Aha! Weezer’s Take On Me video is here! Starring Calpurnia: Finn Wolfhard, Ayla Tesler-Mabe, Malcolm Craig, Jack Anderson.
‘I Am Richard Pryor’ Official Trailer Is Out Now
Trailblazer, comic, icon. Richard Pryor always spoke his truth and opened the doors for countless comics and performers who came after him. ‘I Am Richard Pryor’ comes to the Paramount Network March 15th at 10/9c.
The original documentary series “I Am” is an inside look at the lives of extraordinary individuals as told by the people who knew them best.
Watch The Trailer For New Beatles-Fueled “Yesterday” Movie Directed By Danny Boyle
Yesterday, everyone knew The Beatles. Today, only Jack remembers their songs. He’s about to become a very big deal. From Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) and Richard Curtis, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually and Notting Hill, comes a rock-n-roll comedy about music, dreams, friendship, and the long and winding road that leads to the love of your life.
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel, BBC’s Eastenders) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie (Lily James, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again). Then, after a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes up to discover that The Beatles have never existed … and he finds himself with a very complicated problem, indeed.
Performing songs by the greatest band in history to a world that has never heard them, and with a little help from his steel-hearted American agent, Debra (Emmy winner Kate McKinnon), Jack’s fame explodes. But as his star rises, he risks losing Ellie — the one person who always believed in him. With the door between his old life and his new closing, Jack will need to get back to where he once belonged and prove that all you need is love. The movie also stars Ed Sheeran, seen suggesting that Jack choose “Hey Dude” as the title for his soaring “new” composition.
Featuring new versions of The Beatles’ most beloved hits, Yesterday is produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner (Love Actually, About A Boy, the Bridget Jones series) alongside Matthew James Wilkinson and Bernie Bellew. Curtis and Boyle also produce. Nick Angel and Lee Brazier serve as executive producers.
My Next Read: The Final Days Of EMI: Selling the Pig
The Beatles. The Beach Boys. Blur, Bowie, Kylie Minogue, Kate Bush and Coldplay. EMI was one of the big four record companies, with some of the biggest names in the history of recorded music on its roster. Dominating the music industry for over 100 years, by 2010 EMI Group had reported massive pre-tax losses. The group was divided up and sold in 2011. How could one of the greatest recording companies of the 20th century have ended like this? With interviews from insiders and music industry experts, Eamonn Forde pieces together the tragic end to a financial juggernaut and a cultural institution in forensic detail. The Final Days of EMI: Selling the Pig is the story of the British recording industry, laid bare in all its hubris and glory.
You can get it here.
Pearl Jam Are Your 2019 Record Store Day Ambassadors
Your 2019 Record Store Day ambassadors are Pearl Jam, producing videos, and also creating some fantastic releases to mark the day, which takes place on April 13. Past ambassadors for Record Store Day have included Run The Jewels, St. Vincent, Metallica, and Dave Grohl.
“Pearl Jam is honored to be Record Store Day’s Ambassador for 2019. Independent record stores are hugely important to me, and have been ever since I was 12 years-old. Before I even really knew what they were — there was a certain feeling of ‘this is a dream come true,’ and it’s a wonderland and there’s so much to learn in here… and it’s still that way. “I always feel a little bit better when I come out of a record store.
Support every independent record store that you can. They’re really a good part of society. Know if you love music, this is the place to find it. And it helps people who work here and that’s important, too. And it kind of takes an effort, you have to look for something that you want; you have to talk to people. I had to talk to people to figure out which Aerosmith record to get first or anything back in the day. It’s a place to learn. It’s a place to have fun. And it’s a place to discover new music.
Come out on Record Store Day, but also make it Record Store Year.”
Hey Rosetta!’s Tom Baker Announces Canadian Tour And New Album, Forever Overhead
At the end of 2017, twelve years after their inception, the multi-award-winning band, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus, after selling 10,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band’s principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker, this was the start of a new chapter.
On his debut solo album Forever Overhead, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing, on the first single “Dance,” is akin to a toast: “here’s to the other side.” What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker’s sharp songwriting, the heart of Hey Rosetta!, is as affecting as ever.
When crafting the album, Baker drew from 70s songwriters, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist, Leif Vollebekk, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National, Local Natives), Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O’Neill (Suuns), Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson).
In the album’s opening track “Dance,” Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym’s confetti-lined linoleum floor, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners’ lives.
Tour Dates:
4/20 St. John’s, NL – Holy Heart Theatre
4/23 Toronto, ON – Great Hall
4/26 Ottawa, ON – Bronson Centre
4/27 Quebec City, QC – Maelstrom
4/29 Fredericton, NB -Wilmot United Church
4/30 Moncton, NB – Tide and Boar Ballroom
5/2 Charlottetown, PE – ECMAs
5/4 Halifax, NS – St. Matthew’s United Church
5/7 Montreal, QC -Le Ministère
5/8 NYC, NY – Rockwood Music Hall
5/29 Edmonton, AB – The Starlite
5/30 Calgary, AB – Commonwealth
6/1 Vancouver, BC – Imperial
6/3 Seattle, WA – Columbia City Theater
6/4 Portland, OR – Old Church
6/7 Los Angeles, CA – Hotel Cafe
6/8 San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah
FOREVER OVERHEAD Track Listing:
1) Dance
2) All Hands
3) Hideaway
4) Spirit
5) Strange River
6) The Eighteenth Hole
7) Two Mirrors
8) Pools
9) The Sound of the Machines
10) Our Team
11) Don’t Let Me Go Yet
A Brief History of Guitar Distortion
Polyphonic takes us through the blues and rock scenes from the 1940s to the 1980s to look at the invention and evolution of the electric guitar distortion. The ’90s could have been its own video, I know.
Watch The Previously Unreleased Music Video For The Ramones’ “She’s the One”
You’re watching the official music video for Ramones – ‘She’s The One’ from the 1978 album ‘Road To Ruin’. ‘Road To Ruin’ just turned 40, and Rhino is celebrating the milestone with a 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. It’s available now!
ROAD TO RUIN: 40th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION, a 3CD/1LP including a remastered version of the original and a new 40th anniversary mix by co-producer Ed Stasium, along with an unreleased live show recorded in New York in 1979, and a treasure trove of unissued mixes, alternate versions & rare tracks.
Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ as a Heavy Metal Song
Oltedal, Norway-based vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studios shows more of what he’s truly capable of as he gives a metal makeover to Michael Jackson’s classic 1982 hit, “Thriller.”
The First Trailer for the ‘Shaft’ Reboot
More Shaft than you can handle. Only in theaters June 14.
New Line Cinema’s action comedy “Shaft” is the next chapter in the film franchise featuring the coolest private eye on any New York City block.
Tim Story (the “Ride Along” and “Think Like a Man” franchises) directs this all-new take on a legend, starring Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson (“Pulp Fiction,” “Kong: Skull Island”), Jessie T. Usher (TV’s “Survivor’s Remorse,” “Almost Christmas”), Regina Hall (“Girls Trip,” “Barbershop: The Next Cut”), Alexandra Shipp (“Straight Outta Compton,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”), Matt Lauria (TV’s “Kingdom,” “Friday Night Lights”), Titus Welliver (“Argo,” TV’s “Bosch”), Cliff “Method Man” Smith (“Keanu,” “Train Wreck”), and Richard Roundtree, the original John Shaft.
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr. (Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft (Jackson) agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ’s own FBI analyst’s badge may clash with his dad’s trademark leather duster, there’s no denying family. Besides, Shaft’s got an agenda of his own, and a score to settle that’s professional and personal.