Where is David Bowie now?
On the occasion of his 66th birthday earlier this week, David Bowie did something he hasn’t done in a really long time: he put out some new music. It came in the form of a song called “Where Are We Now?” (from a reported forthcoming album called The Next Day), with a music video directed by artist Tony Oursler. The video itself looks like the documentation of an […]
Win your own copy of this sweet new Beatles DVD!
Earlier this month, one of the last great, still-missing, missing links of the Beatles catalog finally found its way into stores. Roll up (!) for the band’s 1967 BBC holiday special Magical Mystery Tour, now out on DVD and Blu-Ray. Watch the trailer below and check out our review of this quirky, and improbably influential piece of musical film-making.
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Finally. Someone – someone great even – has exacted a satisfying revenge on Pat Boone. Pat Boone’s crimes against rock n’ roll are myriad and well-documented. In the mid-50s, his Wonderbread and butter was in recording squeaky clean covers of contemporaneous R&B hits (“black” music) marketed heavily to a mainstream pop (“white”) audience. Not only did his recordings diffuse the power and energy inherent in those songs (imagine John Mayer covering […]