Music publishing mogul, Brill Building pimp, Monkee puppetmaster, and stilted ’70s late-night TV icon Don Kirsher went to the great NARAS shindig in the sky today. The Man With The Golden Ear guided and influenced careers ranging from Bobby Darin to Carole King to Neil Diamond to the Righteous Brothers to, um, The Archies… but [...]
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He’s Lost That Livin’ Feeling: Don Kirshner, R.I.P.
January 18, 2011Superbowl Sunday
February 7, 2010And if you want to hear the result of what Micky Dolenz packed into that super bowl of his, look no further than The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees 3 CD boxed set, available now via mail order from Rhino (rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated) Records. We’ll have a full review [...]
Tweeter & The Monkee Men
October 1, 2009BTRNR is on Twitter effective immediately. We don’t know what this means other than the fact that we’ll probably be letting you all know – sorry, tweeting – when a song we like comes on a bar jukebox. There was no way to spell out “Born To Rock & Roll” without it looking like a [...]
How many times do I have to make this climb?
June 11, 2009And the cavalcade of shitty news continues: Our Man Thorkelson’s cancer is back. Send some good vibes Pete’s way and in the meantime, dig some hot banjo action from Phoenix in early ’67.
Fine man, crazy man, he can’t see the sound of the sunset, sound of the sea
May 25, 2009Mike Nesmith – a.k.a. Papa Nez, Wool Hat, and, of course, Michael Blessing – will be playing one of his extremely infrequent live shows (we’re not kidding – this might be, like, the second one this decade) this afternoon at 4 PM EST/7 PM PT. Listen live on KPIG or at Nez’s own online chateau, [...]
