music
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Introducing Darlene Love
Quite why Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Honoree and singing legend Darlene Love would call her new album ‘Introducing Darlene Love’ is really not clear to us. However who really cares what the title is when it contains all new recordings and features never-before-heard and classic songs from a superstar cast of songwriters eager to…
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Eden
French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love’s new movie is a love story of the music of a generation where the plot and people involved really do take a back seat. Right from the opening scene set in 1992 in Parisian suburbs where another illicit rave scene party is taking place in an old deserted fort where they…
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Pulp : A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Gangly geek Jarvis Cocker is the most unlikely looking rock-star ever, but seeing the front man of the British indie-pop group PULP ignite frenzied crowds of a packed stadium, you realize that he is in fact one of the very best. His quintessentially English band enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success in the late 1990’s before…
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Begin Again
When I sat watching writer/director John Carney’s latest movie that was hoping to follow on with the surprise success of his last hit, instead of being enthralled by the warbling tones of singer/songwriter Gretta on screen I just couldn’t get a certain Sondheim lyric out of my head. ‘Once, yes, once for a lark, Twice, though,…
