Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental amaneunsis Fah Lo Suee [The Woman Without a Joke] and I will be heading to Darien, Connecticut and the historic Wee Burn Country Club for a couple of rounds of golf with Tiger Woods and his lovely wife Elin Nordegren . Unfortunately, Wee Burn used to be restricted, so it's unclear which of us will or will not make it onto the green. As...
I was driving the kids home from school when the Troggs' "Wild Thing" came on. Wild Thing, I think I love you But I wanna know for sure... I said, "Hey like, wow, man, that's like, cool," in a dazed...
The Muppets have done their own version of Queen classic Bohemian Rhapsody - and it has become an instant internet hit with close to 5million views clocked up in just five days.
1. Lighthouse Family (17.4%) 2. Nickelback (15.6%) 3. Toploader (11.0%) 4. Razorlight (9.6%) 5. Savage Garden (8.3%) Fewest votes: The Troggs (0%), Crowded House (0.5%), New Radicals (0.5%), Sleeper (1.8%) Most frequently mentioned but not on our list: Westlife (13), Queen (11), Stereophonics (7), Scouting for Girls (7) There's still time to change the outcome - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/S22GB7B...
The plot might lose the rhythm sometimes, but the soundtrack and cast keep the '60s-set rock fable afloat. "Pirate Radio," the new rock-saturated comedy that proves life really is better when it's set to a '60s soundtrack, is, to borrow from the Stones, "a gas! gas! gas!"
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Heavy Hits Host: Mal Thursday After ten consecutive theme shows, Mal Thursday is back on the freeform tip with this, the 20th episode in the series. Freeform, yes, but with a concept: in addition to a full plate of new releases from the Sons of Hercules, Snowbyrd, the Rationals, the Higher State, and the Texreys, Mal unearths [...] ShareThis
Richard Curtis’ upcoming Pirate Radio is getting a lot of attention for having a great cast (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gemma Arterton, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy and others) as well as having real-life subject material that is so great, one might think it is fictional. The film revolves around a group of rock deejays who took [...]
When you write a song that everybody knows—by tune, by title, by chugging guitar riff—that song follows you around the rest of your life. For Chip Taylor, that song is “Wild Thing,” which was made famous by the Troggs in 1966. It’s the kind of song that, when you hear it, it feels more like it evolved out purely out of a combination of earth, sky, electricity, and the...
Mack The Knife, originally Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, was written by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928.
Now that “Lester Bangs” has become two sanitized book-length compilations of his writings and an inaccurate portrayal in a mediocre Hollywood film, the real Lester Bangs seems to have gotten lost, and the sense of excitement and of outrage that living in the same world with Lester Bangs provided seems only a distant memory. I’m one [...]
Dee Dee Dum Dum Girls and Brandon Brandon Welchez of Zoo Music just sent us "If You're Gold, I'm Gone," a track from Woven Bones' four-song Minus Touch 12" EP. The Austin trio roll into dark fuzzed-out primitive punk-inflected rock 'n roll, listing Link Wray, Stooges, the Gun Club, the Troggs, the Damned, and VU as inspirations. Or, as Dee Dee put it: [The song] continues in their tradition...
The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for US release) is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on April 1st 2009 and currently scheduled for a US release on November 13th 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal
Sure, these British beat groups weren't the biggest raves of the decade but they did produce some fun, tuneful stuff and I think you'll find these clips quite enjoyable. They represent, respectively, the Tremeloes, the Troggs and the Honeycombs. The Tremeloes had several hits make the charts including their biggest, "Silence Is Golden." Though formed in 1958, the Tremeloes are still playing...
The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for US release) is an ensemble comedy film, released in the UK on April 1st 2009 and currently scheduled for a US release on November 13th 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal
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