In other words, you can look at a picture of us and go, ‘I feel like that guy.’ So even if you can’t make yourself up, you see there’s a place for individuality to take a stand, that you can wear who you are on your sleeve and be proud of it.” The band’s members have been through disunions and reunions, elicited speechlessness from a usually talkative Terry Gross in Simmons’ misogyny-laden 2002 public radio interview, conducted a decades-long quality control study of facepaint and resisted any cries of “gilding the lily” in their performance aesthetic, piling literal explosions and fire on top of guitars that were fiery and explosive to begin with and effectively establishing stage pyrotechnics and ziplines as the new normal. Or, as Paul Stanley said in an interview with Forbes last year: “I’ve always believed that perhaps you can’t look like KISS but you can feel like KISS. 31, to self-identify as theatrical, larger than life, comic-book-sized personalities among “straight looking folks with suits,” to borrow words from Tupac’s preamble to KISS’s performance at the 1996 Grammys. Louis garage rock band Bruiser Queen, are taking a break from the crowdfunding hustle (see their Pledgemusic campaign, where you can pay them to do your dishes, make you a custom vest or take you bowling) to play some music from their upcoming album, “Heavy High.” I fell in love with Nusbaum’s soaring vocals when they opened for Shonen Knife at Low Key Arts in mid-May, somewhere around the time they peeled out their single “Have Fun” in Bruiser Queen’s signature Bikini Kill-meets-the-Marvelettes style: “Have fun before you die/Anything else is a waste of time” – a fitting ethos for this Thursday and, for that matter, every Thursday forever and ever.īlending an amalgam of rock influences - Alice Cooper’s shock rockery and anthemic riffs lifted from Wolverhamptonian glam rock band Slade (of whose “Mama Weer All Crazee Now” Gene Simmons says “Rock & Roll All Nite” is a “bastard child”), KISS has, for its legions of fans, given permission put a little Halloween into life outside of Oct. Morgan Nusbaum and Jason Potter, the two musicians who make up St. (And if those aren’t compiled somewhere in an ad-bedraggled online quiz, I’ll eat my hat.) But, given the Museum’s affinity for more instant-gratification experiments, it’ll likely be less “how do I find out my bank’s routing number” and more along the lines of “here’s how you build a fire.” Entry fee gets you access to the whole museum, where there’s a full bar and pizza from Damgoode Pies and beer from Stone’s Throw Brewing for sale. You know, stuff like balancing a checkbook, doing the Heimlich Maneuver, driving a stick shift and selecting ripe produce. ” Essentially, this chapter of Science After Dark aims to fill in your knowledge gaps on skills grown-ups should know if they’re gonna call themselves grown-ups. Next to a photo of a pug that has melted into a puddle of exhaustion, the Museum of Discovery flyer states its business for this event: “all the adulting things you should know, but don’t. Then, on Sunday afternoon, the oldest symphony in the state, the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, backs the legendary Motown musicmaker Smokey Robinson in a free public concert on the ampitheater lawn, 4 p.m. In the adjacent Griffin Music Hall, Atlanta hip-hop collective Migos performs, 11:30 p.m., $25. Saturday night, a radio-certified country lineup takes front and center on the ampitheater stage with Brad Paisley, Hunter Hayes, Ashley McBryde and Chase Bryant, 5 p.m., $35. Later that night, rapper Ludacris takes the stage in the Griffin Music Hall for a late-night show, 11:30 p.m., $25. On Friday night, X Ambassadors and Robert Randolph & The Family Band open up for “Tejas” trio ZZ Top, 5 p.m., $35. Thursday night, things kick off with a concert from San Francisco’s Train, the pop rockers responsible for earworms like “Hey, Soul Sister” and “Drops of Jupiter,” and Natasha Bedingfield (Remember “Pocketful of Sunshine?” Yes, you do.), 8 p.m., $35. To launch the downtown revitalization and to acquaint arts patrons with the new facilities, MAD (Murphy Arts District) is hosting a four-day kickoff in the heart of the oil boomtown’s new digs. In part because it’s home to three New York Stock Exchange-listed companies - Murphy USA, Murphy Oil Corp., and Deltic Timber Corporation - the south Arkansas town of El Dorado is undergoing a $100 million makeover that includes an outdoor ampitheater, a kids’ playscape, a 2,000-seat music hall, a farm-to-table restaurant and a future cinema house and art gallery. Murphy Arts District, downtown El Dorado.
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