Tag Archives: dance music

The Mind Of Morel

Washington DC’s MetroWeekly has posted a lengthy interview with house music kingpin DJ Rich Morel in which Morel talks about performing with and producing for Cyndi Lauper, the famous Blowoff parties, and his fantastic new album, Death Of The Paperboy. An excerpt from Doug Rule’s The Mind Of Morel: MW: Your new album is called The Death of the Paperboy. …

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the artist, this week’s fab Swag Tuesday giftie is The Death Of The Paperboy, the new and fantastic double CD by superstar remixer/DJ Rich Morel. If you’ve been to a dance club this century, you’ve shaken your groove thing to Morel’s chart-topping remixes for Cyndi Lauper, Yoko Ono, Depeche Mode, The Killers, Pet Shop Boys, New Order and …

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Folsom Europe 2008

It took a few days to get my photos off of Aaron’s laptop, but I’ve finally posted a gallery of some of my pics from Berlin and Folsom Europe. There’s a small slideshow at the bottom of this post, but since a few of the pics are NSFW, you’ll probably want to view the full-screen versions on your home machine. …

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Shake The Veep!

Manhattan DJ Bill Pfeiffer has done a hot sleazy track from a snippet of Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech. “Take it from a gal who knows the north slope of Alaska.” Very Grace Jones circa Slave To The Rhythm. Love love it. Twenty years ago I wouldn’t have slept until I found the 12″ of this.

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Morel & Ono Notch Dance #1

Since I now follow Rich Morel’s chart successes the way I used to track Donna Summer’s, I must mention that this week Morel has his seventh #1 Billboard dance hit with his remix of Yoko Ono’s Give Peace A Chance. At 75 years old, Ono is the oldest person to have a dance chart number one, of which this latest …

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Donna Summer At Jones Beach

Yesterday afternoon, with even the lure of a free ticket unable to entice any of my Manhattan-centric friends to embark on the travel science project that is a trip to Nassau County on Long Island, I headed alone to the Donna Summer concert at Jones Beach. About 2 1/2 hours into my mistake-laden journey (6 train to the 7 train …

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Yaz At Terminal 5

Last night Aaron and I attended the first of three NYC shows by Yaz (Yazoo to you Brits) as they close out the American leg of their Reconnected reunion tour. It’s been over 25 years since Alison Moyet and Vince Clark released the second of their meager two album output, but you wouldn’t have known that by the reaction of …

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DJ Neil Lewis Collection For Sale

Dance music and vinyl junkies will be interested to learn that the vast collection of legendary late DJ Neil Lewis is now for sale. As one of the most highly regarded DJs on the international dance circuit for nearly two decades, Neil Lewis captivated audiences and inspired a generation of loyal fans from around the globe with his mesmerizing and …

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Bearforce1 – Shake That Thing

Furry disco bunnies Bearforce1 are back again with a new single and two new cast members. Man, these guys are like the Destiny’s Child of bear groups. How many Bearforce1-ers have there been so far? Seven? For this single they’ve dropped their Bears On 45 medley schtick.

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Ode To Lesbian Liplocks Tops Chart

The #2 pop single in the nation this week is Katy Perry’s ode to lesbian experimentation, I Kissed A Girl (which is not the Jill Sobule song of the same title from some years back). The Concerned Women of America are horrified: The song, performed by Katy Perry, is called I Kissed a Girl. The lyrics speak of kissing a …

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Cyndi Lauper – Into The Nightlife

Colton Ford lends his bod to Cyndi Lauper in this video shot at NYC’s Splash Bar. Meanwhile on the dance chart, Lauper’s collaboration with Rich Morel rockets into the top five. Will this be Morel’s 6th number one as a remixer/producer? The highlight of last week’s True Colors show at Radio City for me was Lauper’s performance of Set Your …

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Proof Of The End Times

Insult to injury: Donna Summer’s I’m A Fire was #1 last week and I didn’t even hear about it. It was her 17th song to top Billboard’s dance chart and 31st to make the top ten.

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Doin’ It Right, Night After Night

For some disco history, head over to PopDose where JMG blog-pal John Hughes has just posted a great piece on Donna Summer’s unmatched reign of 1979’s pop charts, when she scored three #1’s out of five Billboard Top Five smashes. John makes special note of Bad Girls album track Sunset People, which is easily the most popular Donna Summer track …

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