Kcrw’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, returns for its fourth season on March 13, 2024. Co-hosts Novena Carmel (Kcrw) and Michael Barnes (Kcrw / Kpfk / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&b scene of the 1950s-1970s.
Stories include:
Gloria Jones was a gospel-trained teenage singer from LA whose greatest hit - 1965’s “Tainted Love” - was never quite hers. But she went on to lead a double life as a hit songwriter for some of the greatest artists of all time ... until a fortuitous rediscovery led to her coronation as the Queen of Northern Soul. Fela Kuti is known today as an iconic artist, innovator, and revolutionary ... but in 1969, he was broke, exhausted, and in hot water with the Feds after a disastrous American tour. Yet a chance meeting transformed his musical and political consciousness,...
Stories include:
Gloria Jones was a gospel-trained teenage singer from LA whose greatest hit - 1965’s “Tainted Love” - was never quite hers. But she went on to lead a double life as a hit songwriter for some of the greatest artists of all time ... until a fortuitous rediscovery led to her coronation as the Queen of Northern Soul. Fela Kuti is known today as an iconic artist, innovator, and revolutionary ... but in 1969, he was broke, exhausted, and in hot water with the Feds after a disastrous American tour. Yet a chance meeting transformed his musical and political consciousness,...
- 3/27/2024
- Podnews.net
The following is excerpted from a chapter in film critic Adam Nayman’s new book “Ben Wheatley: Confusion and Carnage,” which is now available.
“Nobody fucks with you like [Ben] Wheatley,” wrote Cinema Scope’s Robert Koehler in a dispatch filed from Cannes in 2012, the year that “Sightseers” premiered in the Director’s Fortnight and shifted the critical perception of its director to a global figure. If Cannes is historically the proving ground for auteur directors, then the presence of “Sightseers” on the Croisette suggested that Wheatley was emerging from his niche as a UK genre specialist. For Koehler, “Sightseers” was one of the titles at Cannes that seemed “eager to play outside boundaries within which most of the other films were all too willing to contain themselves.”
Trying to break away from the everyday—or, put another way, the search for transcendence—is the secret theme of “Sightseers,” a film that,...
“Nobody fucks with you like [Ben] Wheatley,” wrote Cinema Scope’s Robert Koehler in a dispatch filed from Cannes in 2012, the year that “Sightseers” premiered in the Director’s Fortnight and shifted the critical perception of its director to a global figure. If Cannes is historically the proving ground for auteur directors, then the presence of “Sightseers” on the Croisette suggested that Wheatley was emerging from his niche as a UK genre specialist. For Koehler, “Sightseers” was one of the titles at Cannes that seemed “eager to play outside boundaries within which most of the other films were all too willing to contain themselves.”
Trying to break away from the everyday—or, put another way, the search for transcendence—is the secret theme of “Sightseers,” a film that,...
- 6/14/2017
- by Adam Nayman
- Indiewire
Friday saw the beginning of the 30th annual Miami International Film Festival. The opening night film of the Miami Film Festival was the documentary “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” directed by Morgan Neville (who answered audience questions in a Q&A). The film, which told the highs and lows of the lives of many legendary backup singers, wowed the crowd, as well as a surprise performance from the film’s star, Darlene Love. The film, which was given the honor of premiering at this year’s Sundance, is a stellar film that honestly explores the lives of several backup singing legends, including Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, the Waters Family, Gloria Jones, Claudia [ Read More ]
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- 3/3/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
American Hardcore directors Paul Rachman and Steven Blush are back with Lost Rockers, a documentary on great rock ‘n roll performers who have been buried beneath the sands of time. They include Chris Robison, Gloria Jones, David Peel, Bobby Jameson, Evie Sands, Cherry Vanilla, and Gass Wild and Johnny Hodge of the Lightning Raiders. Rachman and Blush have just released this new teaser, and you can read more about the film at its website.
- 1/16/2013
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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