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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Guns N’ Roses’ Early Days: Exclusive Photos From the Book ‘Reckless Road’: Now available at <a href="http://www.recklessroad.com">RecklessRoad.com</a>
Fri, Jul 27 2007 08:09 PDT
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Sweet Talk - DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS
| Artist: DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS Song: Sweet Talk Album: Small Steps, Heavy Hooves |
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Rio de Janeiro During the Summer of Love: Rock and Rebellion Takes on a Dictator
 | Today Gilberto Gil is a musical legend and Brazil's Minister of The previous year, Humberto Branco had taken over the government |
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Exclusive Audio: Jann Wenner's 1968 Interview with Eric Clapton
 | 1968 was a tumultuous year for Eric Clapton: In October, he would break up his power trio Cream, partly because of a negative review in Rolling Stone. Before all that, though, he sat down in the spring of that year with RS editor Jann S. Wenner, in a wide ranging discussion that included why he modeled his hair after Bob Dylan, his thoughts on the early blues guitar legends and why he doesn't like to watch Jimi Hendrix perform. Listen to an excerpt from Eric Clapton's famous 1968 |
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HBO's Flight of the Conchords Makes Low-Fi Rock Funny
 | There's a song in the first episode of Flight of the Conchords, a new HBO show about aspiring folk rockers in New York, that captures the heat of courtship better than anything by Shakespeare or Barry White: A guy (thirtysomething, with deep social anxiety) sees a girl (blond) across the room and makes his approach. "You're so beautiful," he sings, "you could be a waitress." From there, the song builds ("You could be an air hostess in the Sixties. . . . a high-class prostitute . . . ") until its... |
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Tokyo in 1967
 | Racy Comic Books and Birdseed Highs in Japan When you think "Summer of Love," you think of Hippies on acid in San Francisco, Andy Warhol's Factory parties in New York, and maybe Pink Floyd taking psychedelic rock to new heights. But the image of students in Tokyo getting high on imported birdseed doesn't jump to the fore. "The simplest way for people to get marijuana was in pet |
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How Guns N' Roses Mixed Drugs, Punk, and Classic Rock to Make 'Appetite for Destruction'
 | Excerpt from Issue 1032 Axl Rose was lying nude inside a Manhattan recording studio's darkened vocal booth, working out some unorthodox last-minute overdubs. Tape was rolling, and he knew something wasn't right. Beneath him was a cute nineteen-year-old stripper named Adriana Smith, who happened to be his drummer's girlfriend. "Come on, Adriana, make it real," Rose barked, pausing mid-coitus. "Stop faking!" On that warm weekend evening in the spring of 1987, engineer |
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'To Catch a Predator': Is NBC?s Primetime Dragnet the New American Witch Hunt?
 | From Issue 1032 No one is home at this house on the Jersey Shore -- no one, that is, except a very cute and horny fourteen-year-old. Her parents went to Atlantic City for the weekend, she is telling guys online, and she wants to get laid. Dozens of men are now making their way to the house, hoping to get lucky with an underage kid. One hopped on a motorcycle for the six-hour drive from Pennsylvania; another grabbed a train from New York in a SpongeBob SquarePants jacket, armed with a bottle of K-Y Jelly. One by... |
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Ratatouille
 | Starring: Patton Oswalt, Brian Dennehy, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian... Review: Thanks to this new miracle in animation from Pixar, the next time you see a rat scurry across a restaurant floor you?ll end up smiling appreciatively instead of screaming for the Board of Health. I?m only half kidding. Remy (voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt) is a French rat with a dream to become a master chef. And by the time Remy follows his dream to Paris, captured by the animators with a swoony loveliness that makes you want to dive into the screen, you?ll be rooting for Remy. Look, Mickey did OK for a mouse. Why not screen immortality for a rat? The folks at Disney who are releasing this unique and unmissable film would like you to pronounce the title the more rodent-centric rat-a-too-ee instead of the traditional ra-ta-touille, which is merely a peasant stew of eggplant, tomatoes, g... Rating: 3 Stars |
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Live Free or Die Hard
 | Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Yancey Arias, Yorgo Constant... Review: It's easy to joke about Bruce Willis, now past fifty, returning for a fourth chapter in the Die Hard series. It's been a dozen years since the last one. Shouldn't Willis be winded by now or prepping for AARP meetings? Even his former wife Demi Moore married a younger man. OK, I said the jokes were easy. Know what? Willis gets the last laugh. Live Free or Die Hard may not be much a movie -- it's a series of increasingly nutty stunts clumsily strung together -- but Brucie boy is truly an analog hero in a digital age. The role of no-frills New York police detective John McClane still fits him like a glove and he looks as fit as a guy half his age. What's your secret, dude? There's no secret about the movie. It's another techno-thriller with Die Hard slapped across the... Rating: 2 Stars |
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 | Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter... Review: If you're not hot for Harry onscreen, watch out for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth of the seven Potter books to be filmed to date. It will hook you good and keep you riveted. The candyass aspect of the first two films -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001 and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets a year later -- was replaced by heat and resonance with 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban when Mexican master Alfonso Cuaron (Children of Men) took over the directing reigns from the prosaic Chris Columbus. Director Mike Newell held the line in 2005's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. But it's the lesser known David Yates, behind such British TV dramas as Sex Traffic and State of Play, who truly raises the bar with this... Rating: 3 Stars |
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Hairspray
 | Starring: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walk... Review: Watch Peter Travers' reviews of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Hairspray. It's a gay thing. That seems to be the excuse most guys use to avoid musicals. Chicago? Gay. Dreamgirls? Supergay. Phantom of the Opera? Don't start. No way is Hairspray going to turn the dudes brokeback. For starters, it stars John Travolta in a dress. But cut it some slack, and the movie version of the still-running Broadway hit is a plus-size bundle of fun, despite herky-jerky pacing. It helps that Leslie Dixon's screenplay stays in tune with the source material, the 1988 movie that gave John Waters -- the sultan of sleaze -- his first mainstream hit. Set in the racially divided Baltimore of 1962, the Waters film suggests that the closest a black teenager could get to cultural integration was... Rating: 3 Stars |
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
 | Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rham... Review: Say it isn't so. Not that Adam Sander as Chuck and Kevin James as Larry play idiot hetero fireman who fake being gay for health benefits. I mean that Sideways writers Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor actually contributed to a script that trots out every fag joke -- yes, even dropping the soap -- and then tells us how wrong it is to laugh. No comedy this year can beat this dud for mealy-mouthed hypocrisy. Watch Peter Travers' reviews of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Hairspray. Rating: 1 Stars |
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Simpsons Movie
 | Starring: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright,... Review: Look, there's no way you can go wrong spending ninety minutes at the multiplex with animated characters who have raised the bar sky-high on quality TV. Created by Matt Groening and produced by James L. Brooks, who could be buried alive in their justly won Emmys, The Simpsons is TV for the time capsule. For two decades and counting, this dysfunctional Springfield family, drawn in yellow and dripping with comic irreverence, kept us in whoo-hoo euphoria. So why did I leave the film version feeling entertained but frustrated? Expectations are part of the problem. How do you please rabid fans, me included, who pore over the past 400 episodes like holy writ? As for new audiences who never bothered to watch the show and wouldn't know Krusty the Clown from Apu, frankly I don't give a... Rating: 2 Stars |
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Volver
 | Starring: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura Review: Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar's latest ode to women-in-peril is as clever as anything he's done. Penelope Cruz shines as the heroine confronted with an abusive husband, the madness of a patricidal daughter , the death of a senile aunt, and the return of Cruz' mother from the "grave." But Almodovar leavens all this drama with his own quirky humor. Hate chick flicks? Volver will change your mind. Rating: 3 Stars |
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Children of Men
 | Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore Review: Just in case you're one of the deprived who let Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men slip by at the multiplex, grab this DVD and hold on for rock-the-house image and sound. It's a ride, but not quite what you expect. This tale of a futuristic dystopia is the anti-Blade Runner. The focus isn't in the action up front, it's there in the background where the film's themes take root. Cuaron, filling every frame with his passion and intellect, takes on a 1992 novel by P.D. James set in 2027 in... Rating: 3 Stars |
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Zodiac
| Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr. Review: David Fincher, who directed Se7en, loves his crazies. But this film doesn?t just tell the story of the serial killer who plagued 1970s California. Fincher shows how the lives of cops and journalists were ruined when they got too obsessed with the case. Witness Robert Downey Jr. as a reporter turned cokehead. Rating: 3 Stars |
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You're Gonna Miss Me
 | Starring: Billy Gibbons, Patti Smith Review: This documentary traces the life of Roky Erickson, a pioneer of 60s psych-rock whose life becomes ruined by smoke, smack and schizophrenia. It?s a familiar arc, sure, but the clich�s are averted when the focus turns to the cause of his madness: his bat-shit crazy mother. Rating: 3 Stars |
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Hot Fuzz
| Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost Review: Who knew? Apparently, there are English hipsters out there who revere trashy big-budget buddy-cop flicks like Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys. Hot Fuzz is the latest from the U.K. geek squad behind the cult comedy Shaun of the Dead: writer/director Edgar Wright, writer/star Simon Pegg, and demented plus-size sidekick Nick Frost. Together, they parody cop movies with the same fanaticism Shaun of the Dead brought to zombie flicks. For the first half or so, it's bloody brilliant. Pegg and Frost are... Rating: 3 Stars |
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The Host
| Starring: Bong Joon-Ho Review: Need proof that South Korea is the epicenter of cool Asian cinema? Look no further than The Host, where a family battles a huge, contagion-carrying ? fish monster? The film is hilarious and the action is out-of-control ? simply one of the greatest monster flicks ever made. Rating: 3 Stars |
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Justice - Cross
 | Artist: Justice Review: The French electro duo Justice, part of Ed Banger's Paris crew of techno punks, started making noise four years ago, moving Converse-clad indie-kid feet with their hit remix of Simian's "Never Be Alone." They don't bother with intricate touches that would get lost in compression - they go straight for the jugular, which makes them declasse for dance aesthetes but gives them plenty of bonehead sonic punch. "D.A.N.C.E." has a children's choir chanting the title, over Chic bass and harshly his... Rating: 3.5 Stars |
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Interpol - Our Love To Admire
 | Artist: Interpol Review: Interpol seemed to burst from the forehead of David Bowie circa 2001, a New Wave nightmare come true: glittery goth guitars, an animal-nitrate rhythm section, Paul Banks' brilliantly idiotic poetry and the funniest gay-bullfighter fashion crimes since Bryan Ferry discovered capri pants. These days, the night-crawling New York boys are sounding a lot like R.E.M., and Our Love to Admire is their version of R.E.M.'s Fables of the Reconstruction; after an epochal debut and an aggressively... Rating: 3 Stars |
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Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
 | Artist: Gogol Bordello Review: "There were never any good old days/They are today, they are tomorrow/It's a stupid thing we say/Cursing tomorrow with sorrow." So swears "Ultimate," the smartest song Gogol Bordello have ever recorded and the smartest song anyone will release this year. It rocks in its own language - a defiantly oversimplified gypsy stomp played loud and then double-timed by a Russian violinist, a Russian accordionist, an Israeli guitarist, an Ethiopian bassist and an American drummer. And its optimism o... Rating: 4 Stars |
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Rooney - Calling The World
 | Artist: Rooney Review: Four years ago, the debut from these L.A. boys earned loads of Weezer comparisons and blew up a little, thanks partly to O.C. exposure. Rooney's second album owes as much to Seventies keyboard-driven radio rock (think ELO and Styx) as Weezer, and it's even more hook-slathered and fetchingly tuneful than the first. At worst, this means blandness - a couple of cuts, including the arena-size "Paralyzed" and "Believe in Me," a pep talk to a bummed-out buddy, are as risk-free as a T.G.I. Friday... Rating: 3 Stars |
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Korn - Untitled
 | Artist: Korn Review: Strength is not always in numbers, but Korn - down to three members after losing guitarist Brian "Head" Welch (to religion) and drummer David Silveria (officially on "hiatus") - sound wounded and diminished now. The vengeful heft of 1998's Follow the Leader, Korn's best album, is here only in fits and spurts: the industrial-grind guitar and cymbal splash of "Innocent Bystander," the disfiguring fuzz on Jonathan Davis' singing in "Do What They Say." The discontent never gathers momentum... Rating: 2.5 Stars |
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007: Legends gather together to play in Eric Clapton's ultimate guitar marathon in Chicago
Sat, Jul 28 2007 03:07 PDT
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