Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan was always the band’s resident geek. A former pre-med student who left Rutgers to study at Juilliard, he ventured into musical theater in 2002 when he, along with playwright and lyricist Joe DiPietro, started work on a musical called Memphis, the story of a white radio DJ (based loosely on real life DJ Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music) and a black singer […]
Tonight, it’s the 64th Annual Tony Awards! Can I get a huzzah up in here? Growing up in Paddock Lake, Wisconsin, the Tony Awards represented the very closest I ever got to seeing new Broadway shows. And, frankly, as someone who doesn’t really get out to New York all that much (umm, like, once… ever), it still is the very closest thing I ever get to seeing new Broadway shows. Moreover, […]
Weezer have a new song out (for free download from iTunes this weekend). It’s called “Represent”, and it’s billed as the unofficial theme song for the US World Cup Team. Opening with the sounds of a cheering crowd and a self-consciously squishy synthesizer intro that is hilarious and, well, you know, inspiring. And by inspiring, I mean, it inspires me to take my Cutting Crew vinyl out for a spin. It […]