Prince

As a huge Prince supporter, I do not think the world realizes his consciousness as a person of brown descent. Although he has appeal across all racial lines, Prince still knows he is a person of African descent. Although he has been catapulted into the stratosphere as a genius, musical prodigy he still knows that some people may look at him and say some mean things just because of his race and not because of his art. One song by him that I adore is called 2045 Radical man... MORE

As much as I joke, tease and praise, Prince, it is all LOVE. For my Princey POO POO is 50 today. Yes, 50 years old. Naah he is not OLD but young in heart and he can still dance his little heart out. In honor of his Purple royalness on www.last.fm we are having a Prince marathon in his honor with tributes and shout outs to him all day but you know for me everyday is a Prince love day but this one is extra special for Prince is 50! Check the marathon journal to honor P... MORE

I think MOG is in need of some TLC to fix his innards and who better to massage the ego than the tiny King of egocentrics (perfectly proportioned) Prince XXX Go shorty!!!

Day 1 already a memory, our merry band of audio-philes prepared for our busiest day of the weekend. We had almost no rest but started the day out right. Dale and I hunted and gathered for breakfast and returned to the nest with pancake makings and fresh fruit and yogurt. Many mini pots of coffee was brewed and we dug into our vittles, Lizzie scoring a heart shaped banana pancake. Dale has chronicled his day here and we have some overlap. My day also started at V... MORE

Saturday night at Coachella Festival after stellar sets by Kraftwerk & Portishead, the Purple Man himself performed. He did many of his hits like 'Controversy', 'I Feel For You', 'Seven', 'Purple Rain', 'Cream', 'Little Red Corvette' among many others that were mindblowingly great. He also did a few cover versions too. He did Sarah McLaughlin's beautiful song "Angel" but his cover of the Radiohead classic 'Creep' was transcendent. It took me a minute to realize what song... MORE

For many this past weekend meant another weekend at home enjoy the usual-alities of life. For a lucky 150,000 it meant Coachella. I spent this morning searching YouTube for the hottest highlights from this year's desert festival (so you wouldn't have to). Watch Prince get wacky playing his classic "Red Corvette," listen to Jack Johnson geek out over listening to Prince sound check, and be "Wow"ed by Kraftwerks cool visual display during "The Man Machine." It's all below fo... MORE

The bottom line: Saturday = good. Not excellent, not MIND-BLOWING but pretty god-damn good. (wait till Sunday's review folks). A Quickie Journal of the day? MGMT was shy. Brazilian's Bonde De Role was young- w. scream-pop electro. Singer-Songwriter Kate Nash, whilst cute, was too peachy-keen for my taste. MIA - in glow-in-the-dark plastic-garbage bag bustier overflowed her tent w. her brand of electro-erotica, complete with (un-censored) gun shots. The Islands were bad... MORE

I am sitting by the pool w. 10 other Coachella attendees- and we are all wondering if PRINCE will be worth it. According to Rollingstone, Coachella paid $4.8 Million to play today at Coachella (they again the RS source was Perez Hilton....remind me again how Rollingstone can quote Perez Hilton as a source?).....(See here: http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/04/11/princes-reported-coachella-price-48-million/) and since there are 60,000 sales - for 3 days- t... MORE

Have the organizers of Coachella lost their minds? Not only will they allegedly pay Prince a whopping $4.8 million for his performance at the festival, but someone (reportedly an inside source) claims they added him to the bill because the rest of the lineup is a bit lackluster!! Many sources on the net are quoting a report on PerezHilton.com which claims a "source" told him:

"The promoters added him to try and sell more tickets and make up for a less than stellar - in c

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It's a little odd to announce the headliner for your festival only two weeks before it takes place, but thats exactly what happened with Coachella and Prince. Portishead has been demoted as the lead act on Saturday, but I'm sure they understand.... it's PRINCE! "The addition is reminiscent of 2006, when Madonna joined the Coachella bill just a few weeks before the show. While she performed just five songs in the dance tent, Prince will play a full show on the main stage.... MORE

From the NEWS OF THE WORLD website... http://notw.typepad.com/showbiz/2008/02/prince-crippled.html If it's for real, all the best to the MAN. I'll gladly trade in a few splits for more GEE-tar.

Prince killed it at the Super Bowl XLI halftime show performance last year, and although we won't get to see him at this years big game we do have a small consellation. The day after Super Bowl XLII, Rapster Records is releasing a compilation of Prince songs covered by a few of today's artists. Controversy will put new spins on songs such as "Purple Rain", "Starfish & Coffee", and "She's Always in My Hair".

01 D'Angelo: "She's Always in My Hair" 02 Stina Nordenstam: ... MORE

Prince from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2004. I'm sure many of you have seen it, and it's probably been posted on MOG a million times, but a million times would not be enough. I can't get enough of this. Check out Dhani Harrison's face when Prince steps up to take over...he looks like he's seeing God walk on stage.

If you are on your computer and you want to hear some PRINCE music, please tune in to the show here: http://stream.wbai.org/ Thank you to my friend on Twitter.com for telling me. Please give hugs to: http://twitter.com/BillCammack http://twitter.com/JSmooth995