David Bowie’s Ideal Song Composed By Hertfordshire Professor

So you want to be a songwriter. How do you go about that? Do you go to music school, study real hard, graduate, start writing as many songs as you can, form a band to perform your compositions, practice incessantly so you’ll be signed by a record label, then once you’re signed record all your [...]

Bob Dylan Set To Release Christmas Album

Nothing says Christmas more than snow, candy canes, presents under the tree and Bob Dylan. The legendary singer-songwriting is releasing a Christmas album set to hit shelves this upcoming holiday season. All royalties from Dylan’s X-mas collection will go to the charity “Feeding America.” Mysteriously, no one knows exactly what “Feeding America” does. Land of [...]

Wilco On CBS’ Sunday Morning

Wilco, mainly Jeff Tweedy, was featured on the long running CBS news magazine show, Sunday Morning, this past Sunday, Aug. 24. Tweedy was interviewed by CBS correspondent Cynthia Bowers and the story’s angle was how Wilco is finally starting to get the attention they deserve after 15 years of obscurity. Sadly, the term “cult following” [...]

Inglorious Basterds & Hollywood’s Love Affair With Hitler

Hollywood loves Hitler. They love to use him as a villain and as well they should. He was an evil man. Hitler and his Nazi’s are THE perfect plot device. Their evil needs no pesky back story and their defeat invokes zero criticism, at least none from respectable sources. In 2008. Hollywood gave us the [...]

Spider-Man The Musical Is Now Spider-Man The Opera

The Spider-Man musical is in trouble. It’s definitely suffering financial woes and if you ask Land of Punt, it’s in an artistic free-fall as well. Rolling Stone has reported that the production released various contracted crew members due to decreases in cash-flow and increases in costs. Reports indicate that in order for the musical to [...]

The Beatles: Yellow Submarine, Rock Band and CD Box Set

About 30 years ago the members of The Beatles sat down with several marketing and business experts and constructed a plan. Knowing every generation would eventually discover the Beatles—they are the greatest band of all-time after all—and knowing they had a finite catalog of media, the group devised a business plan to keep the Beatles [...]

AC/DC Adds More Dates

AC/DC has recently released a handful of dates for their Black Ice Tour that kicked off last October. The new dates include Milwaukee, New Orleans, Dallas and Oklahoma City. AC/DC tickets for all the aforementioned dates, except for Dallas, go on sale Saturday, Aug. 22. Tickets for the Dallas gig will be available for purchase [...]

District 9… District 9… District 9…

Every time a television presenter introduces District 9 they mention it’s a low budget film. If District 9 is low budget than Hollywood has morals. Apparently, low budget is a relative term. District 9 proves that you don’t need an obscene amount of money or bloated A-list celebrities to make a great movie. All you [...]

5 Broadway Shows To See, 5 Musical Scores To Hear

Land of Punt was recently visiting one of its favorite blogs, authoritytheatertickets.com, when we came across an entry about Broadway. The article, which was all about current musicals and plays, was incredibly well-written. Surely the author must be one of the best practiconers of the English language in the world as well as the voice [...]

Woodstock Turns 40

The only positive contribution of the Hippies was their music. And there is no event more associated with their groovy sound than their “Aquarian Exposition” Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music. The Woodstock festival celebrates it’s 40th anniversary this weekend. One of the defining moments of the 1960′s kicked off August 15th, 1969 and [...]