Last week, Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie walked back comments to the BBC that the band might tour again, but without Stevie Nicks or John McVie. As she told Rolling Stone, it was a “cheeky answer” to a question about the band’s future and not necessarily true.
But for anyone who’s worked with Fleetwood Mac, the ride has never been an easy one; just ask Mike Vernon, whose British label, Blue Horizon, released the first Mac music back in the late Sixties. As Vernon recalls, guitarist and founder...
But for anyone who’s worked with Fleetwood Mac, the ride has never been an easy one; just ask Mike Vernon, whose British label, Blue Horizon, released the first Mac music back in the late Sixties. As Vernon recalls, guitarist and founder...
- 2/25/2021
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
If there’s one song that sums up the stoic guitar genius of Peter Green, it’s “Jumping at Shadows,” recorded live in February 1970, at the Boston Tea Party. Green was on top of the world; a 23-year-old rock star leading the London band he founded, Fleetwood Mac. They were the toast of Britain, riding their Number One hit “Albatross.” But “Jumping at Shadows” is a doomy blues ballad, his voice full of wistful dread, his guitar full of delicate pain. “I’m going downhill and I blame myself,” he sings.
- 7/26/2020
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Eric Clapton, Gary Clark. Jr., Jeff Beck and other guitar icons will appear on the Crossroads Festival’s first-ever vinyl set, a six-lp live release.
Performances from Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Steve Winwood, Zz Top, Joe Walsh, Keith Urban, Susan Tedeschi with the Derek Trucks Band, Willie Nelson and Buddy Guy also appear on the package, Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festival, out December 6th via Rhino.
Clapton’s selections include “Cocaine,” “Crossroads,” “Layla,” “Have You Ever Loved a Woman,” a cover of George Harrison...
Performances from Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Carlos Santana, James Taylor, Steve Winwood, Zz Top, Joe Walsh, Keith Urban, Susan Tedeschi with the Derek Trucks Band, Willie Nelson and Buddy Guy also appear on the package, Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festival, out December 6th via Rhino.
Clapton’s selections include “Cocaine,” “Crossroads,” “Layla,” “Have You Ever Loved a Woman,” a cover of George Harrison...
- 10/15/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Scott Rosenbaum’s documentary profiling three legendary blues musicians arrives too late. The film chronicles the lives and careers of Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin and Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, who all passed away in 2011. That, as well as the onscreen interviews with deceased musicians such as Gregg Allman and Johnny Winter, lends an undeniable elegiac quality to Sidemen: Long Road to Glory. The film should prove catnip to music lovers, especially blues fans.
None of the three subjects are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but as the film makes abundantly clear, they should be. Sumlin was a...
None of the three subjects are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but as the film makes abundantly clear, they should be. Sumlin was a...
- 8/16/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
– Netflix has acquired the worldwide Svod rights to Drake Doremus’ “Newness,” Deadline reports. The film stars Nicholas Hoult and Laia Costa as a couple in contemporary Los Angeles navigating the world of online dating and social media–driven hookup culture. The film was a last-minute addition to the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and co-stars Matthew Gray Gubler, Courtney Eaton, Danny Huston and Courtney Eaton. Netflix acquired the rights in a reported seven-figure deal.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired writer-director Angus MacLachlan’s second feature film, “Abundant Acreage Available.” The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay Award in the U.S. Narrative Competition. The film focuses on siblings Tracy (Amy Ryan) and Jesse...
- 6/16/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Oftentimes, the best and brightest of our musical talent never get to take center stage as an adoring crowd cheers them to glory. Some of the industry's most talented players happily occupy backstage roles, studio slots or, in the case of the subjects of Scott Rosenbaum's SXSW premiere "Sidemen - Long Road to Glory," careers as sidemen. Rosenbaum's new documentary focuses on some of American music's most skilled (and most unheralded) stars, so-called "sidemen" Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Hubert Sumlin, lovingly bringing the three men's individual and collective stories to the big screen in a toe-tapping, eye-opening new feature. Read More: SXSW 2016 Coverage From Indiewire Per the film's official synopsis, the film is "an intimate look at the lives and legacies of piano player Pinetop Perkins, drummer Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith and guitarist Hubert Sumlin, all Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf sidemen. The film captures some of the.
- 3/15/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Bob Dylan, Jack White and the late B.B. King are among the scores of musicians featured in the new documentary, Born in Chicago, which chronicles the remarkable transformation and evolution of the blues that took place in the city during the 1950s and 1960s.
Directed by John Anderson — who helmed the concert portion of Brian Wilson's Smile — the film recently launched a PledgeMusic campaign to raise money to secure the rights for the music and archival footage used in the documentary. Born in Chicago is otherwise finished, and has...
Directed by John Anderson — who helmed the concert portion of Brian Wilson's Smile — the film recently launched a PledgeMusic campaign to raise money to secure the rights for the music and archival footage used in the documentary. Born in Chicago is otherwise finished, and has...
- 7/23/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Detroit has Motown, but the Mississippi delta is where it all began. The gospel, folk, soul and R&B music that developed there evolved into modern pop and became the soundtrack for multiple generations of Americans; and the city of Memphis became this cultural oasis for all sorts of musical experiments and breakthroughs, exemplified by the heyday of Stax Records. In Take Me To the River, filmmaker Martin Shore paired old-school legends with current hip-hop artists for an album and a documentary about the timeless language of music that speaks across all generations and races.
“Outside, on the streets of Memphis,...
“Outside, on the streets of Memphis,...
- 8/14/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
July 11
8:00 p.m.
Buttercup Park
4901 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
As part of Chicago Filmmakers’ Summer Fun! series of movies for the whole family to be enjoyed in the great outdoors, Born in Chicago chronicles the rise of the “blues-rock explosion” when a bunch of eager white teenagers sought to learn the blues from the masters themselves. This upbeat, inspirational documentary is directed by John Anderson and will screen outdoors at Buttercup Park.
Here’s the official description, then watch the documentary trailer below:
Born In Chicago is the untold history of the Chicago blues evolution of the early sixties. Featuring the stories of of white middle-class aspiring musicians who cut their teeth in the city’s tough blues neighborhoods, were taken under the wing of the Chicago greats, and went on to spark the “blues-rock explosion.” Featuring blues masters Marshall Chess, Elvin Bishop, Michael Bloomfield,...
8:00 p.m.
Buttercup Park
4901 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, Il 60640
Hosted by: Chicago Filmmakers
As part of Chicago Filmmakers’ Summer Fun! series of movies for the whole family to be enjoyed in the great outdoors, Born in Chicago chronicles the rise of the “blues-rock explosion” when a bunch of eager white teenagers sought to learn the blues from the masters themselves. This upbeat, inspirational documentary is directed by John Anderson and will screen outdoors at Buttercup Park.
Here’s the official description, then watch the documentary trailer below:
Born In Chicago is the untold history of the Chicago blues evolution of the early sixties. Featuring the stories of of white middle-class aspiring musicians who cut their teeth in the city’s tough blues neighborhoods, were taken under the wing of the Chicago greats, and went on to spark the “blues-rock explosion.” Featuring blues masters Marshall Chess, Elvin Bishop, Michael Bloomfield,...
- 7/9/2013
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Psychedelic Pill (Reprise)
A far better album than Young & Crazy Horse's shabby Americana from earlier this year, not so much because it's songs written by Neil (certainly nobody will be impressed by the rather feeble lyrics on display here) as that he stretches out and jams with the Horse. Really stretches out, as in tracks lasting 27:35, 16:48, 8:33, and 16:26 (along with five tracks in the three- to four-minute range). He quit drugs, but he didn't quit reaching for another state of mind; I'd even say that he may be using this music as his drug. The hypnotic trips he takes here make this his best new album in over twenty years, and one of his top five post-'70s albums. Pretty good for a guy who just celebrated his 67th birthday.
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant (4Ad)
This could have been a style rip-off.
A far better album than Young & Crazy Horse's shabby Americana from earlier this year, not so much because it's songs written by Neil (certainly nobody will be impressed by the rather feeble lyrics on display here) as that he stretches out and jams with the Horse. Really stretches out, as in tracks lasting 27:35, 16:48, 8:33, and 16:26 (along with five tracks in the three- to four-minute range). He quit drugs, but he didn't quit reaching for another state of mind; I'd even say that he may be using this music as his drug. The hypnotic trips he takes here make this his best new album in over twenty years, and one of his top five post-'70s albums. Pretty good for a guy who just celebrated his 67th birthday.
David Byrne & St. Vincent: Love This Giant (4Ad)
This could have been a style rip-off.
- 11/19/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Eric Clapton and Keith Richards will perform at “Howlin’ For Hubert,” a celebration of the musical legacy of the late Hubert Sumlin and his influence on every guitar hero of today, on February 24 at New York’s legendary Apollo Theater. The evening will benefit the Jazz Foundation of America.
The concert will also feature performances by Doyle Bramhall II, Gary Clark Jr., James Cotton, Shemekia Copeland, Billy Flynn, Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, Buddy Guy, David Johansen, Steve Jordan, Danny Kortchmar, Dr. John, Keb Mo, Todd Mohr, Ivan Neville, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Larry Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimmy Vivino, Willie Weeks, Jody Williams, Kim Wilson, and other special surprise guests.
Read more...
The concert will also feature performances by Doyle Bramhall II, Gary Clark Jr., James Cotton, Shemekia Copeland, Billy Flynn, Barrelhouse Chuck Goering, Buddy Guy, David Johansen, Steve Jordan, Danny Kortchmar, Dr. John, Keb Mo, Todd Mohr, Ivan Neville, Robert Randolph, Kenny Wayne Sheperd, Larry Taylor, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Jimmie Vaughan, Jimmy Vivino, Willie Weeks, Jody Williams, Kim Wilson, and other special surprise guests.
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- 2/23/2012
- Look to the Stars
Is this the biggest Beale Street Music Festival line-up ever? The list of artists announced for the festival, a three-day party in Memphis beginning April 29, features four 2011 Grammy Winners and a wide range of cross-genre talent. This year's festival will have more pop and hip-hop tunes than ever before, while still maintaining the local flavor and blues talent that's a staple of the festival.
Check out the artist line-up below. Tickets are on sale now.
Friday: Free Sol, Cake, B.O.B., Jason Mraz, Manchester Orchestra, Cage the Elephant, Mgmt, Flaming Lips, Egypt Central, Everclear, Slightly Stoopid, Stone Temple Pilots, Will Tucker Band, Big Bill Morganfield, Tommy Castro, Jimmie Vaughan with Lou Ann Barton
Saturday: Amy Lavere, Paul Thorn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mumford & Sons, Lucinda Williams, John Mellencamp, Lotus, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band, The New Pornographers w/ Neko Case, Macy Gray, Kirk Whalum, Charlie Wilson, Travis Wammack, Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition,...
Check out the artist line-up below. Tickets are on sale now.
Friday: Free Sol, Cake, B.O.B., Jason Mraz, Manchester Orchestra, Cage the Elephant, Mgmt, Flaming Lips, Egypt Central, Everclear, Slightly Stoopid, Stone Temple Pilots, Will Tucker Band, Big Bill Morganfield, Tommy Castro, Jimmie Vaughan with Lou Ann Barton
Saturday: Amy Lavere, Paul Thorn, Jerry Lee Lewis, Mumford & Sons, Lucinda Williams, John Mellencamp, Lotus, The Experimental Tropic Blues Band, The New Pornographers w/ Neko Case, Macy Gray, Kirk Whalum, Charlie Wilson, Travis Wammack, Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition,...
- 3/3/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The 2011 Grammy Awards were big for the ladies -- country trio Lady Antebellum took home the most awards with five, while Lady Gaga earned three. Eminem had two honors, but Alternative Rock group Arcade Fire won the coveted Album of the Year.
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
- 2/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
By Adam Rosenberg
This has got to be one of the worst summers on record. Today brings the tragic news that revolutionary axeman Les Paul has died at the age of 94. Paul's life was a full and a joyful one. He continued plugging away at his art through many of his twilight years in a weekly Monday night gig at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. I'm terribly sad that I'll never get to catch one of those Les Paul Trio performances now, as I've always meant to. I did have one very special encounter with the legendary guitarist, though.
Back in 2003, I was working at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in Times Square (just around the corner from my office at MTV). In June of that year, King himself came to town for a series of private performances to celebrate the club's third anniversary. I worked...
This has got to be one of the worst summers on record. Today brings the tragic news that revolutionary axeman Les Paul has died at the age of 94. Paul's life was a full and a joyful one. He continued plugging away at his art through many of his twilight years in a weekly Monday night gig at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. I'm terribly sad that I'll never get to catch one of those Les Paul Trio performances now, as I've always meant to. I did have one very special encounter with the legendary guitarist, though.
Back in 2003, I was working at B.B. King's Blues Club & Grill in Times Square (just around the corner from my office at MTV). In June of that year, King himself came to town for a series of private performances to celebrate the club's third anniversary. I worked...
- 8/13/2009
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Still at the peak of his powers, the Wolf moans like a full moon’s overhead
Listening to the studio recordings of blues legend Howlin’ Wolf (born Chester Arthur Burnett in White Station, Miss., in 1910), it’s immediately apparent that the man was a force of nature—considering he was 6’3”, 275 lbs., had eyes like lightning and a voice like a bag of shattered glass, it’s no surprise. But it was onstage—in front of his gawking audiences—where Wolf truly unleashed the beast. His stage antics—which at times found him crawling around howling like a man possessed—were ferocious, and the sheer power of his vocals have never been matched by anyone: not Muddy Waters or James Brown, not Janis Joplin or Joe Cocker, not James Hetfield or Axl Rose; not even Pavarotti himself could touch Burnett at the mic. This performance, recorded live in Bremen, Germany, in...
Listening to the studio recordings of blues legend Howlin’ Wolf (born Chester Arthur Burnett in White Station, Miss., in 1910), it’s immediately apparent that the man was a force of nature—considering he was 6’3”, 275 lbs., had eyes like lightning and a voice like a bag of shattered glass, it’s no surprise. But it was onstage—in front of his gawking audiences—where Wolf truly unleashed the beast. His stage antics—which at times found him crawling around howling like a man possessed—were ferocious, and the sheer power of his vocals have never been matched by anyone: not Muddy Waters or James Brown, not Janis Joplin or Joe Cocker, not James Hetfield or Axl Rose; not even Pavarotti himself could touch Burnett at the mic. This performance, recorded live in Bremen, Germany, in...
- 4/17/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
- That Air Bud kid sure grew up fast. No longer cheering on an unusually athletic golden retriever, former child-actor Kevin Zegers’ career took a vital turn with his role as Toby, the son of a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, in Transamerica. According to Variety, the handsome 23-year-old will be starring alongside Jason Ritter in the upcoming indie rock-u-drama The Perfect Age of Rock n’ Roll. Zegers will play a rock star whose second album takes a major flop, thus prompting him to hide away in his Long Island hometown. Loyal to its title, there will be plenty of music, as musicians Billy Morrison, Pinetop Perkins, Hubert Sumlin and Sugar Blue will be making appearances. No stranger to musically-inclined pics, Spike Lee is signed on as exec producer. The pic will be directed by Scott Rosenbaum, who also penned the screenplay. Additionally featured in the rock pic are Peter Fonda, Taryn Manning and Lauren Holly.
- 6/5/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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