

I definitely recommend keeping up with all the funny writers' strike picket signs, which may tide you over while you're waiting for writers to start working again. Stephen Thompson More recommendations from the Pop Culture Happy Hour newsletter Please justify the time that I spent researching and writing it. It is a really fascinating bit of cultural archaeology, and you will get such a snapshot of popular music for the last 40 years. It is really interesting to go back and listen to everything he has ever released in chronological order and hear the way that he has evolved as a satirist, as a songwriter, as a performer, how his band has evolved into this incredible Swiss Army knife that can reproduce any sound.
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If you've got, I don't know, what did it take? About 12 hours to listen to every single song he's released? He has 14 studio albums, plus an album of rarities that's on a box set, and a few other kind of stray singles here and there. The news peg that we're hanging this on is the 40th anniversary of the release of Weird Al Yankovic's self-titled debut album. I have spent the last several weeks listening to every song ever released by Weird Al Yankovic, so that I could put together a 5,600 word omnibus ranking of the 40 greatest Weird Al Yankovic songs for NPR Music's website. Music Lists 40 Songs From 40 Years Of 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Episodes premiere on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, but will end up streaming on HBO Max the next day. There's some Betty Boop, some Felix the Cat, a little Asterix in there. This time out, he's riffing on old-school animation, classic Disney. If you know Tartakovsky's work, you know that this guy designs worlds you just want to live in. Metaphor, adolescence, metaphor, blah.īut the show parcels out the relationships between the characters, and you get some interesting twists and connections as the show progresses. And this time, the three warrior spirits, which are a sorceress, a monk and a knight, end up inhabiting the bodies of kids and teenagers for some reason. This time out, the evil arises in a kind of alt universe, steampunk London, and something goes wrong. The show is about three immortal spirits who, whenever an ancient evil returns, inhabit and transform the bodies of some normal people to fight against it.
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Laying down rhythm section tracks demands studio time and Jackson didn’t want to bring the musicians together in her studio for fear of spreading COVID.Unicorn: Warrior's Eternal is a new animated series from Genndy Tartakovsky, who did Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack and Primal. Normally, the drums and bass tracks are recorded first, but this CD does not have drums or bass. She has several of the region’s best musicians playing on “I am only the Moon.” Everyone recorded their parts at home and sent the material to Jackson, who assembled the pieces in her garage studio in Kitchener.
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It took a full year - far longer than any of her previous 11 CDs. “Within three or four months, I pretty much had an entire album.” “Songs started to come to me naturally,” said Jackson. In the fall of 2020, as Ontario was entering the second wave of the pandemic, Jackson was writing again - lyrics first, then the music, same as usual. “It was definitely a common theme with my musical friends.” “I talked to other musicians and it was the same thing,” said Jackson. That had never happened to the prolific singer-songwriter before but the heaviness of widespread sickness, death and stay-at-home orders exacted a heavy toll. KITCHENER - During the first nine months of the pandemic Lynn Jackson did not pick up a guitar or sing a note.
