Baseball’s greatest songs: 27 perfect songs, from Springsteen, Dylan and more

In honor of Opening Day, and the new Baseball Project album, our favorite songs about the national pastime

    

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Gut Check: Greg’s Favorite Songs and Records from 2013

I didn’t get around to listening to nearly as much crud as I normally do, because all I do these days is work. I do two shows a day and write books at night. I have no leisure time. Nothing. I eat takeout and sleep in gym clothes. My vacation time is spent with relatives, convincing them…
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We Haven’t Had a Real Christmas Hit in 19 Years

(Newser) – It has apparently become impossible to write a new Christmas classic. The holiday canon “isn’t just closed—it’s a location-undisclosed black site that’s locked down tighter than Santa’s workshop,” observes Chris Klimek at Slate. The last song that really fits the bill is M…
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VIDEO: Fergie and Josh Duhamel Sing Made Up Songs to Baby Axl

Fergie and Josh Duhamel reportedly make up silly songs to perform for their baby, Axl. Ref: SPL654723 211113 Video by: SNTV / Splash News

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Songs of Remembrance for Voices Now Silenced

In the Williamsburg basement bar where they had rehearsed their post-punk rock soon after arriving in Brooklyn from Iran, the surviving members of the Yellow Dogs — the band fractured last week after a gunman killed two of its members, as well as a friend, Mr. Eskandarian — gathered with dozens …
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Critic’s Notebook: Lou Reed’s New York Was Hell or Heaven

He wrote about hustlers, drag queens and speed freaks, and about the ordinary dreamers, misfits and down-and-outers who populated the hotels and nighttime streets of New York City — native-born New Yorkers like himself, and all the lost or marginal seekers who came to the city to become s…
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VIDEO: An Interview with Brett Dennen

In addition to strumming through three songs from his newest album, Smoke And Mirrors, Brett Dennen went on at length about the process by which his latest album was born, the themes that cycle through the song fare, and just how excited he is to hand these songs over to his…
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British Army chant hate, sectarian songs

UK Armed Forces at the Armed Forces Day in Ibrox stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, September 28, 2013.

Uniformed British soldiers have chanted hate filled sectarian songs on the Armed Forces Day at a football stadium in Scotland, a video uploaded to the internet has shown.
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VIDEO: Katy Perry Emerges From the Darkness

Speaking in Berlin at the launch of her new fragrance, Katy Perry revealed that the songs on her album ‘Prism’ were constructed after “coming through a dark period and a dark time” in her life. (Sept. 27)

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News in Brief: Lyrebirds dance to their own music

In mating display, male birds match moves to songs
By Susan Milius
Web edition: June 6, 2013
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Lyrebirds are famous for the mimicked sounds they sing, but they now have another claim to fame: They dance to their own songs.
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