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- Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
- Doomtree Solid Gold and Vampire Hands deftly dot Minneapolis’s …
- Hit Me Baby One More Time: A History of Music Torture in the War …
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Clint Mansell taps Slash for ‘The Wrestler’
Los Angeles Times CA
"The fact that the film is set in New Jersey didn’t hurt either. Mansell wanted an instrument that could reflect the grittiness of the setting and the character even if the ultimate sound was soft. "He loves his metal music and he lives in New Jersey and all those things started pushing me toward the fact that the guitar might be the instrument that represents this character’s voice. "Mansell is the go-to composer Aronofsky. The two first worked together on Aronofsky’s first feature-length film "Pi. " Typically Mansell and Aronofsky begin plotting the music before shooting begins. In the case of "The Wrestler" the idea of using a simple guitar score wasn’t easily arrived at.
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Doomtree Solid Gold and Vampire Hands deftly dot Minneapolis’s …
Minneapolis City Pages MN
com features the videos for “Guarantees” and “Shoulda Known” while Slug’s face is splashed across MySpace as a “Featured Artist. MAYMusician and all-around metal-scene staple Earl Root passes away due to complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma which he battled for 10 years. Root played guitar in local metal bands Disturbed God-Awful and Aesma Daeva hosted the KFAI radio show Root of All Evil was the owner of Root Cellar Records and founded the Root of All Evil label to promote independent bands. In August roughly 20 local metal bands throw an Earl Root memorial party at First Avenue featuring headliners Impaler. Local rock ‘n’ roll label Modern Radio celebrates its ninth anniversary with a handful of shows and releases. The label has helped promote local punk-infused rock acts such as Vampire Hands the STNNNG and His Mischief alongside national bands like Yellow Swans and Mirah and has cultivated a community of underground rock enthusiasts on its busy message board. JUNEMinneapolis record store the Electric Fetus celebrates its 40th anniversary with a week of stellar in-store performances including a jam-packed set by Brother Ali and Atmosphere.
Hit Me Baby One More Time: A History of Music Torture in the War …
AlterNet CA
They can’t take it. " But the truth sadly is far darker as Hadsell explained after noting that prisoners in Iraq had a problem with heavy metal music. "If you play it for 24 hours" Hadsell said "your brain and body functions start to slide your train of thought slows down and your will is broken. That’s when we come in and talk to them. "Hadsell like senior figures in the administration was blithely unconcerned that "breaking" prisoners rather than finding ways of encouraging them to cooperate was not to best way to secure information that was in any way reliable but the psyops teams were not alone. In September 2003 Lt.
Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA
You couldn’t do that back then. You could only imagine that. What this game allows you to do is physicalize heavy metal music. You can do battle with this dramatic dangerous music as your score. It’s a real wish-fulfillment game for me. How is working in games different from in movies? Black: It’s exciting to me because it’s still relatively new. It’s an art form that hasn’t really reached its potential yet.