‘I guess you can take the woman out of the cult, but you can’t take the cult out of the woman!’
Bill DeYoung
Bill DeYoung was Connect's Arts & Entertainment Editor from May 2009 to August 2014.
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‘Wings Over America’
A couple of people I know consider this the best live album ever made. I wouldn’t go that far, but it does capture a pretty exciting moment in time. When […]
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Play that funky music, Greyboy
His band’s namesake flew the coop years ago, but saxophonist Karl Denson has kept the Greyboy Allstars alive and flourishing. The funk, R&B and jazz band headlines SCAD’s “New Alumni […]
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Urine for a good time
The show, says director Michael Wainstein, satirizes “that epic, in-your-face, 1940s, 1950s kind of theater. But it’s also a satire of Les Miz, it’s a satire of Evita, those big sung-through musicals.
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Burning Mansions: Are you experienced?
The closing number on the second Burning Mansions album Lucid, is a blistering midtempo psych-blues that begins by bemoaning the current state of our union: What have we become Are we […]
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ZZ Top, still tops
‘We actually have a good time doing what we get to do so we’ve never thought of a reason to sidetrack. Other bands break up, switch out members, get back together, etc. Yet early on, we decided to remain intact. Plain and simple.’
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Hot fun in the summertime at Dollhouse
‘Endless Summer,’ designed as the first in a series of hot-weather shows from Safe // Sound Productions, will feature Triathalon, Koko Beware, Makeout Club, Sauna Heat, AG & Abraham Dankin, and Rejjie Snow.
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Cusses, the little band that … did
‘I don’t think you really fall in love with us until you see us live.’ Angel Bond catches herself, and laughs a little. ‘In my humble opinion.’
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Darius Rucker’s Carolina country
‘I wouldn’t have given me a record deal. But I had a great manager who got me a record deal, and the rest, I guess, is history.
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The return of burlesque
The two got to talking, and decided to take things a step further, by creating Savannah’s first-ever homegrown retro burlesque show.
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Say hello to the Rosies
Kyrsten, 22, and Kourtney, 18, arrived in October 2012 with a couple of acoustic guitars, a satchel full of original songs, and a telepathic way with the sort of delicate harmony that only siblings can achieve.
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Blue Man Group: A colorful conversation
“People ask us if the Blue Man is an alien. We don’t like that term at all because it just makes it seem different … It’s more or less a dimension of us. He is kind of an everyman.”