Dwight Twilley, the singer/songwriter who helped bring the Tulsa Sound to a wider audience, has died at 72. No cause or other details have been revealed.
Twilley was best known for the Top 20 hit singles I’m on Fire (1975) and Girls (1984). He performed with the Dwight Twilley Band with Phil Seymour until 1978, when he went off as a solo act.
Twilley and Seymour eventually decided to leave Tulsa to try to be discovered in Memphis, Tennessee. By sheer chance, the first recording studio that they wandered into was Sun Studio, where they met Jerry Phillips, son of Sun founder Sam Phillips
He referred them to the Tupelo, Mississippi studio of Ray Harris, who added harder edge to their sound.
The two then headed to Los Angeles and signed there with Shelter Records, which had offices in L.A. and Tulsa, coowned by Denny Cordell and Len Russell. They used the...
Twilley was best known for the Top 20 hit singles I’m on Fire (1975) and Girls (1984). He performed with the Dwight Twilley Band with Phil Seymour until 1978, when he went off as a solo act.
Twilley and Seymour eventually decided to leave Tulsa to try to be discovered in Memphis, Tennessee. By sheer chance, the first recording studio that they wandered into was Sun Studio, where they met Jerry Phillips, son of Sun founder Sam Phillips
He referred them to the Tupelo, Mississippi studio of Ray Harris, who added harder edge to their sound.
The two then headed to Los Angeles and signed there with Shelter Records, which had offices in L.A. and Tulsa, coowned by Denny Cordell and Len Russell. They used the...
- 10/19/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
"Grab anything that might make a good weapon." The vinyl soundtrack for the Adam Wingard-directed You're Next is limited to 1,000 copies and will go on sale today at noon Cst from Mondo and Death Waltz.
Press Release: Death Waltz Recording Company is proud to extend an invitation to the bloodiest family reunion you'll ever attend with the fierce score to the terrifying horror hit You're Next. Composed as a group effort by Kyle McKinnon, Jasper Justice Lee, Mads Heldtberg, and director Adam Wingard, You're Next is a home invasion story with a twist. The music is intense, and we're not just talking the Dwight Twilley Band's seventies classic 'Looking For The Magic' (featured on this LP). The score gets under your skin fast, with ambient eerie textures causing maximum discomfort with minimum effort. The record owes a lot to 80s industrial acts such as Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy...
Press Release: Death Waltz Recording Company is proud to extend an invitation to the bloodiest family reunion you'll ever attend with the fierce score to the terrifying horror hit You're Next. Composed as a group effort by Kyle McKinnon, Jasper Justice Lee, Mads Heldtberg, and director Adam Wingard, You're Next is a home invasion story with a twist. The music is intense, and we're not just talking the Dwight Twilley Band's seventies classic 'Looking For The Magic' (featured on this LP). The score gets under your skin fast, with ambient eerie textures causing maximum discomfort with minimum effort. The record owes a lot to 80s industrial acts such as Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy...
- 2/17/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Wow, it’s hard to believe that 5 years ago this September, I saw You’re Next at Fantastic Fest. I was a huge fan of the film, like many that saw it at that lone Fantastic Fest screening and the Tiff screenings prior. I still love the flick and it had some soundtrack cues that felt retro before that was used more frequently in independent horror films that were to follow. A lot of fans of the film didn’t have a lot of information on who the composer or composers were for the film. Some knew that the film’s director contributed to some of the soundtrack out of necessity and I believe it is mentioned in the commentary that other contributors stepped in to help create the soundtrack.
Tomorrow, Mondo is releasing the official soundtrack to You’re Next on vinyl. Mondo released the following statement via their...
Tomorrow, Mondo is releasing the official soundtrack to You’re Next on vinyl. Mondo released the following statement via their...
- 2/16/2016
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
While we aim to discuss a wide breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices. It’s why we venture to festivals and pore over a variety of different features that might bring to light some emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp, and we’re highlighting the handful of 2015 debuts that most impressed us.
This shouldn’t discount the breakthrough directors behind such films as Buzzard; Tangerine; It Follows; Heaven Knows What; Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter; Man From Reno; and Spring, to name some we liked, but considering that they all have at least two features under their belts, we’re strictly focusing on first-timers here. Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and distributions, from those that barely received a theatrical release to wide bows.
This shouldn’t discount the breakthrough directors behind such films as Buzzard; Tangerine; It Follows; Heaven Knows What; Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter; Man From Reno; and Spring, to name some we liked, but considering that they all have at least two features under their belts, we’re strictly focusing on first-timers here. Below, one can check out a list spanning a variety of different genres and distributions, from those that barely received a theatrical release to wide bows.
- 12/15/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
In 2010, Marielle Heller starred in a theatrical adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, an autobiographic-ish coming-of-age tale based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s celebrated graphic novel. From this show came Heller’s chance to re-reimagine the novel for movie audiences, this time as director. In addition to the usual pitfalls of page-to-screen adaptations, Heller’s closeness to the material as filtered through another medium could have made her directing debut little more than an exercise in filmed theatre. It speaks to the mutability of that source material, Heller’s skill, or more likely, both, that The Diary of a Teenage Girl isn’t just a fully formed and realized movie, but a really terrific one to boot.
The tag “Sundance favourite” has become something of a double-edged honor; as soon as you show someone the derivative poster for The Diary of a Teenage Girl,...
The tag “Sundance favourite” has become something of a double-edged honor; as soon as you show someone the derivative poster for The Diary of a Teenage Girl,...
- 8/5/2015
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Gut-reaction reviews after theatrical screenings often give me the opportunity to stick by my initial reactions and not overcomplicate thoughts, but in the same respect, embracing films a second time for their Blu-Ray reviews presents the opportunity for reevaluation. Some films benefit from a second watch, as finer details and deeper intricacies can sometimes be missed on a viewer’s first go around, but other times we realize that movies we initially loved just don’t have the repeat watchability expected.
You’re Next, one of my favorite horror movies of 2013, is the most recent gem I had the pleasure of revisiting, and despite initial fears that Adam Wingard’s film would pack less of a punch knowing all its secrets from the very first scene, my second watch was filled with just as many laughs and screams as my original screening. This home invasion thriller asserts its longevity by...
You’re Next, one of my favorite horror movies of 2013, is the most recent gem I had the pleasure of revisiting, and despite initial fears that Adam Wingard’s film would pack less of a punch knowing all its secrets from the very first scene, my second watch was filled with just as many laughs and screams as my original screening. This home invasion thriller asserts its longevity by...
- 1/14/2014
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
★★★☆☆ Adam Wingard assembles mumblecore luminaries for one last soirée in You're Next (2011). Though bursting with shocks and gore, this shrewd yet conceptually benign home invasion horror does struggle at times to traverse the derivative nature of the genre and articulate the social commentary it's admirably attempting to communicate. After a mediocre fumble under the sheets, a young woman goes downstairs to prepare a drink, all the while being watched from the shadows. She puts on a Dwight Twilley album, accidentally setting it onto repeat and unwittingly provides the soundtrack to the evening's gruesome massacre.
- 1/13/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Another year has come to an end, which means it's time for the Dread Central staff to weigh in with their picks of the best and worst of 2013's horror offerings. We're giving you a full dozen lists this time, and per usual they come in a variety of formats, each reflecting the unique styles of our writers.
We've also compiled them to come up with the year's overall winners and losers. We averaged out the top and bottom five vote getters on everyone's lists, and here are the results:
Best: Maniac
Runners-up: The Conjuring, Evil Dead
Worst: Texas Chainsaw 3D
Runners-up: The Purge, The Last Exorcism Part II
Check out the Dread Central staff's Best of and Worst of lists for 2013 by following the links below!
[Andrew Kasch]
[Anthony Arrigo]
[Brad McHargue]
[Buz "Danger" Wallick]
[Debi "The Woman in Black" Moore]
[The Foywonder]
[Gareth "Pestilence" Jones]
[Jinx]
[MattFini]
[Scott "Doctor Gash" Hallam]
[Staci Layne Wilson]
[Uncle Creepy]
Andrew Kasch's Picks
Stoker: Chan-wook Park delivered some next-level filmmaking and his best film since Oldboy with his U.
We've also compiled them to come up with the year's overall winners and losers. We averaged out the top and bottom five vote getters on everyone's lists, and here are the results:
Best: Maniac
Runners-up: The Conjuring, Evil Dead
Worst: Texas Chainsaw 3D
Runners-up: The Purge, The Last Exorcism Part II
Check out the Dread Central staff's Best of and Worst of lists for 2013 by following the links below!
[Andrew Kasch]
[Anthony Arrigo]
[Brad McHargue]
[Buz "Danger" Wallick]
[Debi "The Woman in Black" Moore]
[The Foywonder]
[Gareth "Pestilence" Jones]
[Jinx]
[MattFini]
[Scott "Doctor Gash" Hallam]
[Staci Layne Wilson]
[Uncle Creepy]
Andrew Kasch's Picks
Stoker: Chan-wook Park delivered some next-level filmmaking and his best film since Oldboy with his U.
- 1/3/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
On the latest episode of the Sordid Cinema podcast, Ricky, Edgar and Simon sit down to discuss director Adam Wingard’s home invasion thriller You’re Next, along with the micro-budget, homespun geeksploitation comedy Zero Charisma; the coming of age Saudi Arabia drama Wadjda, and the new FX hit TV series The Bridge.
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- 8/29/2013
- by Sordid Cinema Podcast
- SoundOnSight
If you've seen You're Next (it's one of this year's best horror movies, so make sure you do), you'll almost assuredly walk out of the theater humming a certain tune that's featured throughout the movie. It's a song that's playing on a neighbor's sound system in the beginning of the film, and then after certain spoilerish events take place, that song continues to play, on a loop, and it slowly evolves to become its own character in the movie. The song in question is 1977's "Looking for the Magic" by the Dwight Twilley Band, and it's one catchy tune that's used pretty brilliantly throughout because it's a song you want to keep listening to, but at the same time it's used for these super-intense scenes that...
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- 8/23/2013
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Director Adam Wingard has received rave reviews for his R-rated, home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next, which screened at several film festivals over the past couple of years and will be released August 23. But his often gore-drenched creative sensibility — and twisted sense of humor — is not everyone’s cup of Darjeeling. In the spring of 2007, for instance, the then just the 24-year-old Wingard appeared on the premiere episode of Fox TV’s On The Lot, a much-hyped but now little-remembered, Steven Spielberg-produced filmmakers’ competition with the first prize of a million-dollar development deal at Dreamworks. As Wingard recalls, he...
- 8/17/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
I recently saw a screening of the excellent home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next and, for reasons which will become abundantly clear when the film hits cinemas on August 23, have had the Dwight Twilley Band’s why-was-this-never-a-hit? soft-rock classic “Looking For the Magic” on repeat in my head ever since. The movie’s first trailer features no Twilley — making highly ironic use of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” instead — and gives little indication as to the darkly hilarious nature of director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s film. But the clip does accurately tease the large amount of nerve-rending...
- 3/28/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
Back in 2011, I saw one of my favorite films of the year. Not specifically one of my favorite horror films of the year but just generally one of my favorite films of the year. That film was Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. We waited with baited breath since September 2011 and now, almost two years later, the general public will get to see it. This August Lionsgate will be releasing the film nationwide. We already showed you the posters and now, we are proud to bring you the trailer.
It’s a pretty well cut trailer but it definitely doesn’t hint to any of the dark humor that is found in the film and plays it off as a straight home invasion film. Trust me fiends, this is a film you’ll want to see. Even if you aren’t impressed with the trailer, it doesn’t – in my...
It’s a pretty well cut trailer but it definitely doesn’t hint to any of the dark humor that is found in the film and plays it off as a straight home invasion film. Trust me fiends, this is a film you’ll want to see. Even if you aren’t impressed with the trailer, it doesn’t – in my...
- 3/28/2013
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
A You.re Next trailer that doesn.t use Dwight Twilley.s .Looking for the Magic?. That.s a missed opportunity . but it.s probably the only mis-step made by the otherwise fantastic tease for Adam Wingard.s hostage-horror film, which just arrived on Apple.s official page. Lionsgate picked up Wingard.s feature, which has been idling in neutral for far too long after a handful of overly successful screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival (where it played as part of the Midnight series) and Austin.s classic Fantastic Fest . an event tailored to genre audiences. Sensing it had a hit on its hands, Lionsgate waited for the right opportunity to unleash Wingard.s disturbing flick. That time will come on Aug. 23. What.s You.re Next about? On a surface level, it.s about a dysfunctional family getting together for a contentious reunion in an isolated mansion.
- 3/28/2013
- cinemablend.com
June 3: Game-show host Chuck Barris ("The Gong Show") is 83. Singer Ian Hunter is 73. Singer Eddie Holman is 66. Bassist Too Slim of Riders in the Sky is 64. Singer Suzi Quatro is 62. Singer Deniece Williams is 61. Singer Dan Hill is 58. Actor Scott Valentine ("Family Ties") is 54. Guitarist Kerry King of Slayer is 48. Singer Mike Gordon of Phish is 47. Newsman Anderson Cooper is 45. Country singer Jamie O'Neal is 44. Singers Ariel and Gabriel Hernandez of No Mercy are 41. Actor Vik Sahay ("Chuck") is 41. Actress Lalaine Dupree ("Lizzie McGuire") is 25.
June 4: Actor Bruce Dern is 76. Singer-actress Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and The Papas) is 68. Bassist Danny Brown of The Fixx is 61. Actor Parker Stevenson is 60. Singer El DeBarge is 51. Singer Al B. Sure! is 44. Actor Scott Wolf ("Party of Five") is 44. Ron Huebel ("What to Expect When You're Expecting") is 43. Comedian Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live") is 43. Actor Noah Wyle ("ER") is 41. Bassist...
June 4: Actor Bruce Dern is 76. Singer-actress Michelle Phillips (The Mamas and The Papas) is 68. Bassist Danny Brown of The Fixx is 61. Actor Parker Stevenson is 60. Singer El DeBarge is 51. Singer Al B. Sure! is 44. Actor Scott Wolf ("Party of Five") is 44. Ron Huebel ("What to Expect When You're Expecting") is 43. Comedian Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live") is 43. Actor Noah Wyle ("ER") is 41. Bassist...
- 5/31/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
I have to admit that I was getting a little worried about the release for You’re Next. Lionsgate has done little to subside these fears by not releasing a single thing so far this year in regards to the film. Aside from a few stills that popped up in late 2011, not a poster, a single new image, or teaser has invaded the web for the upcoming home-invasion film. Last we heard in regards to the film is that a short time prior to its premiere at Fantastic Fest last year – which you can read Andy’s glowing review of the film from the fest by clicking Here - Lionsgate picked it up for distribution with a tentative fall 2012 release. Considering Lionsgate was the studio behind the horror genre-bender, Cabin in the Woods, I fully expected at least a teaser to play in front of that film to get audiences...
- 5/3/2012
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
In so much as I was ever raised, I was raised on television. So I once again had a total blast working on "The TV Land Awards " that airs tonight on TV Land at 9 p.m./8 Cst. Beautifully hosted by Kelly Ripa -- who I first fell in love with on TV -- this year's show features cast reunions from the stars of Murphy Brown, Laverne & Shirley, In Living Color and One Day At A Time. Pee Wee Herman is also honored, as is The Queen of Soul herself, Aretha Franklin, who performs wonderfully and, yes, soulfully. In honor of this grand annual TV event that celebrates TV so well, here's my playlist for tonight's great TV party. As always please add your own tubular tracks below.
"The Sun Always Shines on TV" -- a-Ha
"I Saw It on TV" -- John Fogerty
"Portable Television" -- Death Cab For Cutie...
"The Sun Always Shines on TV" -- a-Ha
"I Saw It on TV" -- John Fogerty
"Portable Television" -- Death Cab For Cutie...
- 4/29/2012
- by David Wild
- Aol TV.
We're in Austin, Texas for the shank of this year's Fantastic Fest. If our preview chat with Tim League had you interested, be sure to hit refresh on this page over and over and over like a moon-eyed crazy person all day Sat, Sun and Monday for updates.
Friday 9/23/11
Fantastic Fest is already in full swing. I'm not there yet, but I'm flying in tonight. Last night I was all over Twitter to hear descriptions of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'s pre-screening antics. An hour and a half later, I read virtually every critic say it was awful. (Though one or two defended it as "having something to say about obsessed fandom.")
As a jury member for this year's "features" division - which means full length movies that aren't straight-up horror movies - I've actually been able to get a sneak peek at some of the eight movies in competition.
Friday 9/23/11
Fantastic Fest is already in full swing. I'm not there yet, but I'm flying in tonight. Last night I was all over Twitter to hear descriptions of The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)'s pre-screening antics. An hour and a half later, I read virtually every critic say it was awful. (Though one or two defended it as "having something to say about obsessed fandom.")
As a jury member for this year's "features" division - which means full length movies that aren't straight-up horror movies - I've actually been able to get a sneak peek at some of the eight movies in competition.
- 9/23/2011
- UGO Movies
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