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Right now, being a sports columnist is like being Anttaj Hawthorne at Nate Newton's house. It's like being Marv Albert at Victoria's Secret. It's even like being Razor Ramon at a toothpick store.
Over 50 years ago, Bo Diddley helped create rock 'n' roll, along with Chuck Berry and Little Richard. Though just as influential and every bit as talented, Diddley never caught on with a mass audience in the way Berry and Richard did. His sound was always far weirder than his contemporaries, a hypnotic blend of fuzz tones, reverberation and tribal beats. The Bo Diddley beat (think ""I Want Candy"") is the quintessential sound of rock music, influencing and being ripped off by everyone from the Rolling Stones to Captain Beefheart to the New York Dolls. Wednesday night ""The Originator"" comes to Madison, reminding us that rock 'n' roll's spare and simple sound is as thrilling and relevant as ever. Diddley talked with The Daily Cardinal about his music, being ripped off and Muddy Waters.
A male camp counselor in a midriff-baring shirt telling a girl he wants her inside him. An old Jewish man telling young children he went to camp so long ago, ""Fucking Jesus Christ was my counselor."" This is the kind of humor you can expect if you see Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black's stand-up comedy tour that comes to Madison this Sunday. Showalter, who co-wrote and starred in ""Wet Hot American Summer,"" and Black, who co-starred in ""Wet Hot"" and is a fixture on VH1's ""I Love the '80s,"" are two of the most original, hilarious comics working today. In part one of Showalter's interview with The Daily Cardinal, he talks about his varied career and what makes ""Wet Hot"" so amazing.
There are few works of art that can address societal evils and still manage to be insanely fun. The wildly popular, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical ""Hairspray"" has perfected the formula. Based upon John Waters' 1988 film of the same name and on tour since its 2002 debut as a musical, ""Hairspray"" is a work of art that seamlessly lambastes society while plastering dopey smiles across audiences' faces. It's at the Overture this weekend only and shouldn't be missed.
There is an unspoken battle that has been raging in this nation since the mid-forties. It is a battle as old as modern society, and perhaps unsurprisingly a battle that defines our modern society in a roundabout sort of way. The battle, of course, is of man vs. the all-you-can-eat buffet.
After leaving the most rewarding and promising boy band of the '90s—which truthfully isn't saying much—Justin Timberlake created a flawed debut album that nevertheless gifted us with four absolutely killer singles. More importantly, Justified established him as a legitimate musical force to be reckoned with. He took four years to give us a follow up, and while FutureSex/LoveSounds may not give us numerous blockbusters along the lines of ""Rock Your Body,"" it does show that Mr. JT is capable of moving forward.
By taking a quick glance at the cover of ...Nous Non Plus' self-titled debut album—which features a nearly naked female torso wearing red underwear which a slim finger seductively lowers—you can probably figure out that this band has nothing against using gimmickry to get attention. Their sound is no exception: though they met in Rhode Island, formed in New York and are mostly Americans, they play and sing as if they are a long lost late '60s French Pop band.
Considering that Christina Aguilera came to prominence as part of the boom of frothy, fairly untalented teen pop stars, the public can be forgiven for expressing astonishment that seven years into her career she has released a double disc album that is not only great, but is also the work of a truly focused and inspired artistic vision.
Okay, confession time: The Loon'the debut album from Minneapolis indie quartet Tapes 'n Tapes'was released late 2005 in the Midwest. But considering its recent international release, as well as the fact that it has just attracted the attention of national reviewers and the college record-buying crowd, it seems fair to call Tapes 'n Tapes' stellar release the indie album of summer 2006.
Part of the reason Bruce Springsteen's 30-year plus musical career has proven so enduring, so vital and so essential—he has produced eight stone cold classics—is that he somehow manages to strike a perfect balance between meaningful criticism and joyous celebration of American life on each of his albums. Unafraid to turn an eye from the low-income, futureless people living in dusty America towns, yet unable to shake his conviction that there are things in this world that make living such an ecstatic, glorious experience, Springsteen has proven himself an unfailingly interesting artist and one of rock's greatest poets.
P!nk has never had an artistic personality that makes much sense. In 2001, she gave us an unexpected mash-up of dance, pop-metal, hip-hop, blues and teen-pop called M!ssundaztood that so far holds the crown for being the best and most exciting mainstream pop album to come out this decade. But then she followed this unqualified triumph with the lackluster Try This. Further confusing fans, P!nk has always insisted she couldn't care less what anyone thinks about her, despite that she seeks out unabashed popsters like Max Martin and L.A. Reid to help make decidedly radio-friendly songs.
Some people go through high school admired, envied, imitated and desired by most of their peers. Others go through high school ignored, shunned, ridiculed and misunderstood. Chicago-based independent filmmaker Rusty Nails is a proud member of that latter group, and he learned to turn his unpleasant adolescence into a goldmine of inspiration for hilarious, incisive social commentary.
These days it seems like if you want to listen to a current band outside the Top 40 spectrum, there's a one in four chance that any album you'll end up listening to is best described by terms such as revival,\ ""New Wave"" and ""post-punk."" Also, that album is probably created by a band that spends equal time refining its meticulously devil-may-care appearance as its music.
After spending the better part of a decade making music seemingly no one but he wanted to hear, Prince made an unexpected but entirely welcome return to pop music with 2004's spectacular Musicology. His recently-released 25th album, 3121, proves his return to form was no one-off. For reasons we may never know, Prince has decided to make a long-term return to the public consciousness, release (and produce, arrange, compos & per4m) the kind of music people want to hear from him, and best of all he is making it sound just as effortless as it did on his first classic album, 1980's Dirty Mind.
What a better way to deal with a brain aneurysm than to go to Nashville and cut your best album in over a decade? Prairie Wind was the album through which Neil Young combated death, and after an operation in New York saved him, Neil Young: Heart of Gold\ was the way he celebrated. He returned to Nashville to play his latest album at the famous, intimate Ryman Auditorium, and got ""Silence of the Lambs"" director Jonathan Demme to film the concert.
After releasing its debut album Fire in 2003 and giving us this decade's best dance-punk-New Wave mash-up—Danger! High Voltage\—years before those kinds of songs became trendy, Electric Six is back with the stellar album Señor Smoke. Before Electric Six jump into the studio to begin working on its third album due this September, the band plays The Annex tonight and promise to give your hips a better workout than a Richard Simmons exercise tape. Fire in the disco, indeed.
Negotiating the territory between Death Cab for Cutie's mellow melodicism and The Cure's sense of wounded sensitivity is no easy task, but matt pond PA is a band up to the challenge. Tonight they play Madison, opening for The New Pornographers, but first Matt Pond had a chat with The Daily Cardinal.
Chancellor John Wiley issued a statement Tuesday chastising the Badger Herald for reprinting a cartoon Monday that has incited riots in the Middle East in past weeks.
Woody Allen has dwelled on familiar themes for the entirety of his career, and though his films have met with varying degrees of success, he has always managed to make the same themes of love, betrayal and justice seem fresh and relevant. His latest film, 'Match Point,' is no exception to the pattern: The tale of lust, infidelity and unpunished evil seems as meaningful and compelling as the last time he told it.
When four brief seconds of ambient concert noise are overwhelmed by crushingly loud metal guitar riffs, the mood for Queens of the Stone Age's first live album is set: no glitzy stage show, few conversational interludes and no time to catch your breath. In concert, QOTSA get right to the point, and their point is: Hard rock freakin' ROCKS. It may seem obvious, but it is hard to argue with, especially when it sounds this good.