One of our favorite Atlanta bands, Death On Two Wheels, will have two of their songs featured in a new film, The Violent Kind, which will have it's world premier at this year's Sundance Film Festival. "Calling Us All Back Home" and "Two Dollar Bills" (a fan favorite) are also in the band's latest record, Separation of Church & Fate, which is available right now for $5, while you can download the two featured songs for free!
By Al Kaufman
What a difference a sequel makes. Now that the first Twilight movie has made its millions, everyone has signed up to be on the sequel’s soundtrack, creating a nice time capsule piece for the state of indie rock in 2009. Yes, it’s all as dour and moody as you would expect the music for a teen vampire movie to be, but it’s not “wear black, slit your wrists, and contemplate if life is really worth living” dark.
By Al Kaufman
"This soundtrack is my mix tape for you," writes Drew Barrymore in the liner notes for the soundtrack for Whip It, the film she directed about an indie girl in Texas who falls in love with roller derby.
This collection sounds like Drew Barrymore. It's got fun, attitude, feminism, sappy love songs, and a total '80s feel, even if only one song on the soundtrack was actually recorded in the '80s.
That said, there's no cohesiveness to this thing whatsoever. Take the middle of the soundtrack. The sexual thumpings of Peaches' "Boys Wanna Be Her" gives way to Dolly Parton's feminist country anthem "Jolene," only to be followed by the southern rock-lite of 38 Special's "Caught Up in You" (the sole '80s track).
Yet in the day of iPod shuffles, this somehow works. Sure, any discriminating music lover is going to find a song or two they don't like, but they will find many more that they love. From Tilly and the Wall's "Pot Kettle Black," to England's The Go! Team's "Doing It Right," girls are going to find plenty of stuff to get excited about. The Breeders, The Ravonettes and The Ettes add to the feel. Throw in a touch of hip-hop courtesy of Cut Chemist's "What's the Attitude," and semi-nude electronica R&B sensation Har Mar Superstar's surprisingly straight interpretation of the Association and 5th Dimension hit "Never My Love," and you pretty much have more than a glimpse inside Drew Barrymore's brain. There are worse places you could be.
Whip It will be released Tuesday, September 29. Take part in an advance listening of the soundtrack Friday, September 25 at the Atlanta Rollergirls Southern Fried Smackdown, as the Dirty South Derby Girls take on the Dallas Derby Devils in the playoffs. Yaarab Shrine Center Auditorium in Midtown. 8 pm. $15.
Whip It star Juliette Lewis will be at The Drunken Unicorn on September 24. Tickets are available at Ticket Alternative.
Is it that time again already? For most of us, Labor Day came around pretty damn fast this year, despite it being a bit later than usual (September 7). And to celebrate, the Starlight Six Drive-In is holding its annual Drive Invasion the Sunday (September 6) leading up to the lovely Monday holiday.
With music from typical rock 'n' roller bands like The Woggles, Los Straitjackets, Detroit Cobras, and classic drive-in movies like The Blues Brothers, this year's Drive Invasion is sure to please. Tickets are already available at Ticket Alternative, so buy now and have a rockin' good weekend.
Various Artists
Inglourious Basterds Soundtrack
A Band Apart/Warner Brothers
By Al Kaufman
First, two confessions:
1) I believe Quentin Tarantino to be the greatest living American director behind Martin Scorsese.
2) I embarrassingly admit that I have yet to see Inglorious Basterds.
Without first seeing the movie, the songs on the soundtrack will need to stand on their own. In most cases, songs that end up in Tarantino films take on new meaning. Can a person who has seen Pulp Fiction hear Urge Overkill (or even Neil Diamond for that matter) sing "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" without picturing Uma Thurman slinking around her living room? Can someone who watched Reservoir Dogs hear Gerry Rafferty (with his first band, Stealer Wheels) sing "Stuck In the Middle With You" without seeing Michael Madsen casually cut off a cop's ear?
Continue reading "CD Review: Inglorious Basterds Soundtrack" »
By Alexandra Edwards
In order to be successful, it seems that rock documentaries need to feature three basic things: awesome music, copious alcohol, and a topless girl. Atlanta music scene doc We Fun has all three, and it's pretty great.
The movie profiles several Atlanta bands who have become well-known in the wider indie world. The Black Lips, Deerhunter and Mastodon are the big three — Atlanta's holy trinity, if you will — but there are also notable appearances by and interviews with The Coathangers, Mourdella The Babyshakes, King Khan and the Shrines, and many others.
We have a confirmed list of all the guests who will be at the Atlanta Film Festival's Opening Night Gala on April 16 at Rialto Center for the Arts. Confirmed guests (pictured above) include Eddie Vedder (musician, Pearl Jam), Josh Brolin (W., No Country for Old Men), Chris Moore ("Project Greenlight," producer of Good Will Hunting, American Pie), Howard Zinn (author, The People's History of the United States), Michael Ealy (Barbershop, Their Eyes Were Watching God), Rich Robinson (musician, Black Crowes) and Jasmine Guy ("A Different World," School Daze).
The guests are all featured in the film The People Speak (inspired by Howard Zinn’s revolutionary book, A People’s History of the United States), which will be screened at the Opening Night Gala. Following the screening, the guests will be partaking in a question and answer session, as well as mingling in the after party. For those guests with VIP tickets, there will also be a chance to meet the special guests at the VIP pre-screening reception.
Tickets for the Opening Night Gala are available here, passes for the whole festival are available here and tickets for Closing Night Extravaganza (featuring a screening of Rudo y Cursi) are available here.
UPDATE: Just put in the correct picture for Rich Robinson - the last one was mislabeled and too small for us to see it wasn't him!
There is a movie out this weekend that you just can’t miss!
Call + Response is a compelling "Rockumentary" that exposes the current state of the worldwide slave trade. Some of our favorite artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Moby, Cold War Kids, Imogen Heap, Switchfoot, Talib Kweli, Rocco Deluca and Matisyahu perform in a effort to encourage the masses to get involved. Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand accounts and explanations of this 21st century trade.
The film opens nationally this weekend, and is ahowing in two Atlanta cinemas, Landmark Theatres on Monroe Drive in Midtown, and Lefont Theaters on Sandy Springs Circle.
All ticket sale proceeds are donated to organizations that work to stop world slavery, so please go out and make a difference by watching a movie!
For more information, check out www.callandresponse.com --post by TA Carly
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