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Type in the name of your favorite band, and within moments the site will be streaming a radio station, featuring songs from that band and similar ones, to your desktop through your browser--no registration and no downloads required. You can fine-tune the playlist by using the thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons. It's a nifty way of discovering new artists who sort of sound like the bands you already like, and of becoming a font of music knowledge at parties. A new Backstage section is a searchable directory of artists and albums--"your door to the music...
DIED. Mike Douglas, 81, ever polite, even-keeled--and hugely successful--early TV talk-show host, whose 90-min. Mike Douglas Show aired from 1961 to 1982; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. As a big-band singer, he made the pop charts with the soapy 1966 hit The Men in My Little Girl's Life. For two decades he was host to guests ranging from a string of sitting and former U.S. Presidents to a preschooler named Tiger Woods (whose golf skills prompted fellow guest Bob Hope to joke, "I don't know what kind of drugs they...
...SPLIT The pair blamed busy schedules for it this summer. So it was more like 'Til Pilates Class and Band Practice Do Us Part...
This sitcom about a band of down-and-outers planning to burglarize the Rolling Stones' front man used to be called, with Snakes on a Plane directness, Let's Rob Mick Jagger. The folks at ABC changed the title to Let's Rob ..., then to the head-scratching The Knights of Prosperity. At some point, one suspects, they will redub it Please Don't Watch This Sitcom, but don't listen to them. This blue-collar heist comedy is a riot by any name...
...summer after Lenny's death I walked through Tompkins Square Park in the East Village as the Fugs, the ragged band of Beat poets who had played at Lenny's memorial service, were performing in the bandshell. Words Lenny had been busted for using now were being sung in public, where anyone could hear them. That's how fast the culture changed...