Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
The season is filled with all sorts of highbrow entertainment -- Oscar-bait movies and holiday classical concerts -- but that doesn't mean you can't give yourself the gift of lowbrow fun.
3hive (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
On her myspace page Leila lists her influences as "life...noise...stuff." I'd just add "beats" to that list for a quick summation of her sound. These tracks her label has generously offered for your downloading pleasure demonstrate Leila's controlled cacophony as she gathers audio odds and ends, samples of this horn and that vocal clip, and masterfully stitches the sounds together into something you...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
A match involving Marat Safin is always worth watching. He's liable to moon the crowd, smash several rackets or dominate the world's best...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
Olympic gold medal gymnast Paul Hamm has a broken bone in his right hand, an injury that will take at least four weeks' recovery and will keep him out of next month's Olympic Trials.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
The post-punk scene of the late Seventies saw an explosion of independent labels linked to record shops. Beggars Banquet, Rough Trade and Small Wonder all started as backroom operations in London stores and respectively launched Tubeway Army, Stiff Little Fingers and The Cure.
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
Doors Of Your Heart: The Beat(The English Beat)(1981) The Beat are: Dave Blockhead, Andy Cox, Wesley Magoogan, Everett Morton, Ranking Roger, Saxa, David Steele, Dave Wakeling.
Troubled Diva (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
A heaving, happy moshpit is always a joy to behold. When the average age of that moshpit is around 45 years old (as well as being one of the largest that the Rescue Rooms has ever seen), you know you've stumbled across something very special indeed. Former Specials and Fun Boy Three front man Neville Staple is 53, and as up for it as ever. Although never exactly the creative powerhouse of either band,...
ONE INCH PUNCH (Free subscription) | 15/10/2007
Following on from the hugely successful Award Winning Evidence for the Existence of Borrowers, inspired by Mary Norton's The Borrowers, Kazuko & collaborator Andy Cox (The Beat, Fine Young Cannibals) are revisiting the same novel, to this time create a show exclusively for children. A Borrowers Tale: the Great Escape is a charming, engaging and imaginative [...]
ThePoliceTour.com . What's New (Free subscription) | 06/09/2007
The Police opened their UK tour in Birmingham this week to an ecstatic response from fans and to critical acclaim in the press... More > > > > The Police opened their UK tour in Birmingham this week to an ecstatic response from fans and to critical acclaim in the press. Special guest at the second show was Ranking Roger (ex The Beat) a long time friend of the band who joined the band onstage during...
