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If you still haven't seen Baby Driver, you need to get on that. If you're still somehow having doubts about Edgar Wright's very cool, loaded-soundtrack, action-filled crime drama, we're excited to premiere the first six minutes, which should do the trick to draw you in. And if you've already seen the movie, then you'll be wanting to watch this awesome opening again. And watch it again. Baby Driver starts off with an introduction to the title character, a getaway car driver played by Ansel Elgort, and three bank robbers he's working with, played by Jon Hamm, Eiza Gonzalez and Jon Bernthal. The trio begin their heist, and Baby stays behind, singing along to "Bellbottoms" by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. He also uses the tune as a...

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Twenty-two years ago, writer-director Edgar Wright was constantly listening to the album “Orange” by the rock group The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

“The first track on the album, ‘Bellbottoms,’ which is a fantastic rock track, I just listened to that song over and over again,” said Wright at a Q&A during the 2017 SXSW Film Festival. “I don’t know what it was, but I just thought that would make a great car chase song.”

Wright laid in his bedroom listening to the song on repeat, visualizing a car chase set to “Bellbottoms.” He also started coming up with the idea of a character: a getaway driver for a bank heist, who cannot do his job properly without the right music playing.

That core idea is the premise of Wright’s new film,...

Like every Edgar Wright movie since “Shaun of the Dead,” the director’s fifth feature, “Baby Driver,” takes a ludicrous concept and turns it into a brilliant exercise in high style and a rush of big ideas. The director’s most ambitious work to date is a wildly successful romantic heist comedy, propelled from scene to scene with a lively soundtrack that elevates its slick chase scenes into a realm that develops its own satisfying beat.

If Busby Berkeley made “Grand Theft Auto,” it might look something like this exuberant comic caper, in which young getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) speeds through highways and back alleys seemingly impervious to police advances so long as he has a smooth beat to guide his maneuvers. Operating under the employ of robbery maestro Doc (a stern Kevin Spacey), Baby quietly works off a debt to his boss by hauling two-bit criminals out of harm’s way,...

Muse, Kings of Leon, Depeche Mode and The Cure are set to headline this year's massive Austin City Limits Music Festival.  Among the other big names scheduled to perform are Phoenix, The National,  Wilco, D'Angelo, Atoms For Peace, Vampire Weekend, Lionel Richie, Queens of the Stone Age, fun., Eric Church, and Kendrick Lamar. The undercard also promises some noteworthy performers, including Tame Impala, The Shouting Matches (featuring Bon Iver's Justin Vernon), Kaskade, Grimes, Purity Ring, Neko Case, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dawes, and many more.  Like Coachella before it, the festival is expanding to two weekends this year, with each band playing both events. It...

Depeche Mode, The Cure, Muse, Kings Of Leon, Atoms For Peace, Lionel Richie, Phoenix, and Wilco will headline the 2013 Austin City Limits festival. This year marks the first time that the Texas fest will expand, Coachella-style, across two weekends, happening Oct. 4-6 and again Oct. 11-13. Other acts confirmed include Vampire Weekend, Fun, D’Angelo, The National, Queens Of The Stone Age, Kendrick Lamar, Passion Pit, Grimes, and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. A full list of all the bands playing is below. Tickets are on sale now on Acl’s site. Acl 2013 Depeche Mode The Cure Muse ...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Grizzly Bear have been confirmed to headline the I'll Be Your Mirror festival. The two-day festival takes place at Alexandra Palace in London on the weekend of May 4-5. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs will headline on the Saturday, supported by bands including The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Black Lips, The Field and King Khan & The Shrines. Grizzly Bear will headline on the Sunday, and will curate a line-up that includes The (more)...