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- Wednesday,April 9,2008Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday,April 8,2008Journal Topics: Artist NewsWebMonday,April 7,2008
Director Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award-winning epic There Will Be Blood is out on DVD today. Two versions are available: a single-disc version and a special collector's edition with an additional bonus disc featuring among other things, a 1920s-era silent film on the early days of the oil industry, set to music by the film's scorer, Jonny Greenwood.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsVideoMonday,April 7,2008New York magazine celebrates its 40th year with a special anniversary issue. In it, the magazine's culture critics give their take on the most essential New York works of art since the publication's inception, "The New York Canon: 1968-2008," featuring performances and works by Steve Reich, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Audra McDonald, Adam Guettel, Stephen Sondheim, David Byrne, Brian Eno, and The Magnetic Fields.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday,April 1,2008Wednesday,March 26,2008The Black Keys' new Danger Mouse-produced album, Attack & Release, will be available in less than a week, but you don't have to wait that long to play it. More than 10,000 internet-connected AMI jukeboxes in bars across the country are featuring the album in advance of the release, so ask your favorite bartender if your local watering hole is one of them. Also on the jukeboxes will be clips from the "Strange Times" video.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday,March 11,2008Steve Reich and John Adams will be among the composers whose works will be featured in the first-ever South by Southwest (SXSW) festival showcase from music publisher Boosey & Hawkes, titled Reich, Rags, & Road Movies: Music by Steve Reich & Friends. Reich will also participate in a discussion with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore tomorrow.
Journal Topics: Artist NewsTuesday,February 12,2008Sunday,February 10,2008The Magnetic Fields kick off their US tour with two sold-out shows at the Iron Horse in Northampton, Massachusetts, where they'll unveil "unplugged" versions of songs off their feedback-heavy new album, Distortion. The Hartford Courant spoke with Stephin Merritt about creating the signature sound for the album, which he calls "a collection of 13 pop songs with catchy, quirky melodies swathed in velvety noise," and adapting it for the road. In a feature story and an accompanying podcast, the Courant explores the making of these "witty, droll and often hilarious" songs.
Journal Topics: On TourArtist NewsWednesday,January 30,2008Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood has been praised by the New Yorker as a "revelatory" contribution to the world of film composition, and, says the Telegraph, it just may signal a "Belle Epoque" of British film music. The article signals out the score from Greenwood as "a giant step in his reinvention as an orchestral composer above and beyond his work as Radiohead's guitarist."
Journal Topics: Artist NewsWednesday,January 30,2008New York City-area fans of The Wire and its music can meet stars of the series today at the HBO Shop in Manhattan. Cast members will be signing copies of the show's two soundtracks on Nonesuch and DVDs of the first four seasons, all at the HBO Shop at Sixth Avenue and 42nd Street today at 11:30 AM. Stop by to meet the cast and pick up your copy of the soundtrack the Guardian says inevitably brings with it a "rush of Wire memories."
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