Director: Darren Aronofsky We go back to 1877: it had took Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky one year to compose the music of his first ballet adaptation entitled “Swan Lake”. A story based on the traditional German tale “The Stolen Veil” by Johan Musaus. The first live performance of Swan Lake was disastrous, critics destroyed the performance, …
#8 Jack Nicholson & Jessica Lange Lana Turner described this remake of James M. Cain’s novel (1931) as ‘pornographic trash‘. Having portrayed the alluring Cora Smith already in Tay Garnett’s 1946 remake of the same novel, she seemed qualified to say this, despite not seeing the remake in completion herself. The novel is steamy and fierce. …
The dig at the garage of my dreams was beyond all expectations. The quality and quantity was nearly unfathomable. I had to be pried away, but still it appeared that between this dig and the rock records from Larry, my personal collection had doubled in size. We were back at the house, and I had a …
Given the excitement and the temptation to stay up all night and spin all those 45’s I would never otherwise hear, I slept remarkably well that night. I woke up, and Larry had already been awake for a few hours. He seemed happy to see me. Something told me he slept with one eye open …
‘Come Down to Us’ is a 13 minute track on the Rival Dealer EP by the electronic artist Burial (Will Bevan). My experience with this electronic masterpiece, is akin to what I can only imagine a black hole would sound like or perhaps even feel like. A bottomless puddle of thick black, with buried voices …
Since I was old enough to be one, I have been a collector. My obsession began with baseball cards when I was 6 years old, scouring the couch and car seats, sweeping the floors, looking behind the dryer, trying to find enough change to buy a pack of cards, the ones that came with a …
Director: Lars von Trier Currently, Lars von Trier is one of the most controversial filmmakers. He has been exiled from the Cannes Film Festival, denounced for sexual harassment and racism, and has been highly criticized and declared as mentally ill due to the themes of his films. At the same time, Von Trier is considered …
Let’s just make this clear up-front: ‘I’ll Provide’, the lead-track on the most anticipated new House/Techno release of this summer, Moodymann’s “Sinner”, took me by surprise. As with everything from the mysterious Moodymann (aka Kenny Dixon Jr.), we should expect the unexpected. The slick techno-groove hits hard, with a sound clearly inspired by the Purple …
At the rate that they were going, The Beastie Boys were destined to flame out. With Adam ‘MCA” Yauch, Michael “Mike D” Diamond, and Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz all doing their best semi-ironic frat boy impressions, their 1986 Def Jam debut, Licensed To Ill, was forceful and blustering, helmed by the meaty guitars and punchy drums …
by Saliha Enzenauer How many of us had to hide our Black Sabbath records from the parents: they looked satanic with witches on them covers, sounded satanic echoing lyrics sprinkled with variations of Lucifer’s name, and the bandname promised nothing good but a Carrie-style carnage while you were trying to peacefully enjoy your Sabbath meal …
