LONDON (Reuters) – Rats “stream like hot metal, to the rim of the world” and children, lured by the music of a Pied Piper-like exterminator, disappear into a hillside in British composer George Benjamin‘s eerie 2006 mini-opera “Into the Little Hill”. Benjamin claims they’re still alive, and perhaps better off, inside that hill, where the [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Avant garde rock star Frank Zappa said his music sounded like “bionic ragtime”, the U.S. government considered him an unwelcome communist and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco’s soldiers wanted to kill him. So what else was Conlon Nancarrow, a native of Texarkana, Arkansas, to do but move to Mexico, give up his U.S. [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Jim Marshall, dubbed the “Lord of Loud” for his pioneering work on guitar amplifiers used by some of the greatest names in rock music, has died aged 88. A spokeswoman for the company he founded said he passed away in Milton Keynes, southeast England, on Thursday morning. She could not confirm reports [...]

There are substantially about a dozen conflicting ways to perspective Katy Perry’s “Part of Me” video, that premiered Wednesday night (March 21) on MTV, and all of them are positively valid: a apt recruiting tool, a feminist super-fantasy, a cocktail video on steroids, a vérité indie crack (Katy acts). No matter what your takeaway is, [...]

You competence not see Katy Perry when she arrives on set, yet we really hear her — and a whisk of amiability that surrounds her each step of a way. There are publicists and managers, stylists and makeup folks, during slightest one assistant, a peculiar publisher and a few rather select gentlemen whose roles are [...]

The Apple App store has hit the 25 billion download mark on the 3rd of March with the promotion page displaying a message saying “A billion thanks. 25 times over, The App Store has reached 25 billion downloads. Thanks for getting us there.” Apple has yet to reveal who won the $10,000 App Store gift [...]