The Fugs: Rock and roll’s first great satirists
While rock and roll could be a bit too serious in the 1960s, The Fugs took satire to a new level and left a legion of amateur musicians in their wake.
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Adam Driver in ‘Hold On to Me Darling,’ a Satire of Sincerity
Did the clichés of country music make Strings (Adam Driver ... it is occasionally even stinging in its satire of show-business sincerity. We learn that Strings’s most recent celebrity fiancée ...
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‘Gershwin Brothers’ Two Political Satire Musicals in Concert’ Review: Bites Off More Than It Can Chew But Still Goes Down Easy
These moments both paid sweet homage to these shows’s more theatrical roots while also showcasing the wonderful instrumental music of the ... Two Political Satire Musicals in Concert” ran ...
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Satire Hits the Canvas: Ward Sutton’s ‘Stan Kelly’ Doesn’t Know How Funny He Really Is
Up against the wall: Ward Sutton’s comic panels get the gallery treatment (“Civil Whites,” 2024, acrylic on canvas, 26x30”). Amid one of the most divisive and chaotic election years in ...
Shel Talmy, produced hits by The Who, The Kinks and other 1960s British bands, dead at 87
Shel Talmy, a Chicago-born music producer and arranger who worked on such British punk classics as The Who’s “My Generation” and The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me,” helped oversee hits by Manfred Mann and ...