New York
First taste of new Grizzly Bear album, due in SeptemberWednesday, 06 June 2012Critically acclaimed New York indie darlings Grizzly Bear have released the tracklisting for their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2009's Veckatimest. The album, which is due out on 17th September on Warp Records, will be accompanied by an... Read more... |
CD: Patti Smith - BangaSaturday, 02 June 2012
At the age of 65, you would be forgiven for thinking that punk rock high priestess Patti Smith has every justification for winding down (the odd eccentric covers collection to keep the kids amused aside, of course). Indeed, her actions of the past... Read more... |
CD: Regina Spektor - What We Saw From The Cheap SeatsMonday, 28 May 2012
It's been six years since Regina Spektor released Begin to Hope, a festival-friendly breakthrough album with a poppy sheen that easily loaned itself to mobile phone network marketing campaigns and the like. Six years then since the Moscow-born Bronx... Read more... |
The DictatorWednesday, 16 May 2012
Is this a sophisticated satire or a dumb, laugh-out-loud, nothing-is-sacred comedy? That is the question which pings around your head Sacha Baron Cohen's latest. The title is presumably a nod to Chaplin's The Great Dictator, but while that is still... Read more... |
2 Broke Girls, E4Thursday, 26 April 2012
Where would America be without its diners? Or for that matter, where would US culture be without them? Now here's another dramatic piece set in America's version of the greasy spoon, a sassily scripted sitcom by Whitney Cummings and Michael Patrick... Read more... |
Interview: Whit Stillman, Metropolitan FilmmakerWednesday, 25 April 2012
Unlike the New Seekers, Whit Stillman does not want to teach the world to sing. He does, however, want to teach it to dance, specifically to dance the Sambola (or, to give it its full name, Sambola! The New International Dance Craze). Instructions... Read more... |
Wonderful Town, The Lowry, SalfordThursday, 05 April 2012
The cultural triumvirate of the Hallé Orchestra, the Royal Exchange Theatre and The Lowry have joined forces for this new production of the 1953 hit musical Wonderful Town. Leonard Bernstein would surely have been a happy man to hear his score,... Read more... |
CD: Madonna - MDNASaturday, 24 March 2012
Everyone wants their own Madonna. Some want the mischievous, tinny, Eighties, New York club chick; some want the sexadelic, Shep Pettibone-produced art-nudie; some want the gently euphoric Ray of Light trance angel; some want the house-tinted... Read more... |
Touch, Sky1Wednesday, 21 March 2012
The eminence grise behind Touch is Tim Kring, who also devised Heroes, and it shows. Heroes was about a network of people with paranormal or superhuman powers, and so is Touch. In this case, we find ourselves in a universe which is underpinned by... Read more... |
Bill Cunningham New YorkFriday, 16 March 2012
If you’re the kind of person who appreciates auto-recommendations based on previous purchases, then perhaps I could do worse than begin this review by saying:” If you liked The September Issue, you’ll simply love Bill Cunningham New York.” There are... Read more... |
Sondheim's Company crosses the pond to a cinema near youThursday, 15 March 2012
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Company, this time sporting surround sound and high definition and at a cinema near you. Tonight marks a rare opportunity to see a New York gala - the sort of event that proliferates in Manhattan even as the actual... Read more... |
Jackie Mason, Wyndhams TheatreMonday, 05 March 2012
There was a time when Jackie Mason was the pre-eminent New York Jewish comedian. He had started his career in those postwar Catskills hotels catering to vacationing Jewish families from New York City, which became known as the Borscht Belt. The... Read more... |
