Yusuf (f.k.a Cat Stevens) is celebrating what would have been George Harrison’s 80th birthday this week with a new cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road classic “Here Comes the Sun.”
The release marks the start of a new partnership between Yusuf and Dark Horse Records, the boutique record label Harrison founded, and his son Dhani continues to run with David Zonshine. Yusuf’s rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” also arrives with some suitably sunny cover art designed by the singer-songwriter’s eight-year-old granddaughter.
In a statement,...
The release marks the start of a new partnership between Yusuf and Dark Horse Records, the boutique record label Harrison founded, and his son Dhani continues to run with David Zonshine. Yusuf’s rendition of “Here Comes the Sun” also arrives with some suitably sunny cover art designed by the singer-songwriter’s eight-year-old granddaughter.
In a statement,...
- 2/22/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Archstone Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to the sci-fi thriller Futra Days, starring Tania Raymonde (Goliath), Brandon Sklenar (Midway), and Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction). The company will launch sales at AFM.
Written and directed by Ryan David (Seattle Road), the film follows Sean who, after partaking in a time travel experiment that sends him into the future, decides to investigate the man he has become by engaging in a romance with his future-self’s girlfriend in a mind-bending reality.
The pic is produced by Orian Williams, David Zonshine, and Ryan David. Executive Producers include Scott Martin, Michael Slifkin, and Jack Sheehan of Archstone, as well as the filmmaker’s manager at Roar, Alex Gittelson.
Sklenar is repped by Innovative Artists and Jay Glazer at Neon Kite and will next be seen in 1923, the upcoming prequel to Yellowstone on Paramount+. Raymonde is best known for playing Alex Rousseau in...
Written and directed by Ryan David (Seattle Road), the film follows Sean who, after partaking in a time travel experiment that sends him into the future, decides to investigate the man he has become by engaging in a romance with his future-self’s girlfriend in a mind-bending reality.
The pic is produced by Orian Williams, David Zonshine, and Ryan David. Executive Producers include Scott Martin, Michael Slifkin, and Jack Sheehan of Archstone, as well as the filmmaker’s manager at Roar, Alex Gittelson.
Sklenar is repped by Innovative Artists and Jay Glazer at Neon Kite and will next be seen in 1923, the upcoming prequel to Yellowstone on Paramount+. Raymonde is best known for playing Alex Rousseau in...
- 10/27/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
During the time she was married to Joe Strummer starting in 1995, Lucinda Tait would often hear her late husband at work in the kitchen of their house in Broomfield, in southwest England. “He had a typewriter, an old-fashioned one that would go ‘clack clack,'” Tait recalls. “When I went to sleep at night, I’d be upstairs and hear him tapping away at the kitchen table.”
Strummer’s wildly influential former band, the Clash, were long in the rear-view mirror by then, and Strummer had recently formed his latest combo,...
Strummer’s wildly influential former band, the Clash, were long in the rear-view mirror by then, and Strummer had recently formed his latest combo,...
- 7/27/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
After 50 years, George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” finally gets its first official video, and not without a little help from a lot of friends.
In the star-packed effort directed by Lance Bangs and exec produced by Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison with David Zonshine, the new “My Sweet Lord” video stars Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer as “metaphysical special agents” searching for something that can’t be seen. Sending them on the mission: Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill himself.
With seemingly most of Hollywood and New York celebrities showing up for cameos, the video includes appearances by Darren Criss, Jon Hamm, Rosanna Arquette, Joe Walsh, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Reggie Watts, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero, Patton Oswalt, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, Garfunkel and Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome), Taika Waititi, Shepard Fairey, Aimee Mullins, Rupert Friend and Harrison’s wife Olivia Harrison and their son Dhani.
“Just Extraordinary Songs...
In the star-packed effort directed by Lance Bangs and exec produced by Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison with David Zonshine, the new “My Sweet Lord” video stars Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer as “metaphysical special agents” searching for something that can’t be seen. Sending them on the mission: Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill himself.
With seemingly most of Hollywood and New York celebrities showing up for cameos, the video includes appearances by Darren Criss, Jon Hamm, Rosanna Arquette, Joe Walsh, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Reggie Watts, Moshe Kasher, Natasha Leggero, Patton Oswalt, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, Garfunkel and Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome), Taika Waititi, Shepard Fairey, Aimee Mullins, Rupert Friend and Harrison’s wife Olivia Harrison and their son Dhani.
“Just Extraordinary Songs...
- 12/15/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Fred Armisen and Vanessa Bayer set out on a mission to find the unfindable in the charming, cameo-packed new music video for George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord.”
The clip was written and directed by Lance Bangs and executive-produced by Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, as well as David Zonshine, who works with the Harrison estate. In the clip, Armisen and Bayer play a pair of metaphysical special agents for a secret agency, who are tasked by their boss (played by Mark Hamill) to seek out this unseeable something.
During the course of their search,...
The clip was written and directed by Lance Bangs and executive-produced by Harrison’s son, Dhani Harrison, as well as David Zonshine, who works with the Harrison estate. In the clip, Armisen and Bayer play a pair of metaphysical special agents for a secret agency, who are tasked by their boss (played by Mark Hamill) to seek out this unseeable something.
During the course of their search,...
- 12/15/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Dark Horse Records has released a new compilation of Joe Strummer‘s solo material, titled Assembly. The collection from the late Clash frontman also includes live renditions of the band’s “Rudie Can’t Fail” and “I Fought the Law,” recorded by Strummer and the Mescaleros at London’s Brixton Academy on November 24th, 2001. “I Fought the Law” received its own music video, created by Spencer Ramsey, on Friday.
Three-time Grammy-winning engineer Paul Hicks mixed and mastered the album, which features remastered singles and archival rarities from Strummer’s catalog.
Three-time Grammy-winning engineer Paul Hicks mixed and mastered the album, which features remastered singles and archival rarities from Strummer’s catalog.
- 3/26/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Highlights from the Clash legend Joe Strummer’s solo career will be the focus of a new collection titled Assembly, out March 26th via Dark Horse Records.
The compilation includes singles and fan favorites from Strummer’s solo LPs as well as his work with the Mescaleros, including “Coma Girl,” Johnny Appleseed,” a cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song,” and “Love Kills” from the Sid and Nancy soundtrack.
The 16-track collection will also feature a trio of unreleased performances: Renditions of the Clash’s “I Fought the Law” and...
The compilation includes singles and fan favorites from Strummer’s solo LPs as well as his work with the Mescaleros, including “Coma Girl,” Johnny Appleseed,” a cover of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song,” and “Love Kills” from the Sid and Nancy soundtrack.
The 16-track collection will also feature a trio of unreleased performances: Renditions of the Clash’s “I Fought the Law” and...
- 2/3/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Weir and Lucinda Williams will help celebrate Joe Strummer’s birthday during a special livestream tribute/charity event August 21st, starting at 3 p.m. Et.
A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer was organized and produced by NYC musician/bar owner Jesse Malin, radio DJ Jeff Raspe and Strummer estate manager David Zonshine. The two-hour show will stream for free on Strummer’s website and YouTube page, and all donations collected will benefit Save Our Stages, an organization helping independent venues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Song for Joe: Celebrating the Life of Joe Strummer was organized and produced by NYC musician/bar owner Jesse Malin, radio DJ Jeff Raspe and Strummer estate manager David Zonshine. The two-hour show will stream for free on Strummer’s website and YouTube page, and all donations collected will benefit Save Our Stages, an organization helping independent venues during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- 8/18/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“Expect the unexpected, because it’s going to get weird,” house-band bassist Austin Scaggs warned the crowd at start of the eighth annual Wammy party on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Scaggs was right in more ways than one; about an hour later, in a sort of Hollywood fever dream, Weird Al Yankovic took the stage and broke from his usual staple of parodies to sing surprisingly tight versions of Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle.”
Performances like these are the norm at The Wammys, the pre-Grammy party hosted by BMG,...
Performances like these are the norm at The Wammys, the pre-Grammy party hosted by BMG,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
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