Twenty years ago, the AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot unveiled Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a tribute record that recruited over three dozen artists in celebration of the Nigerian musician. Now, after two decades, the record has been made available on streaming for the first time.
Red Hot + Riot: A Tribute to Fela Kuti received an update for the streaming era on its newly released deluxe reissue, which features two hours of previously unreleased alternate versions and additional covers previously trimmed down to accommodate the format of a physical CD.
Red Hot + Riot: A Tribute to Fela Kuti received an update for the streaming era on its newly released deluxe reissue, which features two hours of previously unreleased alternate versions and additional covers previously trimmed down to accommodate the format of a physical CD.
- 12/1/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
In the early 1990s, Stuart Matthewman, the writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist known for his work in Sade, heard a remarkable demo: a ballad that stretched out over nearly seven minutes, making room for daredevil falsetto and a bass line as elegant as a spiral staircase, building to a description of a sexual liaison so ecstatic that it lasts for days and eventually brings police to the door.
“A guy from the record company said, ‘It’s from a new artist, would you meet him?'” Matthewman recalls. “I was like,...
“A guy from the record company said, ‘It’s from a new artist, would you meet him?'” Matthewman recalls. “I was like,...
- 4/1/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Sony Music has announced a six-lp vinyl set for Sade titled So Far, featuring remastered versions of all of the band’s studio albums to date: Diamond Life (1984), Promise (1985), Stronger Than Pride (1988), Love Deluxe (1992), Lovers Rock (2000) and Soldier Of Love (2010).
The vinyl set, which is now available for preorder here, is the first complete collection of Sade’s studio work ever released. Band members Sade, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman assisted in the albums’ remastering at Abbey Road Studios with engineer Miles Showell and the band’s long-time co-producer Mike Pela.
The vinyl set, which is now available for preorder here, is the first complete collection of Sade’s studio work ever released. Band members Sade, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale and Paul Spencer Denman assisted in the albums’ remastering at Abbey Road Studios with engineer Miles Showell and the band’s long-time co-producer Mike Pela.
- 9/2/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Melvin Ragin, known as “Wah Wah Watson” for the quivering, darting, wonderfully textured sounds he conjured from his guitar and wah wah pedal in countless sessions for stars of soul and funk, died on Wednesday. He was 67 years old.
“It’s with a heavy heart that we regret to announce the passing of my loving husband Wah Wah Watson today at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica,” the guitarist’s wife, Itsuko Aono, said in a statement. “He will be greatly missed, but music is eternal. Wherever he is,...
“It’s with a heavy heart that we regret to announce the passing of my loving husband Wah Wah Watson today at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica,” the guitarist’s wife, Itsuko Aono, said in a statement. “He will be greatly missed, but music is eternal. Wherever he is,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
In September 1998, Maxwell took the stage at the Lady of Soul Awards — an offshoot of the Soul Train Awards that celebrated the achievements of female artists — to perform “Matrimony: Maybe You,” the sly, funky second single from his Embrya album.
Dressed in a straw hat and flowy white, the singer mostly performs effortlessly, sauntering around the stage and never missing a note. He spins and shimmies, and during the second half of the song, joins a single back-up dancer in an amusing sequence of movements that’s heavy on hip-thrusting.
Dressed in a straw hat and flowy white, the singer mostly performs effortlessly, sauntering around the stage and never missing a note. He spins and shimmies, and during the second half of the song, joins a single back-up dancer in an amusing sequence of movements that’s heavy on hip-thrusting.
- 9/26/2018
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Iconic singer says she would have asked Hov to rap on Soldier of Love if she could do it again.
By Rebecca Thomas
Sade
Photo:
Beyoncé, Rihanna and Alicia Keys can each claim at least one, but Sade, an icon for the ages, is still pining for that Jay-z feature. The multiplatinum U.K. songstress says she has few regrets in a career that spans nearly three decades, beginning with her 1985 Diamond Life debut, but in a new interview, she cops to kicking herself over the cameo that wasn't."If I could turn back time? I would have asked Jay-z to rap on Soldier of Love in 2010," the singer said in a talk posted on Hov's website, LifeandTimes.com, on Tuesday. While it's unclear whether Sade was referring to the chart-toping LP or the single of the same name, it's obvious she felt the rap titan would have enhanced the throbbing,...
By Rebecca Thomas
Sade
Photo:
Beyoncé, Rihanna and Alicia Keys can each claim at least one, but Sade, an icon for the ages, is still pining for that Jay-z feature. The multiplatinum U.K. songstress says she has few regrets in a career that spans nearly three decades, beginning with her 1985 Diamond Life debut, but in a new interview, she cops to kicking herself over the cameo that wasn't."If I could turn back time? I would have asked Jay-z to rap on Soldier of Love in 2010," the singer said in a talk posted on Hov's website, LifeandTimes.com, on Tuesday. While it's unclear whether Sade was referring to the chart-toping LP or the single of the same name, it's obvious she felt the rap titan would have enhanced the throbbing,...
- 6/27/2012
- MTV Music News
Is she poised for a Maxwell-style career resurgence?
By Steven Roberts with Jem Aswad
Sade
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Sade will release her sixth album, Soldier of Love, on Tuesday. It's been 10 years since her last LP, Lovers Rock, and while this outing is not drastically different from her work in the past, that's by no means a bad thing. Her voice is still soaked in the raw emotions of love, whether it's newfound or lost, and accompanied by usually soft backing from bassist Paul Denman, guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman, and keyboardist Andrew Hale.
However, the album's title track and first single is anything but soft. Drums beat like a marching band headed toward the battlefield, as Sade sings about coping with a broken heart: "I'm at the borderline of my faith/ I'm at the hinterland of my devotion/ I'm in the frontline of this battle of mine, but I'm still alive.
By Steven Roberts with Jem Aswad
Sade
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
Sade will release her sixth album, Soldier of Love, on Tuesday. It's been 10 years since her last LP, Lovers Rock, and while this outing is not drastically different from her work in the past, that's by no means a bad thing. Her voice is still soaked in the raw emotions of love, whether it's newfound or lost, and accompanied by usually soft backing from bassist Paul Denman, guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman, and keyboardist Andrew Hale.
However, the album's title track and first single is anything but soft. Drums beat like a marching band headed toward the battlefield, as Sade sings about coping with a broken heart: "I'm at the borderline of my faith/ I'm at the hinterland of my devotion/ I'm in the frontline of this battle of mine, but I'm still alive.
- 2/5/2010
- MTV Music News
Here it is folks!
Soldier Of Love, the first single from Sade’s highly anticipated forthcoming new album of the same name.
The full album, as I previously reported, is set to make its worldwide debut on February 8th, 2010.
Sade co-produced the single Soldier Of Love with Mike Pela, which was written by Sade, along with longtime collaborators Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman.
Listen to it via the player below and share your thoughts below. Can’t say I’m immediately taken by it; it might have to grow on me. Can’t wait to hear the whole album though.
Good night!
(If the below player doesn’t work for you, Click Here instead):...
Soldier Of Love, the first single from Sade’s highly anticipated forthcoming new album of the same name.
The full album, as I previously reported, is set to make its worldwide debut on February 8th, 2010.
Sade co-produced the single Soldier Of Love with Mike Pela, which was written by Sade, along with longtime collaborators Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman and Paul Spencer Denman.
Listen to it via the player below and share your thoughts below. Can’t say I’m immediately taken by it; it might have to grow on me. Can’t wait to hear the whole album though.
Good night!
(If the below player doesn’t work for you, Click Here instead):...
- 12/8/2009
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Mill Valley Film Festival
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Departing from the dark, twisted sensibility of their feature Twin Falls Idaho, in which Mark and Michael Polish seemed to have channeled the Coen brothers and a dash of David Lynch, the duo's latest effort, The Astronaut Farmer, is goofy, wholesome and, well, sweet. Despite some droll humor and on-target political jabs delivered deadpan by a uniformly strong cast, Astronaut often is too corny for its own good; it could have used more of those zingy lines.
Shot in 33 days for $13 million, a markedly larger budget than they have worked with before, the Polishes do a lot with a little by Hollywood standards to make a polished, mainstream, thoroughly quirky family entertainment. (The brothers collaborated on the script; Michael Polish directed.) If marketed properly, it could be a solid boxoffice draw for families, especially those with small children. It will have a one-week run at the end of the year to qualify for Oscar consideration, and a wider theatrical release is scheduled for early next year.
An ambling pace bogs down this archetypal albeit predictable story about Charlie Farmer (played with sunny optimism by pitch-perfect Billy Bob Thornton), who is indeed a small-town farmer and a charming oddball. Against all odds and the laws of gravity, Charlie achieves his impossible dream: He launches into space in a homemade rocket he built in his barn.
Adults craving more challenging content will be out of luck, but even for those who don't wholly buy into the film's "if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing" ethos, there are many small pleasures to savor. Bruce Willis, looking heroic in a leather bomber jacket, makes a stylish appearance in a small role as Farmer's old buddy, a space shuttle commander.
Thornton, eminently watchable throughout, even while orbiting around Earth -- the CG effects are well done here -- gives a wry, warm performance as a beautiful loser, a disappointed former military pilot and would-be astronaut who dropped out of the space program before he got his space shot. The actor, with his gentle Southern twang, embodies the character's humanity, dogged determination and basic goodness without winking at the audience.
Virginia Madsen is radiant as the supportive, long-suffering wife of a dreamer who drives his family into debt and makes them the object of ridicule. It's a thankless role, but Madsen makes the most of it.
Veteran J.K. Simmons does his evil best as the heavy, the head of the FAA -- or the Dream Police, as one tabloid labels the agency -- who stands between Charlie and liftoff.
Cinematographer M. David Mullen does wonders with New Mexico's light and dazzling sunsets, evoking the romance and bleakness of the Southwest. As Elton John's Rocket Man plays under the final credits, the ubiquitous Jay Leno does a mock interview with Farmer. It's a graceful parting touch.
THE ASTRONAUT FARMER
Warner Bros. Pictures
Spring Creek Pictures/Polish Brothers Construction
Credits:
Director: Michael Polish
Screenwriters: Mark Polish & Michael Polish
Producers: Mark Polish, Paula Weinstein, Len Amato, Michael Polish
Executive producer: J. Geyer Kosinski
Director of photography: M. David Mullen
Production designer: Clark Hunter
Music: Stuart Matthewman
Costume designer: Danny Glicker
Editor: James Haygood
Cast:
Charles Farmer: Billy Bob Thornton
Audie: Virginia Madsen
Hal: Bruce Dern
Kevin Munchak: Tim Blake Nelson
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Departing from the dark, twisted sensibility of their feature Twin Falls Idaho, in which Mark and Michael Polish seemed to have channeled the Coen brothers and a dash of David Lynch, the duo's latest effort, The Astronaut Farmer, is goofy, wholesome and, well, sweet. Despite some droll humor and on-target political jabs delivered deadpan by a uniformly strong cast, Astronaut often is too corny for its own good; it could have used more of those zingy lines.
Shot in 33 days for $13 million, a markedly larger budget than they have worked with before, the Polishes do a lot with a little by Hollywood standards to make a polished, mainstream, thoroughly quirky family entertainment. (The brothers collaborated on the script; Michael Polish directed.) If marketed properly, it could be a solid boxoffice draw for families, especially those with small children. It will have a one-week run at the end of the year to qualify for Oscar consideration, and a wider theatrical release is scheduled for early next year.
An ambling pace bogs down this archetypal albeit predictable story about Charlie Farmer (played with sunny optimism by pitch-perfect Billy Bob Thornton), who is indeed a small-town farmer and a charming oddball. Against all odds and the laws of gravity, Charlie achieves his impossible dream: He launches into space in a homemade rocket he built in his barn.
Adults craving more challenging content will be out of luck, but even for those who don't wholly buy into the film's "if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing" ethos, there are many small pleasures to savor. Bruce Willis, looking heroic in a leather bomber jacket, makes a stylish appearance in a small role as Farmer's old buddy, a space shuttle commander.
Thornton, eminently watchable throughout, even while orbiting around Earth -- the CG effects are well done here -- gives a wry, warm performance as a beautiful loser, a disappointed former military pilot and would-be astronaut who dropped out of the space program before he got his space shot. The actor, with his gentle Southern twang, embodies the character's humanity, dogged determination and basic goodness without winking at the audience.
Virginia Madsen is radiant as the supportive, long-suffering wife of a dreamer who drives his family into debt and makes them the object of ridicule. It's a thankless role, but Madsen makes the most of it.
Veteran J.K. Simmons does his evil best as the heavy, the head of the FAA -- or the Dream Police, as one tabloid labels the agency -- who stands between Charlie and liftoff.
Cinematographer M. David Mullen does wonders with New Mexico's light and dazzling sunsets, evoking the romance and bleakness of the Southwest. As Elton John's Rocket Man plays under the final credits, the ubiquitous Jay Leno does a mock interview with Farmer. It's a graceful parting touch.
THE ASTRONAUT FARMER
Warner Bros. Pictures
Spring Creek Pictures/Polish Brothers Construction
Credits:
Director: Michael Polish
Screenwriters: Mark Polish & Michael Polish
Producers: Mark Polish, Paula Weinstein, Len Amato, Michael Polish
Executive producer: J. Geyer Kosinski
Director of photography: M. David Mullen
Production designer: Clark Hunter
Music: Stuart Matthewman
Costume designer: Danny Glicker
Editor: James Haygood
Cast:
Charles Farmer: Billy Bob Thornton
Audie: Virginia Madsen
Hal: Bruce Dern
Kevin Munchak: Tim Blake Nelson
Running time -- 109 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 10/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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