Crib Notes

Hi folks! We’ve returned today for the third and final part in the Corndogorama – Year of the Mustard King playlist trilogy.

For our last installment of meaty and tasty music, we’re focusing on ol’ fashioned yellow mustard. Bright yellow and tangy, American yellow mustard is a classic companion for many a summertime treat. Similarly, the bands on the yellow mustard playlist recall traditional rock and roll music— from the country-tinged to the modern and radio-ready.

Yellow Mustard playlist

Yellow Mustard tracklisting
1. Caddle – Mississippi Doublewide
2. The Bouldercrest Singing Group – Corndog Blues
3. Will Rogers Outfit – Walkin’ Home from War
4. The Hiss – Don’t Leave Me Out Here
5. Sunday Drive By – Calling Out
6. Young Antiques – Radio Kill Radio

PS: If, by chance, you begin missing our delicious mustard posts and happen to be in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, there’s always the World Famous Mustard Museum.

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This Saturday, the Atlanta History Center’s Woodruff Auditorium will play host to some famous faces, including one Atlanta native.

Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, formerly one-third of girl group TLC, will be in Atlanta with rolling out’s Female Success Factor, an entrepreneurial seminar for women that will offer panel discussions and networking opportunities. She will serve as a panelist at the event.

Chilli recently appeared on the BET Awards and has plans to release her first solo album, Bipolar, this September.

Female Success Factor is also hosted by the CoverGirl Queen Collection, which will be offering free makeovers for the first 50 guests. Other giveaways will take place at the reception following the event. CoverGirl will also be presenting Jamika Pessoa, their Atlanta finalist in the Every Woman is a Queen online model casting call.

In addition to Chilli, Caryn Ward, from CW’s “The Game,” blogger Necole Bitchie and Faith Morris, President of Owens Morris Communications, will participate in the panel discussions.

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Hey there, guys and gals! We’re back for the second installment of the Corndogorama – Year of the Mustard King playlist.

Today, we’re focusing on honey mustard, the go-to sweet sauce for your chicken fingers, french fries and, of course, corndogs. Like the condiment, the bands on the honey mustard playlist are all on the sweet side. Of course, the kick is often waiting just underneath that sing-along chorus, so don’t let your guard down for too long.

Honey Mustard playlist

The tracklisting
1. Snowden – Anti-Anti
2. James Hall – Evil Twin
3. David Railey and the Picture of Health - No Bullets/Words
4. The Holland Dutch – The Kids Are All Grown
5. Make the Fur Fly – No Surprise
6. Anna Kramer & the Lost Cause – When You See Him

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Mmmm, corndogs. Who can resist that tasty summertime treat — a mystery-meat hot dog all wrapped up in a blanket of fried batter? Vegetarians, maybe (though for the lacto-ovos among us, there are these lovely substitutes).

Luckily, this weekend Lenny’s Bar will host the 12th annual Corndogorama where they’ll be serving up plenty of those meaty lollipops (it sounds dirty, but they really are kind of like lollipops with that whole edible item on a stick business). Oh, and there will be tons of local bands.

2008 marks the “Year of the Mustard King” for Corndogorama. In honor of this regal festival, we have taken a smattering of songs and crafted some sample packs for you, the beloved readers. Think of them as the musical version of those fast food condiment packets that are currently overheating in your glove compartment … you know, only better.

For the rest of this week, we’ll post a new playlist with a delicious mustard theme. Each playlist will feature six songs from some local acts playing at this year’s Corndogorama.

Today, we’re taking a special look at English mustard.

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Of all the musical combos that will probably never occur, a collaboration between the Carpenters, Metallica and Lil Mama has to top the list.

But thanks to Pittsburgh-based Greg Gillis — the man behind Girl Talk — such aural fantasies can finally come to fruition. (Don’t tell me it’s not a combo you’ve lain awake nights dreaming of?)

His newest album, the 14-track Feed the Animals, continues the trend that gained popularity with his ’06 release Night Ripper — a CD that featured him mashing together absurdly diverse elements to create infectious pop music. The new album is currently available for download from Illegal Art in the same name-your-own-price format Radiohead used last year with the successful release of In Rainbows.

The more you pay for Feed the Animals, the more features you’ll get. Five dollars buys mp3s or the option of FLAC files, plus a one-file seamless mix of the album; $10 gets you mp3s, FLAC files and the physical CD when it is released.

Those who choose to download the mp3s for free are forwarded to a rather guilt-inducing option list where they must check why they prefer not to pay. It reads:

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Soundtracks can make a film. When done right, the result is magical, combining image, sound and emotion. Alexander Chaudhry, host of WRAS-FM’s (88.5) soundtrack show, “Nitrate88″ (Saturdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.), and film music connoisseur, shares his top five musical movie moments just in time for summer blockbusters.

Continue reading Real Life Top Five.

(Photo by Tina Sanderson)

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I have an idea, a hypothesis that needs to be tested if possible.

First, however, let me take you back to high school math class to explain my theory. I am proposing that music quality and sobriety are inversely related. Let’s make an equation (ripping off ideas much?), shall we?

If y = awesome quotient of music and x = level of sobriety, then y = -m(x) + c

It’s all coming back, isn’t it? All those painfully long math classes in rooms that were never quite the right temperature, and one of your classmates (never could be sure which one) smelled totally nasty. But there was nothing you could do because you were stuck in class until the bell (truly the saving grace of high school) released you from your too cold/too hot, smells-to-high-heaven torture room. Or maybe you liked math.

Anyway, the theory I’m throwing around essentially says that the more a musical artist abstains from drugs and alcohol, the worse the music is. Of course, there are exceptions, but on the whole, musicians are better when they are wasted and left for gone at rock bottom — tortured.

A lot of artists (the shitty ones) will claim that drugs and alcohol make them more creative by expanding their minds. Not true. To those of you that make such claims, get sober for a week, look at the giant turds you’re churning out and get back to me.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In light of this week’s CL cover story on Atlanta blues man Sean Costello, 1979-2008, we want to acknowledge the ill-timing and insensitivity of this post, which was written in a humorous light. The author, Cameron Hubbard, had no prior knowledge of the upcoming cover story. We apologize for offending anyone.

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