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Concert review: Patti Smith at the Vic
Sex as sacrament, youth as state of mind, religion as rock ‘n’ roll -- Patti Smith jumped right into that deep, wide river at the outset of her sold-out concert Monday at the Vic Theatre. “I move in another dimension,” she...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Entertainment, Music
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Tonight's top show: Patti Smith at the Vic
Patti Smith: The poet sings about wanderlust, art and discovery on her 2012 album, “Bangra,” and she remains a potent live performer with a band that can raise the roof or drop to a whisper as needed. With a four-decade history of pivotal... -
Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne explores ideas about music and performance
David Byrne's lyrics, especially in his early days with Talking Heads, put even the most mundane human behavior underneath a magnifying glass to reveal all its wonder and strangeness. He was the "anthropologist from Mars," instantly staking out a place...
Tags: Lower East Side, Culture, Arts and Culture, David Byrne, Asperger Syndrome
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Taking note of music books
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, as Elvis Costello and others have sneered, then what does that make reading about music? Well, fun, for starters. Although Bowker Market Research reports that music books have steadily comprised...
Tags: John Lennon, Biography (genre), The Beatles (music group), David Byrne, Francois Truffaut
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Album review: Patti Smith, 'Banga'
3 stars (out of 4) Patti Smith opens “Banga” (Columbia) with an irresistible invitation: “We are going to see the world,” she announces. For the rest of her 11th studio album she makes good on her word, drawing connections...
Tags: Entertainment, Music
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Mark Erickson's top art shows of 2010 Hampton Roads
If any single visual arts attraction should rank at the top of heap in 2010, it has to be the May 1 opening of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing. The $150 million structure not only added 165,000 square feet...Tags: Endangered Species, Book, Arts, Photography, Conservation
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Chrysler photo show plumbs the national character
Few things attract our attention more than the face of another human.
Familiar and mysterious at the same time, it's a perennial subject in art, spawning more images over the centuries than any other subject.
With the invention of photography in the...Tags: Irving Penn, Photography, Gordon Parks, Arts and Culture, Chrysler Museum of Art
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UPDATE: Stabler Arena confirms that Bob Dylan's coming in April
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGIt's now official that egendary singer Bob Dylan is coming to Stabler Arena in April. Dylan, the iconic folk and rock bard, will play the storied Lehigh University venue on April 18, Lehigh University has confirmed. The show had not...... -
Album review: Patti Smith's 'Banga'
Pop & HissAfter her National Book Award-winning memoir "Just Kids" greatly expanded her audience, Patti Smith could have done the usual aging-rock-legend safety move: record an album of standards and covers. Except she had just done that with 2007’s "Twelve."... -
Album review: Alan Jackson's 'Thirty Miles West'
Pop & HissAlan Jackson's new album 'Thirty Miles West' showcases the country singer and songwriter's no-frills approach to music. 'Thirty Miles West' is the first album from Alan Jackson' new label, Alan Country Records.... -
What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Jacket CopyAn encore of the stunning 1996 performance by Neil Young and Patti Smith is probably too much to hope for from their upcoming discussion together at BEA.... -
Posthumous Joey Ramone album due May 22; live performance set
Pop & HissPunk rock pioneer Joey Ramone's unfinished songs have been completed and will be issued in a posthumous album "...ya know?" to be released May 22. Joey Ramone's brother, Mickey Leigh, enlisted help from Joey's friends and admirers to complete the tracks...
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