Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page is a comprehensive biography of one of the most compelling jazz musicians of the Swing Era. Oran “Hot Lips" Page was the greatest of the Kansas City trumpeters, whose powerful, growling horn made him the go-to man on that instrument during Count Basie's earliest days as a leader.
Screaming. Scheming. Growling. Scowling. It's all in a day's work for Toronto's Hostage Life , purveyors of no-nonsense modern punk rock goodness. The band recently released their first ever piece of vinyl, a snappy four-song seven-inch titled "White Jesus," and drummer Paul Miller took a few minutes to shoot the breeze with ChartAttack about the allure of vinyl, Wire, up-and-comers and his
Family bluegrass band livens up the stage with music. On Tuesday, the Brooks Center for the Performing Arts saw Grammy-nominated performers breathe some fire into the normally formal and stuffy venue.
The house/flat I grew up in. was a beautiful 16th century house in Harrow. It was very gothic in style; much like something out of a Tim Burton film, with dark wooden floors and low ceilings.
Perhaps this installment of "The Leading Men" should be called "Leading Blokes": We chatted with a Welshman, a Scot and an Aussie, all with big plans for entertaining American audiences in March.
SECOND LIVES A Journey Through Virtual Worlds By Tim Guest Random House. 277 pp. $25 It'll still be cool to visit New York City after we live almost entirely in online, virtual worlds, promises the chief executive of the company behind the virtual world called Second Life -- "but in the same way
* SECOND GEAR: The one big announcement at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco came as a surprise to absolutely no one: Epic Games is working on "Gears of War 2," the sequel to its 2006 smash.
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