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Neo-fascist Croatian rocker plays Halton gig

A Nov. 1 posting on the website Croworld.ca, a Canadian Croatian site, read: “Concert is not cancelled. Please bear with me until Sunday morning. All will receive an update. Our enemies are desperately trying to stop it from happening… so now they are trying other underhanded tactics.

Five questions for prog rock band Coheed and Cambria

A: We have a lot of choices. There are so many different parts to this mythology that Claudio has with his story that we could still go in that direction and continue in some other way. Or we could just release a rock record. Or we could go in some other direction. I’m not worried […]

Album To Wake Up Hip Hop ‘In The Shadow Of An Icon’ Drops @ Top40-Charts.com

The album will be in stores nationwide January 15th 2008. The project contains no music by Tupac (2Pac), but it does reveal artists who grew out of the shadow of the hip hop Icon. As Tupac did in his short life, Thug Life Army Records looked for hip hop and rap artists who could use […]

MORE ON ‘The Glorious Ones’

This is something of a forced marriage, the aesthetic analogue of the calculated matches that the young lovebirds in a commedia dell’arte scenario would connive to thwart. The resulting musical is a sweet but strange hybrid, both joyfully naughty and totally innocuous. It’s like a whoopee cushion that emits a wistful sigh. Still, Mr. […]

In this corner Battle of the bands begins with Guitar Hero III

The tutorial is very good at teaching how to play the game. Once you learn, you can dive in with a set of four titles such as Talk Dirty To Me by Poison or Hit Me With Your Best Shot “by Pat Benatar. Right off the bat, because of the song choices, you can […]

Media Companies Aren’t The Problem

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Songwriters Enhance Movies With Their Music

In the 1967 film The Graduate , music made performances by Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross even more memorable. Singer Jesse Harris wrote songs for this year’s film The Hottest State, written and directed by Ethan Hawke. Harris performed two of them at the recent Hollywood forum. The Grammy award-winning composer writes […]

The BQE Review

A Brooklyn Academy of Music Nextwave Festival presentation of a music and film show in two acts by Sufjan Stevens. Conductor, Michael Atkinson. Band: Casey Foubert, Yuuki Matthews, James McAlister, Sufjan Stevens, Shara Worden. Sufjan Stevens demonstrated tremendous technical proficiency and ambition in his latest performance — and his new “cinematic suite” simply made a […]

‘Guitar Hero III’ rocks out in sales

“Guitar Hero III” is rocking out to boffo sales. Activision revealed on Monday that the latest installment in its popular music videogame franchise grossed over $100 million in its first seven days on sale in North America. That appears to make it the second biggest videogame of the year, far behind Microsoft’s “Halo 3,” which […]

What to watch for at the CMAs

RASCAL FLATTS will open Country Music s Biggest Night with Still Feels Good. But later in the broadcast, R B singer and Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx will perform She Goes All the Way with the group. Odd pairings have become normal in country music a trend that began with the Nelly and Tim McGraw […]