Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about the latest impeachment attempt.
This week: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, L.A.’s Finest, The Bold Type, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, Chicago Med, What/If, Doom Patrol, She’s Gotta Have It, Killing Eve
The Met Gala took over media yesterday as celebrities displayed their most outrageous takes on this year’s theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion”. “Camp” in this use is about exaggeration, about artifice. My favorite explanation: “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman.’” ALL THE FASHION, ALL THE JEWELRY, ALL THE … heads? Yup. Jared Leto, frontman of 30 Seconds to Mars (aka Jordan Catalano from My So-Called Life), came decked out in a red ensemble covered in jewels carrying a replica of his own head. While not everyone got… Read more »
On Episode #007 (4/19/17) Jeff takes you overseas to introduce you to the band While She Sleeps, New music from Citizen Zero and brings you bands entered into the Ernie Ball PLAY Warped contest!
Even if you’re convinced that a band changing their sound is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, it’s perfectly natural for someone’s music to develop and shift from album to album. But every once in a while, those shifts are so dramatic that the early work ends up sounding like it was released by an entirely different band than the more recent material.
One man largely symbolizes the divergent fortunes of sister stations MTV and VH1. Can you believe it’s Ozzy Osbourne? MTV has him, and the reality sitcom starring the frazzled heavy-metal legend and his family has become the kind of water-cooler hit that cable executives only dream of. “The Osbournes” has helped MTV build the biggest audience in its history. VH1 doesn’t have him. It doesn’t have much of anything else that people are talking about, and that’s reflected in sinking ratings and management uncertainty over the future. The two Viacom-owned companies are racing in opposite directions. “Things seem to be… Read more »
