Jack's Mannequin @ Cannery Ballroom - Nashville, TN 10-18-11 Review - Jack's Mannequin @ Cannery Ballroom Nashville, TN Jack's Mannequin…the name has been sprouting up here and there since their latest release, "People and Things," so when I saw that they were playing the Cannery Ballroom, I decided to check them out. I listened to some tunes online, grazed the Wikipedia page, and asked around. My husband remembered singer Andrew McMahon's former band, "Something Corporate," as the band played "every three [...]
Science Fiction's Finest: Vol. 1 is, actually, made up of fine songs, though many are not all that exciting.
Film music at its best from the National Philharmonic, part of a series of Sony Masterworks reissues.
Because I've been working on lists of favorites, and because it's playing in this café right now... And because it is one of my favorite things... John Coltrane, "My Favorite Things" - from My Favorite Things (1961) Julie Andrews, "My Favorite Things" - from The Sound of Music (1965) Filed under: Music Tagged: jazz , movie music
MUSIC NEWS - Word from the UK is that The Kinks' album " Schoolboys in Disgrace " will be made into a film with Bobcat Goldthwait directing. Mr Goldthwait has written the script, which is based on the band's 1975 album. Kinks frontman Ray Davies , wrote all the songs on the record and will be the film's executive produce the project. Produced by Howard Gertler and Tim Perell, the film will be shor in the UK. Gertler/Perell previously produced the Dustin Hoffman / Emma Thompson romantic comedy " Last Chance [...]
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One of my favorite albums of last year was The Calm Blue Sea's debut, self-titled album (no idea why it didn't make my end of year list, except that I was overwhelmed with stuff and probably didn't get to it in time!) So I was more than overjoyed to hear that they had been recording this year and moreso that they would finally be coming to Chicago. What they had been recording was an original score to to the 1924 Fritz Lang film, Siegfried . This old black and white film is the story of [...]
Once in a while this Tart contributes to a really cool project, the Contrast Podcast, put out by a man named Tim Young over on this blog . He takes submissions from people who record a little intro and then send in a song. Each week has a theme and you're told the week before what it is, so you have about 5 days to come up with something. It's fantastic fun, if only to see what your fellow contributors have done. This week: songs with sirens in them . I knew immediately what [...]
Mrs. Tart and I truly enjoy bad movies. Especially with monsters and cute guys and beautiful women and the like. So we were especially pleased by all the corniness that was The Mummy 3 . There was even a yakking yak, (insert groan here), but with the gratuitous Brendan Fraser bare chest scene (yes I googled for it, and the internets failed me, dear reader!) and the debut of a beautiful Chinese actress, Isabella Leong, we were ready to forgive them their sorry jokes. The music was not particularly [...]
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