When director Dexter Fletcher signed on to make a movie about Elton John, he knew that a traditional docudrama — like Bohemian Rhapsody, say, or Walk the Line — simply wouldn’t fly. “Elton is all about fantasy and imagination and magic,” Fletcher says. “We wanted to use his songs to …
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Rita Ora remembers the first time she saw a photograph of Joni Mitchell. “I was like, ‘Who’s this awkward looking girl that’s got a guitar in her hand all the time?’” the English pop singer says in the latest episode of Spotify‘s Under Cover podcast. Ora was taken aback by …
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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, so you’re probably stoked for the movie version of his life, hoping it’ll be filled to bursting with adventure, brain-teasing fantasy and rock-’em-sock-’em action just like the books and the movies Peter Jackson directed into box-office and Oscar …
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“I’ve got an old friend around here somewhere,” Steve Van Zandt told the crowd near at the end of his set at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theater on Wednesday night. “I don’t know where.” That seemed like a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen was somewhere in the house, but it wasn’t …
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James Felice was unsure if his band would ever make another record. It was 2017, and Felice, a multi-instrumentalist, secondary vocalist and founding member of the Hudson Valley roots-rock collective the Felice Brothers, had spent much of the year touring in Conor Oberst’s band alongside other members of the Felice …
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Days away from releasing his fourth studio album Here Comes the Cowboy, Mac DeMarco has released his third and final single “On the Square,” along with an insanely creepy video. Directed by William Sipos and Sean Campos, the video features a lone man in a theater (Tommy Midnight) watching a …
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Slowly but surely, independent artists are devouring the recorded-music industry. This, at least, is the view from the major labels, who are watching self-releasing or “DIY” acts gobbling up increasing percentages of global market share — to this day, still a primary performance indicator for the likes of Universal Music …
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John Singleton will be laid to rest at a private funeral service in Los Angeles on Monday. The ceremony will be “a very small, intimate goodbye for family and very close friends,” a representative for the late director said in a statement. The Boyz n the Hood filmmaker’s estate is …
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Harrison Ford has paid tribute to Peter Mayhew, who portrayed Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy, following the actor’s death Tuesday at the age of 74. “Peter Mayhew was a kind and gentle man, possessed of great dignity and noble character,” Ford said of the actor in a statement …
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Games of Thrones is a product. No matter how omnipresent the book-series-turned-TV-gets, it’s still just something that, by design, appeals to many millions of people. With that comes opportunities to sell some Game of Thronesstuff. Right now, if one was so inclined, they could dunk their Game of Thrones Oreos …
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