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The Bangles‘ singer and guitarist Susanna Hoffs is partnering with Universal to adapt her music industry-focused debut novel This Bird Has Flown. At the head of the adaptation are Liza Chasin and Bruna Papandrea, who will produce the adaptation for 3Dot Productions and Made Up Stories, respectively.

This Bird Has Flown perches on bookstore shelves on April 4, 2023, courtesy of the publishing house Little, Brown and Company. Described as a story revolving around music, fate, redemption, and love, the synopsis for This Bird Has Flown reads as follows:

Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she’s living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom.

But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: June 5, 2012

Price: DVD $24.98, Blu-ray $29.98

Studio: Well Go USA

Patty Schemel shares a moment with Kurt Cobain (l.) and his daughter Frances Bean in Hit So Hard.

Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Drummer Patty Schemel is a 2011 biographical documentary film that chronicles the to-hell-and-back journey of Patty Schemel, drummer for Courtney Love’s band Hole.

Directed and co-written by P. David Ebersole, the movie offers audiences a chronicle of life as a rock star in the 1990s from Schemel’s point of view – at band practice, on the road, backstage, performing in front of millions of people and partying after the gig is through. It also reveals the story of the drug addiction and other problems that consumed Schemel and almost took her life.

The film includes a slew of personal home video footage revealing Schemel’s life offstage with Courtney Love,...

Patty Schemel is best remembered as the drummer of the alternative rock group Hole, fronted by erstwhile alt-queen rocker, now-notorious loudmouth Courtney Love. For top level context, Schemel laid the thunderous beat on both of Hole’s most popular and well-known records, including 1994’s Live Through This, which was released just four days after frontwoman Courtney Love's husband, Kurt Cobain, was found dead in their home. This is all well-documented. What only the most hardcore of rock aficionados will remember was that Schemel’s drum parts on 1997’s follow-up record Celebrity Skin were replaced by a session drummer at the behest of producer Michael Beinhorn (knob-twiddler for records like Soundgarden's Superunknown, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Mother's Milk and Grave Dancers Union by Soul Asylum).

What isn’t well-documented in the career and life of Hole and Schemel -- and this is what “Hit So Hard: The Life...

The Bangles will Walk Like An Egyptian over to Kimmel's show on November 1! While on a short break from their headlining national tour, Bangles' guitarist/singer Susanna Hoffs, guitarist/singer Vicki Peterson and drummer/singer Debbi Peterson--will perform Tuesday, November 1 on ABC-tv.s .Jimmy Kimmel Live!. (12/11c) They.ll play .I.ll Never Be Through With You,. the first single from Sweetheart Of The Sun (Model Music Group, released September 27), the band.s first full-length album in nearly eight years. The album was recorded by Matthew Sweet (Susanna.s frequent collaborator) at his home studio in the Hollywood Hills, with much of the overdubbing done at the home studios of Vicki and Susanna, and mixed by Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco). Entertainment Weekly hailed...

Tune in alert for Tuesday, October 4, as The Bangles hit Good Morning America. Following a Monday, October 3 gig at NYC.s Highline Ballroom, The Bangles are set to appear on ABC-tv.s .Good Morning America., Tuesday, October 4. The pioneering, iconic group will perform .Under A Cloud. from the just-released (September 27) Sweetheart of the Sun (Model Music Group) album, along with a classic song from their catalog of hits. This past weekend (October 1 in Philadelphia), guitarist/singer Susanna Hoffs, guitarist/singer Vicki Peterson and drummer/singer Debbi Peterson--kicked off their cross-country tour. While on the road, they.ll perform a mix of their classics and material from the new LP. The new album marks their first release...

Hey! remember The Bangles? Walk like an Egyptian? Of course you do. Now you can celebrate the release of .Sweetheart of the Sun' Out Today; In-Store CD Signing and Acoustic Performance at Barnes & Noble Los Angeles. Iconic trio The Bangles release their new album today, Tuesday, September 27. As an early celebration, this past Thursday (9/22) the group hosted an exclusive CD release party with iconic DJ and early supporter Rodney Bingenheimer (Kroq) and performed an intimate acoustic session. Bingenheimer, one of the first DJs to play The Bangles. music back when they were previously called The Bangs, asked guitarist/singer Susanna Hoffs, guitarist/singer Vicki Peterson and drummer/singer Debbi Peterson questions about the new album and shared a few...

When most think of rock docs, it’s likely VH1′s award-winning Behind the Music pops into their mind. Blending a featured band’s comprehensive history with a fast-paced narrative and popular music, it was a documentary series that was accessible and entertaining to the ardent fans and newbies alike. P. David Ebersole’s Hit So Hard is not so inclusive, favoring a storytelling method that assumes the film’s audience will be devotees of the bygone grunge age – or at the least deeply fascinated by Kurt and Courtney. Anyone else might struggle to follow the film’s tenuous thread.

Hit So Hard focuses on the roller-coaster-like life story of drummer Patty Schemel, an outcast turned struggling artist turned rock star turned literal crack whore turned mentor. It’s a compelling tale and Schemel is engrossing as she openly reveals her highs and lows with a self-deprecating sense of humor and utter lack of self-pity.

I’d like to pretend that I was just as surprised as Hank to learn Spanx for men in fact came out months ago, but then I would be insulting the very lovely person who got me one of the shirts like Charlie was wearing for Christmas (you know who you are).

While I blushed with embarrassment, Charlie danced with glee as he told Hank that Sasha was back on board with the movie and that he also got his best client a job helping her with her lines in her new movie Slowly We Rot 2.

Only Hank would get paid a hundred thousand to spend a week polishing Sasha’s dialogue while she polished his log. The news was definitely deserving of the “Good News Dance.”

Please, Please Victoria, tell me your secret! Sasha’s push up was definitely working over time as she hung out that second story window on set in "Lights.