DCist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
There’s a huge star at the center of the Sydney Theatre Company’s much-hyped, Liv Ullman-directed, wholly satisfying new staging of A Streetcar Named Desire, which sold out its Kennedy Center run before the curtain rose on the first preview. I speak, of course, of the dramatist Tennessee Williams. That’s no slight on Cate Blanchett, who fronts, fights, twirls and finally, crawls...
Faronheit (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
If I've said it once, I'll say it again - Rock Plaza Central is a pretty awesome band. Their last two albums, "Are We Not Horses?" and "At the Moment of Our Most Needing" are both nothing short of excellent, and if you've not yet heard them, well I just don't know what you're waiting for. Back in September, RPC's principal songwriter/novelist Chris Eaton was kind enough to do a...
Vinyl Records (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
TracksSide one1. "Come Down Hard on Me Baby"2. "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins)3. "Jam 292"4. "The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice"5. "Drifter's Escape" (Bob Dylan)Side two1. "Burning Desire"2. "Born a Hootchie Kootchie Man" (Willie Dixon)3. "Electric Ladyland"Personnel * Jimi Hendrix – guitars, lead vocals...
Rock Turtleneck (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Unless you live under a rock, you know today is National Coffee Day . Here at the Rock Turtleneck office, every day is coffee day – we drink the robust, savory beverage any way we can, with half and half if it's hot, and whole milk if it's iced. Skim literally doesn't cut it. When they’re not singing about world peace, groupies or heroin, a lot of RT’s favorite musicians have recorded...
RightWingBob.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
At The Best American Poetry site, Lawrence Epstein has an interesting reflection on Bob Dylan’s I Pity The Poor Immigrant, beginning like this: A deeply religious person is a tourist in life, thinking eagerly about returning home to God. A less religious or secular person is a traveler, unsure of any desire to return home, uncertain [...]
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