Joan Baez has kept a relatively low public profile since wrapping up her Fare Thee Well tour in 2019, performing only on special occasions. One of those took place Monday night at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall, where she topped a bill that included Maggie Rogers, Laurie Anderson, Maya Hawke, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Tenzin Choegyal, and the Scorchio Quartet.
Her mini set kicked off with Steve Earle’s “God Is God,” which she recorded on her 2008 LP Day After Tomorrow. She then brought out...
Her mini set kicked off with Steve Earle’s “God Is God,” which she recorded on her 2008 LP Day After Tomorrow. She then brought out...
- 2/27/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Even early in his career, Bob Dylan had many admirers, including The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones. The guitarist idolized Dylan and was happy to spend a night out with the musician and his friends. Unfortunately, Dylan greeted Jones with coarse cruelty that left him in tears. This was how Dylan behaved around many of the people who admired him.
Brian Jones and Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Brian Jones looked up to Bob Dylan
Jones admired Dylan, and the two musicians settled into a friendship. According to the documentary Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones, Jones used to call Dylan every day.
“Yeah for a period of time he did because they were really good mates,” filmmaker Nick Reynolds told Express. “They used to drop a lot of acid together.”
Brian Jones | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Reynolds believed the two musicians were similar, so they understood each other.
Brian Jones and Bob Dylan | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Brian Jones looked up to Bob Dylan
Jones admired Dylan, and the two musicians settled into a friendship. According to the documentary Rolling Stone: Life and Death of Brian Jones, Jones used to call Dylan every day.
“Yeah for a period of time he did because they were really good mates,” filmmaker Nick Reynolds told Express. “They used to drop a lot of acid together.”
Brian Jones | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Reynolds believed the two musicians were similar, so they understood each other.
- 3/5/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
In the 1960s, Bob Dylan was spending time with The Rolling Stones when he said something that infuriated Keith Richards. Dylan, like the Stones, was reaching new levels of success, and those who knew him said he didn’t handle fame well. Typically, people worried about disagreeing with Dylan, but Richards and his bandmate Brian Jones didn’t have this problem.
Keith Richards and Bob Dylan | Fin Costello/Redferns The ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ singer insulted The Rolling Stones
In 1966, Dylan hired Tom Keylock, a chauffeur who worked extensively with The Rolling Stones, to accompany him on tour. While in London, Dylan met the band at a popular nightclub.
“Dolly’s Club was like a meeting place for a lot of musicians at the time,” Keylock said in an interview. “That was the first time I remember the Stones meeting up with Bob Dylan. I was, in fact, minding Dylan on this tour,...
Keith Richards and Bob Dylan | Fin Costello/Redferns The ‘Tangled Up in Blue’ singer insulted The Rolling Stones
In 1966, Dylan hired Tom Keylock, a chauffeur who worked extensively with The Rolling Stones, to accompany him on tour. While in London, Dylan met the band at a popular nightclub.
“Dolly’s Club was like a meeting place for a lot of musicians at the time,” Keylock said in an interview. “That was the first time I remember the Stones meeting up with Bob Dylan. I was, in fact, minding Dylan on this tour,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Bob Dylan first arrived in New York, friends found him pleasant, if a bit odd, but their opinion of him shifted when he got “mean.” According to his friends, the change in Dylan occurred when he became famous. While Dylan came across as condescending, the personality shift likely had something to do with his discomfort with his success. Dylan was never at ease with his fame, which made him lash out.
Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Bob Dylan could be mean and condescending to his friends
When Dylan first moved to New York, many of the people he met were already established musicians. When he found fame, he started criticizing their careers. He called The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones talentless, told folk singer Phil Ochs that he wasn’t a musician, and patronizingly told Dave Van Ronk to give up the blues in order to make money.
Bob...
Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Bob Dylan could be mean and condescending to his friends
When Dylan first moved to New York, many of the people he met were already established musicians. When he found fame, he started criticizing their careers. He called The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones talentless, told folk singer Phil Ochs that he wasn’t a musician, and patronizingly told Dave Van Ronk to give up the blues in order to make money.
Bob...
- 2/27/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan has been a successful and widely praised musician for decades, and a friend said this meant he was sometimes cruel. He explained that even in the nascent days of Dylan’s music career, he was used to people celebrating him. Because people were afraid to contradict or stand up to Dylan, his behavior verged on viciousness.
Bob Dylan | Val Wilmer/Redferns Bob Dylan’s road manager said he could be cruel
Even the people Dylan was closest to said he could be unpleasant to be around. His tour manager, Victor Maymudes, worked with Dylan for years. Over the decades, he said he had to put up with a lot.
“Bob would torture me; on occasion he was very hard on me,” Maymudes wrote in the book Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and Off the Tracks. “I drove him over to visit his...
Bob Dylan | Val Wilmer/Redferns Bob Dylan’s road manager said he could be cruel
Even the people Dylan was closest to said he could be unpleasant to be around. His tour manager, Victor Maymudes, worked with Dylan for years. Over the decades, he said he had to put up with a lot.
“Bob would torture me; on occasion he was very hard on me,” Maymudes wrote in the book Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History on the Road and Off the Tracks. “I drove him over to visit his...
- 2/4/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Danny Kalb, who led the downtown blues scene in New York during the 1960s and 1970s as a guitarist with his band the Blues Project, died Saturday at a nursing home in Brooklyn where he lived. He was 80. His death was confirmed by his brother, Jonathan.
The Blues Project was never a big name nationally, but worked steadily in various incarnations into the 21st century. Its mix of blue standards was augmented by folk, pop, soul and jazz along the way.
Kalb lent his vocals to the blues songs, and his groups were respected by musicians on the scene for their penchant to experiment with new forms.
Daniel Ira Kalb was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He attended the University of Wisconsin and met Bob Dylan, who was passing through on his way to New York.
“Dylan crashed with me for a few weeks...
The Blues Project was never a big name nationally, but worked steadily in various incarnations into the 21st century. Its mix of blue standards was augmented by folk, pop, soul and jazz along the way.
Kalb lent his vocals to the blues songs, and his groups were respected by musicians on the scene for their penchant to experiment with new forms.
Daniel Ira Kalb was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y. He attended the University of Wisconsin and met Bob Dylan, who was passing through on his way to New York.
“Dylan crashed with me for a few weeks...
- 11/20/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
To some, last week’s news that Micky Dolenz had filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice to obtain the complete FBI file on the Monkees was a surprise: The Monkees, subversive?
But as it turns out, the made-for-tv Monkees were just one of many pop artists who’ve been the subject of FBI surveillance, monitoring, or some degree of investigation since the Fifties. When it came to entertainers, “the FBI generally opened files for very specific reasons,” says Aaron Leonard, author of the forthcoming Whole World in an Uproar: Music,...
But as it turns out, the made-for-tv Monkees were just one of many pop artists who’ve been the subject of FBI surveillance, monitoring, or some degree of investigation since the Fifties. When it came to entertainers, “the FBI generally opened files for very specific reasons,” says Aaron Leonard, author of the forthcoming Whole World in an Uproar: Music,...
- 9/7/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Patrick Sky, a member of the Sixties Greenwich Village folk scene that launched Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, died on May 26th in Asheville, North Carolina. Sky had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, but according to his wife, folklorist and musician Cathy Larson Sky, Sky succumbed to prostate cancer and bone cancer. He was 80.
“Pat is one of the best story-tellers I know,” his friend and neighbor Van Ronk wrote in the liner notes to Sky’s 1965 self-titled debut album. “This is probably why he’s such a great singer.
“Pat is one of the best story-tellers I know,” his friend and neighbor Van Ronk wrote in the liner notes to Sky’s 1965 self-titled debut album. “This is probably why he’s such a great singer.
- 5/30/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Producer and cable scion Edward Walson is launching news and debate app Erupt, aimed at the 18-34 year old demo.
The “nonpartisan” news and debate streaming site will run 24/7 and will be led by former ABC News/GMA producer Bryan Keinz.
Film and Broadway producer Walson is known for a string of Woody Allen movies including Blue Jasmine, Café Society, Magic In The Moonlight and Irrational Man, and stage shows such as Bullets Over Broadway and Pretty Woman: The Musical. A few years back he stepped in to help John Travolta pic Gotti reach the screen. The Sunriser Productions chief is also president and owner of New Jersey-based cable company Service Electric Broadband Cable TV, and the son of cable pioneer John Walson Sr.
The genesis of Erupt was sparked by Walson’s desire to give young people in the 18-34 demo a platform for debate and an alternative...
The “nonpartisan” news and debate streaming site will run 24/7 and will be led by former ABC News/GMA producer Bryan Keinz.
Film and Broadway producer Walson is known for a string of Woody Allen movies including Blue Jasmine, Café Society, Magic In The Moonlight and Irrational Man, and stage shows such as Bullets Over Broadway and Pretty Woman: The Musical. A few years back he stepped in to help John Travolta pic Gotti reach the screen. The Sunriser Productions chief is also president and owner of New Jersey-based cable company Service Electric Broadband Cable TV, and the son of cable pioneer John Walson Sr.
The genesis of Erupt was sparked by Walson’s desire to give young people in the 18-34 demo a platform for debate and an alternative...
- 5/20/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
About a week after he watched footage of George Floyd’s death, seasoned Chicago bluesman Dave Specter did something he’d never done before — he wrote a topical song. “It was such a strange time,” he recalls. “Things were in a very dark place. The music business was shut down, and it was hard to get inspired. But I was struck by that video and I was reading about George Floyd, and I started writing about it. It was all-new territory for me.”
Within weeks, Specter had finished a blues...
Within weeks, Specter had finished a blues...
- 4/9/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Anne Feeney, the influential folk musician and labor activist whose “Have You Been to Jail for Justice” has served as an anthem for activists worldwide, died of Covid-19 on Wednesday. She was 69.
Her daughter, Amy Sue Berlin, confirmed the news on Wednesday night. “It is with a very heavy heart that we must announce the passing of our courageous, brilliant, beautiful mother, Anne Feeney,” Berlin wrote on Facebook. “We were very lucky that she fought hard enough to open up her eyes, and give us a couple days to be...
Her daughter, Amy Sue Berlin, confirmed the news on Wednesday night. “It is with a very heavy heart that we must announce the passing of our courageous, brilliant, beautiful mother, Anne Feeney,” Berlin wrote on Facebook. “We were very lucky that she fought hard enough to open up her eyes, and give us a couple days to be...
- 2/5/2021
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
In the Seventies — or any other decade, in fact — it would have been hard to imagine less-likely duet partners than Bob Dylan and Bette Midler. In the fall of 1975, Dylan was newly invigorated, coming off Blood on the Tracks, and Midler was the midst of her first flush of pop fame, which had begun with her 1973 hit “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” From their voices to their personas, they didn’t just seem to exist on separate planets but in different galaxies.
But in January 1976, 45 years ago this month, they joined...
But in January 1976, 45 years ago this month, they joined...
- 1/8/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” Bob Dylan intoned on his song “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” influencing a group of young mad bombers to blow against the wind. The group at the center of Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 didn’t blow up bathrooms in federal investigative agencies; they protested bombings, and all other forms of violence, when they stood against authority at the Democratic National Convention in 1968.
The Youth International Party, or Yippies, was non-violent, even if one of the co-founders, Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the movie), wrote his first radical tract, Fuck the System, under the pseudonym George Metesky, a mad bomber from the 1940s. The other, Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong on screen), blew bubbles while dressed as George Washington at his Huac hearing.
Rubin would go on to beat bongos as part of John Lennon...
The Youth International Party, or Yippies, was non-violent, even if one of the co-founders, Abbie Hoffman (played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the movie), wrote his first radical tract, Fuck the System, under the pseudonym George Metesky, a mad bomber from the 1940s. The other, Jerry Rubin (Jeremy Strong on screen), blew bubbles while dressed as George Washington at his Huac hearing.
Rubin would go on to beat bongos as part of John Lennon...
- 10/18/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
They don’t make ’em like Jac Holzman anymore. Maybe they never did.
While music executives are keen to brand their firms “technology companies” these days, Holzman, 89, is already several laps ahead. After co-founding Elektra Records in his dorm room in 1950 then bringing the label into Kinney National (now Warner Music Group) in a $10 million deal in 1970 — and signing and developing acts including The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, and The Stooges on the way — Holzman began spearheading Warner’s experiments in the tech world.
He helped launch both...
While music executives are keen to brand their firms “technology companies” these days, Holzman, 89, is already several laps ahead. After co-founding Elektra Records in his dorm room in 1950 then bringing the label into Kinney National (now Warner Music Group) in a $10 million deal in 1970 — and signing and developing acts including The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, and The Stooges on the way — Holzman began spearheading Warner’s experiments in the tech world.
He helped launch both...
- 10/12/2020
- by Tim Ingham
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan’s music has always attracted an unusually high number of cover artists, both because he’s such a brilliantly original songwriter and because something about the way he performs his songs makes other people think they can do better. This has happened since the beginning of his career, when Peter, Paul, and Mary hit pay dirt by making “Blowin’ in the Wind” sound a little sweeter, and it’s still going on today: The first song on this playlist comes from a new Dylan covers album whose other...
- 9/25/2020
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
The day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Brian Wilson and Mike Love met up and, in a half hour, wrote “The Warmth of the Sun,” triggered by the events of that day. But as Bob Dylan’s new epic “Murder Most Foul” shows, that Beach Boys song was the first, but far from the last, pop song recounting, or ruminating on, Kennedy’s death on November 22nd, 1963.
Across decades, artists, and genres, Kennedy’s murder has brought out an array of reactions, reflections and indignation in the pop world – sometimes...
Across decades, artists, and genres, Kennedy’s murder has brought out an array of reactions, reflections and indignation in the pop world – sometimes...
- 3/27/2020
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Davos, Switzerland — I ran into a global icon outside Davos yesterday. I recognized him by his trademark orange mop of hair and yellow jumpsuit. He stood not too far from blond men with skis slung on their shoulders heading toward a train station decorated with graffiti reading “Eat the Rich.” Other men and women surrounded him in varying degrees of greasepaint. Perhaps sensing a change in the political climate, he turned against his own people.
“My name is Ronald McDonald,” said the man. “I was working for McDonald’s, but because...
“My name is Ronald McDonald,” said the man. “I was working for McDonald’s, but because...
- 1/22/2020
- by Stephen Rodrick
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Jul 22, 2019
Paul Krassner got tips from Lenny Bruce, tripped with Groucho, and turned political activism into a Marx Brothers movie.
Journalist, satirist, standup comedian, and author Paul Krassner, who was one of the architects of the '60s protest movement, died Sunday at his home in Desert Hot Springs, California, according to his daughter, Holly Krassner Dawson, who confirmed the news to the Associated Press. No further details of Krassner’s death have been revealed. The founder of the Youth International Party, best known as the Yippies, had recently transitioned to hospice care after an undisclosed illness. Krassner was 87.
Krassner was born in Brooklyn on April 9, 1932. A child violin prodigy, in 1939 he became the youngest person ever to play Carnegie Hall. He was six years old.
He went on to ride the bus with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and became intimately acquainted with some of the...
Paul Krassner got tips from Lenny Bruce, tripped with Groucho, and turned political activism into a Marx Brothers movie.
Journalist, satirist, standup comedian, and author Paul Krassner, who was one of the architects of the '60s protest movement, died Sunday at his home in Desert Hot Springs, California, according to his daughter, Holly Krassner Dawson, who confirmed the news to the Associated Press. No further details of Krassner’s death have been revealed. The founder of the Youth International Party, best known as the Yippies, had recently transitioned to hospice care after an undisclosed illness. Krassner was 87.
Krassner was born in Brooklyn on April 9, 1932. A child violin prodigy, in 1939 he became the youngest person ever to play Carnegie Hall. He was six years old.
He went on to ride the bus with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and became intimately acquainted with some of the...
- 7/22/2019
- Den of Geek
Morrissey has always worn his influences on his black-on-the-outside sleeves. For as much as he crowed about the New York Dolls and the Cramps in his youth, his music both with and without the Smiths has reflected more erudite lyricists with an overall lighter musical touch. For California Son, the Pope of Mope has picked 12 lilting tales of injustice and unrequited love by some of his favorite artists and re-orchestrated them for his voice, improving some and turning others into head scratchers.
The best here are the ones with adventurous arrangements.
The best here are the ones with adventurous arrangements.
- 5/24/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
As Martin Scorsese’s Netflix documentary about Bob Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue approaches, one of the members of that traveling troupe, J. Steven Soles, writes about his memories of how the idea of a communal tour gradually took shape.
In the spring of 1975, my new managers at Lookout Management were putting me out on the road as as an opening act on the club circuit. Back in New York, where I was opening for Hot Tuna, club owner Mickey Ruskin’s new place beckoned down Fifth Avenue. Hoping to catch up with old friends, I’d settled in at the bar when Bobby Neuwirth came bouncing in with T Bone Burnett and Larry Poons, artist extraordinaire. We had a few drinks and headed to the Other End to meet up with owner Paul Colby, the great folk singer Phil Ochs (for whom Arthur Gorson and I had helped produce...
In the spring of 1975, my new managers at Lookout Management were putting me out on the road as as an opening act on the club circuit. Back in New York, where I was opening for Hot Tuna, club owner Mickey Ruskin’s new place beckoned down Fifth Avenue. Hoping to catch up with old friends, I’d settled in at the bar when Bobby Neuwirth came bouncing in with T Bone Burnett and Larry Poons, artist extraordinaire. We had a few drinks and headed to the Other End to meet up with owner Paul Colby, the great folk singer Phil Ochs (for whom Arthur Gorson and I had helped produce...
- 4/12/2019
- by J. Steven Soles
- Variety Film + TV
Morrissey, who will release an album of classic 1960s and ’70s covers on May 24, has booked his first Broadway engagement May 2-11 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
The announcement of the gig describes it as an “intimate yet exciting exploration of Morrissey’s expansive career.” On the upcoming album, California Son, the pop singer and former Smiths frontman delivers versions of Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick and Bob Dylan as well as lesser-known artists like Jobraith and Phil Ochs. Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste and Young the Giant’s Sameer Gadhia appear on the album as collaborators.
Last year, Morrissey released a well-received cover of the Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang.”
Although the Broadway stand will be a first for Morrissey, Broadway is no stranger to pop and rock concerts. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts played the very theater Morrissey will visit way way back...
The announcement of the gig describes it as an “intimate yet exciting exploration of Morrissey’s expansive career.” On the upcoming album, California Son, the pop singer and former Smiths frontman delivers versions of Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick and Bob Dylan as well as lesser-known artists like Jobraith and Phil Ochs. Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste and Young the Giant’s Sameer Gadhia appear on the album as collaborators.
Last year, Morrissey released a well-received cover of the Pretenders’ “Back on the Chain Gang.”
Although the Broadway stand will be a first for Morrissey, Broadway is no stranger to pop and rock concerts. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts played the very theater Morrissey will visit way way back...
- 3/4/2019
- by Dade Hayes and Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Morrissey unveiled a fittingly dramatic rendition of Roy Orbison’s 1964 track, “It’s Over.” The song will appear on the musician’s upcoming covers album, California Son, out May 24th.
Morrissey’s arrangement is fairly faithful to the original, blending orchestral elements with marching drums and dreamy guitars, though he still injects the track with his own distinct style of grandeur while guest singer LP lends the track an operatic edge. Most striking is Morrissey’s vocal performance, his baritone quivering in that quintessential Orbison way as he sings, “But oh what will you do,...
Morrissey’s arrangement is fairly faithful to the original, blending orchestral elements with marching drums and dreamy guitars, though he still injects the track with his own distinct style of grandeur while guest singer LP lends the track an operatic edge. Most striking is Morrissey’s vocal performance, his baritone quivering in that quintessential Orbison way as he sings, “But oh what will you do,...
- 2/26/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Clydie King, whose earthy, gospel-rooted voice was heard on dozens of rock classics, including the Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama,” died on Monday at 75. Her friend Rudy Calvo confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately available.
Along with Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields and Shirley Matthews, King was one of the most in-demand backup and session singers of her time. “I don’t remember all the people who I sung for,” she said in a 1971 interview in...
Along with Merry Clayton, Venetta Fields and Shirley Matthews, King was one of the most in-demand backup and session singers of her time. “I don’t remember all the people who I sung for,” she said in a 1971 interview in...
- 1/10/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Sokol Apr 25, 2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will hit select theaters and Netflix on June 12.
Martin Scorsese knows music. His movies have some of the best soundtracks in film, he pointed cameras at Elvis Presley, documented The Band's final concert with the film The Last Waltz, done documentaries on The Rolling Stones and even co-produced the short-lived HBO record industry series Vinyl. His new Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, will shed light on a legendary tour.
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year," Netflix said in a statement. "Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.”
Rolling Thunder Revue:...
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese will hit select theaters and Netflix on June 12.
Martin Scorsese knows music. His movies have some of the best soundtracks in film, he pointed cameras at Elvis Presley, documented The Band's final concert with the film The Last Waltz, done documentaries on The Rolling Stones and even co-produced the short-lived HBO record industry series Vinyl. His new Netflix documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, will shed light on a legendary tour.
“Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year," Netflix said in a statement. "Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, Rolling Thunder is a one of a kind experience, from master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.”
Rolling Thunder Revue:...
- 1/10/2019
- Den of Geek
For years, rumors have circulated among Bob Dylan fans that a documentary about his legendary, star-studded “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour of 1975-76 was in the works, and occasional whispers had a name attached: Martin Scorsese. Now, the cat can come officially out of the bag. Variety has exclusively learned that Netflix plans to release the movie in 2019, with the director’s name actually in the title: “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.”
The tightly-under-wraps project is said not to be quite as much of a straightforward documentary as Scorsese’s previous Dylan film, 2005’s “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” which zeroed in on Dylan’s crucial 1965-66 “going electric” period. “There’s a reason the word ‘story’ appears in the title,” said a source, hinting that the director may be playing with the form more in this particular film.
Upon further inquiry, Netflix provided Variety with...
The tightly-under-wraps project is said not to be quite as much of a straightforward documentary as Scorsese’s previous Dylan film, 2005’s “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” which zeroed in on Dylan’s crucial 1965-66 “going electric” period. “There’s a reason the word ‘story’ appears in the title,” said a source, hinting that the director may be playing with the form more in this particular film.
Upon further inquiry, Netflix provided Variety with...
- 1/10/2019
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Krassner is an author and journalist who also served as the editor and publisher of The Realist magazine, which published such works as the “Disneyland Memorial Orgy” poster and “The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book.” A prominent figure in the 1960s counterculture scene, he is a founding member of the Yippies and one of the members of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. “Zapped by the God of Absurdity: The Best of Paul Krassner” will be published in 2019 by Fantagraphics.
The current FBI has swung a pendulum from 50 years ago, when the FBI was an enemy of progressive activists. An agent’s poison-pen memo attempted to smear Tom Hayden with the worst possible label they could invoke with fliers: Yep, an FBI informer. Others distributed a caricature depicting Black Panther leader Huey Newton “as a homosexual,” and ran a fake “Pick the Fag” contest, referring to...
The current FBI has swung a pendulum from 50 years ago, when the FBI was an enemy of progressive activists. An agent’s poison-pen memo attempted to smear Tom Hayden with the worst possible label they could invoke with fliers: Yep, an FBI informer. Others distributed a caricature depicting Black Panther leader Huey Newton “as a homosexual,” and ran a fake “Pick the Fag” contest, referring to...
- 7/18/2018
- by Paul Krassner
- Variety Film + TV
Travis Wilkerson’s Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? was one of the must-sees on last year’s festival circuit, presented either as a straight-ahead documentary or through a “live cinema” environment wherein the writer-director presented his footage with an in-person voiceover. In whatever form it’s seen, many — from the Village Voice to the New York Times to Sight & Sound to Artforum to the New Yorker — spoke of it as a titanic experience, inciting chills for its exploration of personal history as a microcosm of national shame.
The theatrical version of Wilkerson’s project will be released next month by Grasshopper Film, and thus there is a trailer to mark the occasion. Overlaying the horrifying history with images of southern life and the ultimate image of decency, Atticus Finch, it gives some taste of the journey endured by its creator.
Watch below:
Formally audacious and emotionally powerful: a meditation on conscience and responsibility,...
The theatrical version of Wilkerson’s project will be released next month by Grasshopper Film, and thus there is a trailer to mark the occasion. Overlaying the horrifying history with images of southern life and the ultimate image of decency, Atticus Finch, it gives some taste of the journey endured by its creator.
Watch below:
Formally audacious and emotionally powerful: a meditation on conscience and responsibility,...
- 1/29/2018
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The Children of Rain - Red Corduroy (Bad Pressings)
This is a tale with two beginnings that merge revealingly. One is more than half a century old, the other only began at the start of the year. They meld on the account of a single name, or rather the mis-accounting of it, and the fact that it seemed beguiling to this writer on a late at night, nothing better to do trawl for "quality obscure" on auction sites. You are unlikely to have heard of The Children Of Rain. They released one single on Dot Records in 1966, but someone at the label sent the wrong credits to the pressing plant. Although they were the first to get their hands on "Get Together," their rendition tanked, not because it was in any way inferior to the later version by The Youngbloods which became a counter-culture anthem for that turbulent decade of hope and change,...
This is a tale with two beginnings that merge revealingly. One is more than half a century old, the other only began at the start of the year. They meld on the account of a single name, or rather the mis-accounting of it, and the fact that it seemed beguiling to this writer on a late at night, nothing better to do trawl for "quality obscure" on auction sites. You are unlikely to have heard of The Children Of Rain. They released one single on Dot Records in 1966, but someone at the label sent the wrong credits to the pressing plant. Although they were the first to get their hands on "Get Together," their rendition tanked, not because it was in any way inferior to the later version by The Youngbloods which became a counter-culture anthem for that turbulent decade of hope and change,...
- 9/12/2017
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
Celebrated folk singer Judy Collins (Judy Blue Eyes) has reunited with Crosby Stills and Nash legend and former beau, Steven Stills, to create a new album, Stills & Collins, Forbes reported. The ’60’s folk icons and fellow Rock and Roll Hall of Famers first met in 1967, during a high point in the young Collins’ career.
The two quickly fell into a tumultuous love affair that was immortalized in the Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s 1969 instantly recognized classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” off their first self-titled album. Despite ending their relationship, they have remained friends, and are set to release their first album together on Sept.
The two quickly fell into a tumultuous love affair that was immortalized in the Crosby, Stills & Nash‘s 1969 instantly recognized classic “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes,” off their first self-titled album. Despite ending their relationship, they have remained friends, and are set to release their first album together on Sept.
- 8/28/2017
- by Yvonne Juris
- PEOPLE.com
Get Out Universal Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: A Director: Jordan Peele Written by: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Catherine Keener, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Lil Rel Howery, Erika Alexander, Keith Stanfield Screened at: Regal E-Walk, NYC, Opens: February 24, 2017 Phil Ochs, a true leftie, satirized liberals as hypocrites […]
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- 2/22/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
By Hank Reineke
In a relatively infamous review, a film critic from the Atlanta Journal dismissively sniffed that Dont Look Back (that’s not a typo, there is, mysteriously, no apostrophe in the title) was little more than “the neighborhood’s biggest brat blowing his nose for ninety minutes.” This harsh sentiment was echoed by a critic from the Cleveland Plains Dealer who added the film was “certainly not for moviegoers who bathe and/or shave.” Time, of course, has proven such histrionic appraisals of this very significant film to be entirely wide of the mark. Most film scholars now regard Donn Allen (D.A.) Pennebaker’s gritty and grainy opus as the first true masterwork of rock music documentary filmmaking.
Though some of the earliest reviews were clearly nonplussed with Pennebaker’s maverick “direct cinema” style of filmmaking, most of the critical scorn was reserved for the movie’s principal figure,...
In a relatively infamous review, a film critic from the Atlanta Journal dismissively sniffed that Dont Look Back (that’s not a typo, there is, mysteriously, no apostrophe in the title) was little more than “the neighborhood’s biggest brat blowing his nose for ninety minutes.” This harsh sentiment was echoed by a critic from the Cleveland Plains Dealer who added the film was “certainly not for moviegoers who bathe and/or shave.” Time, of course, has proven such histrionic appraisals of this very significant film to be entirely wide of the mark. Most film scholars now regard Donn Allen (D.A.) Pennebaker’s gritty and grainy opus as the first true masterwork of rock music documentary filmmaking.
Though some of the earliest reviews were clearly nonplussed with Pennebaker’s maverick “direct cinema” style of filmmaking, most of the critical scorn was reserved for the movie’s principal figure,...
- 11/22/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
The mainstream drew me back in a little this year, though mostly by looking back several decades to the same things I love and incorporating them into music that doesn't especially sound like 2014.
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
I think of Silver Mt. Zion as the post-rock Pogues. They have the drunken singing and the scratchy fiddling and the punky energy, but in a sort of gritty yet sophisticated Godspeed! You Black Emperor musical context (and in fact founder/singer/guitarist Efrim Manuel Menuck used to be in Godspeed!). On their eighth album, the added intensity that appeared on their previous album is increased; this may be their best yet. My favorite track is "What We Loved Was Not Enough," where at first it seems like he's singing "The days come when we no longer fail," but then when...
1. Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra: Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light on Everything (Constellation)
I think of Silver Mt. Zion as the post-rock Pogues. They have the drunken singing and the scratchy fiddling and the punky energy, but in a sort of gritty yet sophisticated Godspeed! You Black Emperor musical context (and in fact founder/singer/guitarist Efrim Manuel Menuck used to be in Godspeed!). On their eighth album, the added intensity that appeared on their previous album is increased; this may be their best yet. My favorite track is "What We Loved Was Not Enough," where at first it seems like he's singing "The days come when we no longer fail," but then when...
- 1/4/2015
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
The Coen brothers' beguiling new film about a struggling folk singer is propelled by a rarely discussed dilemma – when do artists cut their losses and abandon their careers?
• Interview: The dark side of Carey Mulligan
• The Coen brothers on losers, likability and Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers' exquisitely sad and funny new comedy is set in a world of music that somehow combines childlike innocence with an aged and exhausted acceptance of the world. It is a beguilingly studied period piece from America's early-60s Greenwich Village folk scene. Every frame looks like a classic album cover, or at the very least a great inner gatefold – these are screen images that look as if they should have lyrics and sleeve notes superimposed. This film was notably passed over for Oscar nominations. Perhaps there's something in its unfashionable melancholy that didn't hook the attention of Academy award voters. But it is...
• Interview: The dark side of Carey Mulligan
• The Coen brothers on losers, likability and Llewyn Davis
The Coen brothers' exquisitely sad and funny new comedy is set in a world of music that somehow combines childlike innocence with an aged and exhausted acceptance of the world. It is a beguilingly studied period piece from America's early-60s Greenwich Village folk scene. Every frame looks like a classic album cover, or at the very least a great inner gatefold – these are screen images that look as if they should have lyrics and sleeve notes superimposed. This film was notably passed over for Oscar nominations. Perhaps there's something in its unfashionable melancholy that didn't hook the attention of Academy award voters. But it is...
- 1/24/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Take another look @ a restricted 'red-band' trailer, plus all the other clips of footage and featurettes released to date from the new movie "Inside Llewyn Davis", directed by Joel and Ethan Coen ("True Grit").
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis,...
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis,...
- 1/5/2014
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
★★★★★
The Coen brothers return to the London Film Festival this year with the barnstorming Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), a picaresque odyssey following the close-calls and mishaps of an also-ran folk songster within the New York Greenwich Village scene. It's the early sixties, well before Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Peter, Paul and Mary, and folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac, who also recorded his own tracks for the film) is waiting for his big break. It's winter in New York and his adventures are both comically trivial - he loses a friend's cat - and potentially dramatic - as he's just got his friend's wife, Jean (Carey Mulligan), pregnant.
Staring at the big success-shaped hole called failure, Llewyn snatches at the opportunity of a trip to Chicago where he may be able to persuade some big-time impresario to back him after the loss of the other half of his duo. Davis...
The Coen brothers return to the London Film Festival this year with the barnstorming Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), a picaresque odyssey following the close-calls and mishaps of an also-ran folk songster within the New York Greenwich Village scene. It's the early sixties, well before Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Peter, Paul and Mary, and folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac, who also recorded his own tracks for the film) is waiting for his big break. It's winter in New York and his adventures are both comically trivial - he loses a friend's cat - and potentially dramatic - as he's just got his friend's wife, Jean (Carey Mulligan), pregnant.
Staring at the big success-shaped hole called failure, Llewyn snatches at the opportunity of a trip to Chicago where he may be able to persuade some big-time impresario to back him after the loss of the other half of his duo. Davis...
- 10/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Joel and Ethan Coen have never made a movie that didn’t have at least a few big bubbles of perversity percolating through it. That said, one of the ways that I divide their work in my mind is that there are the Coen brothers films in which the perversity stays, for the most part, just below the surface (Blood Simple, Fargo, A Serious Man), which tend to be the Coen brothers movies that I love best. And there are the ones in which perversity stands up and pokes you in the eye (Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother,...
- 5/18/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Sneak Peek a restricted 'red-band' trailer from "Inside Llewyn Davis", directed by Joel and Ethan Coen ("True Grit").
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek...
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek...
- 5/10/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
They got off to a shaky start in ’10, and the turn around commenced somewhere around the same time last year when they released The Woman in Black, and now, along with Dylan Kidd’s Get a Job and the Sundance smash Toy’s House, CBS Films are looking at a strong ’13 campaign as they beat off some stiff competition to grab the domestic distribution rights to the Coen Bros.’ highly anticipated Inside Llewyn Davis. Deadline reports that they got the title for under $5 million – the biggie question now is what will be Studio Canal’s festival strategy and does this receive a summer or awards-friendly fall release?
Gist: Based on the life of musician Dave van Ronk (played by Oscar Isaac) and van Ronk’s memoir, “The Mayor of MacDougal Street” this is about a singer-songwriter navigates New York’s folk music scene (Greenwich Village) during the 1960s.
Worth Noting:...
Gist: Based on the life of musician Dave van Ronk (played by Oscar Isaac) and van Ronk’s memoir, “The Mayor of MacDougal Street” this is about a singer-songwriter navigates New York’s folk music scene (Greenwich Village) during the 1960s.
Worth Noting:...
- 2/19/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Director Robert Altman.
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Alex Simon
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what...
Robert Altman: Eclectic Maverick
By
Alex Simon
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the April 1999 issue of Venice Magazine.
It's the Fall of 1977 and I'm a bored and rebellious ten year old in search of a new movie to occupy my underworked and creativity-starved brain, feeling far too mature for previous favorites Wily Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) and Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and wanting something more up-to-date and edgy than Chaplin's City Lights (1931). I needed a movie to call my favorite that would be symbolic of my own new-found manhood (and something that would really piss off my parents and teachers). Mom and Dad were going out for the evening, leaving me with whatever unfortunate baby-sitter happened to need the $10 badly enough to play mother hen to an obnoxiously precocious only child like myself. I scanned the TV Guide for what...
- 2/15/2013
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Hot on the heels of the Inside Llewyn Davis trailer that accompanied private screening announcement, we’ve got some more details on the Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film thanks to The New York Times.
The film, reportedly follows just about two weeks’ time in the life of our titular singer-songwriter character Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who sings full performances alongside Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake.
The film, which Joel Coen describes as being about ‘how good you are doesn’t always matter,’ also stars John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Adam Driver.
The story goes to locations ‘like Gerde’s, the Gaslight Café and the Gate of Horn in Chicago without explicitly portraying real artists or folk music powers like the impresario Albert Grossman.’
It has even been confirmed that the flick loosely based on Dave van Ronk, an influential folk musician who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan,...
The film, reportedly follows just about two weeks’ time in the life of our titular singer-songwriter character Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), who sings full performances alongside Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake.
The film, which Joel Coen describes as being about ‘how good you are doesn’t always matter,’ also stars John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, F. Murray Abraham and Adam Driver.
The story goes to locations ‘like Gerde’s, the Gaslight Café and the Gate of Horn in Chicago without explicitly portraying real artists or folk music powers like the impresario Albert Grossman.’
It has even been confirmed that the flick loosely based on Dave van Ronk, an influential folk musician who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan,...
- 1/28/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Fresh off a surprise private screening announcement and the excellent trailer that accompanied it, the Coen Brothers' latest, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” has splashed back onto our radars in a massive way. Set to capture the '60s Greenwich Village folk music scene in stunning visuals and the duo's signature dialogue, the aim is to stop right there regarding well-worn attributes, and now a few new images and quotes from Joel Coen are here to show us how. Diverting away from the intricate crime plots attached to “Fargo” or “Burn After Reading,” the Coens instead chart about two weeks' time in the titular folk singer's life, portrayed by Oscar Isaac and loosely based on Dave van Ronk, an influential folk musician who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell. “He's trying to get some traction in his career and in his life,” Joel Coen explained recently to the New York Times,...
- 1/28/2013
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Sneak Peek the first trailer for "Inside Llewyn Davis", directed by Joel and Ethan Coen ("True Grit").
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Inside Llewyn Davis...
The new drama adapts "...the music, politics and spirit of a revolutionary period in American culture", based on the novel "The Mayor of MacDougal Street" by author Dave Van Ronk.
Cast includes Oscar Issac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Justin Timberlake, Garret Hedlund and F. Murray Abraham :
"...'Dave Van Ronk', one of the founding figures of the 1960's folk revival, was far more than that. A pioneer of modern acoustic blues, a songwriter, arranger and singer, he became one of the most influential guitarists of that era.
"'This is a first-hand account by a major player including encounters with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs and Joni Mitchell, as well as older luminaries including Reverend Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt and Odetta..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Inside Llewyn Davis...
- 1/28/2013
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Put everything on hold: the first trailer for the Coen Brothers' hugely anticipated "Inside Llewyn Davis" has wormed its way online, and it's pretty damn great. So let's jump right in... Perhaps the biggest thing to note here is how both visually and tonally, this is unlike anything the directorial siblings have done in their career, for the most part. Almost looking like a faded photograph, the camerawork by Bruno Delbonnel ("Across The Universe," "Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince") is pretty remarkable, really lending an authentic, lived-in vibe to the Greenwich Village scene of the '60s that the Coens are trying to evoke (regular cinematographer Roger Deakins was unavailable as he was shooting "Skyfall"). But standing out tall are the performances. Loosely based on the life of Dave van Ronk, an influential folk musician who inspired people like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and...
- 1/24/2013
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Yes, I have too much time on my hands. Here's a new feature that was fun to put together (though quite time-consuming, which makes me worry about my ability to do this every month). I look back at rock, pop, and R&B albums that came out five years ago, ten years ago, etc.
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
1967
Buffalo Springfield: Again (Atco)
There was much chaos surrounding the creation of this quintet 's second album. Bassist Bruce Palmer, in some ways the soul of the band, was unavailable due to a drug charge deportation, and a string of session players took his place. Stephen Stills, who saw himself as the leader of the group, was feuding with Neil Young, who considered himself an equal, and Young actually quit -- but returned. And that's without getting into the fiasco that was the band's management team.
Nonetheless, it was a quantum leap forward from their debut,...
- 10/30/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
As my friend Pam Grossman put it, "Yes, universe, I know. I know too well that time passes and we are all going to die, sooner or hopefully later. I also know that cancer sucks. You do not need to drive these points home by killing off musicians I love every other day." This was prompted by the passing of Robin Gibb just after we lost Donna Summer and several other greats. Meanwhile, my friend Davie Kaufman, the biggest Flying Burrito Brothers fan I know, was disappointed that I hadn't yet marked the passing of Chris Ethridge, an original member of the Burritos, also taken from us by cancer.
Chris Ethridge was born in Mississippi in 1947 and moved to California when he was 17. In 1967 he joined Gram Parsons in the International Submarine Band in time to play bass on the group's only LP, Safe at Home. Though its release was delayed,...
Chris Ethridge was born in Mississippi in 1947 and moved to California when he was 17. In 1967 he joined Gram Parsons in the International Submarine Band in time to play bass on the group's only LP, Safe at Home. Though its release was delayed,...
- 5/21/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Alex Simon
"Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind's movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department's greatest hits--on me. "Get off that man, you fat, greasy, racist, redneck pig bitch muthafucka!" My tired eyes snap open; the cracks, thuds, "oofs!" come in all too clear. Damn. No dream. Another dawn, another beating on B-Block, another shackled inmate at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon prison pummeled into the concrete by a squadron of guards." -Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days & Nightmares"
Stephen Vittoria is that rare commodity in Hollywood today: a filmmaker with a conscience. To be more precise, a filmmaker with a strong political conscience. After making two feature films, Black and White (aka Lou, Pat & Joe D., 1987) and Hollywood Boulevard (1996), as well as...
By Alex Simon
"Wrapped in the sweet, false escape of dreams, I hear the unmistakable sounds of meat being beaten by blackjack, of bootfalls, yells, curses; and it merges into the mind's movie-making machine, evoking distant memories of some of the Philadelphia Police Department's greatest hits--on me. "Get off that man, you fat, greasy, racist, redneck pig bitch muthafucka!" My tired eyes snap open; the cracks, thuds, "oofs!" come in all too clear. Damn. No dream. Another dawn, another beating on B-Block, another shackled inmate at Pennsylvania's Huntingdon prison pummeled into the concrete by a squadron of guards." -Mumia Abu-Jamal "B-Block Days & Nightmares"
Stephen Vittoria is that rare commodity in Hollywood today: a filmmaker with a conscience. To be more precise, a filmmaker with a strong political conscience. After making two feature films, Black and White (aka Lou, Pat & Joe D., 1987) and Hollywood Boulevard (1996), as well as...
- 3/11/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Last year was bittersweet for fans of the Coen Brothers. While it was the first time in four years the prolific duo didn't have a film released, it was announced that they'd be returning to the music world in 2012 for their next feature "Inside Llewyn Davis" which would focus on the '60's Greenwich Village scene that included names like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell among others.
Lensing on the picture has only recently began but a host of set photos have already been appearing online over the last week or so providing our first glimpses at leading man Oscar Isaac, who reportedly plays a surrogate of folk singer Dave van Ronk, along with a bearded Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan, who respectively play the married pair of Jim (a rival musician) and Jean.
Exact plot details are still under wraps but a recent profile...
Lensing on the picture has only recently began but a host of set photos have already been appearing online over the last week or so providing our first glimpses at leading man Oscar Isaac, who reportedly plays a surrogate of folk singer Dave van Ronk, along with a bearded Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan, who respectively play the married pair of Jim (a rival musician) and Jean.
Exact plot details are still under wraps but a recent profile...
- 2/24/2012
- by Simon Dang
- The Playlist
Last year was bittersweet for fans of the Coen Brothers. While it was the first time in four years the prolific duo didn't have a film released, it was announced that they'd be returning to the music world in 2012 for their next feature "Inside Llewyn Davis" which would focus on the '60's Greenwich Village scene that included names like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell among others. Lensing on the picture has only recently began but a host of set photos have already been appearing online over the last week or so providing our first glimpses at leading man Oscar Isaac, who reportedly plays a surrogate of folk singer Dave van Ronk, along with a bearded Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan, who respectively play the married pair of Jim (a rival musician) and Jean. Exact plot details are still under wraps but a recent profile...
- 2/24/2012
- by Simon Dang
- Indiewire
Well, now that he's got some free time on his hands since "Akira" is on hold for the foreseeable future, Garrett Hedlund is gonna sing for his supper. It looks like the Coen Brothers watched "Country Strong," as they are impressed enough by the actor's singing voice to cast him in their '60s folk music scene flick, "Inside Llewyn Davis." Trading a mindless remake for a Coen Brothers movie? Not bad. Plot details are under wraps, but what we do know is that the film is loosely based on the life of Dave van Ronk, an American folk singer who presided over the ‘60s Greenwich Village scene, that included people you might have heard of like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell. And in keeping with the secrecy, there is no word on the role he'll play. Hedlund showed himself to have a decent voice...
- 1/10/2012
- The Playlist
Carey Mulligan is on route to star in the Coen brothers' folk drama, Inside Llewyn Davis and an untitled feature directed by Spike Jonze.
For Coen’s folk-music drama, Mulligan will play the female lead alongside Oscar Isaac, who is set to play a struggling musician trying to break New York’s music scene.
Though plot details are scarce at the moment, the film will be loosely based on the life of Dave van Ronk, an American folk singer from the Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s - a movement which spawned artists such as, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell.
After commencing shooting in February, the British actress will then start working with Jonze and Joaquin Phoenix on an untitled satire, about a group of global leaders who meet to discuss cataclysmic world issues.
Mulligan can next be seen in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby alongside Leonardo DiCaprio,...
For Coen’s folk-music drama, Mulligan will play the female lead alongside Oscar Isaac, who is set to play a struggling musician trying to break New York’s music scene.
Though plot details are scarce at the moment, the film will be loosely based on the life of Dave van Ronk, an American folk singer from the Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s - a movement which spawned artists such as, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Joni Mitchell.
After commencing shooting in February, the British actress will then start working with Jonze and Joaquin Phoenix on an untitled satire, about a group of global leaders who meet to discuss cataclysmic world issues.
Mulligan can next be seen in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby alongside Leonardo DiCaprio,...
- 10/21/2011
- by zayyaf.saleem@lovefilm.com (Zayyaf Saleem)
- LOVEFiLM
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