Karen O and Danger Mouse released the indie rock lullaby “Super Breath” Wednesday, marking their first song since their collaborative 2019 album Lux Prima. “Super Breath” delves into a rocky relationship marked by unfulfilled love. At the start of the chorus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O sings, “Because you know I’m not satisfied/No, no, no, I’m not/But you keep on coming up.”
“Super Breath,” produced by Danger Mouse, drifts away from Lux Prima, a 9-track LP that conjoins Karen O’s “rough-around-the-edges heaviness” and Danger Mouse’s “star-gazing,...
“Super Breath,” produced by Danger Mouse, drifts away from Lux Prima, a 9-track LP that conjoins Karen O’s “rough-around-the-edges heaviness” and Danger Mouse’s “star-gazing,...
- 7/24/2024
- by Kalia Richardson
- Rollingstone.com
Danger Mouse and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O have teamed up again, reuniting for a new collaborative single called “Super Breath.”
Their first release since sharing their celebrated joint album Lux Prima in 2019, “Super Breath” was written by both artists, with production helmed by Danger Mouse. Singing about unfulfilled love, Karen O’s voice carries the melody, delivering lines like “Quit playin’ cool/ push me aside/ I die each time/ I’m not your fool.” Stream the single below.
With the release of “Super Breath,” Karen O and Danger Mouse also announced a deluxe reissue of Lux Prima, due on September 20th. Along with the original album, the new version will include a 7-inch of “Super Breath,” with the B-side being a previously-recorded cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” The release also comes with a 16-page booklet highlighting the four-day, immersive listening events the duo hosted at Los Angeles’s Marciano Arts Foundation.
Their first release since sharing their celebrated joint album Lux Prima in 2019, “Super Breath” was written by both artists, with production helmed by Danger Mouse. Singing about unfulfilled love, Karen O’s voice carries the melody, delivering lines like “Quit playin’ cool/ push me aside/ I die each time/ I’m not your fool.” Stream the single below.
With the release of “Super Breath,” Karen O and Danger Mouse also announced a deluxe reissue of Lux Prima, due on September 20th. Along with the original album, the new version will include a 7-inch of “Super Breath,” with the B-side being a previously-recorded cover of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” The release also comes with a 16-page booklet highlighting the four-day, immersive listening events the duo hosted at Los Angeles’s Marciano Arts Foundation.
- 7/24/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Tenacious D are hitting the road for five select dates benefiting Rock the Vote, the nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to building the political power of young people.
The duo is playing five shows in October leading up to the 2024 presidential election, including concerts in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which are among the crucial battleground states for the 2024 election.
General onsale tickets are available beginning June 28 at 10 a.m. local time, with artist presale available now and local presales taking place on Thursday, June 27. More information is available on Tenacious D’s website.
The duo is playing five shows in October leading up to the 2024 presidential election, including concerts in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which are among the crucial battleground states for the 2024 election.
General onsale tickets are available beginning June 28 at 10 a.m. local time, with artist presale available now and local presales taking place on Thursday, June 27. More information is available on Tenacious D’s website.
- 6/26/2024
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Towa Bird is the rock & roll firecracker we need right now. She’s the kind of upstart guitar shredder who comes along saying things like “I just want to be the lesbian Paul McCartney.” That takes attitude, kind of like calling your debut album American Hero. But Bird doesn’t lack for confidence. All though her rise to the top, she’s been a true believer—she really wants to be your new favorite queer Asian female glam-rock star.
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter was born in Hong Kong to Filipino and English parents,...
The 25-year-old singer-songwriter was born in Hong Kong to Filipino and English parents,...
- 6/26/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
In 2003, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were not only emerging as one of the most stellar bands in a particularly thrilling New York rock scene — they were also as one of the most exciting bands in the world. Their breakout hit “Maps” would become a major pop crossover moment, joining the lexicon of great and timeless rock and roll love songs.
At the band’s helm was Karen O, the firecracker of a lead vocalist whose songwriting, style, and stage presence has influenced an ever-growing list of rock and pop stars in her wake.
At the band’s helm was Karen O, the firecracker of a lead vocalist whose songwriting, style, and stage presence has influenced an ever-growing list of rock and pop stars in her wake.
- 6/5/2024
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
Spoiler Alert: This article continues spoilers for the film “Drive-Away Dolls.”
In Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” an homage to the colorful, brash world of exploitation cinema, there’s a notable cameo from none other than Miley Cyrus. Cyrus appears in a psychedelic swirl of flashbacks as Tiffany Plastercaster, seen titillating a college-aged version of Matt Damon’s character, who will come to be a conservative Senator in Florida. Plastercaster does as her name implies, crafting a replica dildo for the aspiring politician’s stimulated member.
It may sound far-fetched, but Cyrus’ cameo is inspired by Cynthia Plaster Caster — real name Cynthia Albritton — the artist and groupie who famously cast the genitals of musicians and others in plaster, from Jimi Hendrix to The Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra.
Albritton, who died in 2022, also cast female breasts in later years in an effort to even the playing field, with subjects including Karen O,...
In Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” an homage to the colorful, brash world of exploitation cinema, there’s a notable cameo from none other than Miley Cyrus. Cyrus appears in a psychedelic swirl of flashbacks as Tiffany Plastercaster, seen titillating a college-aged version of Matt Damon’s character, who will come to be a conservative Senator in Florida. Plastercaster does as her name implies, crafting a replica dildo for the aspiring politician’s stimulated member.
It may sound far-fetched, but Cyrus’ cameo is inspired by Cynthia Plaster Caster — real name Cynthia Albritton — the artist and groupie who famously cast the genitals of musicians and others in plaster, from Jimi Hendrix to The Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra.
Albritton, who died in 2022, also cast female breasts in later years in an effort to even the playing field, with subjects including Karen O,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains spoilers for "Drive-Away Dolls."
When the trailer for Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen's "Drive-Away Dolls" (read our review here) was first released, folks quickly caught a blink-and-you'll-miss-her appearance of a young hippie woman covered in psychedelic filters played by actress and Grammy award-winning musician, Miley Cyrus. "Drive-Away Dolls" takes place in 1999, so what the hell is up with this lava lamp in the summer of love-looking character? Cyrus' character pops up a few times throughout the film, leading up to the reveal that republican senator Gary Channell (Matt Damon) knew this mysterious acid-tripper in his younger years, and if the public ever learned of their encounter, it would destroy his conservative political career — alluding to a possible presidential candidacy in the near future. What could Gary Channell have done that's so shocking? The answer is not only the key to Cyrus' character but also solves the...
When the trailer for Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen's "Drive-Away Dolls" (read our review here) was first released, folks quickly caught a blink-and-you'll-miss-her appearance of a young hippie woman covered in psychedelic filters played by actress and Grammy award-winning musician, Miley Cyrus. "Drive-Away Dolls" takes place in 1999, so what the hell is up with this lava lamp in the summer of love-looking character? Cyrus' character pops up a few times throughout the film, leading up to the reveal that republican senator Gary Channell (Matt Damon) knew this mysterious acid-tripper in his younger years, and if the public ever learned of their encounter, it would destroy his conservative political career — alluding to a possible presidential candidacy in the near future. What could Gary Channell have done that's so shocking? The answer is not only the key to Cyrus' character but also solves the...
- 2/23/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
‘The Seeding’ Director Barnaby Clay on How to Jump From Short Films to Features — Horror Film School
Barnaby Clay is a true Renaissance man.
Having directed short films, music videos for artists ranging from David Bowie to Rihanna, a feature-length documentary on photographer Mick Rock, and even launched a visual art installation with Danger Mouse and his wife, Yeah Yeah Yeahs rocker Karen O, he is no stranger to expanding his creativity into different mediums.
Yet his newest frontier is feature-length narrative filmmaking, and his debut, the horror film “The Seeding,” expands on the striking imagery of his past work. The plot follows a man (Scott Haze) trapped in the desert, being taken care of by a mysterious woman (Kate Lyn Sheil), who may have an insidious agenda for keeping him safe from the roving gang of teens that are trapping him there.
The gorgeous and claustrophobic desert setting is the movie’s key special effect, as Clay keeps things bleak due to the harsh environment and...
Having directed short films, music videos for artists ranging from David Bowie to Rihanna, a feature-length documentary on photographer Mick Rock, and even launched a visual art installation with Danger Mouse and his wife, Yeah Yeah Yeahs rocker Karen O, he is no stranger to expanding his creativity into different mediums.
Yet his newest frontier is feature-length narrative filmmaking, and his debut, the horror film “The Seeding,” expands on the striking imagery of his past work. The plot follows a man (Scott Haze) trapped in the desert, being taken care of by a mysterious woman (Kate Lyn Sheil), who may have an insidious agenda for keeping him safe from the roving gang of teens that are trapping him there.
The gorgeous and claustrophobic desert setting is the movie’s key special effect, as Clay keeps things bleak due to the harsh environment and...
- 1/26/2024
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Japanese Breakfast appeared on The Late Show to perform “Kokomo, In,” off the group’s 2021 LP Jubilee. Frontwoman Michelle Zauner took center stage in a bright yellow dress, which lent itself to the floral decor surrounding her and the band. The musicians were joined by a quartet of string players for the performance.
Japanese Breakfast released Jubilee, their third studio album, in June of 2021. Jubilee ranked at Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s list of 50 Best Albums of 2021, and the LP was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards,...
Japanese Breakfast released Jubilee, their third studio album, in June of 2021. Jubilee ranked at Number 10 on Rolling Stone’s list of 50 Best Albums of 2021, and the LP was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the Grammy Awards,...
- 10/5/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
With Saturday marking the first official day of Autumn, Las Vegas’ Life is Beautiful is the last hurrah of the summer festival season.
Life Is Beautiful is unique in that it doesn’t take place in a large field or a city park, but smack dab in the middle of Vegas’ eclectic downtown, turning parking lots into disco rooms, hotels into art exhibits, and swaths of streets into stage areas. There’s neon everywhere, a giant fire-spewing metal Praying Mantis by the festival’s entrance, and fitting to the Life Is Beautiful message,...
Life Is Beautiful is unique in that it doesn’t take place in a large field or a city park, but smack dab in the middle of Vegas’ eclectic downtown, turning parking lots into disco rooms, hotels into art exhibits, and swaths of streets into stage areas. There’s neon everywhere, a giant fire-spewing metal Praying Mantis by the festival’s entrance, and fitting to the Life Is Beautiful message,...
- 9/23/2023
- by Ethan Millman and Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
“Peace over pleasure,” Olivia Rodrigo told me one night in Los Angeles while serving herself a steamy, heaping plate of spaghetti and meatballs. “That’s my saying.” Getting to hear casual truth-bombs like this is part of the joy that comes from spending time with the wisest 20-year-old in pop, and for our October cover story, we spent quite a lot of it.
Naturally, a lot of delightful randomness landed on the cutting-room floor. Rodrigo talked about how, when she was a newborn, her parents would put her on the...
Naturally, a lot of delightful randomness landed on the cutting-room floor. Rodrigo talked about how, when she was a newborn, her parents would put her on the...
- 9/20/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Almost 20 years after recording the follow-up to their beloved 2003 album Ghetto Pop Life, Danger Mouse and Jemini have shared their long-shelved Born Again.
Originally released on September 9th, 2003, Ghetto Pop Life marked Danger Mouse’s first official album released on a record label. He went on to work with the likes of Mf Doom, CeeLo Green, The Shins’ James Mercer, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, but before that, he and Brooklyn rapper Jemini recorded Born Again.
A press release describes the unreleased record as more introspective than the duo’s braggadocios debut, but lead single “Brooklyn Basquiat” still has Ghetto Pop Life’s scrappy quality. “I made a few records but I’m still struggling,” Jemini admits, though moments later, he spits, “The issue that I’m trying to address in this song/ Is how a n**** stay fresh this long.” Complete with a flute melody and an interpolation of The Notorious B.
Originally released on September 9th, 2003, Ghetto Pop Life marked Danger Mouse’s first official album released on a record label. He went on to work with the likes of Mf Doom, CeeLo Green, The Shins’ James Mercer, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, but before that, he and Brooklyn rapper Jemini recorded Born Again.
A press release describes the unreleased record as more introspective than the duo’s braggadocios debut, but lead single “Brooklyn Basquiat” still has Ghetto Pop Life’s scrappy quality. “I made a few records but I’m still struggling,” Jemini admits, though moments later, he spits, “The issue that I’m trying to address in this song/ Is how a n**** stay fresh this long.” Complete with a flute melody and an interpolation of The Notorious B.
- 8/25/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Ask most 20-year-old women about their celebrity crushes, and you’ll likely hear a name along the lines of Harry Styles or Timothée Chalamet. Not Olivia Rodrigo. Record shopping with Vogue to promote her upcoming sophomore album Guts, the young pop superstar revealed that’s she’s got her eye on Bruce Springsteen.
Rodrigo got on the topic of The Boss after discovering a live album of his from 1984. “He’s my biggest celebrity crush of all time,” she announced upon detection. Dubbed Porn In The USA, the record featured Springsteen in a sweatband and t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Warning! This record contains noises of an explicit nature that may be offensive and should not be played in the presence of minors.” Naturally, Rodrigo concluded, “Yeah, you’re coming home with me.”
Springsteen may not be every Gen Zer’s crush, but Rodrigo has made it clear that she has a wide-ranging music taste.
Rodrigo got on the topic of The Boss after discovering a live album of his from 1984. “He’s my biggest celebrity crush of all time,” she announced upon detection. Dubbed Porn In The USA, the record featured Springsteen in a sweatband and t-shirt emblazoned with the words, “Warning! This record contains noises of an explicit nature that may be offensive and should not be played in the presence of minors.” Naturally, Rodrigo concluded, “Yeah, you’re coming home with me.”
Springsteen may not be every Gen Zer’s crush, but Rodrigo has made it clear that she has a wide-ranging music taste.
- 7/8/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Ringo Starr took the lead on The Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends,” but he didn’t initially want to sing it. While his bandmates wrote the song with Starr’s vocal range in mind, he felt that the high note at the end was beyond his capabilities. His bandmates rallied around him to help him sing the song in its entirety.
The Beatles had to convince Ringo Starr to sing ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote “With a Little Help From My Friends” for Starr to sing. When it came time to record the vocals, though, he was hesitant. He attempted to leave the studio before he could record it.
“He was at the halfway point [of the stairs] when we heard Paul’s voice call out. ‘Where are you going, Ring?'” engineer Geoff Emerick wrote Here, There and Everywhere: My Life...
The Beatles had to convince Ringo Starr to sing ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote “With a Little Help From My Friends” for Starr to sing. When it came time to record the vocals, though, he was hesitant. He attempted to leave the studio before he could record it.
“He was at the halfway point [of the stairs] when we heard Paul’s voice call out. ‘Where are you going, Ring?'” engineer Geoff Emerick wrote Here, There and Everywhere: My Life...
- 7/8/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
If you were looking to take a break and chill out to the music from Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Studios’ Dead Island 2, you’re in luck. The Dead Island 2 Official Soundtrack is now available to listen to for free on several different streaming platforms, including Spotify, iTunes and YouTube.
And in case you’re curious, the soundtrack does not include “Drown”, the song found in the opening cinematic by Karen O and Danger Mouse. You’ll have to track down Karen O’s 2019 album Lux Prima for that one.
Ryan Williams, composer and senior audio designer at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, created the majority of the 31 tracks available on the Dead Island 2 soundtrack, with experienced British music consultancy and creation company Feel For Music also contributing. According to the press release, Williams’ lifelong love of all things horror has been a driving force behind his creative output.
And if you really like the soundtrack,...
And in case you’re curious, the soundtrack does not include “Drown”, the song found in the opening cinematic by Karen O and Danger Mouse. You’ll have to track down Karen O’s 2019 album Lux Prima for that one.
Ryan Williams, composer and senior audio designer at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios, created the majority of the 31 tracks available on the Dead Island 2 soundtrack, with experienced British music consultancy and creation company Feel For Music also contributing. According to the press release, Williams’ lifelong love of all things horror has been a driving force behind his creative output.
And if you really like the soundtrack,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine is launching a bright new division: music.
The media company behind Amazon’s Prime Video musical drama Daisy Jones & the Six and the Apple TV+ music competition series My Kind of Country has named Alex Flores as executive vice president, music.
Flores, who held senior roles at Broadcast Music, Inc. and BMG, will build and oversee Hello Sunshine’s expansion into music and spearhead strategic initiatives in the music space. She will report to Hello Sunshine COO Liz Jenkins.
Kacey Musgraves and Reese Witherspoon in My Kind of Country, now streaming on Apple TV+
“Alex is an absolute force in the music industry and we are so excited to have her lead Hello Sunshine’s efforts in the space,” Jenkins said in a statement. “The depth and breadth of her experience make her uniquely suited to build the business alongside our Content and Direct-to-Consumer teams.
The media company behind Amazon’s Prime Video musical drama Daisy Jones & the Six and the Apple TV+ music competition series My Kind of Country has named Alex Flores as executive vice president, music.
Flores, who held senior roles at Broadcast Music, Inc. and BMG, will build and oversee Hello Sunshine’s expansion into music and spearhead strategic initiatives in the music space. She will report to Hello Sunshine COO Liz Jenkins.
Kacey Musgraves and Reese Witherspoon in My Kind of Country, now streaming on Apple TV+
“Alex is an absolute force in the music industry and we are so excited to have her lead Hello Sunshine’s efforts in the space,” Jenkins said in a statement. “The depth and breadth of her experience make her uniquely suited to build the business alongside our Content and Direct-to-Consumer teams.
- 4/19/2023
- by Mesfin Fekadu
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We already had a taste of the creatively gory gameplay for Dead Island 2, and now Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios have revealed the game’s opening cinematic ahead of its launch next month.
Taking on a pulp tone and set to “Drown” by Karen O and Danger Mouse, the Dead Island 2 opening cinematic sees you discover a bloodstained Los Angeles now flooded with the undead. “View a deserted, viscera-drenched Hollywood Boulevard and the empty mansions of the rich and famous in Bel Air. Visit what was once known as the City of Angels and see what gory details await you in sunny, zombie-infested Hell-a.”
The opening sequence was created by Elastic, the studio behind cinematics for games such as Gears 5 and Metro Exodus, as well as opening sequences for television shows like “Shadow and Bone” and “His Dark Materials“.
It’s certainly a different tone than the one we saw...
Taking on a pulp tone and set to “Drown” by Karen O and Danger Mouse, the Dead Island 2 opening cinematic sees you discover a bloodstained Los Angeles now flooded with the undead. “View a deserted, viscera-drenched Hollywood Boulevard and the empty mansions of the rich and famous in Bel Air. Visit what was once known as the City of Angels and see what gory details await you in sunny, zombie-infested Hell-a.”
The opening sequence was created by Elastic, the studio behind cinematics for games such as Gears 5 and Metro Exodus, as well as opening sequences for television shows like “Shadow and Bone” and “His Dark Materials“.
It’s certainly a different tone than the one we saw...
- 3/22/2023
- by Mike Wilson
- bloody-disgusting.com
L.A. born and bred, the acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Alex Prager has long been a favorite of the culturati. Her playful, colorful work uses classic Old Hollywood tropes to examine darker modern themes, including those of isolation and the need for connection and empathy. Prager’s first U.S. solo museum show, Face in the Crowd, featuring Elizabeth Banks, received considerable buzz when it was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in 2013. Over more than a decade, she has directed almost a dozen short films starring the likes of Riley Keough, Bryce Dallas Howard and Cate Blanchett.
Run is Prager’s newest short film. Starring Katherine Waterston (Babylon, Alien: Covenant), the darkly comic work is vintage Prager, using stylized visuals and an absurdist plot to examine the will to exist during a period of uncertainty and cultural ambivalence.
A slew of Hollywood insiders have already hosted events for the film,...
Run is Prager’s newest short film. Starring Katherine Waterston (Babylon, Alien: Covenant), the darkly comic work is vintage Prager, using stylized visuals and an absurdist plot to examine the will to exist during a period of uncertainty and cultural ambivalence.
A slew of Hollywood insiders have already hosted events for the film,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Hadley Meares
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dave Grohl listed off the numerous reasons to thank our neighbors to the north in a Super Bowl ad for Crown Royal.
The Foo Fighters frontman kicks off his salute to Canada by mentioning the country’s many “legends of music” including Joni Mitchell, Céline Dion, Oscar Peterson, and his recent on-stage bandmates Rush. He then rattles Canada’s other notable achievements like hockey, peanut butter, and the whoopee cushion. He also reveals a football-related fun-fact by crediting the Canadians for the earliest iteration of what later became America’s Game. “Yeah!” Grohl insists. “Look it up!”
There are plenty more thank-yous stashed away in a full series of ads via Crown Royal’s YouTube. Along with an extended cut of the televised spot that features guitarist and Prince collaborator Donna Grantis shredding the country’s National Anthem, another clip reveals Grohl’s incredulous reaction to some of Canada’s lesser-known claims to fame.
The Foo Fighters frontman kicks off his salute to Canada by mentioning the country’s many “legends of music” including Joni Mitchell, Céline Dion, Oscar Peterson, and his recent on-stage bandmates Rush. He then rattles Canada’s other notable achievements like hockey, peanut butter, and the whoopee cushion. He also reveals a football-related fun-fact by crediting the Canadians for the earliest iteration of what later became America’s Game. “Yeah!” Grohl insists. “Look it up!”
There are plenty more thank-yous stashed away in a full series of ads via Crown Royal’s YouTube. Along with an extended cut of the televised spot that features guitarist and Prince collaborator Donna Grantis shredding the country’s National Anthem, another clip reveals Grohl’s incredulous reaction to some of Canada’s lesser-known claims to fame.
- 2/12/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs go full technicolor dream in the music video for their latest single, “Blacktop,” which appears on their recently released studio album Cool it Down. With Karen O at its center, the David Black-directed video toys with shadows and silhouettes to pair a visual narrative with the emotionally stripped-back track.
“‘Blacktop’ stuck out to me early on, the demo was very stripped down instrumentally and emotionally. It was a step towards what radical closeness feels like after a long separation,” Karen O explained in a statement. “Each...
“‘Blacktop’ stuck out to me early on, the demo was very stripped down instrumentally and emotionally. It was a step towards what radical closeness feels like after a long separation,” Karen O explained in a statement. “Each...
- 2/7/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin gave their annual Hanukkah celebration the grand finale it deserved with a rendition of Randy Newman’s “I Love L.A.” featuring cameos from Jack Black, Pink, Beck, and more.
Grohl and Kurstin shared the final installment of their Hanukkah Sessions series yesterday, Dec. 25, which — along with being Christmas Day — was also the final night of the Festival of Lights. While previous Hanukkah Sessions were recorded in the studio, this year’s show was recorded live at Los Angeles’ Largo back on Dec. 5.
For their...
Grohl and Kurstin shared the final installment of their Hanukkah Sessions series yesterday, Dec. 25, which — along with being Christmas Day — was also the final night of the Festival of Lights. While previous Hanukkah Sessions were recorded in the studio, this year’s show was recorded live at Los Angeles’ Largo back on Dec. 5.
For their...
- 12/26/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl brought out Jack Black to perform Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” for the seventh night of the Foo Fighters frontman and producer Greg Kurstin’s 2022 Hanukkah Sessions.
The Hanukkah Sessions celebrate the music of Jewish artists, like Rush’s Geddy Lee: The bassist’s family were Holocaust survivors — including his Poland-born mother who had been at Auschwitz — before moving to Canada.
“From a very early age, I knew that my parents were Holocaust survivors. In fact, I knew that almost all my family were Holocaust survivors,...
The Hanukkah Sessions celebrate the music of Jewish artists, like Rush’s Geddy Lee: The bassist’s family were Holocaust survivors — including his Poland-born mother who had been at Auschwitz — before moving to Canada.
“From a very early age, I knew that my parents were Holocaust survivors. In fact, I knew that almost all my family were Holocaust survivors,...
- 12/25/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin marked the sixth night of Hanukkah — and Night Six of their 2022 Hanukkah Sessions — by bringing out Karen O to perform “Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, two-thirds of whom are Jewish (but not the singer herself).
“Leave it to us to get the only non-Jewish member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Hanukkah-ize one of their signature songs,” Grohl and Kurstin wrote in the YouTube caption.
Like the previous performances during this Festival of Lights, “Heads Will Roll” was recorded in front of a live audience on Dec.
“Leave it to us to get the only non-Jewish member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Hanukkah-ize one of their signature songs,” Grohl and Kurstin wrote in the YouTube caption.
Like the previous performances during this Festival of Lights, “Heads Will Roll” was recorded in front of a live audience on Dec.
- 12/24/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
What a year for music—any of my top half-dozen or so could have been Number One some other year. But these are my faves, with pop idols, guitar bangers, rap poets, disco visionaries. All these albums keep giving up new surprises for me. The double-digit years are always pivotal for music—’66, ’77, ’88, ’99 were four of the coolest music years ever. (’11 and ’55 were bangers, too. Y2K wasn’t so hot, but at least it had a kick-ass Madonna album.) 2022 felt more like Neil Young’s 22 than Taylor Swift’s, but...
- 12/22/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
For the second night of Hanukkah Sessions, Dave Grohl joined Pink and songwriter-producer Greg Kurstin on stage to perform “Get the Party Started.”
After enlisting filmmaker director Judd Apatow to belt the big opening number with a cover of Blood, Sweat and Tears’ “Spinning Wheel,” Pink took to the stage to sing her 2001 hit song. Before jumping into the performance, the artist spoke to the crowd, saying, “My name’s Alicia. I’m a Jew.” While there were a few missed lines, the pop star got the audience up on...
After enlisting filmmaker director Judd Apatow to belt the big opening number with a cover of Blood, Sweat and Tears’ “Spinning Wheel,” Pink took to the stage to sing her 2001 hit song. Before jumping into the performance, the artist spoke to the crowd, saying, “My name’s Alicia. I’m a Jew.” While there were a few missed lines, the pop star got the audience up on...
- 12/20/2022
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Grohl and songwriter/producer Greg Kurstin lit some candles and marked the first night of Hanukkah with the return of their “Hanukkah Sessions” series, tapping filmmaker Judd Apatow to belt the big opening number.
Grohl and Kurstin started the “Hanukkah Sessions” back in 2020 with the aim of covering a song by a Jewish artist for each night of the Festival of Lights. With the pandemic, this endeavor was largely confined to the studio, but for 2022 Grohl and Kurstin made a show of it, recording everything live at Largo in...
Grohl and Kurstin started the “Hanukkah Sessions” back in 2020 with the aim of covering a song by a Jewish artist for each night of the Festival of Lights. With the pandemic, this endeavor was largely confined to the studio, but for 2022 Grohl and Kurstin made a show of it, recording everything live at Largo in...
- 12/19/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Saturday Night Live revealed that Lizzo will now serve as musical guest on the Austin Butler-hosted episode next week, with the rapper filling in for the previously announced Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Soon after SNL announced the switch-up, the YYYs issued a statement on social media explaining that all of the bands’ end-of-2022 live commitments — including their gig at Kroq’s Acoustic Christmas — were canceled as member Nick Zinner continues to recover from pneumonia.
@nbcsnl & @kroq
@nickzinner pic.twitter.com/GvLSd01XVS
— Yeah Yeah Yeahs (@YYYs) December 11, 2022
“As many of our...
Soon after SNL announced the switch-up, the YYYs issued a statement on social media explaining that all of the bands’ end-of-2022 live commitments — including their gig at Kroq’s Acoustic Christmas — were canceled as member Nick Zinner continues to recover from pneumonia.
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— Yeah Yeah Yeahs (@YYYs) December 11, 2022
“As many of our...
- 12/11/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Grammy winner Lizzo will help NBC’s Saturday Night Live close out 2022, as a last-minute substitute musical guest.
It was announced last month that Elvis‘ Austin Butler would make his hosting debut on Dec. 17, the final telecast of the year, alongside second-time musical guest Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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However, the indie rock band...
It was announced last month that Elvis‘ Austin Butler would make his hosting debut on Dec. 17, the final telecast of the year, alongside second-time musical guest Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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However, the indie rock band...
- 12/11/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Saturday Night Live is closing out the year with three back-to-back episodes.
Steve Martin and Martin Short are set to co-host together, with Elvis star Austin Butler hosting the final show of 2022. The news comes after Nope star Keke Palmer was set as host of the December 3 show with Sza as musical guest.
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Only Murders in the Building stars Martin and Short will host on December 10, with Brandi Carlile as musical guest.
Brandi Carlile, left, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O (Everett/Getty)
Butler will host on December 17, with Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing.
Steve Martin and Martin Short are set to co-host together, with Elvis star Austin Butler hosting the final show of 2022. The news comes after Nope star Keke Palmer was set as host of the December 3 show with Sza as musical guest.
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Only Murders in the Building stars Martin and Short will host on December 10, with Brandi Carlile as musical guest.
Brandi Carlile, left, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O (Everett/Getty)
Butler will host on December 17, with Yeah Yeah Yeahs performing.
- 11/29/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The best scene in Meet Me In the Bathroom, the excellent new documentary on the rock & roll scene that slouched into New York in the beginning of the 21st century: a parking lot under the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn, Labor Day weekend, 2002. An afternoon punk show, maybe semi-quasi-not-illegal. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing; so are the Liars and Oneida and the Rogers Sisters. The parking lot is packed with kids, crammed onto roofs, balconies, the nearby bridge. Neighbors stare out of apartment windows. I’m down in the crowd. In the footage here,...
- 11/8/2022
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Was the last rock renaissance really in New York City in the aughts? That’s the claim filmmakers Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace make with their documentary adaptation of music journalist Lizzie Goodman’s book “Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011.”
This scuzzy, dreamy nonfiction greatest hits compilation prefers lyricism to reportage, with testimony told entirely in voiceover instead of talking heads. It’s also entirely a montage of on-the-fly found footage — of concerts, early interviews, Courtney Love flashing her boobs to a crowd of frothing onlookers during her 24-hour MTV takeover — and . The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Moldy Peaches, James Murphy, and Interpol all get significant play here, with the film going back to their DIY roots in Lower Manhattan — but leaves us hanging from there. In other ones, “Meet Me” is music to the ears of their...
This scuzzy, dreamy nonfiction greatest hits compilation prefers lyricism to reportage, with testimony told entirely in voiceover instead of talking heads. It’s also entirely a montage of on-the-fly found footage — of concerts, early interviews, Courtney Love flashing her boobs to a crowd of frothing onlookers during her 24-hour MTV takeover — and . The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Moldy Peaches, James Murphy, and Interpol all get significant play here, with the film going back to their DIY roots in Lower Manhattan — but leaves us hanging from there. In other ones, “Meet Me” is music to the ears of their...
- 11/3/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
On Monday, to celebrate the holiday, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs released the music video for their eclectic song “Wolf.” The visual follows Severance actress Britt Lower getting lost in the woods and turning completely feral, before discovering Karen O. at a middle-of-nowhere bar.
The cinematic visual, directed by Allie Avital, sees Lower sitting at an empty kitchen table, ignored by who seems to be her husband. She stares blankly into space and follows a talking bluebird into the wild.
“I’m lost and I’m lonely/I hunger for you only,...
The cinematic visual, directed by Allie Avital, sees Lower sitting at an empty kitchen table, ignored by who seems to be her husband. She stares blankly into space and follows a talking bluebird into the wild.
“I’m lost and I’m lonely/I hunger for you only,...
- 10/31/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
New York, a city responsible for bands such as The Velvet Underground, Blondie and Ramones, was a cultural wasteland by the late 90s and the wider music scene was pumping out shlock like Limp Bizkit and Hoobastank.
As Adam Green says in the opening scenes of Meet Me In The Bathroom, a documentary based on Lizzy Goodman’s oral history of nYc’s musical rebirth, “Maybe New York wasn’t the kind of city anymore that produces iconic bands”.
Then came The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, LCD Soundsystem and many more over the next ten years, turning the Lower East Side and Brooklyn into hipster havens.
I remember the excitement when The Strokes, a gang of good-looking skinny boys with filthy hair and a filthier attitude, broke, in part thanks to the British music press, as I hustled for a copy of their Rough Trade debut...
As Adam Green says in the opening scenes of Meet Me In The Bathroom, a documentary based on Lizzy Goodman’s oral history of nYc’s musical rebirth, “Maybe New York wasn’t the kind of city anymore that produces iconic bands”.
Then came The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, LCD Soundsystem and many more over the next ten years, turning the Lower East Side and Brooklyn into hipster havens.
I remember the excitement when The Strokes, a gang of good-looking skinny boys with filthy hair and a filthier attitude, broke, in part thanks to the British music press, as I hustled for a copy of their Rough Trade debut...
- 10/28/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
About a year ago, Karen O was scrolling through Instagram when she came across a photo of Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner that left her a little concerned. It was from a stop on Zauner’s relentless tour over the past couple of years, which has included more than 100 concerts and promotional appearances on the heels of her Grammy-nominated third album, Jubilee, and her bestselling memoir, Crying in H Mart. “She had the million-mile stare,” says Karen O, who turns 44 in November.
Listen to the ‘Musicians on Musicians’ podcast featuring Karen O.
Listen to the ‘Musicians on Musicians’ podcast featuring Karen O.
- 10/20/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
“Sounding good and having a good time.” On Thursday, Utopia released the trailer for Meet Me in the Bathroom, an upcoming Showtime documentary inspired by Lizzy Goodman’s book of the same name, about the wild alt-rock music scene that blew up in New York City in the early 2000s.
“People went crazy for it,” says one voice in the trailer. “Suddenly, there were events everywhere. It all happened so fast,” adds another.
The documentary captures the rise of bands including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches,...
“People went crazy for it,” says one voice in the trailer. “Suddenly, there were events everywhere. It all happened so fast,” adds another.
The documentary captures the rise of bands including The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, The Moldy Peaches,...
- 10/6/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Two decades ago, the trio of Karen O, Nick Zinner, and Brian Chase were leaders of New York’s downtown post-punk revival scene, taking on the malaise that hung over the early aughts with slashing riffs and yelp-along lyrics. On Cool It Down, their fifth album and first since 2013’s gritty Mosquito, they’re surveying an even more-debased landscape. Its fitful opener, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” sets the tone: Its blown-out guitars and staggering drums evoke the image of someone emerging from a smoldering pile of rubble.
- 9/30/2022
- by Maura Johnston
- Rollingstone.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down
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This is the way the Yeah Yeah Yeahs return, not with a “Bang” – as the lascivious punk lead track from their debut EP was named in 2001 – but with a sizzle. The electronic textures that have been underpinning Nick Zinner’s gruesome guitar slashes since 2009’s It’s Blitz!, and which kept the lo-fi retro-trash tunes of 2013’s last album Mosquito up to date, have, on this long-awaited fifth album, almost completely consumed the band. They’ve largely ditched guitars for the sort of dramatic, cavernous electronics favoured by Perfume Genius, who guests on the climate reckoning first single and album opener “Spitting Off the Edge of the World”. The eight tracks of Cool It Down (a real mission statement of a title) make for a quasi-gothic synth record that beefs up the Eighties revivalism of the past decade... even...
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This is the way the Yeah Yeah Yeahs return, not with a “Bang” – as the lascivious punk lead track from their debut EP was named in 2001 – but with a sizzle. The electronic textures that have been underpinning Nick Zinner’s gruesome guitar slashes since 2009’s It’s Blitz!, and which kept the lo-fi retro-trash tunes of 2013’s last album Mosquito up to date, have, on this long-awaited fifth album, almost completely consumed the band. They’ve largely ditched guitars for the sort of dramatic, cavernous electronics favoured by Perfume Genius, who guests on the climate reckoning first single and album opener “Spitting Off the Edge of the World”. The eight tracks of Cool It Down (a real mission statement of a title) make for a quasi-gothic synth record that beefs up the Eighties revivalism of the past decade... even...
- 9/29/2022
- by Mark Beaumont and Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
One of the greatest remaining bastions of Hollywood’s golden age, Musso & Frank has been beloved of everyone from Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe to Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones. The latest star to call herself a regular at the storied restaurant is North America’s premiere whistler, Molly Lewis. It’s a fitting match, as Lewis’s unique, wryly camp confection of tiki-bar blues is quite unlike anything else that’s been released since the heady days of the 1950s exotica boom. Lewis’s high-pitched birdsong is endlessly fascinating, sounding not unlike ear-piercing coloratura soprano Yma Sumac, who was the whistle-toned Ariana Grande of her day. Want a musician who seems like they might soundtrack Quentin Tarantino’s next movie? Molly Lewis is your woman.
I meet Lewis on a sticky summer’s evening at the infamous Los Angeles hideaway, ahead of the release of her second EP,...
I meet Lewis on a sticky summer’s evening at the infamous Los Angeles hideaway, ahead of the release of her second EP,...
- 9/11/2022
- by Leonie Cooper
- The Independent - Music
People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the second one.”
But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.
Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.
But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.
Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.
- 8/24/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the second one.”
But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.
Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.
But while it’s true that many an artist has struggled to meet expectations after a triumphant beginning, it shouldn’t take away from the achievements made on those first records. They serve as statements of intent and have the power to change or reshape the industry, inspire fellow musicians, and drive essential conversation about our understanding of music.
Whether it’s the rock on The Strokes’ much-hyped 2001 album Is This It or the rap prowess of Notorious Big on Ready to Die, introducing a genre to the rest of the world via Daft Punk’s Homework or creating a new one entirely with Black Sabbath – debut albums can take a previously unknown artist and lift them up to global adulation.
- 8/21/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
Yeah Yeah Yeahs hold onto a bit of hope for a world on fire on their new song “Burning,” the latest offering from the group’s upcoming album, Cool It Down, out Sept. 30 via Secretly Canadian.
“Burning,” as Karen O notes in a statement, contains a little lyrical nod to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ “Beggin’” — “Oooh lay your red hand on me baby,” she sings on the track — while the instrumentals also boast some of that soulful Sixties energy. On Friday, Yeah Yeah Yeahs also shared the West Side Story...
“Burning,” as Karen O notes in a statement, contains a little lyrical nod to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ “Beggin’” — “Oooh lay your red hand on me baby,” she sings on the track — while the instrumentals also boast some of that soulful Sixties energy. On Friday, Yeah Yeah Yeahs also shared the West Side Story...
- 8/12/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with their first new song in nearly a decade, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” the first offering from their upcoming album, Cool It Down, out Sept. 30 via Secretly Canadian.
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World” is a smoldering cut that finds Karen O sharing vocal duties with Perfume Genius, their voices combining as the song builds to a massive peak filled with crashing drums and keening guitar riffs. The track — produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek — also arrives with...
“Spitting Off the Edge of the World” is a smoldering cut that finds Karen O sharing vocal duties with Perfume Genius, their voices combining as the song builds to a massive peak filled with crashing drums and keening guitar riffs. The track — produced by TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek — also arrives with...
- 6/1/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Jeff Tweedy, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Karen O, Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, and Danielle Haim are among the hundreds of artists, actors, and authors that have contributed new work to For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, a five-volume collection of over 242 recordings inspired by birdsong.
The first volume in the yearlong rollout arrived on streaming services Friday, with Beck, Unkle, Beach House, Kurt Vile, Jarvis Cocker, Jim James, and Mark Ronson with Damon Albarn and Wale among the initial wave of artists in the charitable project. All proceeds from For...
The first volume in the yearlong rollout arrived on streaming services Friday, with Beck, Unkle, Beach House, Kurt Vile, Jarvis Cocker, Jim James, and Mark Ronson with Damon Albarn and Wale among the initial wave of artists in the charitable project. All proceeds from For...
- 5/20/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced a pair of headlining gigs in New York and Los Angeles, and with it the promise of new music later this year.
It’s been three years since the trio has played any U.S. shows — and nine years since their last album, 2013’s Mosquito — but that will change this fall when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs play New York’s Forest Hills Stadium on Oct. 1 followed by a gig at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 6.
Both shows will feature punk upstarts the Linda Lindas as special guest,...
It’s been three years since the trio has played any U.S. shows — and nine years since their last album, 2013’s Mosquito — but that will change this fall when the Yeah Yeah Yeahs play New York’s Forest Hills Stadium on Oct. 1 followed by a gig at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 6.
Both shows will feature punk upstarts the Linda Lindas as special guest,...
- 5/2/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Cynthia Albritton, also known as the legendary Cynthia Plaster Caster — the alias that sprung from her plaster casts of famous musician and artists’ body parts, mainly erect penises and women’s breasts — has died after a long illness on Thursday, friends close to the artist confirmed. She was 74.
What began as a college art project that fulfilled her “groupie” love for music became a decades-long work. Albritton’s first famous cast was Jimi Hendrix. She went on to document a range of musicians from different genres and eras, including Dennis Thompson...
What began as a college art project that fulfilled her “groupie” love for music became a decades-long work. Albritton’s first famous cast was Jimi Hendrix. She went on to document a range of musicians from different genres and eras, including Dennis Thompson...
- 4/22/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Adapting Lizzy Goodman’s novel of the same name, Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s Meet Me in the Bathroom captures the essence of late-90s, early-2000s New York, covering the periods right before and after 9/11. For primarily capturing the rise of the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and LCD Soundsystem, it represents a nostalgia for a time of independence, a moment in which an entire music scene could bloom out of near nothingness. Full of live concert footage and archival interviews, the documentary finds the two U.K.-based filmmakers embracing the shaggy, messy nature of the bands they’re depicting.
Ten years after their LCD Soundsytem concert doc Shut Up and Play the Hits, the directors assemble a mythological picture of New York, a city bursting at the seams with new musicians and a new wave of rock. Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and Karen O of the...
Ten years after their LCD Soundsytem concert doc Shut Up and Play the Hits, the directors assemble a mythological picture of New York, a city bursting at the seams with new musicians and a new wave of rock. Julian Casablancas of the Strokes and Karen O of the...
- 2/3/2022
- by Michael Frank
- The Film Stage
There’s a montage early on in Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s documentary “Meet Me in the Bathroom” that is bound to give any geriatric millennial pause. The year is 1999. It’s New Year’s Eve in New York City. President Bill Clinton is speaking on television, full of optimism for the new century, while doomsday preppers stock up on ammo in anticipation of the Y2K bug plunging the world into a technological dark age. With the Twin Towers looming peacefully in the background and nary a cell phone in sight, five Manhattanites barely out of their teens are poised to emerge as the saviors of rock and roll, which as far as anyone knows will continue to occupy the center of popular music for years to come. Was that really that long ago? Were we ever so young?
Offering a vivid time capsule of New York rock...
Offering a vivid time capsule of New York rock...
- 1/24/2022
- by Andrew Barker
- Variety Film + TV
Warning: contains spoilers for the Hanna season three finale.
At some point on the drawing board for the Hanna season three finale, there was perhaps a version of the ending in which Hanna, her assassination-target-turned-lover Abbas and his six-year-old daughter Nadiya enjoy a sun-kissed moment at a coastal Mediterranean villa with whitewashed walls and a garden planted with orange trees and grape vines. That was the fantasy Hanna and Abbas created after spending their first night together in the safe house where he was hiding from Utrax assassins.
Instead, the season three finale had Hanna say goodbye to Abbas and Nadiya at Vienna airport, ushering them towards CIA white-hats Carl and Terri to receive their new identities and government protection. Abbas reminded Hanna about their shared fantasy future but she told him that she couldn’t go with them. She had to begin again somewhere nobody knows her to escape everything that had happened.
At some point on the drawing board for the Hanna season three finale, there was perhaps a version of the ending in which Hanna, her assassination-target-turned-lover Abbas and his six-year-old daughter Nadiya enjoy a sun-kissed moment at a coastal Mediterranean villa with whitewashed walls and a garden planted with orange trees and grape vines. That was the fantasy Hanna and Abbas created after spending their first night together in the safe house where he was hiding from Utrax assassins.
Instead, the season three finale had Hanna say goodbye to Abbas and Nadiya at Vienna airport, ushering them towards CIA white-hats Carl and Terri to receive their new identities and government protection. Abbas reminded Hanna about their shared fantasy future but she told him that she couldn’t go with them. She had to begin again somewhere nobody knows her to escape everything that had happened.
- 11/24/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Following his live-action/animation hybrid The Congress in 2013, Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman is finally returning this year with his long-awaited project Where Is Anne Frank. Now set to premiere at Cannes Film Festival, the first trailer has arrived for the adaptation of Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl. Notably, the film features music from Karen O and Mgmt’s Ben Goldwasser, which can be heard in the trailer.
The film, which takes place in the near future follows Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend and the one that Anne devoted her entire diary to, who magically comes to life at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. She believes that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well. She sets out on a relentless quest to find Anne.
Watch the trailer below for the film featuring the voices of Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Sebastian Croft,...
The film, which takes place in the near future follows Kitty, Anne Frank’s imaginary friend and the one that Anne devoted her entire diary to, who magically comes to life at the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam. She believes that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well. She sets out on a relentless quest to find Anne.
Watch the trailer below for the film featuring the voices of Emily Carey, Ruby Stokes, Sebastian Croft,...
- 7/7/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
With it being nearly eight years since the release of Spike Jonze’s Her, we expected this is a headline that would arrive sooner, but Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett’s score will finally be getting a release for the first time.
The Oscar-nominated score will be coming from Milan Records and arriving on March 19 for streaming and on vinyl and cassette. “It was an honor to be asked by our friend Spike Jonze to work on the Her score,” Arcade Fire’s Win Butler said. “There is a mysterious alchemy in the way sound and picture work together, notes and moods shifting and reacting to one another like a kaleidoscope… And even in the absence of visuals, the emotional landscape still remains. We hope you have a moment of stillness to get lost in the music as we did writing and recording it.”
“The band had been talking about...
The Oscar-nominated score will be coming from Milan Records and arriving on March 19 for streaming and on vinyl and cassette. “It was an honor to be asked by our friend Spike Jonze to work on the Her score,” Arcade Fire’s Win Butler said. “There is a mysterious alchemy in the way sound and picture work together, notes and moods shifting and reacting to one another like a kaleidoscope… And even in the absence of visuals, the emotional landscape still remains. We hope you have a moment of stillness to get lost in the music as we did writing and recording it.”
“The band had been talking about...
- 2/10/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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