Word: musicians
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Love calls Skin "a monument" and says it will "alter the skyline." She hopes it will show younger female musicians that they can aspire to more than coffeehouse acoustic strumming and that they too can be rock stars. "What we're really interested in is who we restart, who comes up," says Love. "Because the female musician, the girl that is, like, playing rock in the garage, she's not around anymore, she's been taken out, she's been killed, she's not encouraged...
Anyone with a rooting interest in culture has surely had the experience of having a crush on an artist, of tearing through all of a novelist's books or rapidly buying all of a musician's CDs--the aesthetic equivalent of downing a pint of Haagen-Dazs--only to find oneself still hungry, frustrated with the limits of a canon. In the case of an artist with famously lost, botched or unfinished works, this hunger can be particularly keen. I know, having recently been driven to buy a bootlegged CD of material recorded for Smile, the legendarily unfinished Beach Boys...
...programming; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Lewis and Lamb Chop, a woolly sock with exaggerated eyelashes, first appeared on morning television in 1957 on The Captain Kangaroo Show. Lewis' talent for ventriloquism and aptitude for engaging children without condescension led to four different series of her own. A talented musician, conductor and dancer, Lewis wrote 60 children's books and won 12 Emmys during her 40-year career...
...earlier stops on their tour Budgie had worn a miniskirt, but fortunately he had abandoned it for this show thereby allowing the audience to concentrate on his talent without being distracted by his appearance. Budgie was not only a wonderful drummer, but he was also the most enthusiastic musician on stage, quickly striking out the beat in a dionysiac frenzy...
Siouxsie and Cale worked together almost flawlessly; making no attempt to upstage each other. While a battle of egos can be expected when two stars try to share the same patch of sky, this performance showed that a working union between two musicians who hold mutual respect for each other. While Siouxsie had more fans than Cale, the latter musician was given the chance to open the show. While Siouxsie's band gladly played for Cale, he returned the favor by joining them for most of Siouxsie's sets. And while Siouxsie spent her solos in the spotlight, Cale seemed...