If this is what is going on at Coachella every year, I’m glad I’ve never been… Leave a comment below with a caption and if your entry is the best
This Thursday and Friday former Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed will take up residence at the soon to be rechristened Gramercy Theater for two nights of fully improvised music
In the never ending parade of lineup announcements, this morning belongs to Lollapalooza. Joining Jane’s Addiction at the top of this year’s bill are Tool, the Beastie Boys and Depeche Mode – who are making their only festival appearance of the summer at Lollapalooza.
Also scheduled to perform at Grant Park sometime between August 7 and August 9 are Gomez, Lou Reed, Kings of Leon and The Decemberists. Ben Harper and Relentless 7 are making a strong bid to win the Jack Johnson Award for most festival appearances in one summer, so it’s no surprise they made the cut. READ ON for the full Lollapalooza 2009 lineup…
Dr. Seuss is known for many things, but live action films based on his work is not one of them. Ron Howard helmed a version of the Seussian classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but it was an ill-advised attempt to remake something that was better off as a brief animated holiday classic. However, there is another Dr. Seuss live action movie if one happens to stumble upon a feature rooted in the daydreams of a boy who is forced to take piano lessons from a tyrannical teacher who insists on precision and perfection.
This week, we venture into the surreal, weird, whimsical, and always entertaining world of the late writer, cartoonist, and lampoonist, Theodor Seuss Geisel. His aim was not always true, often bent, and sometimes very odd, and one gets a huge helping from his surreal soup with a gander at a true relic from the innocent daze and consumption of the 1950s, the first live action Dr. Seuss film, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
The film stars a young boy who is being raised by a single widowed mother, and he hates his piano lessons, because the music teacher doesn’t seem to know how to make music fun, or even remotely interesting. The boy, named Bart, feels his creativity suffocated by this mad, mean-spirited megalomaniac, and drifts into the comforting dreams of a fantasy world in which he is quickly terrorized by the teacher, Dr. Terwilliker, and his legions of grownup guards who have enslaved numerous would-be piano players, otherwise known as harassed children pecking away at the black and white ivory keys. Bart from The Simpsons was not named after this cinematic character; however, Sideshow Bob, also from the Matt Groening animated series, was named after the evil Dr. T with a spelling adjustment—Terwilliker became Terwilliger.
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Alex Skolnick Trio 09/13/2002 – Chicago, IL [MP3] [Stream] The Alex Skolnick Trio is a jazz project put together by heavy metal guitarist Alex Skolnick who is best known for
The lineup for this year’s Newport Folk Festival – which has been rebranded George Wein’s Folk Festival 50 in honor of jazz impressario and Newport Folk Festival co-founder George Wein
It was with slight trepidation that I approached the music of Antony & The Johnsons. What I knew about them was limited to the fact that their six-foot plus, androgynous
April 20th has long been considered a holiday for stoners, but the when and why as to how this specific date gained significance changes depending on who you talk to.
[Originally Published: April 19, 2008]
“Teachers teach that knowledge waits”
April 19, 1995 – 7:55am Edmond, OK – Every morning before my 9th grade Biology class I would listen to music on my Discman while waiting for the professor to arrive. On this particular day, my musical selection had been Bob Dylan and the Band’s Before the Flood. The last track I listened to that morning was a favorite of mine It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) – little did I know the impact that song would have on me that day…not to mention the rest of my life.
“My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards”
9:04am – We had originally thought that the construction project taking place at our high school was responsible for the shaking that had occurred a couple of minutes earlier. Moments later, another professor brought in a TV and turned it on to News Channel 9. Through clouds of smoke and people running this is what we witnessed:
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Norah Jones – Bessie Smith
