Sentences with phrase «rock critic»

As legendary rock critic Lester Bangs, Hoffman gives Almost Famous its critical reference point, as the middle ground between the two worlds the young William (Patrick Fugit) is juggling.

Soon, he has befriended the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs (beautifully played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) who gives him his first journalistic assignment.

A stark contrast to the now - forlorn future - faith of folks like rock critic Simon Reynolds, discussed in the Songbook post below.

A stark contrast to the now - forlorn future - faith of folks like rock critic Simon....

Perry has a new album, Teenage Dream, which rock critic Ken Tucker says is just one part of what he calls «the Katy Perry art project.»

-RRB- because it's inspired by some personal experiences he had as a young aspiring rock critic while following The Allman Brothers back in the early 70s.

This is the most personal of Cameron Crowe's films (director of JERRY MAGUIRE, SINGLES and SAY ANYTHING) because it's inspired by some personal experiences he had as a young aspiring rock critic while following The Allman Brothers back in the early 70s.

Rock critic Robert Christgau examines the evocative use of three early Leonard Cohen songs in Robert Altman's brilliant revisionist western.

Actually, «punk rock,» as it is called, has brought about some useful changes in popular music, as many respected rock critics have pointed out, and its roots can be traced back to the very origins of rock itself, and perhaps even a little bit farther: «It goes without saying,» Green Phillips has written in Rip It Up: The Sound of the American Urban Experience, «that punk rock is outrageous.

But British Gen - X rock critic Simon Reynolds has written a book, Retromania, that culminates in an anguished articulation of this third objection.

Veronica (Robertson) falls for two guys she meets at a party — witty and intellectual rock critic Abel (Shaech) and passionate punk drummer Zed (Keeslar)-- and the three of them attempt to live together while adjusting to life in their unconventional relationship.

A sex comedy about a young actress who falls in love with a punk rock drummer and a free - lance rock critic.

They are like rock critics who want Alejandro Escovedo and Son Volt to be more revered than U2.

In Cameron Crowe's gilded memories of being a teenage rock critic on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine, his protagonist's muse is an idealistic groupie named Penny Lane.

Jeff Castelaz was one of Milwaukee \'s best rock critics in the early \»90s before going into music management and moving to LA.

BACKSTAGE WITH ROCK GODS Spurned by rock critics for being over-hyped, depraved and savage toward the press, Led Zeppelin finally decided in 1975 that it might be a business advantage to invite a handful of top - tier reporters to accompany the band on what was certain to be a triumphant tour of America.

Hornby analyzed «Smoke,» declaring Folds «a proper songwriter, although he doesn't seem to get much credit for it, possibly because rock critics are less impressed by sophisticated simplicity than by sub-Dylanesque obfuscation: his words wouldn't look so good written down, but he has range.»

Billed completely accurately as «half memoir, half manifesto,» the first book from the British rock critic, which was released in the UK to rave reviews last year, is a ruthlessly honest and witty critique of modern society, as seen through the lens of Moran's own experience.

In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs famously denounced James» Taylor's music (in the essay, «James Taylor Marked for Death») as «I - Rock, because it is so relentlessly, involutedly egocentric,» making Bangs want to push Taylor (and Elton John) off a cliff.

Rock critic granddad Robert Christgau weighs in on the Ramones show at the Queens Museum: «given the band's aesthetic, which was always rigorously formalist, maybe I shouldn't prize this juvenilia.

Narrator: Wool took this text from a book that rock critic Greil Marcus wrote about punk.

July 1, 2011 • Rock critic Ken Tucker says that Beyonce's new album, titled 4, is something of a risk — it's not merely a collection of new songs, but a personal reassessment of the kind of pop star she wants to be.

Dare I ask under what rock his critics are hiding under??

In the early 70s he formed a proto - punk band admired by the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs, called Destroy All Monsters, whose gigs were said to be so extreme they approached performance art.

In «Almost Famous,» he's rock critic Lester Bangs, the Mattress Man Dean Trumbell in «Punch - Drunk Love,» the gossip reporter Freddy Lounds in «Red Dragon,» schoolteacher Elinsky in «25th Hour,» the preacher in the Civil War epic «Cold Mountain, and won an Oscar for «Capote.»

As any rock critic knows, the very notion of analyzing the stuff is a direct violation of the message of the music itself.

Tim Jonze takes the helm as Music Weekly delves into the tricky business of being a rock critic: featuring testimony from NME legend Nick Kent

Rock critic Ken Tucker says the record doesn't contain Clarkson's strongest material, but still shows off her powerful vocal cords.

After majoring in economics and literature, she'd had several careers: as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, a successful literary and commercial translator, even a rock critic.

O'Grady first identified as an artist when she was in her forties, making her first public artwork in 1980 after previous careers as an intelligence analyst for the US government, a literature translator, and a rock critic.