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Looking Back at Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour
In celebration of Madonna’s Rebel Heart Tour coming to DVD and Blu-ray in September, I’m reflecting on her fabulous Nashville concert stop back in January 2016. The two-hour-plus show was the first Music City performance of the superstar’s career, which now spans more than three decades. This egregious fact didn’t go unnoticed by the singer as she jokingly professed to be a “Nashville virgin” when she took the stage.
By Eric Allen8 years ago in Beat
Hidden in Sight
I remember you in my bones, a stranger in my sight and yet you are my birth mother. You return for me now and I feel empty darkness surrounds you. You reach for me and I run from you life is not present in your eyes. I am not strong enough to resist and I am being ripped away from my loved ones without a goodbye. My light where are you?
By Kopania Wehi8 years ago in Poets
8EEZ Playlist: Birthday Edition
Hello there! Today is the day that God or Mother Nature decided to pollute this world with my existence! So, I apologize to the world for soiling this universe with my natural weirdness and need to be frighteningly in-your-face about it. To make it up, I'll treat you to my current playlist, made up of songs from the 1980s that most people have by now, forgotten all about.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Beat
Revisionist History: Arguing Tutti Frutti with Malcolm Gladwell. Top Story - August 2017.
“Tutti Frutti, Aw Rooty, Tutti Frutti, Aw Rooty, A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!" –Little Richard 1955. On a recent episode of his exceptional podcast Revisionist History, journalist Malcolm Gladwell was discussing why country music embraces sadness while rock n’roll tended toward generalism in songwriting. Gladwell’s point was to emphasize the awe-inspiring power of music, especially sad music like that of his other subject on the show, the so-called “King of Tears,” songwriter Bobby Braddock. Braddock is the powerhouse behind such songs as "D.I.V.O.R.C.E" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today," heavily featured on Gladwell’s show.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Beat






























