When country music critic Grady Smith sat down to write his list of the top 10 Best Country Albums of 2013 he made a startling revelation: All the chart-topping country songs of 2013 sounded exactly the same. …
“Fairytale of New York” is a Christmas song by the Celtic punk group The Pogues, released in 1987 and featuring singer Kirsty MacColl. The song is an Irish folk style ballad, written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan, and featured on The Pogues’ album If I Should Fall from Grace with God.
Now available on iTunes. All proceeds go to the LivWiseFund.com
Olivia Wise has Brain Cancer. She came into a recording studio for her first time and recorded the Katy Perry song Roar. She couldn’t walk or stand, she didn’t have her full breath or the energy she used to, and she was managing her new pains and new limitations. While her physical condition was rapidly fading, her spirit remained untouched. …
“Life During Wartime” is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album Fear of Music …
Its official title as a single, “Life During Wartime (This Ain’t No Party… This Ain’t No Disco… This Ain’t No Foolin’ Around)”, make it one of the longest-titled singles. …
… included in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
… Director Jon M. Chu, Choreographers Jamal Sims and Christopher Scott, Virgin America teammates, and dance stars like Todrick Hall and Madd Chadd to give our safety video a new song and dance — literally. …
… in December 2002, The Economist had quoted an expert as claiming that “No large airliner has ever made an emergency landing on water” in an article that goes on to charge, “So the life jackets … have little purpose other than to make passengers feel better.”
This idea was repeated in The Economist in September 2006 in an article which reported that “in the history of aviation the number of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on water is zero.”
Of note is the 15 January 2009 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 narrow-body jet, which successfully ditched in the North River section of the Hudson River …
All on board survived, showing that inflatable slide rafts and life jackets can sometimes serve their purposes, although photographs from the incident show that very few passengers were wearing life jackets. …
Dubbed as a “documentary-musical,” filmmaker Chelsea McMullan profiles Canadian indie singer-songwriter Rae Spoon through an intimate series of interviews, where she opens up candidly about growing up with strict evangelical Christian parents, feeling like a socially-awkward outcast, and her recent life-affirming process of living as a transgender person.
Cameras also roll as Spoon creates her most personal and introspective album to date — a project that takes her back to her sleepy hometown of Calgary.
Rick McCharles 