Coming to Billings: The Goo Goo Dolls
The Goo Goo Dolls, whose string of hits place them firmly in the pop/rock firmament, perform May 26 at the Shrine Auditorium in Billings.
Early in their career, the Buffalo natives were frequently dismissed by critics as imitators of the Replacements; however, they refined their sound enough to become one of the most popular adult alternative rock bands of the latter half of the ’90s, selling millions of records to audiences largely unfamiliar with their roots as a bratty punk band.
Released in 1993, Superstar Car Wash was the Goo Goo Dolls' artistic breakthrough – a finely crafted pop/rock record. A Boy Named Goo, released in 1995, boasted the acoustic-driven ballad "Name," which landed in Billboard’s Top Five and helped generate platinum sales for the album.
The band contributed the ballad "Iris" to the soundtrack of the 1998 romance “City of Angels”; the smash hit spent nearly a year on Billboard's airplay charts, including an astonishing 18 weeks at number one, and was nominated for three Grammys.
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Montana Actors Theatre: Helping theatre thrive
Theater can be full of clichés — the dramatic diva, the demanding director, the hapless husband and the lovelorn lad. Unfortunately, another cliché is theater dying out in small towns. But in Havre, the Montana Actors Theatre has found surprising success – so much so that it's also keeping theater alive in much larger Missoula and now Great Falls.
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Country rocker Gary Allan tours Montana
“I ain’t really happy,” sings Gary Allan on “Get Off on the Pain,” the down-home title cut that begins and provides the name for his new MCA Nashville collection, “until the sky starts driving rain.” “That’s, like, very autobiographical,” the California-born artist says about the song. “I feel like I’m living that right now." Read more
John Turk | The Raven’s Gift
Although he’s written two previous books about remarkable adventures in the Earth’s most remote environs, Jon Turk steps off the map in A Raven’s Gift, and travels an ancient, mystic terrain. Western thought and magic collide when the chemist, science writer and adventurer finds himself standing naked on one leg, preparing for a healing from a wizened Siberian shaman, Moolynaut. Read more
Grammy-winning Klezmatics perform in Helena and Whitefish
The world-renowned, Grammy-winning superstars of the klezmer world visit Whitefish March 20 and Helena March 21 this month. In the course of over 20 years and nine albums they have stubbornly continued making music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective and ecstatically danceable. Read more
MAM showcases works by Kevin Red Star
The Missoula Art Museum (MAM) is hosting an exhibit by Kevin Red Star, a celebrated Montana artist who draws from his Crow tradition and culture for his subjects, both historical and modern. His paintings are on display April 2-Aug. 27, with a reception and gallery talk, 5-8 p.m. April 2. Read more
Jack Horner and James Gorman | How to Build a Dinosaur
Bozeman's Jack Horner, whose fascination with dinosaurs has led him on some remarkable journeys, turns his formidable expertise to cutting-edge research in a book subtitled "Extinction Doesn’t Have to Be Forever." In a book co-written with science writer James Gorman, he explores the controversial question: Can we or should we build a dinosaur? Read more