Indie rockers Sherwood play Musica in Akron with Houston Calls, The Higher and We Shot the Moon opening at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 6. Tickets: $10. Comedian Katt Williams comes to the Wolstein Center at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 13. Tickets: $49.50-$65.
Islington Mill is coming up in the world. This former workplace of cotton-spinners in Salford, Manchester's city neighbour, has been taken over by artists and designers. It is here that the former girl-group wannabe Katie White and the previously jobbing producer Jules De Martino put on underground parties, organised the decoration of DIY record sleeves for limited edition singles, and even
Thee Oh Sees are set to release their second album, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In , April 8 on Tomlab/Castle-face. The Bay Area quartet evolved from John Dwyer's solo project, Orinoka Crash Suite (OCS), and has released one previous album, Sucks Blood , under their current name.
[Looking into the crevices of game culture, contributor Drew Taylor comes up with odd Australian circuitbending music group Toydeath, discussing ways they are integrating game elements into their unholy noise in this offbeat interview.] If Stephen King, a carton load of Barbie dolls, three glam rockers and a coin-op version of Berzerk were lashed together, set on fire and subsequently fried
Arts & entertainment: There's a crazy new sound that all the kids are going for - except it's actually about 50 years old. Alexis Petridis on an unlikely renaissance
The best artistic creations spring from dualities. There Will Be Blood's villainous oil baron vs. the naive preacher kid. The Road's barren apocalypse vs. the tender father-son kinship it inspires. Trident Splash gum's strawberry sugar juiciness vs. its tangy lime tartness. Digging into rock 'n' ro
The Arctic Monkeys won the Best British Group and Best British Album categories for a second year running at the Brits, the annual British pop music awards, on Wednesday.
It's the anti-Christmas. No, not Hanukkah, but good guess. It's at winter's opposite end, when the evil merchant of feeling-like-shit swoops into the lives of the unlucky and gives them the gifts of high fever, chills, nausea, aches, pains, congestion and academic apathy.
New versions of classics like "Billie Jean" featuring todays stars don't excite me much. But there's no doubt that Thriller warrants the treatment. The big news this week is of course the 25th anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's landmark album Thriller. While many of us today think of Jackson as the baby-tossing human mannequin, and all-around, one-man freak show he's admittedly become,
View comments
Hide comments
