Tuesday, April 12, 2005

The Flaming Lips The Fearless Freaks The Fearless Freaks. Brad Beasley's way-cool documentary on The Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks, is apparently getting ready for wide release. Brad was kind enough to send me a copy of the 30-minute, early version of this (under the title "The Flaming Lips Have Landed") when I was writing a chapter for Datacloud [80k MS Word file, temp. availability] that used Doug Pray's Scratch and The Flaming Lips' "Parking Lot Experiments" (among other things) to talk about new ways of thinking about text in an information-saturated, visually/sonically influenced notion of writing. If the Flaming Lips have had an accidental career then this documentary is indeed an accident. In 1991, I was simply Wayne's art school neighbor in Norman, Oklahoma with a film camera and some tenacity. They were in need of a willing and somewhat competent cinematographer and I was on a constant hunt for action-packed stories and oddball characters. And thus a... [datacloud] 9:32:45 PM

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Acoustic Storm News SPRINGSTEEN ACOUSTIC TOUR With a brand new album ready for release in late April, Bruce Springsteen is heading out on the road for a solo acoustic world tour. Springsteen will play a series of venues from April 25 to May 20, before embarking on a European tour which begins in Dublin, Ireland on May 24. The acoustic tour will focus on songs from "Devils and Dust" (due out April 26), along with material from 1982's "Nebraska," and unplugged takes on songs from "The Rising." Springsteen's Acoustic Tour Dates: April 25: Detroit (Fox Theatre) April 28: Dallas (Nokia Theatre) April 30: Phoenix (Glendale Arena) May 2-3: Los Angeles (Pantages Theatre) May 5: Oakland, Calif. (Oakland Theatre) May 7: Denver (Convention Theatre) May 10: St. Paul, Minn. (Xcel Energy Center) May 11: Chicago (Rosemont Theatre) May 14: Fairfax, Va. (Patriot Center) May 15: Cleveland (CSU Convocation Center) May 17: Philadelphia (Tower Theatre) May 19: East Rutherford, N.J. (The Theater at Continental Airlines Arena) May 20: Boston (Orpheum Theatre) May 24: Dublin (the Point) May 27-28: London (Royal Albert Hall) May 30: Brussels (Forest Nationale) June 1: Barcelona (Pavello Olimpic Badalona) June 2: Madrid (Palacio de Deportes) June 4: Bologna, Italy (Palamalaguti Arena) June 6: Rome (Palalottomatica Arena) June 7: Milan (Milan Forum) June 11: Hamburg (Color Line Arena) June 12: Berlin (ICC) June 13: Munich (Olympia Hall) June 15: Frankfurt, Germany (Festhalle) June 16: Dusseldorf, Germany (Phillipshalle) June 19: Rotterdam, Holland (Ahoy) June 20: Paris (Bercy) June 22: Copenhagen (Forum) June 23: Gothenberg, Sweden (Scandinavium) June 25: Stockholm (Hovet) - The Acoustic Storm Radio Program with Jeff Parets at AcousticStorm.com Each week, a different artist is spotlighted in "The Eye of The Acoustic Storm." Hourly segments of "The Eye" feature the artist's music along with bio information and sound bites. Bruce Springsteen single-handedly put Asbury Park, N.J. on the rock and roll map of the world. Throughout the years, "The Boss" has been ably backed by the E Street Band. Springsteen's new studio album, "Devils and Dust" is due out April 26. Don't miss Bruce Springsteen in The Eye of The Storm this Sunday (4/17). 6:09:32 PM

azcentral.com daily webcast Arizona station, newspaper launch daily Webcast. The Arizona Republic's Web site and KPNX Channel 12 in Phoenix are partnering for a new 3-minute headlines Webcast. The newscasts are updated six times a day on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., and produced by KPNX staff.... [CyberJournalist.net] 7:41:06 AM