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The Belles OmertaLakeshore Records Two is the magic number, at least when it comes to break-through musical acts in recent years. Christopher Tolle (vocals, guitars)...

Mike Watt is one of the most influential bass players in alternative and punk music today. Watt’s bass playing career began with the legendary Minutemen....

Never has a war brought so much fear into the music industry and restricted an artist’s right of free speech than the United States’ conflict...

Green Rode ShotgunBang8 Ohm BANG is 8 Ohm Records’ latest release from the grittily shaken, not stirred, indie-pop rock antics of the Tennessee quintet Green...

Romantic comedies are a good thing in the world of popular cinema. They can be fun, moving, amusing, and anything in between. They’re good for...

In the 1960s, four musicals won Oscar’s best picture. The next time a musical would receive that honor would come five decades later. Last month,...

For American Stage’s 18th annual Shakespeare in the Park, a different approach was taken. Instead of turning A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1998) into a musical...

In a time when a rap song by a white rapper wins an Oscar, it seems that white boys are on their way to stardom...

My favorite film of the 1990s was not Fight Club, which I named the best of the decade in last week’s column. In fact, my...