Photo by SHELLY MOSMAN These are glory days for Bob Mould, valedictorian of the indie rock class of 1984; glowering godfather of alt-rock circa 1992; dark lord of the molten dirge circa 1998; shirtless dancing bear spinning the wheels of steel for the Blow-Off, his hugely successful gay-friendly DJ parties, circa 2002; celebrated warts-n-all memoirist circa 2011; and acknowledged American Master of punk-as-fuck-three-chords-and-the-truth tunesmithery circa now. If it looks like things are finally breaking his way, that was never guaranteed. It could have just as easily gone the other way. In October he turns 56. In rock n’ roll years, […]
Show Time Announces Complete Twin Peaks Cast
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD: The new installment [airs in 2017 and] picks up twenty-five years after the events in the original series that kicked off with the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town of Twin Peaks being shocked by the murder of homecoming queen Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee who is back for the reboot. Showtime LogoHere is the full list of the returning (marked with an asterisk) and new cast members of the Twin Peaks series, including the only previously confirmed actor, star Kyle MacLachlan, who returns as FBI Agent Dale Cooper. The list includes the beloved “log lady” […]
SH*T MY UNCLE SAYS: Where All The Money Went
Click HERE to enlarge BY WILLIAM C. HENRY Ever since I read Glenn Greenwald’s piece regarding “scandal, legalization and the Panama Papers,” it’s become harder and harder for me to believe that hope is anything other than a four letter word. I’m finding it nigh unto impossible to reconcile my own feelings about fairness, truth and equal justice with the fact that there is obviously a percentage of the American (and the world’s) population that has been created (or cultivated) too narcissistic, too shallow, too callous, too egocentric, too avaricious, too uncaring, too dispassionate, too sociopathic, too just plain old […]
HOT DOC: Father John Misty’s Letter Of Resignation
When the Fleet Foxes tour for Helplessness Blues wrapped in Japan on January 20th 2012, drummer Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, sent the following letter of resignation to Fleet Foxes mainman Robin Pecknold and the rest of his band mates. This letter has never been made public: I realize this is sort of a bizarre time, seeing as we’re all on tour together right now and very well may all be in the same room as you read this, but on this last break home I had a pretty potent moment of clarity wherein I realized that I […]
PRINCE: Creep
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RIP: Prince 1958-2016
Artwork by GARY CARD NEW YORK TIMES: Prince recorded the great majority of his music entirely on his own, playing every instrument and singing every vocal line. Then, performing those songs onstage, he worked as a bandleader in the polished, athletic, ecstatic tradition of James Brown, at once spontaneous and utterly precise, riveting enough to open a Grammy Awards telecast and play the Super Bowl halftime show. Often, Prince would follow a full-tilt arena concert with a late-night club show, pouring out even more music. In Prince’s biggest hits, he sang passionately, affectionately and playfully about sex and seduction. With […]
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NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR: Yellowstone National Park, a wilderness recreation area stretching for nearly 3,500 square miles atop a volcanic hot spot in Wyoming and parts of Montana and Idaho, may be in trouble. Each year, Yellowstone attracts millions of visitors and provides a home to countless animal species, including the once-threatened grizzly bear and bison. But finding the right balance between tourism and preservation can be tricky. Journalist David Quammen, who writes about the park in the May issue of National Geographic, warns Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that “there are ways in which Yellowstone is in danger of being loved to […]
CURTIS COOPER: Laughing In Line
Laughing In Line by Curtis Cooper BAND CAMP: Curtis Cooper is a musician from Philadelphia, PA. Laugh In Line is his first record. Influences include Andrew Bird, Elliott Smith, Against Me!, The Kinks, The Beatles, David Bowie, Simon and Garfunkel, Radiohead and Bright Eyes MORE
EMPIRE STATE OF MIND: A Miracle On 34th St.?
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In The 1970’s, Publishing The Wrong Comic Book In Argentina Could Get You ‘Disappeared’ Permanently
HYPERALLERGIC: Buenos Aires-born comics writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld was nearing his 59th birthday when heavily militarized Argentine death squads kidnapped him in the spring of 1977. The fascist dictatorship had produced a “dirty war,” which meant that a military regime had begun silencing leftist sentiment by force. Government officials found the political themes in Oesterheld’s very popular comics — among them, the graphic biography of revolutionary “Che” Guevara that Oesterheld had penned with Argentine father-and-son artists Alberto and Enrique Breccia — cause for punishment. They yanked it out of circulation and destroyed the book’s printing plates. Oesterheld’s support of […]
BEING THERE: Iggy Pop @ The Academy Of Music
Photo by DAN LONG BY JONATHAN VALANIA FOR THE INQUIRER There may well be a sound more thrilling than the tub-thumping opening salvo of Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life,” but after five decades of listening closely I’ve yet to hear it. When that song starts, stillness is simply not an option. Resistance is futile. It’s a showstopper, which is why it’s usually the last song of the night. So when Iggy (known to his mother as James Newell Osterberg Jr.) kicked off his concert at the Academy Of Music last night with it, the question hanging in the air was: […]