Adam Cohen explains musical journey and plays songs from ‘Like a Man’
When your dad is a musical legend, do you steer clear of his legacy to carve out your own path, or embrace the familial influence on your art?
When your dad is a musical legend, do you steer clear of his legacy to carve out your own path, or embrace the familial influence on your art?
I was listening to a podcast recently, where the host and guest discussing the difference between shoegazing and navel-gazing. I had heard of shoegazing before: it’s a type of music where the musicians stare gloomily at their feet, refusing to interact much with the audience. But it had never occurred to me before that navel-gazing actually involves staring at one’s own navel.
One of the greatest singers of Mexican traditional music, Vargas was a rough and tumble Costa Rican street performer who grew up to be a butchy, pistol-wearing, cigar-smoking, tequila-downing, woman-loving icon for generations of Mexicans. How did a country as macho as Mexico fall in love with such a creature?
Spending the weekend at Lollapalooza was like spending a lifetime there.
Our own Jim DeRogatis surveys what we can take away from this year’s Lollapalooza and the festival’s first evacuation.
Tender Forever – a.k.a. French-born Melanie Valera – brings her electronic bedroom pop to Chicago today for a pair of shows.
Part of enjoying a festival of this size is accepting the good and the bad. But what Lollapalooza wants is for you to enjoy Lollapalooza more than the music at Lollapalooza. The whole event is about the event itself.
Was this really the plan? To rely on an emergency communication system that, for one, assumes festivalgoers have smart phones, and for two, can get service? But in a day defined by an evacuation, a few musical acts managed to drive away any non-musical memories.