| Crime Time | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:00:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | After spending most of the decade re-creating the Civil War era and delving into the lives of Howard Hughes and Bob Dylan, New York's Little Italy's maestro of contemporary crime cinema, Martin Scorsese, is back on the mean streets. Only this time, it's the mean streets of South Boston, Irish-American South Boston. "The Departed" takes place in that infamously crime-ridden neighborhood as well as in the headquarters of the Massachusetts State Police. It contrasts the dramas/traumas of two deep-cover moles, one infiltrating a gang for the cops and another working for that gang's boss while rising through the ranks of the state's Special Investigation Unit. Leonardo DiCaprio plays the freaked-out undercover cop Billy Costigan, and Matt Damon is the devious crook-with-a-badge Colin Sullivan.... | |
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| | | After a slow start, Dylan and his band hit high gear | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:00:41 AM by Blog57 Team | | PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- It took a while, but the crapshoot that is a Bob Dylan concert paid off Thursday night. The show kicked into gear, appropriately enough, during ``Highway 61 Revisited." But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Dylan arrived, for the umpteenth time this decade, on the heels of Copland's ``Fanfare for the Common Man" and a taped introduction that referenced his dabblings in drugs, Christianity, and commercial irrelevance. It might be time to retire this shtick. Behind his small electric keyboard, Dylan opened with ``Cat's in the Well, " which wanted with all its heart to be a vivacious blues jam but was sidelined by the Radio Shack-caliber sounds emanating from the singer's instrument. Looking at the bright side, the tinny squeal was a perfect aesthetic match for Dylan's utterances, which ranged from a yelping rap on folk-rocker-turned-Western-shuffle ``You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" to a hiccupping growl for ``Masters of War" and a wheezing drawl during ``Just Like a Woman." For the first half of the 95-minute set, Dylan's five-piece band was reined in by what appeared to be a conceptual choice to sound as rural and handmade as possible.... | |
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| | | Dylan, Tupac und NYC: Marc Spitz sends Letters from New York | | Posted Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:08:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Things I did in 2001 (the last time Bob Dylan released a studio album) that I no longer do: snort cocaine, smoke marijuana, smoke cigarettes indoors, or during the day, or more than like, three a day, and some days never, sleep around, and... you get the idea. I was just thinking, or wondering really, whether I was the only one who marked time by albums. Or marked where I am in my life by where rock stars were when they released those albums. I was listening to "Modern Love" by David Bowie on my i-Pod today as I walked up 4th Avenue, here in the city, and I realized that I am the same age that he was when he recorded that song. If you haven't listened to it in a while, you should again. If I were still a rock writer, I woul call it "perfectly realized" or something like that (I would never refer to it as "galvinizing" or "epochal" though).... | |
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| | | Bob Dylan confirms album tracklisting | | Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 1:04:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | The ten-track LP will be his first for five years and will be the follow up to 2001's 'Love And Theft'. It is set to be released on August 28. Four of the ten tracks last for more than six minutes, including the 8 minute 'Spirit On The Water' and the nine-minute closer 'Ain't Talkin'. The album was recorded with Dylan's touring band, including bassist Tony Garnier, drummer George G Receli, guitarists Stu Kimball and Denny Freeman plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. The tracklisting for 'Modern Times' is: 'Thunder On The Mountain' 'Spirit On The Water' 'Rollin' And Tumblin'' 'When The Deal Goes Down" 'Someday Baby' 'Workingman's Blues #2' 'Beyond The Horizon' 'Nettie Moore' 'The Levee's Gonna Break' 'Ain't Talkin'' A special edition of the album, containing a bonus DVD featuring four additional songs, is also set to be released, reports Billboard.... | |
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| | | Stars To Pay Tribute To Dylan | | Posted Friday, July 14, 2006 3:09:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | PATTI SMITH, ROSEANNE CASH and BLACK CROWES siblings CHRIS and RICH ROBINSON have all signed up to perform at a BOB DYLAN tribute concert in New York. The stars will join PHIL LESH, CAT POWER and celebrated composer PHILIP GLASS to perform classic Dylan tunes at the November (06) benefit, which will raise cash for the Music for Youth Foundation. Dylan, who was recently named the Best Living Songwriter in a US magazine poll, is not expected to take the stage at the Avery Fisher Hall for the concert. 13/07/2006 20:06 .... | |
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