July 28th, 2011

Who knew everybody’s favorite good girl Olivia Newton-John could have such a dark daughter?

While mom drew comparisons to Sandra Dee in Grease, 25-year-old offspring Chloe Lattanzi is giving off more of a Marilyn Manson vibe in the extremely dark music video “Play With Me,” which shows her shaking and bloody in a bathtub frying from electrocution.

Now she’s facing some serious backlash, and it’s not from Mommy!

The Australian Council for Children has gone after Lattanzi for the shocking video, calling it nothing but a sad attention grabber.

“I think it’s sad that this young woman has such a need for attention that she needs to push the envelope of good taste and appropriateness this far,” the council’s Media President, Elizabeth Handsley, told TheImproper.com. ”This simply glamorizes a range of harmful behaviors and does nothing to help empower young people to cope with relationship problems.”

In the tune Lattanzi sings: “Never knew love could hurt like this/What is this feeling?” as she tries to get the attention of a man sitting on a toilet near her. She

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July 27th, 2011

Austin via Baton Rouge Americana indie rockers Wheeler Brothers released their debut album Portraits on June 21 on Bismeaux Records. Brothers Nolan, Tyler and Patrick met Danny Matthews at LSU where they spent much of their time picking guitars and swapping stories in the bar rooms of Baton Rouge and New Orleans. A move back to Austin led to the addition of longtime friend and singer/songwriter A.J. Molyneaux. With their line-up solidified, Wheeler Brothers began performing at bars and clubs while working on their debut release Portraits with producer Mark Hallman at The Congress House. Read more…

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July 27th, 2011

The piece, also a centerpiece of her latest album, “The Light of the Sun” (Blues Babe Records/Warner Brothers), is a humorous and pointed response to those who would reduce women to mere physical specimens to be ogled, seduced and discarded.

“A woman is more than the sum of her parts,” Scott says with a laugh. “So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House, I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.”

And how. “Womanifest Read more…

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July 26th, 2011

Nell Shaw Cohen first saw the five paintings that make up Thomas Coles The Course of Empire in 2008, during her freshman year as a composition student at New England Conservatory. Cohen is acutely attuned to inspiration from the visual arts, and it was a time when I was interested in composing a piece of greater length and greater scope than what Id done before, she said during a phone conversation earlier this week. Coles paintings, which were on display at the New York Historical Society, turned out to be just the stimuli she needed.

The result was a five-movement string quartet, The Course of Empire.

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July 26th, 2011

Liam and Noel Gallagher have continued their very public spat, with the latest stone throw coming through Twitter.

Yesterday, Liam “1 word… DIDO“. The NME suggest that it is a one-line review of the new single from his brother, who is soon releasing a solo album under the moniker “Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds“. Speaking to MTV Canada, Liam added “I’m just disappointed for him, and his fans… I have my days [bad days] but Noel Gallagher can be a little b-tch when he wants to be.

Noel has taken a less obviously aggressive position, but continues to make pubic comments which might slander his brother’s name.

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