Tha Year In Review by Grant Snider
Click on the image below to enlarge local cartoonist and music writer Grant Snider’s take on the year’s best albums. Categories: Music Tags: cartoons, Top of 08
Archives: December 2008
Don King and 100,000 turkeys: only in Kansas
Don King is in Kansas to pick up 100,000 turkeys. Huh? The Don King. The legendary, motormouthed boxing promoter with the flamboyant, I-just-got-electrocuted gray hair, the man who could sell a fight in a welfare office. This afternoon, King is picking up 100,000 turkeys from National Cold Storage in Bonner Springs. Sounds like King’s been delivering turkeys to needy families…
The Top 10 Reissues of 2008
It’s time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man’s deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell – and, occasionally, rock. “Scenes From an Italian Restaurant” and “Anthony’s Song (Movin’ Out)” remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era…
Happy holidays from Hallmark
We give Hallmark a hard time. So it’s only fair to point out when the hometown cardmaker does something cool. Here’s a toast to this year’s newest innovation: cards with sound chips that let you record your own message. I was already a fan of Hallmark’s cards with sound — I love this Christmas card: With a gem from Chris…
The 10 Greatest Sad Christmas Songs, Nos. 7 and 6: Michael Fracasso, Blind Boys of Alabama
7. “1913 Massacre,”Michael Fracasso (just because I’ve never heard Woody Guthrie’s version) Copper miners who make less than a dollar a day celebrate Christmas in an upstairs dance hall. But boss-thugs are milling around outside — one of him sticks his head in the door and yells “Fire!” then blocks the downstairs door. Seventy-three kids smother to death, crushed in…
Fatal1ty vs. Power & Light
When we last checked in with the best gamer ever to come out of Kansas City, Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel had just moved into a new Las Vegas apartment. But he isn’t taking time to settle down. With the holidays around the corner, he’s come home today for a visit. If you’re a celebrity stalker type, we’ve got a tip on…
Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008
In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today’s record industry, most major-label executives don’t have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They’re too busy recycling variations on what were once sure things while desperately searching for career exit…
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