It sounds like the name of a noir mystery, and in some regards it is, but on October 4, Bob Dylan’s own rather enigmatic label, Egyptian Records, in a partnership with the Country Music Hall of Fame and Columbia Records will release The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Only the second title to be released...
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July 25, 2011July 25, 2011Music
Amy Winehouse’s Album Sales, Robert Plant’s Surprise Gig, Marianne Faithfull, Rock Star Real Estate, and More
Amy Winehouse’s Album Sales Soar Posthumously It’s not really business as usual, while the world mourns Amy Winehouse. Ironically it’s better than usual, with sales of the beleaguered singer’s albums increasing by 37 times between Saturday when the news broke and today, and iTunes sales are up by 23 times. Is that the appropriate response?...
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July 24, 2011July 24, 2011Entertainment
Mary Fahl Finally Delivers Brilliant From The Dark Side Of The Moon Album
I’m going to take you back a few years, then warp you back to the here and now, but only after I’ve introduced to you a world class voice and the albums in which she has participated. Mary Fahl started her professional career with a two-album stand with a criminally underrated NYC folk/rock band named...
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July 19, 2011July 19, 2011Television
TV’s Sunday Night Ritual: Serious Drama
Sunday night equals high quality scripted drama ever since HBO re-conditioned TV viewers to wrap up their weekends with The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire and Deadwood. Then came Mad Men, with its hypnotic take on slow-motion ad agency pyschodrama. Showtime’s under-rated Brotherhood hooked us on the Robert DeNiro-like antics of Jason Isaacs (Lucius...
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June 24, 2011June 24, 2011Television
Mr. Opportunist: Interview with Falling Skies’ Colin Cunningham
As Major Paul Davis on Stargate SG-1, Colin Cunningham was often part of a military taskforce whose brave men and women risked their lives to stop various extraterrestrial invaders that were intent on conquering and/or destroying Earth. In his latest gig on TNT’s new Sci-Fi drama series Falling Skies, his character of John Pope is...
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June 24, 2011June 24, 2011Music
Donald Harrison: The Mardi Gras Indians Meet Modern Jazz
If you’re a fan of Treme, the acclaimed HBO series about the New Orleans neighborhood on which Congo Square was sited, you may recall the characters Delmond Trumbeaux, a trumpeter (played by Rob Brown), and his father, Albert Lambreaux, a plasterer who doubles as a Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indian group, the Guardians...
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June 2, 2011June 2, 2011Music
Pink Floyd’s The Wall – Expanded, Remastered, Still Revealing
With the upcoming expansions of The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973), and Wish You Were Here (1975) on near horizons, and the exciting revelation that the long completed Wish You Were Here Guthrie-mixed SACD is finally being made available, it’s only fair to continue our Pink Floyd expansion wishes with The Wall, originally released...
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May 19, 2011May 19, 2011Music
Greg Graffin PhD and Smart Rock Stars
Is there a doctor in the house? Bad Religion’s Greg Graffin, who earned his PhD in zoology in 2007 from Cornell University, is eschewing the road during the week to teach evolution at his old alma mater this fall, in what is the first of three courses he’s helping to develop for the Ivy League...
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May 11, 2011May 11, 2011Music
This Day in Music, May 12: Burt Bacharach, Neil Young
1928 – Burt Bacharach Born on this day in 1928, one of the most accomplished popular composers of the 20th century, American songwriter, pianist and arranger Burt Bacharach. In the ’60s and ’70s, he was a dominant figure in pop music, responsible for a remarkable 52 Top 40 songs. To-date, Bacharach has written 70...
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May 4, 2011May 4, 2011Music
This Day In Music, May 5: Tammy Wynette and Elvis Presley
1942 Happy birthday today to Tammy Wynette who was born Virginia Wynette Pugh, in Tremont, Mississippi on this day in 1942. Known as the First Lady of Country Music, Wynette sold over 30 million records worldwide, was married five times, and once filed for bankruptcy. Many of her hits dealt with classic themes of loneliness,...