Honey Boo Boo releases rap video: "Moving Up" shows Alana Thompson should move! | Examiner.com

And from the "former reality stars being really weird" desk, Honey Boo Boo releases a rap video to her self-created song "Moving Up" reported Yahoo New Zealand on Oct. 1. The ex-pageant/reality TV star, whose real name is Alana Thompson, failed to move the Internet users, except to discomfort, with her little ditty. It did nothing to improve the family's image. It only serves to show that HBB should move around more because kid is getting scary overweight!Honey Boo Boo releases rap video: "Moving Up" shows Alana Thompson should move! | Examiner.com

Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party & American history lessons - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

The U.S. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May is also called Remembrance Day and Decoration Day. Americans honor fallen military and deceased loved ones. Here's a planner for an educational Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party with American history lessons.   Memorial Day pageant, vintage Remembrance Day party & American history lessons - Grand Rapids Holidays | Examiner.com

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band jams bodacious funkabilly dubstep

Ya'll remember Donny and Marie Osmond? You're trying to forget? So, who isn't--play along. The brother-sister duo "I'm a little bit country and I'm a little bit rock and roll" posed a musical dilemma that singers have been dancing around for decades. What the heck kind of music do fans play anyway? How do you classify it?



Nowadays, it's cool to genre-bend. But back in the good ole days, you didn't dare. If fans came for country, that's what you served. None of this shilly-shallying "cross-over" stuff. Some people also walked to school barefoot in 6 foot snow drifts and said "thank you ma'am" for the chance. Yada, yada. Times change and now alternative (the catch-all for genre-benders) is in. Poking around WYCE always lends some fresh from the oven music with lost of alt-crossover flavahs. Today's band focus is The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and does this husband and wife trio (don't ask, don't judge) jam some bodacious funkabilly!

LBT has LGBT agenda? 'Jolene' was 'lesbian' country music before 'Girl Crush'

According to anti-gay country music fans, Little Big Town's song "Girl Crush"has lesbian overtones, reported ABC News on March 30. In the song, a woman covets her lover's lover. Parents who listen to country music didn't want their children tainted by Sapphic talk. When they cried "gay agenda" radio stations caved and pulled "Girl Crush."  LBT has LGBT agenda? 'Jolene' was 'lesbian' country music before 'Girl Crush' - Grand Rapids News | Examiner.com

Union-buster Gov. Scott Walker uses Dropkick Murphys song, DM says take 'em down

Waffler alert! Union-busting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker used a pro-labor Dropkick Murphys song for his entrance march at an anti-labor conference. Walker walked out to DM's "Shipping out to Boston" at the Iowa Freedom Summit where he touted Wisconsin Act 10--a plan to cripple collective bargaining. And everyone's okay with this? Actually no, Dropkick Murphys said "take 'em down." On a press release Facebook post Jan. 26, band members said that Union-buster Gov. Scott Walker uses Dropkick Murphys song, DM says take 'em down

 

2015 Grammy Best Alternative Album tough choice, alt-J, St. Vincent, Arcade Fire

Aternative, sometimes called Indie, is the fastest-growing musical genre. It's kind of a throwback to New Wave and neo-punk (which was a throwback to old school punk). Happily for fans, alternative has its own Grammy category. With the 2015 Grammy Awards sneaking up, Sunday, Feb. 8, let's look Best Alterntive Album nominations. It's going to be a tough choice for sure.  2015 Grammy Best Alternative Album tough choice, alt-J, St. Vincent, Arcade Fire

Anti-war songs and anti-establishment peace protest music

Music speaks to our deepest feelings. Military cadences drive troops. National anthems prick conscience. We stand a little taller, united in singing the Star-Spangled Banner.



Songs commemorate historical events: oppression, war, labor struggles, violent acts. Music evokes sorrow, righteous indignation, anger at injustice. It inspires resistance as well as nationalistic conformity. Insurrections, uprisings and protests have their rallying cries. Sometimes people rally against what others sing anthems of praise to.



December 7 commemorates Pearl Harbor attacks and the U.S.'s entrance into World War II. There's protesting galore over police brutality in the shooting death

of Michael Brown and the chokehold death of Eric Garner, said Associated Press Dec. 8.



Here are anti-war protest songs to commemorate that day which will live in infamy plus anti-establishment protest songs that express sorrow over violence in our nation.  Anti-war songs and anti-establishment peace protest music - AXS