The Movie Mixtape
Because all good movies need a good soundtrack.
Posted by Lisa White on
Feb 26, 2009 @ 7:00 am What, you thought dad was crazy when he built that bomb shelter to prepare for the big year 2000 scare? You better go apologize right now. Take back all that taunting and pick up an extra can of chili, the armageddon is upon us. In February of 2010, two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, Bono and The Edge, will descend upon Broadway and premiere the new musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which features a score entirely written by the duo. Words cannot describe how unbelievably epic, monumental, and (more than likely) vomit-inducing this will be. I've already bought my tickets.
Posted by Mark Steffen on
Feb 25, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
Timothy Showalter doesn’t have the glamorous story most musicians start off with. There was no magical day where he found the guitar, no one show that sparked him to practice day in and day out. Showalter started as a second-grade teacher at Pennsylvania Hebrew Dayschool, making some extra cash by driving the local school bus and leading sing-alongs with his students to old cassette tapes...
Posted by Amy Dittmeier on
Feb 25, 2009 @ 12:00 am
Kid Cudi’s new
video for his anthem “Day N Night” debuted last week, and it’s nothing but
entertaining. This was the second video made for “Day N Night,” as one had
already been rejected. I’m sure many are familiar with the song - as it has
been around for a while; but the video brings the track back for a refresher...
Posted by Andrew Macnider on
Feb 24, 2009 @ 7:00 am “Creep” is probably the song to most accurately use the
title to describe the mood of the song. “Creep” is, well, creepy. Which it
should be, Radiohead front man Thom Yorke wrote it about a girl he had been
“following around.” After she unexpectedly showed up at one of their shows,
Yorke penned what is arguably (it might not even be debatable, actually)
Radiohead’s most popular song. A
sort of funny side note to the song – Yorke and the rest of Radiohead had to
convince their producer that it was an original song. The success of “Creep”
started to haunt Radiohead, and the song that was recorded in 1992 was out of
their live set list completely by 1998. Only a few years ago did they resurrect
“Creep” on a sporadic basis for their live show. Everybody has heard a cover of “Creep,” mostly because
everybody had a friend in high school that played guitar and tried to sing. I’m
sure you even tried your hand at it in the original “Rock Band.” One of the
more famous versions of “Creep” comes from Damien Rice. Damien Rice’s original
recordings bore me to tears, but his version of the Radiohead hit does a
masterful job of capturing the same desperate, plea ridden and beaten down
emotions that Yorke so wonderfully created in 1992. The only knock I could give
against Rice is that he doesn’t even come close to sounding as angelic as Yorke
comes off during the high notes; but who ever does?
Posted by Wes Soltis on
Feb 23, 2009 @ 7:00 am 
U2 to Score New Spider-Man Musical
The end is near.
New Music from Strand of Oak
Welcome to the real school of rock.
Kid Cudi Continues to Build Hype
New video for 'Day N Night' is an entertaining trip.
We've Got You Covered
Damien Rice takes on Radiohead's 'Creep'