AC/DC is still an amazing act. However, I was only really able to hear their music – I was not as privy to the band’s ins and outs as my father, for example. However, Mark Evans (AC/DC’s first bass player) is able to provide the information that I was missing. Evans shows how unique of a band that AC/DC truly was; they came from Australia at a point where all…
Don’t feel too bad if you’ve never heard of Butch Walker. The musician/songwriter/producer and now author even admits himself that he will always be a mid-level entertainer, someone big enough to sell out clubs, but not a well known enough draw to pack stadiums. You have, whether you realize it or not likely heard his songs on the radio. If not his one alt rock hit with his former band…
There are bookshelves crammed with tomes about the origins of punk rock and just as many, if not more, about how hip-hop first began. It’s refreshing then that Will Hermes, a long time music critic, manages to cover both genres as well as disco, salsa, jazz and other aspects of the music world from his unique perspective growing up in New York in the mid 70’s. Love Goes to Buildings…
South Africa seems to be a land of considerable faith. We at NeuFutur cover many of the bodybuilding competitions, and the South African competitor was the only one to come out to a praise song. Angus Buchan is also from South African, and has penned Come of Age. This title showcases the difficulties that one will experience as one that holds faith. Rather than be beat down by life, the…
The jokes pretty much write themselves with this one. You can almost envision chapters like “How I Made My First Million Selling Grilled Cheese Sandwiches in Dirty Parking Lots”. But once you get past the jokes about endless jams and white-bearded, tie-dyed hippies, you soon realize that the author is much more than a Grateful Dead obsessed fan and that the band knew how to make money – lots of…
Wylie Overstreet’s The History of the World According to Facebook is likely not the only book to satirize the wildly popular social networking site and it certainly won’t be the last but, at least for now, it may be the wittiest. The germ for the book originated with an August 2010 online article by Overstreet (“If Historical Events Had Facebook Statuses”) and has evolved into a quick read paperback that…
There are a number of ways to get into even the most well protected computer system. Where there is much to do about one’s hacking abilities, the ability to get into these systems and showcase the amount of loopholes that are present is an important one. Metasploit is a framework that does just that, giving companies the knowledge that they need to ensure that they do not lose valuable data.…
The amount of different reasons to try the raw food diet are legion – whether it be a number of famous figures extolling the diet’s virtues or from an individual’s concern about their lifestyle, there are some good reasons why individuals check out this diet. However, I believe that there are not too many in the way of different resources that collect the sheer amount of information that The Complete…
It’s been said before, but needs to be said again: Tom Perrotta knows suburbia. In his previous works (Election, The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children), Perrotta used his unique perspective to tackle the everyday challenges and worries – both real and ridiculous – of his characters that populate the suburbs of America. And nowhere is that done to better effect than his latest novel The Leftovers. Absolutely absorbing from the…
It’s pretty clear just a few chapters into Adrenaline that (soon to be retired) CIA Agent Sam Capra will be back for more books. And that’s not a bad thing at all. In Jeff Abbott’s latest novel, he introduces Capra, an undercover American agent working aside his pregnant with at the CIA’s London office. An explosion in the UK headquarters, shortly after his kidnapped wife lures him away from it,…
