Today, hyper-popular balladeer Adele released her first new material since her blockbuster 21 album: it’s the theme song from Skyfall, the new James Bond film. Since the Shirley Bassey days, the Bond theme has been a vaunted, if very weird, tradition (after all, most movies don’t come with pop singles). But the anachronism Read More
A few years ago, I was at a kicking Grammy Awards party in a Los Angeles mansion hosted by music company EMI, which was then in the midst of a ditched merger dance with Warner Music. As a journalist covering the merger, I was on the List, and my privileged status granted me Read More
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Feeling a bit hungry? "Hungry Like the Wolf," that is, (couldn’t resist!) for some Duran Duran? Satisfy your appetite on May 30 and 31 when the iconic new wave quartet plays Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. [On Sale: Friday, March 21 at 10 a.m.]
Everyone’s favorite British electro-pop band, Read More
Duran Duran will play their hits from the last three decades at their Broadway debut tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The show, entitled Duran Duran: Red Carpet Massacre, celebrates the group’s upcoming CD, Red Carpet Massacre, which will be released on Nov. 13.
About the group’s Broadway bow, singer Simon Read More
Of course Britney Spears was going to be hard to watch and perversely compelling at her live, MTV-orchestrated comedown dance number a few weeks back. It’s just that the powers that be expected embarrassment of the left-field, unhinged, ketamine sort—think Ron Paul at a Republican debate. Instead, Brit bravely delivered Bill Richardson on Benadryl: “Sure, Read More
