Cooler and Hotter
Celebrating only the softest of soft rock. We're kind of kidding, but not really.

Wikipedia defines Soft Rock as "a style of music which uses the techniques of rock and roll to compose a softer, more toned-down sound for listening. Soft rock songs generally tend to focus on themes like love, everyday life and relationships. The genre tends to make heavy use of acoustic guitars, pianos, synthesizers and sometimes saxophones. The electric guitars in soft rock are normally faint and high-pitched."

This definition works for us as well.

Enjoy opening day, baseball fans.  Do yourself a favor and watch recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee Neil Diamond open the season at Fenway.  It’s about time Neil got his due.

  • Apr 5th, 2010 at 7:29 am
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:: No, we will not die like dogs! We will fight like lions! Because we are…PHIL COLLINS? :: Phil Collins has to tape his drumsticks to his hands. The former Genesis star has suffered severe nerve damage to his hands and admits he now finds it incredibly difficult to play his instrument. He explained: “The first time I picked up the drum sticks after my neck surgery, they flew across the room because I couldn’t grip them. “When I play, I’ve had to tape the sticks to my hand. It’s like wearing a condom. It’s very strange. It really cramps your style.” That really is very strange.

:: No, we will not die like dogs! We will fight like lions! Because we are…PHIL COLLINS? ::

Phil Collins has to tape his drumsticks to his hands.

The former Genesis star has suffered severe nerve damage to his hands and admits he now finds it incredibly difficult to play his instrument.

He explained: “The first time I picked up the drum sticks after my neck surgery, they flew across the room because I couldn’t grip them.

“When I play, I’ve had to tape the sticks to my hand. It’s like wearing a condom. It’s very strange. It really cramps your style.”

That really is very strange.


  • Mar 29th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
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:: a little weekend fun-fact :: Peter Cetera developed his signature singing style as a result of having to sing for a period of time with a wired-shut jaw after getting into a brawl at a Los Angeles Dodgers came in 1969.  I’d hate to see the other guy.

:: a little weekend fun-fact ::

Peter Cetera developed his signature singing style as a result of having to sing for a period of time with a wired-shut jaw after getting into a brawl at a Los Angeles Dodgers came in 1969.  I’d hate to see the other guy.

  • Mar 28th, 2010 at 8:42 am
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Neither Cool or Hot

KC And Sunshine Band Founder Held On Ohio Sex Rap

NEWARK, OH (AP) — A music producer and co-founder of KC and the Sunshine Band responsible for such hits as “Shake Your Booty” and “Keep It Comin’ Love” has acknowledged having sex with teenage boys, police said Wednesday.

Richard R. Finch, 56, was arrested Tuesday after a boy told authorities he’d had sexual contact with him at Finch’s home in Newark, the Licking County sheriff’s office said. The boy made the revelation last week.

Finch, while being interviewed at the sheriff’s office, admitted he’d had sex with that boy and others ranging in age from 13 to 17, police said.

  • Mar 26th, 2010 at 8:18 am
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Food for thought for all you love song composers out there (grab tissues before reading): From the Boz Scaggs website:  “To sing the Great American Songbook convincingly, it helps to believe in chance.  All the legendary composers of standards — George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen, the list goes on – had something to say about life’s serendipities.  Their songs are full of unexpected encounters and fine romances that blossom out of nowhere.  Their wistful and often impossibly beautiful melodies convey the magic of happenstance and also its flipside, the capricious cruelty of fate.  Their lyrics celebrate the notion that life can change in an instant—when that vision of loveliness steps out of a dream and you suddenly find yourself bewitched, bothered and bewildered. Boz Scaggs believes in this sort of thing.” FYI: Cooler and Hotter believes in this sort of thing too (and we are bothered and bewildered). Boz is currently still buzzing from his monster March 9 gig in Manilla with fellow legend Michael McDonald and is preparing for his two-night run of casinos in British Columbia in mid June. 

Food for thought for all you love song composers out there (grab tissues before reading):

From the Boz Scaggs website: 

“To sing the Great American Songbook convincingly, it helps to believe in chance.  All the legendary composers of standards — George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen, the list goes on – had something to say about life’s serendipities.  Their songs are full of unexpected encounters and fine romances that blossom out of nowhere.  Their wistful and often impossibly beautiful melodies convey the magic of happenstance and also its flipside, the capricious cruelty of fate.  Their lyrics celebrate the notion that life can change in an instant—when that vision of loveliness steps out of a dream and you suddenly find yourself bewitched, bothered and bewildered.

Boz Scaggs believes in this sort of thing.”

FYI: Cooler and Hotter believes in this sort of thing too (and we are bothered and bewildered).

Boz is currently still buzzing from his monster March 9 gig in Manilla with fellow legend Michael McDonald and is preparing for his two-night run of casinos in British Columbia in mid June. 

  • Mar 22nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm
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