Frank Gurbleck joined The Umpteenth Times writing staff directly after serving a seven-year prison sentence for attempting to smuggle contraband into the country. Gurbleck, to this day, insists he did not know that monkeys were considered contraband, otherwise he never would’ve jammed three of them into his suitcase on his trip back from Africa....
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NEW YORK—News of the musical based on the Green Day concept album, American Idiot, had caused a buzz amongst the New York theatre-going crowd, even before its opening in late March. Some had expressed enthusiasm about a fresh, young approach to the genre, while others expressed skepticism concerning a musical based on a punk...
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Go to myspace.com/twentyfourthousanddollars to hear it! More inspired by the lunacy of the Marx Brothers than, let’s say, the music of Bob Dylan, Twenty Four Thousand Dollars is an acoustic outfit like no other. Based out of both Austin, Texas and Brooklyn, New York, this organic attack of beat up guitar strings, tin pans,...
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NEW YORK-Early this afternoon, the indie pop band, Vampire Weekend, learned from their lawyers at XL Recordings that they were being sued by the lesser known (but much older) band, Vampire Memorial Day Weekend, who claim the name of their band had been stolen and homogenized into a more “kid-friendly” and less threatening nomenclature....
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