The Jesus Lizard frontman David Yow is probably pumping iron as we speak, preparing his body for the presumably grueling reunion tour the group just announced today. The Austin-by-way-of-Chicago noise rockers haven’t played live since 2009, but are now planning to embark on a six-date headlining stint across the U.S.…
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- 10/4/2017
- by Katie Rife
- avclub.com
We return with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes news on a horror auction promoting, a clip from Ditch Day Massacre, details on the Lethal Ladies of Horror Film Festival, information on Screambox, and more:
Horror Items Auctioned For Charity: “Mental Fitness, Inc. [is] a national nonprofit charity that educates on various mental health and fitness issues that include eating disorders, body image awareness, self-esteem, depression, stress management, and other important issues. We have a online silent auction up on CharityBuzz. We have some pretty cool horror auction items up on the site and will be adding more throughout the next few days.
Alyssa Lobit (writer and star of Among Friends), Christy Carlson Romano (former Disney and Mirrors 2 star), and Jonathan Tiersten (Sleepaway Camp and The Perfect House star) have partnered up with the national nonprofit, Mental Fitness,...
Horror Items Auctioned For Charity: “Mental Fitness, Inc. [is] a national nonprofit charity that educates on various mental health and fitness issues that include eating disorders, body image awareness, self-esteem, depression, stress management, and other important issues. We have a online silent auction up on CharityBuzz. We have some pretty cool horror auction items up on the site and will be adding more throughout the next few days.
Alyssa Lobit (writer and star of Among Friends), Christy Carlson Romano (former Disney and Mirrors 2 star), and Jonathan Tiersten (Sleepaway Camp and The Perfect House star) have partnered up with the national nonprofit, Mental Fitness,...
- 9/29/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
★★★★☆ The first in Artificial Eye's long-awaited batch of Hal Hartley reissues, Amateur (1994) represents a mid-career high point for the indie legend. As ever, it's the work of a singular auteur, treading the fine line between self-reflexive exuberance and rarefied stylisation. By ingratiating broad genre elements into the self-contained suburban eccentricity of his earlier Long Island-set efforts, Hartley finds an abundance of comic riches in the central tension between stolid realism and poker-faced ludicrousness. Amateur is the also director's most beautifully designed picture; it's a film of deft precision and glassy elegance.
Amateur stars Isabelle Huppert as a former nun struggling to make a living writing pornographic fiction while waiting for her mission from God. In a coffee shop one morning, she meets Thomas (Martin Donovan), a quiet amnesiac trying to piece together his past. The pair are unaware that Thomas' condition results from being pushed through a window by...
Amateur stars Isabelle Huppert as a former nun struggling to make a living writing pornographic fiction while waiting for her mission from God. In a coffee shop one morning, she meets Thomas (Martin Donovan), a quiet amnesiac trying to piece together his past. The pair are unaware that Thomas' condition results from being pushed through a window by...
- 5/14/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid frontman David Yow is releasing his first solo record. Tonight You Look Like A Spider is out this June on Joyful Noise Recordings, Mike Patton's label, and, according to a blog post written by Yow, it involves a saxophone, kitchen utensils, and fat cats, and is, in his estimation, “real good, if you like that kind of shit.” Interested parties can judge for themselves by checking out the first single, “Thee Itch.” Joyful Noise is putting the record out in three different versions, two of which are pretty awesome: One will come out ...
- 4/24/2013
- avclub.com
Surprising almost no one, The Jesus Lizard recently told Rolling Stone that they have, in fact, broken up once again. After originally breaking up in 1999, the band reunited for a 2008-2009 tour, after which guitarist Duane Denison says he tried really hard to get the band back in the studio—though not everyone shared his enthusiasm. According to Denison, “certain members” of the band were proved resistant, saying they “didn’t want to go to the cliché route of a post-reunion LP.” For his part, Denison argues, “It’s a cliché only if you make it a cliché and ...
- 6/29/2012
- avclub.com
David Yow, notoriously nude frontman of Scratch Acid and The Jesus Lizard, has been cast in a forthcoming indie movie, presumably in a role that requires him to wear pants. High And Outside: A Baseball Noir also stars Filter’s Richard Patrick and long-time character actor Geoff Lewis. The film, which is (of course) raising money now on Kickstarter is based on the director’s experiences as the son of a Major League Baseball player who later become a controversial manager. According to a press release, it’s “the story of one man's dream to play professional baseball and ...
- 6/27/2012
- avclub.com
Blacklisters are the band who fit into May’s up-and-coming-band slot nicely.
Formed in 2008, Blacklisters have been destroying venues and eardrums with their aggressive, confrontational gigs which has rightly earned them a reputation as a band to keep an eye on. Add their excellent debut album, Blklstrs, to the mix (which we reviewed here at What Culture) and you’ll understand why they’re the band we chose for our May feature.
Blacklisters is made up of Billy (vocals), Owen (bass), Dan (guitar) and Alistair (drums).
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Wc: For people who might not have heard about you guys before, can you give us some history about the band? How did you first have the idea of forming Blacklisters? And how long have you been together as a band?
It is a boring story whereby there was a plane crash and we were the only survivors. We kept each other...
Formed in 2008, Blacklisters have been destroying venues and eardrums with their aggressive, confrontational gigs which has rightly earned them a reputation as a band to keep an eye on. Add their excellent debut album, Blklstrs, to the mix (which we reviewed here at What Culture) and you’ll understand why they’re the band we chose for our May feature.
Blacklisters is made up of Billy (vocals), Owen (bass), Dan (guitar) and Alistair (drums).
Website
Wc: For people who might not have heard about you guys before, can you give us some history about the band? How did you first have the idea of forming Blacklisters? And how long have you been together as a band?
It is a boring story whereby there was a plane crash and we were the only survivors. We kept each other...
- 5/23/2012
- by Rhys Milsom
- Obsessed with Film
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Website: www.blacklisters.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/blacklistersmusic
Release date: 24th April, 2o12
Since 2008, Blacklisters have been popping eardrums and making noses bleed all over the British underground. Their uncompromising noise has quickly earned them a reputation as a band who go all-out in their shows, a band who possess a sound so aggressive and confrontational that you leave the gig feeling as if you’ve been kicked in by a bunch of kangaroos on steroids. But people must like being kicked in by kangaroos (I know I do after listening to this album) because their reputation to play an awesome live show has seen them play at Leeds and Reading festivals and they’ve also played with the likes of Melt Banana, Rolo Tomassi, Hawk Eyes, Japanese Voyeurs, Kong and fellow Northern lads Pulled Apart by Horses. Talking about up North, what is...
Website: www.blacklisters.co.uk
Facebook: www.facebook.com/blacklistersmusic
Release date: 24th April, 2o12
Since 2008, Blacklisters have been popping eardrums and making noses bleed all over the British underground. Their uncompromising noise has quickly earned them a reputation as a band who go all-out in their shows, a band who possess a sound so aggressive and confrontational that you leave the gig feeling as if you’ve been kicked in by a bunch of kangaroos on steroids. But people must like being kicked in by kangaroos (I know I do after listening to this album) because their reputation to play an awesome live show has seen them play at Leeds and Reading festivals and they’ve also played with the likes of Melt Banana, Rolo Tomassi, Hawk Eyes, Japanese Voyeurs, Kong and fellow Northern lads Pulled Apart by Horses. Talking about up North, what is...
- 4/19/2012
- by Rhys Milsom
- Obsessed with Film
The La Weekly's Karina Longworth has turned a lunch with Elvis Mitchell, a lot of research and several phone calls into today's must-read. "One of the best known, and definitely most controversial, living film critics in America, Mitchell is both irresistibly charming and legendarily incapable of playing by the rules, or perhaps simply oblivious to them." And now: "He's been brought to Lacma as the embodiment of a major break from business as usual at the museum's film department." In one of the best pieces of film-related reporting I've seen in a long while, Karina outlines two histories, first, that of Lacma's evolution from "one of the city's premier destinations for cinephiles" to an institution with a "strategy to plumb the film industry for patrons," and second, that of the "former New York Times film critic who lunches at swank restaurants with movie stars and drives off in a cherry-red convertible.
- 11/17/2011
- MUBI
The 1990s nostalgia train continues. While everyone who has snapped up tickets for Pavement, The Pixies, Blur, Soundgarden, The Jesus Lizard and countless others would have scoffed at such a proposition during their college years, there is some decent money to be had in coming back and playing for your fans who are now Dads with bigger wallets and more disposable cash to spend on reliving their late teens/early twenties. As long as it's over by 11 Pm. (And don't let us get started on the trend of bands doing concerts of centered around playing albums front to back). Anyway,…...
- 10/26/2011
- The Playlist
DVD Playhouse—September 2011
By Allen Gardner
In A Better World (Sony) Winner of last year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, this Danish export looks at two fractured families and the effect that the adult world dysfunction has on their two sons, who form an immediate and potentially deadly bond. Director Susanne Bier delivers another powerful work that maintains its drive during the films’ first 2/3, then falters somewhat during the last act. Still, well-worth seeing, and beautifully made. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Commentary by Bier and editor Pernille Bech Christensen; Interview with Bier. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
X-men First Class (20th Century Fox) “Origins” film set in the early 1960s, traces the beginnings of Magento and Professor X (played ably here by Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy), and how the once-close friends and colleagues became bitter enemies. First half is slam-bang entertainment at its stylish best,...
By Allen Gardner
In A Better World (Sony) Winner of last year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, this Danish export looks at two fractured families and the effect that the adult world dysfunction has on their two sons, who form an immediate and potentially deadly bond. Director Susanne Bier delivers another powerful work that maintains its drive during the films’ first 2/3, then falters somewhat during the last act. Still, well-worth seeing, and beautifully made. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Commentary by Bier and editor Pernille Bech Christensen; Interview with Bier. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.
X-men First Class (20th Century Fox) “Origins” film set in the early 1960s, traces the beginnings of Magento and Professor X (played ably here by Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy), and how the once-close friends and colleagues became bitter enemies. First half is slam-bang entertainment at its stylish best,...
- 9/11/2011
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Fugazi's Steady Diet of Nothing and the Jesus Lizard's Goat join list of great albums celebrating their 20th anniversary.
By James Montgomery
Fugazi's <i>Steady Diet of Nothing</i>
Photo: Dischord Records
With the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's massive Nevermind just a few short weeks away, much attention is being paid to rock's last great era: 1991, a year that was overflowing with important, iconic (and, in some cases, overlooked) albums from bands both big and small. In a lot of ways, it was the year rock truly rocked, and so, to celebrate that fact, MTV News has been asking some of today's biggest acts to remember their favorites form that truly epic year.
So far, we've looked back at Metallica's Black Album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Slint's Spiderland, Pearl Jam's Ten and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. Today,...
By James Montgomery
Fugazi's <i>Steady Diet of Nothing</i>
Photo: Dischord Records
With the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's massive Nevermind just a few short weeks away, much attention is being paid to rock's last great era: 1991, a year that was overflowing with important, iconic (and, in some cases, overlooked) albums from bands both big and small. In a lot of ways, it was the year rock truly rocked, and so, to celebrate that fact, MTV News has been asking some of today's biggest acts to remember their favorites form that truly epic year.
So far, we've looked back at Metallica's Black Album, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, Slint's Spiderland, Pearl Jam's Ten and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. Today,...
- 9/6/2011
- MTV Music News
On Oct. 21, 1974, Californian Clifford Travis Bean filed a U.S. patent with the intention of making a guitar from "extruded aluminum." His goal, read the patent, was to create an instrument that resulted in "stable and versatile tones." Nearly four decades later, it's safe to say that Bean, who died last Friday at the age of 63, was successful in his stated aims.
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
In the five years following his filed patent, Bean produced some 3,600 instruments that are not only by and large still in use today but also still influencing new generations of guitar makers and players. His heavy, unmistakable aluminum-necked guitars have an unwavering reputation for tone, sustain and musical flexibility. Though they're most popular now at the intersection of heavy metal and indie rock, they've been used over the years by The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Thin Lizzy and jazz guitarist Stanley Jordan.
Earlier this week, I asked one longtime Bean adherent,...
- 7/13/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
Sundays are made for cinema.
Whether it’s a sparsely populated matinee screening in your local picturehouse or a enjoying long lost classic on the TV as you lie defeated after a meal with the family; the lull in the working week allows for the simple pleasure of film to work its magic.
One of the parts of working on HeyUGuys that gives the most pleasure is the connections we build with our readers and the film recommendations we receive and pass on ourselves is great fun. The weekly Ripped from the Crypt section of our Mouth Off podcast is becoming a favourite arena for championing our favoured oddities.
In this spirit I’m happy to point you in the direction of Jacob Bricca’s short film Pure, which in the words of the director is,
A meditation on genre, a commentary on visual cliches, and a celebration of the visceral pleasures of cinema.
Whether it’s a sparsely populated matinee screening in your local picturehouse or a enjoying long lost classic on the TV as you lie defeated after a meal with the family; the lull in the working week allows for the simple pleasure of film to work its magic.
One of the parts of working on HeyUGuys that gives the most pleasure is the connections we build with our readers and the film recommendations we receive and pass on ourselves is great fun. The weekly Ripped from the Crypt section of our Mouth Off podcast is becoming a favourite arena for championing our favoured oddities.
In this spirit I’m happy to point you in the direction of Jacob Bricca’s short film Pure, which in the words of the director is,
A meditation on genre, a commentary on visual cliches, and a celebration of the visceral pleasures of cinema.
- 6/6/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If you know actor Michael Shannon by name, chances are it's because of his searing, Oscar-nominated performance as head-case John Givings in last year's Revolutionary Road. Yet the Kentucky-born Brooklynite has brought his towering presence and curious intensity to dozens of projects, most notably Bug, World Trade Center, Shotgun Stories, and Werner Herzog's upcoming My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. (Click here for my podcast with Herzog for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, in which Shannon has a small role.) The actor's latest, which premiered at Sundance this year, is the post-9/11 noir thriller The Missing Person: Writer/director Noah Buschel's third feature stars Michael Shannon as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers Harold’s identity as a missing person... [Plot spoiler redacted]. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow...
- 11/22/2009
- GreenCine Daily
Pure/Head - 75/100
Goat - 94/100
Liar - 80/100
Down - 61/100
Best of Jesus Lizard catalog gets deluxe-reissue treatment
In certain shadowy circles of the rock ’n’ roll universe, The Jesus Lizard are The Beatles. And despite the fact that All Music Guide’s entry on the former begins, “Willfully abrasive and atonal...” and that the latter wrote scores of catchy ditties that are etched into our collective psyche, the bands have more in common than one might imagine, especially in terms of influence. Of course, this wasn’t always so. “It’s pretty weird that there are no bands like The Jesus Lizard around anymore,” Pitchfork’s Brent Dicrescenzo began his review of rarities/singles collection, Bang, in 2000. “...The absence of cacophonous, piss-drinking, steel-chewing rock sums up the current climate. Young musicians seem hesitant to frighten and discomfort.” He has a point. Or did, at least, at the time.
Goat - 94/100
Liar - 80/100
Down - 61/100
Best of Jesus Lizard catalog gets deluxe-reissue treatment
In certain shadowy circles of the rock ’n’ roll universe, The Jesus Lizard are The Beatles. And despite the fact that All Music Guide’s entry on the former begins, “Willfully abrasive and atonal...” and that the latter wrote scores of catchy ditties that are etched into our collective psyche, the bands have more in common than one might imagine, especially in terms of influence. Of course, this wasn’t always so. “It’s pretty weird that there are no bands like The Jesus Lizard around anymore,” Pitchfork’s Brent Dicrescenzo began his review of rarities/singles collection, Bang, in 2000. “...The absence of cacophonous, piss-drinking, steel-chewing rock sums up the current climate. Young musicians seem hesitant to frighten and discomfort.” He has a point. Or did, at least, at the time.
- 10/8/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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