Lyric Stash

New Music: My Brightest Diamond: "Tainted Love" (Gloria Jones cover) [MP3] (Pitchfork)
"Tainted Love" is a guilty pleasure? Really? Seriously? The Pussycat Dolls or Marilyn Manson maybe, but not Soft Cell and certainly not Gloria Jones . My Brightest Diamond cover the song for Guilt By Association Vol. 2 , a sequel to the problematic 2007 collection on Engine Room. The whole concept comes across as patronizing, as if any song that falls outside the ...

Search the Archives (The Pitt News)
Too many damned musicians make money from other people's songs. Sadly, music abuse of this nature happens more often than you'd think and, in most instances, it goes unpunished.

Gary Glitter singalong at schools (Guardian Unlimited)
There is an outcry on the front page of the Sun and elsewhere today about the decision of an exam board to suggest GCSE music students should listen to a Gary Glitter track. Should kids be learning from Glitter? asks the paper in disappointingly small type at the end of page 5, having splashed on the front with Glitter GCSE Outrage. What Glitter has done is deeply and abidingly ...

RACHEL MAY | Local music highlights: Detroit's Death will live again in February (Detroit Free Press)
And Death lives on. The rebirth of Death, a Detroit-based garage punk band from the '70s, will occur by way of an album release set for February -- 34 years after it was originally recorded.

SingStar Amped (cnet.com.au)
This fourth karaoke release from Sony ironically rocks harder than the SingStar with "rocks" in the title.