Some comedy aficionados make the case that Andrew Dice Clay was always as much performance art as stand-up, akin to the character comedy of Pee-wee Herman and Andy Kaufman. When I interviewed Clay years ago, my impression was that if that were so, years of doing the persona had infiltrated his real self so thoroughly…
He earned his fifth Grammy, for best classical crossover album, for “Hornsmoke” (1998), which includes his “Horse Opera for Brass Quintet,” Piano Concerto No. 2 and other serious compositions. Mr. Schickele’s classical recordings also include Quartet No. 1, “American Dreams,” by the Audubon Quartet; “Schickele on a Lark,” by the Lark Quartet; and “The American…
Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music There was much to celebrate in jazz this past year — great new albums from Meshell Ndegeocello, Ambrose Akinmusire and Immanuel Wilkins; outstanding live performances by Cecile McLorin Salvant and Brandon Woody. It was also a year of reflection, following the passing of Wayne Shorter, Ahmad…
Hi, I’m Michael Mann. I’m the director of ‘Ferrari’. This is a scene in the San Pietro Church in which there’s a workers mass and Enzo and Laura have just come from their daily visit to the mausoleum where their son Dino was buried. He died a year earlier. They’re both in a state of…
Now that she’s released the deluxe edition — in honor of her 78th birthday, on Friday! — Dolly Parton’s already sprawling double album “Rockstar” runs nearly three hours long and clocks in at an indefatigably rockin’ 39 tracks. This makes finding the album’s buried treasures that much more exhausting, but luckily one sparkles out from…
A simple staging idea can have a devastating affect. As audience members file into BAM Fisher’s Fishman Space and wait for “Our Class” to start, a man can be seen writing names in white chalk on a massive blackboard. It looks like a supersize version of the kind that might be in a classroom, but…
The Istanbul Biennial, one of the European art world’s major events, was thrown into disarray on Friday when its lead curator stepped down and the event was postponed until 2025. Divisions in the art world over the biennial’s choice of Iwona Blazwick, a British curator, to oversee the event had made it “impossible” for the…
4. “Modern Girl” (2005) Here’s another, subtler way the band protested the expectations of femininity in its music: Brownstein sings this faux-cheery fable of modern girlhood (from which she got the title of her 2015 memoir) in an increasingly agitated lilt, while around her the song sounds like it’s gradually corroding. “I took my money,…
Then there’s the much more entertaining murder mystery, in which one or two people have been killed, or perhaps none. A priest once posted to Kilkinure is found dead in his Dublin home, and suspicion falls on the protesting women. At about the same time, Lorna hits her head in a pub and wakes up…
Nearly 20 years ago, when Sleater-Kinney released its towering seventh album, “The Woods,” there was a convincing case to be made that the trio was the most vital, and underrated, working American rock band. Born of the fervent feminist spirit of the riot grrrl movement and the Pacific Northwest’s fertile D.I.Y. scene, the group spent…
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