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Kelly Rowland And Michael Buble Vs. Take That: “How Deep Is Your Love”
Many fine artists have covered Bee Gees’ late ’70s chart-topper “How Deep Is Your Love”—from The Temptations and The Bird & The Bee to, er, Donny Osmond. And now Kelly Rowland has taken a stab at the Saturday Night Fever ballad, with a little help from jazz stud Michael Buble.
Now, up to this point, the only version that’s come close to the original has been the 1996 cover by Take That—mostly due to its creepy, Misery-esque video. Does Kelly and Michael’s rendition hold a candle to the That’s? Head below to find out.
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Okay, okay—we can admit that Miss Kelly’s update of “How Deep Is Your Love” manages to capture the sleepy, soothing elevator jam quality of the Bee Gees’ original. And Rowland is certainly no stranger to taking on the Gibb brothers’ classics—Destiny’s Child covered Samantha Sang’s “Emotion” (written by Barry and Robin Gibb) on their Survivor album.
David Bowie’s new makeover: Rock ‘n’ roll recluse (Reuters)
Reuters – David Bowie is spending his Golden Years in anonymity.
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Stephen King’s scary list: commercial radio, contemporary country music
What scares horrormeister Stephen King?
How about terrestrial radio?
The prolific author has always been a passionate music fan, even moonlighting as a rock star on occasion as a part-time member of Dave Barry’s ad hoc literary rock band, the Rock Bottom Remainders. But over time King found less and less that caught his ears when he would spin the radio dial, which is part of what led him to take on a key role in Shooter Jennings’ ambitious new concept album, “Black Ribbons,” a project that's explored in a full Calendar feature in Saturday's paper.
“I'm a big alt-country fan, but I got to a place in my own musical listening where I was starting to not listen anymore,” King said when he called the other day to talk about volunteering his voice as narrator of Jennings’ atmospheric tale of a late-night radio talk show host who is the last voice of freedom in an increasingly restrictive society.
“I didn’t buy much music anymore, then I got an XM radio and discovered this show, ‘Outlaw Country,’ hosted by Mojo Nixon, and to me that sounded like the way rock 'n' roll used to sound back in the day when I was a kid. It didn’t sound like country, it didn’t sound like rock, it sure didn’t sound like the country that’s on the radio where I come from.”
“Shooter was one of the artists they played, and I liked the thing he was doing, the playfulness of it,” King said. “I still don’t remember how he got my e-mail…but he sent me a note saying ‘I have this idea — would you be interested?’”
“He had visualized the last disc jockey in the world doing this kind of pirate radio thing — he’s going to be shut down, and he knew he was going to be shut down," said King, noting that he owns two radio stations himself: "one rock, one talk." "So on his last show he’s playing cuts from his favorite group, which was this [Hierophant] group Shooter had envisioned, and he’s playing all the songs on their record…. I heard that and said, ‘I want to be part of it.’”
Surfer Blood/the morning benders/Beach Fossils/Grooms/Turbo Fruits @ Market Hotel, Brooklyn 2/27/10
Top to bottom five-band blowout at Market Hotel Saturday night, the DIY space packed tight in time for the opening band’s 8:30 set, because 1) everybody had just spent two days locked inside at the mercy of the snowicane and 2) the opening band was the morning benders, a late add to a heavy bill [...]
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Julianne Hough Glad Not to Cut ‘Footloose’ … Just Yet
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Production on the remake of the classic movie, ‘Footloose,’ has been postponed, after director Kenny Ortega pulled out of the movie. But the delay certainly doesn’t bother one of the film’s stars, Julianne Hough.
“The new director is shooting a movie right now that he wrote, so it’s going to be postponed for awhile — which I’m actually really excited about because I get to tour,” the dancer/singer/actress tells CMT Radio. “I get to go back on the road and see the fans … I love doing the movies, but being able to do something live is so fulfilling.”
Julianne explains that the movie’s new director, Craig Brewer, wants to make the film more gritty and edgy, and less showtune oriented. ‘Gossip Girl’ star Chace Crawford will play the lead role originated by Kevin Bacon, with Julianne playing his girlfriend.
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Chilling Swedish Thriller
Chilling Swedish Thriller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original Swedish title, “Män som hatar kvinnor” – “Men Who Hate Women”) is based on the much lauded crime novel by the late Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsso
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