It’s fitting that Grant Singer opens Reptile, his meandering feature directorial debut, with an “Angel of the Morning” needle drop. Chip Taylor composed that aching tune about a one-night stand because he wanted to capture a passionate and ephemeral feeling. “It was beyond words,” he has said of the 1967 song. “And that is the power.”
Singer, like Taylor, reaches for the ineffable. The director, who’s helmed music videos for pop music royalty up until this point, is obsessed with controlling atmosphere and setting the mood. He crowds Reptile with gripping sequences, suspenseful moments, dramatic pauses and surprising levity — elements that, despite their overuse, keep the audience on edge and strategically blur the lines between dreams and reality. A malevolent score by Berlin-based composer Yair Elazar Glotman, with an assist from Venezuelan musician Arca, helps calibrate this tension and adds to the movie’s overall mysterious air.
There’s no doubt,...
Singer, like Taylor, reaches for the ineffable. The director, who’s helmed music videos for pop music royalty up until this point, is obsessed with controlling atmosphere and setting the mood. He crowds Reptile with gripping sequences, suspenseful moments, dramatic pauses and surprising levity — elements that, despite their overuse, keep the audience on edge and strategically blur the lines between dreams and reality. A malevolent score by Berlin-based composer Yair Elazar Glotman, with an assist from Venezuelan musician Arca, helps calibrate this tension and adds to the movie’s overall mysterious air.
There’s no doubt,...
- 9/9/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Independent is proud to announce an exclusive new partnership with Montreux Jazz Festival 2023.
The news comes as the festival announces this year’s lineup, which includes Bob Dylan, Lil Nas X, Sam Smith, Lionel Richie, Janelle Monae, Christine and the Queens, Mark Ronson and Wet Leg.
The festival organisers have curated an eclectic, free-flowing programme for the 250,000 guests that come to Montreux each year. With artists invited to perform with full creative freedom, music lovers can enjoy the sound from the jazz festival’s two main venues.
Auditorium Stravinski offers a prestigious line-up of different generations of renowned musicians, while the Montreux Jazz Lab has a longstanding history of hosting the brightest talents before they explode into global icons.
The Independent will publish interviews, announcements, festival exclusives and commercial support from the two weeks of unforgettable performances. It will be the only news partner in the UK and US to do so.
The news comes as the festival announces this year’s lineup, which includes Bob Dylan, Lil Nas X, Sam Smith, Lionel Richie, Janelle Monae, Christine and the Queens, Mark Ronson and Wet Leg.
The festival organisers have curated an eclectic, free-flowing programme for the 250,000 guests that come to Montreux each year. With artists invited to perform with full creative freedom, music lovers can enjoy the sound from the jazz festival’s two main venues.
Auditorium Stravinski offers a prestigious line-up of different generations of renowned musicians, while the Montreux Jazz Lab has a longstanding history of hosting the brightest talents before they explode into global icons.
The Independent will publish interviews, announcements, festival exclusives and commercial support from the two weeks of unforgettable performances. It will be the only news partner in the UK and US to do so.
- 4/5/2023
- by Eoghan O'Donnell
- The Independent - Music
“I wonder what it’s like up there?” ponders 83-year-old Chip Taylor on The Cradle of All Living Things, the extraordinary new album he feared would be his last. He’s addressing his wife, Joan, as he tilts tenderly into a chorus that imagines love beyond death: “Do you close your eyes/ And look into mine?/ You are my closing time.”
The woman he married in 1964 can’t hear the song, though. A series of strokes have left Joan deaf. Which is why several of the songs on the album stress the importance of their remaining senses. Taylor sings, “I know that I don’t see much/ Close my eyes and it is you that I touch/ I touch your hair, I touch your nose, I touch your lips/ baby, I suppose…”
Fifty years on since he wrote some of rock’s rawest declarations of youthful passion – including “Wild Thing...
The woman he married in 1964 can’t hear the song, though. A series of strokes have left Joan deaf. Which is why several of the songs on the album stress the importance of their remaining senses. Taylor sings, “I know that I don’t see much/ Close my eyes and it is you that I touch/ I touch your hair, I touch your nose, I touch your lips/ baby, I suppose…”
Fifty years on since he wrote some of rock’s rawest declarations of youthful passion – including “Wild Thing...
- 4/2/2023
- by Helen Brown
- The Independent - Music
The Specials will release an album of cover songs, Protest Songs – 1924-2012, on September 24th. The release will include 12 new versions of protest songs by artists like Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, and Frank Zappa.
The British group has previewed the album with a rendition of “Freedom Highway,” a song by the Staple Singers that was written for the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
“The beginning of 2020 saw us all together making a reggae record before we each fell ill with Covid-19 and had to put the album on ice,...
The British group has previewed the album with a rendition of “Freedom Highway,” a song by the Staple Singers that was written for the civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.
“The beginning of 2020 saw us all together making a reggae record before we each fell ill with Covid-19 and had to put the album on ice,...
- 8/17/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Bob Dylan doesn’t turn 80 until May 24th, but several artists have already announced plans — from Patti Smith’s upcoming tribute concert to the Flaming Lips’ rendition of “Lay Lady Lay.” On Monday, Chrissie Hynde revealed that a Dylan covers album is on the way, containing classics like “You’re a Big Girl Now” and “Sweetheart like You.” Recorded with her Pretenders bandmate James Walbourne, the album stems from Hynde’s “Dylan Lockdown Series,” which began early on in the pandemic.
Hynde has always excelled at covers, whether it’s...
Hynde has always excelled at covers, whether it’s...
- 5/10/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones. The road was too hard and it was strewn with failure. “No one starts at the top in the theater,” Gene Hackman once said, “and the bottom is a very ugly place.”
Jon Voight was an exception. He was driven, compulsive and uneasy. But he also loved his work and his fellow actors, and he was confident that if he pushed himself hard enough and got a break or two along the way, he would succeed. The break he was waiting for was “Midnight Cowboy.”
More than 50 years later, Voight’s extraordinary talents as an actor have been overshadowed by his extreme right-wing politics — he’s called Donald Trump “our greatest president since Abraham Lincoln...
Jon Voight was an exception. He was driven, compulsive and uneasy. But he also loved his work and his fellow actors, and he was confident that if he pushed himself hard enough and got a break or two along the way, he would succeed. The break he was waiting for was “Midnight Cowboy.”
More than 50 years later, Voight’s extraordinary talents as an actor have been overshadowed by his extreme right-wing politics — he’s called Donald Trump “our greatest president since Abraham Lincoln...
- 3/15/2021
- by Glenn Frankel
- The Wrap
Winners of the 2017 Whistler Film Festival were announced at the Awards Celebration this morning on the final day of the 17th annual Festival. Ian Lagarde’s first feature All You Can Eat Buddha and Jason and Carlos Sanchez’s A Worthy Companion tied for the $15,000 cash prize presented by the Directors Guild of Canada, British Columbia and the $15,000 post-production prize sponsored by Encore Vancouver in the 14th edition of the coveted Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature Film. The jury states “each in their own way convey unique visions and creative storytelling the jury believes have made and will make powerful contributions to the world of cinema.”A Worthy Companion
A Worthy Companion takes a fresh and new perspective that explores the complexity and humanity within the predator, victim relationship. This film questions how we perpetuate manipulative power dynamics between adult and child through the inner struggle of our female protagonists.
A Worthy Companion takes a fresh and new perspective that explores the complexity and humanity within the predator, victim relationship. This film questions how we perpetuate manipulative power dynamics between adult and child through the inner struggle of our female protagonists.
- 12/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Angelina Jolie and her children have been stepping out a lot lately, and we can't get enough. After taking the Toronto International Film Festival by storm, the big, happy family attended the NYC premiere of Angelina's movie First They Killed My Father on Thursday night. The actress and her six children put on a united front as they all incorporated into their outfits what appeared to be plumeria flowers, which symbolize positivity. Of course, it was her eldest sons, Maddox and Pax, who helped work on the film, who really stole the spotlight as they sweetly escorted their mom down the red carpet. Seriously, she looked so proud! Angelina's two eldest sons also weren't the only men in her life who showed their support. Her father, Jon Voight, who had previously been estranged from her for nearly seven years, made a cameo at the event. The two ended...
- 9/15/2017
- by Kelsie Gibson
- Popsugar.com
This article originally appeared on EW.com.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced its latest class of inductees on Monday. This year’s batch includes Max Martin; Jay Z; collaborative duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; Motown records founder Berry Gordy; Chicago members Robert Lamm, James Pankow, and Peter Cetera; and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. The induction ceremony is set for June 15 at New York City’s Marriott Marquis Hotel.
“With our 2017 roster of inductees, the Songwriters Hall of Fame moves definitively into recognizing music creators of the 21st century while continuing to honor the greats of earlier decades,” the Hall...
The Songwriters Hall of Fame announced its latest class of inductees on Monday. This year’s batch includes Max Martin; Jay Z; collaborative duo Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis; Motown records founder Berry Gordy; Chicago members Robert Lamm, James Pankow, and Peter Cetera; and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. The induction ceremony is set for June 15 at New York City’s Marriott Marquis Hotel.
“With our 2017 roster of inductees, the Songwriters Hall of Fame moves definitively into recognizing music creators of the 21st century while continuing to honor the greats of earlier decades,” the Hall...
- 2/22/2017
- by Eric Renner Brown
- PEOPLE.com
Nick Jonas continues to climb to new career "Levels." The Kingdom star will be honored with the Hal David Starlight Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame's 47th Annual Induction and Awards in New York on June 9, People can exclusively announce. "Nick Jonas is one of the brightest and most versatile young talents on the American pop scene," Songwriters Hall of Fame co-chairs Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff said. "A veteran of recording, television, movies and Broadway success ... he has been making his cultural mark in a variety of ways for more than a decade. Nick has literally grown up in public,...
- 4/18/2016
- by Jeff Nelson, @nelson_jeff
- PEOPLE.com
Elvis Costello, Marvin Gaye, Tom Petty, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards, and Chip Taylor will become the latest inductees of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Wednesday. “The 2016 roster of Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees is a beautiful mosaic of the best of late 20th Century popular music,” Hall of Fame co-chairs Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff said in a joint statement. “With creators of Rock & Roll, Soul/R&B, Country and Funk/ Dance represented, we are looking forward to an unforgettable and extremely exciting event and evening at the Marriott Marquis on June 9th.” Elvis Costello wrote his first song,...
- 3/2/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Coming off the tail of summer blockbuster season, prepare for... The biopic.
In the next few months alone, audiences will get a chance to see everyone from Steve Jobs and Princess Diana to pornstar Linda Lovelace come to life on the big screen. And now, we've got another famous face to add to the list: Jimi Hendrix.
The first official picture from the upcoming Hendrix biopic "All Is By My Side" has appeared online, which shows star André Benjamin (a.k.a. Outkast's André 3000) in full costume with guitar in hand. And we've gotta say — he looks pretty damn good.
Although the film will (finally) be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this September, it was not without its setbacks. Apparently, the project had been in development — with its star attached — since 2004. Two years later, the movie seemed doomed when London's High Court ruled that the filmmakers...
In the next few months alone, audiences will get a chance to see everyone from Steve Jobs and Princess Diana to pornstar Linda Lovelace come to life on the big screen. And now, we've got another famous face to add to the list: Jimi Hendrix.
The first official picture from the upcoming Hendrix biopic "All Is By My Side" has appeared online, which shows star André Benjamin (a.k.a. Outkast's André 3000) in full costume with guitar in hand. And we've gotta say — he looks pretty damn good.
Although the film will (finally) be screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this September, it was not without its setbacks. Apparently, the project had been in development — with its star attached — since 2004. Two years later, the movie seemed doomed when London's High Court ruled that the filmmakers...
- 7/24/2013
- by Jacqueline Lem
- NextMovie
Lead singer with the Troggs, best known for their hits Wild Thing and Love Is All Around
The Troggs were not among the most technically proficient of British pop groups of the 1960s, but they generated great affection among audiences and disc jockeys alike. The naivety of their sound, their songs and, above all, the singing of Reg Presley, who has died of lung cancer aged 71, made records such as I Can't Control Myself and With a Girl Like You into big international hits.
Presley's most lasting performances, however, were on Wild Thing (a 1966 hit soon adopted by Jimi Hendrix) and the wistful 1967 ballad Love Is All Around, given a new lease of life when a version by the Scottish band Wet Wet Wet was used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. In the 1970s, the Troggs were feted by the punk generation, while the infamous "Troggs tapes...
The Troggs were not among the most technically proficient of British pop groups of the 1960s, but they generated great affection among audiences and disc jockeys alike. The naivety of their sound, their songs and, above all, the singing of Reg Presley, who has died of lung cancer aged 71, made records such as I Can't Control Myself and With a Girl Like You into big international hits.
Presley's most lasting performances, however, were on Wild Thing (a 1966 hit soon adopted by Jimi Hendrix) and the wistful 1967 ballad Love Is All Around, given a new lease of life when a version by the Scottish band Wet Wet Wet was used in the 1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral. In the 1970s, the Troggs were feted by the punk generation, while the infamous "Troggs tapes...
- 2/6/2013
- by Dave Laing
- The Guardian - Film News
London — The structure is simple, the guitar riffs basic, the lyrics at best inane, but the Troggs' "Wild Thing" remains a garage rock classic more than 45 years after its release made The Troggs and lead singer Reg Presley international stars.
Presley, whose raunchy, suggestive voice powers this paean to teenage lust, died Monday after a year-long struggle with lung cancer that had forced him and the band into reluctant retirement, his agent Keith Altham announced on Facebook late Monday night. He was 71.
"My dear old pal Reg Presley of The Troggs died today," he said, calling Presley "one very real person in a sometimes very unreal world." He said the singer had suffered a number of strokes recently and died at his home in Andover (70 miles west of London) surrounded by his family and friends.
The Troggs, part of the British invasion spurred by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,...
Presley, whose raunchy, suggestive voice powers this paean to teenage lust, died Monday after a year-long struggle with lung cancer that had forced him and the band into reluctant retirement, his agent Keith Altham announced on Facebook late Monday night. He was 71.
"My dear old pal Reg Presley of The Troggs died today," he said, calling Presley "one very real person in a sometimes very unreal world." He said the singer had suffered a number of strokes recently and died at his home in Andover (70 miles west of London) surrounded by his family and friends.
The Troggs, part of the British invasion spurred by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,...
- 2/5/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
A documentary that captures in minute detail the insect's 2,000-mile trek across North America to Mexico premieres this week – and is tipped to be nature's next screen success
The extraordinary 2,000-mile journey made by millions of butterflies each autumn from Canada, through the USA to Mexico is revealed in minute detail for the first time in a multimillion-pound 3D film. The insects' hair, scales and body movements in flight can be seen with a clarity that moved scientists at a preview screening to tears.
Filming the migration of the monarch butterfly took five years and was made possible by the development of new technology. The film's British director, Mike Slee, used the pioneering 3D "snorkel system" which can film insects in 3D "like nobody else before".
Micro Ct and Mri scans for medical purposes have also been adapted to view inside a chrysalis, showing a caterpillar transform into a butterfly...
The extraordinary 2,000-mile journey made by millions of butterflies each autumn from Canada, through the USA to Mexico is revealed in minute detail for the first time in a multimillion-pound 3D film. The insects' hair, scales and body movements in flight can be seen with a clarity that moved scientists at a preview screening to tears.
Filming the migration of the monarch butterfly took five years and was made possible by the development of new technology. The film's British director, Mike Slee, used the pioneering 3D "snorkel system" which can film insects in 3D "like nobody else before".
Micro Ct and Mri scans for medical purposes have also been adapted to view inside a chrysalis, showing a caterpillar transform into a butterfly...
- 9/22/2012
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
Andre "Andre 3000" Benjamin will cover classic songs by the Beatles, Muddy Waters and Chip Taylor in All Is By My Side, the upcoming Jimi Hendrix biopic in which the Outkast rapper stars as the legendary guitarist. One artist that Benjamin will not be covering in the film, though, is Hendrix himself. According to Rolling Stone, All Is By My Side, which is currently being filmed in Ireland, will feature Benjamin performing reinterpretations of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," Waters' "Mannish Boy," Taylor's "Wild Thing" and "Hound Dog," among other songs. However, Experience Hendrix
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- 7/3/2012
- by Jason Lipshutz, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sometimes it's interesting to just try and figure out why a film is included in the Criterion Collection. While mainstream audiences may be aware of Criterion releases, I think it's safe to say the Collection is still primarily known for bringing us classic works from the likes of Kurosawa, Bergman, Godard, Melville, Malle, Bunuel, etc. rather than the more infrequent inclusions of mainstream works such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Armageddon, The Rock and RoboCop. Even when they do stray into mainstream territory it infrequently is a film most general moviegoers would recognize or have seen, such is the case with Jonathan Demme's Something Wild a little seen 1986 feature that generated a modest $8.3 million back in 1986 and is in fact Ray Liotta's first feature film, but even I had never heard of it before it was announced as part of the Collection.
- 6/7/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The 2011 Grammy Awards were big for the ladies -- country trio Lady Antebellum took home the most awards with five, while Lady Gaga earned three. Eminem had two honors, but Alternative Rock group Arcade Fire won the coveted Album of the Year.
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
- 2/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Carrie Rodriguez knows all about living in a man's world. The sultry singer-songwriter has been hanging with the opposite sex ever since she was discovered by Chip Taylor at Austin's South By Southwest in 2001. Being one of the boys doesn't seem to be a problem, though, for the constantly moving Rodriguez, who is back on the road this April promoting her third studio solo album. A calm but comforting collection of covers, Love and Circumstance was released April 13 by her new label (Ninth Street Opus, which is offering a free MP3 download of Rodriguez's opening cut, "Big Love," for a limited time). Just a little more than a month ago, the classically trained violinist turned fiery fiddler (who also plays electric mandolin and tenor guitar), served as a supporting sister figure on the Acoustic Brotherhood Tour. As the lone woman...
- 4/13/2010
- by Michael Bialas
- Huffington Post
Carrie Rodriguez's new album, Love & Circumstance, features twelve songs that have inspired and influenced her life and music.
Throughout the years, Carrie has been part of a duo (with Chip Taylor), a sidekick (with Alejandro Escovedo), and has amazed critics and audiences with her prowess as a musician and vocalist.
Check out her performance for "Extra."...
Throughout the years, Carrie has been part of a duo (with Chip Taylor), a sidekick (with Alejandro Escovedo), and has amazed critics and audiences with her prowess as a musician and vocalist.
Check out her performance for "Extra."...
- 4/7/2010
- Extra
Chicago – In our inaugural edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Music, we have two pairs of tickets up for grabs to see legendary songwriter Chip Taylor perform in Chicago!
Taylor, whose family experiences helped make him one of the most-heard songwriters of the past 50 years with “.Wild Thing.” and “.Angel of the Morning.,” will be performing with rising Americana artist Kendel Carson and Van Morrison.’s guitarist John Platania. Chip Taylor is Angelina Jolie’s uncle.
Chip Taylor has written music for “Taking Woodstock,” “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The Office,” “Little Black Book,” “The Assassination of Richard Nixon,” “Shattered Glass,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Inspector Gadget,” “Jerry Maguire,” “When We Were Kings,” “Major League II,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Encino Man,” “L.A. Story” and “Major League”.
To win your free pass to hear Chip Taylor play in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below and please include...
Taylor, whose family experiences helped make him one of the most-heard songwriters of the past 50 years with “.Wild Thing.” and “.Angel of the Morning.,” will be performing with rising Americana artist Kendel Carson and Van Morrison.’s guitarist John Platania. Chip Taylor is Angelina Jolie’s uncle.
Chip Taylor has written music for “Taking Woodstock,” “Charlie Wilson’s War,” “The Office,” “Little Black Book,” “The Assassination of Richard Nixon,” “Shattered Glass,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Inspector Gadget,” “Jerry Maguire,” “When We Were Kings,” “Major League II,” “Saved by the Bell,” “Encino Man,” “L.A. Story” and “Major League”.
To win your free pass to hear Chip Taylor play in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below and please include...
- 1/14/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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