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Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll

Back in 1987 Taylor Hackford filmed a documentary on rock ‘n’ roll icon Chuck Berry. The film features commentary from Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and about 1000 other notables. The film was aptly titled Chuck Berry - Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll.
One Eyed Jacks played host last night to a special event. Rio Hackford is […]

Nick Cave to tour solo

Nick Cave announced yesterday that he will play several solo shows across Europe. The Bad Seeds frontman is currently slated for shows in Paris, Antwerp and Prague, but more dates are expected soon.
Cave is currently receiving quite a bit of exposure for The Proposition, a film that he wrote and scored. It’s going into […]

Beastie Boys documentary screens

Awesome: I… Shot That! will screen tonight in theaters across the country. The documentary was filmed in the fall of 2004. Directory Nathaniel Hornblower gave 50 cameras to audience members at a show in Madison Square Garden. The result was a passionate multi-perspective fan documentation of the antics from the legendary trio. I’m quite interested […]

Radiohead Scans Darkly

Pitchfork had an immense scoop today. They reported that Thom Yorke and crew will supply music for Richard Linklater’s forthcoming A Scanner Darkly, yet another film adaptation of a great Philip K. Dick novel. The film is being produced in rotoscopic animation, like Waking Life. The story is quite conducive to paranoia and I could […]