Omar Apollo is looking at himself through Zoom as he tries on the beige Sherpa jacket he just bought. “You fuck with it?” he asks.
It’s hard not to fuck with everything the Mexican American alt-r&b star does. Apollo dropped his debut album, Ivory, in April 2022, then blew up with the ultra-sentimental song “Evergreen,” and followed that success by touring with Sza last year. Recently, he’s been dipping into fashion. (A massive billboard of him dripped in the luxury designer Loewe looms over Sunset Boulevard in L.
It’s hard not to fuck with everything the Mexican American alt-r&b star does. Apollo dropped his debut album, Ivory, in April 2022, then blew up with the ultra-sentimental song “Evergreen,” and followed that success by touring with Sza last year. Recently, he’s been dipping into fashion. (A massive billboard of him dripped in the luxury designer Loewe looms over Sunset Boulevard in L.
- 4/11/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
St. Vincent is tired of singers covering Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” while stripping away its original meaning. In a recent interview with BBC Radio, she called such covers “the worst thing in the world.”
Speaking to host Jo Whiley, the artist born Annie Clark praised “Hallelujah” as an “absolute masterpiece” and referenced how it took Cohen “many years to write” the song.
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“[It’s] about the complication that it is to be alive — and the agony and the ecstasy and everything and all of the inherent conflict therein,” she continued, before blasting awful covers of “Hallelujah” on televised singing competitions.
“Then you know how for a period of time it became a song that people would, like, cover on American Idol? People would sing it on American Idol and just be like [imitates vocal fry tone], ‘Haaalelujah! Halleluuuujah!’ And it’s just the worst thing in the world. Like, it’s...
Speaking to host Jo Whiley, the artist born Annie Clark praised “Hallelujah” as an “absolute masterpiece” and referenced how it took Cohen “many years to write” the song.
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“[It’s] about the complication that it is to be alive — and the agony and the ecstasy and everything and all of the inherent conflict therein,” she continued, before blasting awful covers of “Hallelujah” on televised singing competitions.
“Then you know how for a period of time it became a song that people would, like, cover on American Idol? People would sing it on American Idol and just be like [imitates vocal fry tone], ‘Haaalelujah! Halleluuuujah!’ And it’s just the worst thing in the world. Like, it’s...
- 4/5/2024
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Joseph Luca is opening up about love and life with his new music, and we want Just Jared readers to get to know him better!
The Ojai, Calif.-raised singer-songwriter unveiled the first new EP in his upcoming three-part EP series, Part 1: Ouroboros (Life), in November.
Following previous singles “Nowhere” and “Full Time Lover,” he’s now sharing the audio video for the single, “Green Lights,” a track on which he reminds himself and his audience of the danger in moving too quickly in a new relationship.
“‘Green Lights’ is a song about how dangerous it can be to rush through the excitement of new love. To meet someone who you truly connect with on a deep level is a miraculous gift not to be taken for granted. The song begs two new lovers to take their time through the gift of romantic alignment. Green Lights only appear when the time’s right,...
The Ojai, Calif.-raised singer-songwriter unveiled the first new EP in his upcoming three-part EP series, Part 1: Ouroboros (Life), in November.
Following previous singles “Nowhere” and “Full Time Lover,” he’s now sharing the audio video for the single, “Green Lights,” a track on which he reminds himself and his audience of the danger in moving too quickly in a new relationship.
“‘Green Lights’ is a song about how dangerous it can be to rush through the excitement of new love. To meet someone who you truly connect with on a deep level is a miraculous gift not to be taken for granted. The song begs two new lovers to take their time through the gift of romantic alignment. Green Lights only appear when the time’s right,...
- 12/6/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour hit Leonard Cohen’s hometown of Montreal on Sunday night, and he honored the late singer with a breathtaking performance of his 1984 classic “Dance Me to the End of Love.” Check out an audience recording right here.
“Dance Me to the End of Love” originally appeared on Cohen’s 1984 LP Various Positions. The second side of the album kicks off with “Hallelujah,” but Cohen’s commercial career was in a state of steep decline at this point, and Columbia initially refused to...
“Dance Me to the End of Love” originally appeared on Cohen’s 1984 LP Various Positions. The second side of the album kicks off with “Hallelujah,” but Cohen’s commercial career was in a state of steep decline at this point, and Columbia initially refused to...
- 10/30/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Today, Swiss songstress Mary Middlefield returns with a brand new single entitled “Sexless,” alongside its mesmerizing accompanying music video. Her newest release is a brash, rollicking, and raunchy number that really puts it all out there in a form of vulnerability separate from her past material.
The release of “Sexless” follows the arrival of her debut album, Thank You Alexander, which dropped on March 3. Born mid-pandemic, Thank You, Alexander was Middlefield’s cathartic response to heartbreak and sadness. The album reflects her journey through themes of infidelity, romance, and abuse, with songs such as her debut track “Band Aid,” “Two Thousand One,” and “This One’s For You,” garnering support from music publications like Clash, Notion, and The Line Of Best Fit.
Visualizer for Mary Middlefield’s “Sexless” Mary Middlefield Bio:
In Lausanne, Switzerland, wildflower-trails blaze with ultraviolet colour, mountains of myth surround a lake of sapphire. It’s a...
The release of “Sexless” follows the arrival of her debut album, Thank You Alexander, which dropped on March 3. Born mid-pandemic, Thank You, Alexander was Middlefield’s cathartic response to heartbreak and sadness. The album reflects her journey through themes of infidelity, romance, and abuse, with songs such as her debut track “Band Aid,” “Two Thousand One,” and “This One’s For You,” garnering support from music publications like Clash, Notion, and The Line Of Best Fit.
Visualizer for Mary Middlefield’s “Sexless” Mary Middlefield Bio:
In Lausanne, Switzerland, wildflower-trails blaze with ultraviolet colour, mountains of myth surround a lake of sapphire. It’s a...
- 10/12/2023
- by Music Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid Music
Radiohead wouldn’t be Radiohead without the eerie falsetto of Thom Yorke, but he didn’t become one of popular music’s most recognizable voices overnight. In an excerpt from Jason Thomas Gordon’s upcoming book The Singers Talk (via Rolling Stone), Yorke discussed how Neil Young and Jeff Buckley helped him hone in on his signature sound, the perks of bringing a chiropractor on tour, and the time he got so stoned he forgot his lyrics onstage.
Despite briefly taking vocal lessons in school, Yorke said he he used to think that his voice was “uncomfortably high or awkward.” Thankfully, that didn’t keep him from sending off a demo tape to a music magazine when he was 18, which earned him a pretty glowing review in response: “‘Who is this guy? He sounds just like Neil Young!’”
“I went, ‘Who’s Neil Young?'” Yorke recalled. “I’d never even heard Neil Young,...
Despite briefly taking vocal lessons in school, Yorke said he he used to think that his voice was “uncomfortably high or awkward.” Thankfully, that didn’t keep him from sending off a demo tape to a music magazine when he was 18, which earned him a pretty glowing review in response: “‘Who is this guy? He sounds just like Neil Young!’”
“I went, ‘Who’s Neil Young?'” Yorke recalled. “I’d never even heard Neil Young,...
- 9/11/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Exclusive: Jake Brennan, the man behind the hit rock n roll true-crime podcast Disgraceland, and his production company Double Elvis, have signed with Range Media Partners.
The company will manage Brennan, whose stable of podcasts also includes Badlands and Badlands.
Brennan has been making episodes of Disgraceland, a true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly, since 2018. It is currently in Season 12.
It has told stories about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Gg Allin, John Lennon, Grateful Dead and, most recently, Jeff Buckley.
“I didn’t want to do just another music podcast and I don’t think there’s a lot of great music podcasts,” Brennan, who was a member of punk band Cast Iron Hike, told Deadline in 2018. “The best podcasts are all about telling stories. I knew a lot about the general aspects of these stories from being a...
The company will manage Brennan, whose stable of podcasts also includes Badlands and Badlands.
Brennan has been making episodes of Disgraceland, a true crime podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly, since 2018. It is currently in Season 12.
It has told stories about the likes of Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam Cooke, Gg Allin, John Lennon, Grateful Dead and, most recently, Jeff Buckley.
“I didn’t want to do just another music podcast and I don’t think there’s a lot of great music podcasts,” Brennan, who was a member of punk band Cast Iron Hike, told Deadline in 2018. “The best podcasts are all about telling stories. I knew a lot about the general aspects of these stories from being a...
- 6/8/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Remember the first time you heard Jeff Buckley’s haunting vocals on Grace or felt R.E.M.’s emotional wallop through the arrangements of Automatic for the People? City and Colour’s The Love Still Held Me Near hits just like that. But its creation didn’t come easy at all for Dallas Green. The Ontario, Canada, singer-songwriter had to process two deaths during the making of the album. But it’s that grieving that gives The Love Still Held Me Near its heart — even as it crushes yours.
“I lost...
“I lost...
- 5/10/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“It’s just a show,” is the common response from someone seeing a person crying at the death of a fictional person on screen. But TV acolytes will know that it can be hard to rein in the emotions when your favourite character for the past seven years has just been killed off.
In the battle of TV versus cinema, the former has always packed more of a punch when it comes to impactful deaths – probably because we’ve come to know the character better over a longer period of time. And when someone who you’ve grown used to seeing day-in and day-out suddenly vanishes from your life forever, there are going to be some emotional ramifications.
Sometimes, in the saddest of circumstances, the demise of a character even marks the demise of the show itself, with creators and writers failing to keep us interested beyond their death blow.
In the battle of TV versus cinema, the former has always packed more of a punch when it comes to impactful deaths – probably because we’ve come to know the character better over a longer period of time. And when someone who you’ve grown used to seeing day-in and day-out suddenly vanishes from your life forever, there are going to be some emotional ramifications.
Sometimes, in the saddest of circumstances, the demise of a character even marks the demise of the show itself, with creators and writers failing to keep us interested beyond their death blow.
- 4/13/2023
- by Annabel Nugent
- The Independent - TV
Most fans are familiar with Penn Badgley the actor — but it turns out, he’s also in a band. His roles as Dan Humphrey in Gossip Girl and Joe Goldberg in You made him famous. However, like many others in show business, the star also has a passion for music. In a 2023 interview, Badgley addressed his side project, acknowledging the name his band chose is “tragically hipster.”
Penn Badgley, the actor, is also in a band Simon Oscroft, Penn Badgley, and Darren Will from Mothxr pose backstage at La Maroquinerie on September 13, 2016 in Paris, France. | David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns
A decade ago, Badgley starred in the movie Greetings From Tim Buckley, and that changed everything. He portrayed the role of cult NYC singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, and, according to The New York Post, this led directly to the formation of his band.
“Gossip Girl was a great opportunity, but it would...
Penn Badgley, the actor, is also in a band Simon Oscroft, Penn Badgley, and Darren Will from Mothxr pose backstage at La Maroquinerie on September 13, 2016 in Paris, France. | David Wolff – Patrick/Redferns
A decade ago, Badgley starred in the movie Greetings From Tim Buckley, and that changed everything. He portrayed the role of cult NYC singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley, and, according to The New York Post, this led directly to the formation of his band.
“Gossip Girl was a great opportunity, but it would...
- 3/30/2023
- by Lisa Geiger
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Origins is a recurring new music series where artists break down everything that inspired their latest release. Today, Ron Gallo takes a look at the Bde destroying the world on “Big Truck Energy.”
On his new album Foreground Music, Philadelphia’s Ron Gallo takes a hypercritical, often comedic look at the various types of people who seem hellbent on keeping the rest of society down. With the record dropping this Friday (March 3rd) via Kill Rock Stars, the garage punk is firing off one more warning shot with the latest single, “Big Truck Energy.”
The track’s gentle psychedelic sway and layered orchestration belie the toxic Bde Gallo lampoons in the lyrics. Watching the black-smoke spewing fossil fuel guzzlers often driven by the “scared, proud men” who “will destroy this world,” the musician wonders about what these people actually feel: “Two flags were flying high/ One said freedom and the other fight.
On his new album Foreground Music, Philadelphia’s Ron Gallo takes a hypercritical, often comedic look at the various types of people who seem hellbent on keeping the rest of society down. With the record dropping this Friday (March 3rd) via Kill Rock Stars, the garage punk is firing off one more warning shot with the latest single, “Big Truck Energy.”
The track’s gentle psychedelic sway and layered orchestration belie the toxic Bde Gallo lampoons in the lyrics. Watching the black-smoke spewing fossil fuel guzzlers often driven by the “scared, proud men” who “will destroy this world,” the musician wonders about what these people actually feel: “Two flags were flying high/ One said freedom and the other fight.
- 2/27/2023
- by Ben Kaye
- Consequence - Music
Among the 15 shortlisted titles eligible for an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature this year are two music-focused films that each highlight the career and legacy of internationally beloved performers.
Sony Pictures Classics’ Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song offers a biography of the Canadian poet and songwriter, framed by what is arguably his most famous song. Using “Hallelujah” as the springboard for the deep dive into Cohen’s artistic and writing process, the film reveals that Cohen spent years writing the song that would define his legacy — only for it to struggle to find an audience when it was released on the 1984 album Various Positions.
But it was through the cover renditions of the song — recorded by artists such as John Cale, Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright, the latter of whom was featured on the soundtrack for Shrek — that the song became Cohen’s most recognizable. And considering...
Sony Pictures Classics’ Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song offers a biography of the Canadian poet and songwriter, framed by what is arguably his most famous song. Using “Hallelujah” as the springboard for the deep dive into Cohen’s artistic and writing process, the film reveals that Cohen spent years writing the song that would define his legacy — only for it to struggle to find an audience when it was released on the 1984 album Various Positions.
But it was through the cover renditions of the song — recorded by artists such as John Cale, Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright, the latter of whom was featured on the soundtrack for Shrek — that the song became Cohen’s most recognizable. And considering...
- 1/13/2023
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Leonard Cohen’s signature song, “Hallelujah,” had its journey to music immortality stopped almost at birth by a record executive. The chief of Cohen’s label, Columbia, vetoed the finished album containing the track in 1984 because he considered it unmarketable in the United States.
An intervention by an influential labelmate of Cohen’s, one Bob Dylan, helped “Hallelujah” to escape front-office purgatory and, over time, become the soaring secular hymn that musicians love to cover and listeners play at both weddings and funerals.
Related: The Contenders Documentary – Deadline’s Full Coverage
Dylan, in fact, might have been the first to cover the song. “Dylan loved ‘Hallelujah,’” filmmaker Dayna Goldfine said at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event. Goldfine and her husband, Daniel Geller, are co-directors and co-writers of Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, from Sony Pictures Classics.
Pairing archival footage of Cohen himself with interviewees including Brandi Carlisle, Eric Church and Judy Collins,...
An intervention by an influential labelmate of Cohen’s, one Bob Dylan, helped “Hallelujah” to escape front-office purgatory and, over time, become the soaring secular hymn that musicians love to cover and listeners play at both weddings and funerals.
Related: The Contenders Documentary – Deadline’s Full Coverage
Dylan, in fact, might have been the first to cover the song. “Dylan loved ‘Hallelujah,’” filmmaker Dayna Goldfine said at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event. Goldfine and her husband, Daniel Geller, are co-directors and co-writers of Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, from Sony Pictures Classics.
Pairing archival footage of Cohen himself with interviewees including Brandi Carlisle, Eric Church and Judy Collins,...
- 12/4/2022
- by Sean Piccoli
- Deadline Film + TV
Swipe through Hinge or Tinder, and chances are you’ll see Etta Marcus’s name. Not because the London singer is looking for someone to date, but because single people have started to cite a love of her music as a non-negotiable. “All I ask is that you: listen to Etta Marcus” reads one dating profile. “We’ll get along if: you like Etta Marcus” states another. But Marcus herself had no idea about this. “Are you serious?” she says, her blue eyes widening.
Despite only entering the industry two years ago, Marcus has gained a distinct “if you know, you know” cult-like fanbase, akin to that early Tumblr movement surrounding a young Lana Del Rey. Why? Well, she’s got the type of vocal that silences a bustling room, or that suddenly makes you aware that you’re swallowing. Her indigo tone slices the air like scissors through ribbon,...
Despite only entering the industry two years ago, Marcus has gained a distinct “if you know, you know” cult-like fanbase, akin to that early Tumblr movement surrounding a young Lana Del Rey. Why? Well, she’s got the type of vocal that silences a bustling room, or that suddenly makes you aware that you’re swallowing. Her indigo tone slices the air like scissors through ribbon,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
Universal’s ‘Moonage Daydream’ and Sony’s ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ both out.
Two modern music icons face off at UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with the release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Opening in 50 sites, most of which are Imax, Universal’s Moonage Daydream is a journey through Bowie’s creative and musical output. The film, which launched as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening in Cannes this May, is written, directed, edited and produced by US filmmaker Brett Morgen.
Moonage Daydream has the backing of the David Bowie estate...
Two modern music icons face off at UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with the release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Opening in 50 sites, most of which are Imax, Universal’s Moonage Daydream is a journey through Bowie’s creative and musical output. The film, which launched as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening in Cannes this May, is written, directed, edited and produced by US filmmaker Brett Morgen.
Moonage Daydream has the backing of the David Bowie estate...
- 9/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Taylor Hawkins was sunshine incarnate. The late Foo Fighters drummer – also a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist – had an unrivalled sense of positivity and joie de vivre. His megawatt smile could power a stadium show all of its own.
The first of two tribute concerts to Hawkins, who died aged 50 in March this year, does its utmost to summon that same energy. Gathered here at Wembley Stadium are some of Hawkins’s closest friends – the surviving Foos members, of course – family, collaborators and admirers, for a six-hour marathon of a show. Understandably, the mood that fills the 80,000-capacity venue is a strange one. Hawkins’s favourite songs are played ahead of the late-afternoon start time – Abba, Elo, George Michael – but no one feels like dancing just yet.
Foos frontman Dave Grohl arrives on stage with the band to a deafening roar; it’s a few minutes before the cheering stops and...
The first of two tribute concerts to Hawkins, who died aged 50 in March this year, does its utmost to summon that same energy. Gathered here at Wembley Stadium are some of Hawkins’s closest friends – the surviving Foos members, of course – family, collaborators and admirers, for a six-hour marathon of a show. Understandably, the mood that fills the 80,000-capacity venue is a strange one. Hawkins’s favourite songs are played ahead of the late-afternoon start time – Abba, Elo, George Michael – but no one feels like dancing just yet.
Foos frontman Dave Grohl arrives on stage with the band to a deafening roar; it’s a few minutes before the cheering stops and...
- 9/4/2022
- by Roisin O'Connor
- The Independent - Music
The film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song proffers the supposition that the multifaceted and layered career of the poet/singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen can be extrapolated by studying his enduring and internationally renowned composition “Hallelujah.” While there may be far more to explore about this remarkable man’s life than can be contained in one documentary, this piece by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine does an extraordinary job in doing just that.
As a whole, the film chronicles Cohen’s song, “Hallelujah,” long (and dramatic) journey from rejection to international acclaim. The film also explores the many artists for which the song served as a sort of gauge for their own creative output or spirituality.
Artists like John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Brandi Carlile, Eric Church, Judy Collins, Glen Hansard, Myles Kennedy, Sharon Robinson, and Regina Spektor are all allotted ample time to extol the virtues and nuances of Cohen’s composition,...
As a whole, the film chronicles Cohen’s song, “Hallelujah,” long (and dramatic) journey from rejection to international acclaim. The film also explores the many artists for which the song served as a sort of gauge for their own creative output or spirituality.
Artists like John Cale, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, Brandi Carlile, Eric Church, Judy Collins, Glen Hansard, Myles Kennedy, Sharon Robinson, and Regina Spektor are all allotted ample time to extol the virtues and nuances of Cohen’s composition,...
- 8/6/2022
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
Leonard Cohen. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Leonard Cohen Family Trust. © Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.
The new documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a double biography of sorts, of beloved Canadian-Jewish songwriter/singer Leonard Cohen, who has had a cult-like following, particularly among musicians, and his most famous song “Hallelujah,” a song that seems to be everywhere and has taken on a life of its own, transforming from a more sacred form about King David to more secular form that appears in countless movie soundtracks and has become a favorite at weddings, funerals and singing contest. This excellent documentary, from co-directors Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, has plenty for both long-time fans and those new to the musician’s work.
Unlike some previous documentaries about Leonard Cohen, who passed away in 2016, this one focuses more on his career and its evolution than on his personal or romantic life.
The new documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a double biography of sorts, of beloved Canadian-Jewish songwriter/singer Leonard Cohen, who has had a cult-like following, particularly among musicians, and his most famous song “Hallelujah,” a song that seems to be everywhere and has taken on a life of its own, transforming from a more sacred form about King David to more secular form that appears in countless movie soundtracks and has become a favorite at weddings, funerals and singing contest. This excellent documentary, from co-directors Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, has plenty for both long-time fans and those new to the musician’s work.
Unlike some previous documentaries about Leonard Cohen, who passed away in 2016, this one focuses more on his career and its evolution than on his personal or romantic life.
- 7/29/2022
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This review of “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” first appeared when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021.
Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant by focusing on a tail or a tusk or an ear, filmmakers have tended to approach the late singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen in bits and pieces. Lian Lunson looked at his career through the lens of a 2005 tribute concert in “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man,” Tony Palmer’s “Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire” was a long-lost chronicle of a single European tour in 1972 and Nick Broomfield’s “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” is as much about Broomfield’s own relationship with one of Cohen’s muses, Marianne Ihlen.
And now there’s Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, a Song.” It purports to be about a single...
Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant by focusing on a tail or a tusk or an ear, filmmakers have tended to approach the late singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen in bits and pieces. Lian Lunson looked at his career through the lens of a 2005 tribute concert in “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man,” Tony Palmer’s “Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire” was a long-lost chronicle of a single European tour in 1972 and Nick Broomfield’s “Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love” is as much about Broomfield’s own relationship with one of Cohen’s muses, Marianne Ihlen.
And now there’s Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, a Song.” It purports to be about a single...
- 6/30/2022
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Vintage songs are regularly remade, sampled and, most recently, interpolated into new ones. But even in that context, the saga of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” remains singular. A song that was initially rejected and ignored by the music business in the Eighties has, over the last two or three decades, become a go-to pop hymn for TV talent shows, soundtracks, even a Saturday Night Live sketch. For a long time, “Suzanne” was in the running as Cohen’s leading contribution to the post-rock pop repertoire. “Hallelujah” has now overtaken it: Pick nearly any genre,...
- 6/30/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Dan Geller on Leonard Cohen: ‘Leonard is a very very clever writer. I believe someone had asked James Joyce about Ulysses, which is, you know, famously impenetrable …” Photo: Cohen Estate
The 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a special New York première screening of Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller’s poetically keen Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, with an original score by John Lissauer at the Beacon Theatre, followed by a Leonard Cohen tribute concert with Judy Collins, Amanda Shires, Sharon Robinson and Daniel Seavey. The documentary is dedicated to the distinguished music producer Hal Willner (recently Ethan Silverman’s Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex and the Lou Reed: Caught Between The Twisted Stars exhibition).
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The Beacon Theatre, which is historically so important, not only in terms of Hallelujah the song, where John Cale...
The 21st edition of the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a special New York première screening of Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller’s poetically keen Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, with an original score by John Lissauer at the Beacon Theatre, followed by a Leonard Cohen tribute concert with Judy Collins, Amanda Shires, Sharon Robinson and Daniel Seavey. The documentary is dedicated to the distinguished music producer Hal Willner (recently Ethan Silverman’s Angelheaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan & T. Rex and the Lou Reed: Caught Between The Twisted Stars exhibition).
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The Beacon Theatre, which is historically so important, not only in terms of Hallelujah the song, where John Cale...
- 6/29/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With U.K. dream-pop pioneers Cocteau Twins, singer Elizabeth Fraser’s appeal had more to do with the way she projected raw emotions (joy, worry, uneasiness) than the songs she sang. Instead of attempting poetry, she sang in tongues, shaping her feelings with crude but often beautiful vocal sounds, and a few occasional words in English, which entwined themselves around her bandmates Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde’s fantasias. (Did she really say “silly, silly saliva”?) You didn’t listen to Cocteau Twins so much as you felt them. Fraser...
- 6/20/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Judy Collins is singing the praises of Leonard Cohen. Bob Dylan, not so much. “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” unspools Sunday, June 12, at the Tribeca Film Festival. A tribute concert featuring Collins follows the screening. She is driving through Colorado when we chat. She says she loves the film, but this song? Not at first. And she wasn’t alone.
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Gd: It’s remarkable that this song ever got recorded, isn’t it?
Jc: (Laughs) It was a bust at first. No one wanted it. It had something like 4,000 verses when it started. Then people started recording it and the rest is kind of history. I didn’t like it at first. Now I’m entranced by it. He’s an icon and my story with him is a kind of fairy tale.
SEEBig Grammy changes for 2023 include new categories: Songwriter of the Year, Best Visual Game Score …
Gd: It’s remarkable that this song ever got recorded, isn’t it?
Jc: (Laughs) It was a bust at first. No one wanted it. It had something like 4,000 verses when it started. Then people started recording it and the rest is kind of history. I didn’t like it at first. Now I’m entranced by it. He’s an icon and my story with him is a kind of fairy tale.
- 6/10/2022
- by Bill McCuddy
- Gold Derby
The new documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song is arriving on July 1, and there’s a premiere party this Sunday evening at New York’s Beacon Theatre featuring performances by Judy Collins, Amanda Shires, Sharon Robinson, and Why Don’t We’s Daniel Seavey.
Directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, the film utilizes never-before-seen footage to dive deep into the creation of Cohen’s 1984 classic “Hallelujah” and the broader saga of his life. It was inspired by Alan Light’s book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen,...
Directed by Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller, the film utilizes never-before-seen footage to dive deep into the creation of Cohen’s 1984 classic “Hallelujah” and the broader saga of his life. It was inspired by Alan Light’s book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen,...
- 6/9/2022
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Not many songs have been covered by so many artists like Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” First recorded in 1984 on the underwhelmingly received Various Positions album, “Hallelujah” received little success upon its release but eventually found fame when Jeff Buckley and John Cale covered the song. However, many people know the song from the Dreamworks’ movie, “Shrek,” covered by Rufus Wainwright.
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Continue reading ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’: Leonard Cohen’s Most Enduring Song Gets The Doc Treatment at The Playlist.
- 5/25/2022
- by Molly Cottee Tantum
- The Playlist
There’s something strange about Memphis. Nestled along the muddy waters of the Mississippi River, the city lies shrouded in an aura of perpetual gloom, its skyline dominated by a mammoth, metal-clad pyramid filled not with treasures, but a Bass Pro Shop superstore. Unable to escape its murky past — yellow fever, massacres and assassinations, untimely demises — the city remains burdened by the stench of death lingering in the hot, humid air.
It’s not the happiest place on earth, but it does make an ideal locale to ruminate on mortality.
It’s not the happiest place on earth, but it does make an ideal locale to ruminate on mortality.
- 5/16/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
In the penultimate episode of “American Idol” 2022, two fan-favorite singers were cut from the competition in fourth/fifth place: Fritz Hager and Nicolina. (Read our minute-by-minute live blog to see how it all went down.) Between 22-year-old Fritz and 18-year-old Nicolina, whose “American Idol” elimination was more shocking on Sunday, May 15? Vote in our poll below and then defend your choice in the comments section.
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On Sunday night, Fritz performed “I Wanna Remember” as his Carrie Underwood cover and “Youngblood” as his contestant’s choice. While the judges loved what they saw, Gold Derby’s recapper Denton Davidson felt his first performance was “just sort of forgettable and his vocals aren’t blowing me away.” However, for Fritz’s second at-bat, Denton wrote that he came off as a “real pop star.”
Nicolina’s pair of...
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On Sunday night, Fritz performed “I Wanna Remember” as his Carrie Underwood cover and “Youngblood” as his contestant’s choice. While the judges loved what they saw, Gold Derby’s recapper Denton Davidson felt his first performance was “just sort of forgettable and his vocals aren’t blowing me away.” However, for Fritz’s second at-bat, Denton wrote that he came off as a “real pop star.”
Nicolina’s pair of...
- 5/16/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
This week on “American Idol’s” combined TikTok/Mother’s Day show, the final seven singers performed, but only five received enough votes from America to advance to the next round. The two contestants who were eliminated on live television were child phenom Christian Guardino and platinum ticket holder Jay Copeland. Of this talented duo, who do You think was most robbed of a spot in the Top 5? Vote in our eliminated “American Idol” Top 7 singers poll below and then defend your choice down in the comments section.
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Due to contracting Covid, both Fritz Hager and Noah Thompson had to be quarantined away from the rest of the cast and crew this week. Fritz’s pre-taped rehearsal footage was shown to audiences while Noah performed live from his hotel room. At the end of the show,...
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Due to contracting Covid, both Fritz Hager and Noah Thompson had to be quarantined away from the rest of the cast and crew this week. Fritz’s pre-taped rehearsal footage was shown to audiences while Noah performed live from his hotel room. At the end of the show,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
“American Idol” continued with the 15th episode of Season 20 on Monday, April 25. This installment of the ABC reality TV competition saw the Top 11 singing judge’s songs chosen by Luke Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. Each contestant was given three options, one from each judge. They then chose one song to sing for America’s votes without knowing which judge picked it.
At the end of the night Lady K and Tristen Gressett landed at the bottom. Since Katy and Luke tied with the most contestants choosing their song selections, they got to decide which artist to save. They saved Lady K and sent Tristen packing. So who was the best from Monday night? And have they continued to improve each week? Below I rank each hopeful from the least impressive (but with room to grow) to a possible Season 20 frontrunner.
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At the end of the night Lady K and Tristen Gressett landed at the bottom. Since Katy and Luke tied with the most contestants choosing their song selections, they got to decide which artist to save. They saved Lady K and sent Tristen packing. So who was the best from Monday night? And have they continued to improve each week? Below I rank each hopeful from the least impressive (but with room to grow) to a possible Season 20 frontrunner.
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- 4/26/2022
- by Vincent Mandile
- Gold Derby
Here’s to 50 years of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, the masterpiece that’s always waiting to be discovered. Even back then, no one quite knew what to do with those introspective, nakedly elegiac songs — or the man who created them. “Nick Drake: Out of Obscurity,” read the headline in Salt Lake City’s Deseret News in 1972. “It is true that no one knows where Nick Drake lives …Drake is unreachable, does no tours … It is as though he interacts only with nature, yet is ever studying man’s existence.
- 2/25/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Nothing Compares To U singer Sineád O’Connor is the latest pop star to get the feature doc treatment.
Irish producer ShinAwiL has teamed up with Orian Williams, the film producer behind Joy Division biopic Control, and DJ Dave Fanning to tell the story of the controversial artist.
Sineád (w/t) is an access-led feature documentary celebrating the musical work of the Grammy Award-winner. Irish director Maurice Sweeney, who directed Ira doc I Dolours, will helm with Williams, ShinAwiL’s Larry Bass and Fanning exec producing.
It will tell the story of O’Connor, who now goes by Shuhada Sadaqat after converting to Islam in 2018, who broke through with her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra and her 1990 cover of the Prince-penned Nothing Compares To U.
O’Connor has courted controversy throughout her career; she is arguably best known for appearing on Saturday Night Live in 1992. While singing a...
Irish producer ShinAwiL has teamed up with Orian Williams, the film producer behind Joy Division biopic Control, and DJ Dave Fanning to tell the story of the controversial artist.
Sineád (w/t) is an access-led feature documentary celebrating the musical work of the Grammy Award-winner. Irish director Maurice Sweeney, who directed Ira doc I Dolours, will helm with Williams, ShinAwiL’s Larry Bass and Fanning exec producing.
It will tell the story of O’Connor, who now goes by Shuhada Sadaqat after converting to Islam in 2018, who broke through with her 1987 album The Lion and the Cobra and her 1990 cover of the Prince-penned Nothing Compares To U.
O’Connor has courted controversy throughout her career; she is arguably best known for appearing on Saturday Night Live in 1992. While singing a...
- 11/9/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sony Pictures Classics has taken global rights sans France and Germany, to Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
The docu made its premiere at Venice and Telluride, with SPC eyeing a theatrical release for 2022.
Inspired by the book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah by Alan Light, the documentary was produced and directed by Emmy Award winners Geller and Goldfine and executive produced by longtime Geller/Goldfine collaborator Jonathan Dana and Oscar winner Morgan Neville, along with Michael Drews and Robin Sagon. The late Hal Willner served as music producer, with John Lissauer providing an original score.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song explores the legendary poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen through the lens of arguably his most famous and certainly most covered work, the hymn “Hallelujah”.
Approved for production by Cohen just...
The docu made its premiere at Venice and Telluride, with SPC eyeing a theatrical release for 2022.
Inspired by the book The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah by Alan Light, the documentary was produced and directed by Emmy Award winners Geller and Goldfine and executive produced by longtime Geller/Goldfine collaborator Jonathan Dana and Oscar winner Morgan Neville, along with Michael Drews and Robin Sagon. The late Hal Willner served as music producer, with John Lissauer providing an original score.
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song explores the legendary poet and singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen through the lens of arguably his most famous and certainly most covered work, the hymn “Hallelujah”.
Approved for production by Cohen just...
- 10/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song’ Review: A Unique and Gratifying Pop-Music Documentary
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” is a documentary about the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah,” and if that sounds like a lot of movie to devote to one song — well, “Hallelujah” is a lot of song. The way we think of it now, it’s epic and lovely and trancelike: a hymn cast in a pop idiom. You might call it a feel-good hymn for a secular society, because the word “hallelujah” has obvious religious connotations, and part of the reason that people feel so good listening to “Hallelujah,” or singing along with it in oversize stadiums, is that the song says to its audience: If you find this beautiful, then you’re a spiritual person.
The documentary, which was directed, written, photographed, and co-edited by the team of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, is also a portrait of Leonard Cohen, who in a career that spanned half a...
The documentary, which was directed, written, photographed, and co-edited by the team of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, is also a portrait of Leonard Cohen, who in a career that spanned half a...
- 10/10/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Daniel Gellar and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” begins at what is, by most definitions, the end: with Cohen’s final concert, in December of 2013. He roams the stage, growling out the title song in his trademark fedora and black suit, with all 79 of his years behind it, and it sounds like both a dirge and a celebration. By this time, the omnipresent “Hallelujah” was the song Cohen was most associated with, its strange combination of spirituality and sin, of operatic emotion and shrugging acceptance, making it a standard – the 21st century’s “Yesterday.”
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But there’s a whole oddball history there, a strange, twisted story of the “Hallelujah” path from forgotten album track to cultural ubiquity, first told in Alan Light’s 2012 book “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah...
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But there’s a whole oddball history there, a strange, twisted story of the “Hallelujah” path from forgotten album track to cultural ubiquity, first told in Alan Light’s 2012 book “The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of ‘Hallelujah...
- 9/2/2021
- by Jason Bailey
- The Playlist
In 1984, Columbia Records president Walter Yetnikoff called Leonard Cohen into his office in New York City and told him, “Look, Leonard, we know you’re great, but we don’t know if you’re any good.” The tireless musician had just presented his label with his seventh studio album, “Variations,” which was a collection of songs like any other except it wasn’t: this was something more special, more spiritual. This was the record on which Cohen placed “Hallelujah,” a song he wrote over 80 draft verses for, with an estimated 250 versions of every single line. Yetnikoff didn’t get it. The album was never released in the U.S.
“Hallelujah” might bring to mind that ironic, quite comical incident with Yetnikoff and Columbia considering just how far that one word traveled thanks to Cohen, but the song has taken on such a life of its own that it might have...
“Hallelujah” might bring to mind that ironic, quite comical incident with Yetnikoff and Columbia considering just how far that one word traveled thanks to Cohen, but the song has taken on such a life of its own that it might have...
- 9/2/2021
- by Ella Kemp
- Indiewire
A new Venice-bound documentary on singer Leonard Cohen will be shopped internationally by doc specialists Dogwoof.
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s latest feature “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” is executive produced by Oscar winner Morgan Neville and Jonathan Dana, a long-time collaborator of directors Geller and Goldfine (“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”). The film explores the poet and singer-songwriter’s life through the lens of what’s arguably his most famous work, the hymn “Hallelujah,” which has been covered countless times by other artists over the years.
“Hallelujah” will world premiere Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2.
“With Leonard Cohen’s worldwide reputation and ‘Hallelujah’s’ standing as one of the most recognized and covered songs from any artist, Dogwoof’s abilities as a global partner create a perfect fit for representing our documentary. We are delighted to work with their excellent team,...
Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s latest feature “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” is executive produced by Oscar winner Morgan Neville and Jonathan Dana, a long-time collaborator of directors Geller and Goldfine (“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”). The film explores the poet and singer-songwriter’s life through the lens of what’s arguably his most famous work, the hymn “Hallelujah,” which has been covered countless times by other artists over the years.
“Hallelujah” will world premiere Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 2.
“With Leonard Cohen’s worldwide reputation and ‘Hallelujah’s’ standing as one of the most recognized and covered songs from any artist, Dogwoof’s abilities as a global partner create a perfect fit for representing our documentary. We are delighted to work with their excellent team,...
- 7/27/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Update (7/19): The three songs Matt Bellamy auctioned off as non-fungible tokens sold for over $73,000 combined. Per Cryptograph, where the sale took place, all three NFTs appeared to be purchased by the same user. A rendition of “Guiding Light” sold for 13.964 etherium (about $25,249); “Unintended (Piano Lullaby)” sold for 11.941 Eth (approximately $21,591); and “Tomorrow’s World” sold for 14.5 Eth (approximately $26,218).
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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has acquired the yellow telecaster Jeff Buckley the singer-songwriter used throughout his 1994 LP Grace, and he’s using it to record new music. First up is a new...
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Muse frontman Matt Bellamy has acquired the yellow telecaster Jeff Buckley the singer-songwriter used throughout his 1994 LP Grace, and he’s using it to record new music. First up is a new...
- 7/19/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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,...
“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,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
By all accounts, musician Jeff Buckley was on the verge of breaking out in a big way when he died tragically in 1997, as he was working on the songs that would make up his sophomore album. Unfortunately, the young singer-songwriter had only one album under his belt before then, but his legacy has lived on over the past couple of decades. And now, his life is heading to the big screen in a new biopic from director Orian Williams.
Continue reading Reeve Carney To Star As Jeff Buckley In New Biopic Directed by Orian Williams at The Playlist.
Continue reading Reeve Carney To Star As Jeff Buckley In New Biopic Directed by Orian Williams at The Playlist.
- 3/1/2021
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
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,...
“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,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Carole Horst
- Variety Film + TV
The New Radicals broke up in 1999, just months after their anthemic single “You Get What You Give” became a hit all over the world. They’ve subsequently rejected all offers to reunite over the past 22 years. But just about a week ago, New Radicals frontman Gregg Alexander finally got an offer he couldn’t turn down: The Biden-Harris administration wanted him to play “You Get What You Give” at their virtual “Parade Across America.”
“We pledged if Joe [Biden] won, we’d get together and play our little song both in...
“We pledged if Joe [Biden] won, we’d get together and play our little song both in...
- 1/20/2021
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Nineties nostalgia is still peaking, especially these days, when the former decade’s languid news cycle, easygoing economic conditions, and casual creative climate seem achingly distant from the miserable way we live now. And, of course, new bands are bands constantly cropping up that sound like Matador and Kill Rock Stars heroes of the Clinton-era underground. A new book out this month perfectly captures that artistic and cultural heyday. Now Is the Time to Invent!: Reports From the Indie-Rock Revolution, 1986-2000, from Verse/Chorus Press, collects writing from Puncture,...
- 10/9/2020
- by Jon Dolan
- Rollingstone.com
Seven seconds into Kelsy Karter’s “God Knows I’ve Tried,” an electric guitar wails languidly and the listener immediately knows what they’re in for. It’s a power ballad, and an undeniably soulful one at that.
“Daddy wishes I was the girl next door, mama tells me I should smile some more,” the New Zealand-born artist serenades jazzily. “Baby, I’ve been bad, but god knows I’ve tried to be good,” Karter adds, before the backing vocals come in to repeat the song’s title in a gospel-esque manner.
“Daddy wishes I was the girl next door, mama tells me I should smile some more,” the New Zealand-born artist serenades jazzily. “Baby, I’ve been bad, but god knows I’ve tried to be good,” Karter adds, before the backing vocals come in to repeat the song’s title in a gospel-esque manner.
- 9/25/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
Donald Trump would probably never claim to be a Leonard Cohen fan, but that didn’t stop him or his campaign from choosing to use the Canadian artist’s signature song, “Hallelujah,” not once but twice following the conclusion of his speech at the Republican National Convention Thursday night.
Many Cohen fans were displeased when they heard Tori Kelly’s recording of the song playing during the fireworks that capped Trump’s address — sandwiched right between “She’s a Grand Old Flag” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” as pyrotechnics spelled out “Trump” and “2020” over the Washington mall.
Said fans were even less enthused when “Hallelujah” was quickly reprised, on camera and at greater volume, in an operatic rendition by Christopher Macchio.
Some social media users demanded that Kelly explain the song’s use or disavow Trump. Clearly wanting to be kept out of it, Kelly took to...
Many Cohen fans were displeased when they heard Tori Kelly’s recording of the song playing during the fireworks that capped Trump’s address — sandwiched right between “She’s a Grand Old Flag” and Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” as pyrotechnics spelled out “Trump” and “2020” over the Washington mall.
Said fans were even less enthused when “Hallelujah” was quickly reprised, on camera and at greater volume, in an operatic rendition by Christopher Macchio.
Some social media users demanded that Kelly explain the song’s use or disavow Trump. Clearly wanting to be kept out of it, Kelly took to...
- 8/28/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
As soon as the singer Ledisi earned a major-label deal more than a decade ago, she started to get calls from pop music legends. They had pointed opinions about her career path and didn’t mince words.
“Prince was one of the people who used to tell me to go independent; he wanted me to leave [the deal] right away,” Ledisi remembers. “I was like, ‘I can’t just break my record deal.’ He’d say, ‘get out of it, now!'”
It took a few years, but Ledisi’s new album,...
“Prince was one of the people who used to tell me to go independent; he wanted me to leave [the deal] right away,” Ledisi remembers. “I was like, ‘I can’t just break my record deal.’ He’d say, ‘get out of it, now!'”
It took a few years, but Ledisi’s new album,...
- 8/19/2020
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Overexposure and oversharing have been accepted as default settings in the modern era, so any glimmer of cryptic mystery are welcome anomalies. Sym Fera are a new duo that reside in Los Angeles and…. well, that’s about all anyone knows so far. Their social media platforms extol moody aesthetics over identity — think lots of shadows — as the pair recently released their second single “Little Things” after last year’s intriguing opening shot “Darkness Visible” earned justifiable comparisons to James Blake and peak-downer Thom Yorke.
On “Little Things,” one of...
On “Little Things,” one of...
- 7/17/2020
- by Jason Newman
- Rollingstone.com
The band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks cannot catch a break. Nearly two decades after the George W. Bush roast heard ‘round the world and the Chicks’ subsequent exile from Nashville, the bestselling Texas trio still have a bone to pick on Gaslighter, the group’s first studio release in nearly 15 years and its most pop-sounding record to date.
Still, the Chicks are ready to speak the thorny truth once more. This time, the conflict is coming from inside the house: Much of Gaslighter is centered on Natalie Maines...
Still, the Chicks are ready to speak the thorny truth once more. This time, the conflict is coming from inside the house: Much of Gaslighter is centered on Natalie Maines...
- 7/17/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a Friday evening in mid-May, and Chrissie Hynde was supposed to kick off a U.S. tour tonight in support of the Pretenders’ latest album, Hate for Sale. Instead, she’s stuck in her London flat, singing Bob Dylan’s “Standing in the Doorway” over the phone to the band’s lead guitarist for a covers project the two have been working on. The coronavirus shutdown may have upended her life, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to her. “I live alone, and I don’t have any pets,...
- 7/17/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
The day Shira Haas auditioned for the role of Esty Shapiro on Unorthodox, she got drenched in the rain. When she arrived at the venue, she cleaned herself up, took a few deep breaths, walked into the audition and sang Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah. A year and-a-half after the Israeli actress nailed the audition, she’s received praise and acclaim for her arresting performance as a young woman who leaves the Hasidic Satmar community in Brooklyn to make her own way in Berlin. Speaking by phone from Tel Aviv, Haas discusses the experience of shooting the Netflix hit series and what she learned in the process.
Deadline: What has stood out to you about the way Unorthodox has been received?
Shira Haas: I was not expecting it; the amount of love and support it’s received is enormous and it’s amazing. I always believed in the show, and for me,...
Deadline: What has stood out to you about the way Unorthodox has been received?
Shira Haas: I was not expecting it; the amount of love and support it’s received is enormous and it’s amazing. I always believed in the show, and for me,...
- 7/8/2020
- by Nadia Neophytou
- Deadline Film + TV
Phoebe Bridgers discusses Jeff Buckley, meeting Eeyore at DisneyIand, and singing My Chemical Romance at karaoke in the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The First Time.
Bridgers kicks off by citing the first time she stood up for herself: decking an older kid with a dodgeball in middle school. The person would pick on Bridgers and hit her in the head too hard. “Aggression that only prepubescent boys have,” she noted. She finally got a chance to retaliate when his back was turned. “Right in the basketball shorts,” she said,...
Bridgers kicks off by citing the first time she stood up for herself: decking an older kid with a dodgeball in middle school. The person would pick on Bridgers and hit her in the head too hard. “Aggression that only prepubescent boys have,” she noted. She finally got a chance to retaliate when his back was turned. “Right in the basketball shorts,” she said,...
- 5/27/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
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