Word: bandness
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...Darjeeling Limited, the new semi-comedy from Wes Anderson that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3. As Francis, the eldest of the three Whitman brothers, he's clearly in physical distress. His head is wrapped in two thick bandages. His nose has a Band-Aid on it. His right hand and wrist are taped, and he uses a cane to walk...
...night. As Francis, the eldest of the three Whitman brothers, he's clearly in physical distress. His head is wrapped in two thick bandages, one horizontal, one vertical, as if to keep his brains from seeping out. The nose Wilson's fans know to be charmingly broken has a Band Aid on it. His right hand and wrist are taped, and he uses a cane to walk...
...downloading service, and MTV, Real Networks and Verizon Wireless joined music forces. They're all chasing a digital download business that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says grew to $2.1 billion in 2006, or 11% of all recorded music sales, as more artists embrace it. "Any band that's resistant to it is crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group Maroon 5, which gave a jumping 35-minute live performance at London's Ministry of Sound nightclub as part of Nokia's launch. According to Ovum analyst Jonathan Arber, Nokia is frustrated that operators...
...high-tops who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer Underground" during last summer's Israeli air raids...
...rock subculture in the Middle East, but Haber, a former Catholic schoolboy, sees a similarity between rock's golden age during the 1950s and 1960s in America, and the Middle East today - sexually repressed conservative societies dominated by religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context: "At the end of the day, sex, drugs, and rock and roll means...