Jul 17th, 2008 · John Meeks has been playing and recording for 15 years, but his new Three Song Demo is the pre-release EP to his first full-length album, due out this Fall. It isn't as if Meeks has spent more than a decade trying to come up with some complex musical formula. In fact, what is so compelling about Meeks' music is his simple, straightforward approach. The three acoustic, country-twinged songs are free of artifice, aren't overly produced or orchestrated, and sound effortless.
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Nov 28th, 2007 · In her new dark comedy, The Savages, Laura Linney tackles the role of a woman coping with her ailing father. Linney talks about good and bad scripts, and her philosophy that actors shouldn't use personal feelings to portray a character's emotions.
Keywords: actor · comedy · philosophy · emotional · Laura · Laura Linney · portrayed · Artifice · Savages · Linney
Mar 28th, 2007 · Media shorthand has reduced the music of the '80s to a set of telltale signifiers: big hair, skinny ties, and so on. But a few surviving documents, among them Richard Barone's fantastic Cool Blue Halo, demonstrate that the era was fruitful for classic pop.
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