Pages tagged “issue 57”

New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy

By Jim Welte on 12:30 PM on November 17, 2009

On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk. “From the outside, it was like some kind of Tex Avery cartoon,” Simon says, “where the house is dancing and the window shutters are popping out to the beat.”... read more

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The Best TV Theme Music

By Josh Jackson on 12:30 PM on November 12, 2009

The little ditties that open TV shows keep growing littler and dittier, almost disappearing into Lost’s single sustained chord. The assumption may be that we’re just going to fast-forward through them anyway, but part of the charm of shows like Cheers, M*A*S*H and Sanford and Son was the musical intro. Fortunately, not everyone has given up on the theme song. Here are 10 current shows with tunes that make us put down the remote.... read more

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Reed. Adam Reed: Adult Swim Alum Launches Animated Spy Show

By Jeffrey Bloomer on 4:00 PM on October 29, 2009

"James Bond was actually a bit of a dick," says the former director/producer of Sealab 2021... read more

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Wildbirds & Peacedrums: The Snake

By Stephen M. Deusner on 9:00 AM on October 23, 2009

Wildbirds & Peacedrums’ 2008 debut _Heartcore_ introduced an odd line-up... read more

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Port O'Brien: Threadbare

By Stephen M. Deusner on 8:30 AM on October 23, 2009

Sparks fly on California band’s second album Port O’Brien’s second studio album sounds just fine coming out of computer speakers or iPod headphones, but the best way to appreciate these darkly ambient, heartily ramshackle indie-folk songs is around a campfire. Working with Earlimart’s Aaron Espinoza, the band stitch together threads of hearty Pacific Northwest indie, West Coast rock, and rustic creak-folk to create a loose, at times uneasy intimacy that allows for murky ambience as well as raucous sing-alongs.... read more

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Butterfly Boucher: Scary Fragile

By Caroline Kilbanoff on 9:30 AM on October 22, 2009

Rock chanteuse draws from ’80s pop Butterfly Boucher slid onto the scene in 2004 with the release of her debut album, Flutterby, but at the time garnered more press for her fascinating biography than her killer voice. This time around, things are different. Boucher has plenty to say on her second LP Scary Fragile, all of which is more interesting than her name (yes, it is real), her six sisters, or her childhood in Australia.... read more

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?uestlove Talks Jimmy Fallon, Declares Love of Yacht Rock

By Jay Sweet on 11:40 AM on October 21, 2009

For our Fall Guide to Good TV, we spoke with Roots co-founder and drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson about his group's seemingly unlikely gig as Jimmy Fallon's house band... read more

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Noisettes: Wild Young Hearts

By Matt Fink on 8:30 AM on October 21, 2009

An international buzz band upon the release of... read more

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Lea Michele: No Business Like Show Business

By Sean Edgar on 4:30 PM on October 20, 2009

Hometown: Tenafly, N.J. Show: Glee For Fans Of: Wicked, High School Musical, Freaks and Geeks Listening to Lea Michele gush over her new role in Glee—Fox’s much-hyped new series about a high-school musical ensemble—is eerily similar to witnessing the jazz-handed optimism of her character Rachel Berry, a teenaged vocalist with a scorchingly sunny disposition. In fact, Michele openly admits that playing the diva-in-training doesn’t require much acting at all. “I definitely have a lot of Rachel in me—her level of projection is pretty much the same in a small classroom as it would be on a Broadway stage,” she says.... read more

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