ICECUBE’s new solo album is to be titled Raw Footage. For all his contributions to hip-hop (he started this gangsta shit, after all), he really should be more careful about reminding us of his film career. I shudder at the thought of an album of hilarious Are We Done Yet outtakes.
Those of us who’ve wasted countless hours of our lives awkwardly swapping among the three VINES albums in our car stereos are in luck: Capitol Records will soon release a “best-of” record chronicling the vast, glorious career of the spazz-fronted Aussie hitmakers. No word yet on how industrial science has achieved the mammoth feat of cramming that much post-grunge brilliance onto a single disc. In an entirely unrelated and coincidental development: the Vines were dropped from Capitol last year after their third album failed to bother the charts.
My heart is truly warmed by all the angry e-mails I’ve been getting from BLACK CROWES apologists. “Your so called journalism,” writes one reader, “is pathetic and lacking all integrity.” I’m touched that anyone could be literal-minded enough to mistake me for an actual critic or journalist (the only scoop I’ve ever nailed is the shocking revelation that there was a third Vines album), but I suppose I should expect no less from people who pen angry letters defending hippie dad-rock jam bands.
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- Streisand vs. Maiden
This month, I was able to catch the Boston stops on the tours of two legendary acts, known to their fans as single-word entities: Maiden and Barbra.
- No reason to complain
There are at least two ways to approach the South by Southwest festival in Austin.
- Boxed and ready
The cream of the season’s CD/DVD crop
- Sigur Ros at the Orpheum
Well, having done the research, I’m warming to this Jonsi Birgisson — gay, blind in one eye, loves Iron Maiden, plays the guitar with a cello bow, and sings, when the mood takes him, in a made-up language called “Hopelandic.”
- The numbers of the beast
As a million fingers air-guitared frantically, Maiden put on a fireballing motherfucker of a show.
- Pop power
Guitar-driven pop music is alive and well in the city of Boston, and anyone that tells you otherwise wasn’t on Lansdowne Street last night for the Phoenix /FNX Best Music Poll party.
- Everybody poops
Recently selected as one of 17 regional artists to exhibit at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park's Biennial in January 2010 (alongside fellow Mainer Randy Regier), and awarded a grant from the Maine Arts Commission in support of her interactive sculpture "The Cashmere Iron Maiden," Greta Bank is struggling to find studio time on top of being a mother of two.
- Classic meets modern
The Audiocentrix just celebrated the release of their second disc last weekend.
- Another Nail in the coffin
Big Coffin Hunters are no big fans of McCain/Palin, the Bushies, or neo-cons, either, and their new album, Drive Another Nail , manages toss in a little political commentary amongst fun macabre metal tunes.
- On the Racks: May 23, 2006
Plus new releases by Osaka Popstar, PJ Harvey, and the American Idol kids.
- The ultimate PILOT movie
Whether in the world of commercial airlines, the Air Force, or a futuristic world of intergalactic smuggling, those who fly planes for a living have long been well-represented in the cinema.
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