Nick Krewen Special To The Star Saturday, April 10, 1999 Money, guns and “hoes.” If you’re aware of any semblance of hip-hop culture, you’ve heard it all before: the tired rap clichés where men brag about the numbers of dollars in their bank accounts, the inexhaustible supply of women wilting at their sexual prowess, the impressive numbers of corpses they’ve plowed through during gang shoot-outs. Yada yada…
California Dynamo Writes The Songs That Sell Millions Nick Krewen Toronto Star Special to the Star December 28, 1998 Wynonna Judd, Mark Chesnutt and a gaggle of country and non-country music celebrities paid $125 U.S. a head a few weeks ago to stuff themselves into Nashville’s renowned Bluebird Cafe and witness a historic event:the first ever full-length concert by Diane Warren. Diane who? Unless you peruse the Billboard…
PUBLISHED IN THE KITCHENER WATERLOO RECORD FOR THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1998 By Nick Krewen Buddy Guy knows how to cook up a storm on and off the stage. When he isn’t basting audiences around the world with masterful blues guitar licks or the savory Memphis-scented funk and soul of his latest album Heavy Love, George “Buddy” Guy can usually be found at his suburban Chicago home simmering a pot…
Wisconsin alt-rockers glad making fresh and innovative pop Nick Krewen Special to the KW Record Thursday, November 5, 1998 In the video for the new Garbage single “Special,” guitarist Duke Erikson says the three boys in the band get into an cyber-animated airplane dogfight with their Scottish singer Shirley Manson. Who wins? “Guess,” laughs Erikson, as if to suggest the feisty Edinburgh-based Manson would have it…
Danger And Irony Are The Keys To Penn & Teller’s Illusions Nick Krewen The Toronto Star November 2, 1998 If you ever find the urge to visit Stan Laurel‘s grave at the famous Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, why not stop by the Penn & Teller tombstone just four plots over? Penn & Teller? The brilliant, bent illusionist comedy duo whose entertainingly unorthodox sleights-of-hand have earned…
