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03 Jun

Nelson Riddle: Music with a Heartbeat Review – How Classic Songs Become Standard

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Nelson Riddle is a patron saint of comic book entertainment. He wrote the theme to Batman, the original 1960s camp classic TV series which paved the way for all things geek. That theme caught the excitement children of all ages felt from the moment of the twirling introductory horns through the POWs and ZOKs of the opening battle. Full-set drum rolls propel a swing-blues rhythm section through an ever-building cascade of wonder. Insistent scat singing clashes with atonal chordal squawks until it sounds like it will all come crumbling down, unless someone fires up the Bat-Signal. You won’t find that…
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21 May

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything’s Sound Chief Talks Revolution

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The revolution is being televised. Fifty years later. Apple TV+’s 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything highlights how musicians were in touch with what was happening around them even as they were making things happen. Marvin Gaye lays down “What’s Going On” in the first episode, and the remainder of the eight-part docuseries builds the basic tracks which became the soundtrack to a changing world. Solo ex-Beatles took to the streets and concert halls while The Rolling Stones, as a group, went deep into exile. Aretha Franklin went to the courthouse to post bail for former University of California…
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19 May

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything Review – The Revolution Is Hummable

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Apple TV+’s 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything is immersive and fairly ambitious. The eight-part documentary series wants to run 33 revolutions per minute, and only comes up about a third short. It captures how musicians’ fingers were on the pulse of the day’s headlines and the laid the tracks for the nights’ rhythms. Artists sang the news, sometimes causing it, other times reacting. Rock and roll had grown up and rock musicians took on responsibilities. Rhythm and blues got loose and soul musicians took to the streets. A former University of California philosophy professor named Angela Davis was…
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20 Apr

The Simpsons Releases Morrissey Episode Music Video

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The Simpsons aired one of its most pointed parodies this past weekend, “Panic on the Streets of Springfield,” and the hits keep on coming. Animation Domination on FOX dropped “Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You),” the new music video by Quilloughby (with Lisa Simpson), which came out on The Snuff’s label, Total Despair Records.  The lyrics are inspired sub-genre satire. “Everyday I try to smile, but can’t help but frown, Every day I draw my bath and pray I will drown,” Quilloughby (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch) sings, and heaven knows he’s miserable, now and forever. Listen and abandon…
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11 Feb

Music

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
Zu (Kate Hudson) is a newly sober drug dealer and self-saboteur who finds herself the sole guardian of her half-sister, Music (Maddie Ziegler), a teenager with special needs. Barely able to take care of herself, let alone her sister, Zu struggles with this new responsibility, but soon learns that life’s obstacles are made easier with a little help from a friend, Ebo (Leslie Odom, Jr.), a neighbor whose family story makes him someone Zu can learn from and rely upon.Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 12, 2021
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04 Dec

Yusuf/Cat Stevens Unearths Lost Music Video for Upcoming Mona Bone Jakon Reissue

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Classic rock staple singer-songwriter Yusuf/Cat Stevens is commemorating the 50th anniversary of his two 1970 albums, Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman, with super deluxe box sets. One of the bonuses included is an unearthed music video for his song “Lady D’Arbanville.” Produced for the Mona Bone Jakon release, the music video is one of the earliest ever made. The black and white video features the inspiration for the title character, Patti D’Arbanville, an actress and model best known for her work with artist Andy Warhol. She also appeared in Real Genius, Time After Time, and played Cathy…
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02 Nov

Link Tank: The Mandalorian Composer Talks Season 2 Music

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Ludwig Göransson, the composer for The Mandalorian, spoke on how he changed the original soundtrack in Season 2. “The propulsive theme for The Mandalorian not only redefined Star Wars music, it’s also become the soundtrack for millions of people’s motivational playlists. The hard-to-categorize score, composed by Ludwig Göransson, doesn’t just transport us to a galaxy far, far away, it also feels somehow closer and more intimate than the John Williams space opera that came before.” Read more at Inverse. Bohemiam Rhapsody by Queen is one of the greatest, most recognizable songs of all time. Here are some fun facts about…
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01 Oct

No Time to Die Theme Song Music Video Released by Billie Eilish

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The Daniel Craig era of James Bond movies has featured a pretty interesting collection of the theme songs, including Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name,” Alicia Keys and Jack White’s “Another Way to Die,” and Sam Smith’s “Writing’s on the Wall,” which somehow beat out Radiohead’s dreamy “Spectre” in 2015. And then there’s “Skyfall,” by Adele, which many consider to be the best of the bunch. To cap Craig’s time as Bond, Eon Productions has tapped the very talented Billie Eilish to perform the theme for No Time to Die. The song, which is titled after the movie, is a…
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30 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music Review

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This Bill & Ted Face the Music review is spoiler-free. Excellent. Both Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey reside in that unique cinematic grey area somewhere between blockbuster and cult classic. It’s a sweet spot that these characters — created by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, who return to write this third outing — have inhabited for over thirty years, with the second movie hitting theaters way back in 1991. While the height of Bill & Ted-mania was in an era when grunge when was just getting warmed up (and thereby making the leads’ rock/metal-worship…
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28 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music Review Roundup

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It’s been almost 30 years since Bill S. Preston Esq. and Ted Theodore Logan rocked out in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, but Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are back in this summer’s Bill & Ted Face the Music as the iconic duo, spurred to action once more when a visitor from the future tells them one of their songs can save the world and bring harmony to the universe. Was it worth the wait? Here’s what critics are saying about the long-awaited comedy threequel, as it’s finally released in the U.S. today… Katie Rife – AV Club “While the…
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28 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
When we last met Bill and Ted they were time-traveling teenagers trying to pass history class and win the battle of the bands. Once prophesized to save the universe with their rock and roll, middle age and the responsibilities of family have caught up with these two best friends who have not yet fulfilled their destiny. They’ve written thousands of tunes, but they have yet to write a good one, much less the greatest song ever written. With the fabric of time and space tearing around them, a visitor from the future warns our heroes that only their song can…
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20 Aug

Battletoads Review: Rocks Harder Than the Original’s Pause Music

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Battletoads is one of those ’90s franchises that, despite a handful of video game releases and a very short-lived cartoon, fizzled out for all except a group of dedicated fans. For those of us who do remember Battletoads, the classic beat ’em up/platformer remains a classic. What started as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles clone became a NES title notable for its legendary difficulty and the way it altered the gameplay from level to level. Now, with a revival of the series about to drop for a new generation, the question is: how do you make a modern Battletoads game?…
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17 Aug

Other Music

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Other Music was an influential and uncompromising New York City record store that was vital to the city’s early 2000s indie music scene. But when the store is forced to close its doors due to rent increases, the homogenization of urban culture, and the shift from CDs to downloadable and streaming music, a cultural landmark is lost. Through vibrant storytelling, the documentary captures the record store’s vital role in the musical and cultural life of the city, and highlights the artists whose careers it helped launch including Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, William Basinski, Neutral Milk Hotel,…
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06 Aug

Bill & Ted Face the Music VOD Release Moves Up to August

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The planners behind Bill & Ted Face the Music have decided that the film’s recently announced release date for VOD and limited theatrical engagements was too bogus to keep. Thus, in yet another frantic shift (one that’s become quite commonplace in the COVID era), the belated third entry in the film franchise will see its recently-set September date shift to the end of August—that’s this month! Bill & Ted Face the Music is now set to hit VOD and limited international theatrical showings on Friday, August 28. The new premiere is just one week earlier than its previous September 1…
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27 Jul

How Ghost of Tsushima’s Music Combines Japanese Tradition with the Cinematic

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Ilan Eshkeri is something of a musical adventurer. He’s an award-winning composer who has scored a wide variety of films including Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, Shaun the Sheep Movie, has composed a modern ballet based on Echo & Narcissus, has conducted an orchestra at the Louvre, and has even worked with the European Space Agency (who sent him on a zero-G, parabolic flight). As an artist, he’s always looking to be challenged and inspired in new ways. And his latest project is unlike anything he’s ever done before. “I’ve been saying, ‘Let me do a video game’ for like fifteen…
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26 Jul

Why Bill & Ted Face The Music’s Samara Weaving Never Saw The First Two Movies

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During a most excellent panel discussion of Bill & Ted Face the Music on Saturday (July 25) at Comic-Con@Home, it came to light that actors Brigette Lundy-Paine and Samara Weaving, who play the daughters of the title dudes, had never seen the first two movies in the series before. While Lundy-Paine did not delve too deeply into why they had never checked out the original Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) or Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the Australian-born Weaving — who broke out last year with American audiences in the horror comedy Ready or Not — chalked this heinous…
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17 Jul

Live Theater and Music Venues to Open in England in August

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The play’s the thing—that will be available for some musical fans in London and throughout England come August. Indeed, the UK government announced Friday afternoon that indoor performing arts and concert venues can open their doors at a reduced capacity on Aug. 1. The news was made official on Twitter by Oliver Dowden, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport. He also released on a statement that said the following: “The U.K.’s performing arts sector is renowned across the world and I am pleased that we are making real progress in getting its doors reopened to the public…
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16 Jul

Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts’s Music and How It Came To Be

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In the middle of episode five of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, something truly remarkable and delightful occurs. Kipo and her friends meet the Newton Wolves, a group of highly evolved wolves that are incredibly proud of their high level of knowledge. To show this off they, helped by a performance by none other than rapper GZA as the wolf Bad Billions, start to rap “a brief presentation on absolutely everything we’ve learned about the known universe.” The lyrics include such knowledge drops as, Protons,Neutrons,folding together like a futonColliding in poem like a perfect storm,creating galaxies and planetsLike the…
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14 Jul

Dirt Music

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
The stunning landscape of Western Australia is the backdrop for an impassioned tale of love and grief in Gregor Jordan's adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Tim Winton.Release Date: Jul 17, 2020
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15 Jun

Bill & Ted Face the Music Moves Up Release Date

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Bill & Ted will face the music sooner than everyone thought. The long-awaited sci-fi comedy franchise threequel, titled Bill & Ted Face the Music, experienced a circuitous process in getting made, eventually setting a release date that serendipitously avoided the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, auspiciously enough, said release has been shifted to an earlier date. Bill & Ted Face the Music is now set to air-guitar and time-travel its way to theaters on August 14, one week earlier than its previous August 21 release date, reports Deadline. The move occurs over a year after the March 2019 announcement…
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