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Whoydensday: Matt Smith at Glastonbury Festival
Matt Smith thrilled fans at Glastonbury just by turning up on stage to introduce cult electronic dance duo Orbital, and then …
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again? No way…
..and you Aussies know the rest. Someone asked me the other day about Aussies and swearing,
Friday Hoyden: Annie Lennox
I can’t remember when I wasn’t a fan of Annie Lennox. That glorious voice and the amazing style of her costumes and performances, that sense of gracious absurdity, fierce compassion and joyous gravitas. She has always stood out.
Thursday Cheezburger: Classic Tracks
And today’s LOLcat theme is… Classic Tracks.
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Friday Hoyden: Aretha Franklin
So much to love – where to start?
“Confessional” compositions and Dudes
Anyhoo, I thought it might be fun to just have a thread listing all the songs from male performers/songwriters that draw on personal experiences and which have not been widely described as “confessional” or “diarising”.
Friday Hoydens: Jazzy Women
This post was inspired by this great gallery on Slate: Jazzy Women. (I only just discovered Slate’s Today’s Pictures feature – fascinating photos every day.) The gallery has 30 photos of fierce, passionate musical women – highly recommended. Here’s just one, of Nina Simone:
Who’s your favourite jazz music hoyden?
Wednesday Warm Fuzzies: Fully Epic Rapsody
It has now been 102 long days that Ive been here in the hospital all up, isolated with a case of Multi-Drug Resistant TB…. Yep… Still going… Is it normal if you want to eat your own leg?
Femmostroppo Reader – March 17, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
Acknowledgement of country ‘culture wars’
– “They’re at it again: …”
I’m not here to make you feel comfortable
– “To own my own privilege: I realised halfway through posting all these [...]
You better run, you better take cover
What the flying blueberry-flavoured hell is up with this idea that Men At Work now owe bazillions of dollars – up to 60% of their earnings on Down Under – to a pack of copyright trolls?
SMH:
Men at Work’s Down Under ripped off Kookaburra: court
Men at Work’s No.1 hit Down Under reproduced a “substantial [...]
Thursday Cheezburger: Music
Today’s Subjects theme is … Music!
Runner-up:
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Belated Friday Hoyden: Goodbye, voice of my childhood
I grew up as a folkie. Lots of people in our bushwalking club were also folkies, so we had serious singing around the campfire as well as going along to many ceilidhs and festivals. The voice of Mary Travers was one of our icons.
Hack – “Is your taste in music sexist?” A transcript.
I’ve finished transcribing Triple J’s Hack programme on the “Hottest 100 of All Time”. For the background on this, see these previous posts:
“Was the Hottest 100 Of All Time sexist? asks Triple J’s Hack”
“Alternative Youth Music Station Thinks There’s No Alternative to Being a Bloke”
[Please note that this is a quick 'n' dirty transcript, and [...]
Was the Hottest 100 Of All Time sexist? asks Triple J’s Hack
A couple of weeks ago, guest Hoyden Orlando asked why Triple J’s first draft of a “potted history of music” failed to showcase significant numbers of women. (The history has since been edited.)
The “Hottest 100 Of All Time” has since aired, and audiences have been shocked to find that only two songs in the top [...]
Alternative Youth Music Station Thinks There’s No Alternative to Being a Bloke
Today’s Guest Hoyden is regular commentor orlando, who returned to Sydney last year after a time living in the UK.
Over at Triple J right now it’s “Male Week”. The ABC’s Australia-wide, government funded youth music radio station has dedicated this week to examining what it is to be a man in Australia. Which would be [...]
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