The Guinness Book of World Records is an amazing thing. It’s the one way to become famous by excelling at something that’s really not at all that impressive. Ask the guy that caught the most balls with his mouth in two minutes how many times someone walked up to him and said: “are you that bloke who does things to balls with his mouth?” I can personally guarantee you that the handful of times that it did happen, they weren’t talking about his world record – if you know what I’m saying. Apart from the “talents that aren’t useful in normal life” section, there’s also the very entertaining “these people were blessed by genetics or couldn’t be bothered to do basic hygienic tasks” section. The latter will be the one where we grab some people out of today. As the title of this article pretty much suggests, this won’t be a “biggest penis” article. Sorry. You can Google it for yourself if you really like, but I won’t be held accountable for the results. And a word of advice for...
THE SONGS WE KNOW BEST John Ashbery’s Early Life By Karin Roffman Illustrated. 316 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. “My own autobiography has never interested me very much,” John Ashbery once told an interviewer. “Whenever I try to think about it, I seem to draw a complete blank.” Over the course of his long career as one of America’s most celebrated poets, Ashbery has fiercely defied a central premise of the lyric poetic tradition: that a poem should be a “song of myself,” an utterance that springs from the circumstances of the writer’s life and gives insight into the author’s mind and feelings. “I have always been averse to talking about myself and so I don’t write about my life the way the confessional poets do,” he has said. Instead, Ashbery aims to create “paradigms of common experience which I hope other peopl...
The new album from Robin Beck, entitled Love Is Coming, will be released on October 13th. A new “making of” video is available for streaming below. Robin Beck is truly one of the most gifted vocalists under the broad umbrella of rock music and it was with great pleasure that Frontiers welcomed her back to the label for her new album, Love Is Coming. The new recording sees her partnering with Clif Magness (Steve Perry, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson) who mixed and produced. Beck’s husband James Christian (House Of Lords) co-produced, while Tommy Denander (Robin’s long standing music partner) co-produced the song “Girl Like Me”, with Maor Appelbaum mastering the album. Hit after hit after hit after hit is the best description of the songs on offer, with the album encompassing everything that goes from melodic rock to gritty soul inspired rock. As Robin says, “it had to be better than anything I've ever done in the last 20 years and I believe I ...
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