Posts Tagged ‘ rock ’

A Super Scientific Coincidence

May 15, 2012
A Super Scientific Coincidence

There’s kryptonite in that thar… Natural History Museum. A mineral with the same composition as Superman’s only natural weakness is on display in the Earth’s Treasury gallery at the London museum. Jadarite, discovered in Serbia in 2006, is composed of sodium, lithium, boron silicate and hydroxide. When NHM mineral expert Dr Chris Stanley found...
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Patti Smith: A Reading And Performance

March 23, 2010
Patti Smith: A Reading And Performance

Patti Smith, the punk poet high priestess of the late sixties and seventies, read from her new book ‘Just Kids’ at London’s Southbank Foyles store recently. Smith, a former book store worker herself, told how she enjoyed the opportunity to embrace the bibliophile within, and the intimate setting that a bookstore reading afforded. She...
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Muse – In Pictures

January 29, 2010
Muse – In Pictures

A series of pictures of Muse. South Australia – Big Day Out; 29 January 2010.   http://muse.mu Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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The Bronx – In Pictures

March 23, 2009
The Bronx – In Pictures

A series of pictures of The Bronx. Texas – SXSW; 23 March 2009.   http://www.thebronxxx.com Pictures by Amy Freeborn
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An Interview With: Spinnerette

February 26, 2009
An Interview With: Spinnerette

Punk rock goddess Brody Dalle is back from the depths of The Distillers’ demise with her new band, Spinnerette. Bringing ex-Distillers guitarist Tony Bevilacqua, and with a little help from husband Josh Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age producer Alain Johannes for ‘plastic surgery’, Spinnerette is a slicker, more polished beast than Brody has...
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An Interview With: Juliette Lewis

November 22, 2005
Juliette Lewis

There’s always a high level of scepticism when it comes to actors moving into the musical field; but for Hollywood actress Juliette Lewis, it is in music that she’s found the role she was born to play – as the front woman of punk-rock outfit, Juliette And The Licks. By the age of six,...
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