As the concert business struggles with top-name cancellations this summer, KISS hits the road in North America, betting that its spectacle of classic rock, pyrotechnics and fire-breathing will lure cash-strapped concert-goers looking for dependable entertainment.
By Nick Atkins Photography When we heard Danny Boyle might direct the 2012 opening ceremony we were rooting for zombies, drugs and rock 'n' roll . Looks like we'll be disappointed on the former but an interview with Boyle over the weekend indicates British pop music will feature strongly in the show which will be both "epic and intimate". Promising "spectacle and marvel" expect golden hued ...
You’ll want superb music on loop, because it may … take some time to get out of this puzzle. Musicians and artists now have the power to fuse visuals, sound, and interaction, to make a spectacle, an album, and a game all at once. But with the blank canvas of three different media before you, what form should that fusion take? Space shooters with pounding electronic beats behind them have cleared some of the way. Now it’s ambient music’s turn. In the game Osmos , you become a mysterious part
by Chris Hedges Featured WriterDandelion SaladTruthdig July 30, 2009Read this brilliant and humorous chapter from Chris Hedges’ new book and marvel as the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent makes sense of reality television.Adapted from “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” available from Nation Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group. Copyright © 2009.order hereCelebrity worship banishes reality. And this adulation is pervasive. It is dressed up in t
Christopher Nelson by James Truitt The Saturday following the summer solstice was shaping up to be an eventful one. Between the spectacle of the Rock‘n’Roll Marathon, the unbeatable party-vibe of Pride, and an impromptu mass-moonwalk tribute going down on South Jackson St, there was a ton of great stuff set to happen all over our summer-crazed city. Add to that already mighty list the relatively under-publicized (and free!!!) Georgetown Music Festival — itself combing powers with Sea
