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Last night’s annual viewing of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” brought on the usual misty-eyed memories of days gone, but also reminded us of the most recent Atlanta-influenced connection to the Charles Schulz classic. Take that, Vince Guaraldi!
Suddenly I’m in the mood to watch The Wizard of Oz set to Dark Side of the Moon. Who knew?
THE VAUDEVILLIAN IN BLACK: Rahbi (right) as Michael Jackson. His live album, Rahbi-Raw, will be released Dec. 11.
(photos by Kimble Joyner — more below the break)
Click here to read the Nightcrawler review of his show. (more…)
Witchdoctor’s alliance with Adult Swim-certified imprint Williams Street Records was an unlikely one. Accordingly, the two have come up with some wacky promotions for his recently released album, Diary of an American Witchdoctor. Below you’ll find a TV ad that pairs the rapper’s Dungeon Family funk with “Soul Train”-like visuals. For more on Witchdoctor, check out my Nov. 1 CL story here.
JUMPING JACKS AT PHILIPS ARENA NOV. 17: Sting only jumped once on stage, but his son Joe Sumner (below) of Fiction Plane jumped several times. … Getting old sucks.
A PUMPKIN WITHOUT HIS PATCH: Billy Corgan wasn’t joined by the rest of the Smashing Pumpkins until the fifth song at the Nov. 15 Fox Theatre performance.
(photos by Perry Julien)
DAMN THOSE CRAMPS: Tori Amos holds it down at the Fox Theatre, Nov. 14. (photos by Perry Julien)
Despite his indelible association with the punk movement, rock filmmaker Julien Temple didn’t become friends with Joe Strummer until the final years of the Clash co-founder, who died in 2002 at age 50. Temple’s documentary, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, deftly chronicles Strummer’s life, giving equal weight to the wilderness years that followed the Clash’s breakup in the 1980s. They shared a love of the Glastonbury festival, chronicled in Temple’s recent documentary.
Film critic Curt Holman has written insightful reviews of both The Future Is Unwritten (opening today, Nov. 9, at Landmark Midtown Art Cinema) and Glastonbury. I recently got a chance to interview Temple (The Filth and the Fury) and discuss his latest work and the challenge of making a compelling rock biography.
Also, feel free to check out my review of Pat Gilbert’s excellent Clash bio, Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash, while I was at Gambit Weekly in New Orleans.
Note: This really is just a snippet of a 25-minute interview. Send your comments if you’d like to hear more. Be glad to edit up another, extended version for you Clash fans. Also, just for the record, for a man who’s pretty much a legend unto himself, Temple’s incredibly accessible and engaging and didn’t seem to snicker too loudly when I confessed to being a Clash fan. (Talk about your Chris Farley moments.)
MORRISSEY PERFORMING AT THE TABERNACLE NOV. 5: “Obviously I miss the vibe of Chastain Park … you’ll never match it here … don’t try.” (more…)
ALL HAIL THE QUEEN: Latifah brings it with the backing of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. (more…)
