Rufus Wainwright won’t hit age 50 until July 22, technically, but he started the festivities a few days early with “Fifty Isn’t the End,” a three-hour show at Long Island’s East End that was a tribute to Wainwright’s career, his family lineage and, inadvertently, some of the other children of famous musicians who happen to be among his pals.
With a lineup that included Jimmy Fallon, comic Tig Notaro, Laurie Anderson and members of Wainwright’s family, including his sister Martha and his father Loudon III, the show...
With a lineup that included Jimmy Fallon, comic Tig Notaro, Laurie Anderson and members of Wainwright’s family, including his sister Martha and his father Loudon III, the show...
- 7/18/2023
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
David Crosby’s final band will reconvene later this summer for a special concert honoring the folk rock legend, who died back in January.
The show is both a tribute, as well as a make-up show of sorts: Crosby was originally scheduled to perform a set of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classics at the Lobero Theatre on Feb. 22 to mark the Santa Barbara venue’s 150th birthday. The gig was obviously called off after his death, but now the band he assembled for that show will gather at the Lobero on Aug.
The show is both a tribute, as well as a make-up show of sorts: Crosby was originally scheduled to perform a set of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young classics at the Lobero Theatre on Feb. 22 to mark the Santa Barbara venue’s 150th birthday. The gig was obviously called off after his death, but now the band he assembled for that show will gather at the Lobero on Aug.
- 7/10/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young and Stephen Stills reunited at Los Angeles’ Greek Theater on Saturday night for the latter’s “Light Up The Blues” autism awareness event. It was Young’s first on-stage performance since 2019.
The largely collaborative set concluded the night, with Young stepping up for solo renditions of “From Hank to Hendrix” and “Comes a Time” before being joined by house band Promise of the Real for “Heart of Gold.” Stills added piano accompaniment on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young number, “Helpless,” and remained to deliver a series of Buffalo Springfield songs, including “For What It’s Worth,” “Bluebird,” and “Mr. Soul” with help from Joe Walsh.
They closed with a rendition of “Long May You Run” from Stills-Young Band’s one-off 1976 joint album of the same name. Watch fan-captured footage of the setlist’s highlights below.
Earlier in the program, Stills paid tribute to late bandmate David Crosby with...
The largely collaborative set concluded the night, with Young stepping up for solo renditions of “From Hank to Hendrix” and “Comes a Time” before being joined by house band Promise of the Real for “Heart of Gold.” Stills added piano accompaniment on the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young number, “Helpless,” and remained to deliver a series of Buffalo Springfield songs, including “For What It’s Worth,” “Bluebird,” and “Mr. Soul” with help from Joe Walsh.
They closed with a rendition of “Long May You Run” from Stills-Young Band’s one-off 1976 joint album of the same name. Watch fan-captured footage of the setlist’s highlights below.
Earlier in the program, Stills paid tribute to late bandmate David Crosby with...
- 4/23/2023
- by Bryan Kress
- Consequence - Music
Nobody knew quite what to expect when Neil Young walked onstage Saturday night at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles to wrap up Light Up The Blues, a fundraising event organized by Stephen Stills and his wife Kristen Stills to benefit Autism Speaks. Discounting a surprise, two-song acoustic set at a Canadian environmental rally in February, Young hadn’t faced a live audience in nearly four years. The other performers at the show (Joe Walsh, Willie Nelson, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Stills, and Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real...
- 4/23/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Rufus Wainwright has announced his upcoming album Folkocracy will arrive June 2 and released its lead single “Down in the Willow Garden” on Monday. The track features Brandi Carlile, and is described by Wainwright as a “blatantly brutal and masochistic” folk ballad.
“I chose us a cheery little number — not! The song is so blatantly brutal and masochistic that I had to sing it with a woman. Sadly, we still live in a violent world,” Wainwright said in a statement. “The amazing thing about so many folk songs is that, content wise,...
“I chose us a cheery little number — not! The song is so blatantly brutal and masochistic that I had to sing it with a woman. Sadly, we still live in a violent world,” Wainwright said in a statement. “The amazing thing about so many folk songs is that, content wise,...
- 3/7/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Neil Young will make his live return at the sixth annual “Light Up the Blues” autism concert at LA’s Greek Theatre on April 22nd. The headlining performance alongside Stephen Stills will mark his first time on a stage since September 2019.
The show will also feature appearances from Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Chris Stills, Oliver Stills, and other special guests. No host has been named as of yet. Tickets go on sale February 17th at 10:00 a.m. local time.
“We’ll be there to ‘Light Up the Blues’ with Stephen, [his wife] Kristen, and the family doing [our] first show in four years with old friends for our autistic people around the world,” Young said in a statement to Rolling Stone.
The Stills family has overseen the “Light Up the Blues” concert since 2013. This show was originally planned for April 2020 before being pushed back due to the pandemic. They had considered a virtual livestream,...
The show will also feature appearances from Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Chris Stills, Oliver Stills, and other special guests. No host has been named as of yet. Tickets go on sale February 17th at 10:00 a.m. local time.
“We’ll be there to ‘Light Up the Blues’ with Stephen, [his wife] Kristen, and the family doing [our] first show in four years with old friends for our autistic people around the world,” Young said in a statement to Rolling Stone.
The Stills family has overseen the “Light Up the Blues” concert since 2013. This show was originally planned for April 2020 before being pushed back due to the pandemic. They had considered a virtual livestream,...
- 2/13/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Neil Young has not stepped foot on a concert stage since September 2019, but that will change on April 22 when he headlines the Light Up the Blues charity show, which benefits Autism Speaks, at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles alongside Stephen Stills, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Chris Stills, Oliver Stills, and other special guests. Tickets go on sale on February 17 at 10:00 Am local time.
“We’ll be there to ‘Light up the Blues’ with Stephen, [his wife] Kristen and the family,” Young tells Rolling Stone in a statement, “doing...
“We’ll be there to ‘Light up the Blues’ with Stephen, [his wife] Kristen and the family,” Young tells Rolling Stone in a statement, “doing...
- 2/13/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
★☆☆☆☆ Writer-director Jérôme Le Gris' debut feature Requiem for a Killer (2011) is a laughably bad thriller from beginning to end, focusing on the last days of a pseudo-femme-fatal Lucrèce (Mélanie Laurent). Tired of being a gun for hire, Lucrèce agrees to take one last job before she can devote her time with her eight-year-old daughter. Whisked away to a châteaux in Switzerland, Lucrèce must masquerade as an opera singer in order to kill vocalist Alex (Christopher Stills).
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- 7/3/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
Though Mélanie Laurent might be best known to English-speaking audiences for her head-turning femme fatale in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, she’s still not the first face you’d pick for a genre-keen thriller like Requiem for a Killer. Oddball casting aside – given that Laurent, much better suited to character-driven drama, tries hard to convince – Jérôme Le Gris’s elegantly-shot hit-woman procedural falters due to rote plotting and an almost complete lack of tension.
On the plus side, Gris doesn’t hang about. Right from the opening scene, assassin Lucrèce (Laurent) is on the job, staging a meticulously planned murder by poisoning a ceremonial wafer during a church mass. When it threatens to wind up in the mouth of an innocent, she has to spring into action. It is a markedly suspenseful scene with which to begin a film, but unfortunately one which makes each subsequent exchange,...
Though Mélanie Laurent might be best known to English-speaking audiences for her head-turning femme fatale in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, she’s still not the first face you’d pick for a genre-keen thriller like Requiem for a Killer. Oddball casting aside – given that Laurent, much better suited to character-driven drama, tries hard to convince – Jérôme Le Gris’s elegantly-shot hit-woman procedural falters due to rote plotting and an almost complete lack of tension.
On the plus side, Gris doesn’t hang about. Right from the opening scene, assassin Lucrèce (Laurent) is on the job, staging a meticulously planned murder by poisoning a ceremonial wafer during a church mass. When it threatens to wind up in the mouth of an innocent, she has to spring into action. It is a markedly suspenseful scene with which to begin a film, but unfortunately one which makes each subsequent exchange,...
- 6/11/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
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