INDIANAPOLIS—Saying he was really starting to appreciate the group’s sound, local 37-year-old Ed Johnstone reportedly made an absolutely heartbreaking last-ditch effort this week to get into a new band.
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Comedy Central just announced a new hourlong comedy and music special. Based on the popular live monthly show in Los Angeles, The Goddamn Comedy Jam will feature Pete Davidson, Adam Devine, Jim Jefferies, Natasha Leggero, and Jay Pharoah. Here’s more from the press release:
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You may not know Lenny Pickett by name, but you can spot him during the opening monologue of virtually every “Saturday Night Live.” Since the mid-1990s, he’s been standing just to the side of that week’s guest host. Mr.
The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history.
When Kurt Cobain killed himself on April 8, 1994, music journalist Charles R. Cross was in his office at the Seattle magazine The Rocket, “trying to figure out why Courtney Love kept putting off the interview she had promised us that week.
WASHINGTON—Voicing their calls for heavy distortion and completely badass riffs, millions of Americans across the country fervently demanded a significant increase in the number of mind-blowing guitar solos Monday, sources nationwide confirmed.
While following in the footsteps of the successful doesn’t guarantee success, it provides a pretty good outline when forming your own strategies. The biography of the late Jerry Garcia points to such an outline of how the Grateful Dead approached their work that might serve useful in yours.
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All of my youtube searches lead back to art or puppies. Last night’s brief break from the fairs lead me to a rediscovery of Sparks, a group formed in Los Angeles by brothers Ron (a straight man often wearing a Hitler mustache on keyboards) and Russell Mael (the sexy lead singer).