Kill Rock Stars has continued its 30th-anniversary celebration by releasing Mike Watt and the Black Gang’s cover of Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl.”
Recorded live on October 16th, 1998 at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, New York, the track features Watt taking on Kathleen Hanna’s powerhouse vocals and energy. Members of the Black Gang — Wilco’s Nels Cline and Bob Lee — soundman Steve Reed all contribute backing vocals.
“Me and K [Kira Roessler] have a two bass-only band called Dos and we opened up for Bikini Kill once and that’s...
Recorded live on October 16th, 1998 at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan, New York, the track features Watt taking on Kathleen Hanna’s powerhouse vocals and energy. Members of the Black Gang — Wilco’s Nels Cline and Bob Lee — soundman Steve Reed all contribute backing vocals.
“Me and K [Kira Roessler] have a two bass-only band called Dos and we opened up for Bikini Kill once and that’s...
- 1/19/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Iron And Wine’s latest record, Ghost On Ghost, will be released April 16 on Nonesuch. The LP, Sam Beam’s second for the label, is apparently the singer’s attempt to release the “anxious tension” he’d built up recording his last few records, including 2011’s Kiss Each Other Clean. Recorded with longtime producer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Califone, Fruit Bats), Ghost On Ghost features album art by photographer Barbara Crane and instrumental help from members of Tin Hat Trio, Sex Mob, Jazz Passengers, and Antony And The Johnsons. The jazzy first single from the record, “Lovers’ Revolution ...
- 1/31/2013
- avclub.com
The Last Waltz is arguably the greatest concert film of all time.
Shot by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, the film documents the last concert performed by The Band as its original quintet in 1976 at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom.
Almost 36 years to the day after Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan and poets Michael McClure and Lawrence Ferlinghetti all joined Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm and Company for that legendary show, an all-star lineup will converge on The Warfield on November 24 to reenact that fateful evening.
They'd have it back at the Winterland, but that venue closed down in 1978.
Billed as "The Complete Last Waltz" the show will feature performances by Cass McCombs, Furthur's Joe Russo, Wilco's Nels Cline and members of Gomez, Dr. Dog, Ween, The Fruit Bats, Vetiver, Nada Surf, The Submarines and more. There will also be spoken...
Shot by Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, the film documents the last concert performed by The Band as its original quintet in 1976 at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom.
Almost 36 years to the day after Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan and poets Michael McClure and Lawrence Ferlinghetti all joined Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm and Company for that legendary show, an all-star lineup will converge on The Warfield on November 24 to reenact that fateful evening.
They'd have it back at the Winterland, but that venue closed down in 1978.
Billed as "The Complete Last Waltz" the show will feature performances by Cass McCombs, Furthur's Joe Russo, Wilco's Nels Cline and members of Gomez, Dr. Dog, Ween, The Fruit Bats, Vetiver, Nada Surf, The Submarines and more. There will also be spoken...
- 10/30/2012
- by Aaron Sankin
- Huffington Post
Every couple of years, a musician will either want to stretch his or her wings creatively and or realize that there's good money in composing soundtracks that beats slugging it out on the road. Recent converts that come to mind are Nick Urrata of DeVotchKa (soundtracks include "Little Miss Sunshine" and the terrifically underrated "Ruby Sparks," both as a movie and score) and Nebraskan producer/engineer, multi-instrumentalist and Bright Eyes member Mike Mogis, who's recorded and performed with The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Jenny Lewis, and many more ("Lovely, Still," and "Writers" are two recent soundtracks he's scored with fellow Bright Eyes member Nate Walcott). The latest indie rockers jumping into the arena of scoring soundtracks is Fruit Bats founder Eric D. Johnson. He scored the winning indie picture "Ceremony" and "Our Idiot Brother," and along with...
- 9/26/2012
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
AudioPlayer.setup("http://www.nerve.com/files/players/audio/player.swf", { width: 350 }); What Are You Listening To? Trip-hop, hip-hop, and, um... early 2000s pop-punk. by Jeremy Glass Charlotte, 25 What are you listening to these days? Oh boy... I listen to a lot of Die Antwoord. I’m kind of obsessed. Ah, those crazy South Africans! What’s your favorite song by them? I really like “So What,” off their new album. Listen: Die Antwoord,“So What” AudioPlayer.embed("audioplayer_8", {soundFile: "/files/media/features/ListeningToApril26/Die%20Antwoord%20-%20So%20What_%20-%20Ten$ion.MP3"}); Badass. What else? Oh! You know what I actually really like? I just started listening to Fruit Bats. Who is that? I have no idea. But there’s a video for their song “You’re Too Weird,” which is my favorite off of their album Tripper. It’s awesome. It’[...]...
- 5/1/2012
- by Jeremy Glass
- Nerve
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: Fresh off their reunion performance at the Grammys, The Beach Boys have been added to the line up for the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
The initial lineup for the annual festival, which takes place from June 7-10 this year, was announced on Tuesday. Radiohead, Phish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will perform in Manchester, Tenn.
Both Radiohead and the RHCPs have history with the fest. The Beach Boys, meanwhile, are just musical history, incarnate.
Here is the full lineup for Bonnaroo 2012:
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
Bon Iver
The Beach Boys featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks
The Avett Brothers
The Shins Foster
The People
Skrillex
Aziz Ansari
Dispatch
Feist
The Roots
Alice Cooper
SuperJam
Black Star
The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars
Ludacris
Ben Folds Five
Flogging Molly...
Hollywoodnews.com: Fresh off their reunion performance at the Grammys, The Beach Boys have been added to the line up for the 2012 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
The initial lineup for the annual festival, which takes place from June 7-10 this year, was announced on Tuesday. Radiohead, Phish and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will perform in Manchester, Tenn.
Both Radiohead and the RHCPs have history with the fest. The Beach Boys, meanwhile, are just musical history, incarnate.
Here is the full lineup for Bonnaroo 2012:
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Phish
Bon Iver
The Beach Boys featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks
The Avett Brothers
The Shins Foster
The People
Skrillex
Aziz Ansari
Dispatch
Feist
The Roots
Alice Cooper
SuperJam
Black Star
The Word featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars
Ludacris
Ben Folds Five
Flogging Molly...
- 2/14/2012
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
Phish, Radiohead, Blackstar, Civil Wars, Roots, Beach Boys also on the bill.
By Gil Kaufman
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis
Photo: Getty Images
The lineup for the 11th annual Bonnaroo Festival features a powerhouse lineup for headliners including Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish, along with some recent Grammy winners such as Bon Iver and Edm star Skrillex.
As always, the roster of acts who will descend on the 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, for the four-day festival held June 7 to June 10 is a wildly eclectic mix of jam, rock, hip-hop, bluegrass and just about everything in between. The reunited Beach Boys are also on the list, along with the Shins, Avett Brothers, Black Star, shock rock icon Alice Cooper, Feist, rapper/actor Donald Glover as Childish Gambino, the Roots and legendary reggae-spike punk act Bad Brains.
The full roster includes more than 125 bands and 20 comedians performing on 13 stages,...
By Gil Kaufman
Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis
Photo: Getty Images
The lineup for the 11th annual Bonnaroo Festival features a powerhouse lineup for headliners including Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Phish, along with some recent Grammy winners such as Bon Iver and Edm star Skrillex.
As always, the roster of acts who will descend on the 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tennessee, for the four-day festival held June 7 to June 10 is a wildly eclectic mix of jam, rock, hip-hop, bluegrass and just about everything in between. The reunited Beach Boys are also on the list, along with the Shins, Avett Brothers, Black Star, shock rock icon Alice Cooper, Feist, rapper/actor Donald Glover as Childish Gambino, the Roots and legendary reggae-spike punk act Bad Brains.
The full roster includes more than 125 bands and 20 comedians performing on 13 stages,...
- 2/14/2012
- MTV Music News
The musical evolution of Eric Johnson’s Fruit Bats continues on Tripper, the band’s fifth album: Johnson has pushed the Bats from the rustic acoustics of their debut to sparkling, spacey folk pop. Tripper picks up where 2009’s The Ruminant Band left off, opening with the bright, shuffling “Tony The Tripper,” which bridges the gap between those acoustic beginnings and the newfound psychedelic-pop aesthetic. And the lead single, “You’re Too Weird,” keeps a foot in the past, with tinkling piano and chugging acoustic guitars harkening back to some of the band’s earlier work even as the ...
- 8/9/2011
- avclub.com
Eric D. Johnson’s debut album under the Fruit Bats moniker, Echolocution, was released at a fortuitous time—at least in terms of the fickle inclinations of the quote-unquote indie rock community. In the early 2000s, many people listening to and critically analyzing independent music took warmly to various modern interpretations of folk music, and as a result, many artists that fit into this rather nebulous spectrum—Iron & Wine, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, The Shins, Joanna Newsom, et al—found themselves selling goodly amounts of records and concert tickets. We bandied about terms such as “freak folk” as if they were going to...
- 8/2/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
The Our Idiot Brother soundtrack. Some might say that marketing/advertising is a profoundly dishonourable profession. That it’s all a three-ring circus operated by slick-talking snake oil salesman, peddling premium-priced versions of the emperor’s new underpants to gullible schmoes, with this in turn further fuelling the excrement-spewing media pipeline that pumps crap directly into the poor unsuspecting public’s collective cranium.
And when you find that a movie which was called My Idiot Brother just six months ago, when it played to a largely positive reception at Sundance, has now been rechristened Our Idiot Brother ahead of a Us release at the end of next month, it’s hard not to wonder just how many marketing monkeys it took to change that particular re-branding light bulb, and how much green they scored for their (lack of) efforts.
But if the name-change smacks of tinkering for the sake of charging an oversized fee,...
And when you find that a movie which was called My Idiot Brother just six months ago, when it played to a largely positive reception at Sundance, has now been rechristened Our Idiot Brother ahead of a Us release at the end of next month, it’s hard not to wonder just how many marketing monkeys it took to change that particular re-branding light bulb, and how much green they scored for their (lack of) efforts.
But if the name-change smacks of tinkering for the sake of charging an oversized fee,...
- 7/18/2011
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
Abkco Records will be releasing the official soundtrack album for the indie comedy Our Idiot Brother. The soundtrack features selections from the film’s score by Nathan Larson and Eric D. Johnson, as well as songs by such artists as Willie Nelson, Generationals, Fruit Bats, Daniel Tashian & Mindy Smith, El May and Carol King. The album will be released on August 23, 2011 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Our Idiot Brother is directed by Jesse Peretz (First Love, Last Rites, The Ex) and stars Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer, Steve Coogan, Hugh Dancy, Rashida Jones and Shirley Knight. The movie premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and has been picked up by the Weinstein Company for a theatrical release on August 26. For more information on the comedy, visit the official film webpage.
Here’s the album track list:
1. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The...
Here’s the album track list:
1. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The...
- 7/5/2011
- by filmmusicreporter
- Film Music Reporter
As part of a soundtrack for Max Winkler’s film Ceremony, Eric Johnson from the Fruit Bats has rounded up songs from Pete Townshend, Van Dyke Parks, Eric Burdon, Ezra Koenig and some other musicians. For his contributions to the film score, Koenig recorded a cover of Paul Simon’s 1972 song “Papa Hobo.” Download the track here and see the complete tracklist below....
- 4/8/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Ceremony, the new comedy from director Max Winkler (son of Henry), sounds like a complicated story. Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) gets his former best friend to accompany him to a beachfront getaway owned by a famous documentary maker (Lee Pace). The plan is for the two to rekindle their friendship, but along the way, it is discovered that Sam is infatuated with the filmmaker’s fiancée, Zoe (Uma Thurman). His ultimate goal is to stop their wedding and win Zoe. Lakeshore Records is releasing the soundtrack, and if the description above didn’t sell you, neither will the album.
I was left really unimpressed with the soundtrack as a whole. The majority of the album is a score by Eric D. Johnson (not the Eric Johnson I would have hoped for), front man for the indie rock band Fruit Bats. His score is unoriginal and frankly, unimaginative. While not entirely without merit,...
I was left really unimpressed with the soundtrack as a whole. The majority of the album is a score by Eric D. Johnson (not the Eric Johnson I would have hoped for), front man for the indie rock band Fruit Bats. His score is unoriginal and frankly, unimaginative. While not entirely without merit,...
- 4/7/2011
- Shadowlocked
Album Features Score By Fruit Bats Founder, Plus a Paul Simon Cover By Vampire Weekend Frontman Indie film cinephiles haven't seen it yet, but likely on their radar is Max Winkler‘s feature debut “Ceremony.” Starring Michael Angarano and Uma Thurman, the dramedy tells the story of Sam (Angarano), a brazen young man who stalks his penpal and ex-girlfriend Zoe (Thurman) all the way to her wedding in the Hamptons to try and win her back. It's a charming, sweet little film (which yes, the filmmakers admit is indebted to Wes Anderson, they're ok with that), the least of which are…...
- 3/28/2011
- The Playlist
Before we get inundated with new movie teasers during the Super Bowl this weekend, I'd like to direct your attention toward a little gem of a trailer that debuted today for the upcoming movie "Ceremony."
Written and directed by Max Winkler (son of Henry), the film follows Sam (Michael Angarano) on a quest to prevent a former flame (Uma Thurman) from marrying a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace). The trailer is currently live at Apple, and MTV News recently caught up with Winkler to talk about the film, specifically the talented cast and musicians he enlisted to bring his story to life.
MTV News: I hear you're friendly with the guys from Vampire Weekend? How did they come to be a part of the film?
Max Winkler: I’m friendly with Ezra [Koenig], the lead singer/songwriter. We’ve become friends through people and he’d watched a rough cut of the movie.
Written and directed by Max Winkler (son of Henry), the film follows Sam (Michael Angarano) on a quest to prevent a former flame (Uma Thurman) from marrying a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace). The trailer is currently live at Apple, and MTV News recently caught up with Winkler to talk about the film, specifically the talented cast and musicians he enlisted to bring his story to life.
MTV News: I hear you're friendly with the guys from Vampire Weekend? How did they come to be a part of the film?
Max Winkler: I’m friendly with Ezra [Koenig], the lead singer/songwriter. We’ve become friends through people and he’d watched a rough cut of the movie.
- 2/4/2011
- by Kara Warner
- MTV Movies Blog
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