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Some voices are musical instruments. Jeff Buckley’s was a crime scene. A thing of such impossible beauty, its four-octave climb toward the celestial seemed to violate some natural law, and you listen to it now with a sense of foreboding. It is the sound of a man flying too close to the sun.

Amy Berg’s documentary, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, functions less as a tribute and more as a psychological inquest, an attempt to map the fault lines that ran beneath that seraphic voice.

The film pieces together the evidence of a brief, incandescent life, using his single studio album, Grace, as the cornerstone of a tragedy. It seeks the man inside the myth, but in doing so, it only deepens the sense of a fate foretold, a life lived under the shadow of its final act. The beauty was the warning.

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After his secret breakup with Gossip Girl co-star Blake Lively in 2010, Penn Badgley wasn’t done with love, but far from it. What came next hit him like a big yellow school bus. He ended up in a relationship he later described as “real, true, earth-shattering love.”

The person he ended up falling in love with was none other than Zoe Kravitz. The two dated for a couple of years, and judging by Badgley’s comments, it was intense. And of course it was, since he is the guy who wrote songs about his relationships (more on that in a bit). Here is what he said about his time with the Catwoman actress!

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A new documentary, It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, which examines the life of the late singer-songwriter, will open in movie theaters on Aug. 8. An HBO premiere will follow this winter.

The film, by director Amy Berg (Phoenix Rising, West of Memphis), features never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives. His mother, Mary Culbert, and former partners Rebecca Moore and Joan Wasser gave new interviews for the picture. It also includes commentary from Buckley’s former bandmates, Michael Tighe and Parker Kindred, as well as singer-songwriters Ben Harper and Aimee Mann.

Courtney Love surprised attendees at the Royal Geographical Society in London by singing a cover of the Bob Dylan classic “Like a Rolling Stone.”

The Hole singer was at the venue on Tuesday (March 4th) to host a conversation with actor-writer Todd Almond to discuss his new book Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl From the North Country and Broadway’s Rebirth. Following the talk, the pair were joined by an acoustic guitarist as they got up to sing “Like a Rolling Stone,” with Love on lead vocals and Almond backing her up.

The performance came 59 years after Dylan sang the song at his famous 1966 concert at Royal Albert Hall, which is right next door to the Royal Geographical Society. It also came roughly a year after Love joined Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong for a few Cheap Trick and Tom Petty covers in London.

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At one point in singer-songwriter Jeff Buckely’s promising career, the musician exclaimed on MTV that he sees himself as a parasite in an industry he’s long admired. Not quite a household name in the United States, the Southern California native found an immense following in Europe and other countries that seemed to gravitate towards his unique sound developed while playing in New York nightclubs in his early 20s. At a time in the 1990s when grunge music became popular, Jeff Buckley’s eclectic brand and distinctive voice was cut short when he drowned in Memphis at the tender age of 30.

Much has been written about the musician who only gave the world one studio album, “Grace.” Often regarded for his covers of previously well-known songs, Buckley is best remembered for his take on the Leonard Cohen hit, “Hallelujah,” notable for Buckley’s interpretation of the song as more sexually based than gospel hymn.

The human voice, as we all know, is as much of a musical instrument as any other instrument. But Jeff Buckley had a voice that was so breathtaking, so ethereally soaring, so reaching for the heavens in its virtuosity that it’s as if he’d been given a different instrument from everyone else in pop and rock. Not that he wasn’t profoundly influenced. He had a four-octave range, and when he ascended into the upper registers, with that theremin wail and that incredibly fast vibrato, he sounded like his greatest idol, Nina Simone, crossed with his other greatest idol, Robert Plant, crossed with the most impassioned angel God had ever gifted.

In “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” Amy Berg’s rapturous documentary about Buckley’s extraordinary rise in the ’90s and his tragically cut-short life, we hear Buckley sing in every conceivable context: in clubs, in stadiums,...

Plot: The life and career of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, who posthumously rose to fame after his tragic, mysterious death at only thirty years old.

Review: One of the ways I judge a documentary is how “inside baseball” it is for the uninitiated. This approach is sometimes necessary, especially when your subject’s life has been chronicled at length – such as another doc I saw here at Sundance, One to One: John & Yoko. Yet, when the subject is more niche, this approach doesn’t always work as it limits the potential audience. Such was my fear walking into It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. While an icon, I must admit my knowledge of him is limited to his iconic cover of “Hallelujah” and the fact that he died young. As such, I figured I’d be lost watching this.

Happily, director Amy Berg (West of Memphis) strikes a good balance,...

It’s extremely hard not to gush over Jeff Buckley. An Adonis with an four-octave range, the singer-songwriter had the sensitivity of an early-Seventies folkie, the melody-meets-muscle rock chops of an early-Nineties grunge practitioner, and a frontman sex appeal that was timeless. He counted Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Led Zeppelin, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as his musical influences, and could replicate their vocal stylings to an uncanny degree. Having moved from Orange County, California, to New York City, Buckley began playing guitar and singing cover songs at the Lower East Side cafe Sin-é.

Jeff Buckley’s life started with both an act of embrace and a decisive abandonment. His mother was only 17 when she conceived him and, while it was suggested she might give the baby up for adoption, she knew she had to nurture the human growing inside her and let him nurture her in return. Jeff’s father, on the other hand, could not let his dreams of being a famous singer/songwriter be replaced by the difficulties of raising a child and chose not to be a part of his life.

Tim Buckley would eventually gain the notoriety he sought, producing nine studio albums and serving as a well-known figure in the folk rock community for his unique voice and experimentation with multiple genres of music. Though Jeff did finally meet his father following a concert near where he grew up in Southern California, Tim would die of a heroin overdose shortly thereafter.

Ten years after her Janis Joplin bio-doc, Janis: Little Girl Blue, director Amy Berg returns to the music world with It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, an adoring portrait of another blazing talent who died way too young, leaving an influential legacy. Every fan — whether those of us who got misty-eyed to his music in the ‘90s or romantic teenagers discovering him in recent years via social media — has their favorite Buckley songs. Mine oscillate between “So Real” and “Grace,” “Last Goodbye” and “Everybody Here Wants You.” For Berg, whose connection to the artist’s music pulses through every moment of her new doc, it would appear to be his transcendent cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

That’s an entirely valid choice and a popular one, it being Buckley’s only song to reach No. 1 on a Billboard chart — in 2008, 11 years after his tragic death at age 30. But it...

"One of the great things about Jeff Buckley is you discover him when you're meant to discover him" — it's a quote from It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley documentary director Amy Berg, and for those of us who deeply love his music, it's a sentiment that rings extremely true. And thanks to the film's debut at Sundance on January 24, 2025, we're finally discovering why Brad Pitt's dream biopic about the tortured and beloved musician never came to be, thanks to a new interview with Variety with Berg and Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert.

For those who somehow didn't have a phase where they exclusively listened to the singer, allow us to explain: Jeff Buckley was a deep-throated singer and moodily creative guitar wunderkind, whose music defied categorization, and has been captivating audiences with his iconic — and singular album, Grace. A tortured figure with a storied and mysterious origin story (his father...

For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in May 1997 at the age of 30.

Back in 2000, Brad Pitt courted Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, inviting her to lunch at his Los Feliz home and adding her to the VIP guest list for his wedding to Jennifer Aniston. It didn’t require much arm-twisting before she granted the actor permission to make a biopic about her son, the tortured singer-songwriter who is best known for performing the greatest version ever of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

“If there’s 20 people calling you, and Brad Pitt is one of them, who are you gonna pick to go see?” Guibert says with a laugh.

But Guibert was skeptical about the idea of Pitt, or any actor for that matter, tackling the role of her only child.

Last fall, 27 years after Jeff Buckley died, the singer-songwriter best known for his haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” reached a surprising new chart peak. Propelled mainly by teenage girls using the track as the backdrop for their moody musings, “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over,” a plaintive breakup tune from Buckley’s 1994 studio album, Grace, became the 19th most popular song on the TikTok Billboard top 50. “Ugh the Og yearner ,” reads an appreciative comment on a black-and-white video of Buckley performing the song that has been liked 640,000 times. “Imagine getting a song like this written about you like ,” reads one from another wistful admirer.

To older generations of Buckley fans, these youthful reactions are entirely understandable. “You hear that song, and you feel the most romantic feelings you could feel,” says documentarian Amy Berg, 54, who first had her own moody Buckley moment in the ’90s.

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Steven Spielberg knew what he was doing when he cast David Lynch as John Ford in The Fabelmans; already, in 2022, the director had become, like Ford, bigger than his movies, a living monument to cinema. Seeing Lynch in conversation back in 2007 at London’s BFI Southbank, before the release of Inland Empire, I was very mindful of that fact, writing that “seeing him speak to a packed house, with that silver pompadour, that black suit and buttoned-up, tie-less shirt, made me feel like a witness to history, like seeing Picasso, Churchill or Fred Astaire.”

The Elephant Man producer Mel Brooks later went one better when I spoke to him in 2008. Describing their first meeting at Bob’s Big Boy Diner in Burbank — because Lynch only ever ate there, usually for a late lunch at 2.30 p.m. — Brooks said, “He looked just like Charles Lindbergh when he flew over the Atlantic.

In October, Massive Attack will embark on their first US tour in five years. Adding to the excitement, the legendary trip-hop outfit has now confirmed that they’ll be joined on the road by special guests including Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser, Horace Andy, and Young Fathers, as BrooklynVegan points out.

The tour kicks off in Atlanta on October 17th, with additional dates scheduled in Washington, DC, Boston, and New York City. Massive Attack are also slated to appear at the iii Points Festival in Miami on October 19th. Fans can look for last-minute tickets here.

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“Our new live show marks the most transgressive leap in the collaboration between 3D x United Visual Artists since 2003,” the band says of the upcoming outing. “By reverse engineering algorithms to expose content anomalies & recursive feedback loops, we seek to provoke a dialogue on the broken dream of the confident,...

Penn Badgley became a fan-favorite star as Dan Humphrey in CW’s Gossip Girl. The talented actor has proven time and again that he is much more than a pretty face, showcasing some amazing versatility in dramas like Margin Call, Greetings from Tim Buckley, and The Paper Store. He also entertained audiences in the cult comedies Easy A and John Tucker Must Die.

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Badgley has now become a worldwide sensation as Joe Goldberg on the Netflix series You, with the actor set to return for a fifth and final season. The You star was highly rumored for the role of Reed Richards last year, which ultimately went to Pedro Pascal. Fans are not giving up their hopes of Badgley’s potential MCU entry as they have an original Avenger in mind if the MCU reboots after Secret Wars.

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The history of one of New York City’s most vibrant havens for musicians and artists — from Dave Van Ronk, Sonny Rollins and Bob Dylan to Shawn Colvin and Suzanne Vega — will be chronicled in the new book, Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital, by Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne.

Out Sept. 17 via Hachette Books (and available to...

Bryan Ferry has announced his massive album, Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023, a career-spanning collection capturing 50 years of his music that’s set to release on Oct. 25.

The upcoming project is billed as a celebration of “a master modern interpreter of song via a dizzyingly inventive series of cover versions that range from Bob Dylan to Amy Winehouse, Rodgers and Hart to the Velvet Underground via Tim Buckley, Shakespeare, sea shanties and Sam and Dave,” per a press release. The album will also pay tribute to Ferry’s songwriting legacy and...

Massive Attack returned for their first show in five years on Wednesday night (June 5th) at Gothenburg Film Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden. To mark the occasion, they brought out longtime collaborators Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins and reggae singer Horace Andy for several songs each.

With Fraser (who is married to drummer Damon Reece), the trip-hop group performed their signature hit “Teardrop,” as well as “Black Milk and “Group Four.” However, the most notable moment was when they played “Song to the Siren” for the first time together.

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Originally recorded by Tim Buckley, the best-known version of “Song to the Siren” is This Mortal Coil’s 1983 cover featuring Fraser and Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie.

Besides Fraser and Andy, Massive Attack were joined by Young Fathers for “Voodoo in My Blood” and Deborah Miller for “Safe from Harm” and “Unfinished Sympathy.”

See the full setlist and fan-shot video below.

A counterculture take on Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, Kent Lane stars as “Kent”, a young nomad adrift on the California coast while pondering his past and the tragic death of his girlfriend. In spite of his low budget, director Hall Bartlett finagled a great soundtrack featuring Tim Buckley, and Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now (sung by Judy Collins). John Simon described the film as “an abomination” and that’s really the only recommendation you need.

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Ben Rosenfield has only been at it for 10 years, but he already has an interesting body of work behind him—Boardwalk Empire, 6 Years, Greetings From Tim Buckley (in which he played Buckley), the third season of Twin Peaks, and last year’s Mrs. America, to name just a few. Not to mention the New York stage productions where he performed opposite Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. Maybe this is why the 28 year old speaks with the wisdom of an acting elder. He talks about the “turning of the soil” that has to happen with the text before he builds […]

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Ben Rosenfield has only been at it for 10 years, but he already has an interesting body of work behind him—Boardwalk Empire, 6 Years, Greetings From Tim Buckley (in which he played Buckley), the third season of Twin Peaks, and last year’s Mrs. America, to name just a few. Not to mention the New York stage productions where he performed opposite Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan. Maybe this is why the 28 year old speaks with the wisdom of an acting elder. He talks about the “turning of the soil” that has to happen with the text before he builds […]

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Way back when, Dylan and the Beatles demonstrated how musicians could evolve dramatically, overhauling their sound on record once or even twice a year. They were hardly alone, but few others shape-shifted during than era like Tim Buckley. By 1968, the L.A.-via-Orange-Country troubadour was moving beyond the keening-balladeer mode of his early work — a mere two years before — and gravitating toward jazz and improvisational music. That exhilarating shift, a key period in his career, is documented in this newly unearthed live tape, recorded that year at the Carousel Ballroom...

Indie label 4Ad has tapped the Breeders, Future Islands, Big Thief, and 15 other artists on its current roster to cover songs from its catalog for a new release, Bills and Aches and Blues. The first five tracks from the compilation were released Wednesday, March 10th, while the full project will arrive digitally, April 2nd.

The opening side for Bills and Aches and Blues features the Breeders covering His Name Is Alive’s “Dirt Eaters,” U.S. Girls covering the Birthday Party’s “Junkyard,” Tkay Maidza covering the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?...

The life story of Jeff Buckley will be told in the upcoming biopic Everybody Here Wants You, and Broadway actor/musician Reeve Carney has been cast in the lead role. The Buckley estate backs the film and has granted access to his full musical library.

“This will be the only official dramatization of Jeff’s story which I can promise his fans will be true to him and to his legacy,” said Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, in a statement (via Variety). “Thankfully, my determination to assemble all the right participants,...

Producer Orian Williams makes his directorial debut with Jeff Buckley biopic “Everybody Here Wants You.” Culmination will produce and kick off worldwide sales of the pic at the European Film Market.

“Everybody Here Wants You” stars Reeve Carney as the singer-songwriter whose career was cut short by his death in 1997. The film has full support of the Buckley estate and has access to Buckley’s music.

Culmination Prod.’s Tom Butterfield will produce alongside Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, and Alison Raykovich, manager of his estate and VP of Jeff Buckley Music. Culmination’s Harry White handles sales at the EFM.

Jeff Buckley met his father, singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, whose own music spurred an intense following, only once. Tim Buckley died in 1975, but his estranged son did possess the same gift for music. Jeff Buckley released one album, “Grace,” in 1994, which rocketed him to the top of critics lists and inspired a deep fandom,...

They don’t make ’em like Jac Holzman anymore. Maybe they never did.

While music executives are keen to brand their firms “technology companies” these days, Holzman, 89, is already several laps ahead. After co-founding Elektra Records in his dorm room in 1950 then bringing the label into Kinney National (now Warner Music Group) in a $10 million deal in 1970 — and signing and developing acts including The Doors, Love, Judy Collins, Tim Buckley, and The Stooges on the way — Holzman began spearheading Warner’s experiments in the tech world.

He helped launch both...

As Fred Goodman makes clear in Why Lhasa de Sela Matters (University of Texas Press), the late world-music troubadour never made it easy on anyone. Start with her music. Lhasa (as she called herself professionally) was born and raised in America but became a one-stop global musician: Goodman accurately describes her blend of “Gypsy music and flamenco, Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, Portuguese fado, Middle Eastern pop songs, Russian lullabies,chanson française, and South American folk melodies.” A dramatic, exposed-nervous-system singer, she seemed to pour everything into a performance; it...

Here’s a partial list of musicians we lost in the 2010s: Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, Chuck Berry, Ornette Coleman, B.B. King, Etta James, Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Merle Haggard, Kitty Wells, João Gilberto, Ravi Shankar, Tabu Ley Rochereau, David Mancuso, Amy Winehouse, Abbie Lincoln, Gil Scott Heron, George Jones, George Martin, George Michael, Allen Toussaint, Donna Summer, Phife Dawg, Prodigy, Adam Yauch, Heavy D, Captain Beefheart, Robert Hunter, Gregory Isaacs, Johnny Otis, Big Jay McNeely, Levon Helm, Kate McGarrigle, Guy Clark, Pete Seeger, Ralph Stanley, Gregg Allman,...

Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity amplification. When he died in 2011 at the age of 76, Stanley left behind a breathtaking array of some 1,300 reels amassed between 1966 and 1982. Buried inside are lost concerts by legends like Johnny Cash, Fleetwood Mac, Tim Buckley, and dozens of others, alongside the San Francisco psychedelic bands Stanley is most often associated with, such as the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane.

Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgley, who currently stars on the Netflix series, You, and Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti have been added to the cast of Here Today along with Anna Deavere Smith and Nyambi Nyambi. Emmy winners Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish are toplining the Astute Films comedy, which is currently filming in New York City.

Here Today will mark Crystal’s eighth time directing and his third on a feature. It follows veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Crystal), who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge (Haddish). Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.

Crystal co-wrote the screenplay with his fellow Saturday Night Live alum and Emmy-award winning writer Alan Zweibel...

Jeff Buckley swoons the crowd with a gut-wrenching performance of “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” in a previously unreleased live video. The song is the seventh track off the late singer’s legendary debut Grace, which turns 25 today.

Filmed at the Middle East in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 1994, the black and white clip features Buckley walking towards the venue on a snowy sidewalk, guitar case in hand. He performs at soundcheck wearing a coonskin-like cap, later launching into the track before a packed crowd. “Maybe I’m too young...

As the sole album Jeff Buckley completed during his brief lifetime, Grace offers a tantalizing look at the unfulfilled promise of one of the Nineties’ most striking talents. Showcasing the singer-songwriter’s technical virtuosity and soaring multi-octave range, the tracks brim with the fervent energy of a musical polyglot who seemed torn between desires to be a chanteuse or a headbanger. Drawing elements from jazzy torch singers, heavy-metal guitar heroes, poets, punks, and Pakistani Qawwali vocalists, it’s a sound that welcomes all, yet defies definition.

Then again, Buckley was always wary of categorization.

A new book will provide an intimate look at Jeff Buckley’s creative process and personal life using reproductions of his handwritten lyrics, diary entries and letters. The singer’s mother, Mary Guibert, co-wrote the upcoming Jeff Buckley: His Own Voice with Rolling Stone Senior Writer and Buckley biographer David Browne. The book will come out on October 15th.

The singer-songwriter meticulously kept journals of his daily life, his goals, inspirations and struggles his entire life, and the book draws heavily on those. It also contains reproductions of memorabilia like notes and unpublished lyrics,...

Grace, an upcoming graphic novel about Jeff Buckley, explores the singer-songwriter’s life, career and tragic death. Author Tiffanie DeBartolo (How to Kill a Rock Star, God-Shaped Hole) collaborated with visual artists Pascal Dizin and Lisa Reist on the project, which comes out April 30th via First Second/Macmillan (find it here).

The novel — which includes archival material contributed by the musician’s mother, Mary Guibert — opens with a young Buckley bucking comparisons to his father, songwriter Tim Buckley, and developing his own material. After falling in love with a woman in New York,...

Alex Wolff and Imogen Poots have been tapped to lead writer/director Joey Klein’s crime drama Castle in the Ground, which is being produced by William Woods via his Woods Entertainment banner and Michael Solomon of Band With Pictures.

Production is currently underway in Sudbury, Canada. The plot follows a teenager Henry who, after the untimely death of his mother, befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor Ana, who embroils Henry in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.

Andra Gordon of American Entertainment Investors, who developed the project with Woods and Solomon, will serve as executive producer alongside Tom Spriggs, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, George Stranahan, John Hansen, Mark Gingras, and John Laing. The pic marks the first project for from financing company Line 200, who financed the film along with Ontario Creates, Nohfc, and Telefilm.

Wolff, recently wrote,...

Rock photographer Guy Webster, whose images adorn dozens of classic album covers, has died at the age of 79.

Webster’s biographer Harvey Kubernik confirmed the photographer’s February 5th death to Rolling Stone, adding that Webster had been suffering from diabetes and liver cancer. Variety first reported Webster’s death.

“Guy Webster established his reputation as a photographer capable not only of capturing the emotional nuance of the era, but also of helping to define it, with shots of hundreds of personalities before they were legends—including Simon & Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson,...

FX has set the main cast for the eight-episode limited series “Fosse/Verdon,” Variety has learned.

The series is based on the biography “Fosse” written by Sam Wasson and tells the story of the romantic and creative partnership between Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) and Gwen Verdon (Michelle Williams).

Norbert Leo Butz has been cast in the series regular role of Paddy Chayefsky, while Margaret Qually will appear in the series regular role of Ann Reinking.

In addition, the following people have been cast in recurring roles: Aya Cash as Joan Simon, Nate Corddry as Neil Simon, Susan Misner as Joan McCracken, Bianca Marroquin as Chita Rivera, Kelli Barrett as Liza Minnelli, Evan Handler as Hal Prince, Rick Holmes as Fred Weaver, Paul Reiser as Cy Feuer, Ethan Slater as Joel Grey, Byron Jennings as George Abbott, and Laura Osnes as Shirley MacLaine.

Butz is currently starring on Broadway in “My Fair Lady...

Factory robots revolt against their programming and hit the dance floor in the Chemical Brothers’ vivid “Free Yourself” video. Directors Dom&Nic follow a security guard driving to his mundane job at AI staffing company Robo Force, where protestors line the streets with signs like “Jobs, Not Bots.” After he slips away to work, the AI creations slip out of their wooden crates and flail wildly to the electronic group’s pulsating dance cut. The visual concludes with the grooving robots, by now filling the entire warehouse, encircling the bewildered protagonist.

The Chemical Brothers unveiled a breathless new dance track, “Free Yourself,” marking their first new song since 2016.

“Free Yourself” is centered around a vocal refrain that’s chopped in various ways, but always conveys a clear message: “Free yourself, free me, dance.” The production supports the command, as the Chemical Brothers craft a euphoric, multi-faceted odyssey of blistering synths and deep grooves.

The Chemical Brothers started performing “Free Yourself” during festival appearances this summer, and the track marks their first piece of new music since their 2016 single, “C-h-e-m-i-c-a-l.” In June,...

Live performances by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, recorded at a student ministry on the University of Michigan campus in 1968, were among the professional-quality recordings unearthed by the Michigan History Project.

Seven-inch reel-to-reel audio tapes featuring concerts by Tim Buckley, Odetta, David Ackles and Dave Van Ronk were also among the recordings made at the Canterbury House, an Ann Arbor, Michigan venue that hosted counterculture events in the mid to late-Sixties.

The Michigan History Project recently acquired the recordings, with the non-profit organization now seeking a record label interested in releasing the concerts.

When you watch the seventh episode in the first season of Netflix's breakout hit, Glow, then you'll likely find yourself hearing a very familiar voice. Rhonda, the bubbly, big-banged British member of the show's all-female wrestling group, comes up with a rap to hype up the crowd during the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling's first match with a live studio audience. "Glow, Glow, that's the name; women's wrestling is our game," she chants in the middle of the ring. "If we play rough, please don't blame us; our style is wild, and you know you can't tame us!" If Rhonda's voice gives you a major case of déjà-vu in that scene, might I ask if you're a fan of the 2007 song "Foundations"? Or "Merry Happy"? Because Rhonda (aka Britannica) is actually played by British singer-songwriter Kate Nash!

Since charming the music scene with her debut album in 2007, Made of Bricks...

Sometimes music can surprise you when you least expect it to... and so it goes that my family and I were driving home from our Christmas visit in Akron, Ohio and I was bored out of my mind on Interstate 80 -- somewhere in the middle of snow-covered Pennsylvania -- when I decided to play a CD from the Michigan-based singer/songwriter Cameron Blake. What is this, I thought? Rufus Wainwright's twin or Scott Walker's protégé, or Tim Hardin's ghost or... you get my musical reference drift, oui? Somewhat lazy, but a starting point. Yet, he is his own poet. And that voice, like Matt Wilson of Semisonic/Trip Shakespeare, or Tim Buckley, clear and pristine tenor, riding his melodies effortlessly. Damn, I wish I had his voice. What it could do with my songs, but alas it is his and his alone and I am thankful that...

The latest stage of Richard Linklater’s freewheeling career takes him back to the 1970s with Last Flag Flying, a 44-years-belated sequel to Hal Ashby’s masterpiece The Last Detail. It’s difficult to call much of anything from Linklater a surprise at this point: he seems as comfortable at the helm of a studio comedy powered by Jack Black’s manic energy as he does a decade-plus-spanning epic about the journey from childhood to adolescence. Last Flag Flying may not stand as one of Linklater’s defining works, but it does signal a kinship with the New Hollywood director, whose run from 1970-1979 was as inspired as any other from that era — before he got burned (and burned-out) and died too young at the age of 59. Ashby and Linklater have a shared ability to make a film built on discursive moments flow narratively, an affinity for counterculture movements or...

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Coming across visually as a prototype Nancy Sinatra about to enter The Valley Of The Dolls, Lynn Castle in the 1960s was an entrancing and beguiling entity. Her debut album finally appears a few years shy of her turning eighty, and it is a tremendous affair, an index of splendid and unrealized possibilities, as stark as it is haunting. 

Vocally she sounds like a female Leonard Cohen who's been listening to too much Nina Simone, whose smoke-laced croak she frequently echoes. Her look though uber-girlie doesn't match her sound, and simply serves to enhance the appeal of her beauty and big, big hair. Think Warhol's Candy Darling doing an arch Barbie doll look and you are nearly there. Add Jackie O shades and you have quite simply arrived. Her sole single 'The Lady Barber' is a wonderful piece of...

Warning: This post contains spoilers from this week’s Outlander. If you’re behind, dinna fash — you can read last week’s recap here.

The Frasers’ Parisian tour of pain continued in the latest Outlander, when Claire delivered a stillborn daughter, nearly died of childbed fever, accidentally sent one of her enemies to his death and then had to have sex with a monarch in order to free her estranged husband from jail. (And you thought you had a rough week.)

The death of Claire and Jamie’s child Faith, as well as the physical and emotional distance between Lady Broch Turach and her husband,...

The gifts of music and song-writing are explored in the BBC Four special “Singer-Songwriters at the BBC.” The special, which airs on the television channel Jan. 2, 2015, kicks the new year off with a fond look back at some of the songs (and songwriters) that have changed music forever. The special features a compilation of some of the best singer-songwriter performances from the BBC archives. Such musicians include Sandy Denny, Don McLean, Gerry Rafferty, Elton John, Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) and more. “Don McLean performs his huge hit American Pie from 1972 and Tim Buckley provides some sublime sounds with a rendition of his song Happy [ Read More ]

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Touched By Grace: My Time with Jeff Buckley by Gary Lucas (Jawbone Press)

Über rock guitarist Gary Lucas's loving homage to his pupil Jeff Buckley is chock full of fascinating details and minutia that apparently doomed their creative coupling from the get-go. There is no question that they are two tremendously gifted individuals, and that by joining forces they added magic to the world. And it is also quite apparent, especially when you listen to the music they created together, that theirs was a partnership that should have afforded them both so much more. Had Mr. Buckley not taken his solo flight, leaving Mr. Lucas and their Gods & Monsters to soldier on without him, who knows what magic might have been created from their continued collaboration. 

At first glance some might misconstrue that Mr. Lucas and his tome are ego-tripping -- waxing poetic about his time spent with the venerated singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley,...

"Are you kidding me, man?!" composer Angelo Badalamenti howls jokingly when Rolling Stone asks him what he thought of Twin Peaks, the TV series he scored in the early Nineties. "It was really off the wall. I thought it was either going to sink violently down the drain or, hopefully, capture the intrigue of enthusiastic people conversing by the office water cooler on a Monday morning."

12 Things We Learned from David Lynch's Talk at Bam

As it turned out, Twin Peaks was an instant hit when it premiered on April 8th,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 17, 2013

Price: DVD $26.95

Studio: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm

Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots star in Greetings from Tim Buckley.

Penn Badgley (TV’s Gossip Girl) stars as musician Jeff Buckley, son of late iconic folk singer Tim Buckley, in the 2012 music-filled independent drama Greetings from Tim Buckley.

In 1991, a young Jeff Buckley (Badgley) rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his late father. Struggling with the legacy of a man he barely knew, Jeff forms a friendship with an enigmatic young woman (Imogen Poots, Solitary Man) working at the show and begins to discover the powerful potential of his own musical voice. In a short time, Jeff finds the courage to perform at the now legendary St. Ann’s concert, where Jeff discovers his own voice singing his father’s songs, captivating the audience and launching his own meteoric career.

Directed by Daniel Algrant,...