriously		  


Patti LaBelle and Shelton

  • Dirty Pretty Things Corinne Chapman Self-Release
  • The 1st Album Was Better Without a Face Redbird
  • First Melancholy Rick Cutler New Dude
  • Ten Shades of Blue Joe Pitts Kijam
  • Life of the Music Lauren Hooker Miles High Records
  • Permutation Jeff Palmer, Devin Garramone, John Fisher USA Rank
  • Apparition Steve Palmer Band Arythmia Records
  • No Other Road Lucy Billings Sassy Time
  • Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season 1 Various Artists Universal
  • Glow Donavon Frankenreiter Liquid Tamborine

DVD Review
Twisted Sister - A Twisted X-Mas - Live in Las Vegas
Eagle Rock Entertainment

Following the release of their A Twisted Christmas album in 2006, Twisted Sister performed a festive show in Las Vegas. Combining Christmas favorites with classic songs from the band's catalogue it is a uniquely Twisted Sister version of the holiday season! With Dee Snider as a very different kind of Santa Claus, the band are rocking as hard as ever on their particular take on all your best loved Christmas songs.
Book Review
Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera
Rex Brown with Mark EglintonDa Capo Press / Perseus Books

Few heavy metal acts survived the turmoil of the early 1990s music scene. Pantera was different. Instead of humoring the market, the band instead demanded that the audience come to them by releasing a series of fiercely uncompromising, platinum albums, including Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven—two #1 albums that, like Metallica’s And Justice for All, sold millions of copies despite minimal airplay. Rex Brown’s memoir is the definitive account of life inside one of rock’s biggest bands, which succeeded against all odds but ultimately ended in tragedy when iconic lead guitarist Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott was murdered mid-performance by a deranged fan. This is a lucid account of the previously untold story behind one of the most influential bands in heavy metal history, written by the man best qualified to tell the truth about those incredible and often difficult years of fame and excess.
Book Review
Detroit Rock City: THe Uncensored History of Rock'n'Roll in America's Loudest City
Steve MillerDa Capo Press / Perseus Books

Detroit Rock City is an oral history of Detroit and its music told by the people who were on the stage, in the clubs, the practice rooms, studios, and in the audience, blasting the music out and soaking it up, in every scene from 1967 to today. From fabled axe men like Ted Nugent, Dick Wagner, and James Williamson jump to Jack White, to pop flashes Suzi Quatro and Andrew W.K., to proto punkers Brother Wayne Kramer and Iggy Pop, Detroit slices the rest of the land with way more than its share of the Rock Pie. Detroit Rock City is the story that has never before been sprung, a frenzied and schooled account of both past and present, calling in the halcyon days of the Grande Ballroom and the Eastown Theater, where national acts who came thru were made to stand and deliver in the face of the always hard hitting local support acts. It moves on to the Michigan Palace, Bookies Club 870, City Club, Gold Dollar, and Magic Stick – all magical venues in America’s top rock city. Detroit Rock City brings these worlds to life all from the guys and dolls who picked up a Strat and jammed it into our collective craniums. From those behind the scenes cats who promoted, cajoled, lost their shirts, and popped the platters to the punters who drove from everywhere, this is the book that gives life to Detroit’s legend of loud.

Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton, Not Edward Snowden

By: Pratap Chatterjee

Military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton of McLean, Virginia, has shot into the news recently over two of its former employees: Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who has just revealed the extent of US global spying on electronic data of ordinary citizens around the world, and James Clapper, US director of national intelligence.

Clapper has come out vocally to condemn Snowden as a traitor to the public interest and the country, yet a review of Booz Allen's own history suggests that the government should be investigating his former employer, rather than the whistleblower.

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Read more of this song's lyrics.
Welcome to the Machine
By: Pink Floyd

Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Where have you been? It's alright we know where you've been.
You've been in the pipeline, filling in time,
provided with toys and Scouting for Boys.
You bought a guitar to punish your ma,
And you didn't like school, and you know you're nobody's fool,
So welcome to the machine.
Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It's alright we told you what to dream.
You dreamed of a big star, he played a mean guitar,

Book Recommendation

A Scene from the Godfather Part II

Author: God's Father
Publisher: Godfather Part II

VIEW ON THE SENATOR

Notices the tension in the room. The Chairman commences:

SENATOR KANE
We have here a witness who will
testify further on Michael
Corleone's rule of the criminal
empire that controls gambling in
this country and perhaps in other
countries. This witness had no
buffer between himself and Michael
Corleone. He can corroborate our
charges on enough counts for this
committee to consider a charge of
perjury against Michael Corleone.
(then he turns to Pentangeli)
Your name please, for the record.

PENTANGELI
Frank Pentangeli.

SENATOR KANE
Were you a member of the Corleone
Family? Were you under the
Caporegime Peter Clemenza, under
Vito Corleone, known as the
Godfather?

There is a long silence.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

He seems unable to speak.

VIEW ON THE SICILIAN

gazing at him.

VIEW ON PENTANGELI

PENTANGELI
I never knew no Godfather. I got
my own family.

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