Weird mix.
Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, the Alice Cooper Band, Dr. John and Darlene Love will be welcomed into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next spring, the organization will announce Wednesday.
Let's see though...Alice wrote "The Ballad of Dwight Frye" who played Renfield in the Lugosi Dracula and Tom Waits played Renfield in the Coppola Dracula. Darlene and Neil both worked with and for Phil Spector. Tom and Dr. John have long connections over the years, touring together and sharing musicians...
I'm still cracking up to "Horse Outside" by Rubberbandits. It's my first encounter with them but apparently they're a comedy hip-hop duo from Limerick. 1.5M views on YouTube so far and they're trying to get the song to #1 on the Irish and British charts by xmas. Warning: NSFW language
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The ultimate 1980s scifi and fantasy movie mixtape
Science fiction and fantasy films of the 1980s were filled with a ton of memorable, iconic, and patently ridiculous music. Here are 30+ of the decade's finest (and most painful) movie tunes for your listening pleasure.
The page has a video for each of the songs.
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The Rock and Rule soundtrack (1983)
Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and Earth, Wind, and Fire in a bizarre Nelvana film about mouse people or something.
Um... what?
25th Anniversary Edition available on Blu-Ray DVD! [link]
From the NYT Year in Ideas: The Guitar That Stays in Tune
In October, an engineer and a musician named Cosmos Lyles began selling EverTune, a guitar bridge that keeps the instrument from going out of tune no matter how hard its strings are strummed or bent.
EverTune is a purely mechanical spring-and-lever system: when a string stretches or slips, the springs apply the opposing force necessary to compensate for the shift, thus maintaining the correct tension and tuning.
If that works, that's amazing. But he needs to make one for ukes. Ukes go out of tune if you breathe wrong.
I think I'm either missing something or not as smart as I think I am [link]
This is still my favorite Andrewe Kuo chart.
Captain Beefheart, a.k.a. Don Van Vliet, dies at 69 [link]
