I have been blogging online since before there were blogs. I began on a listserve at Marist University called QC-L back in the late 1990s. That evolved into a Blogger account I had at RadicalRuss.net during the George W. Bush Administration. From there, I joined the acclaimed LGBT blog Pam's House Blend as a guest blogger, leading to my accreditation to cover the 2008 Democratic National Convention nominating Barack Obama in Denver. During my career in marijuana legalization, I wrote numerous articles online and in print on the subject. I continue blogging from time to time on various subjects here and as much of my past blogging as I've been able to recover is found here as well.
Because I couldn’t find one anywhere that just gave me the damn data I was looking for without a whole bunch of video of the songs, paragraphs of filler material, and a metric shit-ton of pop-up ads, I decided to curate one myself.
The Reaper continues to lay wreckage to my Gen-X film icons, this week taking an actor I heard was a bad mother… [SHUT YOUR MOUTH] I’m just talkin’ ‘bout Shaft! [WE CAN DIG IT]. We’ve got a centenarian country performer, rock and pop from Japan, heavy metal from Argentina, electronic music from Venezuela, and singers from Greece, Algeria, and Russia.
The Reaper struck a huge blow to my Gen-X film & TV culture this week by taking both Chrissy and Paulie. And in the music world, we lost another one of the Isley Brothers. We’ve also got a two-band reggae legend, a UK one-hit wonder, and a man who hit #16 on the US charts twice. We’ve got musicians from Zimbabwe, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Spain, Sweden, Russia, and Japan, too.
The Grim Reaper loves himself a Friday the 13th show in October, so we’ve got quite the variety of music this week, from bluegrass to bubblegum, classical to classic rock, electronic to opera, and singers from Italy, France, Ukraine, and Australia.
What are the popular rock and soul songs with the longest instrumental introductions? Here is my collection of the Top 50.
It seems this week the ethereal orchestra needed some percussion, because the Reaper picked off four drummers from America, England, and South Africa. We’ve also got international artists from Norway, Lebanon, and India, and for classical fans, some piano and harpsichord.
The Reaper took it a bit easy this week, so we’ve got artists from the entire month of September to catch up on, including singers from Austria, Israel, and Cuba, a bassist, a trumpeter, and a flautist from the USA, and musicians from Australia and Austin, Texas. You’ll also hear from our headliner, the lead vocalist from the 60s group The Association.
This week the Reaper has selected for us classic girl group singers, hardcore American punks, some jazz-fusion funk, and an international lineup from England, Belgium, Croatia, and the Dominican Republic, bookended with mellow country from both sides of the pond.
A free-form rant on Alex Jones, the Trump kids, Saudi Arabia, Elon Musk, Hollywood scabs, and more entities in dire need of some consequences.
Last week, the Reaper overdid it by taking from us three headline acts. This week, we return to our world tour of the obscure, including rap from Mexico and Nigeria, American ska, English country-rock, a triple shot of jazz, some Christian Rock, and pop singers from the Czech Republic, Turkey, India, and France.
As UNC goes into its second active shooter lockdown this semester, I explain how progressives need to treat the 2nd Amendment like conservatives treated Roe v. Wade, with a half-century plan to couple ownership of modern arms with membership in a county militia.
Republicans run on the concept that government is the problem, government is dysfunctional, government can’t work, and then they get elected and prove it.
I used to be a Twitter power user (22K followers), but since Elon Musk turned it into a Nazi pub, I then migrated to Threads, until Mark Zuckerberg began throttling political speech and forced me off that, Facebook, and Instagram. Then TikTok went and kissed the Felon’s ring, so bye bye, there, too. You can find me primarily now on BlueSky, where I’m verified as @RadicalRuss.com. I’m also on Mastodon, kinda, and YouTube with our live stream and video archive.
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