One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.
The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.
The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...
The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.
The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...
- 10/4/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Film News
One of the best concert films of all time, The Band’s The Last Waltz directed by Martin Scorsese, is returning to theaters in celebration of its 45th anniversary. It will be back on the big screen for one day only on November 5th.
The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.
The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...
The theatrical return will feature a never-before-seen introduction from the late Robbie Robertson “providing a quick look into the genesis and impact” of the film chronicling The Band’s farewell concert. Showtimes for its return are 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. local time. Purchase your tickets via Fathom Events.
The Band’s November 25th, 1976 concert at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Ringo Starr, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Paul Butterfield, Dr. John, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, Eric Clapton, and Van Morrison. First released in April 1978, the film splices interviews with each...
- 10/4/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
The life of Robbie Robertson — who died Wednesday morning after a long illness — can neatly be divided into everything that happened before The Last Waltz and everything that happened afterward. The 1976 all-star concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom marked the end of his career with the Band, the end of his years as a touring musician, and the start of life as an elder statesman of rock.
He went out by throwing one of the biggest concerts in rock history featuring Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Neil Diamond,...
He went out by throwing one of the biggest concerts in rock history featuring Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Neil Diamond,...
- 8/9/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Keith Richards has spent much of his career insulting his fellow musicians. He rolls his eyes at competing acts and has even turned his scorn on his bandmates in The Rolling Stones. Richards found many things to criticize, including, in one instance, a band sounding too perfect. He shared why he didn’t like Bob Dylan’s backing group, The Band.
Keith Richards thought fellow musicians The Band sounded too clean
In the 1960s, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Dylan were some of the biggest musical acts in the world. Richards liked Dylan and The Beatles, but he thought Dylan’s backing band, The Band, left something to be desired.
“I saw them at the Dylan gig on the Isle of Wight and I was disappointed,” he told Rolling Stone in 1969. “Dylan was beautiful, especially when he did the songs by himself. He has a unique rhythm which only...
Keith Richards thought fellow musicians The Band sounded too clean
In the 1960s, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Dylan were some of the biggest musical acts in the world. Richards liked Dylan and The Beatles, but he thought Dylan’s backing band, The Band, left something to be desired.
“I saw them at the Dylan gig on the Isle of Wight and I was disappointed,” he told Rolling Stone in 1969. “Dylan was beautiful, especially when he did the songs by himself. He has a unique rhythm which only...
- 7/22/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh, and was aboard the famous Festival Express, during which the Band, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and others rode a train around Canada, playing concerts along the way.
But those days were just the beginning of Taplin’s unique journey.
But those days were just the beginning of Taplin’s unique journey.
- 4/20/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Alice Cooper was making his way across Germany last week, headlining a tour that also featured Cheap Trick, when he learned that the country was prohibiting gatherings of more than 1,000 people due to coronavirus worries. The tour was canceled, and he and his crew immediately had to navigate their way back home, after the U.S. cut off travel to and from Europe. Everyone eventually flew to the States. Cooper postponed his upcoming North American dates, and now he’s shifting his attention to the things he can do at home.
- 3/18/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
A new edition of The Complete Monterey Pop Festival should be regarded as a milestone event for the Criterion Collection. It marks the first occasion that a high-def (1080p) transfer of a film that Criterion holds the rights to distribute has been voluntarily retired and replaced with an even better (4K) upgrade. While there are probably more than a few other similar situations where older Criterion Blu-rays scanned in at 1080 have had subsequent 2K or 4K transfers done in recent years, the company’s general reluctance to re-issue those titles makes plenty of sense in today’s home video market. However, this particular enhancement of Monterey Pop, available as either a standalone film or as part of a more comprehensive package that includes two short films shot at the festival featuring Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, is easily justified by both the merits of the film itself, and the occasion...
- 12/13/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
Criterion lavishes a major upgrade to its older box set celebrating the first major rock concert event, the ‘California Dreamin’ idyll that some say marked the beginning of the Summer of Love. Get ready to hear and see some history-making performances from Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Who. Plus two more features and a bundle of ‘extra’ music sets . . . including Tiny Tim.
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 167
1968 / Color / 1:33 flat / 79 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 12, 2017 / 69.95
Cinematography: James Desmond, Barry Feinstein, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D.A. Pennebaker
Film Editor: Nina Schulman
Original Music: The Animals, The Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Byrds, Canned Heat, Country Joe and the Fish, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Al Kooper, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Otis Redding, The Quicksilver Messenger Service,...
- 12/9/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
It's time to break out those dancing shoes!
Goldie Hawn and Derek Hough were among the celebs on hand for the grand opening of Just Dance Los Angeles on Oct. 11. The duo posed with Dancing With the Stars alum Julz Tocker on the red carpet, and other famous faces in attendance included another DWTS pro, Sharna Burgess, as well as Haley Reinhart, Lady Victoria Hervey, Big Time Rush's James Maslow and Alfonso Ribiero.
Photo: Getty Images
Janet Jackson was also dancing in the aisles, but for a very different reason -- she spent a night off from her State of the World Tour by taking in a performance of Magic Mike Live at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Oct. 13.
Photo: Magic Mike Live Las Vegas
Pics: Rock Out With These Stars on Tour
Aaron Paul was also in Sin City that same night. He celebrated his grandmother’s 90th birthday with family, including his pregnant...
Goldie Hawn and Derek Hough were among the celebs on hand for the grand opening of Just Dance Los Angeles on Oct. 11. The duo posed with Dancing With the Stars alum Julz Tocker on the red carpet, and other famous faces in attendance included another DWTS pro, Sharna Burgess, as well as Haley Reinhart, Lady Victoria Hervey, Big Time Rush's James Maslow and Alfonso Ribiero.
Photo: Getty Images
Janet Jackson was also dancing in the aisles, but for a very different reason -- she spent a night off from her State of the World Tour by taking in a performance of Magic Mike Live at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Oct. 13.
Photo: Magic Mike Live Las Vegas
Pics: Rock Out With These Stars on Tour
Aaron Paul was also in Sin City that same night. He celebrated his grandmother’s 90th birthday with family, including his pregnant...
- 10/20/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Famed music documentarian Murray Lerner, who captured Bob Dylan going electric and Jimi Hendrix's legendary Isle of Wight performance, died Saturday from kidney failure, Variety reports. He was 90.
Lerner's son, Noah, said the filmmaker died at his home in Long Island City, New York after falling ill about three months ago. "He was a complete filmmaker," Noah Lerner said. "A cinematographer first and foremost, but someone who also wrote, edited, produced and directed."
Along with Dylan and Hendrix, Lerner's myriad subjects included the Who, Miles Davis, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Leonard Cohen.
Lerner's son, Noah, said the filmmaker died at his home in Long Island City, New York after falling ill about three months ago. "He was a complete filmmaker," Noah Lerner said. "A cinematographer first and foremost, but someone who also wrote, edited, produced and directed."
Along with Dylan and Hendrix, Lerner's myriad subjects included the Who, Miles Davis, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Leonard Cohen.
- 9/5/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Showcasing the Best in Independent and World Cinema
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
Thursday, October 5–15, 2017Acclaimed Festival Films From Around the World And New Offerings from Bay Area Filmmakers Highlight First Slate of Films Announced at 40th Mill Valley Film Festival
The Mill Valley Film Festival (Mvff), presented by the California Film Institute, has announced the first set of films to premiere at the 40th edition of the Festival, returning to Marin County October 5–15, 2017. The Festival will present the Bay Area premiere of many acclaimed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Additionally, Mvff will launch many acclaimed Bay Area filmmakers’ latest films as part of the Festival’s effort to showcase the many established and emerging filmmakers in the Bay Area.
Early Confirmed films from the 2017 Cannes Film Festival at MVFF40:
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or Winner and Swedish Oscar Submission The Square...
- 9/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
We thought all the great vintage music documentaries were accounted for, but Murray Lerner’s look at the Newport Folk Festival in the mid-‘sixties is a terrific time machine to a kindler, gentler musical era. The mix of talent is broad and deep, and we get to see excellent vintage coverage of some real legends, before the hype & marketing plague arrived.
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
Festival: Folk Music at Newport, 1963-1966
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 892
1967 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 97 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date September 12, 2017 / 39.95
Starring: Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Odetta, Ronnie Gilbert, Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Theodore Bikel, Cousin Emmy, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Mimi Fariña, Richard Farina, Mrs. Ollie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, John Koerner, Jim Kweskin, Tex Logan, Mel Lyman, Spokes Mashiyane, Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee, Pappy Clayton McMichen,...
- 8/29/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Haskell Wexler, the director of the cult classic Medium Cool and one of Hollywood's most revered cinematographers, passed away Sunday at the age of 93. The director of photographer's son Jeff Wexler confirmed his father's death, writing on his official website, "It is with great sadness that I have to report that my father, Haskell Wexler, has died. Pop died peacefully in his sleep, Sunday, December 27th, 2015. Accepting the Academy Award in 1967, Pop said: 'I hope we can use our art for peace and for love.' An amazing life has...
- 12/27/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The punk trio Green Day, poet of the New York underground Lou Reed and "Lean on Me" singer Bill Withers will lead a new class of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. The hall announced Tuesday that it will also welcome Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, who famously sang about loving rock 'n' roll, and make Ringo Starr the fourth ex-Beatle enshrined as an individual. Besides Reed, the class includes other posthumous inductees Paul Butterfield and Stevie Ray Vaughan. The 30th annual induction ceremony will be held at Cleveland's Public Hall on April 18. Public tickets go on sale Thursday.
- 12/16/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled the 16 nominees up for possible induction this year.
The Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Kiss, Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens,Hall and Oates, N.W.A., Yes, LL Cool J, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, the Replacements, Link Wray and the Zombies are all on the list to be voted on by the Rock Hall's 600 members.
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The Meters, Linda Ronstadt, Kiss, Nirvana, Peter Gabriel, Cat Stevens,Hall and Oates, N.W.A., Yes, LL Cool J, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, the Replacements, Link Wray and the Zombies are all on the list to be voted on by the Rock Hall's 600 members.
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- 10/16/2013
- by Robyn Ross
- TVGuide - Breaking News
LL Cool J is quite visible as an actor these days, but he hasn't forgotten music ... and music clearly hasn't forgotten him.
Just after marking the 100th episode of his CBS series "NCIS: Los Angeles," the actor-rapper was named Wednesday (Oct. 16) as a candidate for 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Votes are being tallied through Dec. 10, and fans can join music professionals in casting theirs at several sites including www.rockhall.com/vote.
"I really love music and being involved in it," LL Cool J tells Zap2it. "I get to work with a lot of different people, like on the record we put together and released recently ('Authentic'). It has a lot of interesting collaborations, and a lot of that came about just from me working at the Grammys. I have everyone from Seal and Bootsy Collins to Snoop (Dogg) and Earth, Wind & Fire."
The...
Just after marking the 100th episode of his CBS series "NCIS: Los Angeles," the actor-rapper was named Wednesday (Oct. 16) as a candidate for 2014 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Votes are being tallied through Dec. 10, and fans can join music professionals in casting theirs at several sites including www.rockhall.com/vote.
"I really love music and being involved in it," LL Cool J tells Zap2it. "I get to work with a lot of different people, like on the record we put together and released recently ('Authentic'). It has a lot of interesting collaborations, and a lot of that came about just from me working at the Grammys. I have everyone from Seal and Bootsy Collins to Snoop (Dogg) and Earth, Wind & Fire."
The...
- 10/16/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Nirvana and Nwa are among the nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it was announced Wednesday. And how old do you feel right now? Plenty of other artists are nominated as well, including Kiss, Chic, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates; the recently reunited Replacements, the Meters, and Linda Ronstadt. Then there’s the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, Cat Stevens, Link Wray, Yes and the Zombies. Also read: Kevin Hart Hopes Ice Cube Is Not the Death of Him in ‘Ride Along’ Trailer (Video) But let’s focus on Nirvana and Nwa.
- 10/16/2013
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Grunge, old-school rap and pyro-infused '70s rock are well represented in the latest list of nominations for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nirvana, Kiss, N.W.A. and solo artists Peter Gabriel, LL Cool J, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens are among the 16 nominees for 2014, Cleveland's Rock Hall announced Wednesday. They are joined as nominees by Hall and Oates, the Replacements, Deep Purple, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Link Wray, the Meters, Chic, Yes and the Zombies. Grunge rock kings Nirvana made it onto the ballot in their first year of eligibility. Nominees for the rock honor...
- 10/16/2013
- by Andrea Billups
- PEOPLE.com
Fans of Hall & Oates and Kiss can rejoice. The acts have both been nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s class of 2014. Seen as two of the Rock Hall’s biggest omissions, Kiss was previously nominated in 2010 but not elected, while this is the first time Hall & Oates has received an invite to the big show. They join Linda Ronstadt, Peter Gabriel, Nirvana, Cat Stevens, Yes, LL Cool J, The Replacements, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Deep Purple, N.W.A., the Meters, Link Wray and the Zombies. Nirvana is the closest thing to a sure...
- 10/16/2013
- Hitfix
Grunge rock band Nirvana is the only first-time eligible artist on the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominations list. Others include Chic, Deep Purple, Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, LL Cool J, Kiss, The Meters, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens, Link Wray, Yes, and The Zombies. The top vote-getters will be inducted next April in a ceremony to air later on HBO. Rolling Stone. Tina Fey believes hosting the Golden Globes is much easier than the Oscars, which she would never emcee. "I think that's too hard. Too many dresses to try on." Fey and Amy Poehler were announced this week as the Golden Globe hosts for the next two years. L.A. Times. "Two and a Half Men" stars Ashton Kutcher ($24 million) and Jon Cryer ($21 million) top the annual list of TV's highest paid actors. Others in the fop five are Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond...
- 10/16/2013
- Gold Derby
July 11
8:00 p.m.
Buttercup Park
4901 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
As part of Chicago Filmmakers’ Summer Fun! series of movies for the whole family to be enjoyed in the great outdoors, Born in Chicago chronicles the rise of the “blues-rock explosion” when a bunch of eager white teenagers sought to learn the blues from the masters themselves. This upbeat, inspirational documentary is directed by John Anderson and will screen outdoors at Buttercup Park.
Here’s the official description, then watch the documentary trailer below:
Born In Chicago is the untold history of the Chicago blues evolution of the early sixties. Featuring the stories of of white middle-class aspiring musicians who cut their teeth in the city’s tough blues neighborhoods, were taken under the wing of the Chicago greats, and went on to spark the “blues-rock explosion.” Featuring blues masters Marshall Chess, Elvin Bishop, Michael Bloomfield,...
8:00 p.m.
Buttercup Park
4901 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
As part of Chicago Filmmakers’ Summer Fun! series of movies for the whole family to be enjoyed in the great outdoors, Born in Chicago chronicles the rise of the “blues-rock explosion” when a bunch of eager white teenagers sought to learn the blues from the masters themselves. This upbeat, inspirational documentary is directed by John Anderson and will screen outdoors at Buttercup Park.
Here’s the official description, then watch the documentary trailer below:
Born In Chicago is the untold history of the Chicago blues evolution of the early sixties. Featuring the stories of of white middle-class aspiring musicians who cut their teeth in the city’s tough blues neighborhoods, were taken under the wing of the Chicago greats, and went on to spark the “blues-rock explosion.” Featuring blues masters Marshall Chess, Elvin Bishop, Michael Bloomfield,...
- 7/9/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
1963
Johnny Cash: Blood, Sweat and Tears (Columbia)
Some of Cash's '60s concept albums were burdened with much too talking between tracks; here the tribute to the American working man gets to mostly stand alone on its musical merits, and shines. Notably, it incluces the top version of the traditional "John Henry"” about the most legendarily heroic working man ever, and the version of "Casey Jones" here is classic as well. Politically and psychologically, Cash was the perfect man for this job.
1968
Byrds: Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)
Sometimes transitional albums, confusing listeners expecting a group's earlier style, are underrated. Not so with this classic. It's true that it didn't sell as well as earlier Byrds LPs, nor did the single from the album chart very high, but for decades Notorious Byrd Brothers has been widely revered, and not just by fans; some critics have even anointed it as the band's best album.
Johnny Cash: Blood, Sweat and Tears (Columbia)
Some of Cash's '60s concept albums were burdened with much too talking between tracks; here the tribute to the American working man gets to mostly stand alone on its musical merits, and shines. Notably, it incluces the top version of the traditional "John Henry"” about the most legendarily heroic working man ever, and the version of "Casey Jones" here is classic as well. Politically and psychologically, Cash was the perfect man for this job.
1968
Byrds: Notorious Byrd Brothers (Columbia)
Sometimes transitional albums, confusing listeners expecting a group's earlier style, are underrated. Not so with this classic. It's true that it didn't sell as well as earlier Byrds LPs, nor did the single from the album chart very high, but for decades Notorious Byrd Brothers has been widely revered, and not just by fans; some critics have even anointed it as the band's best album.
- 1/30/2013
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
December is a month that increasingly sees few releases of new albums, so the closer this list gets to the present day, the fewer albums of importance there are to discuss, and most of those are hip-hop albums.
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
1967
Traffic: Mr. Fantasy Aka Heaven Is in Your Mind (Island)
Shortly after Steve Winwood quit the Spencer Davis Group (of which he was the lead singer and organist), he formed Traffic with some guys he'd jammed with at a club in Birmingham: guitarist/vocalist Dave Mason, saxophonist/flutist Chris Wood, and drummer/lyricist Jim Capaldi. After a couple of hit singles, they convened at a country cottage and put together the debut album by Traffic, titled Mr. Fantasy in their native country. By the time it was released, Mason had already quit.
The English and American editions were rather different. Not only did the U.S. LP (on United Artists) have...
- 12/19/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
It's that time of year again. The 15 nominees for the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony have been announced, and there are a lot of surprising and exciting choices on the list.
Rush, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Procol Harum, N.W.A, Randy Newman, the Meters, Kraftwerk, Albert King, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marvelettes, Heart, Chic, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Deep Purple round out the performers selected. This is the first time Rush, Deep Purple, the Marvelettes, Albert King and Procol Harum have earned nominations.
For the first time ever, fans will get to cast their own vote for the Hall of Fame inductees. Interested participants should go here and vote on the five artists they think deserve to get in to the Hall of Fame, and the top five musicians chosen will have one "fan ballot" cast in their name. Voting ends on Dec.
Rush, Donna Summer, Public Enemy, Procol Harum, N.W.A, Randy Newman, the Meters, Kraftwerk, Albert King, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Marvelettes, Heart, Chic, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Deep Purple round out the performers selected. This is the first time Rush, Deep Purple, the Marvelettes, Albert King and Procol Harum have earned nominations.
For the first time ever, fans will get to cast their own vote for the Hall of Fame inductees. Interested participants should go here and vote on the five artists they think deserve to get in to the Hall of Fame, and the top five musicians chosen will have one "fan ballot" cast in their name. Voting ends on Dec.
- 10/4/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
For Rush, all those years living in the limelight will hopefully lead them to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Canadian power trio is just one of several artists who have been nominated for the Rock Hall's class of 2013. The other nominees include Deep Purple, N.W.A., Public Enemy, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Chic, Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Albert King, Kraftwerk, the Marvelettes, the Meters, Randy Newman, Procol Harum and the late Donna Summer. To be eligible for inclusion in the Rock Hall's 28th annual ceremony, all nominees must have released their first album or single at least 25 years ago. More than 600 artists, historians and members of the music industry will decide who...
- 10/4/2012
- E! Online
-- Rush, Deep Purple, Public Enemy and N.W.A. are among the group of first-time nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
They join returnees Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Randy Newman, Donna Summer and Kraftwerk among the 15 artists vying for entry.
Even in the iPod age, the list of nominees up for induction in 2013 is as eclectic as they come. Nominees differ wildly in sound, origin and influence, ranging from the enduring prog rock of Canadian trio Rush and Procul Harum to German proto-electronica act Kraftwerk, the disco of Chic and Summer to the New Orleans funk of The Meters and the blues of Albert King and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Motown also is represented by first-ballot entries The Mavelettes.
Joel Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, acknowledged the extreme variety of this year's nominee class in a Thursday news release.
They join returnees Heart, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Randy Newman, Donna Summer and Kraftwerk among the 15 artists vying for entry.
Even in the iPod age, the list of nominees up for induction in 2013 is as eclectic as they come. Nominees differ wildly in sound, origin and influence, ranging from the enduring prog rock of Canadian trio Rush and Procul Harum to German proto-electronica act Kraftwerk, the disco of Chic and Summer to the New Orleans funk of The Meters and the blues of Albert King and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Motown also is represented by first-ballot entries The Mavelettes.
Joel Peresman, President and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, acknowledged the extreme variety of this year's nominee class in a Thursday news release.
- 10/4/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
So this is what I know about Pixie Lott: easy-ish on the eye, she falls into that Sugababes, Saturdays genre of ‘girl pop’ that I avoid at all costs, and she released that ‘Mama Do’ track that drove me to the brink of despair a couple of summers ago. That’s my guitar music loving, chauvinistic view of Ms Lott thus far. Oh, and she was a terrible judge on The X Factor. Wait. I don’t watch The X Factor. I’m cool and ‘indie’. Shut up!
Anyway, with my mind opened as wide as a Craig Colton girdle, I approached Pixie’s sophomore release, ‘Young, Foolish, Happy’, and attempted not to be too damning to someone I might want to take on a date in the future. To The X Factor Live Tour. So here goes…
The album opens with Come Get It...
So this is what I know about Pixie Lott: easy-ish on the eye, she falls into that Sugababes, Saturdays genre of ‘girl pop’ that I avoid at all costs, and she released that ‘Mama Do’ track that drove me to the brink of despair a couple of summers ago. That’s my guitar music loving, chauvinistic view of Ms Lott thus far. Oh, and she was a terrible judge on The X Factor. Wait. I don’t watch The X Factor. I’m cool and ‘indie’. Shut up!
Anyway, with my mind opened as wide as a Craig Colton girdle, I approached Pixie’s sophomore release, ‘Young, Foolish, Happy’, and attempted not to be too damning to someone I might want to take on a date in the future. To The X Factor Live Tour. So here goes…
The album opens with Come Get It...
- 11/16/2011
- by Adam Berry
- Obsessed with Film
On Sunday (September 12), Eminem won a pair of Moonmen at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards but was not in the building to receive them. The chart-topping rapper had to cut out right after his thrilling show-opening performance so that he could fly back to New York in time for the next pair of Home and Home concerts with Jay-z. Monday night's (September 13) concert brought the pair to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, where they once again tore the house down with a cavalcade of hits and a parade of special guest stars. In addition to G-Unit, Drake and Dr. Dre (who appeared at the Detroit leg of this mini-tour), the pair also welcomed Beyoncé, Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj to the stage to perform with them.
After the first Detroit show went down, it reminded us of the classic 1978 Martin Scorsese concert documentary "The Last Waltz," which saw...
After the first Detroit show went down, it reminded us of the classic 1978 Martin Scorsese concert documentary "The Last Waltz," which saw...
- 9/14/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music, a comprehensive, Oscar-winning documentary of the biggest musical event the world has ever seen, makes its way onto Blu-ray glory with the Director’s Cut (1994) in a truly impressive presentation Warner Brothers has chosen to call The Ultimate Collector’s Edition. Lasting just 15 minutes shy of 4 hours, Woodstock features performances by musicians who left a lasting impression on the world scattered in between clips of the festival, its audience and its organizers.
The significance of Woodstock is hard to overplay; in an age of public turmoil, when rifts existed between countless subsets of American culture, Woodstock set everything aside for three days political expression through music. Some artists delivered mini-sermons before playing their set while others let their instruments do all the talking. There are those who insist Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” used guitar distortion to...
The significance of Woodstock is hard to overplay; in an age of public turmoil, when rifts existed between countless subsets of American culture, Woodstock set everything aside for three days political expression through music. Some artists delivered mini-sermons before playing their set while others let their instruments do all the talking. There are those who insist Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” used guitar distortion to...
- 6/13/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Enter IESB's contest to win some really cool prizes like Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music on DVD, a $50 iTunes gift card and a chance to win a Fender Guitar!
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DVD is in stores June 9th
See Woodstock as Never Before!
This Ultimate CollectorÂ.s Edition includes Newly Discovered Performances in their entirety and More than 3 hours of New Bonus Content. Plus, the 4-Hour Newly Re-mastered DirectorÂ.s Cut.
Featuring performances from AmericaÂ.s greatest artists:
Joan Baez | Paul Butterfield Blues Band | Canned Heat | Creedence Clearwater Revival | Joe Cocker & The Grease Band | Country Joe McDonald | Country Joe & The Fish | Crosby, Stills & Nash | Grateful Dead | Arlo Guthrie | Richie Havens | Jimi Hendrix | Jefferson Airplane | Janis Joplin | Mountain | Santanta | John Sebastian | Sha Na Na | Sly & The Read more...
- 6/10/2009
- by Stephanie Sanchez <stephanie@iesb.net>
- IESB.net
- Slim pickings this Tuesday (June 9th 2009) as there are only a trio of titles worth recommending. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut is a fully equipped edition (see details below) of the Michael Wadleigh documentary film, a great father's day present that curiously comes out before Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and not sometime in August when Woodstock took place. Film Movement offers Wang Xiaoshuai's 10th film as a director with In Love We Trust - a contemporary drama set in Beijing, involving two mid-aged couples. Adapted from a true story, the story of Zuo You is about the relationship crisis and emotional unrest of two couples, when the son of the divorced couple is found to have leukemia. In need of a bone marrow transplant, the only way to save the teenage boy is for the divorced couple to give birth to another baby, which will jeopardize current relationships.
- 6/9/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
With all due respect to "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes' imaginative and often dazzling meditation on the pop-culture mythology of Bob Dylan, there ain't nothing like the real thing.
In "The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965," documentarian Murray Lerner delivers the genuine article, on shimmering B&W film, in some of the most legendary performances of his early career. The film receives its West Coast premiere Thursday as part of the Mods & Rockers Festival at the American Cinematheque and will remain forever young on DVD, a must for any fan.
An indispensable chronicler of musicians including Isaac Stern, Miles Davis and the Who, Lerner has delved into his archives to craft a fascinating portrait of Dylan during key transitional years. The artist's blossoming from folkie treasure to self-defined rock 'n' roll visionary unfolds dramatically onscreen through his performances at three editions of the Newport Folk Festival.
Using outtakes from his 1967 Newport docu "Festival" (about 70% of the material has not been seen before), Lerner constructs a narrative devoid of narration, talking-head anecdotes, analyses or interpretations. The only adornment is onscreen titles announcing the respective year of each section. Eschewing slice-and-dice manipulation and with deceptive simplicity, Lerner and his team of editors orchestrate the material with poetic precision.
At his first Newport appearance, in 1963, a tentative 22-year-old Dylan faced the collegiate white crowd of 20,000 as a beloved disciple of Woody Guthrie, his repertoire including "North Country Blues" and "Talking World War III Blues". At evening performances and the fest's more casual afternoon workshops, he's introduced as an artist who "grew out of a need," his "finger on the pulse of our generation" -- the kinds of accolades that, we now know from recent interviews and his 2004 memoir, made Dylan squirm.
By the 1964 festival, Johnny Cash was singing Dylan's praises and his songs (his rendition of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" ends all too soon). More than that, Dylan's earnestness was balanced by a self-aware irony, in his attitude and his songs; he and Joan Baez all but crack up as they perform "It Ain't Me, Babe." Yet when he brings the house down with "Chimes of Freedom", and as Peter Yarrow struggles to introduce the next act, Dylan bounces back onstage with elfin delight to tell the roaring, rapturous crowd, "Thank you, I love you".
Building up to the legendary 1965 festival, when Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (sans Butterfield) introduced electric rock 'n' roll to the purist gathering, "The Other Side of the Mirror" illustrates the finer points of the Culture Clash. His hair now long, his face filled out, his work shirt traded in for a black leather jacket, Dylan faces a largely unchanged crowd. But however "Maggie's Farm" may have bruised and scandalized them, still they demanded an encore. What transpired wasn't a matter of pure animosity, as lore would have it.
Little Bobby Dylan was no longer theirs, but he was something greater. And in his acoustic afternoon performance that year of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit," his face held in closeup, framed by bulky foam-wrapped microphones and wind-tossed trees, Lerner has given us three of the most gorgeous minutes ever put to film.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
MLF Prods.
Credits:
Director-producer: Murray Lerner
Executive producer: Jeff Rosen
Main camera crew: Murray Lerner, Stanley Meredith, George Pickow, Francis Grumman
Editors: Alison Heim, Einar Westerlund, Pagan Harlemann, George Panos, Howard Alk
Main sound crew: Ben Sobin, Jack Jacobson, Art Bloom, Mike Scott, John Gibbs
With:
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Johnny Cash
Pete Seeger
The Freedom Singers
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mike Bloomfield
Al Kooper
Barry Goldberg
Jerome Arnold
Sam Lay
Running time -- 84 minutes
No MPAA rating...
In "The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965," documentarian Murray Lerner delivers the genuine article, on shimmering B&W film, in some of the most legendary performances of his early career. The film receives its West Coast premiere Thursday as part of the Mods & Rockers Festival at the American Cinematheque and will remain forever young on DVD, a must for any fan.
An indispensable chronicler of musicians including Isaac Stern, Miles Davis and the Who, Lerner has delved into his archives to craft a fascinating portrait of Dylan during key transitional years. The artist's blossoming from folkie treasure to self-defined rock 'n' roll visionary unfolds dramatically onscreen through his performances at three editions of the Newport Folk Festival.
Using outtakes from his 1967 Newport docu "Festival" (about 70% of the material has not been seen before), Lerner constructs a narrative devoid of narration, talking-head anecdotes, analyses or interpretations. The only adornment is onscreen titles announcing the respective year of each section. Eschewing slice-and-dice manipulation and with deceptive simplicity, Lerner and his team of editors orchestrate the material with poetic precision.
At his first Newport appearance, in 1963, a tentative 22-year-old Dylan faced the collegiate white crowd of 20,000 as a beloved disciple of Woody Guthrie, his repertoire including "North Country Blues" and "Talking World War III Blues". At evening performances and the fest's more casual afternoon workshops, he's introduced as an artist who "grew out of a need," his "finger on the pulse of our generation" -- the kinds of accolades that, we now know from recent interviews and his 2004 memoir, made Dylan squirm.
By the 1964 festival, Johnny Cash was singing Dylan's praises and his songs (his rendition of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" ends all too soon). More than that, Dylan's earnestness was balanced by a self-aware irony, in his attitude and his songs; he and Joan Baez all but crack up as they perform "It Ain't Me, Babe." Yet when he brings the house down with "Chimes of Freedom", and as Peter Yarrow struggles to introduce the next act, Dylan bounces back onstage with elfin delight to tell the roaring, rapturous crowd, "Thank you, I love you".
Building up to the legendary 1965 festival, when Dylan and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band (sans Butterfield) introduced electric rock 'n' roll to the purist gathering, "The Other Side of the Mirror" illustrates the finer points of the Culture Clash. His hair now long, his face filled out, his work shirt traded in for a black leather jacket, Dylan faces a largely unchanged crowd. But however "Maggie's Farm" may have bruised and scandalized them, still they demanded an encore. What transpired wasn't a matter of pure animosity, as lore would have it.
Little Bobby Dylan was no longer theirs, but he was something greater. And in his acoustic afternoon performance that year of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit," his face held in closeup, framed by bulky foam-wrapped microphones and wind-tossed trees, Lerner has given us three of the most gorgeous minutes ever put to film.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
MLF Prods.
Credits:
Director-producer: Murray Lerner
Executive producer: Jeff Rosen
Main camera crew: Murray Lerner, Stanley Meredith, George Pickow, Francis Grumman
Editors: Alison Heim, Einar Westerlund, Pagan Harlemann, George Panos, Howard Alk
Main sound crew: Ben Sobin, Jack Jacobson, Art Bloom, Mike Scott, John Gibbs
With:
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
Johnny Cash
Pete Seeger
The Freedom Singers
Peter, Paul and Mary
Mike Bloomfield
Al Kooper
Barry Goldberg
Jerome Arnold
Sam Lay
Running time -- 84 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/30/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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