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Green Day dawns anew: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong talks about the band's political and provocative new opus, American Idiot Growing up around openly gay relatives would certainly seem to improve the odds of a child becoming a tolerant and open-minded adult. Well, perhaps tolerant isn't the best adjective for Billie Joe...(Continue Reading) Al Green: 'I can't stop' making soul music and praising God - Cover Story IT'S a sunny afternoon in Memphis, and the Rev. Al Green is preaching his Sunday sermon at Full Gospel Tabernacle. His is a singing ministry. He preaches ......(Continue Reading)Green Beast Part 2: Green Day Byline: Mike Falconer Sitting in the parking lot at the Long Beach Arena waiting to exit after Green Day's American Idiot tour gives one significant ......(Continue Reading)Eminem and Green Day smarties: American pop stars attempt to inspire youth voters: musical messengers of hate and apathy get on the Fahrenheit 9/11 bandwagon Rapper Eminem ditched misogyny, and punk rockers Green Day abandoned apathy to join the ranks of old "fogies" like Steve Earl and Bruce Springsteen ......(Continue Reading)An american original: best known for his pioneering "Anthology of American Folk Music," artist and mystic polymath Harry Smith was the subject of a recent Cult figure Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a suitably idiosyncratic, 20th-century Renaissance man, working as an abstract film-maker, painter, musicologist, ......(Continue Reading)
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