Paul Schrader’s 1999 adaptation of novelist Russell Banks’ Affliction, led by scorching performances from Nick Nolte and James Coburn, was an unsettlingly bleak meeting of two writers who share a fascination with conflicted morality and complicated relationships pushed to dark extremes. But Schrader’s return to the late author’s work, this time the 2021 novel Foregone, yields fewer rewards. For a film about big themes like mortality, memory, truth and redemption, Oh, Canada feels both slight and stubbornly page-bound, too unsatisfyingly fleshed out to give its actors meat to chew on.
Published two years before Banks’ death in early 2023, the book is an intimate portrait of a man contemplating his legacy while approaching the end of his life. It’s easy to see what drew Schrader to the story, given his own pandemic health scares and the diagnosis of his wife, the actress Mary Beth Hurt, with Alzheimer’s. But...
Published two years before Banks’ death in early 2023, the book is an intimate portrait of a man contemplating his legacy while approaching the end of his life. It’s easy to see what drew Schrader to the story, given his own pandemic health scares and the diagnosis of his wife, the actress Mary Beth Hurt, with Alzheimer’s. But...
- 5/17/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Doja Cat shares a Teezo Touchdown-assisted B-side, and Vampire Weekend delivers some gangster guitar magic. Plus, a sweet highlight from Young Miko’s debut album, new music from Charli Xcx, Omar Apollo, and a previously unreleased Prince track.
Doja Cat feat. Teezo Touchdown, “Masc” (YouTube)
Young Miko, “Princess Peach” (YouTube)
Vampire Weekend, “Prep-School Gangster” (YouTube)
Charli Xcx, “B2b” (YouTube)
Prince, “United States of Division” (YouTube)
Omar Apollo,...
Doja Cat feat. Teezo Touchdown, “Masc” (YouTube)
Young Miko, “Princess Peach” (YouTube)
Vampire Weekend, “Prep-School Gangster” (YouTube)
Charli Xcx, “B2b” (YouTube)
Prince, “United States of Division” (YouTube)
Omar Apollo,...
- 4/5/2024
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent has announced his new album Revelator, out April 5th and marking his debut for Verve Records. As a preview, he’s also shared the record’s title track.
Houck self-produced Revelator and recorded it in his own Nashville studio over the course of six months. It features collaborators including Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Jim White of Dirty Three, as well as Houck’s partner, singer-songwriter/pianist Jo Schornikow. The album is billed as an exploration of “unspoken truths that come with the gravity of navigating home, partnership, and family,” contemplating the dark sides bubbling beneath one’s seemingly idyllic life.
Houck says that he considers “Revelator” to be perhaps the best song he’s ever written. “You’ve ridden beyond where you can safely touch down/ And you’re out in the void past where you could’ve had turned around,” he sings over an expectedly dreamy instrumental.
Houck self-produced Revelator and recorded it in his own Nashville studio over the course of six months. It features collaborators including Jack Lawrence of The Raconteurs and Jim White of Dirty Three, as well as Houck’s partner, singer-songwriter/pianist Jo Schornikow. The album is billed as an exploration of “unspoken truths that come with the gravity of navigating home, partnership, and family,” contemplating the dark sides bubbling beneath one’s seemingly idyllic life.
Houck says that he considers “Revelator” to be perhaps the best song he’s ever written. “You’ve ridden beyond where you can safely touch down/ And you’re out in the void past where you could’ve had turned around,” he sings over an expectedly dreamy instrumental.
- 1/24/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
There is something uneasy in the full moon — some eeriness, some mystery. A monthly reminder of our infinitesimal nature, the full moon inspired the poems of Hesiod, ancient Ojibwe lunar calendars, and still today, compels amateur astrologists to charge their Amazon-bought healing crystals beneath the new-age moonlight. Now it’s moved Matthew Houck, the artful folk-rocker known as Phosphorescent, to launch the Full Moon Project, a song series wherein each month, upon the full moon (the word “month,” accordingly, has its etymological roots in the Old English word “mōna,” or...
- 12/7/2022
- by Leo DeLuca
- Rollingstone.com
Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck performed a melancholy solo version of “C’est La Vie No. 2” on Wednesday’s Late Late Show.
The frontman stripped away the ballad’s lush keyboard arrangement, crooning softly over an electric guitar that he strummed with his thumb. The show’s cameras swirled around the stage, capturing the songwriter in dramatic low angles and close-ups.
The intimate staging suited the song’s starkly personal lyrics. “I stood out in the night in an empty field and I called your name,” Houck sang. “I don’t...
The frontman stripped away the ballad’s lush keyboard arrangement, crooning softly over an electric guitar that he strummed with his thumb. The show’s cameras swirled around the stage, capturing the songwriter in dramatic low angles and close-ups.
The intimate staging suited the song’s starkly personal lyrics. “I stood out in the night in an empty field and I called your name,” Houck sang. “I don’t...
- 1/31/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Editors’ Pick: Cat Power, Wanderer
“Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album, Wanderer with the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most fragile-sounding sets she’s ever made.”
Read Our Review: Cat Power’s Timelessly Haunting Wanderer
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
“One point of A Star Is Born is that everything about Ally’s...
“Chan Marshall, aka: Cat Power, lays full claim to the title of her tenth album, Wanderer with the authority of a blueswoman who’s seen some shit,” writes Will Hermes, “alternately conjuring trances and slapping you out of them, projecting clear-eyed, uncompromising strength on one of the most fragile-sounding sets she’s ever made.”
Read Our Review: Cat Power’s Timelessly Haunting Wanderer
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
“One point of A Star Is Born is that everything about Ally’s...
- 10/5/2018
- by Maura Johnston, Mosi Reeves, Jonathan Bernstein, Kory Grow, Brittany Spanos, Will Hermes, Hank Shteamer and Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Matthew Houck’s studio is located at the back of a warehouse complex in East Nashville, the sort of place that looks like a quirky crime family in a Showtime drama might store a suitcase of unmarked bills there, hiding their stash in one of the pinkish-gray structures that border a parking lot of cracked asphalt. Instead, it’s home to a pasta factory, some visual artists, a handyman’s shop and Houck’s Spirit Sounds studio, where he made C’est La Vie, his seventh LP as Phosphorescent. In...
- 10/4/2018
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Phosphorescent stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night to play a joyous version of “New Birth in New England,” from the band’s new LP C’est La Vie.
The group’s first album in five years and first since relocating from their previous home in Brooklyn to Nashville, C’est La Vie is set to drop this Friday, October 5th via Dead Oceans. Singer and leader Matthew Houck, standing center stage in a T-shirt and baseball hat, leads the way through an ebullient, unhurried...
The group’s first album in five years and first since relocating from their previous home in Brooklyn to Nashville, C’est La Vie is set to drop this Friday, October 5th via Dead Oceans. Singer and leader Matthew Houck, standing center stage in a T-shirt and baseball hat, leads the way through an ebullient, unhurried...
- 10/3/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
As a musician my greatest fear always is not knowing where the music comes from. I'm always afraid that somebody's going to turn off the tap.
Right now there's no composer in Hollywood who's more in-demand than Hans Zimmer. His rousing scores can be heard in everything from dramas 12 Years a Slave and Rush to blockbuster epics such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.
Hans Zimmer's 10 best movie soundtracks
Digital Spy spoke to the Oscar-winning musician about his recent work, scoring superhero epics Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Batman vs Superman, and staying tight-lipped on Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
You've said in the past that you didn't think you were the right choice to score 12 Years a Slave - what made you change your mind?
It's easy - I don't think Steve McQueen understands the word no. That's the flippant way of saying it.
Right now there's no composer in Hollywood who's more in-demand than Hans Zimmer. His rousing scores can be heard in everything from dramas 12 Years a Slave and Rush to blockbuster epics such as The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy.
Hans Zimmer's 10 best movie soundtracks
Digital Spy spoke to the Oscar-winning musician about his recent work, scoring superhero epics Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Batman vs Superman, and staying tight-lipped on Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
You've said in the past that you didn't think you were the right choice to score 12 Years a Slave - what made you change your mind?
It's easy - I don't think Steve McQueen understands the word no. That's the flippant way of saying it.
- 5/12/2014
- Digital Spy
This week on the Sound On Sight flagship podcast, we discuss The Amazing Spider-Man 2, written by the Lost/Alias team of Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner; and directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer). For a movie that introduces a ton of characters and dips into a wide variety of subplots, we figured there would be lot to talk about, and so we decided to invite special guest Scott Beggs (the managing editor of Film School Rejects, and host of the Broken Projector podcast), to join us in the discussion.
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- 5/5/2014
- by Sound On Sight Podcast
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The Pitchfork Music Festival was in high gear Saturday, packed with artists comprising the heaviest of the weekend's performances -- and lots of screaming.
Ear plugs were a must for most of Saturday when the likes of The Swans, Savages and The Breeders took the noise to tinnitus-inducing levels. All the bands on the darker side of the rock spectrum shredded and screamed under the (still hot!) sun until Solange cooled things off her exuberant early-evening grooves.
Here's our roundup of Saturday's highlights (story continues after the slideshow):
Phosphorescent was among the few poppier, harmonious acts amid a day packed with screamers. Noodle-y electronic burts gave their mellow songs a jolt of psych-summer jamminess -- all to great effect -- while songs like "Nothing Was Stolen" ranked among the day's finest examples of vocal harmonies. Perhaps knowing Saturday would have such moments in short supply, the band capped off...
Ear plugs were a must for most of Saturday when the likes of The Swans, Savages and The Breeders took the noise to tinnitus-inducing levels. All the bands on the darker side of the rock spectrum shredded and screamed under the (still hot!) sun until Solange cooled things off her exuberant early-evening grooves.
Here's our roundup of Saturday's highlights (story continues after the slideshow):
Phosphorescent was among the few poppier, harmonious acts amid a day packed with screamers. Noodle-y electronic burts gave their mellow songs a jolt of psych-summer jamminess -- all to great effect -- while songs like "Nothing Was Stolen" ranked among the day's finest examples of vocal harmonies. Perhaps knowing Saturday would have such moments in short supply, the band capped off...
- 7/21/2013
- by Kim Bellware
- Huffington Post
One Night Only Two couples pass an uneasy evening together in a music club. Saturday Night Live comedy star Kristen Wiig turns in a dramatic performance in this short study of modern relationships. Produced by: Dan Berk Screenplay: Chadd Harbold Cinematography: Steve Gainer Editing: Bryan Gaynor Sound: Silver Sound Music: Phosphorescent, Peter & the Wolf Cast: Garret Dillahunt, Brian Petsos Drunk History: Tesla & Edison On January 7, Duncan [...]...
- 6/6/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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