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It’s Monday…add a little crooner culture into your life.
All about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.Crooner Culture is all about the style, swagger, and sexy hip of the smooth-voiced singers from the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s era of music and life.
Two tracks from Crooner Culture that you should have on your iPod
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Some crooners, most notably Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby or Jean Sablon, incorporated other popular styles into their music, such as Blues, Dixieland and even …read more

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There was a plethora of great content in the Music Channel this month.  There were a ton of tips to new music, handfuls of concert reviews, album reviews, industry news, compilations and lists.
Here is a recap of some of the top content from this past month.  Enjoy!
Austin Sound Check already has the SXSW 2009 Dates.Big Apple Music Scene has a list of her favorite CD store in NYC.
Brit Music Scene begs for BoyZone to give up.
Christian Music Fan reviewed David Pettigrew “Every Minute Miracles”.
Concord Crazy delved onto New Zealand’s Coat of Arms.
Country Music Stop tells us about the Country Music’s …read more

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b5media’s Music Channel is pumped to announce the launch of two new blogs by two very talented bloggers.
Launched just in time to provide exclusive coverage of SXSW in Austin Texas, new b5media blog Austin Sound Check has quickly become a major draw for the channel. Austin Sound Check will cover the infuencial and breaking music scene of Austin Texas. The blog is headed by Austin Music specialist Ana Wolken.
A Texan by birth, but St. Louis-raised, Ana Wolken has been in and around the Austin music scene since returning to the Lonestar State in 2000. You are just …read more

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Around the b5media Music Channel, a few bloggers have listed off tracks that are stuck in their head. In addition to our list of ‘songs that get stuck in your mind‘ some others have listed songs (both good and bad) that they can’t shake. Have you say by checking them out….
Metal Martyr has listed some terrible songs that Scott would love to shake out of his melon.
Beatles Invasion throws it back a decade or two and lists some gems like Come On Eileen and a little Kung Fu Fighting
On the verge of insanity – because of songs like …read more

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In The Good Musician’s post – 19 Great Music Sites – Arjun features Music IP as the second best Music site on the web. Music IP has been a partner of b5media for quite some time, but I have to admit, I hadn’t been to the site in quite some time. After checking it out again, I instantly remember why it occupied so much of my time when I first discovered it.
“The fresh way to discover music” – Music IP
Music discovery is a wonderful way to spend/waste time. Music IP – among their many other functions – …read more

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