Sigur Ros’ Jonsi has announced details of the release of a live album and DVD. ‘Go Live’ is due out on November 29 and features a live 14-song album, plus
Queen will re-release all of their 15 studio albums next year. The band have signed a long-term agreement with Universal Music Group to release the albums, thereby ending their 40-year
The Bad Plus announce their U.S. tour in support of Never Stop, their new release on eOne Music. The tour extends from December 2nd through January 9th, 2011 and includes
Gang Of Four, one of the most radical and important groups of the last thirty years, are proud to announce a headlining tour of North America beginning February 4th in
After a 13-year hiatus, the industrial band Swans has a whole lotta touring to make up for, including Europe, more U.S. dates and a jaunt Down Under followed by, well,
Every time Kanye West releases a song or video, makes an appearance on the VMA’s or is made fun of on South Park, it stirs a debate. Is Kanye an incredibly ambitious musician, a public figure of epic proportions tackling race, culture and art all in one fell swoop, or a clown in king’s clothing?
His latest public endeavour seems to be his argument for “D: All of the Above.” The 35-minute video for Runaway is not only an intense visual undertaking, but a lengthy musical process, and it seems to be commenting on multiple facets of modern-day society, all while Kanye dresses himself in white suits and stares directly into the camera for long, meaningful moments that make you wonder if he’s thinking, “Please, tell me you love me.”
Here’s what Three Grown Men had to say about it…
Jonathan Kosakow on Kanye as musician:
The line that sticks out in my head the most from Kanye’s 35-minute “epic” is probably the last one that he wants to be remembered by. “We ain’t married but tonight I need some consummation.” In other words, Kanye wants to fuck you, but he won’t be giving you anything in return.
READ ON for more takes on Kanye’s latest video…
As Yo La Tengo gears up for the start of their semi-annual eight-night Hannukah run at Maxwell’s, which gets underway on December 1, the Hoboken-based band has announced a unique
…a desperate search, in a utopia that contained its own contradiction, product of a wish that at once went beyond art and found itself returned to it: “When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere representation of itself.”
As one travels through time and space, the layers of the hidden onion peel back, and one remembers the secret within. One takes on the skin of the chameleon like so many times before, and sheds everything old. There it is—the nut of it all. The pursuit of enlightenment yields ultra long periods of prologue and epilogue in one’s life, and the middle, the spine, the meat of the story of one’s life can often feel almost trapped in time and space, isolated from the history, the back story of the life led which resonates, and then drifts away, LOST, replaced by another…everything new is just a random portrait nearby. And on the passage of a few through a rather brief moment in time, it is up to you to find that hidden gem, that lost chord, that chameleon searching for a new language…
We close our Season 4 with a glance at an overlooked classic little film from the early 1980s and our final look at what we leave behind and what we take with us when we move far away from the shoreline of our dreams, look at ourselves in the mirror, a brief moment of reality check, and move forward with our free will intact as we look at the mockumentary with a sarcastic and stinging bite, Woody Allen’s Zelig.
First, let’s discuss reaching number 60 with Hidden Flick. Of course, some of these editions had multiple films being dissected and pondered over, so the total is probably closer to 75, but even 60 is mind boggling. I felt I’d cover 20 obscure films, and be done with it. There was zero planning, no idea whatsoever other than discussing the love of weird cinematic curios, and certainly not any philosophical intent whatsoever. Quite frankly, I began this little journey with two desires: I enjoy films and wanted to talk about them in a tight but loose fashion, and I wanted to write about films that were a little off the proverbial commercial beaten path. Hence, hidden flicks. Would I be entertaining? Uh…doubtful. I think my spin is all about “hey, WOW—I never thought about that,” and the pursuit of the Great Unknown. For better or worse, I jam, therefore I am.
READ ON for more of the Season 4 finale…
We were saddened to see that a band which has been around as long as we’ve been alive – New Orleans’ The Radiators – have announced their breakup after 33
We’re over a week removed from the end of Phish Fall Tour 2010 and now that you’ve had a chance to digest what went down, we’re asking you for your
