Todd
Remember when bands cared about albums as an art form? Instead of
slapping together a dozen tracks because, hey, they'll just end up on
everyone's iPod shuffle anyway, musicians considered how their songs
might congeal as a whole or form some sort of dram
I never would have noticed this had it not been for a fluke on Milwaukee radio today, but I think I just discovered a way Bono could further pad his pockets should he ever begin to feel strapped. FM 102.1 played a stripped-down, in-studio recording of The Bravery's hit "Believe" at the same time as 94.5 played what sounded to be the exact same song—though after a couple of seconds, I realized the 94.5 song was actually U2's older but much, much bigger hit, "Sunday Bloody Sunday." Hear the resemblance for yourself. Here's a clip of The Bravery playing "Believe" live:
And here's the video for "Sunday Bloody Sunday":
Yeah, it's uncanny. If you open up these YouTube videos in seperate windows and play them at the same time, they'll even sync up. To my ears, it makes the similarities between Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" and The Rubinoo's "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" seem downright accidental.
Elvis Costello's frequent collaborator T-Bone Burnett produced Secret, Profane & Sugarcane,
an Americana-inflected album working with country and folk traditions
for images of sawdust floors set to mandolin and fiddle. Costello
intended one s
You wouldn’t expect to find T-bone and sirloin dinners at a place with stool seating and a location next to a shop hawking cell phones and cigarettes. But one of the city’s most evocatively named eateries, ZaZa Steak & Lemonade (4919 W. Capito
The enduring fantasy of older men is that a gorgeous
young woman will fall in love with them, find them sexually arousing
and long to imbibe their wisdom while sitting at their feet. That
fantasy is the spring driving Woody Allen's often-hilarious f
Away We Go, a droll comedy-cum-drama by director Sam Mendes (American Beauty),
perceptively explores the lives of more-or-less ordinary 30-somethings
lost in a world without much meaning. Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Bu
