The fifth season of the critically acclaimed Emmy¬nominated drama House of Cards premieres Tuesday, May 30, 2017. The series’s Golden Globe-winning stars Kevin Spacey (as Francis Underwood) and Robin Wright (as Claire Underwood), whose characters have always been each other’s strongest allies, show cracks in their relationship. House of Cards also stars Michael Kelly, Jayne Atkinson, Neve Campbell, Derek Cecil, Paul Sparks and Joel Kinnaman.
Why should you read Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”?
“War and Peace.” A tome. A slog. The sort of book you shouldn’t read in bed because if you fall asleep it could give you a concussion. Right? Only partly. Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a long book, sure, but it’s also a thrilling examination of history populated with some of the deepest, most realistic characters you’ll find anywhere. Brendan Pelsue shares everything you need to know to read this classic book.
US Adults Now Spend 12 Hours 7 Minutes a Day Consuming Media
Thanks to multitasking, US adults’ average daily time spent with major media will slightly exceed 12 hours this year, according to eMarketer’s latest report, “US Time Spent with Media: eMarketer’s Updated Estimates and Forecast for 2014-2019” (available only to eMarketer PRO subscribers).
But while our reports early in the decade told a story of robust gains—with increases in digital usage more than compensating for declines in time spent with nondigital media—growth has been petering out.
Steve Miller on The Music Business
Steve Miller tells about meeting the Rolling Stones, the Beatles and other greats of the 1960s, recording with Paul McCartney, and why he has since come to accept McCartney’s thesis that the first take is always the best one. Steve also discusses the business of music, which wasn’t especially fair to musicians in the first place, and how much worse it has become thanks to technology. Tech companies such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple are making money while the artists make next to nothing on streaming services.
9 things you didn’t know about ‘Beetlejuice’
You asked CineFix for it and here it is: The 1988 classic Beetlejuice contains more secrets than you thought to conjure up.
Video: Making a Guitar from Scratch
An adsorbing time-lapse video of luthier (string instrument maker) and plectrier (pick maker) Patrick Hufschmid as he creates one of his gorgeous hand-built electric guitars. He puts his own style into it, and rarely has a video of manufacturing looked so good.
Check out this video where Patrick is playing the completed guitar:
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go Headbanging
And now for something completely different, here’s a heavy metal cover version of WHAM!’s wonderful 1984 hit Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, as performed by Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios.
Joseph Arthur To Perform “Redemption’s Son” In Its Entirety During Limited-Run Tour
Anyone who has followed the career of Joseph Arthur since he was personally discovered by Peter Gabriel back in 1997, knows Arthur has never been an artist to look back.
Over the course of his career to date, he’s released fourteen albums under his own name, eleven official EP’s and has been involved with several high profile side projects including Fistful Of Mercy (with Ben Harper & Dhani Harrison).
However, when it was brought to Arthur’s attention that 2017 marked the 15th Anniversary of one of his most beloved albums, Redemption’s Son, he decided he wanted to do something to honor the occasion.
Joseph Arthur will also be embarking on a limited run solo tour beginning on June 20th in Boston where he’ll play the album from beginning to end.
“I’ve never done this album from start to finish live,” Arthur remarked. “But Redemption’s Son was always a special record to me and my fans and this clearly seemed like the right time to do it. As I’ve been saying recently to my friends, listening to this album again after all of these years has re-inspired me which honestly was a complete surprise.”
On June 23rd, Real World Records, will re-issue the original album (with its original artwork) along with nine bonus tracks all of which have been previously unreleased. Redemption’s Son 15th Anniversary Edition will be available on 180-gram double LP, double CD, and digitally. It will be the first time the album is available on vinyl ever.
The nine previously unreleased songs now form a “lost album” which Arthur has named Morning Star.
“We decided to turn these tracks into their own album called ‘Morning Star’ rather than a collection of this that and the other thing,” Arthur remarked. “It’s a great feeling when the past burps up a gift. Things forgotten and submerged by the vortex of time which reveals its illusions thru a process such as this. First listens of old things are a lot like taking the wrapping paper off a gift. That excited smile comes over you (hopefully) and it’s kinda wonderful. But soon you get transported back to the time these things were new and then they become fresh elements to work with. No more a gift but a responsibility. Like if you got a dog for Christmas. What they say about a work of art being never finished but abandoned is accurate. And I learned here that you can essentially un-abandon them. We took these old things and we set out to make something current.”
Joseph Arthur – Redemption’s Son 15th Anniversary Tour
6/20 – Boston, MA – Great Scott
6/21 – Sellersville, PA – Sellersville Theatre 1894
6/23 – New York, NY – City Winery
6/24 – Vienna, VA – Jammin’ Java
6/26 – Evanston, IL – SPACE
6/27 – St Paul, MN- Turf Club
6/29 – Cleveland OH – Music Box
7/1 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark
7/11 – Los Angeles CA – Teragram Ballroom
7/12 – San Francisco, CA – Brick and Mortar Music Hall
7/14 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
7/15 – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door
Redemption’s Son – 15th Anniversary Track Listing
Redemption’s Son
Honey And The Moon
You Could Be In Jail
I Would Rather Hide
Innocent World
September Baby
Nation Of Slaves
Evidence
Buy A Bag
Termite Song
Permission
Favorite Girl
You Are The Dark
In The Night
Blue Lips
You’ve Been Loved
Morning Star (Previously Unreleased Tracks)
Ghost
Downtown
Pictures Of A Life
Forgive Your Heart
Afraid To Feel
Cracking Heart
Secret Ghost
Cinderella Under Glass
Morning Star
Today In 1976, Bruce Springsteen Jumped The Wall At Graceland. Here’s His Side Of The Story
Today in 1976, Bruce Springsteen jumped the wall at Graceland. Here’s the real story as told by Bruce in the intro to the performance of ‘Follow That Dream‘ live on July 7, 1985.
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‘And it took us out there in the middle of the night, and I remember we got outta the cab, and we stood there in front of those gates with the big guitar players on ’em. And when we looked up the driveway, in the second story of the house, you could see a light on, and I figured that Elvis has gotta be up readin’ or somethin’. And I told Steve, I said, ‘Steve, man, I gotta go check it out.’ And I jumped up over the wall and I started runnin’ up the driveway, which when I look back on it now was kind of a stupid thing to do because I hate it when people do it at my house.
‘Anyway, at the time, I was filled with the enthusiasm of youth and ran up the driveway and I got to the front door and I was just about to knock, and guards came out of the woods and they asked me what I wanted. And I said, ‘Is Elvis home?’ Then they said, ‘No, no, Elvis isn’t home, he’s in Lake Tahoe’. So, I started to tell ’em that I was a guitar player and that I had my own band, and that we played in town that night, and that I made some records. And I even told ’em I had my picture on the cover of Time and Newsweek. I had to pull out all the stops to try to make an impression, you know. I don’t think he believed me, though, ’cause he just kinda stood there noddin’ and then he took me by the arm and put me back out on the street with Steve.
‘Later on, I used to wonder what I would have said if I’d knocked on the door and if Elvis had come to the door because it wasn’t really Elvis I was goin’ to see. But, it was like he came along and whispered some dream in everybody’s ear, and somehow we all dreamed it. And maybe that’s why we’re here tonight, I don’t know.
‘I remember later, when a friend of mine called to tell me that he’d died, it was so hard to understand how somebody whose music came in and took away so many people’s loneliness and gave so many people a reason and a sense of the possibilities of living could have, in the end, died so tragically. And I guess when you’re alone, you ain’t nothin’ but alone.
