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Boots on the Water, a country music cruise focusing on the twangy sounds of the Nineties and 2000s, has announced its 2026 lineup and ports of call.

Clint Black, Terri Clark, Diamond Rio, Chris Cagle, David Lee Murphy, and Deana Carter will all appear on next year’s voyage, which sails from Tampa, Florida, to Costa Maya and Cozumel, Mexico, from Feb. 13 through 18. Nashville favorite Sarah Gayle Meech, whom Rolling Stone called “the queen of the honky-tonk,” is also on the manifest.

Presented by music cruise giant Sixthman, along with Vibee,...

We lost some entertainment giants in 2024.

Among the big-screen legends who died during the past 12 months were Donald Sutherland, James Earl Jones, Maggie Smith, Carl Weathers, Shelley Duvall, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr, Louis Gossett Jr., Anouk Aimée, Marisa Paredes and Gena Rowlands.

Related: Saying Goodbye: A Video Tribute To The Hollywood And Media Figures We’ve Lost In 2024

The TV world mourns the likes of Bob Newhart, John Amos, Phil Donahue, Linda Lavin, David Soul, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Martin Mull, Shannen Doherty, Michael Cole, Richard Lewis, Richard Simmons, James B. Sikking, Peter Marshall and Joe Flaherty.

Filmmakers and producers who left us include Norman Jewison, Roger Corman, Al Ruddy, Jon Landau, Lynda Obst, Jim Abrahams, Charles Shyer, Irv Wilson and Paolo Taviani.

The industry also paid tribute to such top executives as Charles Dolan, Paula Weinstein, Jamie Kellner, Richard Parsons, Gerald Levin and Paul Fox.

Broadway’s lights were a...

Jeremy Tepper, who relentlessly championed the outlaw country genre by highlighting both its revered icons and rebellious upstarts in his role as program director for SiriusXM’s “Outlaw Country” channel, died Friday. Tepper’s wife, the singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell, announced his death of a heart attack in New York City. He was 60.

Tepper was a gregarious, ubiquitous presence in the country, Americana, and rock universe, seemingly always in the crowd or backstage at concerts and festivals, from the Luck Reunion at Willie Nelson’s ranch in Spicewood, Texas, to the Americana Music Festival in Nashville,...

There’s cruises for outlaw country, classic country, and Americana country. Now, 2000s country finally gets its due. In 2025, the Boots on the Water cruise will assemble some of the biggest names from the Aughts for a five-day voyage to the Bahamas.

Big & Rich — the duo of Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich — will headline with special guest Gretchen Wilson in a mini-reunion of the Muzik Mafia that ran roughshod over the mid-2000s. Other Aught-shots aboard include Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sunday,” 2004), Lonestar (“I’m Already There,...

The Outlaw Country Cruise is setting sail for its ninth year. The 2025 voyage will launch Feb. 22 and run through Feb. 28 with performances from Old Crow Medicine Show, John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore with the Guilty Ones, and more. This will mark the first Outlaw Country Cruise since the death of the ship’s regular emcee and performer, Mojo Nixon, who died during February’s cruise.

Asleep at the Wheel, Carlene Carter, the Earls Of Leicester, Jesse Dayton, Elizabeth Cook, Joshua Ray Walker, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers,...

Steve Wright, an iconic BBC radio presenter who used to host Top of the Pops, died Monday. He was 69.

Wright’s family confirmed the death to the BBC in a statement earlier today.

“It is with deep sorrow and profound regret that we announce the passing of our beloved Steve Wright,” they said. “In addition to his son, Tom, and daughter, Lucy, Steve leaves behind his brother, Laurence and his father Richard. Also, much-loved close friends and colleagues, and millions of devoted radio listeners who had the good fortune and great pleasure of allowing Steve into their daily lives as one of the UK’s most enduring and popular radio personalities. As we all grieve, the family requests privacy at this immensely difficult time.”

BBC Director General Tim Davie led the tributes, calling Wright “the ultimate professional – passionate about the craft of radio and deeply in touch with his listeners.

Mojo Nixon was absolutely himself right to the end. The cult hero died Feb. 7 on board the Outlaw Country Cruise, where he’d performed and caroused in signature fashion the night before (“passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners,” according to a statement from his family).

Less than a year before that, he was in peak form as well, speaking with Rolling Stone about the making of his 2023 documentary, The Mojo Manifesto. It was a wide-ranging, side-splitting conversation, going over the wildest early...

Mojo Nixon, the cult rockabilly musician best known for his novelty hit “Elvis Is Everywhere,” died on Wednesday, February 7th while aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise. He was 66 years old.

Mojo Nixon suffered a “a cardiac event,” according to a statement provided by his family to Rolling Stone.

“Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire…,” eulogized his family. “Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners + a good breakfast with bandmates and friends. A cardiac event on the Outlaw Country Cruise is about right… & that’s just how he did it, Mojo has left the building. Since Elvis is everywhere, we know he was waiting for him in the alley out back. Heaven help us all.”

Mojo Nixon was born Neill Kirby McMillan Jr. in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on August 2nd, 1957. Together with his collaborator Skid Roper,...

Mojo Nixon, musician, actor, and radio DJ who became a comedy icon for such songs as “Don Henley Must Die” and “Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin, died at 66 today of what was termed “a cardiac event.”

His family confirmed the death to Rolling Stone. Nixon was aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, an annual music cruise where he was a co-host and regular performer.

“August 2, 1957 — February 7, 2024 Mojo Nixon. How you live is how you should die. Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire…,” his family shared in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar, taking no prisoners + a good breakfast with bandmates and friends.

“A cardiac event on the Outlaw Country Cruise is about right… & that’s just how he did it, Mojo has left the building,” his family’s statement continued. “Since Elvis is everywhere,...

Mojo Nixon, the unapologetically brash musician, actor, and radio DJ, died of “a cardiac event” on Wednesday, Feb. 7, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 66. Nixon was aboard the Outlaw Country Cruise, an annual music cruise where he was a co-host and regular performer.

“August 2, 1957 — February 7, 2024 Mojo Nixon. How you live is how you should die. Mojo Nixon was full-tilt, wide-open rock hard, root hog, corner on two wheels + on fire…,” his family shared in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Passing after a blazing show, a raging night, closing the bar,...

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has acquired North American VOD rights to the documentary Grandpa Was An Emperor from director Constance Marks, whose last feature, Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, won a Special Jury Prize at Sundance.

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The new film, which premiered to rave reviews at the Doc NYC Festival in 2021, is set for theatrical engagement in Los Angeles from April 7-13 at Laemmles Town Center in Encino, with evening showings on the 7th and 8th to be followed by Q&As with Marks, as well as her fellow producers and talent. It’s set for release on digital on May...

It’s well after midnight somewhere off the coast of Florida, and Mojo Nixon is leading a cruise ship full of lubricated and rowdy country-music fans in a bawdy singalong of a song titled “Tie My Pecker to My Leg.”

We won’t get into the lyrics here, but the verses touch on everything from barnyard sex to fornicating at a county fair. “This guy just heard the song for the first time,” Nixon, 65, and dressed in his customary Hawaiian shirt and uneven denim cutoffs, says, pointing to a man in the front row.

Exclusive: Freestyle Digital Media has picked up worldwide rights to the music documentary The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon, slating it for release March 17 across VOD platforms.

The film written and directed by Matt Eskey, in his feature debut, tells the true story of Neill Kirby McMillan, Jr., who comes of age in Danville, Va, listening to records from his father’s soul radio station and plotting his escape from the confines of conservative small-town life.

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During an early 1980s cross-country bicycle trip, Kirby experiences The Mojo Revelation and becomes “Mojo Nixon” — a primitive, blues-inspired musician. Mojo then teams up with...

Founded in 2011, the The Projection Booth Podcast podcast has been publishing weekly deep dives into cinema boasting coverage of "everything from the art house to the outhouse."

Celebrating twelve years in March, the show has hosted a cavalcade of celebrity interviews featuring Hollywood luminaries like Jeff Goldblum, Elliott Gould, Ellen Burstyn, Willem Dafoe, Sir Michael Palin, Sir Tim Rice, John Waters, Ed Harris, Luke Wilson, Chris Elliott, Bruce Dern, Nicholas Meyer, William Friedkin, Julie Taymor, Joe Dante, Mojo Nixon, and more. Some of the interview subjects find the experience of talking with the Projection Booth's host, Mike White, so fun that they've returned as guest co-hosts.

As the editor of the independent magazine Cashiers du Cinemart, White takes pride in his independent spirit and DIY attitude. The Projection Booth is the only independently produced podcast that consistently places in the Top 20 of Apple Podcasts’ Film History chart.

"I hope every...

Psychobilly-rockability musician Mojo Nixon has long been unparalleled in his rebellious fight against society’s biggest hypocrisies, particularly the corporatism ideology that has driven American culture since he initially rose to fame in the 1980s. The Southern rocker has long embraced the American right to freedom of speech in order to add authenticity to his songs […]

The post SXSW 2022 Interview: Mojo Nixon Talks The Mojo Manifesto: The Life and Times of Mojo Nixon (Exclusive) appeared first on Shockya.com.

Sheryl Crow, Nick Cave, King Crimson, Dio, XXXTentacion, Tanya Tucker, Chumbawamba, Courtney Barnett, Cesária Évora and Mojo Nixon — together again for the first time: These are some of the highly diverse subjects of a slate of music documentaries set to unspool at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin March 11-20.

The 16 movies represented in the “24 Beats Per Second” lineup are nearly all world premieres, in a film festival that skews toward SXSW’s original roots as a pure music festival by always carving out a special category for features that chronicle musicians or music scenes.

The music doc coming into the festival with probably the highest level of fan anticipation is , which promises to have director Sabaah Folayan offering “a sensitive portrayal” of a precocious, highly controversial, Soundcloud-based rapper “whose acts of violence, raw musical talent and open struggles with mental health left an indelible mark on...

Last January, the fifth installment of the Outlaw Country Cruise was at sea when the Who declared the novel coronavirus a public health emergency. Like the majority of cruises, the 2021 installment was subsequently postponed and will now launch in 2022 with a just-announced lineup.

Set for February 25th through March 3rd, 2022, Outlaw Country Cruise 6 will feature perennial headliners Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Elizabeth Cook, along with a special reunion: Emmylou Harris will re-team with the core members of her legendary backing group, the Hot Band, including Rodney Crowell and Albert Lee.

Trying to define alt-country is a foolhardy pursuit, but that didn’t stop Mojo Nixon from leading a panel discussion into the genre while aboard the fifth annual Outlaw Country Cruise.

Titled “Alt.Country: Whatever That Is,” the Outlaw Country host and subject of the upcoming documentary The Mojo Manifesto assembled Jon Langford of the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, acerbic singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks, the Bottle Rockets’ Brian Henneman, and producer-musician Eric “Roscoe” Ambel to dive into those muddy waters. In the end, the group didn’t decide much of anything,...

It’s a little after 2 o’clock on Great Stirrup Cay — Norwegian Cruise Line’s “private island” in the Bahamas — and the Bacardi Beach Bar is blaring Steve Earle’s escapist 1986 rocker “Someday.”

About 200 yards away in a discreet cabana, within earshot, sits Earle himself, reclining on a chair in sunglasses and a Shooter Jennings T-shirt. It’s an off-kilter juxtaposition, the sober since 1995 singer listening to one of the songs from his drugging years as it serves as the soundtrack to unleashed vacationers getting hammered on the beach.

That,...

The fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise set sail this week from Tampa for the Bahamas, but for the 2,500 or so rabid fans onboard, the Norwegian Pearl could have just circled Tampa Bay — these folks were here for the tunes. Presented by cruise promoter Sixthman in conjunction with SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel, OCC4 boasted one of the journey’s most strong and varied lineups yet, with Lucinda Williams, Drive-By Truckers and Margo Price all headlining. From surprise jam sessions to special screenings of upcoming country-music documentaries and even an episode of cruise favorite Squidbillies,...

A few nights before Will Hoge left for tour, he got out the iron and some letter decals, and started pressing T-shirts.

“One of them said ‘Nikes Over Nazis,'” he tells Rolling Stone, sitting at an East Nashville sandwich shop a few hours before his bus is supposed to hit the road. “I did another that said, ‘Will Trade Racists for Refugees,’ and, the other day, [artist and SiriusXM radio host] Mojo Nixon called me the ‘Tennessee Troublemaker,’ and that’s probably my favorite thing that anyone has ever said about me.

Stars: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Samantha Mathis, Dennis Hopper, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, Fiona Shaw, Dana Kaminski, Mojo Nixon, Gianni Russo, Francesca P. Roberts, Lance Henriksen | Written by Parker Bennett, Terry Runte, Ed Solomon | Directed by Rocky Morton, Annabel Jankel

Let’s be honest, Super Mario Bros: The Movie is not a great movie. It’s not even a great video game adaptation. As a movie-loving teen the film was high on my must-see radar, so imagine my disappointment when I eventually saw the film on VHS… However since then I’ve come to appreciate the film for the bizarre Sf-tinged adventure movie that it is, rather than an adaptation of my all-time favourite video game franchise.

A critical and commercial failure on it’s original 1993 release, Super Mario Bros: The Movie has, in the intervening years, become something of a cult classic. So much so that the out-of-print DVD...

DVD Playhouse – May 2012

By Allen Gardner

Shame (20th Century Fox) Director Steve McQueen’s harrowing portrait of a Manhattan sex addict (Michael Fassbender, in the year’s most riveting performance) whose psyche goes into overload when his equally-troubled sister (Carey Mulligan) visits unexpectedly. Exquisitely-made on every level, save for the screenplay, which makes its point after about thirty minutes. While it tries hard to be a modern-day Last Tango in Paris, this fatal flaw makes it fall somewhat short. The much- ballyhooed sex scenes and frontal nudity are the least-interesting things about the film, incidentally, which is still a must-see for discriminating adults who seek out challenging material. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Featurettes. Widescreen. Dolby and DTS-hd 5.1 surround.

Being John Malkovich (Criterion) Spike Jonze’s madcap film of Charlie Kaufman’s script, regarding a socially-disenfranchised puppeteer (John Cusack) who finds a portal into the mind of actor...

Director Ilko Davidov's new documentary, "The Story Of Rock 'n' Roll Comics" will be available on DVD, April 24 2012, presenting the strange true-life and mysterious death of comic book creator, Todd Loren.

Mixing animation, home video, investigative footage and interviews/commentaries from artists including Mojo Nixon, Alice Cooper, Gary Groth, Ian Shirley and Cynthia Plaster Caster, the film is an expose about a man, whose life left a cultural impact :

"...Todd Loren, the San Diego-based owner of 'Revolutionary Comics', was famous for publishing the wildly popular 'Rock 'N' Roll Comics' comic book series.

"The unauthorized comics, featured biographies of music groups including 'Kiss', the 'Sex Pistols', Zappa, Bowie and 'Metallica'.

"Loved by some (Gene Simmons, Alice Cooper, Lemmy of 'Metallica') and threatened by others (Axl Rose, 'Skid Row', 'New Kids on the Block'), over 300 issues of "Rock 'N' Roll Comics" were published,...

This guy! First he gets an award from Canadians. Then he’s on an epically long chat show. What’s next?

You know that Mojo Nixon song, “Elvis is Everywhere”? Feels a bit like that with John Landis at the moment.

Seriously, as if having his bloopers destroy the Cinefamily wasn’t enough; as if having two of his most-beloved movies released on killer BluRays wasn’t enough; as if devoting an entire week to his commentaries right here on Trailers From Hell wasn’t enough, John Landis appeared in Canada last week to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fantasia International Film Festival.

In this video, he’s appropriate flattered and happily candid about the absurdity of the award. Also: he talks Burke and Hare.

Then, last Sunday, John Landis made an appearance on the Kevin Pollak chat show. He’s not really in the first 7 minutes or so,...

Twenty-five years ago, four guys organized what they expected to be a small gathering for local musicians to perform and get some exposure. Running it from the offices of the Austin Chronicle, the four -- Louis Black, Louis Meyers, Roland Swenson and Nick Barbaro -- didn’t expect that 700 people would show up for that first fest. Since then, South By Southwest has grown into the largest annual event in Austin and one of the largest and most recognized of such festivals in the world.

In Outside Industry: The Story of SXSW, producer/director Alan Berg chronicles the rise and history of SXSW through photographs, old footage and interviews not only with the founders, but also writers Michael Corcoran and Joe Nick Patoski, Creative Director Brent Grulke, entertainer Mojo Nixon and many others.

Set to a rocking soundtrack, the movie begins with a nostalgic look back at shows at Liberty...

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)

Directed by: Alan Berg

Featuring: Roland Swenson, Nick Barbaro, Michael Corcoran, Louis Black and Mojo Nixon

The opening words of “Outside Industry” speak volumes about the role SXSW has played in being defined by, and in turn defining, the culture of this one small part of the huge state of Texas: “The kernel of creativity that defines Austin today, that all goes back to music.”

From nothing but ego to headlines like “2,000 Acts” and “100,000 Fans” and “Sold Out” placards, SXSW has been making its mark on the music scene for a quarter century. That it also has become a showcase for film and interactive technology could not have remotely been forecast given the early ideas for the festival when a few kids borrowed $70,000 (and blew it in less than a year).

The story is as much about The...

Reviewed by Elliot V. Kotek

(from the 2011 South by Southwest Film Festival)

Directed by: Alan Berg

Featuring: Roland Swenson, Nick Barbaro, Michael Corcoran, Louis Black and Mojo Nixon

The opening words of “Outside Industry” speak volumes about the role SXSW has played in being defined by, and in turn defining, the culture of this one small part of the huge state of Texas: “The kernel of creativity that defines Austin today, that all goes back to music.”

From nothing but ego to headlines like “2,000 Acts” and “100,000 Fans” and “Sold Out” placards, SXSW has been making its mark on the music scene for a quarter century. That it also has become a showcase for film and interactive technology could not have remotely been forecast given the early ideas for the festival when a few kids borrowed $70,000 (and blew it in less than a year).

The story is as much about The...

Gazing out upon the vast tapestry of Pajiban creeds and customs, I am certain that this time of year is feted is various ways. Whether you cherish Hannukah, Christmas, Ramadan, Yule, Kwanzaa, Decemberween or -- as my Jehovah's Witness friends call it -- Thursday, the holidays are about one thing: spending time with loved ones. This is usually accomplished in about 14 minutes. Then the rest of the time is spent caustically avoiding speaking to one another, drinking copious amounts of liquored nog, and remembering why you moved across the country and lost everyone's email address and phone numbers in the first place. Much of this awkwardness is spent sitting in some strange smelling house, a plate of half-eaten pie sitting in front of you, staring dully at a television while tuning out the mindless banter of distant aunts and uncles who are trying to figure out "why you aren't a...

A special brand of comedy is set to hit Sirius Xm Radio. Russell Brand, that is. The actor/comedian's radio show is hitting America for the first time, raw and uncensored.

"The Russell Brand Show" will air uncut on Sirius Xm's Raw Dog Comedy channel, home to shows from Jim Bruer, Mojo Nixon, and Mark Says Hi!, among others. The show, including interviews and comedy material from Brand, will air for a limited run of ten weeks.

Brand's show includes previously recorded material, including the start talking with "Harry Potter" stars Eric Phelps and Oliver Martyn John Phelps, Oasis front man Noel Gallagher, and "The Office" co-creator Stephen Merchant. The show will also include stand-up material from his recent UK tour and brand new material recorded especially for Sirius Xm.

"Sirius Xm is the future of radio until we learn how to broadcast directly into people's brains," said Russell Brand in a statement.

Following a deadCENTER screening of Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's impassioned doc feature For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism [official site], Peary sat down with The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell (who appears in the film as a former New York Times critic) and Film Threat contributing editor Pete Vonder Haar for a panel discussion on "the current state of criticism and its impact on film."

Yes, yes, you cine-obsessives reading this may be sick to death of hearing about the years-in-the-making transition from "The Good Ol' Days of Print" to the "Blogger Invasion" free-for-all, but when I had the pleasure to speak with all three panelists, we tried to expand our range of topics: Are we talking too much about criticism instead of the movies themselves? What's the strange critical reaction Peary has received from the very subjects of his documentary? Is it a conflict...

“Alien Pigs Tore the Shirt From My Breasts!” Big bosoms, daisy duke shorts, alien pigs & a couple of bumbling rednecks. Sound familiar? Search your mind; yep it’s right there, lurking on the edge of your brain, squirming around in your vapid trivia space of weirdness. Could it be Redneck Rampage? The 1997 first person shooter game that sported some wicked tunes by Mojo Nixon, Reverend Horton Heat, Beat farmers and a few other class acts from the Psychobilly artists of the day? Well it sure looks like it took page from that shiny little 1997 gem, but we’re talking Comic Books in this column not Video games so if you thought Redneck Rampage kicked some alien ass you haven’t seen anything yet. Fire up your imagination and take a seat because when you sleep tonight the tight bottomed nubile girl gracing these pages is going to have you firing...