Word: musication
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...frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was referring to his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, a sordid tale about a sex-crazed, drug-addled, adulterous traveling salesman and the 9-year-old son with whose care he suddenly finds himself charged. Cave discussed his music, the gold statue he wanted to erect in his hometown and, of course, his new novel - which is very interesting but kind of creepy. (Please don't hurt me). See TIME's list of the 10 greatest electric guitar players of all time...
...decide to make that? I wanted to change the way the novel was presented. We looked at all the different formats we could do and the audio book was extremely exciting to me. I read the novel onto something like seven CDs and we scored it and put music to the whole thing. If you listen to it on headphones it's extraordinary, like a hallucination or something. It's psychedelic. It's an audio book like nothing you've ever heard. There's also a Bunny Munro app for the iPhone but I haven't worked...
...consumers in the late '50s, folk music was the Kingston Trio, with their frat-boy élan and their repertoire purloined from Seeger and other traditionalists. Then one man suggested that the genre could be bigger. "The American public is like Sleeping Beauty, waiting to be kissed awake by the prince of folk music," said Albert Grossman, a Chicago entrepreneur, at the first Newport Folk Festival, in 1959. Bob Dylan, whose manager Grossman became in 1962, may have been that prince, but the raspy-voiced kid needed troubadours to sell his message to the masses. Grossman had seen Travers perform...
...themselves, also face other obstacles in having to split the space with other groups. Harvard Taekwondo, for example, will share practice space with the Crimson Dance Team for a half hour on Thursday nights. “It will be an interesting mix because they will be playing dance music while we do our routines. We ourselves yell every time we kick... and we kick a lot,” Tran said. “I don’t think it will be a safety hazard—just an inconvenience,” he added...
...were doing some shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and during the commercial breaks I'd go out and talk to the people in the audience. And a little boy stood up and asked, When was the Magna Carta signed? I said 1216. I was off by a year. I know a lot about the Magna Carta, but unfortunately I got the date wrong in front of 6,000 people...