Erasure Back in Flight with 'Nightbird'
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Former Depeche Mode and Yaz member Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell, who record as Erasure, have reason to rejoice. This is the synth-pop duo's 20th year making music together.
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Memory is a twisting knife in âFollies,â Stephen Sondheim and James Goldmanâs beautiful, broken-hearted musical from 1971.
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Reunited Australian rock band the  Hoodoo Gurus are returning to the United States for their first  tour in 13 years, dusting off their melodic garage punk for  college kids who are all grown up.
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Some books are better for summer, some for certain times of day; Murakami's latest is a night owl's delight.
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The comeback is nearly complete for Opie and Anthony. It was just four years ago when the raucous radio duo became shocked jocks, yanked off the air for their infamous &quot;sex in St. Patrick&#039;s Cathedral&quot; stunt. The pair are back now as satellite radio stars and terrestrial radio saviors &amp;#151; doing shows in both formats, and luring back listeners lost by David Lee Roth.
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The cover art on Chris Cornell&#39;s  second solo album suggests a folk record from the early &#39;60s  (and the title suggests a Kansas cover lurking about  somewhere). But the music inside is strictly crunchy,  dare-we-say-grungy rock straight out of the &#39;90s that Cornell  helped shape with Soundgarden. &quot;Ghosts&quot; sports a nostalgically  Seattle-ish minor-chord riff and appropriately soaring chorus;  &quot;No Such Thing&quot; out-Velvet Revolvers Scott Weiland; and  meaty-sounding ballads &quot;Disappearing Act&quot; and &quot;Silence&quot; end the  record in unusually strong fashion. Elsewhere, the  headline-grabbing cover of &quot;Billie Jean&quot; is well intentioned  but still a little silly, although it boasts a crazy, Eddie Van  Halen-sounding solo. The best thing here is &quot;You Know My Name&quot;  from last fall&#39;s &quot;Casino Royale,&quot;: which is some of Cornell&#39;s  most uncomplicated and accessible music to date.
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Lord, is ÂFriday Night LightsÂ good, and if the season is anything like the pilot, this new drama about high school football could be great in the way of a poem or painting.
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Cat Power's new covers record includes tunes by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Cat Power herself. The mood is hushed, and elegiac.
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Complete with a boast of &quot;reclaim your inbox&quot;, Mozilla&#39;s next Internet technology-based software, Thunderbird, has been officially launched.
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The Moth storytelling tour helps erase the line between writers and their readers.
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The new âEdge/Joy,â to music by Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, is a formal departure from Garth Faganâs dancer-driven style and requires extra work from the audience, but itâs rewarding work.
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Itâs been a good year for old-movie buffs. The DVD industry continued to mature in 2007; diminishing returns on newly produced films led both the big studios and the boutique labels back to the archives. Rapid advances in digital restoration techniques and a concerted attempt to return to original release material produced some amazingly handsome new versions of familiar films (âThe Jazz Singer,â âNosferatuâ), as well as neglected gems (âKiller of Sheep,â âTrue Heart Susieâ).
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Reunited Australian rock band the Hoodoo Gurus are returning to the United States for their first tour in 13 years, dusting off their melodic garage punk for college kids who are all grown up.
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Comment is free: Daniel Levitin: Yes, they were the greatest songwriters since Schubert - and now we're beginning to understand why.
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Still listening to this classic Dead song.  And writing about it on Twitter... It's an MP3 that I ripped from the Mars Hotel album. Which I bought on CD many years ago. I've listened to this track about 1000 times. When I play it it puts a smile on my face. Because Cucamonga is a place with no pride, imho.  It's a joke, kind of like Truckin makes fun of New Orleans, a town that done the Dead wrong, once, a long time ago. Now if it were on vinyl I would have wore it out a long time ago. I'm sure there was a copy of the song on the disk Apple stole from me. There you have it RIAA. You can go after Apple. I'll support you because they stole from both of us. They have no right to listen to PofC. I imagine Steve Jobs and Phil Shindler sitting around smokin a doobie listening to Phil Lesh sing, thinking "Dave has good taste in music." BTW, Cucamonga is a suburb in southern CA. Near Ontario. Probably very non-descript. Might have been interesting 70 years ago. And that's your bedtime story for Saturday, boys and girls. Have a nice day, don't hit your brother (or sister) and be nice to the sitter!
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Anita Baker is back in the limelight with a sultry new collection of songs and a second bite of the apple.
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When Edward Dusinberre read Philip Rothâs  novel âEverymanâ he was struck by what he perceived as its richly musical qualities.