7 May 2021
Announced in 2019, scheduled for a 2020 release then rescheduled to 2021 for obvious reasons, Weezer‘s 15th album
Van Weezer has finally arrived. Fans had a full 12 months to brace themselves for what the band promised to be a metal/hard rock album that took them “back to big guitars”, but no one needn’t have worried. Weezer’s frontman Rivers Cuomo has been rather public about his appreciation for all things thrashing and shredding. As far back as 2002, there was a t-shirt available at their merch stand where the four band members posed in homage to the cover of Van Halen’s
The first person to ever reassure me that everything would be OK was my mom, Janice M. Perino. It is likely the same for you. Our moms are special people, and this week I had a chance to give my mom her podcast debut for the first episode of Everything Will Be Okay.
We talked about what it was like for her to juggle work and home life and how the career paths for young women today are so much more clear than just a couple of decades ago.
The only thing I forgot to ask her about was the day my younger sister, Angie, was very slow to finish her bowl of Froot Loops. Her dawdling was going to make us late. My mom ordered her to finish it. Instead of doing that, Angie dumped the rest of the cereal and milk onto her head.
Print this article Dana Perino (left), in her role as presidential press secretary, speaks at the White House in 2007; the late, great mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig (right) sits for an interview in 2018.
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I would like to offer a couple of podcasts to you a
Q&A and a
Music for a While. The
Q&A, here, is with Dana Perino, star of Fox News and onetime press secretary to George W. Bush. (She was the second female presidential press secretary, as she reminded me in our podcast. The first was Dee Dee Meyers, in the Clinton White House.)
Indie Spotlight reviews of Doug Hoekstra, Steve Almaas, June Star and more
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By Lee Zimmerman
Doug Hoekstranever settles for the ordinary, but his new album
The Day Deserved may be his most ambitious project yet.. With songs that veer from the cajoling (“Seaside Town”) to the caressing (“Late Night Ramble,” Grace”) to the carousing (“Keeper of the Word”) and even the quirky (“Wintertime”), it is, by Hoekstra’s own description, a record “intended to be a marker of the times, fleshed out by “disenfranchised characters inhabiting the tunes, pressing on through barriers and breaks fostered by their surroundings.” It is, by any definition, an ambitious outing, one that covers a lot of musical turf while keeping its intents intact. Nevertheless, it’s also throughly intriguing and compelling, an album that reaches well beyond the usual melodic and thematic constraints. Hoekstra’s low cast vocals belie the album’s more urgent intents, but the emoti
The America s Newsroom co-host shares how her new book provides valuable life lessons for young women during an interview with Fox Nation host Kat Timpf
Editor s Note: Sunday Shows is an extra chaper from Dana Perino s book Everything Will Be Okay.
Big sisters can be a real pain. And little sisters can be a real joy.
My sister, Angie, and I grew up arguing just like any other siblings. She’s four years younger, and I reminded her of that all the time. (I’ve since apologized to her for my behavior back then, and she forgave me.) And while I don’t remember much of what we bickered over, there’s one disagreement that sticks out: