http://www.go386.com/voxpop/ Music and pop culture news and reviews by Rick DeYampert en Copyright 2010 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Cute, country music pixie Taylor Swift walked away with Album of the Year at Sunday night's Grammy Awards. I kept hoping that the evil Kanye, that egomaniacal hip-hop rock star, would bum-rush the stage. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/02/hey-kanye-taylor-pulled-a-swift-one-at-grammys.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/02/hey-kanye-taylor-pulled-a-swift-one-at-grammys.html Vox Pop Kanye West music Taylor Swift Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00:00 -0500 Is heavy metal -- out of the spotlight for so long -- raising its purposefully putrid head in order to once again disturb mainstream America? http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/devilish-metal-still-tries-to-shock-and-awe.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/devilish-metal-still-tries-to-shock-and-awe.html Vox Pop Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:04:14 -0500 Luddites and baby boomers, rejoice! http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/those-mutant-beatles-still-rule.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/those-mutant-beatles-still-rule.html Vox Pop Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:28:56 -0500 As rock record covers go, this one certainly was edgy, unexpected. No, my shock in that autumn of 1984 wasn't spurred by the photo of the dour-faced lads of U2 -- even though they looked like young, thuggish dock workers who had just gotten shafted out of their pay. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/irish-rock-band-showed-its-king-ly-pride.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/irish-rock-band-showed-its-king-ly-pride.html Vox Pop Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:40:00 -0500 A funny thing happened on my way to listing my top 10 albums of all time a few years ago: I decided to list the albums that I actually listened to. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/beyonce-is-best-critics-list-stirs-debate.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/beyonce-is-best-critics-list-stirs-debate.html Vox Pop Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:06:16 -0500 Ancient prophets believed the future could be foretold by haruspicy -- the art of interpreting the entrails of sacrificed animals. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/new-years-predictions-sainthood-for-bruce-a-right-hook-for-kanye.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2010/01/new-years-predictions-sainthood-for-bruce-a-right-hook-for-kanye.html Vox Pop Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:28:38 -0500 When I was a tyke growing up in Los Alamos, N.M., I hadn't noticed Jean Shepherd, the guy behind "A Christmas Story," hanging out with my family around Christmastime. I hadn't noticed Shepherd taking notes as my Old Man became ... er, perturbed with the "assembly required" toys. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/a-christmas-story-has-a-leg-up-on-holiday-movies.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/a-christmas-story-has-a-leg-up-on-holiday-movies.html Vox Pop Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:32:56 -0500 When Iraqi musician Rahim AlHaj fled to the United States in 2000, a charity organization in Albuquerque, New Mexico, found him a gig. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/from-baghdad-to-grammy-iraqi-musician-rebounds.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/from-baghdad-to-grammy-iraqi-musician-rebounds.html Feature_Music Vox Pop Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:22:49 -0500 Philosopher Robert Anton Wilson observed/discovered a truth of humanity that he labeled the "Jumping Jesus Phenomenon." http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/we-humans-squiggle-with-more-and-more-knowledge.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/we-humans-squiggle-with-more-and-more-knowledge.html Vox Pop Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:41:57 -0500 Of all the many witty aphorisms conjured by Irish writer Oscar Wilde more than 100 years ago, none seems more appropriate to our age of instant media and celebrity culthood than this gem: "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/tiger-opens-gate-to-media-mania.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/12/tiger-opens-gate-to-media-mania.html Vox Pop Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:52:44 -0500 Two dead kings are walking the earth again. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/11/king-of-pop-trumps-king-of-rock.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/11/king-of-pop-trumps-king-of-rock.html Vox Pop Elvis Presley Michael Jackson Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:11:39 -0500 As William Faulkner famously wrote in his novel "Requiem for a Nun": "The past is never dead. It's not even past." http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/tim-mcgraw-raises-his-southern-voice----to-blacks-and-whites.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/tim-mcgraw-raises-his-southern-voice----to-blacks-and-whites.html Vox Pop Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:07 -0500 Each year when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stages its induction shindig, we rock fans get all giddy. http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/rockers-appear-human-in-rock-hall-jams.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/rockers-appear-human-in-rock-hall-jams.html Vox Pop Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:23:39 -0500 His Theatre of Death Tour comes Oct. 5 to Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/alice-cooper-heads-to-peabody.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/alice-cooper-heads-to-peabody.html In the news Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:50:48 -0500 When Alice Cooper birthed shock rock in the early 1970s, he certainly wasn't the first stage entertainer to go ghoul. (Google "Grand Guignol" to discover all the brain-drilling, throat-slashing, eye-stabbing antics that horrified Parisians in that theater during the 1890s and later). http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/its-shocking----alice-isnt-only-extreme-performer.html http://www.go386.com/voxpop/2009/10/its-shocking----alice-isnt-only-extreme-performer.html Vox Pop Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:27:10 -0500