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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Saturday Night Live Music: "Good Intentions"

Every dorky alt-pop band from the 1990s deserved their 15 minutes of genuinely-earned musical respect, their one song that actually adds something to the three minutes it takes to listen to it. This was theirs.

Saturday, November 14, 2015

Saturday Night Live Music: "Did It in a Minute"

Daryl Hall and John Oates are having a blast here. The keyboards are going wild, they're playing with feedback, everyone in the band looks freshly scrubbed and overjoyed. After more than a decade of slogging through the low-end of the radio dial and surviving the disco revolution, Private Eyes was proving, by the middle of 1982, that Voices wasn't a one-off, and Hall & Oates were reading to conquer the charts. Come and play live in Toronto, hanging out with the SCTV guys in the meantime? Why not?

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

40 Years, 29 Lives

Worth remembering--one this anniversary, in particular.

Saturday, November 07, 2015

Saturday Night Live Music: "Why?"

Those who have ears, let them hear.