There's been plenty of ink about Sinead O'Connor's passing and no doubt will be more, but I liked this piece in Salon by Amanda Marcotte.

As every obituary of the 56-year-old groundbreaking Irish singer will no doubt mention, O'Connor is probably most famous for being the object of a worldwide misogynist temper tantrum, although she's also famous ( Read more... )

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I finished season 3 of The Great.

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It was, you know (great), but ( GIANT SPOILER ALERT )

David Crosby, 1960s Folk Rock Icon, Dies at 81When I was gifted a turntable a few years back and took up buying old records as a hobby, there were things I knew right away I wanted to focus on. Like, Nicks-era Fleetwood Mac* (hard to imagine but she wasn't always a member), British folk rock, 1950s Exotica and 1960s country ( Read more... )

Loretta Lynn, like John Denver, was a face I first knew from an appearance on The Muppet Show.

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Very sad news, Julee Cruise, singer and voice of Twin Peaks and Blue Velvet, Dead at 65. The article doesn't say what she died of, but it seems like it was natural causes and not sudden. She died at home and, judging from her husband's statement, it seems to have been expected.

I was OB. SESSED. with Twin Peaks when it originally aired, and that ( Read more... )

My brother texted me while I was at work to let me know Andrew Fletcher had died. We were both huge Depeche Mode fans back in the '80s; they were the first "alternative" band I liked and will always have a fond place in my heart because of it. (And also for that time they told Richard Spencer to go fuck himself.) The Pitchfork article said he died ( Read more... )