Neil Peart, Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson
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Make Weird Music will be hosting a new, live interview with Alex Lifeson on their YouTube channel tomorrow evening at 6PM EST. The interview will be hosted by Andre Cholmondeley (@guitartour) and topics of discussion will include the 25th anniversary of Lifeson s 1996 solo album
Victor, and the 40th anniversary of Rush s
Moving Pictures album. You can tune in to watch the interview live at this location.
Earlier this month, Rolling Stone magazine s Brian Hiatt interviewed Neil Peart s widow Carrie Nuttall, along with his bandmates and Rush manager Ray Danniels for a very revealing feature article discussing Peart s 3-year battle with cancer and his final years. As part of the feature, Geddy Lee was interviewed to talk about his special relationship with Peart, and Rolling Stone posted the interview online earlier today:
Standup comedian and writer Caimh McDonnell’s first novel as CK McDonnell,
The Stranger Times(Bantam, £14.99), has already been optioned for TV, and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a filmic romp with great characters, a jet-propelled plot, and a winning premise. The Stranger Times is a down-at-heel newspaper staffed by a gallery of lovable hacks and edited by a cynical, splenetic alcoholic. Based in a derelict Mancunian church, the paper covers wacky supernatural, occult and bizarre stories – think the Fortean Times run on a shoestring. Fleeing a failed marriage, university dropout Hannah Willis is taken on by the paper – and promoted to assistant editor within two hours of landing the job. After investigating a series of strange deaths, Hannah and her colleagues learn that the tall stories they trade in might have some basis in fact, and soon find themselves on the receiving end of malign forces. McDonnell combines gonzo humour and neat character studies in the first vol
Ernest Cline s latest tries and fails to level up by Claudia Rose
Before
Stranger Things and the cinematic remake of
It touched upon how fun nostalgia can be, Ernest Cline wrote a science-fiction novel that essentially made nostalgia the plot,
Ready Player One. In it, the reader follows protagonist Wade Watts, as he and his friends navigate their way through the VR simulation known as The OASIS, created by the late James Halliday. In the OASIS, our heroes attempt to solve an Easter egg hunt that relies solely on knowledge of 1980s pop culture to win and gain control of this simulation. Imagine Willy Wonka s golden ticket contest drowned in pop culture references and set in an idealized version of
Ready Player Two are forced to battle seven evil versions of Prince.
Luckily, they have some pretty impressive backup: Morris Day and the Time.
As you might guess from the title, this book is the long-awaited sequel to 2011 s
While searching for the key to break free from a virtual reality system that has become a dangerous prison, protagonist Wade Watts and his friends travel to an online world known as the Afterworld, which is populated with every Prince reference, location and musician you could imagine.
For example, before their clash with the evil Princes, the heroes drive around in a little red Corvette that can only be driven while wearing a raspberry beret, gathering cloud guitars and gold chains that will help them win the musical battle.
The 20 Biggest Prince Stories of 2020
There are many reasons to erase 2020 from our collective memory. But in Prince world, it was a memorable year from start to finish.
There were musical tributes, both minor (Coldplay covering 1999 with a choir) and massive (a full televised tribute show featuring bandleader Sheila E.). There was a Grammy nomination. There were notable business ventures and auctions and legal updates.
And fans savored every second of the
Check out our round-up of the year s 20 Biggest Prince Stories below.
Usher, Sheila E. Stage Prince Grammy Tribute
As an appetizer to a separate TV special, Sheila E. and Usher staged a musical tribute to Prince during the 2020 Grammy Awards. The duo s sleek medley teased three of the artist s most famous tracks: Little Red Corvette, When Doves Cry (backed by a pole dancer) and Kiss.