Last week my 9 to 5er (actually its a 10 to 6er) had me away for a company “off site.” While for most of you out there that might mean
In between the two Godfathers, and before the great Apocalypse, stood a Conversation. And even before two cars raced each other on an open road, and later, a light saber blazed to life and slashed across the room, there was something called THX-1138. Indeed, in the early 1970s, two filmmakers—Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas—used one San Francisco film company—American Zoetrope—and one very gifted editor—Walter Murch—to craft a new method to tweak the audio waves fantastic. Murch revolutionized the way sound could be edited and showcased almost like a living character in Lucas’s first groundbreaking film THX-1138, but it would be the film that he worked on in between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II where he would exploit that technique to an even greater effect, this week’s Hidden Flick, The Conversation.
The film stars Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who records conversations for various corporate and governmental agencies. Essentially, Hackman’s character wire-taps, bugs, and tapes by any technical means necessary. The conversation of the film’s title takes place at the beginning of the story as a couple walks in San Francisco’s Union Square while being recorded from three microphones—one held in a bag carried by a wandering off-duty cop, the others by two soloists in opposing buildings, directing their recording equipment at the couple in the square with long devices which appear, at first, to be rifles as if the two are trained snipers scoping out their hapless prey. READ ON for more on this week’s Hidden Flick…
O.A.R. performing at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY on August 2nd, 2008.
YEASAYER will embark on two journeys through N. America, the Northeast/Midwest in October, and the West Coast in November. These shows will be YEASAYER’s first ever-headlining engagements. Promised on this
In one of the more eclectic bills of the fall, Gym Class Heroes and the Roots will co-headline a tour beginning Oct. 2 in Baltimore, with support from U.K. up-and-comer
Metallica will begin an extensive fall/winter arena tour Oct. 21 in Glendale, Ariz., in support of its new album, "Death Magnetic." The Sword will open all dates, with Lamb Of
U2’s first concert video, Live At Red Rocks, will be released on DVD by Interscope/Island/UME on September 30, 2008 in the U.S., along with the accompanying live album, Under a
Nate Ruess, Jack Antonoff and Andrew Dost are proud to announce a new band called Fun. Ruess, the former front man and songwriter of the much beloved band The Format,
With single-copy sales struggling, the publishers of Rolling Stone magazine opted to make one of the biggest changes in the history of the publication. The world’s largest music magazine is
The 33rd Annual North Sea Jazz Fest wrapped up a couple weeks ago, and the stunningly strong line-up boasted literally dozens of incredible performances. As a way of getting digging
