With his second solo album, “Lazaretto,” out Tuesday (10), Jack White continues on his exploration of American music. For all his talk of condemning others for being musical magpies, he proves to be quite one himself on the set: Whether he’s recalling Howling Wolf or The Band or even Lynyrd Skynrd, it’s easy to trace the new creation back to its musical forbearers. Where White’s true talent lies is that he’s able to assimilate so many different styles into his music. “Lazaretto” works also most as two different albums: there are the gentle country-influenced acoustic tracks and the feral, primal, razor-edged electric tunes and he sells both of them with equal conviction. For the most part, both tread the same lyrical band: a sense of isolation that, in some cases, quietly creeps in and other times, announces its arrival with unrestrained howls. As acclaimed a guitarist as White is,...
- 6/9/2014
- by Melinda Newman
- Hitfix
The Top 8 finalists of American Idol went back to the future, so to speak, with a flashback to their '80s night selections, but one contestant's song choice tainted the love of the audience and ended her journey. Thursday night's half-hour episode kicked off with a brief segment where the top eight complimented each other's performances and looked up Ricky Nelson videos for Sam Woolf, while Ryan Seacrest got down to business. Photos: 'American Idol' Season 13: Meet the Top 10 Singers Mentor Randy Jackson chimed in with his thoughts on each contestant's performance, predicting Dexter Roberts (Georgia Satellites, "Keep Your
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- 4/11/2014
- by Michele Amabile Angermiller
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
American Idol’s top eight returned again this week after judges Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban used the season’s one and only save on Sam Woolf. This week, the finalists were required to pick a song from the 80s.
Jena Irene made a bold choice in reimagining Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock N Roll.” Irene started off the classic song sitting down at the piano, allowing the song to build up as she belted out the second half. The judges reactions were mixed, with Connick critiquing the arrangement and Lopez praising the young singer for another original performance.
Country boy Dexter Roberts chose to sing Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.” Mentor David Cook was on Roberts to enunciate better – and not to let the other guitarist on the stage steal the spotlight from him. Overall, the judges felt like Roberts' performance was passable,...
Jena Irene made a bold choice in reimagining Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock N Roll.” Irene started off the classic song sitting down at the piano, allowing the song to build up as she belted out the second half. The judges reactions were mixed, with Connick critiquing the arrangement and Lopez praising the young singer for another original performance.
Country boy Dexter Roberts chose to sing Georgia Satellites’ “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.” Mentor David Cook was on Roberts to enunciate better – and not to let the other guitarist on the stage steal the spotlight from him. Overall, the judges felt like Roberts' performance was passable,...
- 4/10/2014
- Uinterview
It’s that time of year, PopWatchers — when otherwise responsible parents camp out and expose their children to threateningly low temperatures in order to see questionable lip synching and larger-than-life icons on puppet strings. No, I’m not talking about a Today show performance by One Direction… but close! It’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!Like any good spectacular, there was no shortage of 11th-hour drama: High winds in New York City nearly scuttled this year’s march through Manhattan (for only the second time in 87 years), but justice — and giant balloons! – prevailed. So buckle in, turkeys, because...
- 11/28/2013
- by Lanford Beard
- EW.com - PopWatch
With 'Fight' short film set to premiere Wednesday (April 20), here's a look back at the beer-soaked history of the 1986 video.
By James Montgomery
Adam Yauch, Ricky Powell and Mike D in 1986
Photo: MTV News
You get the feeling that, back in their hell-raising License To Ill heyday, the Beastie Boys derived some sort of perverse pleasure from blindsiding unsuspecting interviewers with profanities or non sequiturs. Or at least by dumping beer on them.
Sufficed to say, they've mellowed some in recent years (their vocabulary has improved, too), but back in the day, the Beasties lived to torment the media, and they did so by any means necessary.
Take, for example, this rather revelatory bit of tape shot on December 31, 1986, at MTV's 6th annual "Rock 'N Roll New Year's Eve Ball" (a party so huge that both Brian Setzer and the Georgia Satellites were in attendance). In it, a poor MTV...
By James Montgomery
Adam Yauch, Ricky Powell and Mike D in 1986
Photo: MTV News
You get the feeling that, back in their hell-raising License To Ill heyday, the Beastie Boys derived some sort of perverse pleasure from blindsiding unsuspecting interviewers with profanities or non sequiturs. Or at least by dumping beer on them.
Sufficed to say, they've mellowed some in recent years (their vocabulary has improved, too), but back in the day, the Beasties lived to torment the media, and they did so by any means necessary.
Take, for example, this rather revelatory bit of tape shot on December 31, 1986, at MTV's 6th annual "Rock 'N Roll New Year's Eve Ball" (a party so huge that both Brian Setzer and the Georgia Satellites were in attendance). In it, a poor MTV...
- 4/20/2011
- MTV Music News
Photo by Senor McGuire. Boogie-woogie showman Jason D. Williams is part down-home sage, part outsider artist, and part marketing genius (think Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd). A son of El Dorado, Arkansas, and a local legend in Memphis for decades, he uses phrases like “hot dang,” without irony and can play note-perfect Tchaikovsky, often with a bottle of Heineken balanced on his head. Williams, 51, might also be the biological son of Jerry Lee Lewis. “In Memphis, they’ll fight you if you say that’s not Jerry Lee’s boy. ‘That’s his son. It just is,’” says Todd Snider, the alt-country singer-songwriter and cult hero who produced Killer Instincts in the city’s famed Ardent Studios and Blackbird Studios in Nashville with guests such as ex-Georgia Satellites singer Dan Baird. Williams, blonde and boyish at 51, looks and plays like Lewis. It’s Williams hands you...
- 10/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
Tension and release. The first kill in The Expendables doesn’t just come after a prolonged standoff. It comes after a year of build-up, wondering what would happen if the kings of VHS-era action were to come back for one last job. When the bullets finally fly they shred the baddie into hamburger with the force of a nation of hungry action fans backing them. It is unfortunate that once this first shot is off, nothing remaining in the film has this level of vitality. If ever there has been a metaphor for cinematic premature ejaculation, this is it.
The Expendables, a much-hyped collection of the biggest names in testosterone pictures from the 1980s to today, is one of the best examples of film-as-product to come down the pike in a while. Every aspect of the marketing has been enjoyable to follow, capping with a great panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
The Expendables, a much-hyped collection of the biggest names in testosterone pictures from the 1980s to today, is one of the best examples of film-as-product to come down the pike in a while. Every aspect of the marketing has been enjoyable to follow, capping with a great panel at San Diego Comic-Con.
- 8/12/2010
- UGO Movies
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