Adam Yauch

aka MCA
(of Beastie Boys)

1964-2012

Levon Helm
drummer/vocalist of The Band
1940-2012

Davy Jones
(of The Monkees)
1945–2012

Christopher Reimer
(guitarist of Women)
1986 - 2012

Their album "Public Strain"
is on my "Top Ten Albums of 2011" list.

Whitney Houston
1963 - 2012

Steve Jobs
(1955-2011)

"Music is a part of everyone's life.
Music has been around forever;
it will always be around."

R.E.M.
1980-2011

9/11
ten years later

Amy Winehouse
1983-2011

Gil Scott-Heron
(1949-2011)

Trish Keenan
[Lead Singer of Broadcast]
(1969 - 2011)

Irvin Kershner
(The Director of 'Empire Strikes Back')
(1923-2010)

Leslie Nielsen
(1926-2010)

A sad news: one the best music blogs around, the Swiss-French "Delicious Scopitone," had called it a day. Read their interview here.

Excerpt:
"Running a blog is no easy task, and it’s often to the detriment of our personal lives. I really needed to find myself again, to reconnect with my loved ones, in the “real world”."

'Sony Walkman' is dead...

...or not?

Arthur Penn
[director of “Bonnie and Clyde”]
(1922 - 2010)

Sally Menke
[Quentin Tarantino's Longtime Editor]
(1953 - 2010)

Claude Chabrol
(1930 - 2010)

Bruno Schleinstein
(1932 - 2010)

Rest In Peace