Roger Daltrey is coming to America in June for a rare solo tour that will feature an onstage Q&a with audience members, Who hits and deep cuts, and selections from his solo career. It opens on June 12 in Vienna, Virginia, and closes June 29 in Highland Park, Illinois. Midway through, Daltrey will return to the site of the original Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York. KT Tunstall is opening up seven shows, and Dan Bern is on the bill at two.
Daltrey’s backing band for the tour will feature guitarist Simon Townshend,...
Daltrey’s backing band for the tour will feature guitarist Simon Townshend,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Who’s Roger Daltrey has announced a 2024 North American solo tour, during which the legendary singer will play “semi-acoustic” shows at intimate venues across nine dates in June.
The tour kicks off June 12th in Vienna, Virginia, and wraps up June 29th in Highland Park, Illinois. The itinerary also includes a recently announced one-off show in San Diego on May 6th.
A Live Nation pre-sale starts Thursday (March 21st) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Key, while general sales begin Friday at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
Per a press release, the rock icon will be “presenting a mostly acoustic set of Who gems, rarities, solo nuggets and other surprises with an intimate rock-based band and setting as well as answering questions from the audience.
The tour kicks off June 12th in Vienna, Virginia, and wraps up June 29th in Highland Park, Illinois. The itinerary also includes a recently announced one-off show in San Diego on May 6th.
A Live Nation pre-sale starts Thursday (March 21st) at 10 a.m. local time using the code Key, while general sales begin Friday at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out dates via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.
Per a press release, the rock icon will be “presenting a mostly acoustic set of Who gems, rarities, solo nuggets and other surprises with an intimate rock-based band and setting as well as answering questions from the audience.
- 3/18/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Anne Feeney, a key part of the folk music movement and a committed political and labor activist, died Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Pa. from complications of Covid-19. She was 69 and her daughter, Amy Sue Berlin, announced her passing on Facebook.
Feeney was a major player on the folk circuit, the first woman president of a musicians union in the US, and a regular collaborator with folk icons like Pete Seeger, John Prine, and Peter Paul and Mary. Her anthem Have You Been to Jail for Justice is sung on picket lines and in jail cells around the world.
Her career included more than 4,000 shows across North America and Europe performing for striking workers, in union halls, and large protests. Her performance at the World Trade Organization protests in 1999 was featured in the documentary This is What Democracy Looks Like. She organized dozens of tours supporting various causes, including the Sing Out...
Feeney was a major player on the folk circuit, the first woman president of a musicians union in the US, and a regular collaborator with folk icons like Pete Seeger, John Prine, and Peter Paul and Mary. Her anthem Have You Been to Jail for Justice is sung on picket lines and in jail cells around the world.
Her career included more than 4,000 shows across North America and Europe performing for striking workers, in union halls, and large protests. Her performance at the World Trade Organization protests in 1999 was featured in the documentary This is What Democracy Looks Like. She organized dozens of tours supporting various causes, including the Sing Out...
- 2/4/2021
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon has renewed The Stinky & Dirty Show for a second season of 26 episodes. Based on the “I Stink!” book series by Kate and Jim McMullan, The Stinky & Dirty Show follows the adventures and mishaps faced by best friends and unlikely heroes, Stinky the garbage truck and Dirty, the backhoe loader.An animated TV series, The Stinky & Dirty Show is written and developed by Guy Toubes and animated by Brown Bag Films, Ltd. Season one of The Stinky & Dirty Show includes original music from folk singer and songwriter Dan Bern. Celebrity voice talent includes: Whoopi Goldberg, Jane Lynch, Andy Richter, Joan Cusack, and Wallace Shawn.Read More…...
- 10/14/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
We recently gave you a peek at Troma's new "clean" (sort of) trailer for their retro-grindhouse flick Fathers Day, and now they've put together a slightly more subdued preview in the form of a moody music video for Dan Bern's "Never Bin Born At All" – a gritty folk tune that fits in perfectly with the movie's ultra-sleazy redneck horror vibe. Hit the jump and watch the clip! And don't worry, this one won't traumatize you nearly as much as the footage we showed you last year... Produced by Troma in collaboration with art collective Astron-6 (who created the original four-minute mock trailer) Father's Day is targeted for release on – surprise – Father's Day, June...
- 6/13/2011
- FEARnet
Troma fans have reason to be excited since the company seems to be heading in the right direction with the fifth Toxic Avenger movie in development. But that’s not all. Now the company behind the 1980 classic Mother’s Day is prepping for the release of Father’s Day, with some enticing teaser trailers. Take a look at these sneak peaks, including one that features Dan Bern singing an Ani Difranco tune. Enjoy!
Opening on June 19th is Father’s Day, written and directed by Astron-6 and starring Adam Brooks, Mackenzie Murdock, Matt Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Meredith Sweeney, Garrett Hnatiuk, and Ross McMillan.
Synopsis:
A long, long time ago in a town north of Tromaville, there was a bad, bad man who raped and killed dads. Nobody could stop the fat monster until a mysterious stranger took a stand. Some say he was avenging his own father. Some say he was just crazy.
Opening on June 19th is Father’s Day, written and directed by Astron-6 and starring Adam Brooks, Mackenzie Murdock, Matt Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Meredith Sweeney, Garrett Hnatiuk, and Ross McMillan.
Synopsis:
A long, long time ago in a town north of Tromaville, there was a bad, bad man who raped and killed dads. Nobody could stop the fat monster until a mysterious stranger took a stand. Some say he was avenging his own father. Some say he was just crazy.
- 6/13/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
With Father's Day just a week away, of course Troma and Astron-6 have released a new teaser of the music video from singer/songwriter Dan Bern for the song "Never Bin Born At All" from the film Father's Day, which opens June 19th.
Father's Day was written and directed by Astron-6 and stars Adam Brooks, Mackenzie Murdock, Matt Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Meredith Sweeney, Garrett Hnatiuk, and Ross McMillan.
Dig on the goods below, and for more check out the official Father's Day website.
Synopsis
A long, long time ago in a town north of Tromaville, there was a bad, bad man who raped and killed dads. Nobody could stop the fat monster until a mysterious stranger took a stand. Some say he was avenging his own father. Some say he was just crazy. The stranger could not have known the Hell that was to follow...
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Father's Day was written and directed by Astron-6 and stars Adam Brooks, Mackenzie Murdock, Matt Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Meredith Sweeney, Garrett Hnatiuk, and Ross McMillan.
Dig on the goods below, and for more check out the official Father's Day website.
Synopsis
A long, long time ago in a town north of Tromaville, there was a bad, bad man who raped and killed dads. Nobody could stop the fat monster until a mysterious stranger took a stand. Some say he was avenging his own father. Some say he was just crazy. The stranger could not have known the Hell that was to follow...
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
- 6/12/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
An old cohort of Ani Difranco turning up on a Troma soundtrack? Not the sort of thing you'd expect on the surface but when the singer in question is Dan Bern it makes a certain amount of sense. Bern's an incredibly media savvy guy, for one thing, with a sharp wit and an unapologetic seventies vibe to his best work. So pairing him up with tongue in cheek throwback to films of that same vintage begins to make a bit more sense. And when you hear the song they've used for the new teaser for Father's Day, well it's pretty much perfect. Check it out below."Lock up your Father's"A deranged killer and rapist is on the loose and has a taste for Daddy meat....
- 6/12/2011
- Screen Anarchy
As Zap2it was first to report, "Hellcats" star Aly Michalka welcomed her 78violet bandmate and younger sister, Aj Michalka, as a guest star on the show this spring. Now, we've got your first look photo of Aj and Aly in character in Aj's first episode, airing Tuesday, April 19.
When "Hellcats" returns, Marti (Aly) is looking for information about her long-dead father. That's where Dierdre (Aj) comes into play.
"Marti meets Deirdre along the way while unraveling the mystery surrounding Rex, the father who died when Marti was three years old," executive producer Kevin Murphy tells Zap2it. "Deirdre is a local in the Memphis music scene who works in a guitar shop where Rex used to play. She may hold a piece of Marti's puzzle and also have a mystery of her own."
While "Hellcats" has always featured music heavily in cheer sequences, more recently they've taken to highlighting...
When "Hellcats" returns, Marti (Aly) is looking for information about her long-dead father. That's where Dierdre (Aj) comes into play.
"Marti meets Deirdre along the way while unraveling the mystery surrounding Rex, the father who died when Marti was three years old," executive producer Kevin Murphy tells Zap2it. "Deirdre is a local in the Memphis music scene who works in a guitar shop where Rex used to play. She may hold a piece of Marti's puzzle and also have a mystery of her own."
While "Hellcats" has always featured music heavily in cheer sequences, more recently they've taken to highlighting...
- 4/1/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Danny Boyle.s .127 Hours,. David Fincher.s .The Social Network. and Joel & Ethan Coen.s .True Grit. led the Houston Area Film Critics Award nominations with six nominations each including Best Picture and Best Director. But the Houston Film Critics also chose the Worst Pictures of the year pitting "Jonah Hex" against "The Last Airbender."
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Best Picture:
127 Hours, Fox Searchlight (produced by Christian Colson, John Smithson, Danny Boyle)
Black Swan, Fox Searchlight (produced by Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver)
Inception, Warner Bros. (produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas)
Kick Ass, Lionsgate (produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack, David Reid)
The Kids are All Right, Focus Features (produced by Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann)
The King.s Speech, The Weinstein Company (produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
The Social Network,...
Here's the complete list of nominees:
Best Picture:
127 Hours, Fox Searchlight (produced by Christian Colson, John Smithson, Danny Boyle)
Black Swan, Fox Searchlight (produced by Mike Medavoy, Scott Franklin, Arnold Messer, Brian Oliver)
Inception, Warner Bros. (produced by Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas)
Kick Ass, Lionsgate (produced by Matthew Vaughn, Brad Pitt, Kris Thykier, Adam Bohling, Tarquin Pack, David Reid)
The Kids are All Right, Focus Features (produced by Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Philippe Hellmann)
The King.s Speech, The Weinstein Company (produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin)
The Social Network,...
- 12/15/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Start: 04/13/2010 Start: 04/13/2010
Check out this awesome for-charity screening of director/actress Amber Benson's new romantic science fiction comedy movie Drones in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010. Non-profit writing/tutoring center 826La will benefit, to provide free creative writing programs for Los Angeles students ages 6-18. The exclusive screening will be followed by a Q&A with cast and crew, including Benson and Bettis, and an afterparty. Drones was written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch, and stars Angela Bettis, Marc Evan Jackson, Paul F. Tompkins, Samm Levine, James Urbaniak and Dave (Gruber) Allen.
Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating the movement of product around the country, faxing, copying, joking with his best friend, Clark, and harmlessly flirting with fellow cubicle-mate, Amy. But how well does anyone really know the people they work with?...
Check out this awesome for-charity screening of director/actress Amber Benson's new romantic science fiction comedy movie Drones in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 13th, 2010. Non-profit writing/tutoring center 826La will benefit, to provide free creative writing programs for Los Angeles students ages 6-18. The exclusive screening will be followed by a Q&A with cast and crew, including Benson and Bettis, and an afterparty. Drones was written by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, directed by Amber Benson and Adam Busch, and stars Angela Bettis, Marc Evan Jackson, Paul F. Tompkins, Samm Levine, James Urbaniak and Dave (Gruber) Allen.
Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating the movement of product around the country, faxing, copying, joking with his best friend, Clark, and harmlessly flirting with fellow cubicle-mate, Amy. But how well does anyone really know the people they work with?...
- 4/6/2010
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
At first I thought this was a TV show and I got really excited. It's got a few faces from television that many of you will probably recognize and it plays a lot like a show. However, it's not. Drones is actually a new indie scifi feature from ex Buffy the Vampire Slayer stars Amber Benson and Adam Busch. It debuts at the Slamdance Film Festival next week.
Synopsis:
Star-crossed lovers Amy and Brian, played by Angela Bettis (May, Girl Interrupted) and Jonathan Woodward (Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Wit) embark on a unique interoffice romance which sparks repercussions far outside the copy room. Also staring are Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Every, Mr. Show) and James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers, American Splendor). The film features original songs from singer/songwriter, Dan Bern (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story).
ScifiWire scored the exclusive new trailer, but I've embedded it after the break.
Synopsis:
Star-crossed lovers Amy and Brian, played by Angela Bettis (May, Girl Interrupted) and Jonathan Woodward (Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Wit) embark on a unique interoffice romance which sparks repercussions far outside the copy room. Also staring are Paul F. Tompkins (Best Week Every, Mr. Show) and James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers, American Splendor). The film features original songs from singer/songwriter, Dan Bern (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story).
ScifiWire scored the exclusive new trailer, but I've embedded it after the break.
- 1/15/2010
- QuietEarth.us
This review was written for the theatrical release of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story".After a barrage of downer movies filled with gore, war and other bleak subject matter, finally there's a holiday release that's all about making spirits bright.
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is a pitch-perfect musical comedy that at long last moves the talented John C. Reilly up the billing ladder from second banana to top banana.
Sprinting through the decades like Forrest Gump with a gee-tar, Reilly's blissfully oblivious Dewey Cox and the Jake Kasdan film (co-written with some guy called Judd Apatow) is just plain, undemanding fun.
Along the way it takes playful jabs at familiar music biopics, especially "Walk the Line", against a soundtrack of terrific original tunes that channel everyone from Johnny and June, Roy Orbison and Dylan to the Beatles and beyond.
The unmistakably adult-oriented results -- this is one comedy that really earns its R rating -- will nevertheless play to a wide-reaching demographic from the younger-skewing fans of Apatow's summer treats "Knocked Up" and "Superbad" to boomers who will get a kick out of all those '60s and '70s pop culture references.
Audiences should find themselves laughing hard well into the new year.
Utilizing that familiar screen bio bookend device of starting just before the end and then flashing all the way back to the central character's earliest memories, "Walk Hard" dutifully traces Dewey's formative years as a young boy (Conner Rayburn) growing up poor in '40s-era Springberry, Ala.
The fateful die is cast one day when Dewey accidentally cuts his older brother, Nate (Chip Hormess), in half real bad while play-dueling with their dad's collectible machetes.
With the family physician unable to save Nate, declaring it "a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half," the already guilt-ridden Dewey will forever be reminded by his father (Raymond J. Barry) that the wrong son died.
Determined to make something of himself, Dewey, who discovers an aptitude for playing a mean blues guitar, later puts a band together along with drug-dabbling drummer Sam (never funnier "Saturday Night Live" alum Tim Meadows), bass player Theo (Chris Parnell) and guitarist Dave Matt Besser), ultimately impressing the suits at Planet Record studios (a trio of Hasidic Jews, played by Harold Ramis, Phil Rosenthal and Martin Starr) with their signature song, "Walk Hard".
Soon Dewey and the boys are cranking out hit records as fast as his wife, Edith (Kirsten Wiig), is popping out babies, but life yields its share of temptations, most notably in the form of the lovely Darlene (Jenna Fischer of "The Office"), his virtuous new backup singer.
Along the way, Dewey gets swept up in the protest movement (taking up the cause of women and midgets), '60s psychedelia (meeting up with the Beatles in India, with an unbilled Paul Rudd and Jack Black respectively playing a bickering Lennon and McCartney), Brian Wilson-style excess and, ultimately, redemption.
While this type of parody can be hard to sustain, director and co-writer Kasdan, who demonstrated a nice satiric touch with "The TV Set", keeps things humming along quite efficiently.
Granted, there's a bit of a lull in the middle -- one too many rehab sequences -- but "Walk Hard" quickly gets back up to speed, propelled by Reilly's fearless, tour-de-farce performance, not to mention those wacky cameos: Frankie Muniz as Buddy Holly? Jack White as Elvis? Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Jewel, Ghostface Killah and Eddie Vedder as themselves?
Add in those Christopher Guest-worthy song parodies contributed by composer Mike Andrews, Dan Bern, Mike Viola ("That Thing You Do!") and even the legendary Van Dyke Parks, and you've got yourself a holiday "Walk" that's refreshingly on the wild side.
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
Columbia Pictures
Columbia presents in association with Relativity Media
a Nominated Films production
Credits:
Director: Jake Kasdan
Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan
Producers: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan, Clayton Townsend
Executive producer: Lew Morton
Director of photography: Uta Briesewitz
Production designer: Jefferson D. Sage
Music: Michael Andrews
Music supervisors: Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe
Costume designer: Debra McGuire
Editors: Tara Timpone, Steve Welch
Cast:
Dewey Cox: John C. Reilly
Darlene Madison Cox: Jenna Fischer
Sam: Tim Meadows
Edith Cox: Kirsten Wiig
Pa Cox: Raymond J. Barry
L'Chai'm: Harold Ramis
Ma Cox: Margo Martindale
Theo: Chris Parnell
Dave: Matt Besser
Schwartzberg: David Krumholtz
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
"Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" is a pitch-perfect musical comedy that at long last moves the talented John C. Reilly up the billing ladder from second banana to top banana.
Sprinting through the decades like Forrest Gump with a gee-tar, Reilly's blissfully oblivious Dewey Cox and the Jake Kasdan film (co-written with some guy called Judd Apatow) is just plain, undemanding fun.
Along the way it takes playful jabs at familiar music biopics, especially "Walk the Line", against a soundtrack of terrific original tunes that channel everyone from Johnny and June, Roy Orbison and Dylan to the Beatles and beyond.
The unmistakably adult-oriented results -- this is one comedy that really earns its R rating -- will nevertheless play to a wide-reaching demographic from the younger-skewing fans of Apatow's summer treats "Knocked Up" and "Superbad" to boomers who will get a kick out of all those '60s and '70s pop culture references.
Audiences should find themselves laughing hard well into the new year.
Utilizing that familiar screen bio bookend device of starting just before the end and then flashing all the way back to the central character's earliest memories, "Walk Hard" dutifully traces Dewey's formative years as a young boy (Conner Rayburn) growing up poor in '40s-era Springberry, Ala.
The fateful die is cast one day when Dewey accidentally cuts his older brother, Nate (Chip Hormess), in half real bad while play-dueling with their dad's collectible machetes.
With the family physician unable to save Nate, declaring it "a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half," the already guilt-ridden Dewey will forever be reminded by his father (Raymond J. Barry) that the wrong son died.
Determined to make something of himself, Dewey, who discovers an aptitude for playing a mean blues guitar, later puts a band together along with drug-dabbling drummer Sam (never funnier "Saturday Night Live" alum Tim Meadows), bass player Theo (Chris Parnell) and guitarist Dave Matt Besser), ultimately impressing the suits at Planet Record studios (a trio of Hasidic Jews, played by Harold Ramis, Phil Rosenthal and Martin Starr) with their signature song, "Walk Hard".
Soon Dewey and the boys are cranking out hit records as fast as his wife, Edith (Kirsten Wiig), is popping out babies, but life yields its share of temptations, most notably in the form of the lovely Darlene (Jenna Fischer of "The Office"), his virtuous new backup singer.
Along the way, Dewey gets swept up in the protest movement (taking up the cause of women and midgets), '60s psychedelia (meeting up with the Beatles in India, with an unbilled Paul Rudd and Jack Black respectively playing a bickering Lennon and McCartney), Brian Wilson-style excess and, ultimately, redemption.
While this type of parody can be hard to sustain, director and co-writer Kasdan, who demonstrated a nice satiric touch with "The TV Set", keeps things humming along quite efficiently.
Granted, there's a bit of a lull in the middle -- one too many rehab sequences -- but "Walk Hard" quickly gets back up to speed, propelled by Reilly's fearless, tour-de-farce performance, not to mention those wacky cameos: Frankie Muniz as Buddy Holly? Jack White as Elvis? Lyle Lovett, Jackson Browne, Jewel, Ghostface Killah and Eddie Vedder as themselves?
Add in those Christopher Guest-worthy song parodies contributed by composer Mike Andrews, Dan Bern, Mike Viola ("That Thing You Do!") and even the legendary Van Dyke Parks, and you've got yourself a holiday "Walk" that's refreshingly on the wild side.
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
Columbia Pictures
Columbia presents in association with Relativity Media
a Nominated Films production
Credits:
Director: Jake Kasdan
Screenwriters: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan
Producers: Judd Apatow, Jake Kasdan, Clayton Townsend
Executive producer: Lew Morton
Director of photography: Uta Briesewitz
Production designer: Jefferson D. Sage
Music: Michael Andrews
Music supervisors: Manish Raval, Tom Wolfe
Costume designer: Debra McGuire
Editors: Tara Timpone, Steve Welch
Cast:
Dewey Cox: John C. Reilly
Darlene Madison Cox: Jenna Fischer
Sam: Tim Meadows
Edith Cox: Kirsten Wiig
Pa Cox: Raymond J. Barry
L'Chai'm: Harold Ramis
Ma Cox: Margo Martindale
Theo: Chris Parnell
Dave: Matt Besser
Schwartzberg: David Krumholtz
Running time -- 96 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 12/17/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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