Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features guitarist Jim Weider.
According to conventional rock wisdom, the Band ended on Thanksgiving 1976 with The Last Waltz, the most famous farewell concert in music history.
According to conventional rock wisdom, the Band ended on Thanksgiving 1976 with The Last Waltz, the most famous farewell concert in music history.
- 10/30/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Life right now feels as if we were just served the nastiest shot of well tequila, without even a lime to chase it. But Yacht Rock Revue offer an optimistic solution in their new song “Bad Tequila”: “When life gives you bad tequila, make a good margarita.” It’s just the right state of mind — and soundtrack — for this quarantined Cinco de Mayo.
The Atlanta-based band, best known for their note-perfect live renditions of smooth Seventies jams like “Brandy,” “What a Fool Believes,” and “Rich Girl,” released their first full-length album of original material,...
The Atlanta-based band, best known for their note-perfect live renditions of smooth Seventies jams like “Brandy,” “What a Fool Believes,” and “Rich Girl,” released their first full-length album of original material,...
- 5/5/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
If you’ve ever listened to The Wrestling Album, the WWF’s 1985 curiosity that cast its muscled superstars as singers, you can hear why producer Rick Derringer figured he needed an actual vocalist for the 1987 follow-up, Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II.
Sandwiched in among colorful rasslin’ managers like Jimmy Hart and Slick and grapplers the Honky Tonk Man and Hillbilly Jim was Robbie Dupree, the soft-rock singer-guitarist who had a pair of hits in 1980 with the dangerously smooth “Steal Away” and “Hot Rod Hearts.” For Piledriver, he leaned hard into the theme of the latter,...
Sandwiched in among colorful rasslin’ managers like Jimmy Hart and Slick and grapplers the Honky Tonk Man and Hillbilly Jim was Robbie Dupree, the soft-rock singer-guitarist who had a pair of hits in 1980 with the dangerously smooth “Steal Away” and “Hot Rod Hearts.” For Piledriver, he leaned hard into the theme of the latter,...
- 3/2/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“If you asked me five years ago to do a full original album with this band, I’d say, ‘Tear my heart out and leave it on the floor,'” Yacht Rock Revue singer Nick Niespodziani says.
It’s hard to tell if he’s being hyperbolic.
The 41-year-old frontman of the Atlanta-based tribute band has always been conflicted about his gum-chewing, polyester-wearing, hair-feathering throwback group. In his eyes, it was a way to make a living, not a serious creative outlet. Besides, he had other projects to flex that muscle,...
It’s hard to tell if he’s being hyperbolic.
The 41-year-old frontman of the Atlanta-based tribute band has always been conflicted about his gum-chewing, polyester-wearing, hair-feathering throwback group. In his eyes, it was a way to make a living, not a serious creative outlet. Besides, he had other projects to flex that muscle,...
- 2/28/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
The I Love You Phillip Morris soundtrack. So, the Steven Russell biopic finally arrives in American cinemas, a year after its initial release in Europe and Asia, and having already grossed $18m. Speculation in certain media outlets suggests that the ridiculous delay for this hugely entertaining comedic romp (comfortably superior to other recent multiplex-friendly A-list starring comedies like, say, The Men Who Stare At Goats) is mostly due to homophobia, which of course is true. Jim Carrey playing a gay man? Well, I guess we could… what’s that? Having enthusiastic gay sex? On-screen? With another man? Not just, like, making a series of crass and implicitly bigoted anti-gay generalisations for cheap yucks? No no no no no. No no no. No. Gay characters as protagonists? Treated equally to straight characters? That is not what the American public want. What’s next, black protagonists? Female protagonists? Sure we do a few of them,...
- 1/8/2011
- by Chris Neilan
- Movie-moron.com
The MacGruber soundtrack. Co-written by and starring SNL comic Will Forte, MacGruber is effectively a feature length spoof of MacGuyver; a TV show that last aired round about the time the dinosaurs were still strutting their stuff and is these days primarily known for being Patty and Selma Bouvier’s fave small screen thrill.
At least the fact that MacGruber’s satirical target is marooned in the shadow corridor where the ‘80s tipped into the ‘90s gives the former’s tie-in record a semi-legitimate excuse for adhering to the current favoured blueprint for movie soundtracks targeted at a young male demographic, namely parading a mass of ironically-selected retro radio tracks, with a few contemporary college rock stompers thrown into the mix for credibility’s sake.
Some of the exhumed material takes us to dark places. Famed ass-clown Michael Bolton is the Black Death of music and should be kept sealed...
At least the fact that MacGruber’s satirical target is marooned in the shadow corridor where the ‘80s tipped into the ‘90s gives the former’s tie-in record a semi-legitimate excuse for adhering to the current favoured blueprint for movie soundtracks targeted at a young male demographic, namely parading a mass of ironically-selected retro radio tracks, with a few contemporary college rock stompers thrown into the mix for credibility’s sake.
Some of the exhumed material takes us to dark places. Famed ass-clown Michael Bolton is the Black Death of music and should be kept sealed...
- 6/6/2010
- by Paul Martin
- Movie-moron.com
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