MUSIC NEWS - This April, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show will embark on a tour starting on April 21 that will be unlike any in recent memory. Traveling exclusively in vintage railcars, the three bands will journey across the American Southwest over the course of a week. The aptly titled Railroad Revival Tour featured the three bands playing concerts at six unique outdoor locations along the route, begins in Oakland, CA
MUSIC NEWS - NYC's Tribeca Film Festival opens this year with Cameron Crowe’s documentary on the collaboration between Elton John and Leon Russell, The Union. The April 20 outdoor free screening at the North Cove at the World Financial Plaza will be followed by a live performance by Sir Elton.
In The Union, director Crowe taks an intimate look at the music collaboration between John and Russell, which was produced by T-Bone Burnett, including aspects of the writing and recording process. The film festival’s press release points out that “John’s lifelong lyricist Bernie Taupin, icons Neil Young and Brian Wilson, legendary R&B organist Booker T. Jones, steel guitarist Robert Randolph and a 10-piece gospel choir are featured on the album.”
MUSIC NEWS - The critically acclaimed UK electronica duo The Chemical Brothers have been working with film director Joe Wright and have scored Wright's new adventure thriller Hanna. The film stars Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett and will be released in theaters on April 8 via Focus Features. The soundtrack will be released exclusively through iTunes on March 15th out on Back Lot Music, Universal Studios' in-house soundtrack music label.
MUSIC NEWS - NINE INCH NAILS' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won the Oscar for their score to the film, The Social Network. Reznor and Ross won in the Music (Original Score) category at last night's (February 27) Academy Awards ceremony in L.A. Also nominated in the category was Hans Zimmer, for his score to Inception, that had the involvement of the Smiths' Johnny Marr.
As he accepted the award at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Reznor said: "Wow. Is this really happening? When we finished, we were very proud of our work and happy to just be involved in this film, and to be standing up here in this company is humbling and flattering beyond words."
MUSIC NEWS - Nearly fourteen years after the suicide of INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence the Sydney Moring Herald is reporting that a documentary and Broadway musical about the singer are in the works, under the development of Hutchence's former manager, Martha Troupe.
L.A. literary and talent agencey APA is working with Troupe and ''Michael's Trust'' to develop ''various projects that highlight Michael's creative genius'' which "owns and controls significant assets that celebrate [Hutchence's] life, death and work," according to a statement. The five surviving members of INXS last year denied a request to use the group's music in a documentary. It's still to be determined whether they'll approve of Ms Troupe's upcoming projects.
MUSIC NEWS - John Barry, the well known composer of Born Free, Out of Africa and James Bond films, has died in New York City of a heart attack aged 77. Fellow Bond composer David Arnold wrote on his Twitter account; "It was with a heavy heart that I tell you John Barry passed away this morning".
"I think James Bond would have been far less cool without John Barry holding his hand," Arnold added. He received five Oscars in a career that spanned many years. In addition to his music work on eleven Bond films, he won music Academy Awards for Dances With Wolves, Out of Africa and Born Free.
MUSIC NEWS- Management of DAFT PUNK have issued a statement dening that the French band are in any way linked to DJ's The Third Twin. Rumors have circulated that Daft Punk members Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have been secretly releasing music under the name The Third Twin since mid-2010, and until now neither the band nor their management have commented on the matter.
But, after a press release from Spanish festival organizers for the Arenal Sound Festival implied The Third Twin were in fact Daft Punk, DP's duo's management denied all links, reported Billboard releasing the following statement:
MUSIC NEWS- Indie electronic musician Dan Deacon has signed on to score Francis Ford Coppola'snext film, the thriller Twixt Now and Sunrise, due to release in theatres later this year. The gothic thriller romance stars Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin and Elle Fanning. Deacon's not just scoring the movie we're told, Mr. Coppola and Mr. Deacon are collaborating on a larger level, details of which will be announced soon.
The announcement comes on the eve of Deacon's concert tour of new music for So Percussion on January 20th at the Merkin Concert Hall in NYC and his first performance of new orchestral work February 3rd and 4th with the Kitchner-Waterloo Symphony in Kitchner, Ontario.
MUSIC NEWS - Grateful Dead fans at this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT will have the chance to see a special solo performance by Bob Weir in support of director Jim Kohlberg's rock & roll infused "The Music Never Stopped", which opens this year's fest. Weir will perfrom on January 23, 2011 at the ASCAP cafe (751 Main Street [Stanfield Fine Art], Park City, UT).
The Music Never Stopped (releasing in theatres this March via Roadside Attractions) is based on an essay by Dr. Oliver Sacks and tells the real-life journey of a father trying to adjust to his estranged son's cerebral trauma and a lifetime of missed opportunities.
MUSIC NEWS - Pink Floyd's ROGER WATERS is informing fans that all six gigs at his May 2011 O2 Arena concerts in London on his current twenty country THE WALL World Tour will be filmed, and that flash photography will NOT be permitted. There's no official confirmation about a theatrical or home entertainment (DVD / Blu ray) release has been made, though the post tell fans that "flash wipes out the images projected on 'The Wall', which are the most important part of the show."
And, with David Gilmour agreeing to perform "Comfortably Numb" at a limited number of gigs on the the Waters tour, we can only hope!
Entertainment News - The Library of Congress today announced an additional twenty five films (complete list below) are being added to the USA National Film Registry. Included are some of our favorites;
MUSIC NEWS - Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Them Crooked Vultures) will be making an appearance in the next Muppets film. The Foo Fighters frontman will cover forMUPPETS drummer Animal (pictured at left) and stands in while Animal attends anger management treatment!
The latest film in the Muppets franchise was written by and stars Jason Segel, (How I Met Your Mother) will also feature cameos from Jack Black, Ricky Gervais and Lady Gaga. The film is being directed by James Bobin and is due out in November 2011 from Disney Pictures.
MUSIC NEWS - The Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch has writen and directed a short film based on the band's 1987 music video 'You Gotta Fight for Your Right To Party!' that will star Elijah Wood. The short film will be called Fight For Your Right Revisitedand will premiere at the 2011 Sundance Short Film Festival, which runs from January 20 thru 30, 2011 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, UT.
We don't have many details on the project, though the Sundance site says that Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Will Ferrell, John C Reilly and Jack Black are in it and has a tagline of; "After the boys leave the party". So, who knows...
MUSIC NEWS -THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS, recently named Best Rock Band at this year's MTV EMAs, has just released a video teaser preview for Hurricane, a new short film titled after a tune of the same name off the band's newest album, This Is War. The film, like This Is War and Kings and Queens, was directed by Bartholomew Cubbins (see clip below).
In addition to being awarded Best Rock Band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, was also nominated in 3 categories at the MTV EMA Awards and performed a show-stopping rendition of their new song Hurricane 2.0 that features Kanye West. The performance was not just the song's television debut, but it also the first time performed with Kanye West himself.
MUSIC NEWS - French electro-pop duo, DAFT PUNK have revealed the tracklisting of their soundtrack album for the upcoming Disney film- Tron: Legacy. The album will be the band's first full film score, will be out on December 6 with the film releasing on December 17.
Give a listen to 'Derezzed', a song from the album, on the video, below-
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