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What’s
So Great About ‘Avatar,’ ‘Titanic’?
Four reasons James Cameron’s
epic films became epic hits.
Redford
Revives Sundance’s Rebellious Roots
No ball gowns or tuxedos here:
Redford’s bringing back the ‘dance’s indie roots.
PHOTOS:
Mischa Barton’s Raciest Role Yet
Barton will play pregnant
prostitute on television show.
PHOTOS:
The Late ‘Rainman’s’ Dad’s Dust-up With Dustin
The actor has been
accused of exploiting the film’s real-life inspiration.
Roky
Erickson Works with Okkervil River on New Album
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width=170 height=144> Roky Erickson, the frontman of the legendary 13th Floor
Elevators (whose immortal 1966 debut, The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th
Floor Elevators, somehow seemingly invented both garage-rock and
psychedelic-rock), is set to release his first album of original material in 15
years. True Love Cast Out All Evil will be released April 20 on Anti-
Records, the Los Angeles label who has amassed quite a roster of rock’n'roll
renegades (Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Os Mutantes, and Merle Haggard amongst them).
Collaborating with Erickson on the album were fellow Austin-dwellers
Okkervil River. True Love Cast Out All Evil consists of songs Erickson
authored over the last 40 years, telling, in many ways, the life-story of a
musician whose battles with mental illness have been long and harrowing (a
narrative profoundly told in the 2005 documentary You’re Gonna Miss Me: A
Film About Roky Erickson).
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff,
working as producer, litters the new record with “found-sound and archival
recordings culled from Erickson’s home videos and recordings made in the Rusk
State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.”
“I was given sixty unreleased
songs to choose from,” Sheff explains, in the album’s press materials. “Because
we started with so many songs to choose from, the quality of the material we
ended up with was exhilarating. This is not a cynical comeback record, a
lukewarm update on an established legacy – these are the best songs Roky has
ever written, unreleased due to decades plagued by the kind of personal
tragedies that would destroy someone less resilient.”
Erickson Works with Okkervil River on New Album originally appeared on About.com
Alternative Music on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at 08:00:33.
Billy Talent Get Freaky
With Human Sock Puppets Video
What do you do when you want to make a
video that’s simultaneously deep, creepy and kinda neat at once? You dress
people up in wool sock puppet outfits and film some kind of drama at Toronto’s
Pioneer Village. That’s exactly what Billy Talent did for
Charlie
Hunter Has ‘Neglected To Inform You’
The jazz composer and
guitarist’s specially designed instrument allows him to play bass lines and
guitar melodies at once. He talks about his unusual ax, his unusual recording
process and his unusual new album title.
Quartet
San Francisco: Brubeck On Strings
The chamber ensemble earned two
Grammy nominations for its 2009 album, which rearranged classic tunes by the
jazz composer Dave Brubeck. On the eve of the Grammy Awards, the string quartet
visited NPR to play songs like “Blue Rondo a la Turk.”
TCM names
Hard Day’s Night among Most Influential Soundtracks
In honor of the
upcoming Grammys, Turner Classic Movies has made a list of the 15 most
ground-breaking and influential film soundtracks. Among the rock and roll
soundtracks included on the list is the 1964 Beatles film, A Hard Days Night.
Others listed include The Graduate, American Graffiti and Saturday Night
Fever.
`Transformers,’
`Land of the Lost’ lead Razzies (AP)
AP – “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” made a
fortune. “Land of the Lost” tanked.
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