Results tagged “ringostarr”

Unfortunately, our pick of the week has already aired. Kimya Dawson and Adam Green of the Moldy Peaches performed our favorite song from the Juno soundtrack, "Anyone Else But You," on The View this morning. We're hoping it'll pop up on The View's website or on Youtube soon.

A little bit of old school, a little bit of new school on the charts this week.

Trying to Change the World... One Blog at a Time picked up on a story that Houstonist wrote about yesterday: three HISD schools that were in jeopardy of being shut down. He raised a lot of the perennial good points about the problems with public education in America and increasing class stratification and questioned the notion that underperforming schools should be shut down. A good, thoughtful post from one of Houstonist's favorite readers and local...

Houston native singer-songwriter Billy Preston has died at age 59. Preston was the only artist to receive label credit on a Beatles single, and his collaborations with the Fab Four over the years gave him the "fifth-Beatle" nickname. Preston continued to work with George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr after the Beatles breakup. He also joined the Rolling Stones on tour in the early 70's. As a solo artist, he's best known for...

The Beatles have finally agreed to start selling their music online and will shortly be joining the trend that is online music purchasing. According to Neil Aspinall the managing director of Apple Corps, who testified in the pending suit against Apple Computer, the company is in the process of digitally remastering the complete Beatles catalogue which would pave the way to sell the tracks online. Don't get too excited yet though, there is no...