Angine de Poitrine ... this name is showing up all over, today I studied them more and I agree...
Microtonal duo from Quebec. Fantastic. Plus a gimmick they have, playing incognito under weird carnival masks and pointilist costumes ! It seems they are brothers and they play:
"un répertoire d'anti-aréna-rock instrumental cartonneux qui, à la manière de la musique techno, s'articule autour d'un jeu dynamique d'ajout et de retrait de motifs sonores en constante métamorphose."
Diane Keaton was 79. Except Woody Allen's muse, friend (and girlfriend) and confidante (eight films together, from 1972's Play It Again Sam, ending with Manhattan Murder Mystery in 1993), she was Al Pacino's Michael Corleone's wife Kay in the three Godfathers, from fiancee to divorcee (also his girlfriend in real life), and exceptionally radicalist Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty's 1981's Reds. A very smart, intellectual. witty woman, personified best in Annie Hall (1977), character that used Keaton's manierisms, also her true family name is Hall, film that brought her an Oscar for best actress. She was also a feminist and an avant garde personality. And a great protograper (book Reservations). She never married and had two adopted kids.
I think the last time I saw her was in Something's Gotta Give, the 2003 Nicholson weaker comedy... She was in a lot of romantic comedies (Father of the Bride), heartfelt films (The First Wives Club), dramas (Marvin's Room). But for me she will always be The Little Drummer Girl, in the excellent George Roy Hill film from 1984, based on the John le Carré book (not the 2018 series), where she plays a wannabe groupie terrorist, ideologically brainwashed and used, in a film that is more actualt today than Woody Allen's NY fantasies or the politics of Reds.
She as also great in Richard Brooks’ audacious drama with a sex twist, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
Diane Hall / Keaton was also a director, most famously for Be Unstrung Heroes (1995), she also directed Belinda Carlisle's hit video Heaven is a Place on Earth. She also produced Gus Van Sant's Elephant. She wrote memoirs thrice: “Then Again” (2011), “Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty” (2015) and “Brother and Sister” (2020).
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the AFI/ American Film Institute.
New Yorker James Foley started in the Biz with Reckless, a rom com, in 1984. Sean Penn takes him to direct At Close Range in 1986. Great noir drama, featuring a magistral Chris Walken part. Penn, then Madonna's husband, tintroduces him to the music diva. He directs music videos for her, then he directs Madonna in Who's That Girl, a catastrophy.
Then Foley does another film noir, based on the book by Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet in 1990, one of his best flicks.
Then in 1992 came the adaptation of David Mamet's play, Glengarry Glen Ross, with a superb cast of actors, from Al Pacino to Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jonathan Pryce, as an all male ruthless salesmen in an existential piece. Unebeliavable, the film was nominated for only One (!) Academy Award.
Pacino gave him his next project, Two Bits, in 1995.
Next on, Fear and The Chamber, with Gene Hackman, after John Grisham's novel, both in 1996.
And Confidence, a flawed con men movie in 2003.
Then nothing much, routine thrillers, a lot of TV. Like he lost his enthusiasm for good projects.
James Foley died on May 8th, 2025. He was 71. RIP.
There was one doc about Tom Petty, Peter Bogdaovich's exhaustive 4 hrs. Running Down a Dream (2007). Now there's also Somewhere You Feel Free (2021), about the amking of his album Wildflowers. And now this Lost documentary about Tom Petty in 1983. And the Heartbreakers. Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party came out in US theaters in 2024 for a few days, ultra limited. It's the 1st film (lost too) of Cameron Crowe. Featuring the grand weird desert video of "You Got Lucky" from Long After Dark (1982). And the outtakes. And the making of a director - C.C. -
The film was restored for a one-weekend theatrical release in October2024 (on Tom's Bday), and it’s now available to stream on Paramount+ as of March 11.
I wasn't expecting David Lynch to start this year of " I see dead people"...here he is playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg autobiographical The Fablemans (2022). I will post separately about my relationship with Lynch. Talked about him extensively with Christa Bell, his muse and last collaborator (their album, in 2024, Cellophane Memories).
“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”
"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch
Farawell David Lynch the Magician, white or black lodge, I guess you have your own, the David Lynch Lodge, there's a lady with a Log there and some guy, Bob, is the bouncer. Badalamenti plays the piano, Bowie's at the bar, Dennis Hopper sips his whisky, Jack Nance gets another bottle, even Tom Sizemore is aloud to come for a drink...
Our new album: LIFE, DEATH AND DENNIS HOPPER. Out 4 April on Sun Records. Guests include Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Fiona Apple and Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes. It's the story of Dennis Hopper's life in songs - and the story of his and our times. #TheWaterboys#RockAndRoll
Direct din Sao Paulo, Fred Sunwalk - guitarrista straordinario do Brazil, "the Brazilian Hurricane" se întoarce la Brașov în seria concertelor marca Transilvania Blues Nights!
Fred a cântat în premieră și exclusivitate in România pe 29 septembrie 2023 la Transilvania Blues Festival ediția V în formula de trio. Va fi un recital de calibru și intensitate maximă, cu un aer și atmosferă de Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana & more, much more!
Guitar & Vocals: Fred Sunwalk Drums: Mike Horne Bass: Roger Innis
B. There and Let There B. Blues!
Un concert-eveniment marca Transilvania Blues Nights. Sponsori: Butan Gas, BCR, AHA Bistro, Coliba Haiducilor, Brasov Old Town Apartments, Bit Datamining, Tehnic Mihor, Bistro AHA
Bilete: 100 lei pret pre-sale pana pe data de 16 noiembrie, 130 lei in ziua concertului.
Powered by Rock FM, Zile și Nopți Open door: 16:00 Concert: 20:00
Ozzy Osbourne was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame y-day in Cleveland, for the 2nd time, 1st as a member of Black Sabbath in 2016. Jack Black said his introduction, naming Ozzy "the jack Nicholson of rockn'roll". Various musicians played afterwards three songs (Crazy Train, No More Tears), featuring Chad Smith, Robert Trujillo, Zack Wylde, Billy Idol, Wolfgang Van Halen. Ozzy mentioned in his speech Randy Rhoads and his wife, Sharon.
Ozzy is 75 and retired, his last album to-date was the 2022, Patient no. 9.
Bill Wyman put out an album at 87. Drive My Car, some wonderful covers (among which a nice rendition of Thunder on the Mountain from Bob Dylan's and 3 originals. Sounds a lot like J.J. Cale....
87? Eighty-Seven ? This is definitely the oldest rock musician's album yet.
Also Wyman (former Rolling Stones bass player and co-founder) is retired from over 30 years (1993). In 1997 he formed The Rhythm Kings aka Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, more of a club band. He joined the Stones for last year's Hackney Diamonds, playing the bass on the "Live By the Sword" song.
Surely on my Top albums of 2024. Made my Day (and what a Day :)
Last time i saw JC and heard about him in Studio 666 where he has a cool cameo.
last Halloween sucked and all in all except the original there were all unnecessary remakes and cash-ins. part II was kinda cool tho. But the Rob Zombie remakes and the reboots booted.
and this is the first release from the album: My Name is Death
I'm Waiting for the Man is Velvet Underground song recorded for their debut album in 1967.
His Birthday being March 2nd.
“To me, Lou stood out. The real deal! Something important to American music and to ALL MUSIC! I miss him and his dog.” - Keith Richards
Communique:
The digital single & music video are out now and featured on the upcoming album The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed, which includes newly recorded covers from Keith Richards, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Rufus Wainwright, Lucinda Williams, Maxim Ludwig & Angel Olsen, Rickie Lee Jones, Mary Gauthier, Bobby Rush, Automatic, The Afghan Whigs, and Rosanne Cash. This special collection will be released by Light in the Attic Records and available on Vinyl & CD at fine independent record shops worldwide on Record Store Day (April 20th).
It goes without saying that the legendary Lou Reed was a true rock ’n’ roll pioneer. From The Velvet Underground’s debut in 1967 all the way through the end of his days, Reed sang truth from his heart. He lived life to the limit—and then some. The Power of the Heart is a tribute to Reed’s freedom of expression with covers spanning his groundbreaking years with the Velvets into his majestic solo career. Each track is a glorious extension of the Rock ’n’ Roll Animal’s soul, ever adventurous and avant-garde.
and all of it, songs with offical audio on you tube: inclusing Bruce's version of the Iron Maiden song If Eternity Should Fail as now by Bruce -Eternity has Failed ! and Many Doors to Hell, Resurrection Men, Fingers in the Wounds, Mistress of Mercy, Face in the Mirror, Shadow of the Gods & Sonata (Immortal Beloved).
Herbert Grönemeyer 's Alkohol is a song from 1984, from his album 4360 Bochum. I heard it in the 80's then, with Falco and Trio, they sound alike. Great B & W video. But yesterday I heard again this song after 30 odd years in a very cool scene from the new Calin Peter Netzer film, Familiar (that came out yesterday in Romanian cinemas).
Grönemeyer was/is a West Germany superstar, known also as an actor (he was in Wolfgang Pedersen's megahit Das Boot-1981) and I saw it in Romanian cinemas as Robert Schumann in Spring Symphony (1983), next to Nastassja Kinski as Clara Wiek and Rolf Hoppe. Saw that with my mom as she was the biggest fan of classical and Opera music. But his name came back again as the composer of the Anton Corbjin's films The American (my review here) and A Most Wanted Man, very good imersive scores He's still a superstar in Deutschland. Weirdly, my friends at the film premiere didn't know about him. So, I had to write a few lines about Herr Herbert G.
Great song tho. Was and is. And cool lyrics ;)
Alkohol ist das Dressing für deinen Kopfsalat
Alkohol ist dein Sanitäter in der Not
Alkohol ist dein Fallschirm und dein Rettungsboot
Alkohol ist das Drahtseil auf dem du stehst
Alkohol ist das Schiff mit dem du untergehst
The second single and video from Bruce Dickinson's upcoming 7th album (Seventh Son..?), his uber-project and magnum opus The Mandrake Project is Blood on the Graves, a William Blake quoted (same as the 1st single, Afterglow of Ragnarok starts),a B & W & color short film that is one the best video of his until now (I love the Tears of the Dragon flick).
A cool Hammer / AIP homage with Dickinson himself as The Preacher (Vincent Price-like), complete with the Devil as in Hellboy, with cut horns, and the band live Tiger Lillies style. It has a very Maidenesque sound, much more than Afterglow of Ragnarok, or earlier Dickinson works (Accident of Birth, The Chemical Wedding, Skunkworks, Tyranny of Souls). Balls to Picasso & Tattooed Millionaire excluded.
Directed by Ryan Mackfall (same as Ragnarok) and Produced by Myskatonic.co.
After Afterglow of Ragnarok(the first excerpt from the Upcoming album, The Mandrake Project, complete with its comic book high concept, 12 parts no less!!!), this is another incursion into the universe of this Myskatonic universe (H.P Lovecraft ;) . The album is out March 1st 2024.
Bruce Dickinson will present the album The Mandrake Project LIVE in Bucharest, Romania, at Arenele Romane, June 3d 2024.
The Mandrake Project is the new ambitious concept-project of Bruce Dickinson, his 7th solo album (7th Son...?). The album will come out March 1st 2024. Complete with a comic book that helps tell his H.P. Lovecraft-esque story.
Here is the 1st video, Afterglow of Raganarok, directed by Ryan Mackfall and Produced by Myskatonic.co.
The video begins with a William Blake quote: "I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare, my business is to create."
IMO it's a very ambitious epic story told without the means of enough budget and the right sf/x. As The Chemical Wedding film was, we'll see if it ups up.
The story is described as: "dark, adult story of power, abuse and a struggle for identity, set against the backdrop of scientific and occult genius."
Bruce Dickinson will present the album The Mandrake Project LIVE in Bucharest, Romania, at Arenele Romane, June 3d 2024.
He did his share, my share, your share, everyone 's share....Shane, Shane, Shane...
Shane MacGowan dead at 65...his last years were tough as his health was in tatters...I saw him in Dublin in June 2019 when The Pretenders opened for Fleetwood Mac and Chrissie Hynde brought him on stage to do an emotional upbeat cover of "I Got You, Babe" with Shane. He was in a wheelchair :(, touching moment that now has a totally different value...(u can see the video here )
Shane was the lead of Irish Celtic punk band The Pogues. Just to be clear.... Founded in King's Cross, London, in 1982, as Pogue Mahone – an anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic phrase póg mo thóin, meaning "kiss my arse".
Amazingly they pulled one of the most beloved Xmas songs, Fairytale of New York. Like a drunken Tom Waits song, featuring the singer Kirsty Mc Call who died in a freak accident in 2000 at 41!!!! For me it wasn't this one or One Rainy Night in Soho, but Summer in Siam. And Dirty Old Town.
Later on they kicked Shane out of the band for not showing up too many times. That was in 1991 in Japan. He started another band, Shane MacGowan and the Popes. The Pogues dissolved in 1996.They put on two albums without Shane. They regrouped in 2001 with MacGowan, playing hecticly 'til 2014. During the '00's MacGowan started doing heroin, when booze and smokes were not enough. Sinead O'Connor denounced him to the coppers. MacGowan didn't mind. He knew she, troubled mate soul of his, was right. Well, she died before him (this July no less) and was only 56. Since 2015 he was permanenetly in a wheelchair. He had viral encephalitis but he died of tuberculosis.
Shane MacGowan was born on Christmas, on Dec. 25, 1957. He died on the night of November 30, at 3.30 am. We were partying Pogues style. Life...
Obit in The Guardian, here. And a grand (really!!!) rare interview also in The Guardian, here.
And just found out there is a documentary about him, produced by Johnny Depp and directed by Julian Temple, Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan, released in 2020. Special Award of the Jury at San Sebastian festival that year. Watching it tonight, the rounds we had last night with crazy and manic friends, just the way Shane would've loved to go...
“I could have been someone… Well so could anyone.”
check https://store.shanemacgowan.com for his art book, decadent and silly, The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold.
Incredible but tru "I know it's true..."). Not Song of the day but more like Song of the Year !
Best songs this year by The Stones and The Beatles, and it's 2023 !!!
Released y-day. I guess this will really be the last Beatles song...
the video today. Directed by Peter Jackson, who directed the incredible Beatles doc with footage unseen, Get Back.
Now and Then's eventful journey to fruition took place over five decades and is the product of conversations and collaborations between the four Beatles that go on to this day. The long mythologised John Lennon demo was first worked on in February 1995 by Paul, George and Ringo as part of The Beatles Anthology project but it remained unfinished, partly because of the impossible technological challenges involved in working with the vocal John had recorded on tape in the 1970s. For years it looked like the song could never be completed. But in 2022 there was a stroke of serendipity. A software system developed by Peter Jackson and his team, used throughout the production of the documentary series Get Back, finally opened the way for the uncoupling of John’s vocal from his piano part. As a result, the original recording could be brought to life and worked on anew with contributions from all four Beatles. This remarkable story of musical archaeology reflects The Beatles’ endless creative curiosity and shared fascination with technology. It marks the completion of the last recording that John, Paul and George and Ringo will get to make together and celebrates the legacy of the foremost and most influential band in popular music history.
% the amazing making of -took alamost 50 years to get this done....
