Nightwish

William Heise | January 28, 2010

If you’ve never heard of the band (and c’mon, we all Americans here; no one’s heard of them), Wikipedia reports that “Nightwish is Finland’s most successful band with more than 7 million albums & singles sold worldwide, 1 silver award, 11 gold awards, and 31 platinum awards.” I don’t know what any of those awards [...]

Lady Gaga

William Heise | January 21, 2010

I need to prove that I’m with it. I’m hip. I’m down with all you youthy cats. And that’s why I’ve been listening to Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance this week. This video has 110,000,000 hits on it. What could make me more popular with the youts of today? Okay, I really do love this song. [...]

Florence and the Machine

William Heise | January 15, 2010

My favorite song from a band that is topping the charts in British. The band that has not made it in the States. This may be on account of Florence’s eerie resemblance to Elfine in that old British favorite, Cold Comfort Farm: Good song, though.

Bootsy Collins!

William Heise | January 3, 2010

I bought a Greatest Hits album of my favorite funk musician, Bootsy Collins, over Christmas. This is my favorite song on the album, Hollywood Squares: Here’s a Bootsy bass solo, which, honestly, I included for the guy standing in boots and a diaper at the back of the stage. But I love Bootsy’s solo on [...]