Duane Eddy, the legendary guitarist who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, has passed away at the age of 86. He died of cancer on Tuesday (April 30th), surrounded by family members at Williamson Health hospital in Franklin, Tennessee.
Eddy is considered the most commercially successful instrumental musician in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, thanks in large part to his signature tunes like “Rebel-‘Rouser,” “Peter Gunn,” and “Because They’re Young.” By 1963, he had sold an estimated 12 million records.
The guitarist was known for his twangy sound and his collaborative work with producer Lee Hazlewood. His extensive album discography spanned from his 1958 debut, Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel, through 2011’s Road Trip.
John Fogerty once dubbed Eddy the “the first rock ‘n’ roll guitar god.” His 1987 album, Duane Eddy & The Rebels, truly showed his influence, as it featured guest appearances by Fogerty, George Harrison, Paul McCartney,...
Eddy is considered the most commercially successful instrumental musician in the history of rock ‘n’ roll, thanks in large part to his signature tunes like “Rebel-‘Rouser,” “Peter Gunn,” and “Because They’re Young.” By 1963, he had sold an estimated 12 million records.
The guitarist was known for his twangy sound and his collaborative work with producer Lee Hazlewood. His extensive album discography spanned from his 1958 debut, Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel, through 2011’s Road Trip.
John Fogerty once dubbed Eddy the “the first rock ‘n’ roll guitar god.” His 1987 album, Duane Eddy & The Rebels, truly showed his influence, as it featured guest appearances by Fogerty, George Harrison, Paul McCartney,...
- 5/1/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital in Franklin, Tn, his wife Deed Abbate told The Associated Press. He had turned 86 last week.
Eddy, who influenced generations of guitar legends including George Harrison, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler and The Ventures’ Don Wilson, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Born on April 26, 1938, in Corning, NY, Eddy began playing guitar at age 5. He moved at 13 with his family to Arizona, where he met local DJ Lee Hazlewood, and the two would share a long, fruitful association. Eddy first recorded with Jimmy Delbridge as Duane & Jimmy in 1955, and his debut single as a solo act to dent the charts came three years...
Eddy, who influenced generations of guitar legends including George Harrison, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler and The Ventures’ Don Wilson, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
Born on April 26, 1938, in Corning, NY, Eddy began playing guitar at age 5. He moved at 13 with his family to Arizona, where he met local DJ Lee Hazlewood, and the two would share a long, fruitful association. Eddy first recorded with Jimmy Delbridge as Duane & Jimmy in 1955, and his debut single as a solo act to dent the charts came three years...
- 5/1/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
As you might expect, news travels fast in a town of eleven people. As you also might expect, tensions can run high. Close quarters and all that. And when one of those eleven people (and his dog) go missing without a trace, finger-pointing is inevitable, especially when everyone seems to hate each other to begin with. Such is life in Last Stop Larrimah, a new HBO true crime documentary of rib-tickling misanthropy that plays like a Down Under take on a Coen Brothers fable.
Nestled into a barren patch of Australia’s Northern Territory,...
Nestled into a barren patch of Australia’s Northern Territory,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
While many covers of The Beatles‘ songs are bland regurgitations, Nancy Sinatra’s version of The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” is almost thought-provoking. Sinatra revealed she wanted her rendition of the tune to sound “girly.” Her cover was part of a larger trend on her debut album.
Nancy Sinatra covered The Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘Run for Your Life’ for her debut
The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” is a song where the Fab Four gleefully take down a girl for being a tease. It’s a bit on the misogynistic side, though it’s far from the most offensive song from The Beatles or their contemporaries. Sinatra covered “Day Tripper” and flipped the genders so she’s taking a man down. It’s a cheeky, empowering song that listeners might expect from the singer behind such hits as “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” and “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?”
During a 2013 interview with Vice,...
Nancy Sinatra covered The Beatles’ ‘Day Tripper’ and ‘Run for Your Life’ for her debut
The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” is a song where the Fab Four gleefully take down a girl for being a tease. It’s a bit on the misogynistic side, though it’s far from the most offensive song from The Beatles or their contemporaries. Sinatra covered “Day Tripper” and flipped the genders so she’s taking a man down. It’s a cheeky, empowering song that listeners might expect from the singer behind such hits as “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” and “How Does That Grab You, Darlin’?”
During a 2013 interview with Vice,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Songwriter Camela Leierth-Segura, best known for co-writing Katy Perry’s hit “Walking on Air,” has been reported missing after vanishing from Beverly Hills in late June.
Police were notified of the Swedish-born Leierth-Segura’s disappearance in early August, over a month after friends and family were unable to make contact with her. According to the Los Angeles Times, Leierth-Segura’s last text message was sent on June 29, and her Ford Fusion was last seen on police cameras leaving Beverly Hills the following afternoon, June 30.
The Beverly Hills Police Department conducted...
Police were notified of the Swedish-born Leierth-Segura’s disappearance in early August, over a month after friends and family were unable to make contact with her. According to the Los Angeles Times, Leierth-Segura’s last text message was sent on June 29, and her Ford Fusion was last seen on police cameras leaving Beverly Hills the following afternoon, June 30.
The Beverly Hills Police Department conducted...
- 8/17/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth are an odd coupling — he’s prone to loose, decadent, druggy overtures while she actually screams primally — and their differences become even more apparent on Utopian Ashes, a concept album of sorts that they made together about two lovers’ preamble to a divorce. And like any couple in disarray, the Venn diagram of their respective worlds seem only to intersect barely. When they do, it can be beautiful; when they don’t, it’s uncomfortable to be around, yet even then their...
- 7/2/2021
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie and Savages singer Jehnny Beth have announced their upcoming collaborative album Utopian Ashes.
Ahead of the LP’s release on Third Man Records on July 2nd, the duo has shared the first single “Remember We Were Lovers.” The track and the album are inspired by the country soul sound of Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris, George Jones, and Tammy Wynette and focus on the breakdown of a fictional couple’s marriage.
“In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,...
Ahead of the LP’s release on Third Man Records on July 2nd, the duo has shared the first single “Remember We Were Lovers.” The track and the album are inspired by the country soul sound of Gram Parsons with Emmylou Harris, George Jones, and Tammy Wynette and focus on the breakdown of a fictional couple’s marriage.
“In the same way you create characters for a novel, we’ve created characters here,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Nancy Sinatra wasn’t planning on revisiting her old hits. The singer, who ruled the Sixties with dark psychedelic-pop classics like “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” and “Bang Bang,” walked away from the music business in the Seventies to focus on raising her daughters and supporting progressive causes. She stopped touring in the early 2000s, though she’s recorded occasionally since. “I guess I didn’t have an agent, I didn’t have anybody promoting anything,” she says. “If you’re an artist who used to be famous, you...
- 1/15/2021
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Kendell Marvel has dropped a new cover version of “Houston,” originally penned by “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'” singer-songwriter Lee Hazlewood and later cut by Dean Martin. It’s the first new music that country singer Marvel has released since his album Solid Gold Sounds arrived in 2019.
Cut at Easy Eye Sound with Solid Gold Sounds producers Dan Auerbach and Dave Ferguson, Marvel’s version of “Houston” retains the breezy jangle of the original but adds some muscular rhythmic punch, woozy slide guitar, and Marvel’s warm vocals. Ferguson...
Cut at Easy Eye Sound with Solid Gold Sounds producers Dan Auerbach and Dave Ferguson, Marvel’s version of “Houston” retains the breezy jangle of the original but adds some muscular rhythmic punch, woozy slide guitar, and Marvel’s warm vocals. Ferguson...
- 7/2/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Sometimes a film contains a single scene that feels like its main reason for being. In Sonejuhi Sinha’s grimy-glamorous crime thriller feature debut “Stray Dolls,” it comes late on: Riz (Geetanjali Thapa), a newly arrived undocumented immigrant from India who is working as a maid in a dead-end motel, is in a phone booth at night talking to her mom back home. “Yes I’m fine,” she natters brightly in Nepali. “I’ve just been for a swim. There’s a pool. It’s shaped like a, like a…” she tries to remember the word, waving the gun in her blood-spattered hand around in a squiggle, “…kidney bean.” Needless to say, there is no pool, she is not fine and those are the very least of her lies.
As that image suggests, “Stray Dolls” is a genre picture with a twist, although the immigrant experience subtext is undernourished within...
As that image suggests, “Stray Dolls” is a genre picture with a twist, although the immigrant experience subtext is undernourished within...
- 4/10/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
‘Doctor Doctor’ colleagues Zoe Carides and Tina Bursill.
Zoe Carides has been a leading light on stage and screen for 35 years, has had her own Nancy Sinatra tribute band for six years and is often sought after for voice-overs.
All that has come to a screeching halt amid the pandemic crisis. “I really don’t know what I’ll do,” she tells If. “I’ve been lucky and I’m grateful for my career. Generally anything I do on stage these days is more substantial than what I do on screen.
“There is a possibility I can give a couple of classes via Zoom to a group of young performers in the Southern Highlands.”
Among her recent roles she played the corrupt mayor Nancy Miller in Easy Tiger/Nine Network Doctor Doctor, Doctor Carras in Playmaker Media/Stan’s The Commons and a therapist in Playmaker Media/Sony Pictures Television Networks’ psychological thriller Reckoning,...
Zoe Carides has been a leading light on stage and screen for 35 years, has had her own Nancy Sinatra tribute band for six years and is often sought after for voice-overs.
All that has come to a screeching halt amid the pandemic crisis. “I really don’t know what I’ll do,” she tells If. “I’ve been lucky and I’m grateful for my career. Generally anything I do on stage these days is more substantial than what I do on screen.
“There is a possibility I can give a couple of classes via Zoom to a group of young performers in the Southern Highlands.”
Among her recent roles she played the corrupt mayor Nancy Miller in Easy Tiger/Nine Network Doctor Doctor, Doctor Carras in Playmaker Media/Stan’s The Commons and a therapist in Playmaker Media/Sony Pictures Television Networks’ psychological thriller Reckoning,...
- 3/30/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Every so often the stars align in such a way as to allow a perfectly inert and “nonproductive” weekend spent in the company of four, or five, or maybe even six movies, the sort of cine-bliss-out designed to decompress the mind and spirit after a particularly insistent week of breadwinning. Back in the salad days, when all thoughts were ostensibly devoted to expanding one’s horizons, this sort of motion picture marathon was known as a typical college weekend. But similar opportunities come far less frequently 40 years later, and when they do, they’re usually accompanied by at least four or five loads of laundry demanding to be sorted and folded. Thanks to the largely unplumbed depths of my DVR queue, I stumbled into one such marathon last Friday night, and it was a doozy, an entirely unplanned, thematically linked four-picture blast that would have been a honest-to-God B-movie treasure...
- 11/18/2018
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
When Roger McGuinn phoned into Rolling Stone earlier this week, he was just a few hours away from playing his first Byrds concert in over a quarter century. Well, sort of. His current run of shows may include his fellow Byrd Chris Hillman and they may be playing the group’s most beloved album, 1968’s Sweetheart of the Rodeo, straight through in honor of its 50th anniversary in addition to a whole other set of Byrds classics, but they aren’t billing this precisely as a reunion. Instead, it’s...
- 7/27/2018
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Lynn Castle Rose Colored Corner Light (Light In The Attic)
Coming across visually as a prototype Nancy Sinatra about to enter The Valley Of The Dolls, Lynn Castle in the 1960s was an entrancing and beguiling entity. Her debut album finally appears a few years shy of her turning eighty, and it is a tremendous affair, an index of splendid and unrealized possibilities, as stark as it is haunting.
Vocally she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen who's been listening to too much Nina Simone, whose smoke-laced croak she frequently echoes. Her look though uber-girlie doesn't match her sound, and simply serves to enhance the appeal of her beauty and big, big hair. Think Warhol's Candy Darling doing an arch Barbie doll look and you are nearly there. Add Jackie O shades and you have quite simply arrived. Her sole single 'The Lady Barber' is a wonderful piece of...
Coming across visually as a prototype Nancy Sinatra about to enter The Valley Of The Dolls, Lynn Castle in the 1960s was an entrancing and beguiling entity. Her debut album finally appears a few years shy of her turning eighty, and it is a tremendous affair, an index of splendid and unrealized possibilities, as stark as it is haunting.
Vocally she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen who's been listening to too much Nina Simone, whose smoke-laced croak she frequently echoes. Her look though uber-girlie doesn't match her sound, and simply serves to enhance the appeal of her beauty and big, big hair. Think Warhol's Candy Darling doing an arch Barbie doll look and you are nearly there. Add Jackie O shades and you have quite simply arrived. Her sole single 'The Lady Barber' is a wonderful piece of...
- 6/20/2017
- by robert cochrane
- www.culturecatch.com
Chicago – The “Canuck Girls” have hit town, and they brought a lively, passionate and super fun musical about relationships and the environment to CIMMFest! Toronto-based writer/musician/actor/director Jude Klassen created “Love in the Sixth,” and it plays out at the 2016 festival on Sunday, April 17th (3:45p) at the Logan Theatre in Chicago. Click here for complete details.
The film explores relationships, in the post modern mode of Woody Allen, plus has amazing song breaks in the style of Motown, Punk, The Beatles and even “Grease” (if Grease would have had a song called “F**king Love”). The cinematic freedom of Jude Klassen’s director influence is woven throughout the work, as she portrays a rocker Mom named Dani, who is raising a Hunger-Games-loving-environmentally-conscious 12 year-old named Kat (Mika Kay, in a memorable performance).
Dani’s relationship with Sid (T.C. Folkpunk) is complicated, and gets in the way of...
The film explores relationships, in the post modern mode of Woody Allen, plus has amazing song breaks in the style of Motown, Punk, The Beatles and even “Grease” (if Grease would have had a song called “F**king Love”). The cinematic freedom of Jude Klassen’s director influence is woven throughout the work, as she portrays a rocker Mom named Dani, who is raising a Hunger-Games-loving-environmentally-conscious 12 year-old named Kat (Mika Kay, in a memorable performance).
Dani’s relationship with Sid (T.C. Folkpunk) is complicated, and gets in the way of...
- 4/16/2016
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the opening minutes of the pilot for USA’s Mr. Robot, superhacker Elliot Alderson (Rami Malek) meets with the shifty proprietor of a chain of coffeeshops. Over the course of their conversation, Elliot reveals the flaws in his cybersecurity—flaws that enabled Elliot to uncover this fellow’s immense cache of child pornography. The topic shifts: Who is Elliot? What does he want? Money? Before long, though, Elliot heads out and the cops storm in to mete out justice. That, it would seem, will be the blueprint for Mr. Robot: the story of yet another maladjusted genius with One Weird Trick for solving crimes while disregarding the rules, man. He’ll track down hidden bad guys, overcoming his obvious social awkwardness and seemingly timid nature, and expose them to the world with the help of cutting-edge, buzzword-heavy technological innovation. After all, this is USA, the home of Burn Notice,...
- 8/26/2015
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Complete list of winners and nominees of the 2014 Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Sunday February 8. Winners will be updated as they're announced during the telecast and pre-telecast. Record Of The Year “Fancy,” Iggy Azalea Featuring Charli Xcx “Chandelier,” Sia **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” Sam Smith “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift “All About That Bass,” Meghan Trainor Album Of The Year **Winner** “Morning Phase,” Beck “Beyoncé,” Beyoncé “X,” Ed Sheeran “In The Lonely Hour,” Sam Smith “Girl,” Pharrell Williams Song Of The Year “All About That Bass,” Kevin Kadish & Meghan Trainor, songwriters (Meghan Trainor) “Chandelier,” Sia Furler & Jesse Shatkin, songwriters (Sia) “Shake It Off,” Max Martin, Shellback & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift) **Winner** “Stay With Me (Darkchild Version),” James Napier, William Phillips & Sam Smith, songwriters (Sam Smith) “Take Me To Church,” Andrew Hozier-Byrne, songwriter (Hozier) Best New Artist Iggy Azalea Bastille Brandy Clark...
- 2/8/2015
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
From Nicole Kidman on a BMX to Collingwood on the big screen, our pick of the best sport films
1) Save Your Legs
There are a couple of pretty fail-safe ways to stop a conversation dead in its tracks, but one of the best is to try and convince someone that they need to go and see an Australian movie. If that Australian movie happened to be about a cricket team, it wouldn't be out of the question to suggest that your co-conversationalist might just turn and walk at pace. Which brings us to Save Your Legs, surely one of the least-loved Australian films of recent times and with no good reason; this film is actually half-decent.
It's quite admirable that an Australian filmmaker would multiply their odds of failure by making a film like this one. We're often told that cricket is the sport with the richest and most voluminous literary canon,...
1) Save Your Legs
There are a couple of pretty fail-safe ways to stop a conversation dead in its tracks, but one of the best is to try and convince someone that they need to go and see an Australian movie. If that Australian movie happened to be about a cricket team, it wouldn't be out of the question to suggest that your co-conversationalist might just turn and walk at pace. Which brings us to Save Your Legs, surely one of the least-loved Australian films of recent times and with no good reason; this film is actually half-decent.
It's quite admirable that an Australian filmmaker would multiply their odds of failure by making a film like this one. We're often told that cricket is the sport with the richest and most voluminous literary canon,...
- 9/10/2013
- by Russell Jackson
- The Guardian - Film News
Congratulations to the happy family! Peaches Geldof, the daughter of singer and poverty campaigner Bob Geldof, welcomed her second child with husband Thomas Cohen on Wednesday, according to Hello! magazine. The happy parents named their son Phaedra after the ancient Greek play and one of her favorite songs by Lee Hazlewood called "Some Velvet Morning." The couple have another son, 1-year-old Astala. The new arrival's birthdate holds a special meaning to mum Geldof, as it is her late mother's birthday...
- 4/26/2013
- E! Online
Lana Del Rey has gone all vintage on us for a new music video. Del Rey covers "Summer Wine," a 1960s hit made famous by Nancy Sinatra.
In the video (shown above), the 26-year-old singer prances around flower fields and dances with her long-haired pal for a very '60s effect. The man in the video is Del Rey's real-life boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neill, a singer for the band Kassidy.
Written by Lee Hazlewood, "Summer Wine" was recorded by Sinatra in 1967, nabbing a feature spot on Sinatra's collaboration with Hazlewood, 1968's "Nancy & Lee" Ep. Del Rey has compared herself to Frank Sinatra's daughter in the past, calling herself a “gangster Nancy Sinatra” in 2010.
Del Rey has taken an old-school sound as of late, also recording a song for the upcoming "Great Gatsby" soundtrack. The singer's track for the film, "Young and Beautiful," was featured on a recent teaser for the soundtrack.
In the video (shown above), the 26-year-old singer prances around flower fields and dances with her long-haired pal for a very '60s effect. The man in the video is Del Rey's real-life boyfriend, Barrie-James O'Neill, a singer for the band Kassidy.
Written by Lee Hazlewood, "Summer Wine" was recorded by Sinatra in 1967, nabbing a feature spot on Sinatra's collaboration with Hazlewood, 1968's "Nancy & Lee" Ep. Del Rey has compared herself to Frank Sinatra's daughter in the past, calling herself a “gangster Nancy Sinatra” in 2010.
Del Rey has taken an old-school sound as of late, also recording a song for the upcoming "Great Gatsby" soundtrack. The singer's track for the film, "Young and Beautiful," was featured on a recent teaser for the soundtrack.
- 4/19/2013
- by Madeline Boardman
- Huffington Post
Although it’s set for limited release later this spring, we’re going to start to see the first reactions to Park Chan-Wook’s English-language debut “Stoker” when it premieres this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. But if you can't be there, in advance of its world premiere, Hitfix has some exclusive new images from the film. Mia Wasikowska stars as India, whose enigmatic and estranged uncle (Goode) returns to the family after the death of the her father, and takes up with her mother (Kidman). His arrival coincides with the disappearance of people in her town, and he might be the cause. If you want to know what kind of mood and tone the movie will deliver, we've also got a listing of all the songs in the film, that while sparse, is nonetheless fairly interesting. There are two new pieces from composer Philip Glass, a tune from...
- 1/18/2013
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
London, Nov 13: Socialite Peaches Geldof is pregnant with her second child.
The 23-year-old has announced she is expecting a little boy again just seven months after she gave birth to first son Astala in April this year, reports contactmusic.com.
The mum-to-be, who married rocker Thomas Cohen in September this year, has revealed she is planning to name the tot Phaedra, reports contactmusic.com.
She tells Britain's Hello! Magazine: "It's a name that comes from an ancient Greek play but it also features in a song Tom and I both love called Some Velvet Morning by Lee Hazlewood. Finding out I was pregnant again so soon.
The 23-year-old has announced she is expecting a little boy again just seven months after she gave birth to first son Astala in April this year, reports contactmusic.com.
The mum-to-be, who married rocker Thomas Cohen in September this year, has revealed she is planning to name the tot Phaedra, reports contactmusic.com.
She tells Britain's Hello! Magazine: "It's a name that comes from an ancient Greek play but it also features in a song Tom and I both love called Some Velvet Morning by Lee Hazlewood. Finding out I was pregnant again so soon.
- 11/13/2012
- by Lohit Reddy
- RealBollywood.com
There's very little we can say about the indomitable Ol' Blue Eyes that hasn't already been said, but suffice it to say, Frank Sinatra is one of the most successful entertainers of all time, effortlessly transitioning back and forth between his music and acting careers.
On April 3rd, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the rather impressive "The Frank Sinatra Film Collection" on DVD.
Films include Stanley Kramer's "The Pride and the Passion" co-starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, "Kings Go Forth" with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, Frank Capra's "A Hole in the Head," "Can-Can," featuring Shirley MacLaine, John Frankenheimer's classic "The Manchurian Candidate," "Von Ryan’s Express," "Cast a Giant Shadow" starring Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and John Wayne among others, "Tony Rome" (featuring a score by Lee Hazlewood), its sequel, "Lady in Cement" co-starring Raquel Welch, and "The Detective."
The 10-title collection spans 11 years...
On April 3rd, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment releases the rather impressive "The Frank Sinatra Film Collection" on DVD.
Films include Stanley Kramer's "The Pride and the Passion" co-starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, "Kings Go Forth" with Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood, Frank Capra's "A Hole in the Head," "Can-Can," featuring Shirley MacLaine, John Frankenheimer's classic "The Manchurian Candidate," "Von Ryan’s Express," "Cast a Giant Shadow" starring Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and John Wayne among others, "Tony Rome" (featuring a score by Lee Hazlewood), its sequel, "Lady in Cement" co-starring Raquel Welch, and "The Detective."
The 10-title collection spans 11 years...
- 3/29/2012
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Well, Kenny fucking Powers will be pitching his last innings in "Eastbound & Down" as the show winds up its third and final season with a only a few more episodes to go. But you'll still have the opportunity to keep that good time feeling going all summer long.
Fat Possum Records is set to drop a nice two-disc soundtrack to the series, featuring a handful of songs played through the show's twenty-one episodes. No surprise, this one is heavy on the rock 'n roll with tracks from folks like The Black Keys, The Stooges, MC5, The Animals, Ram Jam and more. There is a bit of country lovin' with Kenny Rogers and Lee Hazelwood, some hip hop with Too Short and 'Lil Wyte and even an obscure R&B tune by Brenton Wood.
Finer retails will carry the collection on April 24th. Full tracklist below. [Prefix]
"Eastbound & Down" Soundtrack Tracklist
Disc...
Fat Possum Records is set to drop a nice two-disc soundtrack to the series, featuring a handful of songs played through the show's twenty-one episodes. No surprise, this one is heavy on the rock 'n roll with tracks from folks like The Black Keys, The Stooges, MC5, The Animals, Ram Jam and more. There is a bit of country lovin' with Kenny Rogers and Lee Hazelwood, some hip hop with Too Short and 'Lil Wyte and even an obscure R&B tune by Brenton Wood.
Finer retails will carry the collection on April 24th. Full tracklist below. [Prefix]
"Eastbound & Down" Soundtrack Tracklist
Disc...
- 3/27/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
First reported by Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the documentary Battle for Brooklyn was the 5th best movie of this past weekend, based on a per screen average. The film made a weekend gross of $11,141 playing at just one theater, Cinema Village, in NYC. These figures were derived from the website Box Office Mojo. The film is doing so well that it’s being held over at the theater until July 1. Find showtimes and ticket info on the Cinema Village website.
Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary co-directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley that chronicles the long 7-year struggle of local residents against the proposed development of a basketball stadium and 16 skyscrapers in downtown Brooklyn planned by the company Forest City Ratner. The aggressive building plans meant the displacement of nearly 1,000 local residents.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed the documentary just previous to its release, saying...
Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary co-directed by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley that chronicles the long 7-year struggle of local residents against the proposed development of a basketball stadium and 16 skyscrapers in downtown Brooklyn planned by the company Forest City Ratner. The aggressive building plans meant the displacement of nearly 1,000 local residents.
Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed the documentary just previous to its release, saying...
- 6/20/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Battle for Brooklyn, the new documentary by Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, is opening today, June 17, in two theaters in New York City. It is screening both at the Cinema Village in Manhattan and at indieScreen in Brooklyn. It’s running for one week at both theaters and the filmmakers are hoping to attend as many screenings as possible.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
The film chronicles the intense fight over the controversial Atlantic Yards project being built in downtown Brooklyn. Multi-million dollar development company Forest City Ratner and local politicians propose a new basketball stadium and 16 surrounding skyscrapers to be built, but in order to do so they must kick out almost a thousand local residents and business owners, several of whom do not plan to leave without a fight.
Opening at the height of Hollywood’s summer blockbuster season, Battle for Brooklyn is an equally epic, cinematic tour de force and this year’s must-see political thriller.
- 6/17/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Battle for Brooklyn has everything you want in a great political thriller: An everyman underdog fighting against impossible forces. Elected officials in bed with big money businessmen. Devious and deceptive business and political maneuverings. Great personal tragedy and triumph.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
And, of course, since Battle for Brooklyn is a documentary, it’s all true.
Filmmaking duo Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley are no strangers to the political documentary game having previously directed the strange, sad fate of George W. Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield in the film Horns and Halos, which was reviewed on Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film back in 2002.
That’s a long time between films, but the directors know how to really get involved with their subjects. Battle for Brooklyn has been seven years in the making, mostly because the battle that they chronicle — over Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards development project — has been an epic one in the real world.
- 6/15/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
The Black Swans have never been afraid to let their freak flag fly, standing in a long line of country and folk eccentrics like Lee Hazlewood, Iris DeMent and Merle Haggard (two of whom get shout-outs on this album). For more contemporary counterparts, you could look to Lambchop, Richard Buckner or Will Oldham, perhaps, but the the polarizing, hoarse-whisperer voice of The Black Swans’ Jerry DeCicca has no obvious analog....
- 5/31/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
John Barry's soundtracks often outstripped the films for which they were written. And despite a prickly reputation, when I met him he was the perfect host
While it would be a little outlandish to say that John Barry lived a James Bond lifestyle, it wasn't hard to imagine him in the world of The Persuaders, driving an open-top E-type to the south of France, immaculately turned out, eloping with the au pair. He was, more than many familiar faces, a movie star.
The theme from The Persuaders was – ignoring the James Bond theme, which existed like air – my introduction to the John Barry sound. The opening notes of its electric harpsichord matched high-contrast screen images of Tony Curtis and Roger Moore and created great excitement. It was the soundtrack to many Sunday lunchtimes in the early-70s.
Theme from the Persuaders on the CBS label was one of the first records I owned,...
While it would be a little outlandish to say that John Barry lived a James Bond lifestyle, it wasn't hard to imagine him in the world of The Persuaders, driving an open-top E-type to the south of France, immaculately turned out, eloping with the au pair. He was, more than many familiar faces, a movie star.
The theme from The Persuaders was – ignoring the James Bond theme, which existed like air – my introduction to the John Barry sound. The opening notes of its electric harpsichord matched high-contrast screen images of Tony Curtis and Roger Moore and created great excitement. It was the soundtrack to many Sunday lunchtimes in the early-70s.
Theme from the Persuaders on the CBS label was one of the first records I owned,...
- 1/31/2011
- by Bob Stanley
- The Guardian - Film News
It’s Viva Las Vegas time in this trip down memory lane with the one and only Miss Nancy Sinatra and her co-conspirator Lee Hazlewood. And yes, the above embedded short documentary by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky includes archive footage of her singing “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” live on stage. (Personally, I prefer the Crispin Glover cover version, but this will do.) And that stage is at The Riviera, one of the last of the old school Vegas casinos still in business to this day, having opened back in 1955.
The occasion for this short doc about Lee Hazlewood was a re-release screening of the 1973 documentary Nancy & Lee in Las Vegas at the Anthology Film Archives sometime in the late ’90s. Hazlewood, who helped edit the ’73 film, and the film’s director, Torbjörn Axelman, were at the Archives’ screening where Hawley and Galinsky sat them down to discuss the making of it.
The occasion for this short doc about Lee Hazlewood was a re-release screening of the 1973 documentary Nancy & Lee in Las Vegas at the Anthology Film Archives sometime in the late ’90s. Hazlewood, who helped edit the ’73 film, and the film’s director, Torbjörn Axelman, were at the Archives’ screening where Hawley and Galinsky sat them down to discuss the making of it.
- 1/21/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Galaxie 500 and Luna while critically adored, tend to be overlooked and in this music lover's opinion, remain two of the most under appreciated bands of my lifetime. Frontman Dean Wareham moved on from Galaxie and then from Luna with his lovely bandmate, Britta Phillips, married her and the two began recording as Dean & Britta. Sort of a rock and roll Bonnie and Clyde -- I mean that in the most French way possible.
Their latest project, endorsed and by invitation of the Andy Warhol Museum, is a collection of soundtracks made to accompany 13 of Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests." Boring or brilliant, they were originally conceived by Warhol as portraits, portraits on film rather than canvas, and feature some people who are ridiculously famous. It's all in the eye of the beholder of course, if you're fascinated by Bob Dylan or Edie Sedgwick you'll want to ogle their "Screen Test.
Their latest project, endorsed and by invitation of the Andy Warhol Museum, is a collection of soundtracks made to accompany 13 of Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests." Boring or brilliant, they were originally conceived by Warhol as portraits, portraits on film rather than canvas, and feature some people who are ridiculously famous. It's all in the eye of the beholder of course, if you're fascinated by Bob Dylan or Edie Sedgwick you'll want to ogle their "Screen Test.
- 8/3/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
Though having no ability to "play a single note", supermodel Kate Moss is not afraid to lay her hands in music industry because her musician boyfriend Jamie Hince is ready to lend a helping hand. "Kate can't play a single note on the piano but Jamie has promised her that he will teach her to play," so a source tells The Daily Express as quoted by Hollyscoop.
Furthermore, Kate has reportedly received a Steinway grand piano, worth $38,000, as her birthday gift from Jamie in order to support her effort. She is also rumored to make a duet and form a musical duo with Jamie. "They'll form a duo together as he did with his (The Kills) bandmate Alison Mosshart," the source reveals further.
About what the musical act will be called, the source states that the two have jokingly mentioned The Mossys. "She has mentioned wanting to name it The Mossys for a laugh.
Furthermore, Kate has reportedly received a Steinway grand piano, worth $38,000, as her birthday gift from Jamie in order to support her effort. She is also rumored to make a duet and form a musical duo with Jamie. "They'll form a duo together as he did with his (The Kills) bandmate Alison Mosshart," the source reveals further.
About what the musical act will be called, the source states that the two have jokingly mentioned The Mossys. "She has mentioned wanting to name it The Mossys for a laugh.
- 1/20/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Band Of The Week: honeyhoney Hometown: Los Angeles, Calif.
Fun Fact: Before launching a songwriting partnership with Suzanne Santo, guitarist Ben Jaffe composed music for Nickelodeon and various cartoon shows. Meanwhile, Santo paid the bills as an actress, landing supporting roles in Law & Order, Blind Justice and the Sigourney Weaver film Imaginary Heroes.
Why It's Worth Watching: Alternately rustic-retro and cool-contemporary, honeyhoney’s First Rodeo displays the common pop thread between alt.country, spaghetti western soundtracks and swampy blues.
For Fans Of: She & Him, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Jessie Baylin
Three days after the release of honeyhoney’s debut, bandmates Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe are on opposite coasts. Santo is spending the weekend in Atlanta, where her boyfriend has landed a job on the set of Road Trip 2. Meanwhile, Jaffe putters around the kitchen in Los Angeles, having chosen to stay home and enjoy the lingering warm weather. As...
Fun Fact: Before launching a songwriting partnership with Suzanne Santo, guitarist Ben Jaffe composed music for Nickelodeon and various cartoon shows. Meanwhile, Santo paid the bills as an actress, landing supporting roles in Law & Order, Blind Justice and the Sigourney Weaver film Imaginary Heroes.
Why It's Worth Watching: Alternately rustic-retro and cool-contemporary, honeyhoney’s First Rodeo displays the common pop thread between alt.country, spaghetti western soundtracks and swampy blues.
For Fans Of: She & Him, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Jessie Baylin
Three days after the release of honeyhoney’s debut, bandmates Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe are on opposite coasts. Santo is spending the weekend in Atlanta, where her boyfriend has landed a job on the set of Road Trip 2. Meanwhile, Jaffe putters around the kitchen in Los Angeles, having chosen to stay home and enjoy the lingering warm weather. As...
- 12/1/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
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