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With Oliver Stone’s Alexander (click for trailer) lurking on the filmic horizon, this interview from Archaeology magazine with the film’s chief historian Robin Lane Fox (pictured above with star Colin Farrel) – who teaches Greek and Latin literature, Greek, Roman and early Islamic history at Oxford, AND who appears in …

Okay, as a non-video game player and music video skeptic I am not the target audience for this, but am I insane to think this is the most pointless, pandering nonsense in the history of pointless pandering nonsense? Do we need remade versions of videos with the characters and environments …

As Tom Johnson mentions in his very fine review of the “new” Tears For Fears, Everybody Loves a Happy Ending, Arista Records was scheduled to put it out in April, but dropped the ball amid reorganization, the merger with Sony Music, and the ouster of Antonio “LA” Reid from the …

You can package it with strawberry-blonde hair, put pink lipstick on it, slap some dirty words all over and call it a blog, but a blog it does not make.

An apt little lesson on the music biz: our Mark Hasty wrote a very fine post (see below) on young singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee on July 9, when her album was scheduled for a July release. Well, in the middle of the Warner Music Group shakeup, the album didn’t come out …

In what could be called a post-hip-hop musical development, sampling, looped beats, and the blending of organic and inorganic musical sources are still the sonic and creative foundation, but a folky, singer-songwriter vibe has evolved over the last ten years or so with such practicioners as Beck, Arrested Development, G. …

If I were not an educated, reasonably articulate, pushy asshole who is willing to get on the phone and browbeat these vicious leeches, this could easily have been me at various points in my life, including a credit crunch situation we had not all that long ago: In a six-year …

The nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2005 were announced yesterday: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five are among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — the first rap artists to get that distinction — joining U2, Randy Newman and the …

The Brian Wilson tale one is a strange, sad, but ultimately uplifting one. Against all odds, the troubled genius of the Wilson family, 62, has outlived both of his brothers, returned to writing and performing, and now in two weeks will finally present to the world, if not “THE,” then …

This is one of those seasons that makes the Caribbean and environs look a lot less attractive, with storms piling up on top of one another, taking the fun out of the sun and reminding us who the REAL superpower is: Mother Nature. With concern and best wishes centered on …