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...Heart-Shaped Box is about a very rich and very washed-up rock star named Judas Coyne. At 54 Coyne is jaded and cruel and bored and emotionally shut-down, living in rural splendor in a converted farmhouse with his various disposable goth girlfriends, his recording days long behind him. He likes to collect gruesome artifacts like snuff films. "When Danny Wooten, his personal assistant, told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet and asked did he want to buy it, Jude didn't even need to think...
...more than halved from a high in the 1950s of 1 million. (It is now less than 200,000.) Blair took over the helm of the party in 1994 and with the help of Levy, a self-made multimillionaire who started his fortune managing middle-of-the-road rock bands, began romancing the business community. The strategy paid off handsomely; business rushed to back Blair as his star rose, and his party triumphed...
With every Nas record come the inevitable reviews stating the obvious: “It’s not ‘Illmatic.’” Despite their place on the opposite side of the auditory spectrum, the new albums by experimental rock outfit Deerhoof require a similar caveat: “It’s not ‘Reveille.’” That’s not to say that Deerhoof’s latest, “Friend Opportunity,” is anything less than finely crafted avant-pop that...
...piece, according to Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard.The current exhibition features more than 600 videotapes by a variety of artists, including both established and rising stars. Yoko Ono, a well-known name in both rock and video art is featured in the exhibit, as is Christian Jankowski, who is known for combining television broadcasting with his video art.The show features material that has not been seen in previous exhibitions. In each city, local artists and professionals are invited to add pieces to the core collection...
...It’s the rough equivalent of giving your partner a used greeting card for your anniversary, then asking, “Aren’t you going to thank me?” I have no qualms with emo as a sub-genre of rock, nor with the premise of pouring your pre-teen heart out onto a page or into a microphone. As for listeners, if you can get your jollies from three minutes of nostalgic whining even after exiting your teen years, embrace it. But if “Infinity” is any indication, Fall...