Articles tagged "1960s"

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A Sly take on ‘60s culture

by Connie Ogle [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[3.Sep.09] :. His kids get a kick out of their iPod shuffles, but Ben Greenman fondly remembers the old days, when as a 10-year-old music lover he’d spend his time rummaging for treasures through the funk...

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Film Review

Taking Woodstock

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Aug.09] :. The Ang Lee take on Woodstock never gets much beyond these clichés: hippies took drugs, rain made mud, the music was great and crowds were huge.

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Books Review

Please Step Back by Ben Greenman

by Michael Buening

[28.May.09] :. It’s maddening to see addiction for the way it turns a person into the one-dimensional cliché familiar from a hundred After School Specials and Behind the Musics.

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Capsule Reviews

Various Artists: Boogaloo Pow Wow: Dancefloor Rendez-vous in Young Nuyorica

by Deanne Sole

[20.May.09] :. This collection of raucous 1960s New York boogaloo has a strong soul component.

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Sound Affects

A Day in the Life of Brian Wilson: The Beach Boys - “Busy Doin’ Nothin’”

by Matt White

[29.Jan.09] :. The shadow of Pet Sounds loomed large on the Beach Boys after it was released in 1966. How do you follow-up one of the greatest, if not THE greatest album of all-time? Well, with Smile...

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Books Review

Dusty! Queen of the Postmods by Annie J. Randall

by Christel Loar

[2.Dec.08] :. As Randall thoroughly explores, Dusty Springfield's physical transfiguration and visual impact were only the tip of her transformation.

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The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa

by Chris Barsanti

[10.Dec.07] :. The Bad Girl works better as a travelogue of Ricardo, the rootless intellect, than as a fabulist's tale of love gone sour right from the start.

 

New from Rhino: Golden rock nuggets from San Francisco

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[25.Sep.07] :. The frontispiece of Rhino’s gorgeous, book-bound four-CD set “Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970” ($64.98) might be the closest thing rock music has to the...

 

Iconic ‘Easy Rider’ items up for auction

by Michael E. Young [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[20.Sep.07] :. DALLAS—Four decades after “Easy Rider” merged low-budget biker flicks with art-house sensibilities, the man who gave life to the iconic “Captain America” is selling off...

 

Flower Power: Stepping Back From the Past

by Justin Cober-Lake

[31.Aug.07] :. After years of talking about how great this music is, it's time we started actually listening to it. For example, does a song sound like the year 1968, or does it sound like Deep Purple?

 

Colin Blunstone’s voice reanimates the Zombies

by Len Righi [The Morning Call (Allentown, Pa.) (MCT)]

[13.Aug.07] :. Of all his peers on this year’s Hippiefest tour, Zombies lead singer Colin Blunstone knows only one from back in the day—Denny Laine, once the voice of the Moody Blues (that’s him...

 

Their Dogs Came With Them by Helena Maria Viramontes

by Kate Soto

[9.Jul.07] :. Viramontes loves L.A., and her new novel is a multilayered homage to the lives of "the forgotten poor... the despised and reviled" in East L.A./Boyle Heights of the 1960s.

 
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Music Feature

The Doors: Open for Business (Again)

by Sean Murphy

[8.May.07] :. If the first two Doors albums are drugs, they’d be of the decidedly psychedelic variety; the next couple are a dangerous cocktail of amphetamines and Quaaludes. Morrison Hotel is beer: authentic, unfiltered, as American as it gets. L.A. Woman manages to be all of the above.

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The Zombies: Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London

by Jennifer Kelly

[20.Apr.07] :. Forty years after their groundbreaking, wonderful, alternatively-spelled Odessey and Oracle, Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent form a cheesy Zombies cover band.

 

The Beatles and Philosophy by Michael Baur and Steven Baur [Editors]

by Zeth Lundy

[12.Apr.07] :. Perhaps Lennon's pop-song gibberish happens to have a fluke connection with Hindu philosophy, but it seems irresponsible to make intentional bedfellows of the two.

 

The Zombies: Odessey & Oracle

by Dominic Umile

[1.Sep.04] :. Odessey & Oracle is the weekly record, a compiling of sentiment that’s comfortable enough for anytime, be it free weekend space or during mundane cubicle labor.