Acclaimed composer Bear McCreary has announced a new concept album, The Singularity, which includes contributions by Guns N’ Roses’ Slash, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, and more renowned artists. Ahead of its May 10th release, McCreary has released the single “Type III” featuring Rufus Wainwright.
The album also features Jens Kidman (Meshuggah), Joe Satriani, Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Brendon Small (Dethklok), Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Warren Fitzgerald (The Vandals), Esjay Jones (We Are Pigs), Gene Hoglan (Dethklok), and others.
The award-winning McCreary is best known for his musical composition on such TV shows and movies as Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Walking Dead, and more, as well as a number of notable video games. He co-wrote The Singularity with his brother Brendan McCreary, who also lends his vocals to eight of the tracks.
The album also features Jens Kidman (Meshuggah), Joe Satriani, Buck Dharma (Blue Öyster Cult), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Brendon Small (Dethklok), Ben Weinman (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Warren Fitzgerald (The Vandals), Esjay Jones (We Are Pigs), Gene Hoglan (Dethklok), and others.
The award-winning McCreary is best known for his musical composition on such TV shows and movies as Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Walking Dead, and more, as well as a number of notable video games. He co-wrote The Singularity with his brother Brendan McCreary, who also lends his vocals to eight of the tracks.
- 2/23/2024
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Horror-Fix journalist and videographer James Chandler had a crazy thought: “I have always wondered what a music video for John Carpenter’s Halloween with Blue Öyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” would’ve been like.” Since he had the skills to bring […]
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- 1/3/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Joseph Baxter Kirsten Howard Jun 29, 2017
Here's a new trailer for The Lowe Files, where actor Rob Lowe and his sons encounter Bigfoot, among others...
Filed fimly under 'things we weren't expecting to hear this week': Rob Lowe dishing out details on his meeting with Sasquatch.
See related Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch plays down talk of show ending Sherlock series 3: 111 things we learned from the special edition DVDs Sherlock: The Abominable Bride review
The Youngblood actor has gone from Brat Pack bad boy to esteemed Emmy-nominated cast member of television’s The West Wing, to comedic standout on Parks And Recreation, but in the new trailer for A&E’s upcoming series The Lowe Files, he and his two large sons embrace new roles - ghost hunters for hire.
Take a look below...
Video of The Lowe Files: Official First Look | Series Premiere August 2nd | A&E
The Lowe...
Here's a new trailer for The Lowe Files, where actor Rob Lowe and his sons encounter Bigfoot, among others...
Filed fimly under 'things we weren't expecting to hear this week': Rob Lowe dishing out details on his meeting with Sasquatch.
See related Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch plays down talk of show ending Sherlock series 3: 111 things we learned from the special edition DVDs Sherlock: The Abominable Bride review
The Youngblood actor has gone from Brat Pack bad boy to esteemed Emmy-nominated cast member of television’s The West Wing, to comedic standout on Parks And Recreation, but in the new trailer for A&E’s upcoming series The Lowe Files, he and his two large sons embrace new roles - ghost hunters for hire.
Take a look below...
Video of The Lowe Files: Official First Look | Series Premiere August 2nd | A&E
The Lowe...
- 6/28/2017
- Den of Geek
On Monday, July 26, famed rock producer, manager, and lyricist Sandy Pearlman died at the age of 72. His Wikipedia page says he "was the recipient of 17 gold and platinum records." He managed that despite not actually producing many bands, or even albums -- but he left a big imprint on every one he worked on.
Born in Rockaway (Queens), NY in 1943, he got a college degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island in 1966.
A year later, still in the Stony Brook area, he recruited a band so he could have a series of science-fiction poems he'd written (the Imaginos saga, about a group secretly controlling world history) set to music and performed. He named the band Soft White Underbelly after Winston Churchill's epithet for Italy, but changed its name to Oaxaca after Soft White Underbelly got a negative review at a big concert.
Born in Rockaway (Queens), NY in 1943, he got a college degree at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island in 1966.
A year later, still in the Stony Brook area, he recruited a band so he could have a series of science-fiction poems he'd written (the Imaginos saga, about a group secretly controlling world history) set to music and performed. He named the band Soft White Underbelly after Winston Churchill's epithet for Italy, but changed its name to Oaxaca after Soft White Underbelly got a negative review at a big concert.
- 7/28/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
One of my favorite contemporary designers is Jessica Hische, a lettering artist whose best known movie poster work is her typeface design for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Hische is a prodigiously talented and endlessly inventive artist who has brought renewed recognition to the art of lettering and whose covers for Barnes and Noble Classics and Penguin Drop Caps are gorgeous. I mention this because I recently discovered the poster work of another extraordinary letterform artist from an earlier era, via this magnificent poster for Louis Malle’s Atlantic City.Gerard Huerta is a letterform and logo designer who got his start with CBS Records in the early 70s where he created album covers and logos for Boston, Ted Nugent, Rick Derringer, Bob Dylan and many others. His greatest claim to fame might be that he forged the “look” of heavy metal typography with his logo for Blue Öyster Cult...
- 7/15/2016
- MUBI
Using their uncanny likeness to drum up donations for Cancer for College, comedian Will Ferrell and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith duked it out in a drum battle on The Tonight Show. The brothers from another mother are total doppelgängers. Smith has been known to wear tees that say “I Am Not Will Ferrell,” acknowledging their freakishly similar appearance. Ferrell has also been a good sport about the long-running fake feud. The drum-off went smashingly, but it was the appearance of Ferrell’s famous cowbell that really put it over the top. The cowbell reference comes from Ferrell’s Saturday Night Live days when he played fictional Blue Öyster Cult member Gene Frenkle — who, indeed, played a mean cowbell. The catchphrase of...
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- 5/23/2014
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
“You know it's Halloween... I guess everyone's entitled to one good scare, huh?” These words of wisdom, spoken by Sheriff Brackett in John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween, have been taken to heart by legions of practical jokers this year – most of whom weren't merely content with delivering one good scare but several, and a fair amount of hysterical laughter as well. It's been a bountiful season for insane, terrifying and sometimes hilarious Halloween pranks, and many of the videos have gone crazy viral too. Here are five of our favorites... click the headlines to read more and watch the clips: Don't Fear the... No Wait, Totally Fear the Reaper When Blue Öyster Cult took up the cowbell and wrote their classic tune, they'd probably never imagined a scenario like this, in which an airborne Angel of Death swoops down on the patrons of a peaceful park. Dude, Where's My Spider?...
- 10/31/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
In One Track Heart, after reciting a spiritualist maxim about servitude or self-abnegation or the like, Krishna Das has the unfortunate habit of letting his gaze linger on the camera, eyebrows raised, head just perceptibly nodding as if to say, "How indisputably cool was that?" Jeffrey Kagel, the subject of this documentary by Jeremy Frindel, is your everyday, average Long Islander who once turned down a gig as a the frontman of Blue Öyster Cult in order to indulge in a life of asceticism—which, as suggested by events depicted in this documentary, is not a contradiction. Frindel sets out to craft a legend around Kagel's early-'70s apprenticeship in the Himalayan foothills and his emergence as the Grammy-nominated chant master Krishna Das, a thoroughly new-school Krishn...
- 5/10/2013
- Village Voice
What’s new this week? We expanded our Random Roles feature as screenwriter Graham Yost discussed his work on Justified, Full House, and the classic bus-that-can’t-stop film Speed. Don’t Miss In a new installment of Undercover, Zz Ward covered Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin’ Bout You.” For Inventory, we listed several solo albums from artists who are members of famous bands. Some of these albums were successful, and effectively killed the band. Some, less so. Loud went out with a bang, as it premiered a video from Snakewing and reminded us how well Blue Öyster Cult holds up. In ...
- 4/5/2013
- avclub.com
"Call Me Maybe" has proven that to have a successful music video, bubblegum pop stars need no fancy directors or million-dollar budgets. They just need a webcam and a copy of iMovie. The Bieber-ific unofficial video has amassed over 33 million views on YouTube since debuting in February, even more than the original. But most agreed that there was just one thing that the song was missing: Cowbell.
Of course, Will Ferrell left a lasting impression in Western civilization forever after prancing around in a too-small T-shirt on "Saturday Night Live" while recording Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" with the instruction from Christopher Walken to make sure that the song reaches peak cowbell.
There's obviously a natural progression from BÖC to Crj, so please enjoy this remix of "Call Me Maybe" that's probably produced by Bruce Dickinson.
(via Crushable)...
Of course, Will Ferrell left a lasting impression in Western civilization forever after prancing around in a too-small T-shirt on "Saturday Night Live" while recording Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" with the instruction from Christopher Walken to make sure that the song reaches peak cowbell.
There's obviously a natural progression from BÖC to Crj, so please enjoy this remix of "Call Me Maybe" that's probably produced by Bruce Dickinson.
(via Crushable)...
- 4/17/2012
- by Ross Luippold
- Huffington Post
One of the prototypical indie-film arcs follows characters finally escaping from the oppressive confines of their hometowns. Another finds a character returning to that hometown, and making peace with it and the people who are still there. Hometowns: both traps and salvations. It’s easy to imagine Ron Eldard’s Roadie character gleefully leaving behind his own home of Forest Hills, Queens, as a kid to go on tour with Blue Öyster Cult—to load gear, not in any musical capacity—but by the time Roadie starts, he’s crawling back in defeat. Neither he nor the band is what ...
- 1/5/2012
- avclub.com
Roadie
Directed by: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Ron Eldard, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Trailer Score: 8/10
Thoughts by Tsr: I will admit I kind of scoffed at the plot synopsis of this film when I first read it. That reaction is partially because whenever Blue Öyster Cult is involved my mind immediately goes to the classic “More Cowbell” sketch from “Saturday Night Live” with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell. All that quickly faded away, however, as I was watching this trailer for Roadie. Director Michael Cuesta looks to have garnered very strong performances from his cast, and crafted a very good film in the process.
The most reassuring part of this trailer is that it doesn’t appear to have taken the easy way out. A story along these lines could easily have been told as a glossy studio film about the good ol’ days...
Directed by: Michael Cuesta
Starring: Ron Eldard, Bobby Cannavale, Jill Hennessy
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Trailer Score: 8/10
Thoughts by Tsr: I will admit I kind of scoffed at the plot synopsis of this film when I first read it. That reaction is partially because whenever Blue Öyster Cult is involved my mind immediately goes to the classic “More Cowbell” sketch from “Saturday Night Live” with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell. All that quickly faded away, however, as I was watching this trailer for Roadie. Director Michael Cuesta looks to have garnered very strong performances from his cast, and crafted a very good film in the process.
The most reassuring part of this trailer is that it doesn’t appear to have taken the easy way out. A story along these lines could easily have been told as a glossy studio film about the good ol’ days...
- 11/5/2011
- by Shane T. Nier
- The Scorecard Review
Director: Michael Cuesta Writers: Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta Starring: Ron Eldard, Jill Hennessy, Bobby Cannavale, Lois Smith, David Margulies, Suzette Gunn Jimmy Testagross (Ron Eldard) -- the eponymous protagonist of Michael Cuesta’s Roadie -- is a 40-something guy from Queens with an unfortunate last name (that earned him the childhood nickname of "Jimmy Testicles") who has tirelessly shlepped Blue Öyster Cult's gear for 26 years, a thankless career if ever there was one. While on the subject of thankless, Boc is leaving for a tour of South America soon, and Jimmy is getting the runaround from the band's manager. It seems the washed-up band is leaving their washed-up roadie behind. After dedicating over half of his life to Boc, Jimmy has no friends to speak of and nowhere to go. As Jimmy drifts hopelessly towards destitute poverty, he is drawn closer and closer to his childhood home. But Queens...
- 10/31/2011
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Another Tff 2011 film hits the road to distribution. Magnolia Pictures snagged the Us distribution rights to Michael Cuesta's Roadie. Michael Cuesta's sharp film zeroes in on one 24-hour period in the life of seasoned Blue Öyster Cult roadie, Jimmy, brilliantly portrayed by Ron Eldard. The story is a coming-of-age tale of sorts, as Jimmy is forced to return to the hometown that he left behind nearly 20 years earlier to tour with the band. But once his dream life comes to a crashing halt, Jimmy has nowhere to turn but his roots: moving back into his mother's (Lois Smith) house, and confronting his high school crush (Jill Hennessy), who is now married to his former nemesis (Bobby Cannavale). Cuesta's focused film forces this stunted character to face the reality of his present, which is suddenly infiltrated by his past. Magnolia Pictures officially landed the rights to this Tff film on Tuesday,...
- 10/21/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
Updated through 4/30.
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
"At first it was about neighborhood," begins Eric Hynes in the Voice. "Then it was about stars, parties, and supersizing. But finally, for its 10th incarnation, the Tribeca Film Festival (April 20-May 1) seems to be about movies. Gone are the superfluous, attention-sucking Hollywood premieres (Tom Cruise on a Jet Ski, anyone?), and few are the big-name, low-quality vanity projects. Several years into a vital slimming of the slate — the fest topped out at 176 films in 2005; this year, it's a manageable 93 — Tff remains New York's largest film survey."
To celebrate Tribeca's 10th, we're running a retrospective of some of the best films the festival's shown over the past decade here at Mubi. Happy viewing.
"A notoriously uneven assemblage of titles, Tribeca aspires toward something like a mini Toronto, but despite, in recent years, bringing such important films as Jia Zhangke's Still Life and Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows...
- 4/30/2011
- MUBI
In Soho this Saturday? Then stop into the Apple Store for exclusive previews of seven films in this year's Festival And meet their filmmakers! After screening a sneak peek from their Tff ‘11 film, each director will talk a bit about their work and take questions from the audience. Saturday, April 16, 3:00 pm, Apple Store SoHo Featured Films and Filmmakers include: Michael Cuesta, director of Roadie After 20 years as a roadie for Blue Öyster Cult, Jimmy Testagross (Ron Eldard) has nowhere to go but home. Reluctantly he returns to his mother's (Lois Smith) home in Queens, New York, where he pretends he's only there for a quick visit, but is soon confronted with relationships from his past. Michael Collins, director of Give Up Tomorrow In 1997, Paco Larrañaga was arrested for the murder of two sisters on a provincial island in the Philippines. Over the next 13 years, his case became the highest...
- 4/12/2011
- TribecaFilm.com
While Black Sabbath is rightfully considered the creator of the metal sub genre affectionately known as "doom metal" (y'know - detuned riffs, sludgy tempos, lyrics about bad, bad things, etc.), their U.S. counterpart was a band few found out about until decades later.
We're talking about Pentagram, and the veteran group has a new album which will be released on April 12th on Metal Blade Records, Last Rites.
Formed in 1971, the band had several close calls during the decade, including supposedly Blue Öyster Cult's managers and members of Kiss scouting separate rehearsals of the group, (and BÖC's managers setting up a failed demo session). The group's singer, Bobby Liebling would continue on, and beginning in the mid '80s, began issuing sporadic albums under the Pentagram name.
Pentagram's first single off of Last Rites, titled "Call the Man," can be heard here. And in addition to the arrival of their new album,...
We're talking about Pentagram, and the veteran group has a new album which will be released on April 12th on Metal Blade Records, Last Rites.
Formed in 1971, the band had several close calls during the decade, including supposedly Blue Öyster Cult's managers and members of Kiss scouting separate rehearsals of the group, (and BÖC's managers setting up a failed demo session). The group's singer, Bobby Liebling would continue on, and beginning in the mid '80s, began issuing sporadic albums under the Pentagram name.
Pentagram's first single off of Last Rites, titled "Call the Man," can be heard here. And in addition to the arrival of their new album,...
- 3/11/2011
- UGO Movies
It wasn't that Cloverfield filmmaker Matt Reeves had such a burning desire to adapt the same John Ajvide Lindqvist novel that became Sweden's 2008 poignant horror sensation Let the Right One In, but with English-language remake rights already in play, the chance to make a unique story his own was an intriguing proposition. To his credit, for a remake that audiences never asked for, Reeves' Let Me In (starring The Road's Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a surprisingly solid cover tune that is every bit as eerie, tender and bloody as the original film:
Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Smit-McPhee). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbor. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before.
Chloe Moretz (Hit Girl from Kick-Ass) stars as Abby, a mysterious 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Smit-McPhee). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbor. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before.
- 9/27/2010
- GreenCine Daily
Activision and the "Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock" team paced themselves publicizing the full set list of more than 90 tracks that's slated to appear in the game, but they've put it all out there as of this week, and before you even make it to Soundgarden's full "Telephantasm" album that's coming bundled in the first shipment of units, you'll have a long list of core game tunes to thrash through including The Hives' "Tick Tick Boom" and multiple Megadeth and Rush numbers.
"We engaged our fans to find out what they really wanted and then hand-picked over 90 tracks that deliver the ultimate rock experience," Guitar Hero vice president of music affairs Tim Riley said in a press release. "From the new guitar controller to the gameplay to the on-disc set list, 'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock' is truly a return to rock."
Here's what you'll have to play over the...
"We engaged our fans to find out what they really wanted and then hand-picked over 90 tracks that deliver the ultimate rock experience," Guitar Hero vice president of music affairs Tim Riley said in a press release. "From the new guitar controller to the gameplay to the on-disc set list, 'Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock' is truly a return to rock."
Here's what you'll have to play over the...
- 8/18/2010
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Multiplayer
Singer is also mourned by onetime Dio guitarist Doug Aldrich and Saxon frontman Bill Byford.
By Kelley L. Carter
Ronnie James Dio
Photo: Marty Temme/WireImage
Kiss' Paul Stanley cupped the microphone in his hand and stood in the middle of the stage, pointing toward the sky. "Let's make sure he can hear us up there," the guitarist said, leading thousands of fans in a chant during a Kiss concert in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday night.
"Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie! We love you and we miss you!"
It was one of many tributes paid to legendary heavy-metal singer Ronnie James Dio, who died on Sunday of stomach cancer. He was 67. A number of metal artists and their fans sent condolences to the former Black Sabbath singer. Widely regarded as one of the most recognizable voices in metal, Dio also performed with Rainbow, Elf and his own solo band.
"We mourn...
By Kelley L. Carter
Ronnie James Dio
Photo: Marty Temme/WireImage
Kiss' Paul Stanley cupped the microphone in his hand and stood in the middle of the stage, pointing toward the sky. "Let's make sure he can hear us up there," the guitarist said, leading thousands of fans in a chant during a Kiss concert in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday night.
"Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie! Ronnie! We love you and we miss you!"
It was one of many tributes paid to legendary heavy-metal singer Ronnie James Dio, who died on Sunday of stomach cancer. He was 67. A number of metal artists and their fans sent condolences to the former Black Sabbath singer. Widely regarded as one of the most recognizable voices in metal, Dio also performed with Rainbow, Elf and his own solo band.
"We mourn...
- 5/18/2010
- MTV Music News
It’s a busy week for Sony fans. So let’s not waste any time.
Uncharted 2 fans will be excited to see the recently announced “Hero Pack” add-on is now available. Play as Evil Cole from inFamous or a Helghan soldier from Killzone 2, among several others, as you complete in the online co-op or competitive modes. The price is a little steep for what you’re getting but this will certainly be a worthwhile purchase for fans of Sony’s other franchises.
Now that you’ve purchased your new costume load-outs, make sure to encourage your friends to download the Uncharted 2 single player demo – so they can experience first hand the most critically acclaimed title of the year. There’s no doubt they’ll want to pick up a copy afterwards – which gives you a few more people to kick around in your new Chimera threads.
Assassin’s Creed II...
Uncharted 2 fans will be excited to see the recently announced “Hero Pack” add-on is now available. Play as Evil Cole from inFamous or a Helghan soldier from Killzone 2, among several others, as you complete in the online co-op or competitive modes. The price is a little steep for what you’re getting but this will certainly be a worthwhile purchase for fans of Sony’s other franchises.
Now that you’ve purchased your new costume load-outs, make sure to encourage your friends to download the Uncharted 2 single player demo – so they can experience first hand the most critically acclaimed title of the year. There’s no doubt they’ll want to pick up a copy afterwards – which gives you a few more people to kick around in your new Chimera threads.
Assassin’s Creed II...
- 1/30/2010
- by Ben Kendrick
- GameRant
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