Natalie Merchant has signed with Nonesuch Records and will release her first new album in seven years next Spring. Her last album of original material was 2003's The House Carpenter's Daughter.Merchant started her career in 1981 at the age of 17 with 10,000 Maniacs and stayed with the group until 1993. The Maniacs were immensely popular in alternative rock circles, producing such radio staple...
Happy weekend everyone! Not sure why I am up so early on a Saturday morning...maybe I will go check out some cartoons! Well, I had the most bizarre dream last night...I was at some dive bar somewhere, and everyone was there to watch this big arm wrestling match...between Natalie Merchant and the Iron Sheik...Natalie game him a good go, but the Sheik won...Anyone care to analyze this one for me?...
Some songs, for better or worse, will always have a story attached to them for people like us. That is why we are here...what is just music to other people is a reason to exist for us. This song came on via the shuffle mode today and it reminded of my grandparents. My grandma passed away when she was 78 after an amazing, full life and after 59 years of marriage to my grandfather. Four weeks aft...
Did anyone else have to read that book by Elisabeth Kübler Ross in collge? Quite possibly the longest semester of my life...but I digress. Death is such great topic for songs. Probably because it's one of the only things that EVERYONE in the universe has in common. I just love a good dying song every now and then. And I am not goth at all, I swear. I don't have the fashion sense to be goth. Any..
First:Let me say that I used to hate Covers...now I search for them..I crave covers.Here is a list of covers from a torrent I downloaded a while back:1. 311 - Love Song (3:28)2. 311 - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (3:52)3. AC/DC - School Days (5:23)4. Acid Drinkers - N.I.B. (3:32)5. Aerosmith - Come Together (3:48)6. Aerosmith - Helter Skelter (3:16)7. Aerosmith - Remember (Walking In The S...
When i was growing up, my family would go to Mexico to visit my extended family about once a year. This was possibly the best thing my parents ever did for me. Growing up and loving LA going to rural towns and small cities in Mexico sure gave this city boy a nice change of pace. One of the many things I remember most of this, is how close to nature i got. Jumping over streams, climbing up rocky...