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Music Videos Make a Comeback -- And Los Angeles Directors Are at the Forefront
As proven on this blog and many others last week, music videos like M.I.A.'s violent tale of ginger genocide are one of the few elements of the music business that still has the power to stir conversation. In an article this week, New York Magazine tracks how the medium recovered from its early aughts slump. We'll ...
Bruce Warila: Every Major Artist is Failing as an Independent Media Channel and What to Do About It
This guest post from music tech entrepreneur and philosopher Bruce Warila (@brucewarila) is excerpted from a piece on the informative Music Think Tank blog. With minimal exceptions (taylorswift.com at #14,077), there are 20,000 websites that rank ahead of almost every artist website on earth. Why is it that sites like underjams.com, mudcat.org, museum.tv and ...
"Sound of the Soul" Premieres on Link TV May 16
New York, NY: Link TV is proud to announce the Link TV premiere of Sound of the Soul, a vivid, multi-layered portrait of both of an open-minded Arab city and the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, an extraordinary annual world music event that invites Muslim, Christian and Jewish men and women to perform in public ...
Sharon Jones on Letterman
SAUCIEST OLD SCHOOL SOUL REVUE CHARMS AGAIN It's hard to get over HOW much better the soul music being offered by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings is than the vast majority of contemporary soul out there. One can easily imagine this tune playing on the radio next to Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other soul pioneers ...
Nicole Laporte Goes Behind Closed Doors at Dreamworks
'The Men Who Would Be King' by Nicole LaPorte The 1990s were the financial apogee of Hollywood, a period when billions in fresh capital flowed into the coffers of the studios in the expectation that the world had an infinitely expanding need for American entertainment. With new cable networks launching to fill the multi-channel universe and ...
Insiders View AFI's Founding Year 1970 In Pursuit of Treasure
In 1969 Stanton Kaye won one of the initial 12 fellowships to the new American Film Institute Conservatory, then ensconced behind the walls of Beverly Hills' Greystone Mansion “Brandy" had been his front-gate key. His colleagues at Greystone included Terrence Malick, David Lynch and Schrader, the program's lone film critic. Even among these and other strong-willed ...
Krisanthi's Song on "Parenthood" on NBC
Krisanthi Pappas, Boston-based composer, lyricist and jazz vocalist is happy to have her song “One Slow Dance A Day" chosen to be featured on upcoming episodes of “Parenthood" on NBC. You can download this song on iTunes or check it out on the album “My Back Yard" krisanthi.com. About Krisanthi Pappas Krisanthi (which means “golden flower" ...
The Miles Davis Movie: Don Cheadle Talks Miles Davis Biopic Amid Iron Man 2 Hullabaloo
I'm not sure why the MTV news item about the Biopic not being a cradle-to-grave film should be adorned with an exclusive' headline. We covered this way back in August on the Biopic Blog. Oh well. Still... it's nice to see Don Cheadle having positive things about the Miles Davis Movie: “The story is really not ...
The Miles Davis Movie: Should the Miles Davis Biopic Premier at Cannes?
With the 2010 Festival de Cannes set for May 12-23, I am wondering about the Miles Davis Biopic and if, perhaps, the film could make its debut in the south of France. Once it's finally made, of course. This is pure conjecture, but it makes more sense by the minute, especially when you consider the unique ...
Audiences, and Hollywood, Flock to Smartphones
It might be hard to imagine watching The Office on a screen no bigger than a business card. But tens of thousands of people by the most conservative estimate are already doing just that. As Hollywood shrinks its films and television shows for the small screens of cellphones, its assumptions about mobile viewing are being upended ...
