Marianne Faithfull, "Easy Come, Easy Go" (Decca) **** On her latest full-length collection, Marianne Faithfull, the queen of torch songs for the damaged soul, reteams with producer Hal Willner for another beautifully haunting tour of a landscape littered with the detritus of shredded hearts.
The second disc is equally strong. From David Thomas' deranged and queasy "What Do We Do with a Drunken Sailor" to Jolie Holland's lazy and luxuriant "The Grey Funnel Line," from Loudon Wainwright III's unspeakably nasty "Good Ship Venus" to Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley's slowcore stunner "A Drop of Nelson's Blood," the tracks careen from the bawdy to the bathetic and back again. Producer Hal Willner isn't playing the usual compiler's game, reviving a moribund genre by siphoning off the strangeness. Like the sea that they celebrate, these songs are too deep to plumb.
AUSTIN, Texas - The keynote address to this year's South by Southwest Music Conference wasn't a speech. Instead it was a conversation between two friends and admirers about American culture and where music fits into it. The guest of honor was Lou Reed, but his inquisitor was special, too: Hal Willner, Reed's close friend, who has long been heavily involved in music and films and may as well be called the inventor of the tribute album. He said of his buddy, Reed: "He is to rock 'n' roll what Miles Davis is to jazz.
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... part, however, Robbins and producer Hal Willner keep things more subdued and atmospheric. That fit...
Earlier this month, my partner, Angie, and I wandered down to Bob's Keg & Cork to witness the maiden voyage of the local group The McClellans. The band was playing a truncated post-Folklife set to a packed house, and halfway through the first line of the opening number, the entire crowd was singing along. How can a band playing its first show get such a positive, immediate response from the crowd? It's simple: Play songs the crowd knows. Songs like "Clementine" and "You Are My Sunshine." Songs people want to sing along to. But The McClellans also do some popular but slightly lesser-known tunes. "Sweet Betsy from Pike" and "Lily of the West" have also found their way into their set list.
...Taking inspiration from the Hal Willner and Johnny Depp project, Rogue's Gallery (a compil...
TOday ACTIVITIES
...* Hal Willner's Freedom Rides Project -- 7 p.m., Prospect Park B...
Columbia Pictures en asociación con Relativity Media presenta una producción de Apatow Company / Mosaic Media Group / Gary Sanchez, una película de [Adam McKay], Step Brothers. Protagonizan el filme: Will Ferrell, [John C. Reilly], [Richard Jenkins], [Mary Steenburgen], Adam Scott y Kathryn Hahn. La dirección es de Adam McKay. L a producción es de Jimmy Miller y Judd Apatow. El guión es de Will Ferrell y Adam McKay, a partir de una historia de Will Ferrell, Adam McKay y John C. Reilly. Los productores ejecutivos son Will Ferrell, Adam McKay y David Householter. El director de fotografía es Oliver Wood. El director de arte es Clayton Hartley. El editor es Brent White.
...El supervisor musical es Hal Willner. Step Brothers fue calificada como R por la Motion...
Even if you think you're not familiar with the songs of [Leonard Cohen], it's unlikely your ears haven't been touched at least here and there by "Bird on a Wire" or "Suzanne," to name what are probably his two most widely disseminated and reinterpreted tunes. Cohen's sepulchral-sounding songs and his deep, hoarse-sounding voice are recognizable throughout the world-and have caused a detractor or two to suggest that a razor blade should be handed out along with his albums. Yet, the magnificence of his language reveals Cohen to be a poet of the first order and has earned him fans from nearly all walks of the music world, and in places you might never expect. Mel Gibson is an executive producer of this documentary, and even England's Prince Charles testified about Cohen in an interview onl...
...Overseen by the maverick producer Hal Willner, the show featured an esteemed collection of music...
WHETHER IT'S THE confessional cabaret-inflected pop of his own material, or his show-stealing interpretations of Leonard Cohen songs in the tribute film I'm Your Man, [Rufus Wainwright] seems at his best when he's at his most performative - a strength he s increasingly played to since his 1998 self-titled debut. In fact, Wainwright's most recent musical output is the live recording Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, in which he recreates Judy Garland's 1961 "comeback" concert song-for-song, with yesteryear chestnuts like "Puttin' on the Ritz" and "Over the Rainbow" brought to swelling life with a full orchestra. And he's currently working on an opera - yet more evidence of a pliable, shape-shifting performer, one who, as a kid, was equally at home pretending to be Dorothy, on good days, ...
...I'm Your Man was a total Hal Willner creation, who made the film and who came up with t...
I'll have what he's having Mike Edison is a journalist after my own heart. Just look at his resume. He's been a writer, editor, and/or publisher for a rich array of publications -- Screw magazine, High Times, and Wrestling's Main Event. Dang, he's done everything but cover the New Mexico Legislature.
... (the credits say it's produced by Hal Willner); it's lo-fi but sounds like there were profession...
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