‘Top Stories’ Archives
The Home Row Keyed – February 21, 2012
Yesterday, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, I learned that Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock was the first United States television series to be broadcast in the former Soviet Union. That was in 1989. This is 2012, and here's what I've been listening to for the past seven days: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqm35nwZzi8 "Only Wanna Give It To You" - Elle Varner (feat. J. [...]
Live Review: Damien Jurado, Gold Leaves, Bryan John Appleby at The Neptune Theater
Damien Jurado at the Maraqopa album release show at The Neptune Theater (All photos by Bebe Besch) Friday night, Seattle and Damien Jurado celebrated each other. The Neptune hosted as Damien Jurado took to the stage to debut Maraqopa in its entirety where he played through each song in order as they appear on the album with a few extra songs at the end. Though this was the album release show [...]
Pop Cult – February 16, 2012
Weekly column featuring knee-jerk reactions (the best kind) to pop culture happenings all over the world. Who Wants Plastic Surgery? / Jeremy Lin’s Taipei personality. Illustration from BusinessInsider.com Baek Ah Yeon – Haru Haru (Big Bang) – B http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonlBvGdsMg K-Pop Star is Korea’s version of American Idol, and thus draws millions of viewers and much [...]
Whitney Houston: Funeral to Stream Online; Reports of Heavy Drinking Days Before Her Death
Whitney Houston's funeral will take place Saturday February 18, 2012 at 12pm EST at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church. According to NME, The Associated Press have made a deal with the late singer's publicist, Kristen Foster, to have the ceremony filmed and broadcast online, with the event also set to be made available to broadcasters via satellite. Regarding the circumstances surrounding her [...]
Listen: Portishead’s Geoff Barrow Samples Radiohead on New Hip-Hop LP
Fuzzface is the name under which Geoff Barrow (sound-mixing mastermind and instrumentalist for Portishead) has begun tackling his new project, Quakers, which is a crew that has 35 contributing members working their way towards a hip-hop album release. As we previously reported, the new album is set to be released this spring, and the offering, which Barrow described as a “lo-fi hip-hop," will [...]
Adele Announces Plans to Return to the Studio
Adele's music career is on fire lately, after sweeping the Grammy Awards with six wins last week and continuing to sell millions of albums. Thus, it was a huge surprise when the media was abuzz yesterday after the British singing sensation was quoted in the U.S. edition of Vogue to have said she would be taking "four or five years" off to focus on her relationship. Today, Adele retracted that [...]
The Beach Boys Announce 2012 Tour Dates
The Beach Boys announced in December that they were reuniting for their 50-Year anniversary. Today, they've unveiled tour dates! Check them out below: Beach Boys 2012 April 24 - Tucson, Ariz. @ Anselmo Valencia Amphitheater 26 - Grand Prairie, Texas @ Verizon Theatre 27 - New Orleans, La. @ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 28 - Atlanta, Ga. @ Chastain Park Amphitheater 29 [...]
Jennifer Hudson Covers “I Will Always Love You”; Whitney Houston Gives Her Feedback (2010 BET Honors)
Warning: You might cry your eyes out when you see this. The nation is shaken by the passing of Whitney Houston. It's a sobering thought to wonder, "if Whitney knew how her death would leave such a gaping space in the music community, would she have changed the way she lived her life?" As she was ravaged by self-abuse in her later years, leaving room for the next generation to fill her large [...]
A Dummy’s Guide to Korean Pop
On the eve of January 31st, the nine-piece K-pop group Girls’ Generation made their national television debut as David Letterman’s musical guest. The studio’s stage could barely contain the group’s performance, which, by K-Pop’s standards, was light on spectacle. And though the physical size of the set was small, Girls’ Generation, and Korean Pop music in general, had never played a [...]
Bonnaroo Lineup Announced!
Bonnaroo just announced their 2012 linup! Stars include Radiohead, Bon Iver, The Shins, Foster the People, Black Star, Skrillex, Feist, Ludacris (?!!), Flying Lotus, Major Lazer, tUnE-yArDs, and many, many more. Check out the full list below or at Bonnaroo's website. •RADIOHEAD •RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS •PHISH •THE BEACH BOYS (BRIAN WILSON, MIKE LOVE, AL JARDINE, BRUCE JOHNSTON AND DAVID [...]
