The New York Times reports Max Yasgur’s Farm is on the market for $8 million. The land — which is sacred ground to hippies and music fans the world over for serving as the site of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival — has been the home of Roy Howard since 1985, but the 73-year-old is […]

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The notion that we are different people throughout the different stages of our lives is one that filmmaker Todd Haynes takes to a literal extreme in his Bob Dylan biopic, I’m Not There. The Velvet Goldmine director cast six actors to play the iconic musician, including marquee players like Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett […]

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The Associated Press reports Fox Searchlight is expected to announce an open, online casting call for the role of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. for the upcoming biopic, Notorious. The film has reportedly been in the works for some seven years and is being produced by Biggie’s former managers, Wayne Barrow and Mark Pitts, and his […]

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Launched back in 2005, albeit somewhat redundantly, to give the always recording Einstürzende Neubauten an outlet for their “more experimental impulses and explorations,” the group’s always interesting Musterhaus series is in fact no more. Weingeister – their eighth and final installment – finds Blixa and the boys popping and pouring, gargling and gorging on vintage […]

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The Cure’s 13th studio album was slated for a May release this year, but frontman Robert Smith admitted to having trouble writing lyrics to the 30-plus songs the band had written, so the record was pushed to October. Well, Geffen has just announced that Smith is still recording, so it’s a spring 2008 release now, despite […]

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Pushing 60, one-time Theoretical Girl Glenn Branca is getting ever more diplomatic in his twilight years – either that or Wharton Tiers and Page Hamilton just aren’t returning his calls. The perpetual bane of Rhys Chatham’s existence, Branca has extended an international call-to-axes for the 100 guitarists needed to execute his Symphony No. 13: Hallucination […]

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Freakishly skinny soul chanteuse Amy Winehouse, who is currently enjoying surprising chart success here in America, has been invited by Simpsons creator Matt Groening to appear in the upcoming season, where she’ll meet Lisa in a blues bar. Winehouse agreed, as she is a fan of the show. The only downside is that it’ll be a […]

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