When Artimus Pyle, the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd for the bulk of the Seventies, heard the news yesterday about the death of his former bandmate, guitarist Gary Rossington, he immediately pulled up the last text messages between the two.
“I’ve already gone back, looked at them, and read the entire thread between Gary and I. And I will cherish these texts for the rest of my life,” Pyle, who replaced original drummer Bob Burns in 1975, tells Rolling Stone over the phone from his home in rural North Carolina.
Rossington...
“I’ve already gone back, looked at them, and read the entire thread between Gary and I. And I will cherish these texts for the rest of my life,” Pyle, who replaced original drummer Bob Burns in 1975, tells Rolling Stone over the phone from his home in rural North Carolina.
Rossington...
- 3/6/2023
- by Garret K. Woodward
- Rollingstone.com
Charlie Starr, the singer-guitarist for Blackberry Smoke, was sailing on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man Cruise in 2012 when the daughter of Gary Rossington approached him with a personal request from the guitarist: Would Starr play guitar as Rossington and his wife Dale walked down the aisle to renew their wedding vows on the cruise ship? “I said, ‘What does he want me to play?’ She said, ‘He said to play the blues.’ And I got that because that’s where Gary came from,” Starr says, calling from Zurich, Switzerland, where...
- 3/6/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Gary Rossington, a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd whose ethereal slide guitar helped make the Southern rock band’s song “Free Bird” an indelible anthem, died Sunday at the age of 71.
“It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire...
“It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire...
- 3/6/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It seems Miley Cyrus just had too much on her plate.
The 24-year-old singer took to Instagram to explain her absence at the 2017 Teen Choice Awards on Sunday, confessing that she "created an unrealistic schedule" for herself as she prepared to drop her new single, "Younger Now." Cyrus was set to accept the award show's highest honor, the Ultimate Choice Award.
Related: 2017 Teen Choice Awards -- The Complete Winners List
"To my dearest fans & all of those watching @teenchoicefox ! I want to say thank you from the very bottom of my heart for presenting me with #TheUltimateChoiceAward !" Cyrus wrote alongside the artwork for her upcoming single. "I am beyond bummed I couldn't make it to the show as I had every intention of being there to accept and celebrate this honor!"
"I created an unrealistic schedule for myself which leads me to this announcement!" she explained. "I've been tryin to keep the secret but I can't hide it...
The 24-year-old singer took to Instagram to explain her absence at the 2017 Teen Choice Awards on Sunday, confessing that she "created an unrealistic schedule" for herself as she prepared to drop her new single, "Younger Now." Cyrus was set to accept the award show's highest honor, the Ultimate Choice Award.
Related: 2017 Teen Choice Awards -- The Complete Winners List
"To my dearest fans & all of those watching @teenchoicefox ! I want to say thank you from the very bottom of my heart for presenting me with #TheUltimateChoiceAward !" Cyrus wrote alongside the artwork for her upcoming single. "I am beyond bummed I couldn't make it to the show as I had every intention of being there to accept and celebrate this honor!"
"I created an unrealistic schedule for myself which leads me to this announcement!" she explained. "I've been tryin to keep the secret but I can't hide it...
- 8/14/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Miley Cyrus will be kicking off the fall season with some new tunes.
On Tuesday, the 24-year-old singer announced that her new album, Younger Now, will drop on Sept. 29. Cyrus shared the big news on social media with a video of a studded leather jacket with "Younger Now" appearing in rope, and tagged her designer friend, Jeremy Scott, in the post. Coincidentally, Scott's runway show at New York Fashion Week will take place on Sept. 8, just a few weeks prior to Cyrus' album release.
Watch: Miley Cyrus Says She Changed Her Look Because She Felt 'Sexualized,' Quotes the 'Wise Justin Bieber'
It's turning out to be a big year for the former Hannah Montana star. In May, Cyrus dropped her hit single, "Malibu," and just this week, Et confirmed that she'll performing at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which will be held on Aug. 27.
In an exclusive interview with Et in May, Cyrus' father...
On Tuesday, the 24-year-old singer announced that her new album, Younger Now, will drop on Sept. 29. Cyrus shared the big news on social media with a video of a studded leather jacket with "Younger Now" appearing in rope, and tagged her designer friend, Jeremy Scott, in the post. Coincidentally, Scott's runway show at New York Fashion Week will take place on Sept. 8, just a few weeks prior to Cyrus' album release.
Watch: Miley Cyrus Says She Changed Her Look Because She Felt 'Sexualized,' Quotes the 'Wise Justin Bieber'
It's turning out to be a big year for the former Hannah Montana star. In May, Cyrus dropped her hit single, "Malibu," and just this week, Et confirmed that she'll performing at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, which will be held on Aug. 27.
In an exclusive interview with Et in May, Cyrus' father...
- 8/8/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Billy Ray Cyrus is one proud papa.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Achy Breaky Heart," Et's Nancy O'Dell sat down with the 55-year-old singer in Los Angeles on Monday, where he opened up about daughter Miley Cyrus' musical transition, her journey to becoming sober and gearing up to reveal her "real" self to fans.
Watch: Miley Cyrus Says She's Not Smoking Weed, Wrote a New Love Song About Liam Hemsworth
During her tell-all with Billboard magazine that was released last week, Miley revealed she was "completely clean" and had gone three weeks without smoking marijuana at the time the interview was conducted.
"As a dad, I see Miley really just functioning on, like, a figure and a joy for life," he said. "I don't know how to break it down more than just the fact that I see a joy in her spirit and something coming from within that is just pure beauty, if you...
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of "Achy Breaky Heart," Et's Nancy O'Dell sat down with the 55-year-old singer in Los Angeles on Monday, where he opened up about daughter Miley Cyrus' musical transition, her journey to becoming sober and gearing up to reveal her "real" self to fans.
Watch: Miley Cyrus Says She's Not Smoking Weed, Wrote a New Love Song About Liam Hemsworth
During her tell-all with Billboard magazine that was released last week, Miley revealed she was "completely clean" and had gone three weeks without smoking marijuana at the time the interview was conducted.
"As a dad, I see Miley really just functioning on, like, a figure and a joy for life," he said. "I don't know how to break it down more than just the fact that I see a joy in her spirit and something coming from within that is just pure beauty, if you...
- 5/10/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The inaugural Audience Awards Film Festival 2017 occurred last week to highlight many indie filmmakers in North Hollywood.
The festival honored award-winning documentarian Ondi Timoner (Jungletown), Effie T. Brown (Dear White People), Paz Lechantin of the Pixies and Jacques Thelemaque, president of Filmmakers Alliance.
The festival gave over $100,000 in cash and prizes towards aspiring artists and bringing them together with industry professionals.
Filmmaker Sarah Clift garnered the Women’s Film Challenge Grand Jury Prize for her film La Madre Buena (The Good Mother) and the Juice Award from Tangerine Entertainment.
Women’s Film Challenge Audience Award went to Montana Hall for her animated short Monster.
Live audience voting utilizing Audience Awards’ proprietary voting platform determined the Best of Fest winner, The Scared One, by Romain and Thibault Lafargue. The Best of Fest runner-up, The Girl in the Green Dress, was by Sarah Fletcher.
The Kodak Vision Award went to Haven Nutt for her film Mr. Man.
The festival honored award-winning documentarian Ondi Timoner (Jungletown), Effie T. Brown (Dear White People), Paz Lechantin of the Pixies and Jacques Thelemaque, president of Filmmakers Alliance.
The festival gave over $100,000 in cash and prizes towards aspiring artists and bringing them together with industry professionals.
Filmmaker Sarah Clift garnered the Women’s Film Challenge Grand Jury Prize for her film La Madre Buena (The Good Mother) and the Juice Award from Tangerine Entertainment.
Women’s Film Challenge Audience Award went to Montana Hall for her animated short Monster.
Live audience voting utilizing Audience Awards’ proprietary voting platform determined the Best of Fest winner, The Scared One, by Romain and Thibault Lafargue. The Best of Fest runner-up, The Girl in the Green Dress, was by Sarah Fletcher.
The Kodak Vision Award went to Haven Nutt for her film Mr. Man.
- 4/14/2017
- by Gig Patta
- LRMonline.com
Channels like Baracksdubs have found success online with videos that splice together clips from President Obama’s speeches in order to make him “sing” the lyrics to popular songs. These “dub” videos have become so popular that even Jimmy Fallon has jumped on the bandwagon, and now, you can to. With a website called Talk Obama To Me, the President can be made to speak any sentence entered by a user.
According to Engadget, Talk Obama To Me was designed by a linguistics grad student named Ed King, who created a database of Obama clips that match up with specific words. If a clip doesn’t exist to match a word entered by a user, then the word will be broken down by syllable, which doesn’t always come out sounding right but gives the project a greater range of phrases.
Talk Obama To Me doesn’t offer any editing tools,...
According to Engadget, Talk Obama To Me was designed by a linguistics grad student named Ed King, who created a database of Obama clips that match up with specific words. If a clip doesn’t exist to match a word entered by a user, then the word will be broken down by syllable, which doesn’t always come out sounding right but gives the project a greater range of phrases.
Talk Obama To Me doesn’t offer any editing tools,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
On this day in 1984, the first MTV Video Music Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall. Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler hosted, Madonna performed “Like a Virgin,” wearing her iconic bustier/wedding gown with a belt buckle that read “Boy Toy,” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” lost Video of the Year to The Cars’ “You Might Think.” The video for “Thriller” did, however, win Best Choreography and Viewers’ Choice. Watch Madonna Perform "Like A Virgin" At Bottom Among the night’s other winners were David Bowie’s “China Girl” video, Van Halen’s “Jump,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and two videos for Zz Top songs: “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man.” Other notable Sept. 14 happenings in pop culture history: • 1964: The short-lived sitcom “The Bing Crosby Show” premiered on ABC. • 1974: Eric Clapton’s cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” hit No. 1 on the...
- 9/14/2015
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
Billy Ray Cyrus is opening up about what it was like raising Miley Cyrus before she became America's twerk queen. Sitting down with Queen Latifah on her eponymous gabfest on Tuesday, the 52-year-old country crooner dished on what it was like for his daughter in the Cyrus household and the amazing artists she was exposed to in her formative years. "She grew up in a house where you'd see Waylon Jennings, Ed King, you know, the great Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar player who wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" and so many other great songs. Ed sittin' at the kitchen table showing Miley the chords to "Sweet Home Alabama or Waylon showing her "Good Hearted Woman," the "Achy Breaky Heart" singer...
- 10/1/2013
- E! Online
Sundance 2013 kicks off in Utah next week and among the multitudes of world premieres is Muscle Shoals.
Muscle Shoals is a music documentary and is the first feature from Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier. It tells the story of a city in the state of Alabama that is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music and features candid interviews and live performances with the likes of Mick Jagger, Bono, Alicia Keys, Jimmy Cliff, Keith Richards among many others.
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded Fame Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies,...
Muscle Shoals is a music documentary and is the first feature from Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier. It tells the story of a city in the state of Alabama that is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music and features candid interviews and live performances with the likes of Mick Jagger, Bono, Alicia Keys, Jimmy Cliff, Keith Richards among many others.
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the “Singing River” as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals has helped create some of the most important and resonant songs of all time. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded Fame Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies,...
- 1/11/2013
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Descendants
Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Directed by Alexander Payne
Rated R
Writer-director Alexander Payne treats us to a deeply moving story of a family that is forced to confront the very demons that led to it being so fractured. The Descendants stars George Clooney in this adaptation of a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The trio of Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rush are credited with writing the screenplay and what a screenplay at that.
The Descendants opens with a woman, Elizabeth King (Patricia Hastie), appearing to be totally enthralled with life, her eyes aglow and smiling as sea spray indicates that she’s on some type of fast moving watercraft. The next time we see her it’s with a very different look on her face. Clooney plays the woman’s husband, Matt King, a workaholic lawyer and as we soon learn - absentee father and husband.
Starring George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Directed by Alexander Payne
Rated R
Writer-director Alexander Payne treats us to a deeply moving story of a family that is forced to confront the very demons that led to it being so fractured. The Descendants stars George Clooney in this adaptation of a 2007 novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings. The trio of Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rush are credited with writing the screenplay and what a screenplay at that.
The Descendants opens with a woman, Elizabeth King (Patricia Hastie), appearing to be totally enthralled with life, her eyes aglow and smiling as sea spray indicates that she’s on some type of fast moving watercraft. The next time we see her it’s with a very different look on her face. Clooney plays the woman’s husband, Matt King, a workaholic lawyer and as we soon learn - absentee father and husband.
- 11/18/2011
- by Kerry Fleming
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Fango heard from director Steven Peros, who let us know that an official website has opened for his supernatural drama The Undying. Among the content to be found there is a new trailer for the movie, which you can also have a look at below.
The Undying, which we first reported on here, stars Deadwood’s Robin Weigert as a doctor who becomes obsessed with the ghost of a Civil War soldier dwelling in her new home, and contrives to have his spirit live again in the body of a violent criminal who died in her hospital. You can check out the official site here; Anthony Carrigan, Jay O. Sanders, Sybil Temtchine and Wes Studio also star in the film, which Peros scripted with David M. Flynn. The Undying will have its European premiere October 25 at The Irish Film Institute’s 12th Annual Horrorthon, taking place at the Ifi’s...
The Undying, which we first reported on here, stars Deadwood’s Robin Weigert as a doctor who becomes obsessed with the ghost of a Civil War soldier dwelling in her new home, and contrives to have his spirit live again in the body of a violent criminal who died in her hospital. You can check out the official site here; Anthony Carrigan, Jay O. Sanders, Sybil Temtchine and Wes Studio also star in the film, which Peros scripted with David M. Flynn. The Undying will have its European premiere October 25 at The Irish Film Institute’s 12th Annual Horrorthon, taking place at the Ifi’s...
- 8/25/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
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