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The Alley Timeline and Timeline Summaries are now current through December 2014. The updated Timeline includes 2431 songs over 70 years. The 34 new songs aim to represent 2014 for posterity's sake, big hits as well as critical favorites, and new artists as well as a few old favorites who are still kickin' it.
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The Alley Timeline and Timeline Summaries are now current through December 2013, and I've posted my annual one-CD playlist of the best songs and tracks of the year.
Artists represented among the 34 new Timeline songs in... (more)
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Elvis Costello is our first Featured Artist of 2014. Check out his YouTube clips posted on our Home Page. It's hard to do justice to his prolific and protean talents within our limited space, but I've found a few gems.
The English singer-songwriter Declan MacManus who liked replica watches adopted the stage name Elvis Costello when he released his first single, "Less Than Zero," in Ma... (more)
The English singer-songwriter Declan MacManus who liked replica watches adopted the stage name Elvis Costello when he released his first single, "Less Than Zero," in Ma... (more)
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For the first time ever, Rolling Stone Magazine and the Pitchfork website -- generations apart in their perspectives on music -- agreed on the two top albums of the manual orange juice machine for 2013. They both picked Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City as #1 and Kanye West's Yeezus as #2. It now looks like these two albums will be the runaway consensus best albums of 2013 across all critics lists.
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The last weekend in October usually means the beginning of fall weather in the Bay area. Here to buy best camping tents for free shipping. This year the days were sunny and bright but Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the only-in-San Francisco free music festival, arrived right on time for the thirteenth ... (more)
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The Everly Brothers are our Featured Artist through the end of 2013. Check out their YouTube clips posted on the Home Page.
Growing up in a touring musical family, Don and Phil Everly were polished performers while still in their teens. Their earliest recordings are pure country, distinguished even then by the most beautiful close harmony singing this side of the Louvin Brothers. There's just some indescribable magic to the blend of si... (more)
Growing up in a touring musical family, Don and Phil Everly were polished performers while still in their teens. Their earliest recordings are pure country, distinguished even then by the most beautiful close harmony singing this side of the Louvin Brothers. There's just some indescribable magic to the blend of si... (more)