The song you’re bound to hear all summer, if you haven’t already.
NPR has The Black Keys new album ‘Brothers’ available for free streaming. It’s excellent and the perfect way to get through your morning.
Via HBR and this college-whatever website:
Though most American Idol winners have been men, female winners have outperformed their male counterparts 6 to 1 when it comes to album sales, largely because of the runaway success of Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. The two most successful male veterans of the reality TV show, Chris Daughtry and Clay Aiken, weren’t winners.
Incredibly insightful. Absolutely addicting read. Still think she’s a dude.
A glorious live version from Under Great White Northern Lights.
Mind-blowing secret: I publish these throughout the week on my twitter account as I stumble across them.
(This remains one of my favorite praise songs.)
There are two types of people in this world: those are addicted to Diet Coke, and those who are not.
The Diet Coke ad which ran during the Oscars (with incredible music: Sweet Disposition by The Temper Trap) panders to those of us who are addicts, and I’m alright with being pandered to.
How many of you alumni would actually be able to pick this out of a lineup?
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You know that moment when you realize that you’ve been singing a song wrong your entire life? How about a song you sang practically every Sunday in church since you were 3-years-old? That happened to me over the weekend when I challenged Jasper friend John Byars to complete the following chorus which the members of Jasper’s First Baptist Church sang at the end of each service for the better part of 3 decades.
- I’m so glad I’m a part of the Family of God,
I’ve been washed in the fountain, cleansed by His Blood!
Joint heirs with Jesus as we travel this sod,
For I’m part of the family,
The Family of God
That part in bold? I’ve always said ‘hands’. Makes sense, right? I thought so, too.
