Keep rocking and rolling, Mandela Gulf News | The term 'living legend' can appear trite in these days of marketing hyperbole, yet it is never more appropriate when applied to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. His suffering for 27 years in a white South African jail for holding anti-apartheid views is well known. His eventual release from jail, the f...
Heavy metal: Richard Serra exhibition for London The Guardian | An installation by the American artist Richard Serra at the Guggenheim. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters | One of the titans of modern art, Richard Serra, best known for his huge, emotionally moving steel sculptures, is to have his first solo exhib...
Heavy Metal Penn Live | %%headline%%ON THE | Betcha didn't know Poison bassist and Wormleysburg native Bobby Dall is the band's self-professed "Wizard of Oz" -- he's the guy who keeps everything going. | While singer Bret Michaels stars in the successful reality TV show "...
Music makers: High school students master rock 'n' roll Asbury Park Press | HOWELL — As Cantaffapella's Rock and Roll Chorus tours the state and the eastern seaboard, members say they are not only getting to do something they love, but are learning first hand the skills they will need to enter the music industry. | "I just...
Can Country music rock the US voter? The Daily Telegraph | Christopher Howse | The Country singer John Rich (half of Big and Rich) has kindly released a song to help John McCain to the White House. Raisin' McCain narrates the senator's war experiences: "Well he got shot down in a Vietnam town, / Fighting f...
Randy Newman may be rock 'n' roll's renaissance man USA Today Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Dan MacMedan, USA TODAY Just heavenly: Harps and Angels, Randy Newman's first album of original songs since 1999, arrives in stores this week. By Edna Gundersen, USA TODAY PACIFIC PA...
MUSIC REVIEWS: Pop, country/roots, jazz and classical releases The Tribune San Luis Obispo The Philadelphia Inquirer | Pop: | THE HOLD STEADY "Stay Positive" (Vagrant, 3 { stars) | "Man, we make our own movies," Craig Finn sings in "Slapped Actress," the nod to filmmaker John Cassavetes that comes just before the house lights go on at the close of "Stay Positive," the fourth album by the Brooklyn-based bar band par excellence. Cassavetes...
Snoop Dogg raps in Bollywood comedy The Press Democrat | "Yo, what up. This Big Snoop Dogg. Represent the Punjabi. Aye ya, Hit em with this," the rapper says while introducing the title song to "Singh is Kinng," the Bollywood film that opens Friday. | Clad in a maroon slim-fitted Indian kurta and beige trousers and a diamond-studded turban, Snoop Dogg lounges on an oversized armchair draped with blue a...
