14. ComaR, “I Want You D.A.N.C.E.” - Official website. - From the Best of Bootie 2008 compilation (free download from bootieusa.com) Bad mashups are probably pretty easy to do: place a crowd-pleasing chorus over a familiar riff, add more than a dash of incongruity for effect. But good mashups, like good cover versions, aren’t...
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15. Michael Jackson, “Happy” (1973) - From the 1973 album Music and Me. I’ve never been a big Michael Jackson fan, really. (I did tell my students once that “dance music was all about Side One of Off the Wall”, and was met with laughter — not because it was an album that came out...
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Continuing a series I more or less started in 2008 (here’s my 15 favorites from last year), I’ll be counting down the rest of the year and into 2010 with my list. (Best to start it now, because the order keeps changing, and many other songs — “Laura” by Girls, Parov Stelar’s “Blind Alley”,...
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And there I was, thinking I had somehow slacked off on my concert-going this year. (Movies are relatively low-impact nights out.) But in a few days I’m off to see my 20th concert of 2009 (Ben Kweller, who’s playing at a PTA fundraiser for Izzy’s elementary school), then Simian Mobile Disco again, and one...
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I’m part of this year’s LitCrawl — phase 3, to be exact (scroll down to the Fabric8 entry) — come by and say “hello!” PAWA Arkipelago at Litquake! 8:30 pm @ Fabric8 Gallery, 3318 22nd., San Francisco PAWA & Arkipelago Bookstore Present: Of History & Myths — Writings from Philippine-American Authors. Curator: Karen Llagas,...
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Reposting my brother Happy Vergara’s latest note on Facebook — I thought it needed to be seen by folks who are outside Facebook, pretty much because the good news is good and the bad news is, as Happy wrote me on IM, “really really bad.” ———- These are going to be pretty random, with...
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