NEW YORK TIMES: Bunny Yeager, a model-turned-photographer whose images of a scarcely clad Bettie Page, embodying feral sexuality and winsome naïveté all at once, helped propel Ms. Page to international stardom as a midcentury pinup queen, died on Sunday in North Miami, Fla. She was 85. The cause was congestive heart failure, said her agent, Ed Christin. Ms. Yeager, who took up her art by accident, was one of the world’s most celebrated photographers of female nudes and near-nudes of the 1950s and ’60s. She is widely credited with helping turn the erotic pinup — long a murky enterprise […]
GUIDED BY VOICES: Exit Flagger
From the Black Cat in D.C. last night. Captured by our rock-write brother-in-arms Joe Warminsky. PREVIOUSLY: Guided By Voices @ The Troc PREVIOUSLY: The Complete Robert Pollard MAGNET Interview
CINEMA: Woman Is The N*gger Of The New World
THE IMMIGRANT (2013, directed by James Gray, 120 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Director James Gray’s new film The Immigrant has the whiff of classic to it, perhaps because watching fresh-faced lovelies fall prey to exploitation has been the stuff of great cinema since Lilian Gish first wilted for D.W. Griffith. With the gifted French actress Marion Cotillard at his disposal, Gray works up a lot of steam in this Ellis Island historical piece but he lacks the insight for character or the temperament for melodrama to make his dour little tale fire on all cylinders. Arriving […]
BEING THERE: MAGNET’s 21st Birthday Bash
Photo by PETE TROSHAK MAGNET magazine celebrated its 21st Anniversary with a concert headlined by Robert Pollard’s Guided By Voices. Dayton’s finest have existed on and off for over thirty years and during those years Pollard has proven himself to be one of the greatest and most prolific songwriters of this or any era, having released over 40 albums between his solo and GBV releases. In 2012 Pollard reunited the seminal lineup of GBV that recorded 1994’s Bee Thousand album and together they have released six albums in the last four years including two in 2014 alone. If Nirvana’s 1991 […]
TRAILER: The Pulp Movie
Looks quite promising. In theaters June 6th.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR Singer Donovan Leitch is known best by his first name alone. He discusses his 2004 box set, Try for the Sun: The Journey of Donovan It’s a remastered CD/DVD set which covers his work from 1964 to 2004. It includes 60 tracks, 15 of them previously unreleased. Donovan’s best known for his hits of the psychedelic era, such as “Mellow Yellow,” “Sunshine Superman” and “Catch the Wind.” Donovan, 58, grew up in Glasgow, Scotlan, before moving to the United States, where he became part of the groovy San Francisco scene in the late 1960s. Despite dropping out […]
SEPARATED AT BIRTH: Will Ferrell & Dude Who Plays Drums For The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Finally had a drum-off on Fallon last night. In the back of our mind we always knew this would happen sooner or later. Go check it out HERE. We’ll wait.
RAY LAMONTAGNE: Supernova
Title track from his effing AMAZING new Dan Auebach-produced album. He plays the Susquehanna Bank Center with Jason Isbell on June 6th.
READY FOR PRIMETIME: Brian Williams Interviews Edward Snowden In Undisclosed Russian Location
NBC NEWS: “NBC Nightly News” anchor and managing editor Brian Williams traveled to Moscow this week for an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Edward Snowden. The former NSA contractor’s first-ever American television interview will air in an hour-long NBC News primetime special on Wednesday, May 28 at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central. Williams’ in-person conversation with Snowden was conducted over the course of several hours and was shrouded in secrecy due to Snowden’s life in exile since leaking classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs a year ago. Williams also jointly interviewed Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has reported stories […]
BEING THERE: Panda Bear @ Union Transfer
Photo by MARY LYNN DOMINGUEZ Last weekend, Panda Bear (a.k.a. Noah Lennox) navigated his sonic spaceship through Philly and Brooklyn as a part of his North American tour to drum up support for his forthcoming album with Domino Records. Tentatively titled Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, it does not yet have a release date. His two previous mystic dream-pop masterpieces, Person Pitch and Tomboy, set the bar for his new material at an all-time high, but his performances last weekend completely surpassed anything we could have expected, as shows at both Union Transfer in Philadelphia and at Warsaw in […]
FUCK BUTTONS: The Red Wing
In fucking sane. They play Underground Arts June 14th. You have been warned.
EXCERPT: Brothers In Harms
\ MOTHER JONES: After eight years at MIT and a consulting firm, Charles returned to Wichita to learn the intricacies of the family business. Together, he and David would build their father’s Midwestern company, which as of 1967 had $250 millionin yearly sales and 650 employees, into a corporate Goliath with $115 billion in annual revenues and a presence in 60 countries. Under their leadership, Koch Industries grew into the second-largest private corporation in the United States (only the Minneapolis-based agribusiness giant Cargill is bigger). Bill, meanwhile, would become best known for his flamboyant escapades: as a collector of fine […]
Sexism Didn’t Get Jill Abramson Fired, 9/11 Did
Photo by FRED HARPER HUFFINGTON POST: Consider… the headlines about the sacking of Jill Abramson as executive editor of the New York Times. The publisher of the Times, A.O. Sulzberger, said that the reason she was dropped had to do with Abramson’s bad management of the newsroom; and supporting statements adequately testify to her “condescension,” “brusque manner,” and so on — all of which seems credible enough — and yet the same qualities were compatible with a longer run for some of her predecessors. Meanwhile, there has emerged a rival account, which points out that Abramson recently asked for a salary raise after learning that the […]