British royal family news teases that Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex had quite a life before she went royal by marrying Prince Harry in 2018. She wasn’t exactly famous pre-Harry but certainly now she’s notorious. Here are the most fascinating facts about Meghan Thee Duchess.
Royal News – Meghan Debuted on General Hospital
Meghan’s first speaking role was on an episode of ABC soap General Hospital. It’s said that her parents met on set, with her father Thomas an Emmy winning lighting director, and her mom an assistant makeup artist. Her next job was on Married with Children, another show her father worked on.
Royal News – Mom Doria Ragland Is A Fitness Buff
Meghan is thought to be close to her mother, Doria Ragland, who is a yoga instructor. It’s been reported that Meghan picked up a smart yoga practice from her mom, starting at the tender age of seven.
Royal News – Meghan Debuted on General Hospital
Meghan’s first speaking role was on an episode of ABC soap General Hospital. It’s said that her parents met on set, with her father Thomas an Emmy winning lighting director, and her mom an assistant makeup artist. Her next job was on Married with Children, another show her father worked on.
Royal News – Mom Doria Ragland Is A Fitness Buff
Meghan is thought to be close to her mother, Doria Ragland, who is a yoga instructor. It’s been reported that Meghan picked up a smart yoga practice from her mom, starting at the tender age of seven.
- 5/5/2024
- by Tanya Clark
- Celebrating The Soaps
Fiona Apple is the go-to songwriter for exorcising your romantic demons, ruing the ones you loved, the ones who didn’t love you back, the ones you pushed away amid yet another freefall of your own design. She’s also the go-to singer for three studio comedy auteurs: Michael Showalter, Judd Apatow, and Paul Feig.
Apple’s songs have featured in three of their films — Apple wrote the original song “Dull Tool” for Apatow’s “This Is 40,” capturing a decades-long marriage at its breaking point. Elsewhere, her epic ball of romantic resignation “Cosmonauts,” off the 2020 album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” was also originally meant for that film. Meanwhile, her classic cabaret-inspired love song “Paper Bag,” about having too much emotional baggage to enter into a new relationship she wants “so bad, oh it kills,” featured in Feig’s “Bridesmaids” in a montage of Annie (Kristen Wiig) making cupcakes as...
Apple’s songs have featured in three of their films — Apple wrote the original song “Dull Tool” for Apatow’s “This Is 40,” capturing a decades-long marriage at its breaking point. Elsewhere, her epic ball of romantic resignation “Cosmonauts,” off the 2020 album “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” was also originally meant for that film. Meanwhile, her classic cabaret-inspired love song “Paper Bag,” about having too much emotional baggage to enter into a new relationship she wants “so bad, oh it kills,” featured in Feig’s “Bridesmaids” in a montage of Annie (Kristen Wiig) making cupcakes as...
- 5/3/2024
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Bratz is celebrating Women’s History Month by unveiling a concept doll in tribute to Sinéad O’Connor.
Honoring O’Connor just eight months after she passed away, the doll depicts the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer with her signature shaved head. While she isn’t ripping up any photos of the Pope, she is donning her “Jesus is coming — look busy” shirt, with sunglasses, baggy jeans, and a quintessentially-Bratz blinged-out lip-shaped handbag.
“Women’s Month continues with Sinéad O’Connor, an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist with a passion for ‘90z grunge fashion,” a post by Bratz on Instagram read. “O’Connor, who passed away in 2023, first debuted her scorchin’ buzzcut in 1987 when she was just 20 years old — two years after she signed her record deal. Sinéad‘s 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, was her biggest commercial success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single,...
Honoring O’Connor just eight months after she passed away, the doll depicts the “Nothing Compares 2 U” singer with her signature shaved head. While she isn’t ripping up any photos of the Pope, she is donning her “Jesus is coming — look busy” shirt, with sunglasses, baggy jeans, and a quintessentially-Bratz blinged-out lip-shaped handbag.
“Women’s Month continues with Sinéad O’Connor, an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist with a passion for ‘90z grunge fashion,” a post by Bratz on Instagram read. “O’Connor, who passed away in 2023, first debuted her scorchin’ buzzcut in 1987 when she was just 20 years old — two years after she signed her record deal. Sinéad‘s 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, was her biggest commercial success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single,...
- 3/18/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Annie Lennox honored the late Sinéad O’Connor by performing “Nothing Compares 2 U” at the 2024 Grammys.
During the show’s in memoriam segment, Lennox took the stage with Prince and The Revolution members Wendy & Lisa to perform O’Connor’s signature hit, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The stirring performance began with on-screen dedications to both O’Connor and the late Shane MacGowan. At its conclusion, Lennox said, “Artists for ceasefire, peace to the world.” Watch footage of the performance below.
The performance arrived in between tributes to Tony Bennett, Clarence Avant, and Tina Turner. Annie Lennox’s dedication to Sinéad O’Connor follows a long list of tributes to the Irish singer since her death in July 2023, including covers from boygenius, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette and Foo Fighters, and P!Nk and Brandi Carlile.
Keep up with the full list of 2024 Grammy winners here.
Esto de Annie Lennox para Sinead O'Connor.#Grammys pic.
During the show’s in memoriam segment, Lennox took the stage with Prince and The Revolution members Wendy & Lisa to perform O’Connor’s signature hit, “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The stirring performance began with on-screen dedications to both O’Connor and the late Shane MacGowan. At its conclusion, Lennox said, “Artists for ceasefire, peace to the world.” Watch footage of the performance below.
The performance arrived in between tributes to Tony Bennett, Clarence Avant, and Tina Turner. Annie Lennox’s dedication to Sinéad O’Connor follows a long list of tributes to the Irish singer since her death in July 2023, including covers from boygenius, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette and Foo Fighters, and P!Nk and Brandi Carlile.
Keep up with the full list of 2024 Grammy winners here.
Esto de Annie Lennox para Sinead O'Connor.#Grammys pic.
- 2/5/2024
- by Paolo Ragusa
- Consequence - Music
Trevor Horn’s Echoes: Ancient & Modern finds the veteran musician and producer attempting to recontextualize some of the biggest pop hits of the past 40 years within the sounds of contemporary pop and electronic music. At best the results are bland, and at worst they exemplify Gen-x nostalgia at its most saccharine.
The album opens, rather unexpectedly, with a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank),” featuring a characteristically impassioned vocal performance by Tori Amos. The arrangement and production, however, are so sanitized, so slick and gussied up with melodramatic strings and synths, that the point of the song—its central irony and message about the dangers of generational alcoholism—is swallowed whole.
Horn imbues the album’s 11 songs with a grandiosity that quickly becomes flatulent, with big orchestral swells and heart-tugging keyboards. By the halfway point, the material all starts to blur together, as the majority of the songs...
The album opens, rather unexpectedly, with a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools (Drank),” featuring a characteristically impassioned vocal performance by Tori Amos. The arrangement and production, however, are so sanitized, so slick and gussied up with melodramatic strings and synths, that the point of the song—its central irony and message about the dangers of generational alcoholism—is swallowed whole.
Horn imbues the album’s 11 songs with a grandiosity that quickly becomes flatulent, with big orchestral swells and heart-tugging keyboards. By the halfway point, the material all starts to blur together, as the majority of the songs...
- 1/14/2024
- by Thomas Bedenbaugh
- Slant Magazine
Sinéad O’Connor died from natural causes, a coroner in London has determined.
A statement said that the coroner has “ceased their involvement” in O’Connor’s death and no other comments would be made.
O’Connor died on July 26 at age 56. The singer’s family confirmed her death in a statement but did not share a cause of death. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” her family said. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.
A statement said that the coroner has “ceased their involvement” in O’Connor’s death and no other comments would be made.
O’Connor died on July 26 at age 56. The singer’s family confirmed her death in a statement but did not share a cause of death. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” her family said. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.
- 1/9/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Tori Amos and The Buggles’ Trevor Horn have teamed up for a cover of Kendrick Lamar’s 2012 single, “Swimming Pools (Drank),” reimagining it as a moody, modern piano ballad.
Amos and Horn’s take on the song arrives as the opening track on Horn’s new covers album, Echoes: Ancient & Modern. Built around a subdued piano and colored with silky strings, Amos’ multi-layered vocals lead the tune, placing Lamar’s lyricism in a new context. In the liner notes for the new album, Horn explained: “I thought of it as a kind of literate, modern American standard, a rap song open to reinterpretation. I wanted something distinctly 21st-century with original, eloquent lyrics, and my longtime engineer Tim Weidner suggested this.”
Continuing, Horn praised Amos’ creative contributions. “Tori Amos took the idea of adapting Kendrick Lamar’s psyched-up swagger in her stride and made it intensely cinematic,” he said. “I listened...
Amos and Horn’s take on the song arrives as the opening track on Horn’s new covers album, Echoes: Ancient & Modern. Built around a subdued piano and colored with silky strings, Amos’ multi-layered vocals lead the tune, placing Lamar’s lyricism in a new context. In the liner notes for the new album, Horn explained: “I thought of it as a kind of literate, modern American standard, a rap song open to reinterpretation. I wanted something distinctly 21st-century with original, eloquent lyrics, and my longtime engineer Tim Weidner suggested this.”
Continuing, Horn praised Amos’ creative contributions. “Tori Amos took the idea of adapting Kendrick Lamar’s psyched-up swagger in her stride and made it intensely cinematic,” he said. “I listened...
- 12/1/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
The Prodigy changed up the controversial lyrics in their song “Smack My Bitch Up” during a pair of recent performances in London.
Footage captured during their concerts at Alexandra Palace on November 24th and November 25th shows vocalist Maxim repeating the opening lyric, “Change my pitch up,” instead of going into the original second line, “Smack my bitch up.”
The band has yet to comment publicly on the lyric change. Check out fan-shot footage below.
It’s worth noting that the lines, “Change my pitch up/ Smack my bitch up” are directly sampled from the 1988 song “Give the Drummer Some” by Ultramagnetic Mc’s. First appearing on The Prodigy’s 1997 breakout album, The Fat of the Land, “Smack My Bitch Up” has been a source of controversy since its release.
In addition to receiving backlash from artists including Tori Amos and Beastie Boys, the track was denounced by the National...
Footage captured during their concerts at Alexandra Palace on November 24th and November 25th shows vocalist Maxim repeating the opening lyric, “Change my pitch up,” instead of going into the original second line, “Smack my bitch up.”
The band has yet to comment publicly on the lyric change. Check out fan-shot footage below.
It’s worth noting that the lines, “Change my pitch up/ Smack my bitch up” are directly sampled from the 1988 song “Give the Drummer Some” by Ultramagnetic Mc’s. First appearing on The Prodigy’s 1997 breakout album, The Fat of the Land, “Smack My Bitch Up” has been a source of controversy since its release.
In addition to receiving backlash from artists including Tori Amos and Beastie Boys, the track was denounced by the National...
- 11/28/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
The documentary You Were My First Boyfriend, directed and produced by Cecilia Aldarondo and co-directed by Sarah Enid Hagey, premieres November 8th at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. The film had its world premiere at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival.
Synopsis: What if you could rewrite your adolescence? In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years. She revisits some of her most formative – and at times cringeworthy – childhood experiences, tracking down old crushes and reenacting visceral memories of youthful humiliation and desire, at times playing the role of her younger self and casting teenagers to play the kids in her life who still haunt her. Oscillating between present and past, humor and heartbreak, You Were My First Boyfriend is a hybrid documentary that takes seriously the power...
Synopsis: What if you could rewrite your adolescence? In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years. She revisits some of her most formative – and at times cringeworthy – childhood experiences, tracking down old crushes and reenacting visceral memories of youthful humiliation and desire, at times playing the role of her younger self and casting teenagers to play the kids in her life who still haunt her. Oscillating between present and past, humor and heartbreak, You Were My First Boyfriend is a hybrid documentary that takes seriously the power...
- 10/25/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
David Slade, the director of the Emmy and BAFTA-award winning “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch,” has signed with 42, the Los Angeles and London-based management and production company. The company will manage the filmmaker, who also joins 42’s commercials offering OB42 for representation in the U.K.
Slade’s previous work has received critical acclaim, with his first feature “Hard Candy” winning the jury and audience first prize at the 2005 Sitges Film Festival of Horror, before being acquired by Lionsgate out of Sundance. He also shown a flare for studio-driven and franchise films, such as Summit’s “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “30 Days of Night” for Sony. Most recently, Slade served as director on the upcoming MGM/Amazon feature adaptation of the Norman Partridge novel “Dark Harvest,” which is set to be released this year.
Slade made his start in the industry by directing music videos for artists such as Muse,...
Slade’s previous work has received critical acclaim, with his first feature “Hard Candy” winning the jury and audience first prize at the 2005 Sitges Film Festival of Horror, before being acquired by Lionsgate out of Sundance. He also shown a flare for studio-driven and franchise films, such as Summit’s “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “30 Days of Night” for Sony. Most recently, Slade served as director on the upcoming MGM/Amazon feature adaptation of the Norman Partridge novel “Dark Harvest,” which is set to be released this year.
Slade made his start in the industry by directing music videos for artists such as Muse,...
- 9/5/2023
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Olivia Rodrigo might most often be labeled a pop star, but her rock tendencies are indisputable. So it makes sense that she’d turn to Jack White, Kathleen Hanna, and St. Vincent as mentors while making her upcoming album Guts, as she revealed in a new profile with The New York Times.
Rodrigo has long gushed about White — her “hero of all heroes” (and Consequence’s July 2022 cover star) — and she found his advice particularly helpful when she was feeling the pressure of following up her debut album Sour: “He wrote me this letter the first time I met him that said, ‘Your only job is to write music that you would want to hear on the radio,’” she said. “I mean, writing songs that you would like to hear on the radio is in fact very hard.”
But Rodrigo also takes inspiration from some less radio-friendly acts, one being Bikini Kill,...
Rodrigo has long gushed about White — her “hero of all heroes” (and Consequence’s July 2022 cover star) — and she found his advice particularly helpful when she was feeling the pressure of following up her debut album Sour: “He wrote me this letter the first time I met him that said, ‘Your only job is to write music that you would want to hear on the radio,’” she said. “I mean, writing songs that you would like to hear on the radio is in fact very hard.”
But Rodrigo also takes inspiration from some less radio-friendly acts, one being Bikini Kill,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Fans have been mourning the tragic death of Sinead O’Connor all around the globe, but the mood felt especially heavy in her hometown of Bray, Ireland on Tuesday (August 8th), where locals and nearby travelers congregated to pay their respects during the iconic singer’s funeral procession.
O’Connor’s family invited the public to the funeral procession, sharing their gratitude for the “outpouring of love for her” in a statement. Per The Associated Press, a vintage Vw camper van began the precession as it led a hearse through the packed waterfront crowd. On top of the van were speakers blasting “Natural Mystic” by Bob Marley, of whom O’Connor was a noted fan. Onlookers tossed flowers onto the hearse as it coasted by.
O’Connor’s coffin was inside the hearse, covered by blue hydrangeas and pink roses. The precession eventually stopped in front of the singer’s former home,...
O’Connor’s family invited the public to the funeral procession, sharing their gratitude for the “outpouring of love for her” in a statement. Per The Associated Press, a vintage Vw camper van began the precession as it led a hearse through the packed waterfront crowd. On top of the van were speakers blasting “Natural Mystic” by Bob Marley, of whom O’Connor was a noted fan. Onlookers tossed flowers onto the hearse as it coasted by.
O’Connor’s coffin was inside the hearse, covered by blue hydrangeas and pink roses. The precession eventually stopped in front of the singer’s former home,...
- 8/8/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette paid tribute to Sinead O’Connor Saturday at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival with a performance of the late singer’s “Mandinka.”
With both artists on the lineup Saturday for the Yuzawa, Japan fest, they linked up to honor O’Connor with a rendition of one of her essential songs, the second single off her breakthrough 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra.
“For a very special reason, ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome to sing a song with us, Alanis Morissette,” Dave Grohl told...
With both artists on the lineup Saturday for the Yuzawa, Japan fest, they linked up to honor O’Connor with a rendition of one of her essential songs, the second single off her breakthrough 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra.
“For a very special reason, ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome to sing a song with us, Alanis Morissette,” Dave Grohl told...
- 7/30/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette honored Sinead O’Connor by teaming up for a live cover of “Mandinka.”
The collaborative performance came during Foo Fighters’ set at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival on Saturday, July 29th.
In introducing the cover, Morissette said it was, “For a beautiful women with high intelligence and deep empathy, way ahead of a time, who is no longer with us.”
O’Connor died Wednesday, July 26th, at the age of 56. “Mandinka” appeared on her 1987 debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.
In the days since O’Connor’s passing, P!Nk and Brandi Carlile and Tori Amos also delivered on-stage tributes in honor of the Irish singer.
See our list of O’Connor’s 10 essential songs that are not “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette Cover Sinead O’Connor’s “Mandinka”: Watch
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The collaborative performance came during Foo Fighters’ set at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival on Saturday, July 29th.
In introducing the cover, Morissette said it was, “For a beautiful women with high intelligence and deep empathy, way ahead of a time, who is no longer with us.”
O’Connor died Wednesday, July 26th, at the age of 56. “Mandinka” appeared on her 1987 debut album, The Lion and the Cobra.
In the days since O’Connor’s passing, P!Nk and Brandi Carlile and Tori Amos also delivered on-stage tributes in honor of the Irish singer.
See our list of O’Connor’s 10 essential songs that are not “Nothing Compares 2 U.”
Foo Fighters and Alanis Morissette Cover Sinead O’Connor’s “Mandinka”: Watch
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- 7/30/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
This post contains spoilers for "Good Omens" season 2.
For six millennia, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant) have been in a slow-burn romance. Despite never uttering "I love you" aloud, it's a dance they both know well throughout the eons of the Prime Video-BBC apocalyptic comedy "Good Omens," based on the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman (showrunner and writer) and the late Terry Pratchett. In perhaps the great celestial opposites-attract rom-com, Aziraphale is a cheerful do-gooding angel just as the fallen angel Crowley is a mischievous abrasive demon. They might pretend to be mortal enemies, but they take pleasure in collaborating and chattering on Earth. As seen in season 2, they often work to rescue mortals (like rescuing Job's children) or indulge in mortal antics.
After the season 1 finale, their excommunication from their respective offices seems to liberate them from their obligations. These Ineffable Boyfriends, though, get their relationship...
For six millennia, Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) and Crowley (David Tennant) have been in a slow-burn romance. Despite never uttering "I love you" aloud, it's a dance they both know well throughout the eons of the Prime Video-BBC apocalyptic comedy "Good Omens," based on the 1990 novel by Neil Gaiman (showrunner and writer) and the late Terry Pratchett. In perhaps the great celestial opposites-attract rom-com, Aziraphale is a cheerful do-gooding angel just as the fallen angel Crowley is a mischievous abrasive demon. They might pretend to be mortal enemies, but they take pleasure in collaborating and chattering on Earth. As seen in season 2, they often work to rescue mortals (like rescuing Job's children) or indulge in mortal antics.
After the season 1 finale, their excommunication from their respective offices seems to liberate them from their obligations. These Ineffable Boyfriends, though, get their relationship...
- 7/28/2023
- by Caroline Cao
- Slash Film
Tori Amos is honoring the legacy of Sinéad O’Connor the way she knows best: performing a few of her songs. During her show on Wednesday night, hours after O’Connor’s death, in San Francisco, the songstress performed O’Connor’s tracks “I Am Stretched on Your Grave” and “Three Babies.”
She described O’Connor as “one of the most important songwriters” that has lived as she honored her for warning the world about the abuses of the Catholic church. “This is a person who was powerful, who wrote incredible music,...
She described O’Connor as “one of the most important songwriters” that has lived as she honored her for warning the world about the abuses of the Catholic church. “This is a person who was powerful, who wrote incredible music,...
- 7/27/2023
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
Tori Amos, like many of us, is mourning Sinead O’Connor, who died on Wednesday (July 26th) at the age of 56. During her show in San Francisco that evening, Amos paid tribute to the Irish icon by covering two of her songs, “I Am Stretched on Your Grave” and “Three Babies.”
“This is a person who’s powerful, who wrote incredible music, and we honor her tonight,” Amos said ahead of performing her own song “Crucify,” also praising O’Connor for her speaking out against abuse in the Catholic church.
Amos later went into “I Am Stretched on Your Grave.” While the original is backed by a soulful, peppy beat, Amos’ rendition featured only her and her piano, making it feel particularly ominous. She then seamlessly transitioned into a faithful version of “Three Babies”; both songs were originally featured on O’Connor’s 1990 breakout album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.
“This is a person who’s powerful, who wrote incredible music, and we honor her tonight,” Amos said ahead of performing her own song “Crucify,” also praising O’Connor for her speaking out against abuse in the Catholic church.
Amos later went into “I Am Stretched on Your Grave.” While the original is backed by a soulful, peppy beat, Amos’ rendition featured only her and her piano, making it feel particularly ominous. She then seamlessly transitioned into a faithful version of “Three Babies”; both songs were originally featured on O’Connor’s 1990 breakout album I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.
- 7/27/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
In light of Sinead O’Connor’s death, Morrissey has published an impassioned blog post criticizing what he views as disingenuous tributes to the singer, who died Wednesday at the age of 56. The statement, shared through his official website, positions the reactions to the musician’s death as hypocritical copouts, reading: “She had proud vulnerability … and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don’t ‘fit in’ (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death – when, finally, they can’t answer back.”
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- 7/27/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
ObituaryO'Connor was a critic of the Catholic Church long before allegations of sexual abuse were widely reported, and made headlines by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II in October 1992 while appearing on live television.Sinead O'Connor / Credit: Wikimedia CommonsAcclaimed artist Sinead O'Connor has passed away at the age of 56. In a statement cited by Irish broadcaster Rte, the singer's family said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinead. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” O'Connor was propelled to worldwide fame by the Prince cover ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, which won the 1990 Billboard Music Awards for Best Single in the World. The string-accompanied ballad topped the music charts from Europe to Australia. She had already received critical acclaim for her first album The Lion and the Cobra, featuring her debut hit ‘Mandinka’. The...
- 7/27/2023
- by LakshmiP
- The News Minute
Sinéad O’Connor’s family confirmed earlier today, July 26, that the Irish singer and songwriter died at age 56. O’Connor’s bold public stances on child abuse, war, and organized religion had made her a controversial figure throughout her career, while her music and uncompromising character also inspired generations of women to challenge the status quo.
Following the news of her death, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tegan and Sara, and more shared heartfelt tributes and personal memories of O’Connor.
“I came home and have been listening to Sinéad’s music. ‘Feels so different.
Following the news of her death, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tegan and Sara, and more shared heartfelt tributes and personal memories of O’Connor.
“I came home and have been listening to Sinéad’s music. ‘Feels so different.
- 7/26/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Early in her set at Los Angeles’s Greek Theatre, Tori Amos reminds the star-studded audience—including Olivia Rodrigo, Kumail Nanjiani, and Kristen Schaal, among others—that the songs from her solo debut, 1992’s Little Earthquakes, were written not too far away from Griffith Park’s historic amphitheater. The implication, of course, is that we’ve come a long way, boy. More than 30 years later, the singer-songwriter is still performing for adoring crowds of thousands, many of whom, as teens or young adults, trauma-bonded over songs like “Me and a Gun” and “Silent All These Years” but are now a little grayer around the temples.
Amos herself doesn’t look much different, wildly whipping her crimson hair around as she precariously straddles the stool between her Bösendorfer and electric keyboard. Her voice, however, is noticeably hoarse—a fact that she doesn’t acknowledge aside from a brief moment when, during the second verse of “Crucify,...
Amos herself doesn’t look much different, wildly whipping her crimson hair around as she precariously straddles the stool between her Bösendorfer and electric keyboard. Her voice, however, is noticeably hoarse—a fact that she doesn’t acknowledge aside from a brief moment when, during the second verse of “Crucify,...
- 7/22/2023
- by Sal Cinquemani
- Slant Magazine
Tl;Dr:
Tori Amos decided to put her own spin on Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” She said fans told her to sing the song after Kurt Cobain died. She discussed what it was like to have fans sing “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” quickly became part of the classic rock canon. Following Kurt Cobain’s death, Tori Amos performed a live cover of the song in Ireland to help fans grieve. During an interview, Amos explained why she was willing to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” soon after Cobain died.
Irish fans had Tori Amos play Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ after Kurt Cobain’s death
During a 2021 interview with Stereogum, Amos said she initially covered “Smells Like Teen Spirit” because she wanted to make it sound more vulnerable. “A couple of years later in 1994, when I was in Berlin on tour,...
Tori Amos decided to put her own spin on Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” She said fans told her to sing the song after Kurt Cobain died. She discussed what it was like to have fans sing “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” quickly became part of the classic rock canon. Following Kurt Cobain’s death, Tori Amos performed a live cover of the song in Ireland to help fans grieve. During an interview, Amos explained why she was willing to play “Smells Like Teen Spirit” soon after Cobain died.
Irish fans had Tori Amos play Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ after Kurt Cobain’s death
During a 2021 interview with Stereogum, Amos said she initially covered “Smells Like Teen Spirit” because she wanted to make it sound more vulnerable. “A couple of years later in 1994, when I was in Berlin on tour,...
- 6/18/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is one of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1990s. During an interview, Amos revealed the song had a huge impact on her when she first heard it. In addition, she said the spirit of a piano had to convince her to cover “Smells Like Teen Spirit.”
Tori Amos felt spirits told her Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ could sound different
During a 2021 interview with Stereogum, Amos said she was taken aback when she first saw the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “I think for most people when they heard it for the first time, I hadn’t heard anything like that,” she said. “There was an energy to this song.
“While I was sitting there in the silence, the piano kind of just showed herself to me,” she added. “There wasn’t a physical piano, but sort of the spirits of the piano.
Tori Amos felt spirits told her Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ could sound different
During a 2021 interview with Stereogum, Amos said she was taken aback when she first saw the video for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” “I think for most people when they heard it for the first time, I hadn’t heard anything like that,” she said. “There was an energy to this song.
“While I was sitting there in the silence, the piano kind of just showed herself to me,” she added. “There wasn’t a physical piano, but sort of the spirits of the piano.
- 6/18/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Abbey Road Studios returns with its second annual Music Photography Awards, which honors the art of music photography and highlights talent from around the globe. The winners will be unveiled at a ceremony held at the legendary studios on Sept. 21.
This year’s MPAs will pay tribute to the best work from 2022 that “capture the magic of live music, the creative process and the diverse music scenes from across the world,” per a statement. The awards recognize both established and undiscovered photographers, including open-entry categories, alongside awards judged by artists,...
This year’s MPAs will pay tribute to the best work from 2022 that “capture the magic of live music, the creative process and the diverse music scenes from across the world,” per a statement. The awards recognize both established and undiscovered photographers, including open-entry categories, alongside awards judged by artists,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Lauren Morrow destroys the bogus imagery of social media on her debut full-length album People Talk, a record full of devastatingly honest and real-life lyrics delivered with a mix of vulnerability and confidence. “Nobody But Me” is the pinnacle, a song inspired by Morrow’s own experiences as a woman in the music business. Like the rest of the album, it boasts hints of Britpop (Morrow is a massive Oasis fan and once recorded a version of “Talk Tonight” with 400 Unit guitarist Sadler Vaden), but stands out for its piano-based structure.
- 5/30/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
One of the things we love most about the dark Showtime series “Yellowjackets” is all the fantastic ’90s music. Half of the show takes place in 1996, when high school girls’ soccer team crash lands in the wilderness and half is set 25 years later, with the still traumatized adult survivors.
Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.
And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.
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Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.
And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.
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The series stars Melanie Lynskey,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets, Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses.”]
After a riveting first season filled with sonic callbacks to the ’90s, Season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off with a similarly wistful tone, thanks to the new trailer, spotlighting Florence and the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”
Season 1 of the series took viewers back to 1996 when a young group of soccer players survives a plane crash and the aftermath forced the characters to deal with a string of psychologically unfortunate events. Considering when the story starts, music from the era is paramount to the series. So far, we’ve heard everything from Portishead’s “Glory Box” to “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-n-Effect in the series, with Season 2 promising to keep that same energy while jumping in between timelines.
The ’90s part of the series shows Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton playing...
After a riveting first season filled with sonic callbacks to the ’90s, Season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off with a similarly wistful tone, thanks to the new trailer, spotlighting Florence and the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”
Season 1 of the series took viewers back to 1996 when a young group of soccer players survives a plane crash and the aftermath forced the characters to deal with a string of psychologically unfortunate events. Considering when the story starts, music from the era is paramount to the series. So far, we’ve heard everything from Portishead’s “Glory Box” to “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-n-Effect in the series, with Season 2 promising to keep that same energy while jumping in between timelines.
The ’90s part of the series shows Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton playing...
- 5/22/2023
- by Cervanté Pope
- Consequence - Music
In the summer of 1989, Paul McCartney hit the road for the first time as a solo artist. The Wings tours of the Seventies had featured only a smattering of Beatles songs, but this time around he was going to play nearly 20 a night. Pulling this off would require a guitarist who was capable of re-creating some very famous parts originally played by George Harrison and John Lennon. McCartney had his choice of big-name players for the job, but he went with Robbie McIntosh.
“That tour was the high point of my life,...
“That tour was the high point of my life,...
- 5/16/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Tori Amos has a long history of personifying her music, treating her songs as if they’re discrete, sentient beings. On her fourth album, 1998’s From the Choirgirl Hotel, the singer-songwriter imagines a place—the titular hotel—where her songs could live, granting them life separate from the commercial packaging of a pop album.
It’s no wonder that Amos would embrace this type of escapist worldbuilding. Her solo debut, Little Earthquakes, confronts traumas like sexual assault and religious oppression, and From the Choirgirl Hotel was recorded after she suffered a miscarriage, a topic addressed most directly by the album’s arresting lead single, “Spark.”
While, at the time, From the Choirgirl Hotel represented a deeper entrenchment of Amos’s themes and worldview—namely in her increasingly grim and cryptic exploration of the connections between womanhood and suffering—it also features her most forward-minded production to date, with elements of...
It’s no wonder that Amos would embrace this type of escapist worldbuilding. Her solo debut, Little Earthquakes, confronts traumas like sexual assault and religious oppression, and From the Choirgirl Hotel was recorded after she suffered a miscarriage, a topic addressed most directly by the album’s arresting lead single, “Spark.”
While, at the time, From the Choirgirl Hotel represented a deeper entrenchment of Amos’s themes and worldview—namely in her increasingly grim and cryptic exploration of the connections between womanhood and suffering—it also features her most forward-minded production to date, with elements of...
- 5/1/2023
- by Eric Mason
- Slant Magazine
Netflix dropped the soundtrack for its hit limited thriller series “Beef.”
The 10-episode miniseries, which debuted on Netflix April 6, carries a name that completely conveys its plot. “Beef” centers on two strangers — a failing contractor named Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), and an unsatisfied entrepreneur named Amy Lau (Ali Wong) — whose worlds literally collide after they get into a road rage incident. When things escalate, the feud brings out their innermost darkest sides.
The cast includes Wong, Yeun, Young Mazino, David Choe, Mia Serafino, Ashley Park, Justin H. Min, Joseph Lee and Andrew Santino.
The A24-produced thriller was created by Lee Sung Jin, and executive produced by Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan and Alli Reich. Series leads Wong and Yeun also serve as executive producers.
“Beef’s” original Score is by Bobby Krlic, and the soundtrack includes songs by prominent artists Christina Aguilera, Hoobstank and even tracks from Yeun and some of the cast.
The 10-episode miniseries, which debuted on Netflix April 6, carries a name that completely conveys its plot. “Beef” centers on two strangers — a failing contractor named Danny Cho (Steven Yeun), and an unsatisfied entrepreneur named Amy Lau (Ali Wong) — whose worlds literally collide after they get into a road rage incident. When things escalate, the feud brings out their innermost darkest sides.
The cast includes Wong, Yeun, Young Mazino, David Choe, Mia Serafino, Ashley Park, Justin H. Min, Joseph Lee and Andrew Santino.
The A24-produced thriller was created by Lee Sung Jin, and executive produced by Jake Schreier, Ravi Nandan and Alli Reich. Series leads Wong and Yeun also serve as executive producers.
“Beef’s” original Score is by Bobby Krlic, and the soundtrack includes songs by prominent artists Christina Aguilera, Hoobstank and even tracks from Yeun and some of the cast.
- 4/21/2023
- by Raquel "Rocky" Harris
- The Wrap
This article contains spoilers through the latest episode of Yellowjackets
Yellowjackets has been doing deep-cut needledrops since before Stranger Things season 4 made it cool. While the series certainly leans into the late ’90s setting of the plane crash flashbacks for much of its music (as it should), the present day timeline keeps the series from feeling too limited in its scope of song choices. Yellowjackets is one of the few shows that could pull off having songs from Papa Roach and Sharon Van Etten in the same episode without it being too distracting. Instead, this eclectic mix of music shows that the music supervisor and showrunners know how important the right song is to the story.
Yellowjackets may cover heavy things like trauma and cannibalism, but that doesn’t mean that its soundtrack can’t be full of bops and bangers, including the title sequence song “No Return” by Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren.
Yellowjackets has been doing deep-cut needledrops since before Stranger Things season 4 made it cool. While the series certainly leans into the late ’90s setting of the plane crash flashbacks for much of its music (as it should), the present day timeline keeps the series from feeling too limited in its scope of song choices. Yellowjackets is one of the few shows that could pull off having songs from Papa Roach and Sharon Van Etten in the same episode without it being too distracting. Instead, this eclectic mix of music shows that the music supervisor and showrunners know how important the right song is to the story.
Yellowjackets may cover heavy things like trauma and cannibalism, but that doesn’t mean that its soundtrack can’t be full of bops and bangers, including the title sequence song “No Return” by Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren.
- 4/21/2023
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
Tl;Dr:
John Lennon and Ronald Reagan liked calling their wives “Mommy.” John defended himself and Reagan for calling their wives “Mommy.” John revealed he once used to call Yoko Ono “Mother Superior.” John Lennon | George Stroud / Stringer
John Lennon once compared his relationship with Yoko Ono to Ronald Reagan’s relationship with Nancy Reagan. He noted a similarity. Subsequently, he discussed how that similarity related to The Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.”
John Lennon and Ronald Reagan liked calling their wives ‘Mommy’
During a 1980 interview with Rolling Stone, John had a lot to say about women. He realized how much women do for men during a trip to the Bahamas. “Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms … but any truth is universal,” he said. “What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted.” John said these pro-woman...
John Lennon and Ronald Reagan liked calling their wives “Mommy.” John defended himself and Reagan for calling their wives “Mommy.” John revealed he once used to call Yoko Ono “Mother Superior.” John Lennon | George Stroud / Stringer
John Lennon once compared his relationship with Yoko Ono to Ronald Reagan’s relationship with Nancy Reagan. He noted a similarity. Subsequently, he discussed how that similarity related to The Beatles’ “Happiness Is a Warm Gun.”
John Lennon and Ronald Reagan liked calling their wives ‘Mommy’
During a 1980 interview with Rolling Stone, John had a lot to say about women. He realized how much women do for men during a trip to the Bahamas. “Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms … but any truth is universal,” he said. “What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted.” John said these pro-woman...
- 4/19/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets."
Now that we've recovered from yet another bleak visual set to a Tori Amos song, "Yellowjackets" season 2 episode 4 picks up in 1996. Tai's sleepwalking is continually sending her to trees with the symbol carved into them, but she's still claiming she has no recollection of doing it or why. "Something in you knows that these trees are here," says Van. As one of Lottie's disciples, Van wants Taissa to at least talk to her about what's going on, but Tai firmly puts her foot down. Always the logical one, that Taissa. Van has been keeping maps of all of the places Taissa has taken her while sleepwalking, trying to find a pattern. It's clear that a rift is forming between the two, solely based on whether or not they believe in Lottie's so-called "powers." It's only a matter of time before the rest of the team follows suit.
Now that we've recovered from yet another bleak visual set to a Tori Amos song, "Yellowjackets" season 2 episode 4 picks up in 1996. Tai's sleepwalking is continually sending her to trees with the symbol carved into them, but she's still claiming she has no recollection of doing it or why. "Something in you knows that these trees are here," says Van. As one of Lottie's disciples, Van wants Taissa to at least talk to her about what's going on, but Tai firmly puts her foot down. Always the logical one, that Taissa. Van has been keeping maps of all of the places Taissa has taken her while sleepwalking, trying to find a pattern. It's clear that a rift is forming between the two, solely based on whether or not they believe in Lottie's so-called "powers." It's only a matter of time before the rest of the team follows suit.
- 4/14/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Hit Showtime series “Yellowjackets” has already featured Alanis Morissette’s 1998 track “Uninvited.” Now the feminist icon has recorded a new version of the show’s theme song, “No Return,” as a single.
The single debuts in the Season 2, Episode 4 titled “Old Wounds,” which was released on Showtime streaming Thursday night. Morissette’s song will also available to download and stream globally via Universal Music Canada. Listen to the song here.
“I love the original version of ‘No Return,’ It’s just a perfect song,” said Morissette of the title track by composers Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker, which was first released in January 2022.
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“It was a little daunting to be asked to reinterpret it, but I see parallels between ‘Yellowjackets’ and my perspective while songwriting: the sheer intensity, that going for the jugular with...
The single debuts in the Season 2, Episode 4 titled “Old Wounds,” which was released on Showtime streaming Thursday night. Morissette’s song will also available to download and stream globally via Universal Music Canada. Listen to the song here.
“I love the original version of ‘No Return,’ It’s just a perfect song,” said Morissette of the title track by composers Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker, which was first released in January 2022.
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“It was a little daunting to be asked to reinterpret it, but I see parallels between ‘Yellowjackets’ and my perspective while songwriting: the sheer intensity, that going for the jugular with...
- 4/14/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
This article contains spoilers through season 2 episode 3 of Yellowjackets
After Lottie Matthews seems to becomes possessed by a sinister spirit during a seance in the first season of Yellowjackets, she has an unexplainable connection to the wilderness that the Yellowjackets soccer team finds themselves trapped in. She predicts the wolf attack that scars Van (Liv Hewson), she single-handedly tames and kills a wild bear that wanders into their camp, and she insists that Travis’ (Kevin Alves) brother Javi (Luciano Leroux) is still alive after he disappears during “Doomcoming.”
Lottie first begins to take on a leadership role in season 1, especially after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) death. Lottie’s visions and ability to connect with the wilderness, whether truly supernatural or just a result of her lack of medication, help the survivors feel more in control of their increasingly traumatic situation. When we reunite with the young Yellowjackets at the beginning...
After Lottie Matthews seems to becomes possessed by a sinister spirit during a seance in the first season of Yellowjackets, she has an unexplainable connection to the wilderness that the Yellowjackets soccer team finds themselves trapped in. She predicts the wolf attack that scars Van (Liv Hewson), she single-handedly tames and kills a wild bear that wanders into their camp, and she insists that Travis’ (Kevin Alves) brother Javi (Luciano Leroux) is still alive after he disappears during “Doomcoming.”
Lottie first begins to take on a leadership role in season 1, especially after Jackie’s (Ella Purnell) death. Lottie’s visions and ability to connect with the wilderness, whether truly supernatural or just a result of her lack of medication, help the survivors feel more in control of their increasingly traumatic situation. When we reunite with the young Yellowjackets at the beginning...
- 4/10/2023
- by Brynnaarens
- Den of Geek
This post contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets" season 2 episode 3.
What you should understand about "Yellowjackets" by now is that whenever a Tori Amos song starts playing, nothing good is about to happen. In the final moments of the latest episode, "Digestif," adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) discovers with horror that her beloved colony of bees (another hive of yellowjackets to hold dominion over) have all died. When she pulls a sheath of honeycomb out of a carcass-covered crate, she finds viscous blood running where honey should be. The 1994 Tori Amos song "Bells For Her" intones mournfully over the whole affair, carrying elegantly over into the roll of credits with lyrics like, "Can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way."
For the second time in three episodes, the Showtime drama about sisterhood and cannibalism in the Canadian Rockies dropped a Tori song in the final moments of an episode, the first being "Cornflake Girl,...
What you should understand about "Yellowjackets" by now is that whenever a Tori Amos song starts playing, nothing good is about to happen. In the final moments of the latest episode, "Digestif," adult Lottie (Simone Kessell) discovers with horror that her beloved colony of bees (another hive of yellowjackets to hold dominion over) have all died. When she pulls a sheath of honeycomb out of a carcass-covered crate, she finds viscous blood running where honey should be. The 1994 Tori Amos song "Bells For Her" intones mournfully over the whole affair, carrying elegantly over into the roll of credits with lyrics like, "Can't stop what's coming, can't stop what is on its way."
For the second time in three episodes, the Showtime drama about sisterhood and cannibalism in the Canadian Rockies dropped a Tori song in the final moments of an episode, the first being "Cornflake Girl,...
- 4/7/2023
- by Ryan Coleman
- Slash Film
The 1990s were a different time in Hollywood, and it’s worth wondering how one of the most controversial movies ever made became both a box office hit and cultural touchstone. Indeed, the lurid American crime spree depicted in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers has remained a haunting fever dream lodged firmly in the collective consciousness over the past three decades despite public outcries and attempts to ban the film. The themes of Americans’ obsession with violence as magnified through mass media have only gotten more topical since the movie’s release, but the production itself was grueling and the movie elicited major post-release outrage.
Let’s get all riled up and find out Wtf Happened to this Movie!
Natural Born Killers came from a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, with a story focusing on a man and woman who get married and go on a cross-country killing spree.
Let’s get all riled up and find out Wtf Happened to this Movie!
Natural Born Killers came from a screenplay written by Quentin Tarantino, with a story focusing on a man and woman who get married and go on a cross-country killing spree.
- 3/30/2023
- by Jake Dee
- JoBlo.com
Standing behind a large curtain at the Cultural Center Theater in the small Appalachian city of Charleston, West Virginia, Kathy Mattea readies herself to welcome another audience to NPR’s Mountain Stage.
“[Mountain Stage] has reinforced and magnified my long-held belief that music is really important,” Mattea, a Charleston native, tells Rolling Stone backstage. “Music and hospitality — that’s what it’s all about. And those two things? That’s West Virginia right there.”
With snowflakes falling onto the mountains cradling the state capitol on this particular January night, Mountain Stage listeners...
“[Mountain Stage] has reinforced and magnified my long-held belief that music is really important,” Mattea, a Charleston native, tells Rolling Stone backstage. “Music and hospitality — that’s what it’s all about. And those two things? That’s West Virginia right there.”
With snowflakes falling onto the mountains cradling the state capitol on this particular January night, Mountain Stage listeners...
- 3/25/2023
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
The first episode of Season 2 of “Yellowjackets,” which is now streaming on Showtime, features songs from Sharon Van Etten and Tori Amos that the drama’s creators had been trying to find a place for since the hit show debuted.
Van Etten’s teen angst track “17” opens the episode, and co-creator Ashley Lyle explained to TheWrap that she was blown away when when realized that the singer-songwriter is a big “Yellowjackets” fan.
“I went to see a show at the Greek last summer and it was Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten,” Lyle said. “I was totally unprepared, because when Sharon came on, the lights all went out and all the house lights went down. And then she opened her set with the audio from the scene of Natalie (Juliette Lewis) in the rehab center and I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I was like, ‘What’s happening?...
Van Etten’s teen angst track “17” opens the episode, and co-creator Ashley Lyle explained to TheWrap that she was blown away when when realized that the singer-songwriter is a big “Yellowjackets” fan.
“I went to see a show at the Greek last summer and it was Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten,” Lyle said. “I was totally unprepared, because when Sharon came on, the lights all went out and all the house lights went down. And then she opened her set with the audio from the scene of Natalie (Juliette Lewis) in the rehab center and I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I was like, ‘What’s happening?...
- 3/24/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
Spoiler Alert: This interview contains spoilers for the first episode of “Yellowjackets” on Showtime.
Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is back, and viewers who hoped to hear a song from ’90s icon Tori Amos finally get their wish, as music supervisor Nora Felder delivers a tasty treat in the form of the 1994 song “Cornflake Girl.”
Felder replaces former music supervisor Jen Malone, having helped Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” soar up the streaming charts with “Stranger Things” Season 4.
“Cornflake Girl” closes out the first episode. Teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) has a hard time saying goodbye to Jackie (Ella Purnell), who froze to death in the Season 1 finale, after the two best friends had a fight, and Jackie spent the night outside in a snit. Shauna, guilt-ridden, spends much of the Season 2 premiere with Jackie’s corpse in the meat shed, talking to her (guest star Purnell talks back).
After Shauna hits Jackie’s dead body,...
Showtime’s “Yellowjackets” is back, and viewers who hoped to hear a song from ’90s icon Tori Amos finally get their wish, as music supervisor Nora Felder delivers a tasty treat in the form of the 1994 song “Cornflake Girl.”
Felder replaces former music supervisor Jen Malone, having helped Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” soar up the streaming charts with “Stranger Things” Season 4.
“Cornflake Girl” closes out the first episode. Teen Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) has a hard time saying goodbye to Jackie (Ella Purnell), who froze to death in the Season 1 finale, after the two best friends had a fight, and Jackie spent the night outside in a snit. Shauna, guilt-ridden, spends much of the Season 2 premiere with Jackie’s corpse in the meat shed, talking to her (guest star Purnell talks back).
After Shauna hits Jackie’s dead body,...
- 3/24/2023
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
It’s official: With one decisive gulp in its Season 2 premiere (now streaming on Showtime, ahead of its cable network debut Sunday), Yellowjackets becomes the cannibalism drama we all knew it was destined to be.
But who takes that first nibble of dear, departed Jackie? And how are our survivors faring in the present? Read on for the highlights of “Friends, Romans, Countrymen.”
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Jackie’S Back!
But who takes that first nibble of dear, departed Jackie? And how are our survivors faring in the present? Read on for the highlights of “Friends, Romans, Countrymen.”
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Jackie’S Back!
- 3/24/2023
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Anna Graves, the Minnesota-born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who composes with the candor of a late-night conversation where nothing is off the table, is introduced on “Easy For You,” her first single. Revealing an honesty and vulnerability that seeps through the cracks between dusty acoustic guitar and sparse production like glimmers of light underneath a locked door, “Easy For You” is the first music from her upcoming debut EP, Ghostland.
Anna bares the roots of “Easy For You.” “It was inspired by a relationship that ended when I was in Nashville, and it haunted me,” she admits. “It devastated me, my ex was talking mad shit about me. It hurt. I lived to make other people happy. So, it felt like anything they said about me was true – even if it wasn’t. The only thing I could do was say, ‘If that’s the way you cope, do what...
Anna bares the roots of “Easy For You.” “It was inspired by a relationship that ended when I was in Nashville, and it haunted me,” she admits. “It devastated me, my ex was talking mad shit about me. It hurt. I lived to make other people happy. So, it felt like anything they said about me was true – even if it wasn’t. The only thing I could do was say, ‘If that’s the way you cope, do what...
- 3/4/2023
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
For fans of “Weekend,” “Before Sunrise” and other regret-tinged romances about what-might-have-beens and what-were-nots, “Of an Age” just might be the devastating cinematic kick you need — and a reason to rue the one who’ll never get away.
Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.
“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.
Its director, Goran Stolevski, made a modest splash at Sundance and in theaters last year with his directorial debut, the witchy, body-jumping folk horror tale “You Might Be Alone” for Focus Features. He reteams with the prestige distributor for “Of an Age,” which finds the director switching up genres but still laying down a throughline: The sexy Aussie-set gay romance is about bodies, after all, and the way they bend toward time and desire.
“All my films could really be called ‘You Won’t Be Alone,’” the Macedonian-born, Australian-based filmmaker told IndieWire over a recent Zoom interview. “It’s just that I’ve already used that title.” The out-gay director is charmingly self-effacing.
- 2/17/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Record Store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2023 edition taking place on Saturday, April 22nd, 2023.
This year promises exclusive wax from Taylor Swift, The 1975, Beach House, Pearl Jam, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Nas, and even Peppa Pig.
You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.
Taylor Swift will release the first vinyl edition of folklore: the long pond studio sessions.
The 1975 will release Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on vinyl for the first time. Available on double clear vinyl as well as cassette tape, the expanded set includes a version of “Chocolate” originally featured on the 2023 Music For Cars EP.
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who serve as this year’s Record Store Ambassadors, will release Sound Emporium EP,...
This year promises exclusive wax from Taylor Swift, The 1975, Beach House, Pearl Jam, Brian Eno, Tori Amos, Nas, and even Peppa Pig.
You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.
Taylor Swift will release the first vinyl edition of folklore: the long pond studio sessions.
The 1975 will release Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on vinyl for the first time. Available on double clear vinyl as well as cassette tape, the expanded set includes a version of “Chocolate” originally featured on the 2023 Music For Cars EP.
Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires, who serve as this year’s Record Store Ambassadors, will release Sound Emporium EP,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Consequence Staff
- Consequence - Music
The simple yet effective title “Of an Age” plays a few tricks with its double entendre; the peppy romance about a young queer man’s first brush with love captures a certain glowing youthful nostalgia. But it’s also a story split across two decades, essentially bifurcated in two recent but now solidly bygone eras. The film opens in 1999, though the boxy cars harken even further back, and ends in 2010, performing some impressive movie magic to make the actors look age-appropriate. That the entire thing is set in Melbourne, Australia, adds another layer of distance to the whole affair, coating it in a kind of dewy faraway melodrama.
While “Of an Age” leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. It’s As writer/director on his second feature, the Macedonian-born, Austalian-raised filmmaker Goran Stolevski firmly plants...
While “Of an Age” leans a little heavily toward sentimentality at times, a sharp wit and a few wild shifts in tone keep things afloat. It’s As writer/director on his second feature, the Macedonian-born, Austalian-raised filmmaker Goran Stolevski firmly plants...
- 2/15/2023
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The soundtrack to Freevee series “High School,” based on the memoir by Canadian twin sister pop duo Tegan and Sara Quin better known as Tegan and Sara, is a coming-of-age drama filled with wall-to-wall ’90s needle drops.
Says showrunner, writer and director Clea DuVall: “A lot of the needle drops were in the writing of the script, and that became an important building block.”
In all, some 70 songs appear in the show, a task handled deftly by music supervisor Brienne Rose.
Rose and DuVall pick their favorites from the first season.
“Senseless Apprentice” by Nirvana
Rose: There were a lot of conversations early on and we thought, “Ok, we’re going to go after it and let’s hope we get these.” We talked a lot about what the approach was going to be. I think what really helped us get in was the work is wonderful. So, we...
Says showrunner, writer and director Clea DuVall: “A lot of the needle drops were in the writing of the script, and that became an important building block.”
In all, some 70 songs appear in the show, a task handled deftly by music supervisor Brienne Rose.
Rose and DuVall pick their favorites from the first season.
“Senseless Apprentice” by Nirvana
Rose: There were a lot of conversations early on and we thought, “Ok, we’re going to go after it and let’s hope we get these.” We talked a lot about what the approach was going to be. I think what really helped us get in was the work is wonderful. So, we...
- 11/11/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Rolling Stone readers first saw David Lachapelle’s work when he shot Tori Amos surrounded by fireflies in an English garden for the magazine’s June 25, 1998 cover. He’d been a professional photographer for more than a decade at that point, and was on his way to becoming one of the most celebrated visual artists of his era. He’s shot 19 Rolling Stone covers overall, including Britney Spears, Kanye West, and Lizzo, but they represent just a fraction of his life’s work. A new exhibit, Make Believe, at the Fotografiska in New York City,...
- 9/22/2022
- by Griffin Lotz
- Rollingstone.com
Mesmerizing, magnetic, magnificent, majestic…all those glorious “m” words can be used to describe Tori Amos’s recent tour stop at The Met in Philadelphia, Pa. We swear if this woman were not a human being, she would be a unicorn! She gracefully holds the audience captive from the beginning to end of her nearly two hour …...
- 5/10/2022
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
The idea of a focus on the soundtrack work of Hans Zimmer was an exciting prospect. How can I spin this subject and create a new way to approach these popular scores that are loved by so many? The task itself was far more daunting; scouring through Zimmer’s filmography felt like being an archivist, for a film composer only active since the mid 80s, his output is significant. He’s one of the most famous contemporary film composers on the world stage today; the type whose fans create YouTube videos of hours-long ultimate Zimmer loops and purchase his instrumental sample packs for their digital audio workstation software. In a popular culture that feels despondent towards cinema and the many players involved in the making of it, Zimmer strikes out as a household name.In going about this mix, Zimmer’s whole filmography is explored. His cherished signature sounds are represented: tribal instruments,...
- 2/28/2022
- MUBI
Epix announced that its upcoming adventure series “Billy the Kid” will premiere on April 24.
The series follows famous outlaw William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid (Tom Blyth), from his Irish roots to his cowboy days on the American frontier, including his role in the Lincoln County War.
The news came via Epix’s presentation at the Television Critics Association’s 2022 winter press tour, during which they also released a new trailer.
Epix also announced three newly greenlit docuseries: “Women Who Rock,” Season 2 of “NFL Icons” and “The Making of a Haunting: The Amityville Murders.” “Women Who Rock” is a tribute to female pioneers in the music industry and features artists including Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis Staples, Sheila E, Macy Gray, Rickie Lee Jones, Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Kate Pierson, Tina Weymouth and Nona Hendrix. The four-part series is from Network Entertainment. John Varvatos,...
The series follows famous outlaw William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid (Tom Blyth), from his Irish roots to his cowboy days on the American frontier, including his role in the Lincoln County War.
The news came via Epix’s presentation at the Television Critics Association’s 2022 winter press tour, during which they also released a new trailer.
Epix also announced three newly greenlit docuseries: “Women Who Rock,” Season 2 of “NFL Icons” and “The Making of a Haunting: The Amityville Murders.” “Women Who Rock” is a tribute to female pioneers in the music industry and features artists including Nancy Wilson, Chaka Khan, Pat Benatar, Mavis Staples, Sheila E, Macy Gray, Rickie Lee Jones, Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Tori Amos, Kate Pierson, Tina Weymouth and Nona Hendrix. The four-part series is from Network Entertainment. John Varvatos,...
- 2/3/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
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