Museum exhibit chronicles rock & roll photography

By Arthur Pollock
Sunday, March 7, 2010 - Updated 5m ago

"WORCESTER - The original 1898 curators of the Worcester Art Museum could hardly have imagined that 112 years later its hallowed halls would someday hang artifacts from an upstart art form called rock ’n’ roll photography.

They needn’t have worried. The 100-plus photos in this traveling exhibit that opens here today - Worcester is the first stop on a four-city tour that originated with the Brooklyn Museum - are a worthy collection of pop artists from the mid-’50s to the present."

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Jimi Hendrix and His Vulgar Bejeweled Transvestism: Monterey Pop! - New York News - Runnin' Scared

 

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives.
June 29, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 37

The Hip Homunculus
By Richard Golstein

"MONTEREY -- It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips's living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly the phone rings and someone with a lot of bread is offering those present a share of what promises to be a very profitable venture -- a pop blast at Monterey, festival capital of the West. Everybody listens and yawns the way superstars do at the prospect of earning another line on next year's 1040, when suddenly some supercool Mickey Rooney, with a flower child June Haver nestled at his feet, comes up with the eureka idea: "Let's do a show of our own. A pop festival, with flowers and food and a trippy flippy cast of thousands. Yeah."

And they do. For once, the money men back off and with them that cardboard consistency the title "music festival" usually conjures. For the first time in anyone's memory, the scene exploits back."

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LuminoMagazine.com - Tales From Beyond: Johnny Cash’s Final Album

 

Written by SAMANTHA LESHIN

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

"Johnny Cash. Not much needs to be said about the iconic singer of the 20th century. The late Cash has been known to effortlessly mix themes of rock and country into a fusion all his own. The sixth and final installment in his American series, Ain't No Grave, is a mind-blowing exit. Recorded and produced by Rick Rubin in Cash's final days, this album is hauntingly spiritual.

From the first notes of the title song, Cash's signature warble and bass tones resound through ominous lyrics of spirituality and strength. His voice is clear and strong in unison the powerful chords of the acoustic guitar. The fear invoking words of the cover of “Redemption Day” is a clear plea for personal and societal freedom, while “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” is a pageantry wish for world peace."

LuminoMagazine.com - Tales From Beyond: Johnny Cash’s Final Album

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Dalai Lama preaches peace, compassion in Boca Raton talk

By MICHELE DARGAN

Daily News Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 24, 2010


"Updated 3 p.m. His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, spoke Wednesday about compassion and the benefits of positivity to 3,000 people at Florida Atlantic University's Arena in Boca Raton.
"Out of compassion brings inner peace, and out of inner peace comes world peace. Without inner peace, we cannot have world peace," he said."



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Love the Earth, Love Your Vibrator | Sex and Dating

February 25, 2010 Meghan Pleticha

"I was trying to figure out how to make my sex life trendier, when I stumbled upon 10 Easy Ways to “Green” Up Your Sex Life.    I learned about vegan condoms and cotton underwear, but sensed other, greener sex was out there.  I started my journey at EarthErotics.com, and as the rice paper doors opened to an eco-friendly bedroom, I felt a post orgasm, Zen feeling wash over me.  Oh, the wonders I would find."

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Psychedelic Therapy New research shows psychedelics might hold therapeutic potential for those dealing with death

 By Alex Liu | Posted February 24, 2010

"The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of psilocybin, the active ingredient of psychedelic mushrooms, in pilot clinical trials to treat end-of-life distress. [Credit: Rohan523, wikimedia.org]"

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From Woodstock to Bonnaroo, the music festival lives on

Author: Sara Mutnick Contributing Writer
Published: February 19, 2010


"Today's festivals are a far cry from the days of Woodstock, but the intensity and artistry are still present in full force. Festivals still bring out some of the biggest acts in rock, but they are especially good at exposing the world to artists that otherwise could go unnoticed. And it's not just rock acts at these festivals anymore.

Rappers, techno DJs and R&B stars are all welcome to share the stage with the rockers and folk singers that old festival goers are used to seeing. Headlining multiple fests this summer is rap's architect himself, Jay-Z.

The drug culture is another festival component still intact from the days of Woodstock. Many describe music festivals as having an "open air drug market," where you can find just about any way to get high, and trip and roll your way through the weekend. But you don't need to be high to enjoy this year's festivals." Sphere: Related Content

London Fashion Week – Charlie Le Mindu

"Charlie Le Mindu loves to shock – and this second collection from the eccentric French celebrity hairdresser does not disappoint. His Autumn/Winter 2010 collection is a celebration of everything ‘haute-coiffure’, particularly the wig, and has been inspired by religious mysteries, the occult and black magic."

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Medical Marijuana Benefits MS, Spinal Cord Patients: Report

"Marijuana helps ease muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis and pain caused by certain neurological illnesses or spinal cord injuries, says a report released Wednesday by the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego.

The document includes the findings of five studies that included participants who were randomly selected to receive either marijuana or placebos, the Associated Press reported." Sphere: Related Content

Woodstock creator announces Imagine Music & Arts Festival

By Alex Young on February 19th, 2010

"Update: The festival is now being billed as a two-day event, set to take place from July 10-11. Foo Fighters, Nickelback, and Lady Gaga are among the acts that have been contacted, Torontoist reports.

This summer, Artie Kornfeld, one of the promoters of the original Woodstock Music Festival, and artist David Kam have announced plans for a brand new, three two-day Toronto based music festival designed to draw some 350,000 attendees daily (yeah, 350,000!) in the name of peace and love.

The Imagine Music & Arts Festival, which is inspired by John Lennon’s song of the same name and his message of peace and love along with 1969’s original Woodstock Festival, will be staged at Downsview Park for three days this summer, CHARTattack reports."

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Patti Smith at Harold Washington Library

Posted by Jerome Ludwig on Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:10 PM

"Punk-rock poet Patti Smith achieves a rare two-fer in this week's Reader: a Critic's Choice in both Music and Lit & Lectures.

The Lit part: Smith will read from Just Kids (Ecco), her remarkable new memoir of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York in the late 60s and 70s, on Sunday at 2 PM at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State."

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What Corporate America Can Learn from the Grateful Dead

By Cory Vanderpool | February 18th, 2010

"...While they sang about sunshine and daydreams, the Dead were no fools when it came to matters of finance. From incorporating the band, to forming a board of directors (recruited from band members and the crew, along with Deadheads), to stoking loyal customers by setting up a hotline to let fans in on the tour dates before they were published (the earliest Twitter feed?), the Dead showed striking business acumen, Green explains. They were rather prophetic, too, knowing they’d never be able to control their musical products–and so turning a blind eye to bootlegging–while understanding that selling merchandise and touring were the real money-makers.

“Much of the talk about ‘Internet business models’ presupposes that they are blindingly new and different,” wrote Green. “But the connection between the Internet and the Dead’s business model was made 15 years ago by the band’s lyricist, John Perry Barlow, who became an Internet guru.” In 1994, well before Chris Anderson made it a business buzz word, Barlow wrote in a Wired article that “the best way to raise demand for your product is to give it away.”" Sphere: Related Content

Eric Clapton, Paul Simon Join Yoko Ono Jam

By David Marchese on February 17, 2010 8:59 AM

"During the career-spanning video montage that opened Tuesday night's We Are Plastic Ono Band concert celebration of Yoko Ono at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a quote flashed on the screen: "There's a reason the coolest guy in the world fell in love with her.""

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Subculture Film Fest Alert: Video Punks, Drunken Hippies & Dangerous Robots

By Ian S. Port in Film, Music
Tue., Feb. 16 2010 @ 12:48PM


"It's amazing to realize how many historical subcultures San Francisco has hosted over the years. And while a full tally of them all would probably fill an entire boring-ass academic journal, YBCA has a better way to take in the doings of cultural rebels past. An awesome-looking new film series that kicks off this week, "Freaks, Punks, Skanks & Cranks" will explore offbeat communities and personalities, including do-it-yourself punk, egomaniacal Eurotrash, and eccentric comedy through four films that start Thursday and run through Feb. 27."

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Martin and other guitar makers go green

By Sidney Stevens

"Recently, Martin and others, including Taylor, Gibson, Fender and Yamaha, joined Greenpeace’s MusicWood Coalition to encourage loggers like Sealaska Timber Corp. (which owns some of Alaska’s remaining old-growth Sitka spruce forests) to harvest them responsibly and seek eco-certification through the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Guitar makers also have put some money where their emerging green values are. Gibson, for instance, was first with its eco-certified SmartWood Les Paul electric guitars. Martin has collaborated with Sting on certified wood signature models. It also produces guitars made of high-pressure wood laminate, a Sustainable Wood series using eco-sourced alternative woods, and last year launched 100 percent FSC-certified traditional-wood models, including the D Mahogany 09."

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