This latest think-piece seeks to prove that American pop culture, and Britney Spears in particular, is part of the worldwide Jewish plot to subvert Islam.
Artist: R.E.M. Review: Twenty-five years later, the album that invented “alternative rock” still sounds great: anthemic on a bedroom scale, danceable but not robotic, experimental without being oblique. And Michael Stipe’s nasal muezzin-croon pulses with brooding emotion even when the lyrics are unintelligible. The bonus disc captures a 1983 Toronto club gig that strips Murmur’s sound bare. It’s …
Fred Hord, professor of Black Studies at Knox College, will give a talk, “BCD’s of Black Female & Black Male Relationships,” at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 9, in Ferris Lounge, Seymour Union, on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Come on. Get down with the sickness. The above lyrics are from Disturbed’s 2000 album “The Sickness.” Disturbed will be coming to the Bismarck Civic Center with special guests, including the rock band, Art of Dying. The show will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Civic Center. Tickets are available at ticketmaster.com for around $42, including a convenience and building charge. They also …
It was in the gritty, blue-collar city of Flint that Eric Breed grew up amid the dimming opportunities of a declining auto industry. That starkness was vivid in the lyrics of what would be the rapper’s biggest hit, 1991’s “Ain’t No Future in Yo’ Frontin’.” Breed, 37, known professionally as MC Breed, died Saturday at a friend’s home in Ypsilanti, about 30 miles southwest of Detroit, a Washtenaw …
Its not often that an album can make you want to laugh and cry. Franks Hoiers album, Lovers & Dollars, has a poetic sense about it. The guitar and harmonica folk sound lends itself well to the melancholy, thoughtful and humorous lyrics.
YPSILANTI, Mich.It was in the gritty, blue-collar city of Flint that Eric Breed grew up amid the dimming opportunities of a declining auto industry. That starkness was vivid in the lyrics of what would be the rapper’s biggest hit, 1991’s “Ain’t No Future in Yo’ Frontin’.”
Brandon Flowers, singer with The Killers, has taken the unusual step of clarifying the lyrics to his band’s new single, “Human”. The song has been all over the airwaves like a sonic rash. Like a million other fans, I’ve hummed the chorus (”Are we human? Or are we dancers?”) and wondered if Mr Flowers, when he wrote the song, had had a premonition about the fate of John Sergeant he does, after …
Journal Inquirer theater critic Kory Loucks reviews “Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” playing at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam through Sunday, Nov. 30. The award winning musical is a rousing combination of memorable songs, a terrific story, and finely wrought characters, with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and story by William Hauptman, adapted from the novel “The …