The punk trio Green Day, poet of the New York underground Lou Reed and "Lean on Me" singer Bill Withers will lead a new class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The hall announced Tuesday that it will also welcome Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, who famously sang about loving rock 'n' roll, and make Ringo Starr the fourth ex-Beatle enshrined as an individual. Besides Reed, the class includes other posthumous inductees Paul Butterfield and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The 30th annual induction ceremony will be held at Cleveland's Public Hall on April 18. Public tickets go on sale Thursday.
- 12/16/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
The 36th edition of the Mill Valley Film Festival (October 3rd-13th) has your usual mix of award season contenders, talent tribute and spotlights, a slew of highly anticipated items from Cannes, Venice, Tiff and a handful of U.S. premieres. The festival opens with Alexander Payne’s Nebraska and Brian Percival’s The Book Thief and closes with a tribute to Ben Stiller along with a showing of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
This year’s tribute will be given to legendary director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing and The Music Box). Spotlights include filmmaker Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years A Slave, Jared Leto for Dallas Buyer’s Club and Dakota Fanning for Effie Gray which is making its world premiere showing.
Among the other titles worth mentioning we find J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost, John Wells’ August: Osage County, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color,...
This year’s tribute will be given to legendary director Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing and The Music Box). Spotlights include filmmaker Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years A Slave, Jared Leto for Dallas Buyer’s Club and Dakota Fanning for Effie Gray which is making its world premiere showing.
Among the other titles worth mentioning we find J.C. Chandor’s All is Lost, John Wells’ August: Osage County, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue is the Warmest Color,...
- 9/17/2013
- by Yama Rahimi
- IONCINEMA.com
Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again. Was he right? One of the quiet gems of 2009 was an album originally produced by Bob Dylan in 1973. Other than his own work under the pseudonymous Jack Frost, it's the only album Dylan ever produced. It's not, however, a Dylan record, it's a Barry Goldberg record. Even if you've never heard of Barry Goldberg, you've heard Barry Goldberg. Keyboardist/songwriter/producer, he wrote a #1 hit ("I've Got To Use My Imagination" by Gladys Knight & The Pips) and played on another ("Devil With A Blue Dress" by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels). As part of the Chicago blues mafia of the 1960s, he ran with the late string king Mike Bloomfield. They co-founded Electric Flag (with Buddy Miles, among others), and Barry later...
- 12/28/2009
- by Michael Simmons
- Huffington Post
The album cover. Bloomfield on left, Kooper on right.Usually, when someone points out that you’ve gotten something wrong in a story, you’re ashamed to admit it. But, in this case, I am excited to notify you of a mistake I made in my article on Norman Rockwell in the November issue of V.F., because it’s a fun one to fix. In an aside near the end of the piece, I mention that, for all of Rockwell’s later-period engagement in such topical subjects as the civil-rights movement, he never really addressed the 60s counterculture in his work. “The closest he ever got to painting a contemporarily long-haired male,” I write, was his inclusion, in an illustration of a fanciful short story in McCall’s, of a circa-1966 Ringo Starr. And, it must be said, Ringo’s hair wasn’t even that long in the mid-60s.
- 10/13/2009
- Vanity Fair
As a nice change of pace, I am finally reviewing an album without the threat of violent reprisal. This time around there was no James Zahn with a rubber hose looming over me, and no Doctor Raven throwing the CD case at me and running away. Recently on the Fangoria Musick MySpace page, a reader asked why we don’t cover hip-hop and rap. I thought that was a good question -there’s certainly enough gore and violence in rap to make it dark and edifying. Also, there are a few rap acts that I enjoy immensely, but they’re older and not adequate representations of what the genre is currently doing. By and large, modern rap -like country --makes my stomach turn with disgust and contempt. It seems like there really aren’t that many good rappers left, and of those that remain, most focus on materialism. Gone is the lyrical brilliance of N.
- 4/1/2009
- Fangoria
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