Before even opening a physical copy of Beastie Boys Book, you already know that Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz are great storytellers – it’s one of the qualities that makes their music great. So it’s no surprise that these nearly 600 pages are jam-packed with hilarious anecdotes about everything from a long-con prank involving a cursed piece of jewelry that Adam Yauch pulled on Horovitz to the guys walking Lee “Scratch” Perry through Greenwich Village’s famed Halloween parade. Beastie Boys Book also offers fascinating first-person accounts of post-punk New York City in the Eighties,...
- 12/26/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Al Yankovic can be described in a lot of ways besides "Weird." Most people know that he's a chart-topping singer-songwriter, a director-producer, a top-notch parodist, an author and a die-hard polka enthusiast. Even those who have followed his career closely, however, may have forgotten he was, for a brief moment, the host of a short-lived children's television show.
The Weird Al Show debuted on CBS on September 13, 1997 as part of their Saturday morning lineup. Each episode began with the all important "today's lesson" before viewers were invited into Yankovic's underground...
The Weird Al Show debuted on CBS on September 13, 1997 as part of their Saturday morning lineup. Each episode began with the all important "today's lesson" before viewers were invited into Yankovic's underground...
- 9/13/2017
- Rollingstone.com
With a name like Butthole Surfers you might just think the band is a whole joke and that they make surfer rock with their butts. Although, that would be kind of gross and completely awesome at the same time, the Butthole Surfers are a rock band that incorporate many different styles throughout their music.They were formed in the year 1981 under the blazing Texas Sun. This was a band that existed under the radar for about the first ten years, and were known only to their hardcore fans. These guys have attitude, grace and years of drug use that flows […]...
- 7/10/2015
- by Bella Elbaum
- Monsters and Critics
In the summer of 1995, Cheryl Strayed pulled on her boots and took off for some kind of long, important hike (spoiler alert!) that provided the basis for her Oprah-endorsed book Wild, and the Reese Witherspoon film adaptation that opens this weekend. Cheryl seems like an alternative kind of gal to me, so this week, let’s hop in my DeLorean Gif and take a gander at the Billboard Modern Rock charts from the week of July 16, 1995. There is much to love! There is also Chris Berman doing comedy. Enjoy.40. "Can’t Cry Anymore," Sheryl CrowModern rock radio didn’t really know what it was in the post-Cobain, pre-Durst landscape of 1995, so it simply played whoever was new and white. Hence this song — by my calculations exactly as provocative as a Kelly Ripa Electrolux commercial — got some spins alongside the Butthole Surfers. 1995 was weird. 39. "Need You...
- 12/5/2014
- by Dave Holmes
- Vulture
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the first fully authorized documentary about the late Nirvana frontman, will see release on HBO in 2015. The film is the first to be made with the cooperation of Cobain's family, and was written, directed and produced by Oscar-nominee Brett Morgen (On the Ropes, Crossfire Hurricane).
Morgen and his team were given access to Cobain's entire personal and family archives, and the film will consequently boast footage from numerous Nirvana performances, plus previously unheard songs and never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos and songbooks.
Morgen and his team were given access to Cobain's entire personal and family archives, and the film will consequently boast footage from numerous Nirvana performances, plus previously unheard songs and never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos and songbooks.
- 11/25/2014
- Rollingstone.com
For the fourth episode of the Foo Fighters' musical travelogue Sonic Highways, Dave Grohl and Co. headed to Austin, Texas Friday night to explore the history and culture of, as Grohl put it, "some of the weirdest, freakiest stuff in the city that inspires people all over the world." Delving into everything from Austin City Limits and South by Southwest to Willie Nelson, Roky Erickson and Butthole Surfers, the episode deftly cast a wide net on the diverse city. "When you bailed from your hometown," said Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes,...
- 11/8/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Kurt Cobain created a mixtape in the late 80s that’s been rediscovered on the Internet with fans stating that it gives a deeper look into the Nirvana frontman’s psyche.
Kurt Cobain 'Montage Of Heck'
Cobain's "Montage of Heck" has found some new life online over the past few days. It contains snippets from his personal record collection and the radio, band demos that wound up on Nirvana albums as well as sounds Cobain recorded and/or created – including urinating into a toilet and the toilet's flush. It also includes bits of dialogue from vintage TV shows and movies, as well as from conversations with his friends.
There's an 8-minute mono version of the mixtape, as well as a 36-minute full-length version.
Kurt Cobain's "Montage Of Heck" from SpaceEcho on Vimeo.
Tracy Marander On The Mixtape
While most reports claim that Cobain created the mixtape in 1988 on a 4-track cassette recorder,...
Kurt Cobain 'Montage Of Heck'
Cobain's "Montage of Heck" has found some new life online over the past few days. It contains snippets from his personal record collection and the radio, band demos that wound up on Nirvana albums as well as sounds Cobain recorded and/or created – including urinating into a toilet and the toilet's flush. It also includes bits of dialogue from vintage TV shows and movies, as well as from conversations with his friends.
There's an 8-minute mono version of the mixtape, as well as a 36-minute full-length version.
Kurt Cobain's "Montage Of Heck" from SpaceEcho on Vimeo.
Tracy Marander On The Mixtape
While most reports claim that Cobain created the mixtape in 1988 on a 4-track cassette recorder,...
- 11/4/2014
- Uinterview
Fueled By Ramen recording artist Rome has announced details of his long awaited debut album. “Get Free” arrives everywhere on August 12th. “Get Free” is heralded by the first single, “If The World,” which is available now on the iTunes Store and all leading DSPs. “Get Free” finds Rome taking a more Diy approach to his music, holing up in El Paso, TX, with producer/songwriter Dave Bassett to write and record the entire 10-song collection. The 24-year old singer-songwriter - best known as the frontman for Sublime with Rome - played nearly every instrument on the album with the exception of drums – which came courtesy of Bouncing Souls’ Michael McDermott and Sublime with Rome bandmate Josh Freese - and a featured appearance by Butthole Surfers guitar hero Paul Leary on the...
- 6/11/2014
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
A review of tonight's "Mad Men" coming up just as soon as my computer's making me a homo... "I know what he likes." -Megan What a strange episode of "Mad Men" was "The Runaways," full of long-lost characters like Stephanie, strange bedfellows (sometimes quite literally), desperation plays and the mental disintegration of poor Michael Ginsberg. By the time he presented his severed nipple to Peggy in a box — in an episode that also featured a threesome and Sally being injured in a sword fight of sorts — I began wondering if I hadn't somehow left tonight's "Game of Thrones" on for an extra hour. The show has done crazier episodes — Roger taking LSD, or Don turning into Richard Speck — but they ultimately felt more cohesive even with all their weirdness, where "The Runaways" at times felt like a collection of odd ideas all placed into the same episode in the hope that they would fit together.
- 5/12/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
‘Soaked in Bleach’ Trailer: The Kurt Cobain Death Conspiracy Docudrama Starring That Guy From ‘Lost’
We’ve already had one great documentary spinning theories about Kurt Cobain‘s death (Nick Broomfield’s Kurt & Courtney) and one great dramatization of the last days of the Nirvana frontman (Gus Van Sant’s Last Days), but now there’s a (possibly great?) movie coming out that combines both approaches. Today is the 20th anniversary of when Cobain’s body was found dead, so of course the first trailer for this new docudrama has just arrived online. Titled Soaked in Bleach, it combines interviews with people associated with the case, including private detective Tom Grant, with reenactments featuring actors such as Lost‘s Daniel Roebuck as private detective Tom Grant. Others in the drama side’s cast play Cobain (Tyler Brian), Courtney Love (Sarah Scott), Hole guitarist Eric Erlandson (Kale Clauson), Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan (Tor Brown), Butthole Surfers singer Gibby Haynes (David Daskal), Earth front man Dylan Carlson (August Emerson) and a character...
- 4/9/2014
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
As you may know, musical pioneer Al Jourgensen has officially closed the book on his legendary industrial-metal band Ministry, sending them out in style with their excellent final album From Beer to Eternity (check out our review here), followed by his eye-opening autobiography Ministry: The Lost Gospels. But Uncle Al ain't settling down just yet. For his next creative endeavor, Jourgensen chose to explore the same themes he's tackled in his music for three decades... but this time, in the guise of a comic book antihero with musical super-powers. Ministry: The Devil's Chord – The Chronicles of Alien F. Jourgensen is a comic series with a unique concept: each of the thirteen issues will be based on one of Ministry's albums – including classics like The Land of Rape and Honey, The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste, Psalm 69, Filth Pig, Rio Grande Blood, The Last Sucker, and Relapse. The overall...
- 10/3/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
Remember the '90s? Sure you do. The music was grungier. The Marky Marks were Markier. You had to choose between your phone and the Internet. And the ponytails were occasionally sideways.
Well, if you somehow missed the decade due to an interference in the time-space continuum — or you just happen to be really young — we've assembled 15 movie clips that best represent what life, or at least movies, were like during that glorious decade. A '90s time capsule, if you will. So sit back, relax and throw on your favorite starter jacket.
1. 'House Party' (1990) — Kid 'n Play Dance-Off
Way before film dance battles occurred in 3D thunderdomes and huge flattop cuts were throwbacks, Kid 'n Play were throwing down the on-screen dance gauntlet with some fly girls in "House Party," a movie that knew enough to not let a plot get in the way of fun and...
Well, if you somehow missed the decade due to an interference in the time-space continuum — or you just happen to be really young — we've assembled 15 movie clips that best represent what life, or at least movies, were like during that glorious decade. A '90s time capsule, if you will. So sit back, relax and throw on your favorite starter jacket.
1. 'House Party' (1990) — Kid 'n Play Dance-Off
Way before film dance battles occurred in 3D thunderdomes and huge flattop cuts were throwbacks, Kid 'n Play were throwing down the on-screen dance gauntlet with some fly girls in "House Party," a movie that knew enough to not let a plot get in the way of fun and...
- 10/1/2013
- by Adam D'Arpino
- NextMovie
Thanks to Baby DJ School—which, yes, is a real thing—bored and/or musically inclined infants can now learn to drop beats and mix things that aren’t spit and milk. The eight-week program takes place at a venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (naturally) and is designed for babies age 3 and under who are really into vinyl. The class is taught by Natalie Elizabeth Weiss, a DJ who’s worked with acts like LCD Soundsystem, Das Racist, and the especially baby-friendly Butthole Surfers. It focuses on teaching “little ones” how to play and handle records, mix and match ...
- 9/10/2013
- avclub.com
There's very little about Al Jourgensen's legendary band Ministry that hasn't been covered on these pages in some form or another, since I've been a hardcore fan of Uncle Al's output since the late '80s – a period which not only encompasses Ministry's pioneering works of industrial/metal fusion, but side projects like Revolting Cocks and Lard (the latter featuring Dead Kennedys founder and punk icon Jello Biafra), and his collaborations with industrial icons like Skinny Puppy. For those of you still catching up, you can take part in a pretty comprehensive musical journey through the band's catalog via the live album/concert film Adios... Puta Madres (which I covered in depth here), a candid document of the band's "C-u-latour." Several factors at the time led Jourgensen to dissolve Ministry after that run – including the departure of co-founder Paul Barker, the death of legendary bassist Paul Raven, and Al's own declining health.
- 9/3/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
The digital music revolution started with Napster – the file-sharing service dreamt up by two teenagers in 1999. As a new film tells Napster's story, Tom Lamont recalls the incredible sense of liberation he felt as a young music fan, one of millions happily plundering the world's record collections…
In the first weeks of 2000 the founders of Napster were in their office above a bank in San Mateo, California, considering dizzying numbers. Figures scrawled on a whiteboard told how many people around the world had installed their file-sharing application and were using it to download music from each other's computers. As recounted in Downloaded – a documentary soon to premiere at the SXSW film festival, telling the story of a piece of software that came and went and whipped up a new digital music industry in its slip – Napster had 20 million users at the time. Some way from San Mateo, in suburban London...
In the first weeks of 2000 the founders of Napster were in their office above a bank in San Mateo, California, considering dizzying numbers. Figures scrawled on a whiteboard told how many people around the world had installed their file-sharing application and were using it to download music from each other's computers. As recounted in Downloaded – a documentary soon to premiere at the SXSW film festival, telling the story of a piece of software that came and went and whipped up a new digital music industry in its slip – Napster had 20 million users at the time. Some way from San Mateo, in suburban London...
- 2/24/2013
- by Tom Lamont
- The Guardian - Film News
Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes has teamed up with Jack White’s Third Man Records to release a weird new single. While the upfront info is pretty normal—three songs on vinyl, including a cover of Adrenalin Od’s “Paul’s Not Home”—100 copies of the 7-inch will be released as Flex-Rays, meaning they’ll be pressed onto old medical X-rays because, hey, why not? These fancy and/or creepy records will only be available at Third Man’s rolling record store truck in Austin, Texas during SXSW. Otherwise, regular, non-printed-on-an-old-x-ray copies will go on sale to the general ...
- 2/4/2013
- avclub.com
One of the most intriguing questions of the movie year has been demystified. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby has a composer, and it's hip-hop mogul and Glastonbury-conquering popster, Jay-z. 1920s Long Island just got one louder.If it looks like a typically off-beam musical choice by the man who brought William Shakespeare and Butthole Surfers together, it's not wholly unexpected. The film's two trailers to date have featured Mr Z's collaboration with Kanye West 'No Church In The Wild' from Watch The Throne. For the Gatsby score, Jay-z will be working with producer-singer-songwriter Jeymes Samuel, aka The Bullitts, who recently lent his sound to upcoming Western They Die By Dawn. Check out his Star Wars-inspired single Landspeeder here. Samuel broke the news on his Twitter feed:Jay-z and myself have been working tirelessly on the score for the upcoming #Classic The Great Gatsby! It is too Dope for words!
- 1/3/2013
- EmpireOnline
On a recent summer afternoon, Johnny Depp walks into a luxury suite at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. Oddly, he is dressed like a pirate. A faded paisley do-rag is tied around his head. Smaller strips of cloth are braided into his hair, and he has gold caps on several teeth. His loose white T-shirt, with its blue horizontal stripes, maybe more sailor than pirate, but it's definitely in the nautical family.
We should note that Depp has not come directly from the set of his latest film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest...
We should note that Depp has not come directly from the set of his latest film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest...
- 11/12/2012
- Rollingstone.com
Just in time for Halloween, San Diego-based quartet The Burning of Rome have unveiled a slickly sick new video for “Norman Bates,” a track from their debut album With Us... and not only to they pay loving homage to Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece Psycho, but they also manage to throw in a plot twist that just might have brought a twisted grin to the master's perpetually sour face. “Norman Bates,” which includes a mix by legendary bizarro rockers The Butthole Surfers, is a definite standout track from an album that's already scoring high marks with critics and listeners, reinforcing the band's rising-star status (they recently scored the Best Alternative Act title at the San Diego Music Awards). Citing Mike Patton, Danny Elfman, Pink Floyd and Phil Spector among their musical influences, the band also offers a wink and a nod to horror themes on the record, with tracks like “Audrey...
- 10/24/2012
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
If you're gonna do it, then do it right. That seems to be the driving force behind the decisions on the soundtrack for the upcoming surfing drama "Chasing Mavericks." Telling the true story of surfer Jay Moriarity who rode the waves and climbed to fame during the '90s, the tunes for the film are appropriately pulled from college radio, providing a pretty fierce flashback of sorts for anyone who came of age in the era of grunge and flannel. For those of you who like it a bit loud, the film will feature songs by Dinosaur Jr., Matthew Sweet, Sponge (we totally forgot about those guys) and eternal oddballs Butthole Surfers. For something a bit sweet, Cornershop's earworm "Brimful Of Asha" slides onto the playlist along with The Lemonheads' "Into Your Arms," while Mazzy Star seduces you with two tracks all her own. And the set is rounded out...
- 10/16/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Fans of rock and “Psycho,” makes sure to check out the newest music video from rock band, The Burning of Rome. The Burning of Rome’s creepy Nsfw “Psycho”-inspired music video for “Norman Bates” premiered on Bloody-disgusting.com yesterday and the clip is now available to view on Youtube. If you like what you hear, you can download the band’s new LP here. Hereis the link to stream/download The Burning of Rome’s new LP, With Us… The album includes 3 Butthole Surfers remixes by Paul Leary (Sublime, U2, Meat Puppets, Pepper, Butthole Surfers). The band recently won “Best Alternative” act at the San Diego Music Awards. The record was recorded at East/West [ Read More ]
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- 10/13/2012
- by monique
- ShockYa
In honor of Depp's performance with the Black Keys, we take a look back at his lifelong love affair with rock.
By James Montgomery
Johnny Depp performs with the Black Keys at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
As if his myriad of tattoos or swaggering, Keith Richards-indebted performances as Captain Jack Sparrow weren't proof enough, Johnny Depp's MTV Movie Awards jam session with the Black Keys definitely served notice that the Hollywood icon knows a thing or two about rock.
Of course, that Sunday-night performance — in lieu of a traditional acceptance speech for his MTV Generation Award, Depp opted instead to tear through a pair of tunes with the Keys — was just his latest rock and roll moment. Long before he was a big-screen star, music was Depp's first passion ... not to mention the reason he moved to Los Angeles in the first place.
During...
By James Montgomery
Johnny Depp performs with the Black Keys at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
As if his myriad of tattoos or swaggering, Keith Richards-indebted performances as Captain Jack Sparrow weren't proof enough, Johnny Depp's MTV Movie Awards jam session with the Black Keys definitely served notice that the Hollywood icon knows a thing or two about rock.
Of course, that Sunday-night performance — in lieu of a traditional acceptance speech for his MTV Generation Award, Depp opted instead to tear through a pair of tunes with the Keys — was just his latest rock and roll moment. Long before he was a big-screen star, music was Depp's first passion ... not to mention the reason he moved to Los Angeles in the first place.
During...
- 6/4/2012
- MTV Music News
In honor of Depp's performance with the Black Keys, we take a look back at his lifelong love affair with rock.
By James Montgomery
Johnny Depp performs with the Black Keys at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
As if his myriad of tattoos or swaggering, Keith Richards-indebted performances as Captain Jack Sparrow weren't proof enough, Johnny Depp's MTV Movie Awards jam session with the Black Keys definitely served notice that the Hollywood icon knows a thing or two about rock.
Of course, that Sunday-night performance — in lieu of a traditional acceptance speech for his MTV Generation Award, Depp opted instead to tear through a pair of tunes with the Keys — was just his latest rock and roll moment. Long before he was a big-screen star, music was Depp's first passion ... not to mention the reason he moved to Los Angeles in the first place.
During...
By James Montgomery
Johnny Depp performs with the Black Keys at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Jeff Kravitz/ FilmMagic
As if his myriad of tattoos or swaggering, Keith Richards-indebted performances as Captain Jack Sparrow weren't proof enough, Johnny Depp's MTV Movie Awards jam session with the Black Keys definitely served notice that the Hollywood icon knows a thing or two about rock.
Of course, that Sunday-night performance — in lieu of a traditional acceptance speech for his MTV Generation Award, Depp opted instead to tear through a pair of tunes with the Keys — was just his latest rock and roll moment. Long before he was a big-screen star, music was Depp's first passion ... not to mention the reason he moved to Los Angeles in the first place.
During...
- 6/4/2012
- MTV Movie News
'He's a really good guitar player,' Dan Auerbach tells MTV News of their MTV Movie Awards collaboration with the superstar.
By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello
The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images
Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."
Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."
The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello
The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images
Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."
Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."
The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
- 6/3/2012
- MTV Movie News
'He's a really good guitar player,' Dan Auerbach tells MTV News of their MTV Movie Awards collaboration with the superstar.
By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello
The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images
Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."
Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."
The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello
The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards
Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images
Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."
Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."
The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
- 6/3/2012
- MTV Music News
AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); The Nerve Mixtape With Andrew W.K. Andrew W.K. gives us a... unique seduction playlist. by Alex Heigl After Andrew W.K. gave us sex advice a couple of months back, we started to think that the man actually knew a lot more about matters of the heart than you'd expect from his music. So we asked him what he'd put on a romantic seduction mixtape. The results were illuminating. 1. Butthole Surfers, "Hurdy Gurdy Man" It's the first song that someone else put on a mixtape for me, which I remember very clearly — that they chose it for me. I prefer the Butthole Surfers version to the original, probably because I heard it first. It's really tremendous. I've played it for many girls over the years, and [...]...
- 4/3/2012
- by Alex Heigl
- Nerve
Butch Vig tells MTV News he's 'really proud' of Wasting Light, up for Album of the Year at Sunday's Grammys.
By James Montgomery
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel
Photo: Peter Wafzig/ Getty Images
Over the past two decades, Butch Vig has produced albums like Nevermind, Siamese Dream and 21st Century Breakdown (to name just a few), and yet he's never helmed a project quite like the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light. Recorded — and mastered — entirely on tape, in Dave Grohl's garage, it was a deliberately anachronistic disc that not only helped rejuvenate the Foos themselves, but was the kind of Herculean undertaking Vig won't forget anytime soon.
And, in recognition of that undertaking — and the rave reviews Wasting Light has earned since being released last year — the Foos head into Sunday's 54th Grammy Awards with six nominations, including a nod for the night's biggest prize: Album of the Year.
By James Montgomery
Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl and Nate Mendel
Photo: Peter Wafzig/ Getty Images
Over the past two decades, Butch Vig has produced albums like Nevermind, Siamese Dream and 21st Century Breakdown (to name just a few), and yet he's never helmed a project quite like the Foo Fighters' Wasting Light. Recorded — and mastered — entirely on tape, in Dave Grohl's garage, it was a deliberately anachronistic disc that not only helped rejuvenate the Foos themselves, but was the kind of Herculean undertaking Vig won't forget anytime soon.
And, in recognition of that undertaking — and the rave reviews Wasting Light has earned since being released last year — the Foos head into Sunday's 54th Grammy Awards with six nominations, including a nod for the night's biggest prize: Album of the Year.
- 2/8/2012
- MTV Music News
Matthew Salacuse Author Mark Yarm
The oral history has become one of publishing’s favorite ways to cover complex topics and broad chronologies, while often luring readers with the sheer volume of famous people quoted. In music, a bar was set for the genre by Legs McNeill’s 1996 book “Please Kill Me,” which emphasized the New York roots of punk rock. Next month a 25th anniversary account of the Def Jam record label will be published. And the 20th anniversary...
The oral history has become one of publishing’s favorite ways to cover complex topics and broad chronologies, while often luring readers with the sheer volume of famous people quoted. In music, a bar was set for the genre by Legs McNeill’s 1996 book “Please Kill Me,” which emphasized the New York roots of punk rock. Next month a 25th anniversary account of the Def Jam record label will be published. And the 20th anniversary...
- 9/10/2011
- by John Jurgensen
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Updated 3:35 P.T. Wednesday No Butthole Surfers or Melvins at Sunset Junction this weekend -- organizers' last-ditch attempt to get a permit from the city failed on Wednesday. On Monday, the L.A. Board of Public Works voted to deny a permit because the non-profit group that puts on Silver Lake's annual festival had failed to pay $141,000 in advance fees. The organizers said they raised the money from supporters and Live Nation (which kicked in $100,000) in time for Wednesday's meeting, but still walked away empty handed. “Seriously, we tried our best on...
- 8/24/2011
- by Diane Garrett & Jake Weinraub
- The Wrap
Credit: Gil Kaufman/ MTV News
Chicago – Some bands never live up to their legend and others have a legend but don't stay together long enough to live up to it. And then, somewhere in between there are bands like Death From Above 1979. The Canadian dance punk drum and bass/keyboard duo reunited this year after a five-year hiatus, which equaled the amount of time they were together the first go round (2001-2006).
Judging from the hour-long show they played at Chicago's Metro on Thursday night as part of a tune-up for this weekend's Lollapalooza festival, there isn't much rust on this hard-driving machine. Playing to a sold-out crow at the legendary northside nightclub in the shadow of historic Wrigley Field, bassist Jesse Keeler and drummer/singer Sebastien Grainger fell right into the pocket as if no time had passed at all.
Opening with "Turn it Out," Grainger – in all white...
Chicago – Some bands never live up to their legend and others have a legend but don't stay together long enough to live up to it. And then, somewhere in between there are bands like Death From Above 1979. The Canadian dance punk drum and bass/keyboard duo reunited this year after a five-year hiatus, which equaled the amount of time they were together the first go round (2001-2006).
Judging from the hour-long show they played at Chicago's Metro on Thursday night as part of a tune-up for this weekend's Lollapalooza festival, there isn't much rust on this hard-driving machine. Playing to a sold-out crow at the legendary northside nightclub in the shadow of historic Wrigley Field, bassist Jesse Keeler and drummer/singer Sebastien Grainger fell right into the pocket as if no time had passed at all.
Opening with "Turn it Out," Grainger – in all white...
- 8/5/2011
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
'Who says hell doesn't freeze over?' iconic MTV host says of the show's much-anticipated return.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer
Matt Pinfield
Photo: MTV2
Between 1986 and 2003, alternative music had a permanent home on MTV in the form of "120 Minutes," the late, great Sunday night program that played host to everyone from the Butthole Surfers to Xtc, and gave American audiences their first taste of (then) up-and-coming acts like Radiohead, Blur and the Smashing Pumpkins, to name just a few.
When "120" disappeared into the TV hinterland in early '03, it left a gaping hole in the hearts of music fans everywhere, one "Subterranean" just couldn't fill, no matter how hard it tried. And for eight years, we waited for its return, longing for our fix of the latest and greatest in alt (indie? buzz?) hoping against hope that someday, the show would come back to us.
Now,...
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer
Matt Pinfield
Photo: MTV2
Between 1986 and 2003, alternative music had a permanent home on MTV in the form of "120 Minutes," the late, great Sunday night program that played host to everyone from the Butthole Surfers to Xtc, and gave American audiences their first taste of (then) up-and-coming acts like Radiohead, Blur and the Smashing Pumpkins, to name just a few.
When "120" disappeared into the TV hinterland in early '03, it left a gaping hole in the hearts of music fans everywhere, one "Subterranean" just couldn't fill, no matter how hard it tried. And for eight years, we waited for its return, longing for our fix of the latest and greatest in alt (indie? buzz?) hoping against hope that someday, the show would come back to us.
Now,...
- 7/29/2011
- MTV Music News
By Zachary Swickey
Imagine drinking a beer, waxing nostalgic at an Alice Cooper show and then seeing Captain Jack Sparrow, better known as Johnny Depp, waltz onstage for a song or two. Well, that’s exactly what happened this past weekend at the intimate 100 Club in London.
If you’re wondering how these two souls came together, we assume they are old pals from their time together on the set of 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth installment of the Freddy Krueger franchise.
Some of the crowd already knew what they were in store for, after Cooper posted a backstage pic on Facebook of Depp preparing to take the stage with guitar in hand. “Johny Depp!! Waiting to jump onstage with Alice for ‘18’ and ‘School’s Out,’” he wrote.
No slouch when it comes to music, Depp was a member of P, which included Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers fame,...
Imagine drinking a beer, waxing nostalgic at an Alice Cooper show and then seeing Captain Jack Sparrow, better known as Johnny Depp, waltz onstage for a song or two. Well, that’s exactly what happened this past weekend at the intimate 100 Club in London.
If you’re wondering how these two souls came together, we assume they are old pals from their time together on the set of 1991’s Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, the sixth installment of the Freddy Krueger franchise.
Some of the crowd already knew what they were in store for, after Cooper posted a backstage pic on Facebook of Depp preparing to take the stage with guitar in hand. “Johny Depp!! Waiting to jump onstage with Alice for ‘18’ and ‘School’s Out,’” he wrote.
No slouch when it comes to music, Depp was a member of P, which included Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers fame,...
- 6/29/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
For all his accolades and accomplishments as an actor, Johnny Depp ain't too shabby a musician, either.
Depp was the special guest star promised by Alice Cooper at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer's Sunday night show at London's 100 Club. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star rocked out to "I'm Eighteen" and Cooper's iconic "School's Out," for which he ripped a tasty solo riff.
The actor is no stranger to playing with famous musicians; he took lead guitar duty on the Haiti charity recording of the song "I Put A Spell On You," and played lead slide guitar on "Fade In-Out" on Oasis' album "Be Here Now," calling it a career high.
Depp played guitar in the hit film "Chocolat," and even had a series of his own bands, including the 80s garage band, The Kids. He also was in the short lived band P, alongside Butthole Surfers lead Gibby Haynes.
Depp was the special guest star promised by Alice Cooper at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer's Sunday night show at London's 100 Club. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star rocked out to "I'm Eighteen" and Cooper's iconic "School's Out," for which he ripped a tasty solo riff.
The actor is no stranger to playing with famous musicians; he took lead guitar duty on the Haiti charity recording of the song "I Put A Spell On You," and played lead slide guitar on "Fade In-Out" on Oasis' album "Be Here Now," calling it a career high.
Depp played guitar in the hit film "Chocolat," and even had a series of his own bands, including the 80s garage band, The Kids. He also was in the short lived band P, alongside Butthole Surfers lead Gibby Haynes.
- 6/27/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
The Pirates of the Caribbean star's two-song contribution wins him a job offer from the shock rocker
Not all of the known world's A-list celebrities were at Glastonbury this weekend, as 200 or so fans at the 100 Club in London discovered, when Johnny Depp joined Alice Cooper on stage to play rhythm guitar on versions of the Cooper classics I'm Eighteen and School's Out.
Twelve songs into a 75-minute set, Cooper announced the arrival of a special guest, "the bluesmaster, Mr Johnny D from Kentucky". Depp's was the fourth guitar in a lineup that already had three, so in truth he did not make a huge difference to the sound, but there were no audible disgraces in his contribution.
Before Depp left the stage, Cooper reminisced to him about meeting Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. "He said to me: 'How long is it since you stopped drinking?' I told him 20 or 30 years.
Not all of the known world's A-list celebrities were at Glastonbury this weekend, as 200 or so fans at the 100 Club in London discovered, when Johnny Depp joined Alice Cooper on stage to play rhythm guitar on versions of the Cooper classics I'm Eighteen and School's Out.
Twelve songs into a 75-minute set, Cooper announced the arrival of a special guest, "the bluesmaster, Mr Johnny D from Kentucky". Depp's was the fourth guitar in a lineup that already had three, so in truth he did not make a huge difference to the sound, but there were no audible disgraces in his contribution.
Before Depp left the stage, Cooper reminisced to him about meeting Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. "He said to me: 'How long is it since you stopped drinking?' I told him 20 or 30 years.
- 6/27/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Frost the cupcakes and get the trick candles ready, because it's time to wish dynamic rock frontman and Lollapalooza godfather Perry Farrell a very happy birthday. The diverse rocker is now 52 years old and is still going strong as the frontman of seminal band Jane's Addiction. But on this special day, it's time to look back at one of his more underrated projects.
When it came time for Jane's Addiction to call it quits, Farrell staged the first Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for the band in the summer of 1991 (that tour also featured Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-t and Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes and Fishbone). With the band in his rearview, Farrell formed a new combo called Porno for Pyros (which also featured Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins). The group released its first self-titled album in the spring of 1993 to big sales,...
When it came time for Jane's Addiction to call it quits, Farrell staged the first Lollapalooza as a farewell tour for the band in the summer of 1991 (that tour also featured Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Living Colour, Ice-t and Body Count, Butthole Surfers, Rollins Band, Violent Femmes and Fishbone). With the band in his rearview, Farrell formed a new combo called Porno for Pyros (which also featured Jane's Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins). The group released its first self-titled album in the spring of 1993 to big sales,...
- 3/29/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Humor writer Jon Glaser celebrated the publication of his latest book, My Dead Dad Was in Zz Top by having a couple of his closest friends read aloud excerpts at a Brooklyn release party earlier this week. Not really a big deal, until you find out one of those friends just so happens to be Jon Hamm. And it's an even bigger deal when you realize the passage the seemingly refined and understated actor is about to read extensively involves butt holes. And not the figurative type. We're talking literal butt holes. He even ponders the plural of the word "anus" (Wikipedia informs us it's anuses), as he informs us of the true origins of the Butthole Surfers' band name. In other words, it puts his comedic turns on 30 Rock and SNL to shame. While the footage is a bit shaky, it's worth [...]...
- 2/10/2011
- Nerve
If you've ever fantasized about Jon Hamm whispering sweet nothings about buttholes into a microphone at a packed standing-room-only book reading, you're in luck: the handsome Mad Men actor did just that at a show in Brooklyn on Tuesday night to celebrate Jon Glaser's new book, My Dead Dad Was in Zz Top. Hamm read about the origination of the alt-rock band Butthole Surfers while fellow actor Paul Rudd assumed his best Jay Leno impression to perform a chapter about ConanGate.
- 2/9/2011
- Movieline
The 1990s are often remembered as the decade where grunge ruled the world, but in reality, the Seattle sound only really lorded over the beginning of the decade. The time before the turn of the millennium was dominated by nü-metal, and in between you had four or five years of weirdness. It's the time when dance music tried to take over rock, when Radiohead made Ok Computer, when the Elephant 6 collective saw its creative peak and when a lot of odd little pop singles made it on the radio. If you were listening to rock radio around 1995, you were hooked up to tracks like Primitive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand," Butthole Surfers' "Pepper" and Presidents of the United States of America's "Lump." It was truly a thrilling (albeit confusing) time to be a fan of this strange thing called "alternative.
- 2/8/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Was Thursday night's (February 3) episode of "American Idol" the worst ever?!
That was the collective kvetch on the Internet after season 10's Los Angeles auditions aired. Could that bold declaration actually be true? Let's break down the hour and take a closer look.
Here's everything that was awesome on Thursday night's episode: Randy Jackson's gold shoes.
Here's everything that made me want to personally recreate Butthole Surfers' Electriclarryland album cover: Everything else.
Granted, six hours into the season, we're all suffering from Audition Episode Fatigue Syndrome (or Aefs). (Symptoms include daydreaming about Paris Bennett, engaging in a Twitter party with an "Idol" winner's dog, dizziness, nausea and having the sudden urge to explore the 600 section of your cable package.) But good TV trumps being burned out. Case in point: The "Real Housewives" series. I feel like I've been watching this franchise continuously for three years now, but as...
That was the collective kvetch on the Internet after season 10's Los Angeles auditions aired. Could that bold declaration actually be true? Let's break down the hour and take a closer look.
Here's everything that was awesome on Thursday night's episode: Randy Jackson's gold shoes.
Here's everything that made me want to personally recreate Butthole Surfers' Electriclarryland album cover: Everything else.
Granted, six hours into the season, we're all suffering from Audition Episode Fatigue Syndrome (or Aefs). (Symptoms include daydreaming about Paris Bennett, engaging in a Twitter party with an "Idol" winner's dog, dizziness, nausea and having the sudden urge to explore the 600 section of your cable package.) But good TV trumps being burned out. Case in point: The "Real Housewives" series. I feel like I've been watching this franchise continuously for three years now, but as...
- 2/4/2011
- by Jim Cantiello
- MTV Newsroom
Really, you should be listening to music every day, but thanks to Twitter, Monday has become the best day of the week to discover new songs, show some love to the tune currently dominating your iPod playlist and quietly judge the listening habits of your closest friends. Yes, it's #MusicMonday, one of Twitter's most enduring trending topics. Hence "MTV News' #MusicMonday," a weekly look at the songs we are currently crushing on.
This week, enjoy a fine slice of Cake.
There was a lot of terrible music generated in the wake of the fall of grunge in the '90s, but one of the most refreshing aspects of that era was that just about anything could become a hit. In fact, a lot of times it felt like the weirder a band or a song was, the more likely it was for them to score a huge hit. This was...
This week, enjoy a fine slice of Cake.
There was a lot of terrible music generated in the wake of the fall of grunge in the '90s, but one of the most refreshing aspects of that era was that just about anything could become a hit. In fact, a lot of times it felt like the weirder a band or a song was, the more likely it was for them to score a huge hit. This was...
- 1/10/2011
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Lollapalooza started out as a travelling showcase for bands like Butthole Surfers, Violent Femmes, and Jane's Addiction (whose frontman, Perry Farrell, founded the fest). And now it's going international for the first time (at least if you don't count Canada). It was announced today that the festival, which has been a weekend event in Chicago since 2005, will expand to Santiago, Chile in April 2011. Held over two days, the event will showcase bands from Chile and bands from other countries as well, but no schedule has been released yet. In a statement from Farrell, he said said that he hopes bands from the Chicago version will come down and vice versa, calling it "a musical foreign exchange." I don't want to generalize a whole generation, but: not bad for a bunch of slacker [...]...
- 11/19/2010
- Nerve
Today is a very special day in the land of Pajiba. Today is the day we celebrate butthole. Oh, butthole: What a wonderful word.What a wonderful thing to say! Butthole.
B-u-t-t-h-o-l-e.
You know what we do on Butthole Day at Pajiba? This, while chanting Butthole, and listening to the Butthole Surfers:
This is our 3rd Annual Butthole Day, and if there's one thing we've learned from this yearly tradition, it's that Buttholes never go out of style. And this year, we've added a Mascot to Butthole Day, to help you all celebrate the tradition. Here's our mascot:
Now, for those of you who might be new to the site, who might not yet be accustomed to our tongue in butthole cheek sense of humor (seriously: Lots of folks taking lots of stuff really seriously around here lately, like the post on the Rachel Weisz/Darren Aronofsky split? what...
B-u-t-t-h-o-l-e.
You know what we do on Butthole Day at Pajiba? This, while chanting Butthole, and listening to the Butthole Surfers:
This is our 3rd Annual Butthole Day, and if there's one thing we've learned from this yearly tradition, it's that Buttholes never go out of style. And this year, we've added a Mascot to Butthole Day, to help you all celebrate the tradition. Here's our mascot:
Now, for those of you who might be new to the site, who might not yet be accustomed to our tongue in butthole cheek sense of humor (seriously: Lots of folks taking lots of stuff really seriously around here lately, like the post on the Rachel Weisz/Darren Aronofsky split? what...
- 11/12/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Santa Cruz, CA rockers The Expendables released their fifth album this week, "Prove It." Their second release on Slightly Stoopid's own Stoopid Records, "Prove It" is their first new album since 2007's self-titled effort.
The 17 new tracks were produced by Paul Leary, guitarist for Butthole Surfers, and El Hefe of Nofx, and feature guest spots from G. Love of G. Love and the Special Sauce and members of Slightly Stoopid.
"As producers, Leary and El Hefe brought a vibe to the studio as only two punk rock guitar legends could," the band said of the new album. "As musicians who really care about the music, we all connected and feel like we are bringing something new to the table, while still staying true to the sounds that make us who we are."
"Prove It" features one of their most melodic tracks yet in "Come Get High," which was appropriately...
The 17 new tracks were produced by Paul Leary, guitarist for Butthole Surfers, and El Hefe of Nofx, and feature guest spots from G. Love of G. Love and the Special Sauce and members of Slightly Stoopid.
"As producers, Leary and El Hefe brought a vibe to the studio as only two punk rock guitar legends could," the band said of the new album. "As musicians who really care about the music, we all connected and feel like we are bringing something new to the table, while still staying true to the sounds that make us who we are."
"Prove It" features one of their most melodic tracks yet in "Come Get High," which was appropriately...
- 5/12/2010
- icelebz.com
It's hard to imagine a world without Slacker. It helped frame epic '90s slackerdom. It made Richard Linklater an indelible name in the independent movie scene. It challenged notions of cinematic plot. It gave Texas an identity beyond red meat and tough guys with guns. It showed what could be made with very little money (the film cost $23 grand.) And, of course, it inspired Kevin Smith to make Clerks.
The story is not so easy to share since, in fact, there isn't one. The film just follows one day in the life of a number of Austin residents, moving from character to character, scene to scene, from a UFO buff to a girl who tries to sell Madonna's pap smear. (That character, pictured right, is Teresa Taylor, once secondary drummer for The Butthole Surfers.)
While I wholeheartedly suggest checking out the Criterion if you can, there's also the ability...
The story is not so easy to share since, in fact, there isn't one. The film just follows one day in the life of a number of Austin residents, moving from character to character, scene to scene, from a UFO buff to a girl who tries to sell Madonna's pap smear. (That character, pictured right, is Teresa Taylor, once secondary drummer for The Butthole Surfers.)
While I wholeheartedly suggest checking out the Criterion if you can, there's also the ability...
- 12/31/2009
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Universe, you've done it again!
Hello my fine friends. I'm covering for Figglesticks this week because she's busy trying not to kill everyone in sight while prepping for her wedding this weekend. Hopefully by the time this gets posted I'll have completed the four-hour drive from D.C. to my parents place in New York. I was previously planning on going to Atlanta to spend the holidays with family until I realized that all I wanted for Christmas was to be left the hell alone. 2009 was kind of a shitshow, so my plans for the rest of it are to basically, keep my head down and ride it out as smoothly as a one can while being alternately drunk off their ass and full of hot chocolate. But if there's one thing that has made this year easier to bear, it's you freaks (and many, many meths). It's a pretty...
Hello my fine friends. I'm covering for Figglesticks this week because she's busy trying not to kill everyone in sight while prepping for her wedding this weekend. Hopefully by the time this gets posted I'll have completed the four-hour drive from D.C. to my parents place in New York. I was previously planning on going to Atlanta to spend the holidays with family until I realized that all I wanted for Christmas was to be left the hell alone. 2009 was kind of a shitshow, so my plans for the rest of it are to basically, keep my head down and ride it out as smoothly as a one can while being alternately drunk off their ass and full of hot chocolate. But if there's one thing that has made this year easier to bear, it's you freaks (and many, many meths). It's a pretty...
- 12/24/2009
- by Dustin Rowles
Underground icon Daniel Johnston has spent a lot of time slightly above ground. From Kurt Cobain wearing his T-shirt to 2005’s documentary The Devil And Daniel Johnston, many high-profile entertainers have supported the troubled Texan. Collaborators like Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse (which once covered Johnston’s “Hey Joe”) have tried to bolster Johnston’s signature aesthetic—fragile, crudely lo-fi, fractured acoustic oddities. Of course, the addition of high-profile collaborators destroyed that aesthetic and erased Johnston’s sad charm. On Is And Always Was, producer Jason Falkner avoids that trap entirely by making a ...
- 10/13/2009
- avclub.com
Baz Luhrmann's sophomore effort, 1996's Romeo + Juliet, is today perhaps best remembered for spotlighting Leonardo DiCaprio's pre-Titanic charisma. For a movie that took the world's best known love story and transferred it to a new era, its soundtrack remains firmly etched in its own time. The movie very much resembles a music video with its fast-paced editing, and the music choices reflect that style. There are scenes where songs are so prominently featured, it's as if Luhrmann first picked out a soundscape, and then went on to visualize it. An extra pleasure gained from listening to the soundtrack is the surprising presence of some tracks that were only briefly featured in the movie, such as the aggressive, seductive material of Butthole Surfers. The film's score, composed by Nellee Hooper, Craig Armstrong, and Marius De Vries, was completely omitted from the first soundtrack album, though it was later...
- 10/7/2009
- by Sandra
- SoundOnSight
by Steve Dollar
Most film festivals are just film festivals. Fantastic Fest is a different beast. The premier American outpost on the global "fantastic cinema" circuit of festivals—devoted to all things action, horror, sci-fi and cult—Ff spurts forth like a bottomless fountain of arterial spray for a week every autumn. This mutant brainchild of gonzo exhibitor Tim League and Ain't It Cool News geek guru Harry Knowles has evolved over the past five years into a singular cinematic freak magnet.
What other major American film festival gives its prize for "best film" to something called The Human Centipede?
Where else do audience members inquire of a director at the post-screening Q&A (in this case, for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s romantic splatterfest Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) not details of budget or shooting ratio but: "Is there any body part you have not yet weaponized?" (Answer: "Yes. Nose hairs.
Most film festivals are just film festivals. Fantastic Fest is a different beast. The premier American outpost on the global "fantastic cinema" circuit of festivals—devoted to all things action, horror, sci-fi and cult—Ff spurts forth like a bottomless fountain of arterial spray for a week every autumn. This mutant brainchild of gonzo exhibitor Tim League and Ain't It Cool News geek guru Harry Knowles has evolved over the past five years into a singular cinematic freak magnet.
What other major American film festival gives its prize for "best film" to something called The Human Centipede?
Where else do audience members inquire of a director at the post-screening Q&A (in this case, for Yoshihiro Nishimura’s romantic splatterfest Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl) not details of budget or shooting ratio but: "Is there any body part you have not yet weaponized?" (Answer: "Yes. Nose hairs.
- 10/4/2009
- GreenCine Daily
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