When it comes to truth in advertising, few albums this year are going to top Lil Jon’s just-released Total Meditation. Not remotely hip hop, the music is instead a soothing sonic bath akin to what one would hear in a massage-therapy room at a spa. As those tracks wash over you, the rapper, producer and home-improvement guru offers self-help tips (“anxiety can be a big problem for many people. When you meditate on a regular basis, the health benefits continue to increase”) and specific suggestions on how to meditate:...
- 2/23/2024
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
The Top 10 Most Anticipated Horror Films of 2024 article and video were written by Mike Holtz.
We happen to be lucky enough to live in a timeline where horror is unquestionably crushing at the box office and otherwise. People are lining up in droves not only to see men in tights throwing down to save the universe in superhero flicks but to see monsters and ghouls doing horrible and heinous things to human beings. And no, I’m not talking about congress. I’m talking about some good old-fashioned wear your brown pants to the theater and leave the kids at home (or don’t I don’t judge) , horror flicks. I can’t promise you everything is going to be okay in 2024. Not with Ezra Miller roaming the streets, but I can promise you this… we’ve got a lot of great horror flicks headed our way. Probably. Well, they sound cool.
We happen to be lucky enough to live in a timeline where horror is unquestionably crushing at the box office and otherwise. People are lining up in droves not only to see men in tights throwing down to save the universe in superhero flicks but to see monsters and ghouls doing horrible and heinous things to human beings. And no, I’m not talking about congress. I’m talking about some good old-fashioned wear your brown pants to the theater and leave the kids at home (or don’t I don’t judge) , horror flicks. I can’t promise you everything is going to be okay in 2024. Not with Ezra Miller roaming the streets, but I can promise you this… we’ve got a lot of great horror flicks headed our way. Probably. Well, they sound cool.
- 1/24/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Many popular musicians have created fictional alter egos as a way to explore new sonic avenues that they wish to experiment with. David Bowie had Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane, David Johansen had Buster Poindexter, Lady Gaga spent a whole season as Jo Calderone, and the less said about Garth Brooks's Chris Gaines era the better, but it certainly happened. For them, it's a kind of performance art - an expression of their interest in stepping out of their comfort zone and giving the endeavor a theatrical flair as well.
The debate about whether these could be considered merely publicity stunts is valid, but for some artists, there's a true creative desire to inhabit these personas. For Adriana Rivera, a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, it's a culmination of her dream to merge two artistic outputs that have long fascinated and inspired her: music and acting. From this desire and its manifestation,...
The debate about whether these could be considered merely publicity stunts is valid, but for some artists, there's a true creative desire to inhabit these personas. For Adriana Rivera, a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, it's a culmination of her dream to merge two artistic outputs that have long fascinated and inspired her: music and acting. From this desire and its manifestation,...
- 11/30/2023
- by Juan Arroyo
- Popsugar.com
Class divisions that assume macrocosmic significance in Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness” remain microcosmically scaled in “Pretty Problems,” another cleverly discomfiting, festival-blessed comedy hitting theaters on Oct. 13. Kestrin Pantera’s third directorial feature, which won the Audience Award at SXSW, also places a less-advantaged young couple in an enclave of the very rich. Here, however, the upscale slumming is not free, but rather at their expense — a cruel-gamesmanship setup that (as our hero duly notes) suggests the usual horror-movie agenda of “They’re gonna kill us.”
That teased direction is not where the film eventually goes, and indeed the script (hatched by several lead performers here) manages to keep upending expectations to the end. The result is a fresh mix of social satire and relationship dissection with a saving dollop of heart. IFC is opening it on about 30 U.S. theater screens, simultaneous with on-demand platforms.
Opening with a...
That teased direction is not where the film eventually goes, and indeed the script (hatched by several lead performers here) manages to keep upending expectations to the end. The result is a fresh mix of social satire and relationship dissection with a saving dollop of heart. IFC is opening it on about 30 U.S. theater screens, simultaneous with on-demand platforms.
Opening with a...
- 10/7/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Taylor Swift‘s career has spanned music genres, so when she announced an album of new material, “Midnights,” due October 21, we weren’t exactly sure what it would sound like. So we put it up to a vote. We asked fans which genre they hope she leans into with her latest effort, and they responded resoundingly that they hope “Midnights” is Swift’s rock era.
More than 53 of respondents said they want to hear a rock record from Swift. Just under 17 are hoping she continues her pop dominance. More than 13 are wishing for an alternative album. A little less than 9 want to hear more folk/Americana from her. Less than 5 hope Swift follows Beyonce‘s “Renaissance” and releases a bona fide dance album. Only around 2 of fans are itching for her to go back to her country roots.
SEETaylor Swift songs, ranked: Her top 29 greatest hits, including her supersized ‘All...
More than 53 of respondents said they want to hear a rock record from Swift. Just under 17 are hoping she continues her pop dominance. More than 13 are wishing for an alternative album. A little less than 9 want to hear more folk/Americana from her. Less than 5 hope Swift follows Beyonce‘s “Renaissance” and releases a bona fide dance album. Only around 2 of fans are itching for her to go back to her country roots.
SEETaylor Swift songs, ranked: Her top 29 greatest hits, including her supersized ‘All...
- 9/15/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
A&e’s two-night Biography event Garth Brooks: The Road I’m On dives headlong into the complicated psyche of the best-selling solo artist in U.S. history. With commentary from musical friends James Taylor, Billy Joel, and Keith Urban, and in-depth interviews with Brooks, his three daughters, ex-wife Sandy Mahl, and wife Trisha Yearwood, the two-part special explores Brooks’ childhood, his rise to fame, and the personal struggles that would accompany his becoming, on a global scale, the most famous country artist of the Nineties. Here are 12 of the...
- 12/2/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Documentary fans, you’re going to be one happy lot this month. You’ll be able to check out a two-part profile on a powerhouse country music star; enjoy a long, hard look at an icon of haute couture; get a peek at a peerless athlete; tour the educational system in American prisons; and watch folks pay tribute to a show business temple. Those looking to get lost outside of the real world have plenty of options too, courtesy of another black comedy from Team Fleabag, a new live-musical adaptation...
- 10/29/2019
- by Charles Bramesco
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Glover’s musical alter ego Childish Gambino channeled Garth Brooks’ own musical alter ego Chris Gaines for a cover of the 1999 song “Lost in You.” He performed the song for Australian public radio station Triple J’s “Like a Version” series.
For his take on “Lost in You,” Glover layered the tune with more soul and harmony with help from his backing band and singers. The musician managed to turn the campy moodiness of Gaines’ original into earnest balladry, as if the song had been originated by any number of Nineties R&b heavyweights.
For his take on “Lost in You,” Glover layered the tune with more soul and harmony with help from his backing band and singers. The musician managed to turn the campy moodiness of Gaines’ original into earnest balladry, as if the song had been originated by any number of Nineties R&b heavyweights.
- 7/30/2019
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
In Lee Ann Womack’s inventive and heartbreaking new video “Hollywood,” two plastic dolls in the stop-motion-animated clip play stand-ins for live actors, but the anguish of a faltering relationship is no less real as Womack sings, “Every time I ask you, you just say ‘we’re good’/Either I’m a fool for asking or you belong in Hollywood.”
Penned by Womack with Waylon Payne and Adam Wright, the doleful tune is accompanied by scenes of the artificial couple in a motel room, driving through L.A. and the...
Penned by Womack with Waylon Payne and Adam Wright, the doleful tune is accompanied by scenes of the artificial couple in a motel room, driving through L.A. and the...
- 4/20/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
It took a while, but Chris Gaines has turned out to be one of the most influential artists of 2018, by being the least influential artist of 1999. That’s perhaps the weirdest aspect of Lady Gaga’s A Star Is Born phenomenon — how uncannily close it all feels to country stud Garth Brooks’ makeover as Chris Gaines, one of history’s craziest superstar disasters. Garth was the biggest-selling artist at the all-time peak of the music biz, except he blew the whole thing by making a concept album as a fictional rock star,...
- 11/7/2018
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
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