If you've passed the original Screenland this week and wondered how it managed to book a dead singing legend to play the Crossroads -- the marquee now reads simply "Anita O'Day" -- the answer turns out to be simple.
Friday, the theater opens the documentary Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer, which hit the festival circuit last year. O'Day, known as "the Jezebel of Jazz," lived harder than Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker put together. She was pronounced legally dead after a late-'60s h
Forester MichaelIf compact discs were outlawed tomorrow, the 1,000 Madeleine Peyroux fans who crowded the Folly Theater Friday night to hear the singer would be out in front at the protest -- as long as NPR broke the news. Peyroux, a 34-year-old natural with one foot in Brooklyn and the other in Paris, attracts a decidedly old-school crowd, one that buys CDs (Peyroux's new Bare Bones is No. 23 on Amazon.com's music sales chart today) and pays attention to radio (public radio, anyway -- Friday's
For those of us unlucky enough to have graduated from college, thus losing the ability to suckle at the teat of college radio budgets, the CMJ Music Marathon is but a distant dream.
So, far all of us stuck in the midwest and otherwise next week, wishing we could be bouncing around NYC seeing shows and mooching free booze (where was this last year, Terrorbird?), here are a couple downloads to get you through.
Insound has a downloadable sampler entitled CMJ Digital Mixtape, with tracks fr
