Can any other modern band equal the level of irrational emotion that greets the Strokes at every turn? Ten years ago, they were perhaps the country’s most relentlessly hyped band; that condition quickly dissipated and now this week, with the announcement of both a new album in March and a headlining spot at Coachella,...
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There’s a very well-done Jack White/Third Man Records piece on the cover of this week’s Nashville Scene, that city’s alt weekly, in which White talks of Detroit, Nashville and the overall mindset and philosophy behind his Third Man Records. Ben‘s Blackwell and Swank are quoted. There’s even subtext that suggests Third Man can save...
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No more the days when other jazz fests had their lineups long in advance of Detroit’s, when you’d pick up a national jazz mag’s festival roundup mid-spring and see Detroit listed as TBA. The Detroit fest announced a bit ago that drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts — the longtime timekeeper of choice for Wynton then...
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If you peruse the Detroit Film Theatre’s Winter Schedule, you’ll see slated for a few April-May showings the Thai import Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Yes, that’s a few months away—but that just gives more time to clear your schedule. The film’s maker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, has provided the greatest leap forward...
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Hollywood editor Richard Chew will be speaking next Thursday night at the Detroit Film Theater about the magic of film editing. How big is he? We he co-edited a small arthouse flick called Star Wars a few years back. Maybe you’ve heard of it? For the small percentage of you who managed to catch...
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No matter how you view it Jack White made rock ‘n’ roll exciting again, without a hit song or much airplay. So how’d he do it? Well it wasn’t necessarily his irreproachable sense of aesthetics, and sexual tension for little girls. Nor was it that false hint of arrogance, and androgyny, or the way he stays...
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