Danny Boyle’s next film is the upcoming Beatles musical “Yesterday,” but the director is set to executive produce another music biopic about the record label executive who ushered in the band Oasis, a group that once declared themselves bigger than The Beatles.
Boyle will executive produce “Creation Stories,” a biopic based on the life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose Creation Records also launched other iconic bands like Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Burning Wheel Productions announced Tuesday.
Boyle is reuniting with “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh on the project, who is writing the screenplay based on McGee’s autobiography “The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label.”
Ewen Bremner, who is best known as “Spud” in Boyle’s “Trainspotting,” stars in the project as McGee, and the cast also includes Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Fleming.
Boyle will executive produce “Creation Stories,” a biopic based on the life of music mogul Alan McGee, whose Creation Records also launched other iconic bands like Primal Scream and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Burning Wheel Productions announced Tuesday.
Boyle is reuniting with “Trainspotting” author Irvine Welsh on the project, who is writing the screenplay based on McGee’s autobiography “The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label.”
Ewen Bremner, who is best known as “Spud” in Boyle’s “Trainspotting,” stars in the project as McGee, and the cast also includes Rupert Everett, Suki Waterhouse and Jason Fleming.
- 4/16/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
February means Valentine's Day, and whether you're Netflix-and-chill-ing (are we still saying that?) or staving off feelings of crushing loneliness, streaming is a must. This month, you can either celebrate the lovelorn holiday with Mindy Kaling's ode to romcoms and a sensual evening with Michael Bolton, or fully embrace your singlehood with the cynical bleakness of an indie flick with the perfect title for the Trump era. And who doesn't love a good ol' chipper cannibalism comedy, regardless of his or her relationship status? Here's your go-to streaming guide for the next month.
- 2/1/2017
- Rollingstone.com
“Endless” opens with a techno sample from German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, singing in accented robotic tones: “With this Apple appliance/You can capture live video/Still motion pictures/Shot at high frequency/Blurring/Blurring the line.”
Calling Frank Ocean’s visual album a music video doesn’t do it justice. It might be opus to creativity, or digital music sculpture, but more than anything it’s an ode to a kind of handmade art that that can only exist on a device.
Read More: Watch ‘Possibilia,’ The Moving Interactive Film From ‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Blurring lines is exactly what Ocean succeeds in doing — wresting that phrase from Robin Thicke’s creepy hands is just a bonus. The album can only be streamed with an Apple Music subscription (the free trial lasts three months) while the film plays. The captivating black-and-white images aren’t exactly...
Calling Frank Ocean’s visual album a music video doesn’t do it justice. It might be opus to creativity, or digital music sculpture, but more than anything it’s an ode to a kind of handmade art that that can only exist on a device.
Read More: Watch ‘Possibilia,’ The Moving Interactive Film From ‘Swiss Army Man’ Directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Blurring lines is exactly what Ocean succeeds in doing — wresting that phrase from Robin Thicke’s creepy hands is just a bonus. The album can only be streamed with an Apple Music subscription (the free trial lasts three months) while the film plays. The captivating black-and-white images aren’t exactly...
- 8/19/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
With the instantly recognizable pounding of the Ronettes' "Be My Baby" and one of the most brittlely distorted guitar lines ever put to tape, alt-rockers the Jesus and Mary Chain laid the groundwork for one of the most copied rock & roll sounds of the past three decades. The group's marriage of chaos and calm on ""Just Like Honey"and the rest of the album the song kicks off – the band's 1985 masterpiece Psychocandy – has reverberated through the works of My Bloody Valentine, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and A... Read the rest of Jesus and Mary Chain Look Back on 30 Years of 'Psychocandy' at RollingStone.com...
- 4/28/2015
- by Kory Grow - Rolling Stone
- Hitfix
Scarlett Johansson has long been more than just an acclaimed actress. Her musical endeavors have included releasing an album of Tom Waits covers, appearing with the Jesus and Mary Chain at Coachella and being nominated for a Best Original Song Academy Award with Adele. Her latest venture does not have a whole lot of information attached to it right now, only that it is called The Singles, and is a collaboration with Holly Miranda, Kendra Morris, Julia Haltigan and Haim‘s Este Haim handling the drums. In addition, noted producer and TV on the Radio member David Sitek has produced their debut single, “Candy.” Related: Haim Find Their Spirit Animals in Calvin Harris’ ‘Pray to God’ Video: Watch There is no indication yet whether or not this is more than just a one-off, but logic would say that this is just the beginning, as the press release teases more exciting information to come.
- 2/21/2015
- by Philip Cosores - Radio.com
- Hitfix
Gregg Araki's unique coming-of-age story "White Bird in a Blizzard" already has his distinctive imprint on it, but the film's dreamlike atmosphere is aided by the music department. A couple of months back, we brought you a preview of Cocteau Twins member Robin Guthrie and avant pianist Harold Budd's score for the film, and today, we're taking a look at the songs that power the official soundtrack. Featuring, of course, Cocteau Twins, along with New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and Tears For Fears, the song choices mark out the very specific sound Araki uses to tell his tale. The inclusion of The Jesus And Mary Chain gives things a bit of an edge, while selections by Everything But The Girl brings the music toward the '90s, and Ulrich Schnauss pulls the soundtrack into the new millennium. It's clearly a soundtrack selected and programmed with care,...
- 11/10/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Injury Autumn/Winter 2011 Video Look Book. Or a three-minute horror movie trailer. You decide.
Founded by former architecture student and graffiti artist, designer Eugene Leung started his line Injury in Sydney, in 2004. The name Injury came to Leung when he drew a comparison of being “cut and sewn,” and therefore being in “a situation of injury,” to what happens when he manipulates fabrics for his fashion line. Leung says he gets his primary inspiration from horror movie soundtracks, as well as “all things dark, bizarre, gothic, or darkmarish.” His line is also well known for its video look-books, which play out like short unsettling horror movie trailers. Like the one for Injury’s Autumn/Winter 2011 collection called “Pandemonium”, above.
Injury’s logo, or a memento from a serial killer?
So what about the clothes?
They are totaly rock and roll, either black or white, and unisex. When it comes to the patterns,...
Founded by former architecture student and graffiti artist, designer Eugene Leung started his line Injury in Sydney, in 2004. The name Injury came to Leung when he drew a comparison of being “cut and sewn,” and therefore being in “a situation of injury,” to what happens when he manipulates fabrics for his fashion line. Leung says he gets his primary inspiration from horror movie soundtracks, as well as “all things dark, bizarre, gothic, or darkmarish.” His line is also well known for its video look-books, which play out like short unsettling horror movie trailers. Like the one for Injury’s Autumn/Winter 2011 collection called “Pandemonium”, above.
Injury’s logo, or a memento from a serial killer?
So what about the clothes?
They are totaly rock and roll, either black or white, and unisex. When it comes to the patterns,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Cherry Bombed
- Destroy the Brain
Sound + Vision Film Festival, a showcase of music documentaries from world over, celebrates its second outing at Fslc, here in NYC. This year's festival consists of eclectic mix of new films, retrospectives and musical performances and more. The lineup includes spotlights on subjects like a Japanese trance didgeridoo player, seminal atmospheric bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s, a Mexican acoustic duo who combine thrash metal and flamenco, and music created on 1980s video-game hardware.Opening night selection is Beautiful Noise, a documentary on the rise of the influential 'wall-of-sound' scene that started with Cocteau Twins, The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. The series concludes with Florian Habicht's Pulp, which follows iconic Brit band Pulp and the lead-up to their reunion...
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- 7/30/2014
- Screen Anarchy
One of the boons of the internet era is the easy accessibility of once obscure music by bands like the Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. While these shoegaze bands may now appear as part of the upper tier of music festival lineups, in their heyday their music was only appreciated by a small passionate fanbase that, to paraphrase Brian Eno’s famous quote about the Velvet Underground, eventually formed bands after hearing the seminal albums. Now, a new documentary is arriving that will track the influence and legacy of the shoegaze movement, and its first trailer has appeared online. As Pitchfork reports, the Eric Green-helmed and Sarah Ogletree-produced “Beautiful Noise” began life as a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and will finally screen in front of audiences next month. The doc will show how the aforementioned bands—and others, including Slowdive and Chapterhouse—“influenced generations of bands.
- 5/13/2014
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Most people on this side of the pond might recognize veteran English comedian Richard Ayoade as the oddball techie Moss on the Britcom The It Crowd, or as the odd man out from the 2012 A-list sci-fi comedy The Watch (he was the gentleman who was not Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn or Jonah Hill). He's established himself as a novel comic presence onscreen, gravitating toward characters that feel several beats off from the norm and don't mesh with their environments.
'Community's 'Critical Studies': Celebrating the 21st Century's Greatest TV Episode
Behind the camera,...
'Community's 'Critical Studies': Celebrating the 21st Century's Greatest TV Episode
Behind the camera,...
- 5/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
This feelgood musical featuring the Proclaimers' work is likable but feels too staged – except for some stirring star performances
Andy Warhol's famous prediction about everyone getting to be world-famous for 15 minutes may soon be replaced by something else. Soon every band in the world will have its own feelgood jukebox musical. Everyone who has ever released a record, or performed live, will by EU directive get their greatest-hits catalogue crowbarred into a high-energy musical on the lines of Mamma Mia! – including Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Wurzels and Slipknot. Every band's songs will be crammed into a laughter-and-tears story about family parties, love and young women with lovably rumpled dads they didn't know they had.
Such a one is Sunshine on Leith, a good-natured, likable but sometimes contrived and eerily artificial movie-musical – like something cultivated in a lab or generated from a computer...
Andy Warhol's famous prediction about everyone getting to be world-famous for 15 minutes may soon be replaced by something else. Soon every band in the world will have its own feelgood jukebox musical. Everyone who has ever released a record, or performed live, will by EU directive get their greatest-hits catalogue crowbarred into a high-energy musical on the lines of Mamma Mia! – including Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Freddie and the Dreamers, the Wurzels and Slipknot. Every band's songs will be crammed into a laughter-and-tears story about family parties, love and young women with lovably rumpled dads they didn't know they had.
Such a one is Sunshine on Leith, a good-natured, likable but sometimes contrived and eerily artificial movie-musical – like something cultivated in a lab or generated from a computer...
- 10/3/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Scarlett Johansson may be regarded as one of the most beautiful stars in the world, but she's also an actress who continues to surprise us.
Johansson has juggled various genres, from teen comedies like "The Perfect Score," to quirky indies like "Ghost World," to superhero blockbusters like "Iron Man 2." But this weekend we get the Jersey-fied Johansson in "Don Jon." Scarjo plays Barbara, the new girlfriend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's porn-addicted title character.
We've seen Johansson on screen since she was just a kid, but there are still tons of facts that you probably never knew about the blonde bombshell, such as her rejection from Nyu's Tisch school or her near-casting in the upcoming "Gravity." Find out more little-known tidbits about the star below.
1. Even though 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" was Johansson's seventh feature film, she was given an "Introducing" credit in it.
2. She has a twin brother, Hunter Johansson,...
Johansson has juggled various genres, from teen comedies like "The Perfect Score," to quirky indies like "Ghost World," to superhero blockbusters like "Iron Man 2." But this weekend we get the Jersey-fied Johansson in "Don Jon." Scarjo plays Barbara, the new girlfriend of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's porn-addicted title character.
We've seen Johansson on screen since she was just a kid, but there are still tons of facts that you probably never knew about the blonde bombshell, such as her rejection from Nyu's Tisch school or her near-casting in the upcoming "Gravity." Find out more little-known tidbits about the star below.
1. Even though 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" was Johansson's seventh feature film, she was given an "Introducing" credit in it.
2. She has a twin brother, Hunter Johansson,...
- 9/27/2013
- by Erin Whitney
- Moviefone
It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.
Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)
1. Scrunchies
2. "The Wild Thornberries"
3. Dawson and Joey
4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"
5. Mr. Feeny
7. MTV playing music videos
8. Snick
9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"
10. Levar Burton
11. "Daria"
12. "Arthur"
13. "The Powerpuff Girls"
14. "Smart Guy"
15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings
16. "The X-Files"
17. Rosie O'Donnell
18. Bill Nye
19. "Dawson's Creek"
20. The Mighty Ducks"
21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"
22. Cornholio
23. Rachel Green
24. Tim Allen
25. "All That"
26. "Beverly Hills 90210"
27. "Step by Step"
28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"
29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"
30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
- 7/29/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Mayfield Depot, Manchester
It's an irony, given his obsession with our surveillance culture, that if you were to cast the voice of Orwell's Big Brother, Adam Curtis would be hard to beat. The BBC documentary-maker – justly celebrated for series that include The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – speaks with such paternal conviction, such stylish wisdom, that given half a day in a film archive you suspect he could have you believe pretty much anything. This Manchester international festival collaboration with Bristol-based trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack is billed as a playful showdown, a versus, in the manner of a rap contest or a prize fight; the vast derelict train depot in which this battle is being staged over 10 nights offers a suitably raw-boned backdrop for the high-decibel stand-off – earplugs are given out at the door – but it quickly becomes...
It's an irony, given his obsession with our surveillance culture, that if you were to cast the voice of Orwell's Big Brother, Adam Curtis would be hard to beat. The BBC documentary-maker – justly celebrated for series that include The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace – speaks with such paternal conviction, such stylish wisdom, that given half a day in a film archive you suspect he could have you believe pretty much anything. This Manchester international festival collaboration with Bristol-based trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack is billed as a playful showdown, a versus, in the manner of a rap contest or a prize fight; the vast derelict train depot in which this battle is being staged over 10 nights offers a suitably raw-boned backdrop for the high-decibel stand-off – earplugs are given out at the door – but it quickly becomes...
- 7/6/2013
- by Tim Adams
- The Guardian - Film News
Top 10 Sarah Dobbs 21 Feb 2013 - 07:17
Sarah lists the geeky stars who shouldn't give up the day job when it comes to launching their music career...
Everyone dreams of being a rock star, don’t they? Most of us have had a go at playing air guitar, or singing into our hairbrushes, even if we wouldn’t inflict our dubious musical talents on other people. There’s just something irresistibly glamorous about the idea of being a famous musician. So much so, apparently, that even celebrities aren’t immune to the siren call of the rock ‘n’ roll dream. Here are ten geek actors who’ve tried, and largely failed, to launch a secondary career as musicians…
Bruce Willis
Before Bruce Willis became a bona fide action hero due to 1988’s Die Hard, he had a go at being an R’n’B star. He was already a recognisable face...
Sarah lists the geeky stars who shouldn't give up the day job when it comes to launching their music career...
Everyone dreams of being a rock star, don’t they? Most of us have had a go at playing air guitar, or singing into our hairbrushes, even if we wouldn’t inflict our dubious musical talents on other people. There’s just something irresistibly glamorous about the idea of being a famous musician. So much so, apparently, that even celebrities aren’t immune to the siren call of the rock ‘n’ roll dream. Here are ten geek actors who’ve tried, and largely failed, to launch a secondary career as musicians…
Bruce Willis
Before Bruce Willis became a bona fide action hero due to 1988’s Die Hard, he had a go at being an R’n’B star. He was already a recognisable face...
- 2/20/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The newest supernatural Young Adult romance adapted to film is lumbering its way to theaters this weekend. “Warm Bodies” is, however, something of “Twilight-with-a-brain” (or, excuse me, Brains!) and, should you find yourself dragged to see it, it is nothing you need growl at.
“Warm Bodies” stars Nicholas Hoult (probably best remembered as Beast from “X-Men: First Class” or the boy from “About A Boy,” but will forever be remembered by me as someone from the movie “Kidulthood,” a film I just learned about on imdb, produced by people clearly on the receiving end of a dare to come up with the worst film title in history) and Teresa Palmer (from hot blonde).
He's a zombie, she's a feisty idealistic daughter of a military general in a survivors' colony under martial law during the tail end of an undead apocalypse. Just go with it.
Palmer soon discovers that a zombie...
“Warm Bodies” stars Nicholas Hoult (probably best remembered as Beast from “X-Men: First Class” or the boy from “About A Boy,” but will forever be remembered by me as someone from the movie “Kidulthood,” a film I just learned about on imdb, produced by people clearly on the receiving end of a dare to come up with the worst film title in history) and Teresa Palmer (from hot blonde).
He's a zombie, she's a feisty idealistic daughter of a military general in a survivors' colony under martial law during the tail end of an undead apocalypse. Just go with it.
Palmer soon discovers that a zombie...
- 1/31/2013
- by Jordan Hoffman
- NextMovie
Primavera Sound has announced the complete lineup for its 2013 festival, which takes place from May 22-26 in Parc Del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain.
In addition to previously announced headliners Blur, the festival features My Bloody Valentine, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Knife, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Fiona Apple, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala, Dinosaur Jr., Wu-Tang Clan, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Swans, Deerhunter, Death Grips, the Breeders, James Blake, Crystal Castles, Neko Case, Wild Nothing, Nurse With Wound, Fucked Up, Jessie Ware, Solange, Dan Deacon, Camera Obscura, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Dead Can Dance, Christopher Owens, Do Make Say Think, Four Tet, the Sea and Cake, John Talabot, Killer Mike, Titus Andronicus, Shellac, Delorean, Menomena, Diiv, Local Natives, Disclosure, Bob Mould, Liars, Daniel Johnston, Woods, Mount Eerie, Meat Puppets, Thee Oh Sees, How to Dress Well, Neurosis, Metz, Daphni, Mac DeMarco, Matthew E.
In addition to previously announced headliners Blur, the festival features My Bloody Valentine, Phoenix, the Postal Service, the Knife, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Fiona Apple, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, Tame Impala, Dinosaur Jr., Wu-Tang Clan, Band of Horses, Hot Chip, Swans, Deerhunter, Death Grips, the Breeders, James Blake, Crystal Castles, Neko Case, Wild Nothing, Nurse With Wound, Fucked Up, Jessie Ware, Solange, Dan Deacon, Camera Obscura, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Dead Can Dance, Christopher Owens, Do Make Say Think, Four Tet, the Sea and Cake, John Talabot, Killer Mike, Titus Andronicus, Shellac, Delorean, Menomena, Diiv, Local Natives, Disclosure, Bob Mould, Liars, Daniel Johnston, Woods, Mount Eerie, Meat Puppets, Thee Oh Sees, How to Dress Well, Neurosis, Metz, Daphni, Mac DeMarco, Matthew E.
- 1/23/2013
- by Pitchfork
- Huffington Post
Featuring an ultimate 80’s punk and new-wave soundtrack, I Melt With You is released on DVD and to download by Momentum Pictures on 6th August 2012. This dark side of the hangover features a solid selection of songs to show including the one-two punch of “All Going Out Together” and “Blue Thunder” by Big Dipper and Galaxie 500 respectively. From there things get funkier with the classic “Maggot Brain” by Funkadelic, before The Jesus And Mary Chain arrive with the undeniable “Just Like Honey”. The staggering string of songs continue with “Caribou” by The Pixies, “Dog Eat Dog” by Adam And The Ants and the title track by Modern English.
The music featured in I Melt With You plays a big part in the film as the title reference to Modern English’s 1982 single suggests. The story of four male friends who stage a weekend reunion each year is pegged to the...
The music featured in I Melt With You plays a big part in the film as the title reference to Modern English’s 1982 single suggests. The story of four male friends who stage a weekend reunion each year is pegged to the...
- 8/2/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
It’s admirable how blatantly the guys in A Place to Bury Strangers still wear their influences on their noise-soaked sleeves. Sure, you may think that, by now—three albums and a kajillion EPs after their first releases in 2006—the band should be well beyond their Mary Chain-aping days, and, to be fair, the first notes of Worship don’t sound so much like the Reid Bros. No, “Alone” starts off the third Aptbs album by sounding like electro-goth-gazers Curve … covering a Jesus and Mary Chain song. To be clear: This is not a bad thing. The world could use a hundred...
- 6/26/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
The day-by-day line-up for the Riot Fest & Carnival in Chicago is now revealed. Rise Against, Descendents, Coheed and Cambria, Dropkick Murphys, The Gaslight Anthem, Andrew W.K. (full band), Minus The Bear, Frank Turner and more lead the Saturday bill, while Iggy and the Stooges, Elvis Costello, A Day To Remember, Gogol Bordello, Nofx, Alkaline Trio, Jesus and Mary Chain and more close out Sunday night. The previously announced 30 acts will now be joined by: Andrew W.K., Minus The Bear, Neon Trees, Hot Water Music, The Adicts, Pegboy, Imagine Dragons, Dead Sara, Fireworks, Henry Clay People, The Infected and many more to come (full line-up by day listed below). Single-day tickets are on sale today at...
- 6/20/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
You may not have seen Fawn perform -- but if you're into Detroit rock & roll, chances are you've heard from their members before.
The Detroit musicians boast a pedigree that includes rotations in some of the Motor City's most beloved indie bands -- Thunderbirds Are Now!, Those Transatlantics, the Von Bondies and Child Bite, to name a few.
Their new collective effort, Fawn, has recently been signed to Quite Scientific Records, the Ann Arbor-based label that's helped artists like Chris Bathgate, Frontier Ruckus and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. make the leap from the local scene to national tours and attention.
Drawing from influences like the Breeders, Pixies and Jesus and Mary Chain, Fawn mixes bubblegum pop melodies with intricate, dissonant guitar sounds, resulting in sing-a-long indie rock that masks complicated instrumental compositions.
They'll play songs from their new album, Coastlines, Thursday night at The Loving Touch in Ferndale. The free...
The Detroit musicians boast a pedigree that includes rotations in some of the Motor City's most beloved indie bands -- Thunderbirds Are Now!, Those Transatlantics, the Von Bondies and Child Bite, to name a few.
Their new collective effort, Fawn, has recently been signed to Quite Scientific Records, the Ann Arbor-based label that's helped artists like Chris Bathgate, Frontier Ruckus and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. make the leap from the local scene to national tours and attention.
Drawing from influences like the Breeders, Pixies and Jesus and Mary Chain, Fawn mixes bubblegum pop melodies with intricate, dissonant guitar sounds, resulting in sing-a-long indie rock that masks complicated instrumental compositions.
They'll play songs from their new album, Coastlines, Thursday night at The Loving Touch in Ferndale. The free...
- 6/14/2012
- by Ashley Woods
- Huffington Post
In anticipation of the late-June release of its third studio album, Worship, Brooklyn fuzz-rock group A Place To Bury Strangers has uploaded “And I’m Up” as the second single off of the new album. The song recalls the methadoned-up Jesus And Mary Chain-influenced sound that the band has become known for: Sweet ’50s pop behind a wall of guitar noise, oozing with black mascara and human scum. All that, and it’s said to be the most approachable on the new album. Worship will be released in the States on June 27. On the heels of the album ...
- 6/6/2012
- avclub.com
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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Released: May 7th
There are two types of great records – those that change the world, and those that are just plain perfect in every way. My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is the latter. After allegedly bankrupting Creation, the bands label, and taking three years to make, Loveless was finally released in 1991. Conceived on a strict diet of sex and sleep deprivation and sounding like nothing anyone had ever heard before, it took the Spectoresque noisepop of the Jesus and Mary Chain and refined it into a new sound – one that would come to be known as shoegaze.
After twenty-one years with no new record, but one reunion tour just a few years ago under their belts, My Bloody Valentine are back with the long awaited versions of their albums Isn’t Anything, Loveless, and a compilation of their many EPs all remastered by the band’s frontman,...
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Released: May 7th
There are two types of great records – those that change the world, and those that are just plain perfect in every way. My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is the latter. After allegedly bankrupting Creation, the bands label, and taking three years to make, Loveless was finally released in 1991. Conceived on a strict diet of sex and sleep deprivation and sounding like nothing anyone had ever heard before, it took the Spectoresque noisepop of the Jesus and Mary Chain and refined it into a new sound – one that would come to be known as shoegaze.
After twenty-one years with no new record, but one reunion tour just a few years ago under their belts, My Bloody Valentine are back with the long awaited versions of their albums Isn’t Anything, Loveless, and a compilation of their many EPs all remastered by the band’s frontman,...
- 5/9/2012
- by Tom Daly
- Obsessed with Film
Following the band’s short run of dates in the greater Texas area in March, the Scottish noise-pop pioneers of The Jesus And Mary Chain will be returning to North America this summer for another, still very short, tour. According to Exclaim!, the dates include some West Coast shows in June and a Toronto show at the Phoenix on Aug. 3. There’s a whole bunch of dead space there, so you can probably expect the band to fill it in with some more dates for shows in the half of the continent that separates San Diego from Toronto. Also ...
- 4/25/2012
- avclub.com
It's no secret that big screen beauty Scarlett Johansson has a musical side (don't they all?), which she's proved by working with Pete Yorn, Jesus and Mary Chain, TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek and others. Now the starlet's vocal stylings are intersecting with the electronic music world via some very heavy-hitters. Her 2006 cover of George Gershwin standard "Summertime" has been remixed by Massive Attack’s 3D and Dfa’s Tim Goldsworthy as part of the original soundtrack for the upcoming Spanish thriller "Days of Grace," directed by Everardo Valerio Gout. The collection includes a whopping 39 tracks, featuring performances by frequent collaborators Nick...
- 4/11/2012
- by Dave Lewis
- Hitfix
Feist and M. Ward delighted London audience members last night by performing a surprising cover during their gig the Royal Albert Hall. The two singers covered “Sometimes Always,” from The Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1994 album, Stoned & Dethroned. Feist and M. Ward actually gave the song a faithful reinterpretation, too, so check it out the fan-shot footage after the jump.
- 3/27/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
We told you about the Sleigh Bells winter tour. We told you about the Red Hot Chili Peppers summer tour. And now we feel it’s our duty to tell you that, according to Spin, Sleigh Bells are hitting the road with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, like some perfect storm of sugary Jesus And Mary Chain-influenced noise rock and whatever it is the Red Hot Chili Peppers do these days. Before this, though, Sleigh Bells will head out on a run of solo club dates, including a stop at the Phoenix in Toronto on March 26, before hitting North ...
- 2/28/2012
- avclub.com
Like The Jesus And Mary Chain before it, Sleigh Bells arrived with 2010’s Treats riding a one-trick pony—a pony the size of a tank. The band’s pairing of tinnitus guitars and sugared vocals was an effective team-up, and fresh and credible enough to win its hip jock jams—singer Alexis Krauss wears a Chicago Bulls jersey at shows—an audience that wouldn’t otherwise be caught dead in the same borough as a stadium. Reign Of Terror takes a step back from Treats’ sheer assault, dialing down the red-lining guitar volume to vintage Metallica levels and leaving ...
- 2/21/2012
- avclub.com
The Jesus and Mary Chain have announced a clutch of live shows. The band play their first North American gigs since 2008 this March with three confirmed dates and a fourth show at the SXSW festival. The lineup features founding members William and Jim Reid and late-era bassist Phil King. Also rejoining the band is ex-Black Box Recorder star John Moore. A drummer is yet to be confirmed. Moore occasionally played drums with the Mary Chain's Psychocandy lineup before permanently replacing Bobby Gillespie when he left to front Primal Scream. He then moved to rhythm guitar in 1986, before leaving the band in 1988. "So, back in the Jamc after a quarter of (more)...
- 2/8/2012
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Coldplay, Girls and Lykke Li also among year's best, but Yuck's self-titled debut tops this MTV News writer's list.
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West and Jay-z
Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Year-end album lists are kind of like going to a high school reunion: You feel obligated to do it, you way overthink things and nobody wants to show up with an unfashionable look that nobody else is rocking.
Some people reach for an obscurity to up their cred or go with the big, dumb, obvious choice to avoid making waves and be down with the cool kids. When asked to only pick one album from 2011, I just prefer to cheat.
That's why I'll mention that I was way into things like Jay-z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne for its brash, bombastic rap supremacy; Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto for its willingness to take chances; and the truly excellent...
By Gil Kaufman
Kanye West and Jay-z
Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Year-end album lists are kind of like going to a high school reunion: You feel obligated to do it, you way overthink things and nobody wants to show up with an unfashionable look that nobody else is rocking.
Some people reach for an obscurity to up their cred or go with the big, dumb, obvious choice to avoid making waves and be down with the cool kids. When asked to only pick one album from 2011, I just prefer to cheat.
That's why I'll mention that I was way into things like Jay-z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne for its brash, bombastic rap supremacy; Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto for its willingness to take chances; and the truly excellent...
- 12/5/2011
- MTV Music News
We scour the interwebs for the coolest movie news and more so you don't have to ...
Bella makes a mighty sound! Kristen Stewart has informed The Fab Life that her non-"Twilight" activities include learning to play the trumpet.
What has the best shot at winning the Oscar for Best Picture? Gold Derby has some early predictions.
The '90s are back! IndieWire has the full track list for the "I Melt With You" soundtrack, which features The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies and more.
When is the precious? Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, tells IGN that we may getting a "Hobbit" teaser for Christmas.
Megan Fox tells Vulture that she'll soon no longer be the Girl with the Marilyn Monroe Tattoo.
Beware the WereRowlf! The Muppets find time for one last spoof in a series of "Twilight"-inspired posters at The Hollywood Reporter.
Bella makes a mighty sound! Kristen Stewart has informed The Fab Life that her non-"Twilight" activities include learning to play the trumpet.
What has the best shot at winning the Oscar for Best Picture? Gold Derby has some early predictions.
The '90s are back! IndieWire has the full track list for the "I Melt With You" soundtrack, which features The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pixies and more.
When is the precious? Gollum himself, Andy Serkis, tells IGN that we may getting a "Hobbit" teaser for Christmas.
Megan Fox tells Vulture that she'll soon no longer be the Girl with the Marilyn Monroe Tattoo.
Beware the WereRowlf! The Muppets find time for one last spoof in a series of "Twilight"-inspired posters at The Hollywood Reporter.
- 11/16/2011
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
Encounters Short Film Festival, Bristol
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
The cinematic Trojan horse returns, smuggling short film-makers into the big league, even more so now it's a qualifying festival for the Oscars and Baftas. Admittedly, some of this year's entries hardly need a leg-up. Pitch Black Heist, for example, stars Michael Fassbender, while animation Bertie Crisp features the voices of Tamsin Greig and Kathy Burke. Notable first-timers this year include the Jesus And Mary Chain's Douglas Hart (Long Distance Information, starring Peter Mullan) and Matthew "Garth Marenghi" Holness (A Gun For George), but with 180 new live-action and animated films, there are plenty of new names to be made for sure.
Watershed & Arnolfini, Wed to 20 Nov
Soundtrack Film Festival, Cardiff
As the title suggests, music and cinema come together here, and not always in predictable ways. Ok, so Guillemots are playing an improvised score to Fw Murnau's 1926 silent classic Faust but how will Ivory Tower,...
- 11/12/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain has unveiled a brand new song. The lead singer of The Jesus and Mary Chain uploaded the track called 'Black and Blues' to Soundcloud and the band's official Twitter feed linked to the track. "What I've been wasting my time with lately," Reid wrote under the two-and-a-half-minute song. Listen to Jim Reid's 'Black and Blues' below: After The Jesus and Mary Chain split at the end of the 1990s, Reid formed Freeheat, who (more)...
- 9/20/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
The Jesus And Mary Chain wasn’t the first band to bury sunny retro-pop in frayed blankets of distortion, but the band’s 1985 debut Psychocandy was such a benchmark in alternative rock that anyone who aspires to that kind of primitivist epiphany has to wrestle with some ghosts. Milk Maid’s debut album, Yucca, is a home-recording side project of Nine Black Alps’ bassist Martin Cohen, and collects the first songs Cohen’s ever written and produced—simple, hooky songs heavy on echo, bleed, and multi-tracked vocals. No, it’s no Psychocandy. Milk Maid’s songs are a little ...
- 8/2/2011
- avclub.com
Brandon Lee is back from the dead in The Crow.
Lionsgate will release the supernatural thriller The Crow on Blu-ray disc on Oct. 18, marking the first time the 1994 cult film favorite starring the late Brandon Lee (Rapid Fire) has been issued on the high-definition format in the U.S.
Directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O’Barr, the film’s story concerns guitarist Eric Draven (Lee), who is brought back to life by a mystical crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their wedding. The crow guides Draven through the land of the living, leading him to his gang of killers, whom he enacts his revenge on one-by-one.
The Crow co-stars Michael Wincott (Strange Days) and David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors) in the kind of deliciously villainous roles that helped to...
Lionsgate will release the supernatural thriller The Crow on Blu-ray disc on Oct. 18, marking the first time the 1994 cult film favorite starring the late Brandon Lee (Rapid Fire) has been issued on the high-definition format in the U.S.
Directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O’Barr, the film’s story concerns guitarist Eric Draven (Lee), who is brought back to life by a mystical crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered on the eve of their wedding. The crow guides Draven through the land of the living, leading him to his gang of killers, whom he enacts his revenge on one-by-one.
The Crow co-stars Michael Wincott (Strange Days) and David Patrick Kelly (The Warriors) in the kind of deliciously villainous roles that helped to...
- 7/25/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Note: Each Friday, we'll close with a song we consider a suiting goodbye for the workweek. With each Music for Fridays post, check for a free mp3.
Aside from a convenient excuse for firing grills, filling pools in backyards and flinging crushed beer cans into the backyard, Memorial Day is a holiday meant for reflecting on heritage, or in considering that the present is often won through a sometimes very difficult past. Or at least that's the best explanation I've got for why Sirius Xmu--the satellite radio indie rock syndicate--is blasting only blocks of atavistic indie rock this weekend. "Old School," they call it. Instead of Yuck, you'll get Archers of Loaf and The Clean; instead of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, maybe you'll get The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
But if have neither satellite radio nor the need to hear bands you already love,...
Aside from a convenient excuse for firing grills, filling pools in backyards and flinging crushed beer cans into the backyard, Memorial Day is a holiday meant for reflecting on heritage, or in considering that the present is often won through a sometimes very difficult past. Or at least that's the best explanation I've got for why Sirius Xmu--the satellite radio indie rock syndicate--is blasting only blocks of atavistic indie rock this weekend. "Old School," they call it. Instead of Yuck, you'll get Archers of Loaf and The Clean; instead of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, maybe you'll get The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.
But if have neither satellite radio nor the need to hear bands you already love,...
- 5/27/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
Once considered the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent queer cinema, Director Gregg Araki is back with Kaboom, a science-fiction cyber-thriller and self-aware teen sex comedy. On episode 22 of Sordid Cinema (Sound On Sight’s monthly spin-off show) Ricky D, Justine Smith and guest Beverly Brown sit down to discuss Mysterious Skin, Nowhere, Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up and Kaboom!
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Playlist:
Golden Hair – Syd Barrett
Just One Fix – Ministry
Head On – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Heresy – Nine Inch Nails
How Can You Be Sure – Radiohead
Crystal Visions – The Big Pink
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Playlist:
Golden Hair – Syd Barrett
Just One Fix – Ministry
Head On – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Heresy – Nine Inch Nails
How Can You Be Sure – Radiohead
Crystal Visions – The Big Pink
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- 5/15/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Director: Danny O'Connor In my humble opinion, Creation Records is one of the most important record labels in the history of British rock music (alongside the likes of Rough Trade and Factory). Founded in 1983 by Alan McGee, Dick Green and Joe Foster, Creation's premiere release was the "'73 in '83" single by The Legend! for which Creation acquired a £1,000 bank loan to fund. Creation went on to release albums by countless seminal bands of the British indie scene, including: Oasis, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Pastels, Television Personalities, Primal Scream, The Loft, Super Furry Animals, Teenage Fanclub, Saint Etienne, The Boo Radleys, 3 Colours Red, Ride, Swervedriver, Slowdive, BMX Bandits, The House of Love, The Weather Prophets, Felt, The Telescopes, The Jazz Butcher, Momus, Sugar, and Teenage Filmstars. Creation's roster forever redefined music and -- according to Danny O'Connor's Upside Down: The Creation Records Story --...
- 4/23/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Currently the “Best Band With The Worst Name” title holder, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart debuted in 2009 as a twee indie-rock act whose sound owed more than a little to Belle And Sebastian. But Pains showed a stronger propensity for rock, which explains the band’s choice of producer Flood (U2, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails) and mixer Alan Moulder (The Jesus And Mary Chain, Ride, My Bloody Valentine) for the new Belong. Those guys specialize in big rock sounds, and that’s exactly what Belong delivers in its opening track, “Belong,” which resembles the Pumpkins ...
- 3/29/2011
- avclub.com
On their second album, San Diego’s Crocodiles remain devotees of the smeary school of noise-pop, once more paying homage to—or blatantly stealing from—the blissed-out blur of The Jesus And Mary Chain, who should really start charging franchise fees. Crocodiles bordered on Beatlemania-like copycatting on their 2009 debut, Summer Of Hate, playing stoned and dethroned swirls of scuzzy shoegaze from behind permanently affixed Wayfarers. Sleep Forever taps that same throbbing vein, but also sees the newly expanded five-piece moving toward a fuller, shinier sound, engineered by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford—which allows it to broaden its ...
- 9/21/2010
- avclub.com
Good movie soundtracks are hard to find. The Crow was one of my favorites back in the day, with great songs by Helmet, Pantera, The Cure and The Jesus and Mary Chain. It's hard finding a good soundtrack for movies that has a great group of artists on it. In fact, I'm trying to remember the last one I bought that wasn't a score of the film. Desperado was good. Vicki Cristina Barcelona was really chill. The Hangover wasn't too bad.For fans of movie soundtracks, here's a nice one for ya. The pop/punk songs from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World are available for your viewing pleasure.There are songs from Beck, Frank Black (of the The Pixies) and The Rolling Stones. I've never heard of the other artists but I'm way out of touch with today's music because most of it sounds like over produced garbage (Flo Rida,...
- 8/10/2010
- LRMonline.com
I’m not one to talk up a movie more than once, especially when there isn’t any pressing reason to do so, but I was playing around with some images, and find myself moved to throw out another mention of Easy A.
I’m going to tell you straight out – if a movie critic tells you they’re excited, interested, anticipating, or otherwise positively moved by a film release more than once or twice a year, move on. They’re either clueless, bandying about hype recklessly, haven’t seen nearly enough films, or all of the above.
That said, I’m pretty interested in getting the chance to view Easy A, and I’m the first to admit that it’s a strange title to follow up such remarks with.
Why does something like this pique my interest, even following up my statement that you should be wary of interested movie critics?...
I’m going to tell you straight out – if a movie critic tells you they’re excited, interested, anticipating, or otherwise positively moved by a film release more than once or twice a year, move on. They’re either clueless, bandying about hype recklessly, haven’t seen nearly enough films, or all of the above.
That said, I’m pretty interested in getting the chance to view Easy A, and I’m the first to admit that it’s a strange title to follow up such remarks with.
Why does something like this pique my interest, even following up my statement that you should be wary of interested movie critics?...
- 8/10/2010
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
Musician Alan Mc3Gee says that rock stars like Sir Paul McCartney should retire at 40.“Music should be like football,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying “Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost. You don’t have 66-year-old football players - there’s a reason for that. “The man I was at 24 managing The Jesus and Mary Chain is not the same person at 49,” he added. McGee also said, “McCartney should retire. John Lennon is probably firing bullets from another dimension as we speak. Just give in, Paul.”He also took a dig at record industry’s annual ...
- 1/31/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
London, Jan 30 - Musician Alan McGee says that rock stars like Sir Paul McCartney should retire at 40.
“Music should be like football,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
“Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost. You don’t have 66-year-old football players - there’s a reason for that.
“The man I was at 24 managing The Jesus and Mary Chain is not the same person at 49,” he added.
McGee also said, “McCartney should retire. John Lennon is probably firing.
“Music should be like football,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.
“Once you turn 40 you should become a manager or get lost. You don’t have 66-year-old football players - there’s a reason for that.
“The man I was at 24 managing The Jesus and Mary Chain is not the same person at 49,” he added.
McGee also said, “McCartney should retire. John Lennon is probably firing.
- 1/30/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
The Mary Onettes weren’t shy about their love for the alternative side of ’80s pop on their self-titled debut, and the follow-up, Islands, finds the Swedish quartet still pining for the days when all it took to see a Smiths or New Order video was flipping to MTV on Sunday at midnight. But while the 2007 offering often turned into a game of spot-the-influence—the aforementioned alt-rock heavyweights, plus Echo And The Bunnymen, The Jesus And Mary Chain, and The Cure were all accounted for— Islands’ dreamy pop features a more general feeling of throwback moodiness. The shift bodes ...
- 11/3/2009
- avclub.com
Our five-part Halloween Week retrospective on "The Crow" continues, celebrating the film's 15th anniversary with cast and filmmaker interviews that explore its origin and legacy. Check back each day this week for another installment of our "15 Years Of Devil's Night" series.
Part Four: Best. Soundtrack. Ever?
By Ryan J. Downey
"The Crow" soundtrack is quite possibly the greatest alt-rock compilation assembled in the '90s. Coupled with Graeme Revell's hauntingly moving score, bands like The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Machines Of Loving Grace perfectly complimented the movie's dark and romantic themes.
Even the bands who contributed cover songs selected material that lined up well with the flick, intentionally or not. Nine Inch Nails covered "Lost Souls," by one of The Crow creator James O'Barr's favorite bands, Joy Division. Rollins Band did a version of Suicide's "Ghost Rider," about the Marvel hero. Pantera...
Part Four: Best. Soundtrack. Ever?
By Ryan J. Downey
"The Crow" soundtrack is quite possibly the greatest alt-rock compilation assembled in the '90s. Coupled with Graeme Revell's hauntingly moving score, bands like The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, The Jesus and Mary Chain and Machines Of Loving Grace perfectly complimented the movie's dark and romantic themes.
Even the bands who contributed cover songs selected material that lined up well with the flick, intentionally or not. Nine Inch Nails covered "Lost Souls," by one of The Crow creator James O'Barr's favorite bands, Joy Division. Rollins Band did a version of Suicide's "Ghost Rider," about the Marvel hero. Pantera...
- 10/29/2009
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Members: Kickball Katy (bass), Ali Koehler (drums), Cassie Ramone (vocals, guitar).
Album: Everything Goes Wrong
For Fans Of: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Phil Spectorized girl groups, The Vaselines
"Everyone can relate to a love song, no matter how personal it is to the writer,” says Cassie Ramone, one singing/guitar-playing third of Vivian Girls. “There aren’t many other song topics that can be so personal and universal at the same time.” Indeed, her band’s sophomore record, Everything Goes Wrong, takes its name from a particularly lovelorn line in one of its songs: “When everything goes wrong, will you sit around and miss me when I’m gone?” Everything follows Vivian Girls’ self-titled May 2008 release, the 500-copy vinyl-only first pressing of which sold out in 10 days. This prompted garage-rock imprint In the Red to pluck the band from the Mauled By Tigers label and...
Members: Kickball Katy (bass), Ali Koehler (drums), Cassie Ramone (vocals, guitar).
Album: Everything Goes Wrong
For Fans Of: The Jesus and Mary Chain, Phil Spectorized girl groups, The Vaselines
"Everyone can relate to a love song, no matter how personal it is to the writer,” says Cassie Ramone, one singing/guitar-playing third of Vivian Girls. “There aren’t many other song topics that can be so personal and universal at the same time.” Indeed, her band’s sophomore record, Everything Goes Wrong, takes its name from a particularly lovelorn line in one of its songs: “When everything goes wrong, will you sit around and miss me when I’m gone?” Everything follows Vivian Girls’ self-titled May 2008 release, the 500-copy vinyl-only first pressing of which sold out in 10 days. This prompted garage-rock imprint In the Red to pluck the band from the Mauled By Tigers label and...
- 9/24/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
The musical capital of the world? It's not even close in my mind.
Glasvegas, who are Glasgow natives (see Camera Obscura, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Lloyd Cole, Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian, Paolo Nutini, Amy MacDonald, Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand and a host of others who have considerably brightened the musical landscape over the past ten years), have released a very, very fine self-titled debut album.
NME has dubbed them "the best new band in Britain," which is usually a sure sign of the Hype Machine in Overdrive. But this time they could be right. This is a surprisingly bracing combination of Jesus and Mary Chain guitar buzz, Proclaimers vocal bluster (complete with sometimes almost impenetrable Scots brogue), and, incredibly, impossibly, romantic '50s doo-wop. I like it a lot. The subject matter -- aimless violence, ennui, football yobs, endless pints, chasing skirts -- might be the best rock 'n...
Glasvegas, who are Glasgow natives (see Camera Obscura, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Lloyd Cole, Teenage Fanclub, Belle and Sebastian, Paolo Nutini, Amy MacDonald, Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand and a host of others who have considerably brightened the musical landscape over the past ten years), have released a very, very fine self-titled debut album.
NME has dubbed them "the best new band in Britain," which is usually a sure sign of the Hype Machine in Overdrive. But this time they could be right. This is a surprisingly bracing combination of Jesus and Mary Chain guitar buzz, Proclaimers vocal bluster (complete with sometimes almost impenetrable Scots brogue), and, incredibly, impossibly, romantic '50s doo-wop. I like it a lot. The subject matter -- aimless violence, ennui, football yobs, endless pints, chasing skirts -- might be the best rock 'n...
- 1/3/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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