Derek Frigo, the former guitarist for Enuff Z'Nuff, died on May 28 of an apparent drug overdose. He was 37. The son of singer/actress Brittney Browne and violinist/songwriter Johnny Frigo, Derek originally planned on pursuing a career in plastic surgery. But the influence of musicians like Kris Kristofferson and Eddie Van Halen soon inspired him to become a professional guitarist. Frigo... This is...
Filed under: News , Exclusive It's that time of year where people like to make lists and check them twice. While every music blogger and Facebook friend of yours prepares their Top 10 lists for 2009, singer-songwriter Todd Snider gave Spinner a look at his. He gives slots to Phish for their new album 'Joy' (No. 2), and to the Rolling Stones , for an upcoming reissue of their all-time classic album,...
There’s a moment towards the end of Frank Pierson’s often maligned 1976 big budget remake of A Star is Born that plays over and over in my head like the fragments of a favorite song or the memory of a long lost lover never to be seen again. It’s the bit where the aging and defeated rock star John Norman Howard is flying down his last lonely highway on the way to oblivion. While the...
One of American music's most celebrated songwriters, Kris Kristofferson, continues his renewed commitment to music on "Closer To The Bone," the follow-up to 2006's "This Old Road," his first album in a dozen years.
My last Dusted review for the year is up today. It’s Jay Bolotin’s self-titled folk album, briefly available around its 1970 release, then lost for decades until Locust Music picked it up for reissue. Here’s part of the review: Another in the parade of long-lost singer-songwriter records recently recovered and dusted off for contemporary consideration, Jay Bolotin’s self-titled...
Celebrating cinematic folk, born on this day 11/23 . Get out your kazoos. Franco, Maxwell and Harpo. Half of the fun of building these posts is these completely nonsensical groupings! 1859 Billy the Kid , outlaw. I've always thought it a mystery as to exactly why people routinely idolize characters whom they would never want to meet in real life. Murderers, criminals, thieves, (especially gangsters)...
One of the surprise debuts of last year had to be Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... , a talk show featuring Costello pulling off the rare triple threat: host, performer and bandleader. Equal parts interview and jam session, the Sundance series relies upon Costello putting the artists at ease, getting even the prickliest of artists to open up and speak warmly about their influences. But, as Martin Mull...
Writer/Dir: David S. Goyer ( The Unborn ) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ryan Reynolds, Jessica Biel, Parker Posey, Dominic Purcell, Callum Keith Rennie, John Michael Higgins, Triple H, Kris Kristofferson USA , 2004 Seen: Originally on DVD, revisited on DVD November 18, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * After being...
Dir: Guillermo del Toro (Cronos, Mimic, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Leonor Varela, Kris Kristofferson, Thomas Kretschmann, Luke Goss, Norman Reedus, Ron Perlman, Donnie Yen, Tony Curran USA / Germany , 2002 Seen: Originally seen theatrically, revisited on DVD November 18, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire...
Dir: Stephen Norrington (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) Source Material: based on the Marvel Comics character Blade ( source ) Cast: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Udo Keir, Traci Lords, Donal LogueUSA , 1998 Seen: Originally seen theatrically, revisited on DVD November 17, 2009 Reason to Review: Vampathon: Vampire Film Marathon * Upon first viewing it was...
Is no one else creeped out by how Jeff Bridges looks like the perfect combination of Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson? Here, he plays Bad Blake, a once famous country singer who has fallen from grace and is trying to claw his way back up to relevancy. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a young reporter who falls for our hero, despite the fact that he is freakishly older than she is. Robert Duvall gets...
Storyline: When Blade's mumm was bitten via through a vampire during gestation, she did not feel certain that she gave her son a momentous donation while failing: All the excellent vampire attributes in blend with the first-rate compassionate skills. Blade grew up to occur a vampire hunter for retribution on his mother's departur. The vampires, who managed to infiltrate as good a pro each and every...