Rocker ELVIS COSTELLO is to end his run as a chat show host after just two seasons because his "side project" takes up too much of his time.The Brit fronts music...
That Stephen Colbert won't give up on his rock star dreams. First, there was his unsolicited offer to be the new lead singer for Aerosmith. Last night, there he was singing an Elvis Costello song, WITH Elvis Costello. "Cheap Reward"...
Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… The new season of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… kicks off on December 9, 2009 on the Sundance Channel with Bono and The Edge. The schedule for the rest of season looks like this: Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… Season 2 Schedule December 9 at 10:00 PM – Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Bono and The Edge December [...]
To mark the release of The Live Anthology, a multi-CD boxed set covering 30 years of road work with his band the Heartbreakers, Tom Petty spoke to Rolling Stone for nearly six hours over two days — including his 59th birthday, October 20th — about his rock & roll life. Those conversations, at the Heartbreakers’ [...]
Screaming Females @ Above the Auto Parts Store in October (more by Leia Jospe) tonight in NYC * Louis CK @ Caroline's * Robin Williams @ Town Hall * Bebel Gilberto @ Hiro Ballroom * Pixies @ Hammerstein Ballroom (late...
Side A Elvis Costello-Allision Veruca Salt-Volcano Girls Swearing at Motorists-Flying Pizza Mineral-Gjs Sigur Ros-Hoppipolla Rainer Maria-Tinfoil Christie Front Drive-Turn Japandroids-Wet Hair Jejune-Greyscale Saturday Looks Good to Me-The Girl's Distracted (first version) Pezz-Gracias Get Up Kids-The Breathing Method Jose Gonzalez-Heartbeats Owen-One of These Days Side B Replacements-Left of the...
NIRVANA's rendition of DAVID BOWIE's THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD has topped a new list of the greatest cover tunes of all time.The track beat out Jimi Hendrix's version of...
I don’t know how we missed this for so long, but DVIDS (the Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System from military operations) posted some B-roll from the “Stand Up for Heroes” benefit that took place a few weeks back. They have several clips on the site, but I noticed a bit of Stephen Colbert’s [...]
Ryan Reynolds joined his friend Michael J. Fox on Saturday night for the annual A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson's benefit in NYC. Scarlett Johansson was by Ryan's side for last year's event , but this time Ryan had ladies like Rachael Ray and Julianne Moore keeping him company. Michael was the man of the evening, and he even entertained the crowd on stage with Steven Tyler. Ryan...
The Roots joined Elvis Costello for a performance of Get Happy! on Fallon, where he was promoting the second season of the Sundance Channel's Spectacle.
Elvis Costello dropped by Fallon's home on Friday to promote the second seson of his Spectacle show, performing Get Happy! 's "High Fidelity with Questo and the rest of the Roots. The Roots actually make a good case for becoming a new version of the Attractions; Elvis should tour with them. Elvis then joins the band at the end to do "Here I Come" on the outro. Great stuff here.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way Sarah Palin blows." That's how British government-run health care survivor and liberal Elvis Costello introduced a song last year, as you'll see in this video: The Democrats control both houses of Congress, the White House, and arguably they've controlled the courts for decades. But like Elvis, it appears that the Dems are terrified of Sarah...
The Roots and Elvis Costello are two tireless acts who are so in love with collaborating. These days you see Elvis join in jams on his Spectacle interview/performance show. Questo et al do it all the time at their Late Night digs, and if you were lucky enough to have a ticket to Dirty Projectors' tour-closing show at Bowery last night, you saw Ahmir, Captain Kirk, and another Root join the band on...
Links here are from BroadwayStars.com , which collates theatre stories. [ Variety ] Reviewed by Sam Thielman "Everything is less than zero," sang Elvis Costello in 1977, and if anyone would have wholeheartedly agreed, it was Zero Mostel. Jim Brochu paints a remarkably sympathetic portrait of the famously egomaniacal performer in his solo show Zero Hour , about the life and times of a guy...
Even when his subjects are of little to no interest to me, it is clear that David Hajdu is an excellent critic of popular culture. The guy gets a lifetime pass from me for providing the definitive history of the witch hunt against comics in THE TEN-CENT PLAGUE, but his latest is nothing to scoff [...]