The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2021 nominees on Wednesday (Feb. 10) morning, revealing the most gender-inclusive ballot in the Rock Hall’s history.
Mary J. Blige, Kate Bush, Devo, Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Jay-Z, Chaka Khan, Carole King, Fela Kuti, LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner and Dionne Warwick are all on the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot.
Seven of those 16 acts feature women, with two of those women already in the Rock Hall: Carole King’s era-defining songwriting earned her ...
Mary J. Blige, Kate Bush, Devo, Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden, Jay-Z, Chaka Khan, Carole King, Fela Kuti, LL Cool J, New York Dolls, Rage Against the Machine, Todd Rundgren, Tina Turner and Dionne Warwick are all on the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot.
Seven of those 16 acts feature women, with two of those women already in the Rock Hall: Carole King’s era-defining songwriting earned her ...
- 2/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sylvain Sylvain, the punk icon and guitarist for New York Dolls whose riffs bridged the gap between punk and glam, died Wednesday. He was 69. The musician, who also contributed bass, piano and songwriting to the groundbreaking band’s first two albums, had been battling cancer.
“As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,” his wife, Wanda O’Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page. “Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss,...
“As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,” his wife, Wanda O’Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page. “Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
A handsome little biopic that’s sopping wet with the same clichés that its whiny hero so adamantly disavows, Mark Gill’s “England Is Mine” distills the early days of one Steven Patrick Morrissey into an anonymous coming-of-age story that — if not for its keen sense of place — could really be about any mopey white boy whose talents are dulled by torpor. The film begins in the late ’70s, when young Steven is still living in his family’s splintered Stretford council house and writing flippant concert reviews for some local music rags; it ends a few years later, before he and Johnny Marr have yet to record their first track as The Smiths. This isn’t a portrait of an iconoclastic rock god, but of a brooding artist who thinks he’s far too good for such a boring town, and resents the fact that he should ever have...
- 8/23/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Author: Linda Marric
As with any biopic centring around a popular public figure, a certain amount of artistic licence is to be expected from its makers no matter who the subject maybe. In the case of Mark Gill’s England Is Mine, the stakes are somewhat stacked even higher than usual. With an army of hardcore adoring fans, and a near God-like status amongst the music press over the last thirty years, Morrissey has had countless unauthorised biographies written about him, but until now nobody had even dared dream of basing a film on his life, and judging by the negative reaction from some of his more ardent fans, it’s easy to see why.
With a title taken from one of The Smiths most loved songs “Still Ill”, Gill and co-writer William Thacker wear their hearts on their sleeves from the get-go as two people who clearly know their Smiths mythology inside out.
As with any biopic centring around a popular public figure, a certain amount of artistic licence is to be expected from its makers no matter who the subject maybe. In the case of Mark Gill’s England Is Mine, the stakes are somewhat stacked even higher than usual. With an army of hardcore adoring fans, and a near God-like status amongst the music press over the last thirty years, Morrissey has had countless unauthorised biographies written about him, but until now nobody had even dared dream of basing a film on his life, and judging by the negative reaction from some of his more ardent fans, it’s easy to see why.
With a title taken from one of The Smiths most loved songs “Still Ill”, Gill and co-writer William Thacker wear their hearts on their sleeves from the get-go as two people who clearly know their Smiths mythology inside out.
- 8/2/2017
- by Linda Marric
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Notorious B.I.G. was shot to death 20 years ago on March 9, 1997. The rapper’s murder will be forever linked with that of his peer Tupac Shakur, though the pair are just in a long line of musicians who’ve shuffled off the mortal coil under less-than-clear circumstances. Even if the ink has dried on the official paperwork, rumors still abound about …
Sam Cooke (1964)
Possibly the greatest “pure” soul singer in American history, Cooke’s career was on the rise after a string of hits when he was shot to death in a seedy L.A. motel, allegedly by the hotel’s manager in self-defense.
Sam Cooke (1964)
Possibly the greatest “pure” soul singer in American history, Cooke’s career was on the rise after a string of hits when he was shot to death in a seedy L.A. motel, allegedly by the hotel’s manager in self-defense.
- 3/23/2017
- by Alex Heigl
- PEOPLE.com
“Whatever happens tonight, I remain confused.”
Vinyl closes its first season by cutting back and forth between Richie and Zak across a crowded room. It’s meant to remind us that the two men share a few too many secrets, and that the burden of guilt on Richie’s shoulders is far from lifted. It’s also almost completely flat, just like the preceding sequence in which Richie tells his employees and musicians to go nuts and spray-paint the label’s offices. The chaos he unleashes mirrors what he experienced in the pilot at the New York Dolls concert, but here there’s no raw-nerved depiction of the connection between music and listener to land the hullabaloo.
Nor is the stuff those close-ups on Cannavale and Romano are trying to remind us of all that interesting. The mob plot has potential, and in moments like Zak’s shit-smeared shoe abandoned...
Vinyl closes its first season by cutting back and forth between Richie and Zak across a crowded room. It’s meant to remind us that the two men share a few too many secrets, and that the burden of guilt on Richie’s shoulders is far from lifted. It’s also almost completely flat, just like the preceding sequence in which Richie tells his employees and musicians to go nuts and spray-paint the label’s offices. The chaos he unleashes mirrors what he experienced in the pilot at the New York Dolls concert, but here there’s no raw-nerved depiction of the connection between music and listener to land the hullabaloo.
Nor is the stuff those close-ups on Cannavale and Romano are trying to remind us of all that interesting. The mob plot has potential, and in moments like Zak’s shit-smeared shoe abandoned...
- 4/19/2016
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
Every Monday my Facebook feed is filled with people kvetching about Vinyl, the new HBO series created by Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winters. Every criticism I see is valid (the pace is slow, the characters and the situations in which they find themselves are unbelievable), but I still kind of like it.
If you haven’t watched, you should know that Vinyl is about a record company struggling through the changes in music and culture in the early mid-1970s. I moved to New York full time a few years later, so perhaps some of the reason I like it is that it reminds me of my lost youth.
Bobby Cannavale plays Richie Finestra, the head of the company, a drug addict with no moral code (is that redundant?) who uses people in his pursuit of money and more drugs. We are supposed to believe that his love...
If you haven’t watched, you should know that Vinyl is about a record company struggling through the changes in music and culture in the early mid-1970s. I moved to New York full time a few years later, so perhaps some of the reason I like it is that it reminds me of my lost youth.
Bobby Cannavale plays Richie Finestra, the head of the company, a drug addict with no moral code (is that redundant?) who uses people in his pursuit of money and more drugs. We are supposed to believe that his love...
- 4/1/2016
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
“Inside every man is another version of himself.”
Julie’s just running up to firing Clark when he says it, but his bullshit bit about dopplegangers doubles as a cruelly insightful observation on what’s going on all around him. Clark begging his way into a job as a gofer to avoid his father’s belief that he’s a loser, Richie bullshitting Andrea with promises that he’s changed as a naked enticement to get her to work for him, and Jamie lying to the mysterious Mrs. Feinman about a promotion that never materialized are all variations on the idea of throwing out phantoms of yourself that are closer to who you want to be, or to who you think will get you what you want. That lack of clarity hangs like smoke over the rest of the episode, finding its purest expression when Richie (maybe) decides to christen his new label ‘Alibi Records.
Julie’s just running up to firing Clark when he says it, but his bullshit bit about dopplegangers doubles as a cruelly insightful observation on what’s going on all around him. Clark begging his way into a job as a gofer to avoid his father’s belief that he’s a loser, Richie bullshitting Andrea with promises that he’s changed as a naked enticement to get her to work for him, and Jamie lying to the mysterious Mrs. Feinman about a promotion that never materialized are all variations on the idea of throwing out phantoms of yourself that are closer to who you want to be, or to who you think will get you what you want. That lack of clarity hangs like smoke over the rest of the episode, finding its purest expression when Richie (maybe) decides to christen his new label ‘Alibi Records.
- 3/15/2016
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
If you’ve seen HBO’s “Vinyl,” executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter (the show-runner of “Boardwalk Empire,” writer of “The Wolf Of Wall Street” and key “Sopranos” writer), you know that it can be… a mixed bag. While some reviews have been positive, others have not been so kind, especially by those that know a thing or two about the ‘70s music scene depicted on the show (watching Kurt Loder rip apart the show on Twitter in the last few weeks has been amusing). As our review of the premiere episode suggested, while encyclopedic, “Vinyl” has an unfortunate tendency to play like spot-the-cameo fan service for music geeks (not to mention that its sex, drugs and rock n’ roll cliches are myriad). Episode one was littered with “didja notice who that was, huh didja?” appearances —actors portrayed The New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
“Who you are ain’t gettin’ signed.”
Richie wants to believe that, like Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, his skills amount to more than a good ear and a practiced mind. His return to the arms of addiction has him convinced that what he heard when the New York Dolls brought that building down was a sound from just behind the wall. If he can tear back the wallpaper, if he can show others how to find it, then he can keep his business and his dreams while harvesting raw new talent and keeping rock ‘n roll alive. It’s a plan dredged up from the asbestos-suffused wreckage of the collapse he survived, and as he executes karate chops and wild yells in a darkened movie theater it becomes apparent exactly how reverent Vinyl is going to be toward the hallowed art of rock ‘n roll.
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Richie wants to believe that, like Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon, his skills amount to more than a good ear and a practiced mind. His return to the arms of addiction has him convinced that what he heard when the New York Dolls brought that building down was a sound from just behind the wall. If he can tear back the wallpaper, if he can show others how to find it, then he can keep his business and his dreams while harvesting raw new talent and keeping rock ‘n roll alive. It’s a plan dredged up from the asbestos-suffused wreckage of the collapse he survived, and as he executes karate chops and wild yells in a darkened movie theater it becomes apparent exactly how reverent Vinyl is going to be toward the hallowed art of rock ‘n roll.
Richie’s rants...
- 2/22/2016
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
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Youth is something Vinyl's record execs can sell, but not something they can ever get back. Here's our review of Yesterday Once More...
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1.2 Yesterday Once More
The first time that I heard Bob Dylan I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to, I think, maybe Wmca, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind - Bruce Springsteen
It becomes very clear, early on in this second episode, just why Vinyl, a TV show obsessed with rock ’n’ roll is set in the 1970s, rather than during the genre’s birth in the 1950s or at its high water mark in the late 1960s. It’s for purposes of nostalgia. This is not merely the ex-universe sense of longing for the sounds of several decades ago (which Vinyl, with...
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Youth is something Vinyl's record execs can sell, but not something they can ever get back. Here's our review of Yesterday Once More...
This review contains spoilers.
1.2 Yesterday Once More
The first time that I heard Bob Dylan I was in the car with my mother, and we were listening to, I think, maybe Wmca, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody kicked open the door to your mind - Bruce Springsteen
It becomes very clear, early on in this second episode, just why Vinyl, a TV show obsessed with rock ’n’ roll is set in the 1970s, rather than during the genre’s birth in the 1950s or at its high water mark in the late 1960s. It’s for purposes of nostalgia. This is not merely the ex-universe sense of longing for the sounds of several decades ago (which Vinyl, with...
- 2/22/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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The 90s will forever be equally loved and reviled by rock music purists. The decade offered some of the biggest momentum shifts the industry had ever seen (along with a de-glittering of the genre that was long overdue), but it also spat out some of the most watered-down, godawful excuses for “rock music” to be found in any era.
And while it’s pretty hard to argue that second thought, it’s also a little misleading. Because some of those bands so frequently associated with ruining rock music are a helluva lot more talented than they’re given credit for. But since the nature of the business is based on disposable talent, who can come in and deliver a slice of whatever the flavor of the month happens to be, a lot of great bands were overlooked because they never got a second chance.
There was a treasure trove...
The 90s will forever be equally loved and reviled by rock music purists. The decade offered some of the biggest momentum shifts the industry had ever seen (along with a de-glittering of the genre that was long overdue), but it also spat out some of the most watered-down, godawful excuses for “rock music” to be found in any era.
And while it’s pretty hard to argue that second thought, it’s also a little misleading. Because some of those bands so frequently associated with ruining rock music are a helluva lot more talented than they’re given credit for. But since the nature of the business is based on disposable talent, who can come in and deliver a slice of whatever the flavor of the month happens to be, a lot of great bands were overlooked because they never got a second chance.
There was a treasure trove...
- 2/18/2016
- by Jacob Trowbridge
- Obsessed with Film
“You’re all hearing this the same way?”
It’s 1973, and the streets of New York are swamped with the morning upchuck of a hungover sexual awakening. Vinyl, brainchild of Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, and Rich Cohen, climbs deep into the world of record production in the skin-submersible of one Richard “Richie” Finestra, protagonist and (briefly) narrator. We meet our hero ripping off his car’s rear-view mirror in his hunt for a surface to snort coke off of, a symbolic destruction of introspection and reflection, and leave him staggering like Frankenstein’s monster from the wreckage of a collapsed building. That collapse sequence is the episode’s flourish and its mission statement, a moment so hugely surreal that it flirts with stupidity. The New York Dolls demolishing a building with the power of rock? How easily could that have gone bad, right?
It doesn’t, though. It’s a searing,...
It’s 1973, and the streets of New York are swamped with the morning upchuck of a hungover sexual awakening. Vinyl, brainchild of Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, and Rich Cohen, climbs deep into the world of record production in the skin-submersible of one Richard “Richie” Finestra, protagonist and (briefly) narrator. We meet our hero ripping off his car’s rear-view mirror in his hunt for a surface to snort coke off of, a symbolic destruction of introspection and reflection, and leave him staggering like Frankenstein’s monster from the wreckage of a collapsed building. That collapse sequence is the episode’s flourish and its mission statement, a moment so hugely surreal that it flirts with stupidity. The New York Dolls demolishing a building with the power of rock? How easily could that have gone bad, right?
It doesn’t, though. It’s a searing,...
- 2/17/2016
- by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Nerdly
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Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's new HBO drama looks and sounds great, but can Vinyl grow into more than just Mad Men: The Rock Years?
My favourite rock ’n’ roll conspiracy theory runs as follows. Punk rock, with its cheap Diy ethic, mistrust (and deliberate avoidance) of wealth and dismissal of the decadent excess of earlier rock bands was a deliberately nefarious creation of major music labels that had grown fearful of the growing power of artists and who found a clever way of redressing the balance so that they, the anonymous suits, remained in charge. A Sid Viscious, so the theory goes, would be far more biddable and less likely to demand a larger slice of the cake than a Neil Young or a Roger Waters.
Whether by deliberate policy or not, it’s certainly true that some of the business elements of the music industry were changing.
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Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger's new HBO drama looks and sounds great, but can Vinyl grow into more than just Mad Men: The Rock Years?
My favourite rock ’n’ roll conspiracy theory runs as follows. Punk rock, with its cheap Diy ethic, mistrust (and deliberate avoidance) of wealth and dismissal of the decadent excess of earlier rock bands was a deliberately nefarious creation of major music labels that had grown fearful of the growing power of artists and who found a clever way of redressing the balance so that they, the anonymous suits, remained in charge. A Sid Viscious, so the theory goes, would be far more biddable and less likely to demand a larger slice of the cake than a Neil Young or a Roger Waters.
Whether by deliberate policy or not, it’s certainly true that some of the business elements of the music industry were changing.
- 2/15/2016
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
I reviewed HBO's Vinyl earlier this week, and also published most of my interview with co-creator Terence Winter (and star Bobby Cannavale). I held one part of the latter until after the first episode had aired, since it deals with the historical event that inspired the pilot's climax. That's coming up just as soon as I wrap the python around my neck... So, as those of you who watched the pilot saw, Cannavale's Richie Finestra is entranced by a New York Dolls concert at the Mercer Arts Center in lower Manhattan when the entire building starts coming apart at the seams, collapsing on all the concert-goers but somehow sparing Richie any serious harm. The Mercer Arts Center did, indeed, fall down in the summer of 1973, as part of the larger collapse of the University Hotel, which killed four people. But (as this article lays out) it was at 5 p.m.
- 2/15/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Nile Rodgers, the Strokes' Albert Hammond Jr., author Fran Lebowitz and more reminisce about the style of the early Seventies in the second installment of 1973: Shaping the Culture, a new video series from Rolling Stone, presented by HBO's new show Vinyl.
"What's great about '73 is that, everybody forgets this, but kind of that pimp look," Please Kill Me author Legs McNeil says. "That whole kind of Isaac Hayes, Shaft look. And the white guys made glam out of it ... You gotta remember that men's fashions were really ugly.
"What's great about '73 is that, everybody forgets this, but kind of that pimp look," Please Kill Me author Legs McNeil says. "That whole kind of Isaac Hayes, Shaft look. And the white guys made glam out of it ... You gotta remember that men's fashions were really ugly.
- 2/11/2016
- Rollingstone.com
HBO's new drama Vinyl is set at a crossroads for the music industry in which its hero, drug-addicted record label president Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale), works. It's 1973, when some of the iconic rock acts of the '60s were still vital — including The Rolling Stones, whose Mick Jagger co-created Vinyl alongside Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter, director Martin Scorsese, and author Rich Cohen — but were having to make room for new artists and new styles of music. In Sunday's pilot episode, Richie tries to cut a deal with Led Zeppelin, but is also entranced by a live performance of The New York Dolls' punk anthem "Personality Crisis," and intrigued when he drives through the Bronx and overhears hip-hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc spinning two records at once. But for all that Richie is obsessed with finding something new and exciting — "I Want What's Next!" he screams to his terrified...
- 2/10/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
When Bobby Cannavale turned up midway through the run of Terence Winter's HBO gangster epic Boardwalk Empire, the most surprising thing was that they somehow hadn't worked together before, whether on earlier Boardwalk seasons or during Winter's long run as David Chase's top lieutenant on The Sopranos. The half-Italian, half-Cuban actor has been no stranger to crime stories in his career (including a role on NBC's would-be Sopranos drama Kingpin), but the Boardwalk role of animalistic sociopath Gyp Rosetti (for which he would win an Emmy) was his first time working with Winter, and also with Boardwalk executive producer Martin Scorsese. Now, all three men have teamed up with, of all people, Mick Jagger, for Vinyl, HBO's new Sunday drama, where Cannavale plays Richie Finestra, a '70s record company executive with a great ear and a nose too prone to having cocaine shoved up it. The two-hour...
- 2/9/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
You won’t find it on the show’s IMDb page, but cocaine plays such a major role in HBO’s new ’70s drama Vinyl (premiering Feb. 14 at 9/8c) that its name ought to be wedged into the credits somewhere between Ray Romano and Olivia Wilde.
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From the moment we meet Bobby Cannavale‘s Richie Finestra — the spiraling owner of the spiraling American Century record label — he’s got Peruvian dancing dust on the brain, and soon after, up his nose.
Richie is a man haunted by a horrible secret,...
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From the moment we meet Bobby Cannavale‘s Richie Finestra — the spiraling owner of the spiraling American Century record label — he’s got Peruvian dancing dust on the brain, and soon after, up his nose.
Richie is a man haunted by a horrible secret,...
- 2/6/2016
- TVLine.com
There aren't many places in New York City where you can watch Gay Talese and Paul Shaffer join a conga line while John Cameron Mitchell looks on grinning from his seat, but last night’s Buster Poindexter show at the Café Carlyle in Manhattan is one of them. “I’m a Buster Poindexter fan, so I’m not exactly a novice," Talese told me after the show. "He is such a special, joyful person. He’s a person from a different time. Tonight we’re seeing him as he would have been 40 years ago. It’s amazing to see performers living in the fickle life of entertainment, where you could die in ten hours after any bad review or bad performance, surviving. He’s a total survivor.” Ever since the early 1970s, when he made a name for himself as the bear-chested, ribbon tie-wearing, glammed-up front man for the New York Dolls,...
- 1/27/2016
- by Lauretta Charlton
- Vulture
2016 is the year of the music-driven TV series. Cameron Crowe will go behind the scenes with "Roadies," Baz Luhrmann hits the clubs with the '70s-set "The Get Down," and also taking place in the same era and scene is Martin Scorsese's "Vinyl." It arrives on HBO next month, and as you might expect, it'll have a lot of music from the period for viewers to dive into. Volume 1 of the soundtrack is stuffed with soul, blues and rock'n roll, with tracks by Otis Redding, The Meters, Edgar Winter, Foghat, Ruth Brown, and more. It also feature original music by the critically acclaimed country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson (who provides the show's theme song "Sugar Daddy") and The Nasty Bits, a group fronted by Mick Jagger's son James Jagger, who also appears on the show. Meanwhile, David Johansen has re-recorded some jams by New York Dolls. Beyond that, HBO...
- 1/18/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The Martin Scorsese/Mick Jagger-produced, Terence Winter-created Vinyl, which premieres on HBO on February 14 (Valentine’s Day, for all you lover-types), is one of the year’s mostly hotly anticipated new shows. Emmy-winner Bobby Cannavale (Boardwalk Empire) stars as the cocaine-huffing record exec Richie, who’s struggling to relaunch his New York-based label at the advent of disco. Hot patootie, bless his soul, he really loves that rock n’ roll. Since it’s set in the sex and drugs and rock n’ roll haze of the ’70s, the soundtrack will be rife with great rock tracks. (The theme song is a rerecording of New York Dolls’ “Personality Crisis,” now called “Sugar Daddy,” performed by Dolls frontman David Johansen.) The soundtrack will roll out in an unusual fashion, but one that befits the show: After the first episode has aired, HBO will release a digital Ep every Friday before...
- 1/16/2016
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
It's beginning to look a lot like...well, you know what holiday I'm talking about. Should you already be eager to get drunk on eggnog and be filled with yuletide cheer, Sofia Coppola's star-studded "A Very Murray Christmas" is on Netflix today. Among the many guest appearances, Phoenix stop by and sing a holiday tune with Bill Murray. If you prefer to skip the tinsel and wrapping paper and just listen to the tune, scroll on below. Read More: Miley Cyrus Sings 'Silent Night' In The Last Trailer For Sofia Coppola's 'A Very Murray Christmas' The band and actor team up on "Alone On Christmas Day," which die hard Beach Boys fans may know better as a deep cut rarity. Phoenix give it a crisp pop treatment that is in line with their sound, but with the feel of a Christmas carol, while Jason Schwartzman, Paul Shaffer, and New York Dolls...
- 12/4/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Hear what happened when the comedian and the French band joined David Johansen and Jason Schwartzman to take on a Beach Boys song
The year’s most peculiar Christmas collaboration has been released – French yacht rock giants and comedy legend Bill Murray combining on a cover of the Beach Boys’ Alone on Christmas Day. The track also features Jason Schwartzman and the New York Dolls’ David Johansen, who has a previous seasonal link with Murray, after appearing with him in Scrooged in 1988.
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The year’s most peculiar Christmas collaboration has been released – French yacht rock giants and comedy legend Bill Murray combining on a cover of the Beach Boys’ Alone on Christmas Day. The track also features Jason Schwartzman and the New York Dolls’ David Johansen, who has a previous seasonal link with Murray, after appearing with him in Scrooged in 1988.
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- 12/4/2015
- by Guardian music
- The Guardian - Film News
The brainchild of Martin Scorsese, Terrence Winter and Mick Jagger, the show Vinyl is coming to HBO this January. Today, we've got a whopper of a trailer.Charting the days of proto-punk and early hip-hop in 1970s New York City, Vinyl centers on a record company president played by Bobby Cannavale. I am absolutely in love with the proto-punk underground era of New York, and am happy to say that the trailer mostly focuses on that stuff, with flashes of bands reminiscent of The New York Dolls, Iggy And The Stooges, and The Dead Boys. There was a debauched drive and destructive declaration to that time which fascinates me like few others, so much so that I am willing to set aside my disdain that the...
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- 10/6/2015
- Screen Anarchy
A review of tonight's "True Detective" coming up just as soon as I find "Friends"... This week, on "Looking For Silver Linings From 'True Detective' Season 2": * The very busy Miguel Sapochnik (who also directed tonight's "Masters of Sex") did a fine job of making Ani's ordeal at the orgy seem every bit as nightmarish and suspenseful as intended, even if the idea of her going in there with only Paul and Ray as backup felt incredibly contrived and there only to set up that scenario where we had to fear so much for our heroine. * The score throughout that sequence was lush and melodramatic in a way that very much evoked the kinds of '40s and '50s La noir films where parties like this might take place (albeit ones presented in less explicit fashion than this). * This was a non-terrible episode for Vince Vaughn, and...
- 7/27/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
The man who teamed with Michael Douglas to launch Columbia-based production outfit Stonebridge Entertainment died today of cancer in L.A. Peter McAlevey was 58. The Suffern, NY, native was working as a Newsweek entertainment writer when Jeffrey Katzenberg recruited him to the new Disney team. During McAlevey’s tenure there, he partnered with Michael Douglas on Stonebridge, where they produced such films as Flatliners (1990), Double Impact (1991), and Radio Flyer (1992). Outside of Stonebridge, McAlevey also produced the romantic comedy Hard Promises (1991), starring Sissy Spacek and future CSI star William Petersen, which bowed at the Toronto International Film Festival. After Stonebridge shuttered in 1994, McAlevey launched Thunderbrid Pictures, which made such pics as Klash (1995) and the boxing remake Body And Soul (2000). Other credits include Shadow Hours (2000) and the System of a Down docu Screamers (2006). The Columbia University grad, who roadied for the New York Dolls during their 1970s heyday, also produced last year’s horror pic Kill Her,...
- 8/16/2014
- by The Deadline Team
- Deadline
BBC Two is 50 - the British Broadcasting Corporation's second eldest child hits the half-century mark this Sunday (April 20).
But which shows from those five decades on air were given short shrift? Did your favourite drama or comedy not get a fair shake?
BBC Two is 50: Share your memories and thoughts
Other channels have plundered BBC Two's back catalogue with results ranging from the sublime - Sky's Alan Partridge revival - to the disastrous - Gold's Yes, Prime Minister rehash.
But with just two days to go until Two hits 5-0, here's five more shows - from the '60s to the '00s - that deserve another shot.
The Likely Lads (1964-66)
"Oh, what happened to you? Whatever happened to me?" - Yes, its more distinguished follow-up Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? might have graduated to BBC One, but its 1960s predecessor was a BBC Two staple.
But which shows from those five decades on air were given short shrift? Did your favourite drama or comedy not get a fair shake?
BBC Two is 50: Share your memories and thoughts
Other channels have plundered BBC Two's back catalogue with results ranging from the sublime - Sky's Alan Partridge revival - to the disastrous - Gold's Yes, Prime Minister rehash.
But with just two days to go until Two hits 5-0, here's five more shows - from the '60s to the '00s - that deserve another shot.
The Likely Lads (1964-66)
"Oh, what happened to you? Whatever happened to me?" - Yes, its more distinguished follow-up Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? might have graduated to BBC One, but its 1960s predecessor was a BBC Two staple.
- 4/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Anthony Bourdain — the notoriously snarky chef, writer, and world traveler — is returning to CNN on April 13th with a new season of Parts Unknown, where he will continue to excavate local gastronomy in global locales, from street food in the Punjab to quotidian grub amidst the drug wars in Mexico. “We try to make each episode look as different as possible, with different physical cinematography," Bourdain says. "We'll use different equipment, different lenses, a different sort of reference of films - specifically tailored to each episode. We want each episode...
- 4/11/2014
- Rollingstone.com
While most teenagers daydreamed of summer break while playing records in their bedrooms, fourteen-year-old Paul Zone spent his youth immersed in the New York underground, exploring the concrete playground with actors, drag queens, and drug addicts. The mid-1970s was a time when the death of Glam and the birth of Punk collided in a celebration of glitter and grime, and Zone had a front-row seat to it all. In this incredible photo memoir, Zone shares his reminiscences alongside never-before-seen photographs of a time and a place that have become synonymous with the history of music and culture in the late twentieth century. Playground: Growing Up in New York Underground features photographs of bands including Blondie, The Ramones, The New York Dolls, Iggy and the Stooges, the Dead Boys,...
- 1/23/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
If you had told Greg Whiteley in 2006 that he was going to spend the next six years of his life on the road covering a presidential candidate, he probably would’ve reconsidered the opportunity he had initially pursued so diligently. “I just couldn’t have imagined swallowing up six years of life working on this project,” says the documentary filmmaker who was just coming off making two well-regarded movies in a three-year span. “I showed up on Christmas Eve, met the family for the first time and filmed them discussing whether or not should run. And I just didn’t stop filming for six years.
- 1/16/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Writing and recording the perfect album is a delicate art form. The very best examples possess themes and debates that run through each and every song, giving the finished article a unified and coherent feel whilst capturing the zeitgeist and reflecting the inner states of those who were part of its recording process. With this in mind, the sequencing and track-listing of the LP is of paramount importance and no song’s position is more vital than an album’s closing track.
Of course, an incendiary and arresting opening track is required to engage the listener and set out the artist’s stall but a record’s final track should offer closure. An essential closer should strive to tie-up all of the record’s loose ends, answer the questions offered throughout its preceding songs and conclude in such a way that its listener feels enriched and satisfied as the needle pops out of the groove.
Of course, an incendiary and arresting opening track is required to engage the listener and set out the artist’s stall but a record’s final track should offer closure. An essential closer should strive to tie-up all of the record’s loose ends, answer the questions offered throughout its preceding songs and conclude in such a way that its listener feels enriched and satisfied as the needle pops out of the groove.
- 12/10/2013
- by Daniel Owens
- Obsessed with Film
Vinyl’s back, tell a friend. After having been ousted by more compact forms of music containment, those shiny Pvc songholders are back with a polite and largely inoffensive vengeance. New vinyl sales currently stand at around 600,000 units for 2013. Ok, I admit it, 600,000 units is hardly going to strike fear into the cold, grey hearts of iTunes et al. But there’s definitely a wave of support which shows no sign of breaking any time soon.
Why’s that then? Contrary to popular belief, it has less to do with Shoreditch Hipsters and more to do with the people realising just how much they love music. And a bit to do with good old consumerism.
The record’s original enforced semi-retirement was due to its size. The smaller, far more practical, cassette bowled up and basically picked on it for carrying a bit too much timber. It was like getting changed for P.
Why’s that then? Contrary to popular belief, it has less to do with Shoreditch Hipsters and more to do with the people realising just how much they love music. And a bit to do with good old consumerism.
The record’s original enforced semi-retirement was due to its size. The smaller, far more practical, cassette bowled up and basically picked on it for carrying a bit too much timber. It was like getting changed for P.
- 11/15/2013
- by Stephen Roberts
- Obsessed with Film
“Glee” editor Alexander Soskin will make his feature-length directorial debut with the adaptation of Nina Antonia’s rock biography “Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood.” Chloë Fontana and Ada Guerin wrote the screenplay for the biopic, which is scheduled to begin production early next year. Los Angeles-based production company L.A.M.F. Films is producing. See video: ‘What’s The Deal’ With Hollywood’s Biopic Obsession? Thunders, the founding member of ’70s punk band The New York Dolls, was a guitarist known as much for his rock ‘n’ roll swagger as he was his addiction to drugs. Thunders had...
- 11/7/2013
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Singer/songwriter Lou Reed.
I interviewed Lou Reed in spring of 2003 in conjunction with the release of his latest album, The Raven. A hero of mine since childhood, our chat did not start out well. As I entered his office in Soho, he greeted me with a look combining contempt and outright revulsion: "Oh you little yuppie punk, please say something stupid so I can throw your ass outta my office," it seemed to say. Happily, Reed warmed up over the next two hours and we had a terrific chat about many things, recorded below.
Several months later, I attended his sold-out concert at the Wiltern in L.A. Backstage, I shook his hand and told him how much I enjoyed the show.. He managed a smile, patted my shoulder, and said "Nice work."
Rip Lou, and thanks for it all.
Lou Reed Quothes The Raven
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
I interviewed Lou Reed in spring of 2003 in conjunction with the release of his latest album, The Raven. A hero of mine since childhood, our chat did not start out well. As I entered his office in Soho, he greeted me with a look combining contempt and outright revulsion: "Oh you little yuppie punk, please say something stupid so I can throw your ass outta my office," it seemed to say. Happily, Reed warmed up over the next two hours and we had a terrific chat about many things, recorded below.
Several months later, I attended his sold-out concert at the Wiltern in L.A. Backstage, I shook his hand and told him how much I enjoyed the show.. He managed a smile, patted my shoulder, and said "Nice work."
Rip Lou, and thanks for it all.
Lou Reed Quothes The Raven
By
Alex Simon
Editor's...
- 10/27/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Chicago – One of the most influential sound artists in American rock history is Todd Rundgren. Known for radio friendly hits like “Hello It’s Me,” “I Saw the Light” and “Bang the Drum All Day,” Rundgren also is one of rock’s most notable producers, formulating hits for Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad, the New York Dolls and Xtc.
Born near Philadelphia, he began his career in 1967 at the age of nineteen, forming the cult garage band Nazz. After leaving the band in 1969, he taught himself audio production and began a fruitful period of producing and creating name hit songs of the 1970s. His solo album “Something/Anything?” (1972) was a breakout hit record, and he also produced chart toppers like “We’re an American Band” (Grand Funk Railroad) and “Bat Out of Hell” (Meat Loaf). During this time he also got together with players that would ultimately become Utopia, the...
Born near Philadelphia, he began his career in 1967 at the age of nineteen, forming the cult garage band Nazz. After leaving the band in 1969, he taught himself audio production and began a fruitful period of producing and creating name hit songs of the 1970s. His solo album “Something/Anything?” (1972) was a breakout hit record, and he also produced chart toppers like “We’re an American Band” (Grand Funk Railroad) and “Bat Out of Hell” (Meat Loaf). During this time he also got together with players that would ultimately become Utopia, the...
- 6/9/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Tony Fletcher A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths (Crown Archetype)
For a band whose dying gasp came over two decades ago, the Smiths' brief, entire career has been barely scrutinized. Initially there was the stodgy Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan, which has long just about sufficed in the absence of anything more, and there has been a ceaseless, incoming tide of books about the songs, and the aura which surrounds their apostle-like leader, Morrissey, when all that was really required was a clear-headed history, a factual consideration, as to why they sprang into life. Tony Fletcher has finally created that with A Light That Never Goes Out, a reasoned, logical, and unhurried recreation of their initially unlikely route to fame.
Johnny Marr wasn't the only kid on the block who wanted to be a guitar hero, but he had immense talent on his side,...
For a band whose dying gasp came over two decades ago, the Smiths' brief, entire career has been barely scrutinized. Initially there was the stodgy Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan, which has long just about sufficed in the absence of anything more, and there has been a ceaseless, incoming tide of books about the songs, and the aura which surrounds their apostle-like leader, Morrissey, when all that was really required was a clear-headed history, a factual consideration, as to why they sprang into life. Tony Fletcher has finally created that with A Light That Never Goes Out, a reasoned, logical, and unhurried recreation of their initially unlikely route to fame.
Johnny Marr wasn't the only kid on the block who wanted to be a guitar hero, but he had immense talent on his side,...
- 11/22/2012
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
The world of Dr. Dani Santino is about to get a lot more complicated in the second season of USA Network’s sports drama. After last year’s shocking finale in which star football receiver Terrence King was shot by a crazed fan, Dr. Dani must find a way to get inside T.K.’s head before he completely implodes and then explodes. At a recent set visit, star Callie Thorne briefly previewed what to expect in this next season and the challenges that Dr. Dani’ faces.
It looks like Dr. Dani has a very full season ahead when the season kicks off. Can you talk about getting ready for this second season and some of the fine-tuning that went on?
Callie: That’s a good question about getting back into it because we did have a nice long hiatus and it is always a little nerve racking coming back...
It looks like Dr. Dani has a very full season ahead when the season kicks off. Can you talk about getting ready for this second season and some of the fine-tuning that went on?
Callie: That’s a good question about getting back into it because we did have a nice long hiatus and it is always a little nerve racking coming back...
- 6/5/2012
- by Tiffany Vogt
- The TV Addict
Richard Dawson—actor, game-show legend, and all-round celebrity presence—died Saturday at the age of 79. Born Colin Lionel Emm to an English mother and an American father, Dawson joined the Merchant Marine when he was 14, then transitioned into a varied life as a boxer, comedian, singer, and actor. (He was also married, for 7 years, to the blonde sex kitten Diana Dors—the only British film thespian ever to be name-checked in a New York Dolls song. They had two sons.) By the time he was 30, the affable Dawson had established a solid enough identity that he ...
- 6/4/2012
- avclub.com
Billed as the 'new Bowie', Jobriath exploded onto the glam rock scene in the 1970s – and then disappeared. Marc Almond salutes a personal hero
Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was filled with drudgery, strikes, power cuts and unemptied bins. Against this colourless backdrop, glam rock emerged, sprinkling glitter over the grime. And its gods – Marc Bolan with his cosmic love songs, Bryan Ferry with his glamorous cinematic sleaze – reigned supreme. David Bowie was busy transforming the musical landscape.
The British music press of the time was a lads' domain, deeply homophobic; the rule was you had to be a serious musician who had paid some dues. Bowie, who had been reluctantly accepted, was becoming a phenomenon. Ferry's sci-fi, 1950s-inspired torch songs were considered fresh and alluring, played on a strange new electronic instrument called a synthesiser.
Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was filled with drudgery, strikes, power cuts and unemptied bins. Against this colourless backdrop, glam rock emerged, sprinkling glitter over the grime. And its gods – Marc Bolan with his cosmic love songs, Bryan Ferry with his glamorous cinematic sleaze – reigned supreme. David Bowie was busy transforming the musical landscape.
The British music press of the time was a lads' domain, deeply homophobic; the rule was you had to be a serious musician who had paid some dues. Bowie, who had been reluctantly accepted, was becoming a phenomenon. Ferry's sci-fi, 1950s-inspired torch songs were considered fresh and alluring, played on a strange new electronic instrument called a synthesiser.
- 3/28/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Billed as the 'new Bowie', Jobriath exploded onto the glam rock scene in the 1970s – and then disappeared. Marc Almond salutes a personal hero
Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was filled with drudgery, strikes, power cuts and unemptied bins. Against this colourless backdrop, glam rock emerged, sprinkling glitter over the grime. And its gods – Marc Bolan with his cosmic love songs, Bryan Ferry with his glamorous cinematic sleaze – reigned supreme. David Bowie was busy transforming the musical landscape.
The British music press of the time was a lads' domain, deeply homophobic; the rule was you had to be a serious musician who had paid some dues. Bowie, who had been reluctantly accepted, was becoming a phenomenon. Ferry's sci-fi, 1950s-inspired torch songs were considered fresh and alluring, played on a strange new electronic instrument called a synthesiser.
Britain in the early 1970s was going through a depression: the naive dreams and optimism of the 1960s had soured and evaporated; life was filled with drudgery, strikes, power cuts and unemptied bins. Against this colourless backdrop, glam rock emerged, sprinkling glitter over the grime. And its gods – Marc Bolan with his cosmic love songs, Bryan Ferry with his glamorous cinematic sleaze – reigned supreme. David Bowie was busy transforming the musical landscape.
The British music press of the time was a lads' domain, deeply homophobic; the rule was you had to be a serious musician who had paid some dues. Bowie, who had been reluctantly accepted, was becoming a phenomenon. Ferry's sci-fi, 1950s-inspired torch songs were considered fresh and alluring, played on a strange new electronic instrument called a synthesiser.
- 3/27/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
This slideshow of Anthony Bourdain feuds focuses on some of the sharp-tongued "No Reservations" host's most famous adversaries. From Paula Deen to Rachael Ray, no chef or food personality seems to be safe from Bourdain's sarcastic humor and quick wit. Click through the pages below to see them all.
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Sandra Lee
The Attack: "This frightening hell-spawn of Kathie Lee and Betty Crocker seems on a mission to kill her fans, one meal at a time," Bourdain said in a 2007 guest blog post for Michael Ruhlman.
The Response: In 2009, Bourdain encountered Lee at a premiere for "Julie & Julia." He describes the encounter thusly: "Sandra is talking. I know this cause her lips are moving and she's saying -- overtly anyway, nice things. Like 'You're a very naughty man,' and she's chatting amiably with my wife... [I'm] frozen by the bizarreness of the moment which seems to go on forever as Sandra's hand wanders upward,...
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Sandra Lee
The Attack: "This frightening hell-spawn of Kathie Lee and Betty Crocker seems on a mission to kill her fans, one meal at a time," Bourdain said in a 2007 guest blog post for Michael Ruhlman.
The Response: In 2009, Bourdain encountered Lee at a premiere for "Julie & Julia." He describes the encounter thusly: "Sandra is talking. I know this cause her lips are moving and she's saying -- overtly anyway, nice things. Like 'You're a very naughty man,' and she's chatting amiably with my wife... [I'm] frozen by the bizarreness of the moment which seems to go on forever as Sandra's hand wanders upward,...
- 2/29/2012
- by mbrassfield
- Foodista
If you were a kid who grew up during the '90s, chances are you were probably watching either MTV or Nickelodeon to get your fix of entertainment for the day. And if you watched Nickelodeon, you were probably a fan of “The Adventures of Pete & Pete,” the oddball series featuring two brothers both named Pete and their sometimes surreal adventures growing up in the suburb of Wellsville. Created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi -- who were working in the promo department at the still-fledgling network -- 'Pete & Pete' had begun as a series of shorts in 1989 before becoming a regular series several years later. But this wasn’t just any kids program. Not only did it feature an 8-year-old with a tattoo of a topless mermaid named Petunia and a personal superhero wildly gesticulating in skin tight pants but featured recurring guest stars, including Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop,...
- 2/29/2012
- by Cory Everett
- The Playlist
DVD Playhouse—December 2011
By Allen Gardner
The Rules Of The Game (Criterion) Jean Renoir’s classic from 1939 was met with a riot at its premiere and was severely cut by its distributor, available only in truncated form for two decades until it was restored to the grandeur for which it is celebrated today. A biting comedy of manners set in the upstairs and downstairs of a French country estate, the film bitterly vivisects the bourgeoisie with a gentle ferocity that will tickle the laughter in your throat. Renoir co-stars as Octave. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Introduction to the film by Renoir; Commentary written by scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by Peter Bogdanovich; Comparison of the film’s two endings; Selected scene analysis by Renoir scholar Chris Faulkner; Featurettes and vintage film clips; Part one of David Thomson’s “Jean Renoir” BBC documentary; Video essay; Interviews with Renoir, crew members,...
By Allen Gardner
The Rules Of The Game (Criterion) Jean Renoir’s classic from 1939 was met with a riot at its premiere and was severely cut by its distributor, available only in truncated form for two decades until it was restored to the grandeur for which it is celebrated today. A biting comedy of manners set in the upstairs and downstairs of a French country estate, the film bitterly vivisects the bourgeoisie with a gentle ferocity that will tickle the laughter in your throat. Renoir co-stars as Octave. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Introduction to the film by Renoir; Commentary written by scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by Peter Bogdanovich; Comparison of the film’s two endings; Selected scene analysis by Renoir scholar Chris Faulkner; Featurettes and vintage film clips; Part one of David Thomson’s “Jean Renoir” BBC documentary; Video essay; Interviews with Renoir, crew members,...
- 12/12/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Bob Gruen John Lennon at a coffee counter in Yonkers, NY. March 1975.
Today, rock photographer Bob Gruen possesses a deep and valuable catalog of the iconic images he captured, from John Lennon posing in a “New York City” T-shirt to the Ramones schlepping their guitars on the subway. But back in the 1970s, when Gruen was hustling from one freelance assignment to the next, one of his most important assets was an old car.
“A ’54 Buick Special that I got for $300,” he recalls.
Today, rock photographer Bob Gruen possesses a deep and valuable catalog of the iconic images he captured, from John Lennon posing in a “New York City” T-shirt to the Ramones schlepping their guitars on the subway. But back in the 1970s, when Gruen was hustling from one freelance assignment to the next, one of his most important assets was an old car.
“A ’54 Buick Special that I got for $300,” he recalls.
- 12/2/2011
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
All the leaves are nearly brown, skies sometimes gray, there's a slight chill in the air, and my ears and eyes have been quite busy. A touch of melancholia and a satchel full of dreams yet to be realized. Winter is just around the corner. A hint of summer still lingers in the late afternoon sun. Walks in the park with the dog, shared playlists on Spotify providing the soundtrack. I remain an ever faithful servant to smart culture's demands.
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
"Cicadas and Gulls" Feist Metals (Cherrytree) - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist displays her chops in full maturity on her third CD. So much to enjoy, yet I'm continually drawn to this evocative, simple double-tracked voice and acoustic guitar folk song. I suspect it fully captures my current mood.
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" The Smiths Complete Box Set (Rhino) - Rarely do I purchase music, one...
- 10/28/2011
- by Dusty Wright
- www.culturecatch.com
From Mvd, the "New York Dolls: Lookin' Fine On Television" will be available on DVD, November 22, 2011 :
"...in the early 70's, photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya purchased a portable video recorder. In a period of three years, they shot over 40 hours of the glam punk rock band the 'New York Dolls'. This footage became the documentary 'All Dolled Up'.
"For 'Lookin' Fine On Television' more footage has been edited to create fifteen live music video-style clips..."
Featured clips include rare, archival footage from the Dolls' early shows in the NYC clubs Kenny's Castaways and Max's Kansas City.
Also included is footage of the Dolls' West Coast tour, Whisky-a-Go-Go, the Real Don Steele Show, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco and a whole lot more.
Tracks include "Jet Boy", "Personality Crisis", "Bad Girl", 'Human Being", "Bad Detective", "Subway Train", "Trash","Vietnamese Baby", "Lookin' For a Kiss", "Who Are...
"...in the early 70's, photographer Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya purchased a portable video recorder. In a period of three years, they shot over 40 hours of the glam punk rock band the 'New York Dolls'. This footage became the documentary 'All Dolled Up'.
"For 'Lookin' Fine On Television' more footage has been edited to create fifteen live music video-style clips..."
Featured clips include rare, archival footage from the Dolls' early shows in the NYC clubs Kenny's Castaways and Max's Kansas City.
Also included is footage of the Dolls' West Coast tour, Whisky-a-Go-Go, the Real Don Steele Show, Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco and a whole lot more.
Tracks include "Jet Boy", "Personality Crisis", "Bad Girl", 'Human Being", "Bad Detective", "Subway Train", "Trash","Vietnamese Baby", "Lookin' For a Kiss", "Who Are...
- 10/10/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
There are two arguments that always erupt every year when the nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum are announced: Did this year's nominees deserve to be tapped and why the hell aren't these bands on the list!?
It's the latter that typically makes the most waves, as die-hard fans of such bands as Kiss, Rush, Journey, Chicago and the Moody Blues fire up their laptops and send out hot tweets of death to the powers-that-be over their favorite acts being passed over … again!
Some groups, like greasepaint rockers Kiss, have been overlooked for so long that not only do they not care anymore, they've come to see their exclusion as a badge of honor and have actively campaigned against induction. Other long-time shut outs, such as the Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath (class of 2006), felt the same way until they were ushered in.
Read on...
It's the latter that typically makes the most waves, as die-hard fans of such bands as Kiss, Rush, Journey, Chicago and the Moody Blues fire up their laptops and send out hot tweets of death to the powers-that-be over their favorite acts being passed over … again!
Some groups, like greasepaint rockers Kiss, have been overlooked for so long that not only do they not care anymore, they've come to see their exclusion as a badge of honor and have actively campaigned against induction. Other long-time shut outs, such as the Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath (class of 2006), felt the same way until they were ushered in.
Read on...
- 9/27/2011
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
Former Velvet Revolver frontman and Stone Temple Pilots co-founder Scott Weiland is working on his third solo outing; during those recording sessions, he's had some spare time to pump out some covers, as well. "A Compilation Of Scott Weiland Cover Songs" is out starting today, digital only, through Live Nation and the singer's website. The 12-track set includes his takes on Nirvana, the Beatles, the Smiths, the Stone Roses, Radiohead, the New York Dolls, the Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, the Lemonheads the Flaming Lips and even two different David Bowie songs ("Fame" and "The Jean Genie"). The set is up for...
- 8/30/2011
- by Katie Hasty
- Hitfix
Music biopics are by and large formulaic, strained and unimaginative, despite sometimes featuring Oscar-winning performances (Jamie Foxx in Ray, Reese Witherspoon in Walk The Line). In fact, those two films I just mentioned perfectly illustrate my point: they have the exact same plot, despite centering on two equally great musicians who were wildly different from each other. The two competing films based on the short, brilliant life of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley have the potential to transcend those limits and approach the epic scale of Amadeus or the mad joy of creation found in the great Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould.
The Playlist brings us updates on both of these projects. Director Jake Scott‘s take on the singer’s life – using David Browne‘s book Dream Brothers: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley “as a resource” – stars Reeve Carney, star of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as Buckley,...
The Playlist brings us updates on both of these projects. Director Jake Scott‘s take on the singer’s life – using David Browne‘s book Dream Brothers: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley “as a resource” – stars Reeve Carney, star of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as Buckley,...
- 8/24/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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