Circle Of Fate are a Chicago based band that has been around for a decade. Like so many fabulous bands they are looking for that one break into the big time. They have just released a new album Back To Life, and I think this may well be that big break they are seeking.
When I […]

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There is little doubt in my mind that my favorite genre of music is the wonderful world of Prog Rock. I was hooked back in the late 60’s, one listen to Emerson Lake and Palmer and I was hopelessly addicted.
Shawn Gordon is the president of the best known US prog rock label, I can pretty […]

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Barbra Streisand doesn’t just sing a song, she adds a dramatic element to a performance that few other singers can match, and that is oh, so evident on her new 3-disc DVD release: Streisand The Concerts.  The singer is the music industry’s top female artist with 50 Gold, 30 Platinum and 13 Multi-Platinum albums to […]

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Ed Palermo is a musician who has revived a dying genre of music, the big band. Big Bands were all the rage in the 40’s and 50’s, and were every bit as popular as today’s mega stars. Ed though is unique in his approach, his big band specializes in re arranging Frank Zappa […]

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Over the years, MySpace has brought forth a number of musical acts that otherwise would likely have never reached an audience at all. Some have been worthwhile and some… not so much. With his simple melodies and lightly strummed ukulele, Singer/songwriter Christofer Drew (aka Never Shout Never, aka NeverShoutNever, aka NeverShoutNever!) falls into the former […]

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If you stacked all the Beatles tribute albums one on top of the other with the best on top and the worst on the bottom, the soundtrack for the new family-friendly Eddie Murphy vehicle Imagine That would be closer to the ground than it would be to the album on top. Even if we just […]

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Innerkill are a metal band based in Roswell New Mexico. They are hard at work finishing up their debut CD Barbed Wire Noose, release is slated for mid July or early August.
I was given access to a couple of the tracks that they have laid down and decided to track the main man Chuck down […]

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Though the series itself won’t hit the Sci Fi Channel until early 2010, the two-hour pilot for the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica has already been released on DVD, and now the score music - composed by BSG composer Bear McCreary - is being released by La La Land Records. In short, BSG fans have something […]

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Where do Hollywood directors turn for music when they’ve got a big-budget comedy that falls into somewhat of an absurdist category? The same place Mike Judge turned when he made Idiocracy, or Todd Philips during Old School, or Ben Stiller for Tropic Thunder - to comedy music mastermind Theodore Shapiro. To be fair, Shapiro has […]

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Composer Christopher Young has made a name for himself among Hollywood composers as a horror composer extraordinaire. From the first two films in the Hellraiser series to The Dark Half to the more recent The Uninvited and Drag Me To Hell, it’s well known that Christopher Young can kick out a horror score. And this […]

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Roger Powell is a man that needs no introduction. His keyboarding skills are world famous. His time with Utopia should be enough to establish his Bone Fides. While Todd Rundgren may be the name most remember, it was Roger Powell that was the power behind the Synths.
In the 70’s the holy grail in the synth […]

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So, over the last several years - after the unwarranted success of Scary Movie - the Wayans family has been continuously releasing subpar movies to the cineplex. Apparently, though, enough people are willing to drop the cash to check them out, that studios are still willing to greenlight even a spoof that lampoons dance and […]

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Acclaimed indie director Jim Jarmusch says that one of the most important parts of any film is its soundtrack (or “soundtrack record” as he calls it). Perhaps that’s why Jarmusch’s own band, Bad Rabbit, provided several songs for the soundtrack for his new film The Limits of Control as well as putting out a separate […]

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From the first downbeat of the orchestra, you know something exciting is about to happen.  They quickly take us through a medley of some of his better known songs as in an overture to a Broadway show.  Then he appears on stage, opening to a standard from the Tommy Dorsey days, Without a Song … […]

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Over the years, prolific director Michel Gondry has amassed a pretty incredible body of work, from iconic White Stripes videos to the undeniable genius of 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Looking with a creative eye (or four of them, as the cover of his latest DVD release shows) Gondry has the ability to […]

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Photographer Michael Grecco worked his way from a news photojournalist to a celebrity-driven event photographer to a celebrity portrait photographer shooting magazine covers for Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, and numerous others. But his latest work (his third collection of portrait photography) isn’t exactly magazine-cover material. In 2007 Grecco immersed himself in the world of adult […]

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The band Nektar has an interesting story behind it. Although all of the founding members were British they came together in Germany, Hamburg to be exact. This happened in 1969. The exact story of the founding is proof that fact is stranger than fiction. Roye Albrighton happened to be in Hamburg on a bit of […]

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Like many people,  director Stephen Kijak has a bit of a passion for the mysterious musician Scott Walker (the stage name of Noel Scott Engel). The difference between Stephen Kijak and others, though, is that he decided to turn his passion into a documentary film, interviewing as many artists as he could find to discuss […]

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In a world where Less Than Zero, The Rules of Attraction, and American Psycho have been made into feature films of varying success, the pickings are slim for new movies based on the rather limited bibliography of author Bret Easton Ellis. Perhaps that explains the development of a Lunar Park movie and the upcoming release of The […]

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From the thrilling opening notes of Danny Elfman’s original Batman theme to the final moments of the now-comedically retro “Batman” TV Theme, the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra’s all-Batman album - simply titled “The Music of Batman” -exquisitely captures the essence of the caped crusader throughout his years of big (and small) screen appearances. Though almost half of the […]

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As young Los Angeleans, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman grew up in musical families. In the 1980s they worked together for several years as part of Prince’s band The Revolution, before the band was dissolved in 1986. The next year the duo put out their first album and have continued to work together ever since, […]

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I am not a huge fan of rap.  I’m white, I live in the suburbs, I listen to public radio – all of these things make it less likely that I get down to the latest Akon track.  Yet I love Jay-Z, mainly because he’s married to Beyonce and his songs are fantastic, and I […]

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Michael Brant DeMaria has just released a new CD Siyotanka, and it is a sheer delight. Originally written as the score to a play, it is a musical retelling of a Native American legend Siyotanka. Literally translated it means Flute. It is a delightful coming of age story that explores what makes a man a […]

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In talking to people, I know that most view my lifestyle as a little strange, some are even envious. What could be better than spending your days reading books, watching movies and listening to music? Well, the upshot is, its a lot of damn work, it sounds good, but the reality is that it takes […]

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In 1972 legendary horror director Wes Craven created a movie based on Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring that so disturbed American audiences that the movie’s tag line was “To avoid fainting, keep repeating ‘It’s only a movie…It’s only a movie…’” The original The Last House on the Left, with it’s harrowing scenes of almost-too-realistic violence shot into public consciousness […]

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When offered the opportunity to review En Este Momento, Claudia Acuna’s latest album, I jumped at the chance. I am a huge fan of Latin Jazz in general, and Claudia Acuna in particular. Once the album arrived, I wasted no time in ripping open the cover and getting down to business. I was not disappointed. […]

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Amid highspeed guitar riffs and vocal exclamations of “Yahoo!!” the track “Supercharged” speaks for most of the music Mike Patton has created for this adreneline-laced sequel to 2006’s Jason Statham vehicle Crank. In nearly an hour of music - spaced out over 32 tracks, Patton - of the 1980s-90s band Faith No More - lays down a […]

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The late 60’s and early 70’s was a fabulous time for music in the the UK. No, I am not talking about the Beatles, I am talking about the birth of Electric Folk. This genre essentially took traditional music, or traditional composing styles and reworked them into a more modern approach. Many bands adopted it, […]

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Snocore rolled into Dallas on Tuesday night and I headed to the Palladium to check out a band that recently had caught my attention. Thanks to the power of email and some last minute shuffling by the super Amanda I was able to get in pretty much last minute.
What was due to be a […]

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 The 2009 Take Action! Tour featured the following lineup:
Anarbor
Every Avenue
Breathe Carolina
Meg & Dia
Cute Is What We Aim For
Following last year’s example, the 2009 Take Action! Tour has chosen Do Something - a charity that raises money to get young people out and working to make a difference in their communities - as their official charity - […]

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