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...Subway Series. From a historical perspective, yes, this is the epic collision of the Queen Mary with a cigarette boat. The Yankees have notched 25 world championships in the better part of a century in the Bronx; the Mets just two since their inaugural season in 1962. The Yankee pinstripes are a sports icon; the Mets' blue-and-orange were themselves a knockoff, a combination of Dodger blue and Giants orange, two teams that with the Yankees defined the Subway Series from the first in 1921 to the last in 1956. The Yankees dominated those matchups. The Mets weren...
...Ellard and Fort Apache Studios, in Somerville, Mass. Fort Apache is a Beantown favorite, boasting the major-label successes of Radiohead, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Morphine. Ellard is the first-call engineer there and has earned engineering experience both in England and the U.S. working with acts from Queen to Coolio. Of course, the question of finances weighed greatly on our collective-band-mind. Both the Fort and Ellard gave us significant discounts because The Humming's album would be independently funded (major labels give their clients anywhere from 30,000 to multi-million dollar advances, drastically increasing...
...down to 39-still not exactly a helpful number when preparing for an album of 10 to 12. With each elimination, the process got harder and the collective waters became more troubled (with nary a bridge over them to be found). I was convinced that my new tune, "The Queen of Guadeloupe" needed to go on the album. It told a decent little story about Mr. Monterey, an embezzler who seeks refuge in Mexico, only to return to the arms of the law because he misses having an identity. "It sucks," the rest of the band said (in only...
...tapes" (fittingly recorded in a basement). These low-fi, pre-recordings help to get a general sense of how a tune is going to sound on tape. Songs that leap up off of a live stage may adopt a sluggish crawl when forced onto the recorded medium. Perhaps "The Queen of Guadeloupe" was fated that...
...rather, "Bette." The diva-ish drama queen Midler plays fuses the real woman's resume--a famous singer- actress who started out singing in New York City's gay bathhouses, starred in Beaches and so on--with the persona of the Divine Miss M, the blowsy, flighty, attention-craving alter ego Midler created in her stage shows. "Bette" blitzes her way through the series, to the bemusement and exhaustion of her family and support group: her professor husband (Kevin Dunn), her teenage daughter (Marina Malota), her manager (Joanna Gleason) and her fussy British accompanist (James Dreyfus). "You can't have...