The world's least likely Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan, Patti Smith, recorded a surreally sincere elegy for the goofy Adult Swim show, which will end later this month. "I'd never dreamed I'd be in Aqua Teen/13 seasons, what did it mean?" she sings plaintively to a gentle piano part. "A Master Shake, Meatwad, a floating head/and now you're dead and it's the end of Aqua Teen Hunger Force." The show's series finale – officially titled "The Last One Forever and Ever (For Real This Time) (We...Mean It)" – will air on August 23rd.
- 8/20/2015
- Rollingstone.com
New York (AP) — Scott Asheton, drummer for the influential punk rock band the Stooges, has died. He was 64. Publicist Michele Adler confirmed Monday that Asheton died Saturday. No other details were provided. Bandleader Iggy Pop posted on his Facebook page Sunday that he's "never heard anyone play the drums with more meaning than Scott Asheton." Asheton was part of the Stooges when they formed in 1967 in Ann Arbor, Mich. His older brother, Ron Asheton, who was the group's guitarist, died in 2009. The Stooges released their self-titled debut in 1969. "He was like my brother," Pop's statement read of Scott. "He and Ron have left a huge legacy to the world. The Ashetons have always been and continue to be a second family to me. My thoughts are with his sister Kathy, his wife Liz and his daughter Leanna, who was the light of his life." Asheton suffered from undisclosed illnesses in...
- 3/17/2014
- by Mesfin Fekadu, AP Music Writer
- Hitfix
After winning a National Book Award for Nonfiction for her 2010 memoir Just Kids -- which focused on her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe -- Patti Smith is planning a sequel that will flesh out and add to the story. Smith tells Billboard the next book "is in more of the Just Kids vein and even in the similar time period, but shifts more to family, Fred (Smith, the MC5 guitarist and her late husband), music. So it's a different perspective. Just Kids was very focused on Robert and my relationship with Robert and wanting to be an artist, and the next book
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- 12/18/2012
- by Gary Graff, Billboard
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Singer's first collection of original material in eight years will feature a track dedicated to the late Amy Winehouse
Patti Smith has announced her first album of original material in eight years. Banga, featuring Smith's own children and Television's Tom Verlaine, will include a song dedicated to Amy Winehouse.
Smith's new single, April Fool, was released on Sunday via iTunes. "We'll ride like writers ride," she sings, "Neither rich nor broke/ We'll race through alleyways/ In our tattered cloaks." It was recorded with much the same group Smith used for her last record, the covers album Twelve, and its predecessor, 2004's Trampin'. This band consists of bassist Tony Shanahan, guitarist Lenny Kaye, and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty.
But Banga also features special guests. Besides Television's Verlaine and studio sideman Jack Petruzzelli, Smith has brought in her two adult children, Jackson and Jesse Paris. Their father was the late MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith.
Patti Smith has announced her first album of original material in eight years. Banga, featuring Smith's own children and Television's Tom Verlaine, will include a song dedicated to Amy Winehouse.
Smith's new single, April Fool, was released on Sunday via iTunes. "We'll ride like writers ride," she sings, "Neither rich nor broke/ We'll race through alleyways/ In our tattered cloaks." It was recorded with much the same group Smith used for her last record, the covers album Twelve, and its predecessor, 2004's Trampin'. This band consists of bassist Tony Shanahan, guitarist Lenny Kaye, and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty.
But Banga also features special guests. Besides Television's Verlaine and studio sideman Jack Petruzzelli, Smith has brought in her two adult children, Jackson and Jesse Paris. Their father was the late MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith.
- 4/2/2012
- by Sean Michaels
- The Guardian - Film News
While it seems like since Rodriguez/Tarantino’s Grindhouse, a slew of other similar styled throwback films have cluttered up our appreciation of drive-ins, James Bickert’s upcoming biker/horror film Dear God No! is going to change that, giving us a loving “lost” film in the vein of Werewolves on Wheels. Killer Film caught up with the director, who’s in post-production finishing the score and sound mix as we speak, for the low down on what should be a fan favorite soon.
Jon: If IMDb is to be believed, it’s been about 10 years since your last directed film in Troma’s Dumpster Baby. During this interval, what led to Dear God No‘s inception?
James Bickert: IMDb is correct. Dear God No! was one of many projects I had planned to do 10 years ago. It was called The Sketchy Seven and more of a biker Seven Samurai-meets-Cemetery without Crosses.
Jon: If IMDb is to be believed, it’s been about 10 years since your last directed film in Troma’s Dumpster Baby. During this interval, what led to Dear God No‘s inception?
James Bickert: IMDb is correct. Dear God No! was one of many projects I had planned to do 10 years ago. It was called The Sketchy Seven and more of a biker Seven Samurai-meets-Cemetery without Crosses.
- 6/8/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
In 1972 he was sorting mail in a Sussex post office. Twelve months later he was partying with Led Zeppelin. Here, the hugely influential music critic Nick Kent looks back on a year in which he witnessed the birth of punk, the arrival of Ziggy Stardust and the life-changing impact of Iggy Pop
Michael Caine was recently being interviewed on French television when a question about the 1960s came up. The venerable actor set off on a misty-eyed saunter down memory lane about the early years of the decade, when he and his immediate social circle – folk like Terence Stamp, Vidal Sassoon and Harold Pinter – were suddenly catapulted from struggling obscurity to glittering blockbuster success in their chosen fields of endeavour. There was a window of opportunity back then – or so he claimed – that was magically made open to anyone who was young, slightly different-looking and imbued with a certain irreverent...
Michael Caine was recently being interviewed on French television when a question about the 1960s came up. The venerable actor set off on a misty-eyed saunter down memory lane about the early years of the decade, when he and his immediate social circle – folk like Terence Stamp, Vidal Sassoon and Harold Pinter – were suddenly catapulted from struggling obscurity to glittering blockbuster success in their chosen fields of endeavour. There was a window of opportunity back then – or so he claimed – that was magically made open to anyone who was young, slightly different-looking and imbued with a certain irreverent...
- 3/14/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Patti Smith’s move in 1967 from suburban New Jersey to rebellious New York City was one of the seminal migrations in rock ’n’ roll history. Before long, she was living with Robert Mapplethorpe, helping to shape the nascent punk movement, and inspiring a new generation of musicians with her 1975 masterpiece, Horses. In 1980, Smith retreated from the spotlight and moved to Michigan to raise a family with her husband, MC5 guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith. But after his death, in 1994, she made a comeback, and brought photographer Steven Sebring along for the ride.
- 1/8/2010
- Vanity Fair
Drummer Meg White of band The White Stripes has exchanged wedding vows with her guitarist fiance Jackson Smith in Nashville, Tn on Friday, May 22. The nuptials, according to a post on the band's official site, was part of a double wedding that also saw Jack Lawrence, the bassist for bands The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, making it official with his girlfriend, Jo McCaughey.
"The nuptials took place in Jack White's backyard and were attended by a small party of close friends and relatives," so read the post. "The wedding was officiated by the most reverend Benjamin Swank."
The wedding was the second for Meg White. She previously was married to musical partner Jack White in 1996, but they divorced in 2000. Both of them famously pretended to be brother and sister as their band The White Stripes experienced its stardom. Meg's new husband Jackson Smith, meanwhile, is best known as...
"The nuptials took place in Jack White's backyard and were attended by a small party of close friends and relatives," so read the post. "The wedding was officiated by the most reverend Benjamin Swank."
The wedding was the second for Meg White. She previously was married to musical partner Jack White in 1996, but they divorced in 2000. Both of them famously pretended to be brother and sister as their band The White Stripes experienced its stardom. Meg's new husband Jackson Smith, meanwhile, is best known as...
- 5/27/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Meg White had a memorable start to her Memorial Day weekend. The 34-year-old White Stripes drummer tied the knot last Friday with fiancé Jackson Smith in Nashville, the couple confirmed in a statement today. White and Smith, the son of punk legend Patti Smith and the late Fred "Sonic" Smith of MC5, exchanged vows in the backyard of Meg's musical partner in crime, Jack White, with close family and friends in attendance. The intimate nuptials was part of a double wedding bill that also saw Jack Lawrence, the bass player for Jack White's side bands the Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, make it official with his gal-pal, Jo McCaughey. This is the second marriage for White,...
- 5/26/2009
- E! Online
White and guitarist Jackson Smith tied the knot in Nashville on May 22.
By Gil Kaufman
White Stripes' Meg White
Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images
Talk about your friendly exes — not only do Jack and Meg White play amicably in the White Stripes, but frontman Jack opened up his Nashville home on Friday (May 22) to his ex-wife, Meg, 34, so that she could wed Jackson Smith. Smith, son of famed punk godmother Patti Smith and late MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, is a rock guitarist who has performed with his mother and in the Detroit band Back in Spades.
According to an announcement on the White Stripes' Web site, White and Smith were married as part of a double ceremony that also celebrated the union of another of Jack's bandmates, the Dead Weather/Raconteurs bassist "Little" Jack Lawrence, who married his girlfriend, Jo McCaughey.
The couples were married in the backyard of...
By Gil Kaufman
White Stripes' Meg White
Photo: Scott Gries/Getty Images
Talk about your friendly exes — not only do Jack and Meg White play amicably in the White Stripes, but frontman Jack opened up his Nashville home on Friday (May 22) to his ex-wife, Meg, 34, so that she could wed Jackson Smith. Smith, son of famed punk godmother Patti Smith and late MC5 guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith, is a rock guitarist who has performed with his mother and in the Detroit band Back in Spades.
According to an announcement on the White Stripes' Web site, White and Smith were married as part of a double ceremony that also celebrated the union of another of Jack's bandmates, the Dead Weather/Raconteurs bassist "Little" Jack Lawrence, who married his girlfriend, Jo McCaughey.
The couples were married in the backyard of...
- 5/26/2009
- MTV Music News
Meg White of rock band The White Stripes is engaged and will marry sometime this year. The female musician, who serves as the music act's drummer, is engaged to rocker boyfriend Jackson Smith. According to The Detroit Free Press, the twosome who has been living together in her Detroit house was engaged earlier this year.
A publicist for The White Stripes, Chloe Walsh, confirms Meg and Jackson have been engaged and will tie the knot later this year. Chloe, however, doesn't provide any other details of the couple's wedding plans. Meanwhile, words are mounting that they will wed in Nashville, Tennessee on May 22.
Should the report is to be believed, the wedding will be the second for Meg and the first for Jackson, who is the son of punk singer Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith. Meg previously was married to fellow bandmate Jack White in 1996, but they divorced...
A publicist for The White Stripes, Chloe Walsh, confirms Meg and Jackson have been engaged and will tie the knot later this year. Chloe, however, doesn't provide any other details of the couple's wedding plans. Meanwhile, words are mounting that they will wed in Nashville, Tennessee on May 22.
Should the report is to be believed, the wedding will be the second for Meg and the first for Jackson, who is the son of punk singer Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Smith. Meg previously was married to fellow bandmate Jack White in 1996, but they divorced...
- 5/6/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
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