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...Reasons to Take Time off From Your Band...
...Bandages” by Hot Hot Heat. Interviewed the band, saw them live on The Crimson’s token. Bonus points for “Brazil”-referencing video. Minus points for immediately becoming irrelevant two years later...
...video killed the radio star,” as British band The Buggles famously sang in 1979, then online playlists might put the nail in the coffin for FM disk jockeys. “Many music fans are not content to simply listen passively to what radio DJs play,” according to Derek A. Slater ’05-’06, co-author of a report that will be released today by Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Gartner Group, a research firm. Slater wrote...
...1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley, Calif., and began talking about the things that...
Four out of Five StarsIn the summer of 1971, British director Peter Watkins led a band of documentary filmmakers and amateur actors into the Mojave Desert to film “Punishment Park,” his incendiary indictment of the American government’s escalating use of violence against civil rights activists, Vietnam War protesters, and “hippies” of all stripes. Released to almost universal derision, the film’s recent DVD reissue, by Project X and New Yorker Video, endeavors to expose “Punishment” to the large audience...