Rayland Baxter never met Mac Miller, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t inspired by the late rapper’s body of music. Now Baxter is paying tribute to Miller with an Ep of covers called good mmornin, which he’s previewing with the release of two tracks, “Objects in the Mirror” and “2009.”
Miller died from an accidental overdose in September 2018, after struggling for years with substance abuse — troubles he often chronicled in his work. Baxter, who released his latest LP Wide Awake two months before Miller’s death, leans into the jazzy,...
Miller died from an accidental overdose in September 2018, after struggling for years with substance abuse — troubles he often chronicled in his work. Baxter, who released his latest LP Wide Awake two months before Miller’s death, leans into the jazzy,...
- 6/27/2019
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Over the course of three albums, Rayland Baxter has sketched his own picture of lush Americana and oddball folk, singing songs about fishhooks and females along the way. With his latest release, Wide Awake, he presents his own version of classic pop-rock. It’s a sound that’s rich in tone, texture and the unique songwriting of a Nashville native who grew up watching his father, pedal steel legend Bucky Baxter, playing with some of the late 20th century’s most iconic frontmen.
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Rayland Baxter was ready to get away from the world in the autumn of 2016. In this, the Nashville singer-songwriter was hardly unique, but in the three months that he spent living in an old rubber factory in rural Kentucky, with little more than a mattress, a guitar, and a Wurlitzer, Baxter did something with his political angst: he wrote an album.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
- 7/18/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Wish I Was Here, Boyhood and Guardians Of The Galaxy take a mixtape approach to their soundtracks. Ivan looks at what makes them so great...
"You gotta hear this one song. It'll change your life, I swear," a girl (Sam) in a doctor's waiting room once said to a boy (Andrew) who looked a lot like Zach Braff. Then, she placed a pair of headphones over his ears and played him The Shins.
Garden State's soundtrack became a must-have for all fans in 2004 thanks to its effective use - and curation - of indie artists, acoustic ditties and mild electronica. It was an album that showed a jukebox soundtrack (traditionally the territory of Tarantino) could do something different, whether that was introducing people to obscure bands they hadn't heard of or connecting you with others who also liked the movie's music.
10 years later, filmmakers are still chasing the same thing: the ultimate mixtape.
"You gotta hear this one song. It'll change your life, I swear," a girl (Sam) in a doctor's waiting room once said to a boy (Andrew) who looked a lot like Zach Braff. Then, she placed a pair of headphones over his ears and played him The Shins.
Garden State's soundtrack became a must-have for all fans in 2004 thanks to its effective use - and curation - of indie artists, acoustic ditties and mild electronica. It was an album that showed a jukebox soundtrack (traditionally the territory of Tarantino) could do something different, whether that was introducing people to obscure bands they hadn't heard of or connecting you with others who also liked the movie's music.
10 years later, filmmakers are still chasing the same thing: the ultimate mixtape.
- 9/19/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The Shins have a great tune "So Says I," but now it's time for a hazy "So Now What." The indie rockers -- who have been curbed more recently as James Mercer has pursued other musics with Danger Mouse in their project Broken Bells -- contributed the new tune to Zach Braff's "Wish I Were Here" film, which went the crowd-funding route last year. As you'll remember, Natalie Portman famously put headphones on Braff's head to the tune of The Shins "New Slang" in the former "Scrubs" star's directorial debut "Garden State" (2004). "It'll change your life, I swear," her character Sam says. Well, it certainly did change the band life of The Shins. So the circle of life continues. "Wish I Was Here" also has new songs from the likes of Bon Iver, Coldplay and Cat Power, plus previously released songs from The Head and the Heart and Hozier.
- 6/20/2014
- Hitfix
James Franco: poet, model, actor, novelist, director, teacher… People often poke fun at him, but that’s because he puts himself in dangerous positions and is prepared to take a fall in the pursuit of his art(s). Franco’s forays into film directing have not all been successful, but this time the man has got it right.
Child of God is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name and it remains true to the book, including chapter headings and voiceovers taken from the text. This is a gothic horror about a temperamental outcast, Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) living in 1960s Tennessee. His mother ran off and his daddy hanged himself when Lester was just a boy, by the time we see Lester, he is a grown man with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. The locals are exasperated and the sheriff’s patience is wearing thin as Lester...
Child of God is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel of the same name and it remains true to the book, including chapter headings and voiceovers taken from the text. This is a gothic horror about a temperamental outcast, Lester Ballard (Scott Haze) living in 1960s Tennessee. His mother ran off and his daddy hanged himself when Lester was just a boy, by the time we see Lester, he is a grown man with paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. The locals are exasperated and the sheriff’s patience is wearing thin as Lester...
- 8/31/2013
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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