Prince

By Michael For the first time in nearly a year Prince has an official web presence again. It’s a place holder at the moment but promises many of the features of the NPGMC. The media player is playing “Crimson & Clover”, “(There’ll Never B) Another Like Me” and Bria Valente’s ““Here I Come”. Of particu...

By Pete If you saw the Lakers-Celtics game on Christmas Day, you may have seen Prince in the crowd, next to an attractive brunette. A shocker, I know! Her name is Bria Valente, and while I hesitate to call her Prince’s Flavor of the Month, or 21 st Century Vanity, he has spent some time with her in the st...

By Michael Prince - “Creep” (from Purple Storm in the Coachella Valley) :: There was no lack of oddity to Prince’s turn as headliner at this year’s Coachella Festival. Be it the fact that he could not seem to pronounce the namesake properly to the disjointed but funky as hell set list it was by all accoun...

By Pete “Creep” (video) - Prince - Live at Coachella :: Prince has done some cool covers (Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You”), and some not so cool (’I Can’t Make You Love Me”, “Everyday Is A Winding Road” - a Sheryl Crow cover on a Prince record? Come on dude..), but his version of Radiohead’s “Creep” was s...

By Pete From the 1987 album, Make It Last Forever. As a guy who came of age in the classic age of early hip-hop, aka the 80’s - I was seriously bummed when Sirius’ Backspin channel was canned after the Sirius - XM merger. Sirius and XM did a pretty good job of consolidating, and holding on to the genres, wh...

By Kelly Wendy & Lisa - Salt & Cherries (MC5) (download) After several months of teasers, Wendy & Lisa this week released White Flags of Winter Chimneys, their first new album, not counting their soundtrack work, since 1998’s Girl Bros.  Of course, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman are...

Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain (from Purple Rain). 3. Breathe - Hands to Heaven (from All That Jazz). 4. Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (from Only by the Night). 5. Band of Horses - Marry Song (from Cease to Begin) ...

He’s always been someone who has changed styles with seemingly every album. The quiet, pompadoured lust king of Purple Rain, the 60’s psychedelic from Around the World in a Day; the outgoing, smiling, short-do’d comedian from Parade, ...