Month: January 2015

Robert Cray brings the blues to the Bardavon

John W. Barry, Poughkeepsie Journal Musician Robert Cray called the blues the, “Fact checker. That’s what the music is…What’s really going on? How are you and your life doing?” Like Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana, musician Robert Cray has fashioned for himself over decades a signature sound on the electric guitar. Cray, who is also […]

RUN DMC’S DARRYL MCDANIELS ON COMIC BOOK CULTURE

by Andy Morris and Ed Keeble The hip-hop icon reveals his thoughts on Avengers, Batman and more A hip-hop icon he may be, but Darryl McDaniels, one third of pioneering trio Run DMC is also a massive comic book fan. To mark the release of his comic DMC #1 he talks to Gigwise about his childhood […]

VOCAL FIREBRAND OWLLE RELEASES NEW EP ‘FOG’ IN U.S. ON JANUARY 27th

VOCAL FIREBRAND OWLLE RELEASES NEW EP ‘FOG’ IN U.S. ON JANUARY 27th EP Emblazoned With Sublime New Remixes Of Song Culled From Owlle’s Acclaimed ‘France’ Album Released In U.S. This Past Fall (January 12, 2015, New York, NY) Alluring, iconoclastic, crimson ingénue Owlle, the innovative “dream-pop” composer-singer drawing accolades from indie music corners and mainstream […]

Run DMC review – a glorious throwback to rap’s golden age

Scala, London Hip-hop iconoclasts recreate a mid-80s Queens basement rap party By Mark Beaumont On the way up the steps to the first Run-DMC in show London in 12 years, the brickwork is decorated with clippings from their glory days, a parade of hip-hop firsts: a Rolling Stone cover from 1986, news of their collaboration on […]

Clara Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon on Two Bit Waltz

By Michael Dunaway Screenwriting can be a very tough racket. Aside from the myriad complications in finding a story and producing a rough draft, the long road of revising and honing a script can be a very lonely one, indeed. Fortunately for director Clara Mamet, whose excellent debut film Two Bit Waltz is out now, […]