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Director Hunter Adams (The Hungry Bull) is holding open auditions for his next film project, tentatively titled Jake's Choice, a psychological thriller about three mysterious "moonshiners" who upset the equilibirium of a small Northwoods town when they dispense their strange brew to the locals.
The audition is July 17 in the Baird Room of the Radisson Paper Valley Hotel in Appleton, from noon until 4 p.m.
"Basically, we're looking to cast boys/girls ages 11-15 and men/women ages 25-40," Adams said. "They don't need to prepare anything in advance, just answer a few questions on camera." |
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By Roxy Reno
Really, how punk rock can you be at 9 a.m.? I was about to find out. I embedded myself in the back of the van on a humid 90 degree day with three soon to be stinky punk rock boys, two iPods full of hardcore and free jazz and no AC (not the band, we had that} but it was all good except for the dead horse we spotted in the field near Eau Claire.
I’m hitching a lift with local power pop punk stalwarts Tenement. We are headed to Minneapolis for a house show and then off to downtown for a club gig with New Jersey’s best foot forward Screaming Females then a show the next day in Milwaukee. I’m the roadie.
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Los Lobos
Tin Can Trust
Shout! Factory Records
Aug. 3 release date
By Jim Lundstrom
In 1973 four guys from East L.A. started making music together. Adding a fifth member in 1984, the Los Lobos lineup has remained intact to this day. That alone is an amazing accomplishment. The fact that they continue to create exciting, relevant and, most importantly, listenable music makes Los Lobos the alpha males of the pack.
Louie Pérez (guitar, drums, vocals), David Hidalgo (guitar, violin, accordion, percussion, vocals), Cesar Rosas (guitar, vocals), Conrad Lozano (bass, vocals) and the relative newcomer Steve Berlin (keyboards/saxophone) have always stayed close to their roots. They are deep multicultural roots firmly planted in rock, folk, blues and country music of America and from the Hispanic heritage of the original quartet.
Twenty-six years after their major label debut, the T-Bone Burnett-produced How Will the Wolf Survive (a record that made Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time), Los Lobos is set to release Tin Can Trust on Aug. 3.
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By Jim Lundstrom
Patty Loveless wasn’t on the lineup this year for Summerfest or County USA, but she showed up at both to promote a simple test to determine if you are at risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – or COPD.
COPD is a disease that gradually robs a person of their ability to breathe. People often think their symptoms, like shortness of breath or a cough that won’t go away, are just normal signs of aging. Most do not seek medical care until they’ve lost half their lung function, which is a problem because once you lose lung function, you can’t get it back.
“They say there’s like 24 million people walking around in the country that possibly have some form of COPD, and 12 million of them don’t know it,” she said by telephone before going to Summerfest on June 24 to promote a simple COPD screening.
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By Blaine Schultz
When those end-of-year lists pop up about six months from now it would be real surprising if a low-key house concert in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, made the list for best performance.
But it won’t. And that is too bad. On a sweltering Saturday evening in June, Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby played two brilliant sets with nary a reporter in sight. Sure this was an under-the-radar gig but often if you want great music you need to dig for it.
Eric circa ’77 was a front line Stiff Records artist along with Ian Dury and producer Nick Lowe, when London was the musical center of the universe. As the disheveled character who was too easy to write off, Eric was intriguing. But as a songwriter, scratch the surface a bit and you found a direct human being and talented artist as, say, his “sworn enemy” Elvis Costello.
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