| Radiohead Announce Club Tour of UK, Ireland | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:05:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | Band dismisses U.S. as evil, U.S. dismisses band as... well, what can you say to that? Radiohead have announced a backbreaking seven-date tour of England, Scotland, and Ireland this May. As was anticipated a couple weeks back by the popular music press, the band will play "in what for them, will be very small venues," according to their spokesperson. For example, London's Shepherds Bush Empire, where the band will close out the tour with two shows, has a standing-show capacity of just 2,000 screaming, obsessive fans. It's no surprise, then, that-- even though the tickets just went on sale at waste.uk.com Saturday-- the band has sold every damn last one of 'em. Unless you wanna pay through the teeth for scalped tickets, you might have a better chance of seeing Radiohead in Belgium, where the band have recently announced that they'll play the Rock Werchter festival on June 26th, along with Bjrk and Underworld.... | |
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| | | JAZZ FESTIVAL: Mark Stryker's seven don't-miss acts | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 9:20:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | Lewis Nash Quartet tribute to Tommy Flanagan: The late Detroit-born pianist Tommy Flanagan was a great jazz poet, and this A-list quartet promises a sterling tribute. Drummer Nash and bassist Peter Washington played with Flanagan for years, and pianist Renee Rosnes and vibist Steve Nelson work within Flanagan's suave bebop idiom with invention and elegance. 5:45 p.m. Saturday, Absopure Waterfront Stage Gerald Wilson Big Band: The legendary composer, arranger, bandleader, former Detroiter and American treasure turns 88 on Monday. For decades, he led the most important big band on the West Coast, and his recent recordings for Mack Avenue have helped refocus attention on his gifts. His orchestrations roar with tannic bite, chewy ensembles, sunlit melodies and unmitigated swing. The band assembled for the festival is full of top talent, including Wess (Warmdaddy) Anderson, Dennis Wilson, Sean Jones, Derrick Gardner, Rodney Whitaker and Carl Allen.... | |
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| | | Search for | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:04:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | I had a very Hollywood upbringing. My father Frank Zappa's record label was being run from our house and there was creativity and food for the imagination all around, and interesting people coming to the house all day long. People who loved my father's music tended to be brainiacs - he was a brainiac too - and they had more interesting jobs than Stones fans. A good friend of his worked for NASA and brought him a piece of meteorite, and I remember looking at it and thinking "this came from outer space". My father had a planet named after him, and a fish. And the air space in the Bermuda triangle is called the Zappa space. I missed a lot of school because we were on tour with my father: when other kids were reading about faraway places, I was going there. It was a real-world education.... | |
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| | | 'Vice' vs. 'Vice' | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 5:04:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | Out with the old and in with the new could be the motto of the big-screen Miami Vice, which opens Friday. Although the film has elements of its predecessor (five o'clock shadow), overall it focuses on a non-pastel crime theme. For die-hard Crockett and Tubbs fans, here's how the movie, which stars Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, compares with the Ray-Ban wearing days of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas. 'Miami Vice': The TV series Plot: Two sexy undercover Miami cops tackle revenge, betrayal and corruption in the world of high-dollar drug lords. Setting: Often shot on location in South Beach and other areas of Miami, and occasionally in Latin American and the Caribbean. Music: Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight. Other artists included Jan Hammer, Kate Bush and Glen Frey.... | |
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| | | The best jukeboxes in town | | Posted Saturday, July 22, 2006 7:05:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | What is it that makes a jukebox the pulsing, coin-chugging heart of a great night out at a bar? Jukeboxes are the portal through which we all personalize our favorite watering hole. Don't believe me? Watch how someone lights up when one of the songs they've put their money down on blares tunes for the entire bar to enjoy (or not, depending on how tastes run). .... | |
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