10. Strong Back Was a Must-Have for BoS Squires
Brotherhood of Steel’s Knights used their squires as mules: the poor lads had to carry massive heavy bags with all the equipment their superiors could theoretically need.
Seeing how those bags were the size of a grown man, all BoS squires, Maximus included, had to have the Strong Back perk that increases carry weight.
9. Maximus Overlooked Power Armor Training
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, Maximus genuinely thought that putting on the Brotherhood’s power armor would make him undefeatable. The Ghoul quickly proved him wrong, making a full of the wannabe-Knight in Filly: Maximus simply didn’t have the Power Armor Training perk that would have made him far more efficient with it.
8. Without a Doubt, Lucy Was Daddy’s Girl
Lucy’s sweet relationship with her father perfectly explained why she, a little Vault Dweller, rushed to the...
Brotherhood of Steel’s Knights used their squires as mules: the poor lads had to carry massive heavy bags with all the equipment their superiors could theoretically need.
Seeing how those bags were the size of a grown man, all BoS squires, Maximus included, had to have the Strong Back perk that increases carry weight.
9. Maximus Overlooked Power Armor Training
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, Maximus genuinely thought that putting on the Brotherhood’s power armor would make him undefeatable. The Ghoul quickly proved him wrong, making a full of the wannabe-Knight in Filly: Maximus simply didn’t have the Power Armor Training perk that would have made him far more efficient with it.
8. Without a Doubt, Lucy Was Daddy’s Girl
Lucy’s sweet relationship with her father perfectly explained why she, a little Vault Dweller, rushed to the...
- 4/30/2024
- by dean-black@startefacts.com (Dean Black)
- STartefacts.com
The Beatles regularly paid tribute to the classic rock pioneers who paved the way for them. One of Paul McCartney’s songs is about a blues singer who helped create rock music. The “Silly Love Songs” singer said the tune in question had good lyrics that he should take as advice.
1 of Paul McCartney’s songs was inspired by a book about Lead Belly
During a 2020 interview with The New York Times, Paul was asked to name his favorite song from his album McCartney III. “I’m very happy with ‘Women and Wives,'” he replied. “I’ve been reading a book about Lead Belly.” Lead Belly was the stage name of blues icon Huddie William Ledbetter. He gave the world classic tunes such as “Cotton Fields,” “Boll Weevil,” “Midnight Special,” “Goodnight, Irene,” and “In the Pines.” His work laid the groundwork for much of rock ‘n’ roll music.
“I...
1 of Paul McCartney’s songs was inspired by a book about Lead Belly
During a 2020 interview with The New York Times, Paul was asked to name his favorite song from his album McCartney III. “I’m very happy with ‘Women and Wives,'” he replied. “I’ve been reading a book about Lead Belly.” Lead Belly was the stage name of blues icon Huddie William Ledbetter. He gave the world classic tunes such as “Cotton Fields,” “Boll Weevil,” “Midnight Special,” “Goodnight, Irene,” and “In the Pines.” His work laid the groundwork for much of rock ‘n’ roll music.
“I...
- 1/24/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Exclusive Interview: Stephen King Simmons (The Parker Sessions)
The Parker Sessions (2021) has recently been released by BayView Entertainment and is now available on Blu-ray (Region Free). What can viewers expect from seeing the film?
I can’t tell you how excited we are about the release. Finally, our dysfunctional Parker has found a home.
This film is a wild and bloody ride with twists and haunting u-turns. For some viewers, this film might be considered too disturbing or triggering.
The subject matter has to deal with trauma, panic attacks, night terrors and a downward spiral of depression. All fun things in life that hit close to home. The Parker Sessions is a reflection of that high anxiety….it’s a waking nightmare.
You will never guess the ending. If you do, I’ll buy you a shot and a beer.
The Parker Sessions (2021) has achieved great success on the film festival circuit.
The Parker Sessions (2021) has recently been released by BayView Entertainment and is now available on Blu-ray (Region Free). What can viewers expect from seeing the film?
I can’t tell you how excited we are about the release. Finally, our dysfunctional Parker has found a home.
This film is a wild and bloody ride with twists and haunting u-turns. For some viewers, this film might be considered too disturbing or triggering.
The subject matter has to deal with trauma, panic attacks, night terrors and a downward spiral of depression. All fun things in life that hit close to home. The Parker Sessions is a reflection of that high anxiety….it’s a waking nightmare.
You will never guess the ending. If you do, I’ll buy you a shot and a beer.
The Parker Sessions (2021) has achieved great success on the film festival circuit.
- 9/29/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Iconic actor, musician, and lifelong activist Harry Belafonte has died at the age of 96. The cause, per his longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine, was congestive heart failure.
Belafonte’s singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, from traditional folk music and spirituals to Caribbean calypso and protest songs. His acting in films such as “Carmen Jones” and “Odds Against Tomorrow” won praise and helped pave the way for Black performers who would follow. And his activism took him to the front lines of the civil rights movement, where he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., lobbied for the release of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and joined other stars to raise money for famine relief on the African continent. Realizing from an early age the power of celebrity to advance social change, Belafonte was among the rare few to have been equally entrenched in the worlds of entertainment and politics with genuine results to spare.
Belafonte’s singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, from traditional folk music and spirituals to Caribbean calypso and protest songs. His acting in films such as “Carmen Jones” and “Odds Against Tomorrow” won praise and helped pave the way for Black performers who would follow. And his activism took him to the front lines of the civil rights movement, where he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., lobbied for the release of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela, and joined other stars to raise money for famine relief on the African continent. Realizing from an early age the power of celebrity to advance social change, Belafonte was among the rare few to have been equally entrenched in the worlds of entertainment and politics with genuine results to spare.
- 4/25/2023
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
It has taken Peggy Seeger nearly 70 years to bring out a new version of the world famous love song inspired by and written for her.
Peggy, 87, first recorded “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in 1957, when it was composed by her lover, fellow singer and activist Ewan MacColl. It was later made famous by Roberta Flack. Peggy stopped performing it in 1989 when MacColl, by then her husband, died.
“People would ask me to sing it at concerts, but I just kept breaking down,” she told me when I interviewed her at her home in Oxford. But she has now found novel inspiration to bring out a new version of the song.
Sitting opposite Peggy, sister of fellow American-born radical songwriter Pete Seeger, you can see why she was MacColl’s muse. The luminosity that bewitched him then is as bright now.
Peggy, who has lived in Britain for most of her life,...
Peggy, 87, first recorded “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” in 1957, when it was composed by her lover, fellow singer and activist Ewan MacColl. It was later made famous by Roberta Flack. Peggy stopped performing it in 1989 when MacColl, by then her husband, died.
“People would ask me to sing it at concerts, but I just kept breaking down,” she told me when I interviewed her at her home in Oxford. But she has now found novel inspiration to bring out a new version of the song.
Sitting opposite Peggy, sister of fellow American-born radical songwriter Pete Seeger, you can see why she was MacColl’s muse. The luminosity that bewitched him then is as bright now.
Peggy, who has lived in Britain for most of her life,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Simon Walters
- The Independent - Music
Bob Dylan is an iconic folk musician and an icon of the counterculture movement.
He is one of the most influential figures in modern music and his landmark songs have been covered by numerous artists around the world. He has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was even awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature!
Bob Dylan’s music is recognized for its sophisticated use of poetic imagery, and his distinctive voice has become an iconic symbol for generations to come. However, his enigmatic lifestyle has also left many questions unanswered about who he really is.
In this article, we explore Bob Dylan’s life – from his humble beginnings as a folk singer to his rise to fame, his legacy, and more. We’ll share stories from Bob Dylan himself, along with insights from leading music historians. All this...
He is one of the most influential figures in modern music and his landmark songs have been covered by numerous artists around the world. He has also been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, won a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was even awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature!
Bob Dylan’s music is recognized for its sophisticated use of poetic imagery, and his distinctive voice has become an iconic symbol for generations to come. However, his enigmatic lifestyle has also left many questions unanswered about who he really is.
In this article, we explore Bob Dylan’s life – from his humble beginnings as a folk singer to his rise to fame, his legacy, and more. We’ll share stories from Bob Dylan himself, along with insights from leading music historians. All this...
- 3/17/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Kaitlin Butts wasn’t specifically thinking about the political environment in her adopted home of Tennessee when she shot the video for “What Else Can She Do,” but her timing for releasing it could not have been more perfect. Filmed last summer at the Hamburger Inn in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the clip features the Tulsa native Butts alongside Texas drag queen Paris Van Cartier doing their best to make ends meet while working in a small-town diner.
“Honestly, I cannot believe that this has lined up. It was not even intentional at all,...
“Honestly, I cannot believe that this has lined up. It was not even intentional at all,...
- 3/10/2023
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Paul McCartney thought John Lennon was “ingenious” the first time he saw him performing with The Quarry Men. There was something about John that Paul instantly connected with, and they became bandmates soon after.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon | Gab Archive/Getty Images Paul McCartney had seen John Lennon around before they officially met
In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he’d seen John around Liverpool before they officially met in 1957. Paul said he thought John looked cool, but he doesn’t know if they’d have started talking to each other.
“I’d seen him a couple of times and thought, ‘Wow, you know, he’s an interesting looking guy,'” Paul told John’s youngest son Sean Ono Lennon during a BBC Radio 2 special commemorating what would have been John’s 80th birthday.
Then, Paul saw John at a fish and chips shop and...
Paul McCartney and John Lennon | Gab Archive/Getty Images Paul McCartney had seen John Lennon around before they officially met
In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul wrote that he’d seen John around Liverpool before they officially met in 1957. Paul said he thought John looked cool, but he doesn’t know if they’d have started talking to each other.
“I’d seen him a couple of times and thought, ‘Wow, you know, he’s an interesting looking guy,'” Paul told John’s youngest son Sean Ono Lennon during a BBC Radio 2 special commemorating what would have been John’s 80th birthday.
Then, Paul saw John at a fish and chips shop and...
- 2/18/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Paul McCartney’s love of reggae has surfaced in the Beatles’ “I Call Your Name” and Wings’ “C-Moon” but he‘s rarely talked about his journey in discovering Jamaica’s music. In the foreword to the liner notes for The 7″ Singles Box — a collection of 80 45s spanning McCartney’s solo career, from 1971 to the present, out December 2nd — the artist talks about cratedigging in Montego Bay. “There were records you didn’t know what they were, they weren’t established artists,” he writes in this exclusive excerpt. “So it was kind of a great adventure,...
- 11/10/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Roger E. Mosley, an actor and director best known for his eight-year run on Magnum P.I. as the helicopter pilot Theodore “T.C.” Calvin, has died according to his daughter. He was 83 years old and likely passed away due to injuries he sustained from a “major car accident” his daughter said he went through last week.
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“We could never mourn such an amazing man,” Ch-a Mosley wrote on Facebook. “He would Hate any crying done in his name. It is time to celebrate the legacy he left for us all. I love you daddy. You loved me too. My heart is heavy but I am strong. I will care for mommy, your love of almost 60 years. You raised me well and she is in good hands. Rest easy.”
Roger Earl Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on December 18, 1938. He...
In Memoriam 2022: 100 Great Celebrities Who Died This Year!
“We could never mourn such an amazing man,” Ch-a Mosley wrote on Facebook. “He would Hate any crying done in his name. It is time to celebrate the legacy he left for us all. I love you daddy. You loved me too. My heart is heavy but I am strong. I will care for mommy, your love of almost 60 years. You raised me well and she is in good hands. Rest easy.”
Roger Earl Mosley was born in Los Angeles, California on December 18, 1938. He...
- 8/11/2022
- by Jacob Linden
- Uinterview
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Roger E. Mosley, who portrayed Theodore “T.C.” Calvin, the helicopter pilot and buddy of Tom Selleck’s character on all eight seasons of the original Magnum, P.I., died Sunday. He was 83.
Mosley died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of injuries incurred in a car accident in nearby Lynwood three days earlier, his daughter, Ch-a, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Mosley was at his most memorable as blues and folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (“The Midnight Special”) in the period piece Leadbelly (1976), directed by Gordon Parks. In his review, Roger Ebert wrote that Mosley played the part “with great strength” and called the film “one of the best biographies of a musician I’ve ever seen.”
Mosley also was a standout in blaxploitation films, playing the angry brother of the fresh-out-of-prison Goldie (Max Julien) in the classic The Mack...
Roger E. Mosley, who portrayed Theodore “T.C.” Calvin, the helicopter pilot and buddy of Tom Selleck’s character on all eight seasons of the original Magnum, P.I., died Sunday. He was 83.
Mosley died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of injuries incurred in a car accident in nearby Lynwood three days earlier, his daughter, Ch-a, told The Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Mosley was at his most memorable as blues and folk singer Huddie Ledbetter (“The Midnight Special”) in the period piece Leadbelly (1976), directed by Gordon Parks. In his review, Roger Ebert wrote that Mosley played the part “with great strength” and called the film “one of the best biographies of a musician I’ve ever seen.”
Mosley also was a standout in blaxploitation films, playing the angry brother of the fresh-out-of-prison Goldie (Max Julien) in the classic The Mack...
- 8/7/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Criterion Collection has tons of great new 4K releases lately, including groundbreaker Gordon Parks’ Shaft. This 1971 cultural sucker punch had an undeniable effect on the film industry then, helping launch the Blaxploitation phenomenon. If you know about American history, you’ll know that the film came out within a decade of major achievements within the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. If I’m not mistaken, Parks was the first African American to helm a studio film with Metro-Goldwyn Meyer footing the bill for Shaft, and the studio knew that they could tap into a goldmine with this audience. In turn, the audience did not disappoint. ...
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- 6/15/2022
- Screen Anarchy
“You’re No Good” (Bob Dylan, 1962)
From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones.
“Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974)
One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV,...
From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones.
“Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974)
One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death.
“Black Diamond Bay” (Desire, 1976)
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV,...
- 5/24/2021
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
After unveiling the discs that will be arriving in April, including Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder, Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep, and more, Criterion has now announced what will be coming to their streaming channel next month.
Highlights include retrospectives dedicated to Guy Maddin, Ruby Dee, Lana Turner, and Gordon Parks, plus selections from Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg’s stellar box set. They will also present the exclusive streaming premieres of Bill Duke’s The Killing Floor, William Greaves’s Nationtime, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Park Lanes, and more.
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which recently arrived on the collection, will be landing on the channel as well, along with a special “Lovers on the Run” series including film noir (They Live by Night) to New Hollywood (Badlands) to the French New Wave (Pierrot le fou) to Blaxploitation (Thomasine & Bushrod) and beyond. Also...
Highlights include retrospectives dedicated to Guy Maddin, Ruby Dee, Lana Turner, and Gordon Parks, plus selections from Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg’s stellar box set. They will also present the exclusive streaming premieres of Bill Duke’s The Killing Floor, William Greaves’s Nationtime, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Park Lanes, and more.
Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, which recently arrived on the collection, will be landing on the channel as well, along with a special “Lovers on the Run” series including film noir (They Live by Night) to New Hollywood (Badlands) to the French New Wave (Pierrot le fou) to Blaxploitation (Thomasine & Bushrod) and beyond. Also...
- 1/26/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The guitar Kurt Cobain played during Nirvana’s legendary 1993 “MTV Unplugged” session sold for a pretty penny on Saturday at an auction in Los Angeles.
Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E, which was originally purchased by the Nirvana singer at L.A.’s Voltage Guitars, went for a total of $6.01 million, breaking the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold. The record was previously held by a black Stratocaster belonging to Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, which sold for $3.95 million last year.
Cobain used the guitar in Nirvana’s famous “MTV Unplugged” set, which featured stripped-down renditions of classics including “Come As You Are,” “About A Girl” and “Dumb,” in addition to several covers of songs by David Bowie, Leadbelly and Meat Puppets. The performance was released after Cobain’s death as a live album, ultimately earning the band a Grammy in 1996 for best alternative music performance.
Leading up to the auction,...
Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E, which was originally purchased by the Nirvana singer at L.A.’s Voltage Guitars, went for a total of $6.01 million, breaking the record for the most expensive guitar ever sold. The record was previously held by a black Stratocaster belonging to Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, which sold for $3.95 million last year.
Cobain used the guitar in Nirvana’s famous “MTV Unplugged” set, which featured stripped-down renditions of classics including “Come As You Are,” “About A Girl” and “Dumb,” in addition to several covers of songs by David Bowie, Leadbelly and Meat Puppets. The performance was released after Cobain’s death as a live album, ultimately earning the band a Grammy in 1996 for best alternative music performance.
Leading up to the auction,...
- 6/20/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Bluegrass musician Eric Weissberg, whose cover of the Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith instrumental “Dueling Banjos” became an unlikely pop hit when it appeared on the soundtrack to the 1972 film Deliverance, died Sunday at the age of 80 after a five-year struggle with dementia. His son, Will Weissberg, confirmed the musician’s death to Rolling Stone.
“Eric Weissberg was a consummate musician, a solid and seemingly effortless player of stringed instruments of all kinds — banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, and string bass,” his lifelong friend and frequent collaborator Happy Traum wrote on Facebook.
“Eric Weissberg was a consummate musician, a solid and seemingly effortless player of stringed instruments of all kinds — banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle, pedal steel, and string bass,” his lifelong friend and frequent collaborator Happy Traum wrote on Facebook.
- 3/23/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The 22-year-old North Bergen, New Jersey, rapper-singer 070 Shake, a.k.a. Danielle Balbuena, hit mainstream radar via Kanye West’s Wyoming sessions, functioning as fluid spirit animal/superego on Ye’s “Violent Crimes” and “Ghost Town,” and Pusha T’s “Santeria.” Born to a Dominican immigrant mom, Shake grew up on Lauryn Hill and My Chemical Romance. The flows come hard and soft, in English and Spanish, with verses suggesting a fierce, strong, proud, brave, spiritual being who’s also hungry, searching, scared, self-loathing, and self-destructive. Like plenty of humans, especially in their early twenties.
- 1/14/2020
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
In the middle of January, with temperatures hovering around zero degrees, John Smith and his colleagues at Smithsonian Folkways drove a truck up to a 19th century homestead in Sharon, Connecticut to pick up a record label. For over 50 years, the remolded barn and carriage house had been the headquarters of Folk-Legacy and the home of two of its founders, Sandy and Caroline Paton. The Patons, along with their business partner Lee Haggerty, founded Folk-Legacy in 1961 and dedicated their lives to recording, preserving and releasing traditional folk songs and ballads...
- 8/1/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
An array of metal, hardcore and punk outfits have contributed music to a new charity compilation, Riffs for Reproductive Justice, benefitting the National Network of Abortion Funds and the Yellowhammer Fund.
Metal writer and activist Kim Kelly (who has contributed to Rolling Stone) organized the 33-track set, which is available to purchase on Bandcamp for $5 (though buyers can donate more). The track list includes Hether Fortune, Closet Witch, Vile Creature, Sunrot, Dawn Ray’d and Racetraitor, while special cuts include Cliterati’s cover of L7’s “Fast and Frightening,” Fucked...
Metal writer and activist Kim Kelly (who has contributed to Rolling Stone) organized the 33-track set, which is available to purchase on Bandcamp for $5 (though buyers can donate more). The track list includes Hether Fortune, Closet Witch, Vile Creature, Sunrot, Dawn Ray’d and Racetraitor, while special cuts include Cliterati’s cover of L7’s “Fast and Frightening,” Fucked...
- 7/3/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Tony Glover, the influential blues harmonica player who was a longtime peer of Bob Dylan and helped teach Mick Jagger how to play, died Wednesday, the Star Tribune reports. Glover reportedly died of natural causes after being hospitalized earlier this month. He was 79.
Glover made a lasting impression on a generation of musicians as a member of the blues and folk trio, Koerner, Ray and Glover, which also included John Koerner and Dave Ray. The group put out three albums in the early Sixties via Elektra — 1963’s Blues, Rags and Hollers,...
Glover made a lasting impression on a generation of musicians as a member of the blues and folk trio, Koerner, Ray and Glover, which also included John Koerner and Dave Ray. The group put out three albums in the early Sixties via Elektra — 1963’s Blues, Rags and Hollers,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
As recording artists grapple with the low-yield streaming era, there’s been a surge of creativity off record — in pumped-up concert staging, film scoring, musical theater, memoir-writing. Flexing the storytelling skills he’s flaunted in songs and concert banter for decades, Bruce Springsteen rose to the moment with his 2016 autobiography Born to Run and the subsequent Springsteen on Broadway, his (mostly) one-man meta-jukebox-musical, which ends its year-plus New York City run this month. It’s now both a Netflix film and 2.5 hour soundtrack LP — a model of modern, multi-platform art-making,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
Lucinda Williams, John Prine and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. Which one of these things is not like the other? Or how about Lee Ann Womack, Grateful Dead legend Bob Weir and comedian Marc Maron?
Those acts and others shared the bill this weekend’s Across the Great Divide charity concert in Los Angeles. The show — staged by philanthropic-minded event producers Upperwest Music Group, and benefitting the Americana Music Association and the Blues Foundation — was a powerhouse revue of Americana usual suspects and strange-bedfellow collaborative performances, as backed by a...
Those acts and others shared the bill this weekend’s Across the Great Divide charity concert in Los Angeles. The show — staged by philanthropic-minded event producers Upperwest Music Group, and benefitting the Americana Music Association and the Blues Foundation — was a powerhouse revue of Americana usual suspects and strange-bedfellow collaborative performances, as backed by a...
- 10/23/2018
- by Adam Gold
- Rollingstone.com
It’s not quite fair to call The Laughing Apple a comeback album. Since 2006, the artist who beguiled listeners in the ’70s as the spiritually curious Cat Stevens has released three discs under the mononym Yusuf—short for Yusuf Islam, his chosen moniker after adopting the Islamic faith in 1977. These works were his first foray into Western music after shunning the industry in the wake of his religious conversion, during which time he sold his guitars and focused instead on charity work and theological study. Fans were grateful for any new output following the decades of silence, but Yusuf’s...
- 9/21/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
Even in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Valerie June stands out: star-studded sunglasses, a sparkly silver blouse and a plume of thick dreadlocks that sprout in all directions. At her favorite neighborhood bistro, she attracts the attention of a bald customer who approaches her table to hand her his business card. “Love your hair,” he says flirtatiously. “Maybe you could give me some.” “I might!” June replies with a laugh.
June, 35, smiles again when asked about another compliment she received recently. In an interview posted on his website, Bob Dylan said he’d been listening to June,...
June, 35, smiles again when asked about another compliment she received recently. In an interview posted on his website, Bob Dylan said he’d been listening to June,...
- 5/10/2017
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
The Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel American Gods is finally here, and having seen the first four episodes, I can tell you that, like Mad Sweeney in a bar fight, I am all in.
For those who haven’t read Gaiman’s novel, first published in 2001, it and the Starz adaptation featured are centered around an impending battle between two types of American gods – the “old gods” who crossed the seas from other countries with the immigrants who believed in them, and the “new gods” of technology, celebrity, drugs, and mass media that have gained in followers as belief in the old ways of life waned. The conflict is seen through the eyes of Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), a recently released convict who finds himself at loose ends after his old life falls apart, and becomes the personal assistant of the mysterious and charming Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane...
For those who haven’t read Gaiman’s novel, first published in 2001, it and the Starz adaptation featured are centered around an impending battle between two types of American gods – the “old gods” who crossed the seas from other countries with the immigrants who believed in them, and the “new gods” of technology, celebrity, drugs, and mass media that have gained in followers as belief in the old ways of life waned. The conflict is seen through the eyes of Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle), a recently released convict who finds himself at loose ends after his old life falls apart, and becomes the personal assistant of the mysterious and charming Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane...
- 5/1/2017
- by Emily S. Whitten
- Comicmix.com
Neil Diamond and James Corden sang a dirty version of "Sweet Caroline," about an outrageous office holiday party on The Late Late Show Wednesday.
"Sweet Christmastime" found Diamond and Corden trading lyrics about an awkward holiday gathering that descends into sloppy drunkenness after shots are thrown back and the eggnog gets spiked: "Fran touching Stan/ Sexting Val/ Kissing Steve/ Kissing Stu," the pair sing in the hilarious build to the chorus – during which the "So good" refrain was replaced by "So drunk!"
Things get even freakier in verse two when...
"Sweet Christmastime" found Diamond and Corden trading lyrics about an awkward holiday gathering that descends into sloppy drunkenness after shots are thrown back and the eggnog gets spiked: "Fran touching Stan/ Sexting Val/ Kissing Steve/ Kissing Stu," the pair sing in the hilarious build to the chorus – during which the "So good" refrain was replaced by "So drunk!"
Things get even freakier in verse two when...
- 12/15/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Eric Clapton made millions off his MTV "Unplugged" album, but gave credit -- and royalties -- for one of the songs to the wrong blues artist ... according to a new lawsuit. The estate of Bo Carter -- a blues guy in the 1920s and '30s -- says Clapton incorrectly ID'd the song "Alberta" as a tune from Lead Belly. In the lawsuit, it says Clapton's performance is really a famous rendition of Carter's original song "Corrine,...
- 10/14/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series Museum of Modern Art, NYC hrough September 7, 2015
One of the most startling impressions that one takes away from seeing the reunited Migration Series at the Museum of Modern Art is how current the paintings still feel current in a way that Céline still does, or Christopher Isherwood, or John Steinbeck -- documenters of a very specific moment of transition, faithfully recording sensitive observations. Jacob Lawrence’s cycle of sixty paintings on the subject of the Northern Migration is both a landmark work for an artist who was just twenty-three years old when he began it, and it is a work of historical importance in American art of the 20th Century.
Lawrence, who had dropped out of school when he was sixteen, was encouraged by his single mother to take art classes and visit museums. He studied at the Harlem Art Workshop, in the...
One of the most startling impressions that one takes away from seeing the reunited Migration Series at the Museum of Modern Art is how current the paintings still feel current in a way that Céline still does, or Christopher Isherwood, or John Steinbeck -- documenters of a very specific moment of transition, faithfully recording sensitive observations. Jacob Lawrence’s cycle of sixty paintings on the subject of the Northern Migration is both a landmark work for an artist who was just twenty-three years old when he began it, and it is a work of historical importance in American art of the 20th Century.
Lawrence, who had dropped out of school when he was sixteen, was encouraged by his single mother to take art classes and visit museums. He studied at the Harlem Art Workshop, in the...
- 5/20/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Michel Gondry
Sony Pictures got the online masses talking when they released the first trailer from the upcoming Seth Rogen/Michel Gondry flick, The Green Hornet based on the 1960s television series starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee. To say the trailer was polarizing would be an understatement. People either loved it or they hated it and if online forums were any indication there were far more haters than people who loved it.
Typical was this post from the colorfully named Leadbelly Schoenberg on IMDb: Just saw the trailer, and man, if the film manages to capture just one-tenth of the wretchedness in that, we will truly be baring witness to a new era in Hollywood. For no longer will people be talking about John Travolta and Battlefield Earth or Michael Cimino and Heaven's Gate. Michael Gondry and Seth Rogen will have eclipsed them all with this piece of mind-numbing trash.
Sony Pictures got the online masses talking when they released the first trailer from the upcoming Seth Rogen/Michel Gondry flick, The Green Hornet based on the 1960s television series starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee. To say the trailer was polarizing would be an understatement. People either loved it or they hated it and if online forums were any indication there were far more haters than people who loved it.
Typical was this post from the colorfully named Leadbelly Schoenberg on IMDb: Just saw the trailer, and man, if the film manages to capture just one-tenth of the wretchedness in that, we will truly be baring witness to a new era in Hollywood. For no longer will people be talking about John Travolta and Battlefield Earth or Michael Cimino and Heaven's Gate. Michael Gondry and Seth Rogen will have eclipsed them all with this piece of mind-numbing trash.
- 6/28/2010
- by Bill Cody
- Rope of Silicon
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