A startling report yesterday from our chief reporting rivals at the Associated Press claims that many "Oldies" radio stations are now beginning to spin songs from the 1980's along with their long-time tradition of hits from the 60's and 70's.
Also, despite my instance at continuing to quote them, "Oldies" is no longer what many of these stations are tagging their music by. Many of the stations are now flipping to "Classic Hits", in order to integrate the 80's playlist without alienating their potential new audience.
So now you could get a line-up of Creedence, Hendrix and...Tiffany? Styx, Grand Funk and...Wham!? Hmmm. Adam is torn on this one kids. On one hand, he misses his old 80's music station, which has died and will never return, so he welcomes these new 80's playing overloads, however, he know feels old. And is sad about it.
You ever heard of Chris Vallillo? No? That's probably because he is the most commercially unappealing recording artist in recent memory. That it, until that whole "Girl-l-icious" record drops...
Vallillo, the unknown historian-musician released an album inspired entirely by the life of Abraham Lincoln released on February 12th...LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY!
The acoustic snorefest dubbed the creative "Abraham Lincoln in Song" which promises to educate AS WELL as entertain, was born from a one-man show where Vallillo would play songs based on the life of Lincoln to period music. Ewww. Period music.
The 53 year-old Vallillo sums up the potentially-interested audiance quite nicely: "This should be of interest to anyone who loves Lincoln"...and no one else.
If you tuned into our live "blogcast" of last week's Grandpamy's award show, or were one of the dozen others who watched the show to it's entirety, you probably remember the ending sucked...hard.
Besides Herbie Hancock anticlimactically winning the years' Best Album honor, the build-up to a phenominal, jaw-dropping finale was electrifying the viewing audience and then...nothing. Show over. Balloons falling. A great show instantly turns into a suck-fest. We were left wondering "What happened?" and "Honestly, that COULDN'T have been their plan...could it?"
Well, thankfully for the Grammy's, this time it wasn't.
Chris Sligh, the chubby, curly-haired, American Idol finalist is able to claim something this week that past A.I. winners Taylor Hicks and Ruben Studdard can not: he has a record deal.
The Charleston, SC native was picked up by Atlanta-based Christian label Brash Records recently. Sligh's first single "Empty Me" is availible for radio play this week. His full-length LP will drop on May 6th.
I will be the first to admit that I have never heard of him prior to this news. I have checked out a few of his tracks however and I now dig his voice quite a bit. Feel free to judge me by that. And that alone.
Rockworms mini-poll: Will we ever heard from Chris Sligh following this album?
As we all know, every Tuesday new albums drop in the U.S. Maybe the whole world. I dunno. I hate going overseas. Smells too much. Anyway, here is the heat droppin' on Tuesday, February 12th.
(Note: You will notice that there are very few major releases this week. This is not too uncommon. Typically labels are hesitant to release a new album the Tuesday after the Grammy's because most of the listening audiance tends to purchase previosuly released albums from the show's winners.)
Michael Jackson: Thriller 25 - The 25th Anniversery version of The King of Pop's legendary record finally comes out today. I will probably get this eventually, but I am not in a rush to catch the remixes and duets with Akon, Fergie and the rest of the New Millenium Mid-Card Wonder Squad.
Smashing Pumpkins: American Gothic (EP) - Well, well, well. Billy slipped this one out under the rader, eh? I had this down for mid-March but it looks like it is now coming out today. Only 4 songs, but it is supposed to have alot of punch. Someone post a review on this.
Simple Plan: Simple Plan - Alot of people like these guys. I think my old radio station even gave me one of their t-shirts years ago. Honestly, it's not really my sound. Therefor it sucks. Maybe one of you Worms might want to crank out a review?
My boys over at Fox News (Fair And Balanced...They Report...You Decide) are currently reporting that two of my closest shorties are fighting and stuff.
“I don’t think she deserved (her Grammys). I think she needs to get her life together first, and then get the awards later," said NATALIE COLE, a singer who perhaps best known for winning a Grammy by singing a duet with a computer, after FINALLY getting off her OWN lengthy drug problem.
Cole went on to call Winehouse "crazy" (which Dave Chappelle warns us NEVER to do) and says that Amy's influence is going to teach youngsters that they can benefit and be rewarded by bad behavior.
As Kyle mentioned in his newsfeed a few days back, Shea Stadium in cooperation with their major proprietor, Major League Baseball's New York Mets are hosting New York legend, and RABID Yankees fan, Billy Joel to play the last concert at the legendary stadium.
Opened in 1964 in Flushing, Queens, Shea Stadium has played gracious host to a number of memorable and note-worthy musical performances. Argueably the most famous large-scale concert in music history took place at Shea when in 1965, a quartet from England named The Beatles opened their North American tour at Shea to a then record indoor audiance of 55,600. This was the first time at that a concert was attempted at a major outdoor stadium and the show set both the afformentioned attendence and revenue recrods. The Beatles returned in 1966 for an encore and did quite well at that one as well.
The esteemeed Nielsen Media Research group announced Monday that the 17.5 million viewers of Sunday night's yearly music awards would make it the third least- watched Grammy Awards in HISTORY...if final figures end up confirming those numbers. Which they will. Nielsen is THAT good.
Viewership for the song and dance party was down from the 20 million people who viewed the show last year. The 2006 awards, with a measly 17 million viewers, is the Grammy low point. The show had 17.3 million viewers in 1995, but they also had The Rembrants.
Personally, I feel partially responsible for this slip. We all should. Afterall, when you can get up-to-the-minute commentary on the Grammy's as they happen here at Rockworms.com, why even bother watching the show? The preformances WERE amazing though. Amy rocked my face off.
This is one of those times when I question if things like this should even be allowed on Rockworms...then I hope the cheap thrills will bring more traffic and I swallow my conscience. So if you're into John Mayer and/or Short 'n Curlys (or ideally, all of the above) go ahead and click read more .
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My boys over at Fox News (Fair And Balanced...They Report...You Decide) are currently reporting that two of my closest shorties are fighting and stuff.
