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Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
I love me some Little Richard. I remember vividly from when I was very, very young my mother pointing him out when he was on TV as a "homosexual." She did an impersonation of either him or a stereotypical gay man (I can't really remember which). That's one of my first recollections of queer issues, and it happened because he thrust gender-bending into America's living rooms. What gets lost in just...
Hidden on the outskirts of town is a nether region, a place where mystery resides, a location so obscure and strange that one is tempted to call it the Twilight Zone. The area is tucked away within a seedy section of town best left unexplored. However, cars race by with their excited cinematic travelers, eager to drive through the Gates of Movie Hell. We dig a little deeper into the shadows, ponder...
Sunday night: to Kash Point at Moonlighting, Greek Street, Soho. KP has become an occasional event in town, but it’s otherwise unchanged from its days as a monthly club. It’s still a little corner of London that’s forever LeighBowery Land (I guess to younger generations, Mr Bowery might be best known as the inspiration [...]
By Tom Angleberger tomangleberger@yahoo.com Readers, we survived a few glitches -- more on those later -- and got answers to most, but not all, of the questions I asked last week. And we did strike gold again ...
Filed under: Music Our favorite lawsuit of the day: A member of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels -- famous for Devil with a Blue Dress On -- is suing Rhino Entertainment for allegedly screwing the band out of royalties.The royalty part is your basic snooze. But we... Permalink
You probably haven’t heard of YouWorkForThem or YWFT. If you have then you probably (should) know about this little mixtape right here. To give you some background, YouWorkForThem is an award-winning group of artists and designers that produce some absolutely sick graphics, typefaces, prints and t-shirts. The YouWorkForThem website, founded in 2001 by Michael Cina and Michael Young, showcases [...]...
New Orleans has always been home to a rich musical heritage, with a history of influence on almost every kind of music, especially jazz and R&B. Among the performers in the latter genre have been an almost endless parade of locally-grown artists, many of whom went on to major stardom. Names like Fats Domino, Lloyd [...]
This first roundup will be restricted to songs that are titled only by a name: no compounds like "Help Me Rhonda." I'll put my selections in chronological order, starting with Chuck Berry, a master of girl name songs, with his 1955 #5 pop, #1 R&B hit, "Maybellene": Chuck had another girl name #18 pop, #9 R&B hit in 1958 with "(Oh) Carol" and again in 1964 with a #23 pop, #7 R&B hit, "Nadine."
I've just returned from a foreign holiday, where I was privileged to hear, among other Euro-pop nonsense, a cover version of Jive Bunny and The Mixmasters' That's What I Like, which, as readers of a certain vintage may recall, consisted of hits by Chubby Checker, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chris Montez given the then-fashionable MARRS treatment (i.e. sampled, scratched, mixed and collaged)....