The entire movie was filmed in five days during a huge U.K. music festival, most of the cast had to be convincing
as rock musicians — and even perform live — and the basic plot is a pretty standard romantic comedy with a completely contrived central conflict.
Founded in 2009 by Rob Dickinson, a Los Angeles - based Brit with a degree in product design, a successful career
as a rock musician and a life - long love of old - school Porsches, Singer Vehicle Design and the cars it creates are the physical embodiment of his all - consuming vision of the perfect 911.
I had a guitar in my hand and dreams of making it big
as a rock musician: a typical teenage guitar infatuation, you could say.
JEFFREY DEITCH — Why shouldn't a major artist be as important
as a rock musician — be someone who can transmit radical ideas about progressive culture to the world, in the model of, say, John Lennon?
His career as an artist was interrupted when he gained considerable success
as a rock musician.
Not exact matches
2010 — Bruce Cockburn, a celebrated Canadian folk -
rock musician and activist who uses his art
as a podium to draw attention to important environmental issues such
as oil spills and deforestation.
Josh Tillman, the singer - songwriter better known
as Father John Misty, is quickly becoming one of the most interesting
musicians in indie
rock.
18) The fact that there is a later punk - driven attempt to democratize
rock fame (and not in the fatuous way that Andy Warhol's «15 - minutes of fame» comment suggested) or that pop / disco artists like Michael Jackson and Madonna will pick up on Bowie's fame - playing and image - emphatic example, in Madonna's case overtly subordinating the music to the prerogatives of notoriety, do not alter what ALMOST FAMOUS is showing us, that
rock can be thought of
as a social phenomenon / scene that one might belong to («you're too sweet for
rock and roll» is said not by a
musician to a
musician, but by a groupie to a
rock writer), that is
as fame - focused
as it is music - focused.
Kid
Rock memorabilia is part of the restaurant's décor,
as is a live - music stage that will showcase up - and - coming
musicians.
The
Rock & Brews menu features rock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul as well as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable st
Rock & Brews menu features
rock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul as well as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable st
rock musicians» favorite foods that feed the soul
as well
as the appetite, and an ever - changing, award - winning craft beer selection offers hundreds of international artisanal breweries, served up by a knowledgeable staff.
Recent studies have explored the impact of career - ending injuries for
musicians and soldiers — injuries that generated intense negative emotions
as they approached
rock bottom.
In the second half of the 20th century, the denim jacket became indelibly associated with pop culture
as it was adopted by artists: beat intellectuals,
rock stars, punks, bikers and hip - hop
musicians.
Musician (Blues, country,
Rock, semi classical [own compositions]-RRB- International writer (Poetry / short stories, paxbellumhathotmaledotcodotuk), International artist, I love animals and have a rescue German Shepherd I enjoy cooking for friends, gardening, I also act
as a voluntary carer.
Rock musician who has traveled the world
as a full time working musican, originally from New York / New Jersey, has recently grounded in the Philadelphia area.
Signaling the determination of indigenous
musicians to assert their enduring role in
rock, the doc takes Fred Lincoln «Link» Wray, Jr.'s seminal guitar instrumental «Rumble»
as its departure point.
Despite the heightened expectations created by their collective resumes, the supergroup's self - titled debut, a blend of new wave, punk, and indie
rock that was recorded live (except for vocals), was far from a disappointment, serving
as an excellent showcase for
musicians at the height of their abilities.
Running approximately two - and - a-half minutes, the single's ominous guitar riffs have been widely cited
as early examples of the power chord technique, a
rock»n' roll staple beloved by
musicians as diverse
as The Who's Pete Townsend and punk pioneers The Ramones.
Done in ahead of his time by an overhyped publicity machine, 70s glam
rock musician Jobriath retreated to the Chelsea Hotel to die, forgotten,
as one of the earliest casualties of AIDS.
John Doe is a man who balances two well - respected careers —
as a
musician, Doe was the co-founder, songwriter, vocalist, and bassist of one of America's most acclaimed alternative
rock bands, X, and while he continues to write and record new material, he has also carved out a reputation
as a busy and well - regarded character actor.
Australian
rock legend Nick Cave is the subject for this semi-documentary look at a
musician at the twilight of his long and esteemed career, capturing his mindset
as it exists in the moment and the years that led up to the man he is today.
Instead, All Is By My Side only covers Hendrix's life from 1966 - 67, chronicling how he went from being a backup guitarist performing at New York's Cheetah Club, to breaking out
as a music sensation in London - offering «an intimate portrait of the sensitive young
musician on the verge of becoming a
rock legend,» according to the official synopsis.
As the other two try to stop her, a failed rock musician - turned - pizza delivery man (Aaron Paul) pops up with the same intention as the other
As the other two try to stop her, a failed
rock musician - turned - pizza delivery man (Aaron Paul) pops up with the same intention
as the other
as the others.
11 Paul Giamatti
as Kryptonite for
Musicians It was bad enough the first time casting directors did this to us on the ill fated musical
Rock of Ages.
It starred Adam Faith, Keith Moon and David Essex
as believable
rock musicians.»
Remembering Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart — Jason Heller eulogizes the
musician, who died in September at age 56,
as someone who helped influence alt -
rock giants like Nirvana but didn't see the appreciation he deserved in his lifetime.
Le Donk & Scor - zay - zee Director and Screenwriter: Shane Meadows In this unpredictable, irrepressible ode to spontaneous filmmaking, Paddy Considine stars
as rock roadie and failed
musician, Le Donk.
The film starts out gently
as a romance between Maxime (Vincent Macaigne), a 33 - year - old
rock musician visiting his father in provincial France, and local teenager Mélodie (Solène Rigot).
The latest in a seemingly new - wave of uplifting Irish cinema, Gerard Walsh's sophomore effort, South, stars newcomer Darragh O'Toole (Red
Rock)
as seventeen - year - old Tom, an aspiring
musician suffering from stage fright.
I also spent time living in a
musicians» commune (which included a number of cousins of Queen Elizabeth),
as I was married to the lead singer of a
rock»n' roll band.
Dangriga is known
as the cultural capital of Belize, a thriving coastal town where local Garifuna
musicians invented the indigenous musical genre of punta and punta
rock.
There is also a range of instrumental
rock music from the original Burnout trilogy, alongside classical music during panoramic views composed by some of the greatest
musicians of the classical era such
as Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Vivaldi.
Before I started game development I was a guitarist / singer in various
rock bands over the past 20 years and if I learned anything from being a
musician is you are nothing without the people who come to your shows, buy your music, and etc. so it's important to interact with your fans and I feel this is something that needs to be carried over
as indie developer.
As the title suggests, Smash Hits features a collection of songs from the first five titles of the franchise, before Guitar Hero learned a lesson from
Rock Band and invited the other
musicians along.
In addition to the killer track list, the game will feature
rock icons such
as Hayley Williams of Paramore and Travis Barker of +44 and blink - 182 and a collection of many other superstar
musicians making their video game debuts on the Guitar Hero stage.
The lists contain works by a wide range of
musicians, from singer - songwriters like Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan to such classic -
rock acts
as Alvin Lee and the Allman Brothers Band.
Blue jeans, which have been worn from miners, frontiersmen, blues men,
rock and roll
musicians, and members of contemporary hip - hop culture, have been claimed by the artist
as homonym (genes) and metaphor, symbolizing a fusion of American culture and African ancestry.
Musician, producer and beat maker, Sharkey, has worked and performed with such heavyweights
as Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Rick Rubin, Everlast, Spank
Rock, Jedi Mind Tricks, Kool Keith, and Wyclef Jean.
Before he started the gallery at the age of 28 in 1983, Martin played the violin, saxophone and keyboards
as a professional
musician in an orchestra and an ensemble
as well
as in a
rock band, a jazz band and a folk band.
Recommended reading In Rolling Stone, performance artist and
musician Cosey Fanni Tutti talks to Judy Berman about pornography, her time
as a member of avant - garde
rock group Throbbing Gristle, and being a «wrecker of civilisation».
Film director Baz Luhrman, actress Sienna Miller,
musicians Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora,
as well
as oldies but goldies Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey drank Laurent - Perrier champagne and nibbled mini
rock shrimp burgers, teriyaki salmon and mini Cornettos until the crowd slowly dissolved around midnight.
Acting
as a griot, or African
musician / storyteller, Gray presents his experience
as part of an oral tradition, connecting a lineage of
rock «n» roll from Hollywood to the Mississippi Delta, Chicago Blues and back into the traditional African drumming that textures his performance.
A pioneer
rock musician —
as a singer, songwriter,
musician, and actor — Pop began performing in the 1960s, becoming known for strenuous and unpredictable stage performances that often left his body battered and cut.
Thursday @ Steven Wolf Fine Arts: Revisiting the birth of punk
rock in the»70s, this show takes a look at the colliding worlds
as musicians made art and artists made music.
Creed, who won the Turner prize in 2001 with an exceptionally dreary piece of conceptual art that involved (yawn) a lightbulb switching on and off (yawn, yawn) in an empty gallery (doze), has another side
as a punky
rock musician.
This publication groups together her portraits of
rock musicians such
as David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Jarvis Cocker, Pete Doherty, Noel and Liam Gallagher, John Lydon and Keith Richards, and opera singers such
as Jessye Norman, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld — depicted not in traditional poses, but in performance.
In downtown New York venues like Max's Kansas City, prominent art - world personalities encountered radical
musicians working within the generic conventions of
Rock - n - Roll, such
as the New York Dolls, Blondie, Iggy Pop and The Velvet Underground.
This playlist is inspired by Tropicália
musicians such
as Caetano Veloso and GiIberto Gil,
as well was the
rock and roll
musicians like Jimi Hendrix from whom Oiticica took inspiration in the 1970s.
William Blanchard started his career
as a
musician with his first band Bruce Wayne and the Batniks (1982 - 89), a time in which he had a
rock and roll epiphany (involving sex and drugs), in which «God» gave him the name «Wildcat», which he has used
as an artist and
musician ever since.
These shots of Vicious, culled by Prince from mass media sources, show the
musician in various moments of punk
rock ecstasy,
as well
as in states of visible deterioration — in one he is seen in the ecstatic thralls of an on - stage performance, while in another he appears catatonic, lying on the ground in a presumably drug - induced stupor with microphone held limply in one hand.
She has always used a variety of natural (sand, dirt,
rocks, seed pods) and unconventional (panty hose, found objects, masking tape) materials to fashion her works, utilizing these materials
as a jazz
musician utilizes notes and sounds to improvise a composition.