In case you haven't been paying attention to possible musician biopic news, we'll catch you up: There are currently two films in production about dead indie troubadour Jeff Buckley, one of them starring Reeve Carney (of the Spider-Man musical), which is approved of by the singer's estate, and features his music and a story about his mysterious death (at least tentatively). The other, starring Penn Badgely of Gossip Girl, instead centers around Buckley's 1991 performance at a tribute concert for his absentee father Tim Buckley. The film will lead up to Buckley's performance, and will probably find him [...]
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Oh My Rockness has compared Sexy Neighbors to Richard Hell and the Voidoids and the Village Voice said " It's hard to ignore three loft-dwellers from Brooklyn who title their songs after Fleetwood Mac singles and have a lead singer who sounds like a (mostly unintelligible) Gordon Gano. " Sexy Neighbors are playing a show next Wednesday, Nov. 17th at Party Xpo in Brooklyn (929 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11206 -- btwn Myrtle/Melrose -- J train to Myrtle). Admission is $5 and the show starts at 9PM. On the bill with Sexy Neighbors is [...]
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned." -Leonardo DaVinci "Time and time again I knew what I was doing And time and time again I just made things worse." -Richard Hell, "Time" Painters are allowed to endlessly touch-up their canvases, novelists can update and revise their writing in subsequent editions and classical composers often issued numerous versions of their works as they tinkered with and refined them. Popular music, for whatever reason, is often the exception. When the record button is released and [...]
Uli Lommel's 1980 film Blank Generation was just rereleased on DVD (by MVD Entertainment) with a bonus 45-minute interview with Richard Hell. This is an intriguing film for many reasons – one of which is that Richard Hell is always a fascinating speaker and he gives an insightful interview about the making of the film and the NYC music scene at that time. What is somewhat amusing is that Hell trashes the film during the interview. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Hell said " I actually feel that [...]
BLANK GENERATION (MVD Visual) www.richardhell.com In the 1970s New York City's Lower East Side was a shithole. Underground artists and clubs were able to thrive in the burnt out neighborhood, and punk rock dominated the scheme. By 1980, while New York was still a shithole, punk rock was starting to lose its dominance. Artists had started to sell out, and punk rock was starting to fade; it was under this influence that the film Blank Generation was made. Blank Generation isn't [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Movies Singer and bassist Richard Hell has accomplished much in his career. First he co-founded the Neon Boys in 1972 that later became the legendary punk group Television . He left the band in 1975 to join the Heartbreakers and then later became the leader of the Voidoids. In addition to releasing albums, most recently last year's 'Destiny Street Repaired,' Hell is a writer of several books. Yet there is one project in Hell's resume that he is [...]
by Ben Greenman Marc Bolan, of course, was the front man and principal songwriter for T. Rex, both in the band's early hippie incarnation (Tyrannosaurus Rex, which evolved out of the psychedelic folk ensemble John's Children) and in its later, more successful glam-rock version. You know T. Rex, of course, from "Bang a Gong (Get It On)," which went top ten in 1972 and the band's only American hit. In Britain, though, Bolan and T. Rex were a rock-and-roll phenomenon who repeatedly rose into the top five with songs like "Hot Love," "Jeepster," "Metal Guru," [...]
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Zoned is stoned to the bone, its roots in experimental post- Velvet Underground long-sewn, its various guises serving as the perfect antidote for being alone. I've just got one question: WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN ALL MY LIFE??? Like Swell Maps (look for a review of Sweep the Desert asap), Larry "Wild Man" Fisher , Pinback and so many others, [...]
"History on My Arms" is a reissue of Lech Kowalski's 2003 documentary "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" with two additional video vignettes and a bonus audio CD. I would assume that most readers are familiar with "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" so I won't go into great detail on the main feature. "Hey Is Dee Dee Home" contains interview footage with Dee Dee that was shot in 1992 for the still-unreleased Johnny Thunders bio-pic "Born to Lose". As such, the main subject of the interview is Johnny Thunders, The Heartbreakers and the almost-super group Whores of [...]
Walter Lure was with the Heartbreakers during everything that would later become history— L.A.M.F. , the Anarchy tour with the Sex Pistols and Live At Max's and whatever else it says in Please Kill Me , which he hasn't read. He speaks now before performing at the Knitting Factory with his band the Waldos. This interview by Daniel Clodfelter.
Destiny Street Repaired is streaming online for the next few days. Richard Hell is without question one of the most important dudes ever in punk rock. I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty cool. The mix is and production on a few tracks is a bit too modern and the vocals are way to up in the mix but it's def worth listening to.Stream:Destiny Street Repaired**Yo Richard, play a Ski Club
So here's a strange thing: Next month Insound will release a revamped, partially rerecorded version of Richard Hell and the Voidoids jovially jagged 1982 NYC punk classic Destiny Street, with R... Continue reading "Advance Stream: Richard Hell's Somewhat Bizarre, Thoroughly Excellent Destiny Street Repaired " >
The Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime is one of the several weathered foundations of L.A. RECORD . Exactly twenty-five years later, it still starts bands and makes friends. Minutemen bassist Mike Watt meets for pizza at San Pedro's excellent Pavich's Pizza for remembering D. Boon and George Hurley and that guy Mike Watt in the summer of 1984. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Thanks to Miguel for this video. Thurston talks about the first time he and Mike Watt met and there mutual love for Richard Hell. I realize Sonic Youth is normally Matts area, sorry for stealing your gig maaaaaan. PS - LOOK AT ALL THAT FUCKING VINYL BEHIND THURSTON
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