Nightlife Agenda
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- Nightlife Agenda
- The life death and strange resurrection of America’s only rock…
- Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Corteo”
- Jump In The Sac Attack
Nightlife Agenda
Washington Post – Jan 16, 2008
At the bar caipirinhas — the national drink of Brazil made with sugar-cane liqueur — were marked down to $5 and flowing like water. An all-around amazing night. The music starts at 10. Friday January 18 Back in late 2005 there weren’t many local rock acts with more buzz than the Bonapartes. The group’s driving post-punk songs weren’t anything especially new but they played it with a certain panache that drew the attention of plenty of local music fans. Just as it seemed like big things might be on the horizon the group abruptly called it quits in June 2006… After the death of Sun Ra and then tenor saxophonist John Gilmore Allen took over bandleader duties and the group continues to draw adoring crowds all over the world. For tonight’s gig at the.
The life death and strange resurrection of America’s only rock…
Detroit Metro Times – Jan 16, 2008
And that legendary status doesn’t just hinge on those facets that are now cemented to the legend such as the now-famous underground cartoonist R. Crumb’s Boy Howdy! logo and covers. r critic “Metal” Mike Saunders’ first use of the term “heavy metal” and co-founding editor Dave Marsh coining the term “punk rock” in its pages. r Kurt Cobain telling an interviewer at the height of Nirvana’s fame that he’d learned everything he knew about punk rock from reading CREEM magazine as a kid. No you knew “America’s nly Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine” — as it so modestly termed itself almost from the beginning — was “legendary” because the first time you picked it up it was like absolutely nothing you’d ever experienced before. What you found in its pages was you… As Bangs himself once described the aesthetic: “Grossness is the true criterion for rock ‘n’ roll. The cruder the clang and grind the more fun. Maybe you’d sensed a similar sense of community in rock ‘n’ roll music itself and the communal spirit that seemed to be part of pre-corporate rock radio. Even Gloria Stavers’ 16 magazine offered an early glimpse in the mid-’60s despite its teenybop orientation. But in CREEM one could find actual words and photos that alerted you to the fact others shared the same unique rock ‘n’ roll universe (which included much more than just music) that you previously thought was exclusively your own. “Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ‘n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society” Bangs wrote. “I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.
Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Corteo”
SanDiego.com – Jan 16, 2008
The stage bisects the tent with audiences facing each other providing a lengthy runway with exits on either side well suited for a funeral procession. “Corteo” opens with Jeff Raz as the unpainted clown lying in bed trying to garner an appropriately solemn atmosphere for his imagined death. But such is not a clown’s life nor death. The friends lovers and fellow circus practitioners who surround him continually lapse into frolicking fun. With our protagonist clown firmly set in the early 20th century the show has a more realistic look. Gone are the fantastical costumes wild makeup otherworldly scenes and oversized set pieces. The rich earth-tone costumes are strictly old world European with a Pagliacci-type White Clown (Ira Seidenstein) and a classically styled ringmaster (a whistling virtuoso) in top hat red tails and mustache… Musical elements are also tinged with various European influences – gypsy klezmer flamenco Italian opera – while lyrics are sung in a blend of Italian French and Spanish. The acrobats whirl tumble and flip on more naturalistic set pieces too. We get lingerie-clad women spinning on ornate chandeliers a joyously rambunctious tumbling bit on trampoline beds and performers rotating and balancing themselves within giant metal hoops. Uzeyer Novruzov keeps steady on a leaning ladder – leaning on nothing – as he reaches toward the angel above him. Evgeniya Astashkina and leg uchakov perform a lovely acrobatic dance (like couples skating without the skates) with a startling “gasp” moment near the end. Botakoz Bayatanova and Dmytro Turkeiev give the aerial straps a twist with strong woman Bayatanova carrying her partner’s entire weight by one foot while doing the splits and even by her hair. In the Helium Dance diminutive Valentyna Paylevanyan drifts above the audience strapped to several large helium-filled balloons.
Jump In The Sac Attack
Cleveland Free Times – Jan 16, 2008
The band kicks off its tour with All That Remains and Five Finger Death Punch in Philadelphia on Feb. – APAudio Spectrum ShowcaseHayshaker Jones front man Clint Holley has worked at the Beachland Ballroom and Tavern (15711 Waterloo Rd… manager Greg Kelly. "We're doing more hip-hop-influenced music with this album. Bizzy was very comical. He's a fun guy with a good positive attitude. He even showed us some studio stuff we didn't know about.
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