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The Song: “I Want It That Way” emerged on TRL May 5, 1999, taking only three day to make it to the top of the countdown. Though standard in its verse-chorus-verse…here comes the bridge structure, this was the band’s most democratic single with all band member’s (that’s right, even Kevin) taking a verse.
Yesterday, New York Magazine's arts and culture blog Vulture made a post entitled "White People in Rap: A History." Readers reacted to the blog's failure to include certain names and a comment from user KTLincoln--that's recess music editor Kevin Lincoln--about hip-hop collective anticon. made its way into their amended post today. Check it out.
Earlier this week--April 27 to be precise--marked the 10-year anniversary of the release of "I Want It That Way." Easily the Backstreet Boys' greatest pop anthem, the song is an important marker to an era in popular American music. The release of the boy band's second album marks a golden age in American pop (though some could date this to the January 1999 release of Britney Spear's debut ...Baby One More Time).
The Regulator Bookshop is hosting a slew of exciting readings in the coming weeks. Tonight, Wells Tower will read from his Michiko Kakutani-approved debut collection of short stories Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned. On Friday, May 1, Duke royalty Reynolds Price will do a reading from his new memoir Ardent Spirits. Michael Malone, based in Hillsborough, N.C. and currently a visiting professor of the practice at Duke, will read from his new novel May 18. In the distance, book aficionados can look forward to a reading from celebrated Netherland author Joseph O'Neill June 23. Click here for the bookshop's full calendar of events.
Through This Lens gallery will be hosting an exhibition of works from Durham's Club Boulevard Elementary School tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition, featuring works from third, fourth and fifth graders, is the final result of a semester-long Literacy Through Photography project. A class (Full Disclosure: I am in the class) from Duke's Center for Documentary Studies worked with the students to produce photographs and writing relating to various themes that include community, dreams and food. The show mixes digital and film photos.
Finals cutting into your ability to visit this year's Tribeca Film Festival? No worries. The downtown Manhattan festival is screening four of this year's shorts on YouTube. You can see Wu (France), Section 44 (U.K.), The Confession (Ireland) and Kate Hudson's directorial debut Cutlass starring Dakota Fanning, Chevy Chase (!!!) and her sort-of stepdad Kurt Russel. Information about the films is available here.
I probably caught wind of this really late, but how great is it that Spencer Krug will stop by Local 506 with his Sunset Rubdown June 15 and less than a month later Dan Boeckner will stop by the same venue (July 13 as presented by the Cat's Cradle) with Handsome Furs? Plus, both shows are only $10 (advance anyway). It's like seeing Wolf Parade without having to endure "Kissing the Beehive." (Though, having experienced that 10-minute piece live, there are much worse things to have to put up with.)
Bob Dylan. Willie Nelson. John Mellencamp. Possibly the perfect summer concert but made even better by the venue: your local minor league baseball park. The triumvirate will be making a stop in Durham at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park Tuesday, July 28. The gates open at 5:00 p.m. and the show starts at 5:30 p.m. All tickets are general admission and cost $67.50. Children 14 and under get in free. For more dates and information, check out the aggregation of press releases at Brooklyn Vegan.
Never a university known for perfect town-gown relationships, the behavior of Duke students on LDOC seems reason enough to sour those feelings more, even if the students tend to remain on campus. So it's funny to read various blogs that covered this year's last day of class festivities. From the Indy Week's Scan:
After a successful run last year, Duke Performances is bringing back its summer Music in the Gardens series. Called "Music in the Gardens: Listening Locally," the series puts the spotlight on "the best forward-thinking art from the state." This years schedule looks great.
Two bits of news we are a day late in posting. Bad news first, then good.
Here are two videos from Thao with the Get Down Stay Down's show at the Duke Coffeehouse last night.
Robert Redford will be awarded the first Lifetime Environmental Achievement in the Fine Arts (LEAF) Award today on Duke's campus. The ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. and you can follow the live stream here. For more on the award, check out Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides' blog.
Today is Record Store Day. That means you stop pirating for at least one day, visit that beloved local record store you're always intending to go to and buy some CDs/tapes/eight-tracks/vinyl you've been meaning to get for a while.
John Darnielle and John Vanderslice have wrapped up their Gone Primitive tour, which made a stop at the Duke Coffeehouse a few weeks ago. At said show, they played some selections from their joint vinyl-only EP Moon Colony Bloodbath but no copies were available at that point in the tour.
The ultimate Michael Jackson cover band, Who's Bad, played on the Bryan Center plaza of Duke's campus yesterday. Here's a video of the band playing "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough."
Mike Posner friend/collaborator Big Sean, also an associate of Yeezy, is dropping a new mixtape today. You can download U Know Big Sean, Vol. 2 at his Web site, and you can catch Mike Posner and the Brain Trust with Big Sean Wednesday, April 22 at Duke's LDOC celebration on the Main Quad at 6 p.m.
Blogs have been abuzz today with the trailer premiere for Lars Von Trier's Antichrist. One of the best posts I've read today comes from the Guardian's Film Blog. Xan Brooks writes that although the trailer sells the film as a "genre hackpiece," Von Trier will deliver better. And he really drives home the point here:
Anyone with a pal at NC State looking to see Annuals better call that friend soon. The Raleigh band, alongside Lonnie Walker and Cougar Magnum, will be playing NC State's Lee Field April 24, which is Earth Day and all the university's last day of class. By the event promises to be a bit different from Duke's debaucharous end-of-semester celebration. It is free to all students and guests are only allowed to bring one friend to the alcohol-free event. The show is 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Information is available here.
IMDb has some updates on it's Main Street page. We now have the names of some characters: Colin Firth (who was spotted at the Nasher yesterday) is playing Gus Leroy, Ellen Burstyn is Georgiana Carr (a relationship to Duke's Carr, perhaps?) and Orlando Bloom's cop character is named Harris Parker. No news on Amber Tamblyn or Andrew McCarthy's characters, but we do know Patricia Clarkson is playing Willa--no last name available yet.
