In the summer of 1974, the Carpenters sat down with Rolling Stone writer Tom Nolan at Hollywood’s Au Petit Café for a cover story. Richard and Karen Carpenter, who had spent the past four years scoring massive soft-rock hits like “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Superstar,” and “Top of the World,” took the opportunity to vent to Nolan about the uncool, wholesome image that they felt the press had created for the sibling duo.
“This …thing they’ve built up, where it’s...
“This …thing they’ve built up, where it’s...
- 11/19/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Nashville country-rock band the Wild Feathers have announced their first album of all-new material in three years. Alvarado arrives October 8th as the group’s first release for New West Records.
Ahead of the Alvarado’s debut, the five-piece premiered the song “Ain’t Lookin’.” A hard-driving rock number, it opens with a snaking guitar lead and heavy drums and finds the Wild Feathers singing about a failed romance and road trip to nowhere. “I ain’t lookin’ for love no more,” goes the chorus, while the verses toss out images of busted screen doors,...
Ahead of the Alvarado’s debut, the five-piece premiered the song “Ain’t Lookin’.” A hard-driving rock number, it opens with a snaking guitar lead and heavy drums and finds the Wild Feathers singing about a failed romance and road trip to nowhere. “I ain’t lookin’ for love no more,” goes the chorus, while the verses toss out images of busted screen doors,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Back in 2009, the Flatlanders released Hills and Valleys, their last album of original recordings. A dozen years later, the Texas trio of Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunite for a new record: Treasure of Love will be released July 9th.
The LP is technically the follow-up to 2012’s The Odessa Tapes, but that project consisted of unreleased recordings from the early Seventies. The 15 tracks on Treasure of Love are the product of a fresh recording session, primarily classic songs that have peppered the Flatlanders’ live set for the past five decades.
The LP is technically the follow-up to 2012’s The Odessa Tapes, but that project consisted of unreleased recordings from the early Seventies. The 15 tracks on Treasure of Love are the product of a fresh recording session, primarily classic songs that have peppered the Flatlanders’ live set for the past five decades.
- 5/7/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Dave Hause interprets the songs of two wildly different artists on a new double EP. Patty/Paddy features the punk troubadour interpreting five songs by Americana songwriter Patty Griffin and five by Paddy Costello, of the Minneapolis punk band Dillinger Four.
Hause, the leader of Philadelphia group the Loved Ones, previews the project with the Griffin song “Long Ride Home,” off her 2003 album A Kiss in Time. For the recording, Hause enlisted the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon and his brother Tim Hause to join him on harmonies. The result...
Hause, the leader of Philadelphia group the Loved Ones, previews the project with the Griffin song “Long Ride Home,” off her 2003 album A Kiss in Time. For the recording, Hause enlisted the Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon and his brother Tim Hause to join him on harmonies. The result...
- 9/24/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Vote for Megan Danielle (‘The Voice’) after ‘What Hurts the Most’ performance on Top 9 night [Watch]
Monday night during “The Voice’s” Top 9 performance show, Megan Danielle of Team Kelly Clarkson sang for a spot in next week’s Final 5. This 17-year-old performed Rascal Flatts‘s “What Hurts the Most” from home in Winston, Georgia as viewers and coaches Kelly, Blake Shelton, John Legend and Nick Jonas watched remotely from locations around the country. If you want this artist to join “The Voice” winners list, you need to vote before the cutoff time at 7:00 a.m. Et on Tuesday, May 12.
Cast your votes for Megan Danielle by utilizing the free “The Voice” official app or by visiting voice.vote.nbc.com — simply sign up there for an NBCUniversal profile via email, Facebook or Google. Submit up to 10 votes per artist. Message and data rates may apply for app download and usage. Voting is open Right Now, so what are you waiting for?
See ‘The Voice...
Cast your votes for Megan Danielle by utilizing the free “The Voice” official app or by visiting voice.vote.nbc.com — simply sign up there for an NBCUniversal profile via email, Facebook or Google. Submit up to 10 votes per artist. Message and data rates may apply for app download and usage. Voting is open Right Now, so what are you waiting for?
See ‘The Voice...
- 5/12/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
After the results were revealed on Tuesday’s episode of “The Voice,” only nine artists remain in contention to win season 18. Of the four coaches, only six-time champ Blake Shelton still has three contestants in the running,. Three-time winner Kelly Clarkson, season 16 victor John Legend and newcomer Nick Jonas each have two artists on their team.
Which of these Top 9 do you think sounds most like a winner? After reviewing the songs they’ve sung so far on season 18 of “The Voice” vote in our poll as to your choice for champ and we will report back with your rankings. And be sure to sound off in the comments section.
Thunderstorm Artis (Team Nick Jonas)
Audition Song: “Blackbird”
Battle Song: “Stay”
Knockout Song: “Preach”
Top 17: “Summertime”
CammWess (Team John Legend)
Audition Song: “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)”
Battle Song: “Senorita”
Knockout Song: “Say Something”
Top 17: “Ain’t...
Which of these Top 9 do you think sounds most like a winner? After reviewing the songs they’ve sung so far on season 18 of “The Voice” vote in our poll as to your choice for champ and we will report back with your rankings. And be sure to sound off in the comments section.
Thunderstorm Artis (Team Nick Jonas)
Audition Song: “Blackbird”
Battle Song: “Stay”
Knockout Song: “Preach”
Top 17: “Summertime”
CammWess (Team John Legend)
Audition Song: “Earned It (Fifty Shades of Grey)”
Battle Song: “Senorita”
Knockout Song: “Say Something”
Top 17: “Ain’t...
- 5/6/2020
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
“The Voice” viewers have been voting all week for which of Kelly Clarkson‘s artists they want to win Season 18, and the poll results are in. With a leading 32% of the vote, 17-year-old Megan Danielle tops all of the other contestants on Team Kelly. This Douglasville, Georgia native originally auditioned with “Remedy” in the blinds and earned Kelly’s attention as a one-chair turn. If Megan pulls out a win in the May 19 finale, it would bring Kelly her fourth victory after Brynn Cartelli (Season 14), Chevel Shepherd (Season 15) and Jake Hoot (Season 17).
See ‘The Voice’ Coaches Ranked Worst To Best: All 14 From Gwen To Blake
Megan was next seen in the battles, where she faced off against Samantha Howell to “Top of the World.” Even though Kelly named Megan as the battle winner, she still kept Samantha in the competition by saving her. In the knockouts Megan took a big...
See ‘The Voice’ Coaches Ranked Worst To Best: All 14 From Gwen To Blake
Megan was next seen in the battles, where she faced off against Samantha Howell to “Top of the World.” Even though Kelly named Megan as the battle winner, she still kept Samantha in the competition by saving her. In the knockouts Megan took a big...
- 4/25/2020
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
For the first time ever, the saved artists from the Battles on “The Voice” will appear in a four-way Knockout with the winner appearing in the live shows. Those artists are: Todd Michael Hall (Team Blake Shelton), Samantha Howell (Team Kelly Clarkson), Nelson Cade, III (Team John Legend) and Michael Williams (Team Nick Jonas). Enjoy revisiting our live blogs from each of these three recent Battle episodes on Monday, March 23, Monday, March 30 and Monday, April 6.
The Knockouts will begin on Monday, April 13 and conclude on Monday, April 20. Teammates will face off with one another in hopes of advancing to the Live Shows. The advisor for all teams in this round will be the legendary, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor. Below are our power rankings of these four artists based on their likelihood of advancing to the Live Shows.
1. Nelson Cade, III (Team Legend)
(Blind Audition: “Pride & Joy”; Battle: “Come Together”)
Nelson...
The Knockouts will begin on Monday, April 13 and conclude on Monday, April 20. Teammates will face off with one another in hopes of advancing to the Live Shows. The advisor for all teams in this round will be the legendary, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor. Below are our power rankings of these four artists based on their likelihood of advancing to the Live Shows.
1. Nelson Cade, III (Team Legend)
(Blind Audition: “Pride & Joy”; Battle: “Come Together”)
Nelson...
- 4/13/2020
- by Denton Davidson
- Gold Derby
The Battle Rounds for Season 18 of “The Voice” concluded last Monday, and Kelly Clarkson, champion coach in three of her four seasons on the show, has narrowed her newest team down to just six contestants. After building a group of 12 comprised of only one male artist based on the blind auditions, Kelly has since added one more to her roster through a steal from John Legend. Enjoy revisiting our live blogs from each of the three battle episodes from Monday, March 23, Monday, March 30 and Monday, April 6.
The Knockouts will begin on Monday, April 13 and conclude on Monday, April 20. Teammates will face off with one another in hopes of advancing to the Live Shows. The advisor for all teams in this round will be the legendary, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor.
Below are our power rankings of these six artists based on their likelihood of advancing to the Live Shows. Do You agree with our power rankings?...
The Knockouts will begin on Monday, April 13 and conclude on Monday, April 20. Teammates will face off with one another in hopes of advancing to the Live Shows. The advisor for all teams in this round will be the legendary, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, James Taylor.
Below are our power rankings of these six artists based on their likelihood of advancing to the Live Shows. Do You agree with our power rankings?...
- 4/12/2020
- by John Benutty
- Gold Derby
As The Voice dropped the curtain on Season 18’s Battle Monday nights, the fates of a whopping 16 singers were decided. Which contestants inspired Blake Shelton and Nick Jonas to use their Steals? Who’d Kelly Carlson turn out to be holding onto her Save for? And which wannabes wound up being given — all together now — “the dreaded montage treatment”? Read on and find out!
Team Nick: Arei Moon (Grade: B-) defeated Samuel Wilco (Grade: C) on “Missing You” | After the Jonas Brothers and Arei sang a quick “Happy Birthday” to Samuel, who was turning 40 on rehearsal day, the gang got...
Team Nick: Arei Moon (Grade: B-) defeated Samuel Wilco (Grade: C) on “Missing You” | After the Jonas Brothers and Arei sang a quick “Happy Birthday” to Samuel, who was turning 40 on rehearsal day, the gang got...
- 4/7/2020
- TVLine.com
As the battle round prepares to conclude on Monday’s episode of “The Voice,” here is a summary of where each team stands:
John Legend has no steal and no save remaining.
Blake Shelton has one steal and no save remaining.
Nick Jonas has one steal and no save remaining.
Kelly Clarkson has no steal and one save remaining.
There are still 16 artists remaining for a total of 8 battle match-ups on Monday. Advisors for the coaches this round are Dua Lipa for Team Kelly, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas for Team Nick, Ella Mai for Team Legend and Bebe Rexha for Team Blake. The coaches are able to steal one losing artist from other coaches and save one losing artist on their own team. However, the team coach may only hit their button to save an artist once it is clear that no other coach is going to steal them.
John Legend has no steal and no save remaining.
Blake Shelton has one steal and no save remaining.
Nick Jonas has one steal and no save remaining.
Kelly Clarkson has no steal and one save remaining.
There are still 16 artists remaining for a total of 8 battle match-ups on Monday. Advisors for the coaches this round are Dua Lipa for Team Kelly, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas for Team Nick, Ella Mai for Team Legend and Bebe Rexha for Team Blake. The coaches are able to steal one losing artist from other coaches and save one losing artist on their own team. However, the team coach may only hit their button to save an artist once it is clear that no other coach is going to steal them.
- 4/6/2020
- by John Benutty and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
In the late 1970s, an associate professor in the Philosophy department at Johns Hopkins (thesis title: "The Nature of the Natural Numbers") began publishing essays on Hollywood movies. George M. Wilson wasn't the first person to undergo this shift in specialism. At the start of the decade, Stanley Cavell had published The World Viewed, a series of "reflections on the ontology of film." But Cavell had always been concerned with how works of art enable us to think through philosophical themes such as knowledge and meaning, and he held a chair, at Harvard, in Aesthetics. Wilson differed in that he brought a range of analytic gifts to an ongoing revolution: the close reading of American cinema, conceived as part of the "auteur" policy of Truffaut and other writers at Cahiers du cinéma in the 1950s, and concertedly developed in the following decades by critics in England such as V. F.
- 12/11/2017
- MUBI
The original Quinn the Eskimo (no kidding) is another life-loving rough portrait from Anthony Quinn, in Nicholas Ray’s rather successful final spin as a writer-director. Despite some technical awkwardness, Ray’s sensitivity to outsider souls finds full expression. Humans don’t get any more ‘outside’ than Inuk, a primitive unequipped to deal with the modern world.
The Savage Innocents
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1960 / Color / 2:35 widescreen (Super Technirama 70) / 110 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Carlo Giustini, Peter O’Toole, Marie Yang, Marco Guglielmi, Anthony Chinn, Francis De Wolff.
Cinematography: Peter Hennessey, Aldo Tonti
Film Editor: Eraldo Da Roma, Ralph Kemplen
Original Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Written by Nicholas Ray, adapted by Franco Solinas, Baccio Bandini, Hans Ruesch from his novel
Produced by Maleno Malenotti
Directed by Nicholas Ray
It’s arguable that Nicholas Ray’s career began to fall apart as...
The Savage Innocents
Blu-ray
Olive Films
1960 / Color / 2:35 widescreen (Super Technirama 70) / 110 min. / Street Date June 27, 2017 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Yoko Tani, Carlo Giustini, Peter O’Toole, Marie Yang, Marco Guglielmi, Anthony Chinn, Francis De Wolff.
Cinematography: Peter Hennessey, Aldo Tonti
Film Editor: Eraldo Da Roma, Ralph Kemplen
Original Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Written by Nicholas Ray, adapted by Franco Solinas, Baccio Bandini, Hans Ruesch from his novel
Produced by Maleno Malenotti
Directed by Nicholas Ray
It’s arguable that Nicholas Ray’s career began to fall apart as...
- 6/27/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place (1950) is playing June 2 - July 2, 2017 on Mubi in the United Kingdom as part of the series The American Noir.Although mostly remembered now by the public for his 1955 classic Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray left behind him a legacy of over twenty feature films. A veritable cinematic explorer, Ray traversed genres ranging from noir, western (most notably his 1954 gender-bending cult Trucolor extravaganza Johnny Guitar), melodrama, epic and experimental film. He dared as few would to shoot in remote and forbidding locations such as the Arctic and Everglades National Park. What are Ray’s films about? As in his signature piece Rebel, despite Ray’s wide-ranging endeavors in genre and subject matter we are often met with anti-hero protagonists who struggle and rail against authority while lamenting their meaningless and circumscribed existences.
- 6/2/2017
- MUBI
Peter O’Toole: ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ actor, eight-time Oscar nominee dead at 81 (photo: Peter O’Toole as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’) Stage, film, and television actor Peter O’Toole, an eight-time Best Actor Academy Award nominee best remembered for his performance as T.E. Lawrence in David Lean’s epic blockbuster Lawrence of Arabia, died on Saturday, December 14, 2013, at a London hospital following "a long illness." Peter O’Toole was 81. The Irish-born O’Toole (on August 2, 1932, in Connemara, County Galway) began his film career with three supporting roles in 1960 releases: Robert Stevenson’s Disney version of Kidnapped; John Guillermin’s The Day They Robbed the Bank of England; and Nicholas Ray’s The Savage Innocents, starring Anthony Quinn as an Inuit man accused of murder. Two years later, O’Toole became a star following the release of Lawrence of Arabia, which grossed an astounding $44.82 million in North America back in 1962 (approx.
- 12/15/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Peter O’Toole, arguably the most strikingly charismatic, most eerily handsome, most preternaturally gifted actor of his acting generation, died Saturday at a London hospital at age 81.
O’Toole was part of the 1954 graduating class of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art along with Richard Burton, Albert Finney, and Alan Bates. After a supernova first decade — a 10-year run from 1958 to 1968 that included two stage Hamlets, two filmed Henry IIs, and an incandescent, career-defining title role in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia — O’Toole let the momentum slip. The 1970s were a blur of bombs and bad health...
O’Toole was part of the 1954 graduating class of London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art along with Richard Burton, Albert Finney, and Alan Bates. After a supernova first decade — a 10-year run from 1958 to 1968 that included two stage Hamlets, two filmed Henry IIs, and an incandescent, career-defining title role in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia — O’Toole let the momentum slip. The 1970s were a blur of bombs and bad health...
- 12/15/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
We Can’t Go Home Again
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Screenplay by Nicholas Ray
USA, 1976
After much commercial success in the 1950s with such great films as Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Dennis Hopper) and Johnny Guitar (Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge), Nicholas Ray increasingly became shut out of Hollywood in the late 1960s and 1970s due to his widely-panned sense of experimentation in such films as The Savage Innocents and his Jesus of Nazareth biopic King of Kings, along with an immense addiction to drugs and alcohol that left him hospitalized after collapsing on set of 55 Days at Peking, Ray didn’t reemerge back into film until the mid-1970s with a small student driven art film. That film, which would be his last before he succumbed to lung cancer in 1979, was We Can’t Go Home Again.
To many, Ray’s sense of experimentation in film was always apparent.
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Screenplay by Nicholas Ray
USA, 1976
After much commercial success in the 1950s with such great films as Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Dennis Hopper) and Johnny Guitar (Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge), Nicholas Ray increasingly became shut out of Hollywood in the late 1960s and 1970s due to his widely-panned sense of experimentation in such films as The Savage Innocents and his Jesus of Nazareth biopic King of Kings, along with an immense addiction to drugs and alcohol that left him hospitalized after collapsing on set of 55 Days at Peking, Ray didn’t reemerge back into film until the mid-1970s with a small student driven art film. That film, which would be his last before he succumbed to lung cancer in 1979, was We Can’t Go Home Again.
To many, Ray’s sense of experimentation in film was always apparent.
- 9/28/2011
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Where does a maverick film-maker such as Nicholas Ray go after directing Rebel Without a Cause? Back to school, says Geoffrey Macnab
Nicholas Ray wasn't the sort of film-maker ever to go quietly into retirement. The maverick director behind Rebel Without a Cause, Johnny Guitar and Bigger Than Life possessed a notoriously cussed temperament and, despite being one of Hollywood's best-paid directors in the 1950s, was perennially broke. Dogged by financial and health problems until his death in 1979, the last few years of his life were especially turbulent. Nonetheless, as a world premiere of the restored version of his experimental film, We Can't Go Home Again, at the Venice film festival has made clear, the 1970s were far from a lost decade for Ray. In fact, amid the chaos, he undertook some of his most radical and adventurous work.
We Can't Go Home Again is just what you would expect...
Nicholas Ray wasn't the sort of film-maker ever to go quietly into retirement. The maverick director behind Rebel Without a Cause, Johnny Guitar and Bigger Than Life possessed a notoriously cussed temperament and, despite being one of Hollywood's best-paid directors in the 1950s, was perennially broke. Dogged by financial and health problems until his death in 1979, the last few years of his life were especially turbulent. Nonetheless, as a world premiere of the restored version of his experimental film, We Can't Go Home Again, at the Venice film festival has made clear, the 1970s were far from a lost decade for Ray. In fact, amid the chaos, he undertook some of his most radical and adventurous work.
We Can't Go Home Again is just what you would expect...
- 9/8/2011
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Guardian - Film News
Fifty years ago, the Palme d'Or winner at Cannes was Fellini's "La Dolce Vita." More every year I realize that it was the film of my lifetime. But indulge me while I list some more titles.
The other entries in the official competition included "Ballad of a Soldier," by Grigori Chukhrai; "Lady with a Dog," by Iosif Kheifits; "Home from the Hill," by Vincente Minnelli; "The Virgin Spring," by Ingmar Bergman;" "Kagi," by Kon Ichikawa; "L'Avventura," by Michelangelo Antonioni; "Le Trou," by Jacques Becker; "Never on Sunday," by Jules Dassin; "Sons and Lovers," by Jack Cardiff; "The Savage Innocents," by Nicholas Ray, and "The Young One," by Luis Bunuel.
And many more. But I am not here at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival to mourn the present and praise the past.
Cannes is still the most important annual event in the world of what some of us consider good cinema. The...
The other entries in the official competition included "Ballad of a Soldier," by Grigori Chukhrai; "Lady with a Dog," by Iosif Kheifits; "Home from the Hill," by Vincente Minnelli; "The Virgin Spring," by Ingmar Bergman;" "Kagi," by Kon Ichikawa; "L'Avventura," by Michelangelo Antonioni; "Le Trou," by Jacques Becker; "Never on Sunday," by Jules Dassin; "Sons and Lovers," by Jack Cardiff; "The Savage Innocents," by Nicholas Ray, and "The Young One," by Luis Bunuel.
And many more. But I am not here at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival to mourn the present and praise the past.
Cannes is still the most important annual event in the world of what some of us consider good cinema. The...
- 5/13/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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