Strike A Light, Guv'nor
- Tue Jul 22 2008
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New Music Tuesday this week features new albums from CSS and model/singer/French First Lady Carla Bruni. The CSS disc sounds a little bit like late-90s alt rock, a la Garbage.
The BBC asks a dialect coach how to sound American. (Note the first comment, from a Texan: “It never occurs to us that there is such a thing as an American accent.”)
Regarding ironic cross-genre covers, e.g. Jay-Z’s intentional butchering of “Wonderwall”.
The story of the amazing Clover coffee brewer — and what Starbucks plans to do with it now that they’ve bought the company that makes it.
Related: a list of the 600 U.S. Starbucks stores that will be shut down in the next 12 months. Can anyone explain to me why Starbucks had even 12 stores in Alabama, let alone so many that they needed to close 12?