The band arrived onstage with no sleep, coming directly from British Columbia via Halifax. That didnt stop Natalie MacMaster and her mates from shooting two sets worth of musical shamrocks over the heads of 400 time-clapping fans at the venerable […]
Grace Potter hurled her black rain boot into the audience, leaving a large, muddy footprint across a mans T-shirt. Are you hot out there? Potter said, laughing as she sprinkled the crowd with a water bottle. Potter and her band, […]
Blood Meridian singer Matthew Camirand has probably told the story a hundred times, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining. When not singing and playing guitar in Blood Meridian, the easygoing musician serves as the bassist in Black Mountain, […]
The 35th-anniversary release on DVD of Albert Ihde’s singular and very rarely screened color documentary feature Bluegrass Country Soul (Time-Life) fills a missing link in the filmed history of American music. Ihde created a loving and detailed portrayal of the […]
Last year, Warner Bros. reissued a DVD of director Elia Kazan’s 1957 film A Face In The Crowd. The screenplay, by Kazan’s frequent collaborator, novelist Budd Schulberg, is an intense cautionary about power, politics and public manipulation amid TV’s then […]
Syd Barrett, the brilliant singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose creative vision gave birth to the psychedelic sound of Pink Floyd, died on July 7 at his home in Cambridgeshire, England. No cause was specified, but Barrett had suffered from type-2 […]
A LITTLE GOOD NEWS: Those eagerly awaiting the Be Good Tanyas album Hello Love — due out October 10 on Nettwerk Records — are in for a few surprises. For one thing, the usually sedate Vancouver, B.C., folk trio comes […]
A couple of you dropped us a line to protest last issue’s announcement in this space that we were dropping the ND Top 40 retail sales chart. Ivan Sohrakoff of Woodland, California, suggested we replace it with a “recommended listening” […]
Johnny Cash: Cry, Cry, Cry By coincidence I just found myself simultaneously listening to Carryin’ On With Johnny Cash & June Carter and reading David Cantwell’s review of American V: A Hundred Highways [ND #64, July-August ’06]. With “Long-Legged Guitar […]
In his Nobel acceptance lecture, novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez asserted that the magical realism that characterized life in Macondo in One Hundred Years Of Solitude wasn’t that magical. “We have had to ask but little of imagination,” he said. “Our […]
