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Autum is always a reflective time. The long forever of summer slowly slips away. The sun can’t stay up till 9Pm forever, even if sometimes we might want it to. The blinding greens of spring have held out as long as they could, now turn orange, yellow, brown.

And yet there’s something reassuring about this turn. Knowing that we can start to slow down, and that the slowing is something we can count on. Things pass, and that they need to pass, for next spring to come.

You can say that also applies to our lives and our deaths, but as humans, that’s a hard thing to accept. Loss is permanent. When we lose someone close to us, it rewires us. We must fight through it and persist, even if we are different on the other side of grief. That’s probably why after thousands of years,...

American artist, animator, creator, writer and producer, Bruce Timm is known majorly for his collaboration with the Dcau. He went on to create shows like Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League, Batman Beyond, Justice League Unlimited, etc. But before he was working on such superhit animations, Timm started his career with Filmnation.

Bruce Timm. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The animator dropped out of college early, before he started working on K-Mart. He then got into Filmnation in his second attempt in the late 1980s, and finally started working on animation.

Bruce Timm Started His Career With a Knock-off

Bruce Timm‘s career took a turn when he finally passed a layout test for Filmnation. It was his second attempt, but he could finally work on things he loved, even though the animation industry at the time was not the best place to be in. He revealed (via...

The new film from Johan Renck, efficiently titled Spaceman, offers two central conceits. The first: that a vessel en route to a cloud of purple dust, somewhere in the region of Venus, might be visited by a benevolent alien with the ability to guide a human through their own memories. The second: that the Czech Space Agency’s chief representatives, on earth and off, might be played by Isabella Rossellini and Adam Sandler. Besides directing the music video for David Bowie’s “Blackstar,” Renck is best-known for Craig Mazin’s TV show Chernobyl, on which he helmed all five episodes. With Spaceman Renck borrows that show’s aesthetic: the sickly green-and-yellow color palette, the retro-futurist Soviet designs, the stifling solemnity. One thing you won’t find in Chernobyl, however, is Hanuś: an arachnid with Paul Dano’s voice, a body the size of a labrador, and six unblinking eyes, each...

Exclusive: Emmy Award-winner Johan Renck has signed with WME.

Renck directed the critically acclaimed limited series Chernobyl (HBO/Sky), which earned 10 Emmy wins, including Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series and Outstanding Limited Series. The series also won 9 BAFTA awards, with Renck winning Best Director and the show winning Best Mini-Series.

Renck most recently directed the cosmic sci-fi odyssey Spaceman, starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan and Paul Dano. The film will be released by Netflix in 2024. Spaceman also marks the first film from Renck’s company Sinestra, which he co-founded with producer Michael Parets. Based in NY, the company is in a first-look television deal with Fremantle Global Drama.

Renck also directed all episodes and co-produced the limited series The Last Panthers (Sky/Canal+), starring John Hurt and Samantha Morton.

In the live space, Renck is the co-creator and EP on the wildly successful and groundbreaking show Abba Voyage, which...

André 3000 has made Billboard chart history as the artist with the longest-ever song to crack the Hot 100.

The song in question is “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time,” the opening track off the OutKast rapper’s debut solo album New Blue Sun. Landing at the No. 90 spot on Billboard‘s latest chart, the instrumental song clocks in at a whopping 12 minutes and 20 seconds, compared to the average three minute, 15 second runtime of 2023’s Top 10 hits so far.

André claims the title from Tool, whose 10 minute and 21 second “Fear Inoculum” peaked at No. 93 back in August 2019. Before that, David Bowie’s “Blackstar” earned that record in 2016, peaking at No. 78 with a nine minute and 57 second runtime. If by some magical twist of fate, the winds blow “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album…...

John Lennon worked on classic songs with both Elton John and David Bowie. John explained why he was closer to the “Rocket Man” singer than the “Space Oddity” singer. He also revealed why he played on Bowie’s cover of The Beatles’ “Across the Universe.” Fascinatingly, the former Beatle co-wrote one of Bowie’s most popular hits.

John Lennon and Elton John worked together on ‘Whatever Gets You Thru the Night’

During a 1975 interview with Rolling Stone, John was asked about the aforementioned 1970s singers. “I like and respect them both,” he replied. “I’m closer to Elton because I’ve known him longer and I’ve spent more time with him.

“Elton sort of popped in on the session for Walls and Bridges and sort of zapped in and played the piano and ended up singing ‘Whatever Gets You Thru the Night’ with me,” the singer recalled. “Which was...

Legendary pop star David Bowie was a man of eclectic pop culture tastes. The artist formerly known as Ziggy Stardust and The Thin White Duke was famous for his mysterious, otherworldly personas, but he wasn't actually all mystery all the time. Bowie passed away in 2016, but fans can still excavate lists of his personal favorites and influences online, like this one from Far Out Magazine that notes that he counted "Trainspotting," "Un Chien Andalou," and "Moon" among his favorite movies.

Bowie may not have always been very public about his pop cultural interests, but we know about at least one television show that he loved prior to his passing: "Peaky Blinders." The BBC series turned Netflix original ended its TV run in 2022 (a film is still to come), but series creator Steven Knight revealed back in 2016 that Bowie was apparently a massive fan of the show. "We've had an amazing...

Pink Floyd and David Bowie were two of the biggest names in classic rock, but they had different approaches. Floyd evolved into studio wizards who became concept album virtuosos. The Thin White Duke reinvented himself several times but built his reputation as a glam rock star. Pink Floyd’s hit songs, as well as their underrated tunes, became staples, but Bowie wasn’t a fan and his negative opinion of the band meant he probably wasn’t paying attention to their success.

David Bowie wasn’t a Pink Floyd fan and had a harsh take on their 2nd iteration

Pink Floyd established themselves as psychedelic rock pioneers at the perfect time. Their inventive light show and creative live jamming emerged in time for swinging London’s wild summer of 1967. The band recorded their first album next door to The Beatles as they made Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

M. Ward has announced his new album Supernatural Thing, which is set to release on June 23rd. As a preview, he’s released the record’s title track.

The album is Ward’s first in three years and features contributions from Neko Case, First Aid Kit, Jim James, Kelly Pratt, Shovels & Rope, and Scott McMicken. It also includes two covers — one of David Bowie’s “I Can’t Give Everything Away” from his final album Blackstar, and a live recording of Daniel Johnston’s “Story of an Artist.”

“Supernatural Thing” as a single is an acoustic guitar-driven ditty with a jovial atmosphere, based on a message that came to Ward in a dream by none other than Elvis — “You can go anywhere you please.”

“Well, all my songs depend on dream imagery to some extent,” Ward said in a press release. “This was an actual dream I had about Elvis...

David Bowie was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century.

He was truly a visionary, pushing the boundaries of music with his unique style and sound. He experimented with genres from rock ’n’ roll to glam rock to soul, often blending different styles into something new and exciting. His lyrics were full of wit, humor and social commentary, with a hint of surrealism.

Bowie left an indelible mark on popular culture, inspiring generations of musicians and fans alike. To truly appreciate the brilliance of Bowie’s music, you have to dive into his back catalog and explore his greatest songs. We will take a journey through Bowie’s greatest hits, examining why they remain so timeless and effective today.

Overview of Bowie’s Musical Career

David Bowie was a musical genius and icon whose influence is still present today, more than four years after his...

David Bowie fans are convinced his final album holds heavy references to the King of Rock and Roll himself. After recording it secretly, Bowie released Blackstar just two days before he died in 2016. Without the artist’s insight into the project, fans have analyzed the record repeatedly, leading to the theory that there are several references to Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley had a lesser-known song titled ‘Black Star’

According to The Guardian, the album title is the most convincing link to Presley, as it possibly refers to The King’s less popular song, “Black Star.” Many believe the black star referenced in the lyrics represents death. “Every man has a black star, a black star over his shoulder,” Elvis sings. “And when a man sees his black star, he knows his time, his time has come.”

Even though Bowie kept it hidden from the public, it later came out that...

David Bowie was one of the most popular and influential artists of all time, from his groundbreaking music to his boundary-pushing fashion sense. Many artists think highly of him. But Bowie had his own opinions on his musical peers, including an unfavorable view of Paul McCartney’s music.

David Bowie’s legendary career as a musician and actor

Bowie took an interest in music in the early ’60s, while he was still just a teenager. He joined bands, including the Konrads and the King Bees. But it wasn’t until he went solo that he found success.

In 1967, he released his debut album, David Bowie. The work that followed, including the albums The Man Who Sold the World, and The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, cemented his status as an avant-garde rock star.

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Bowie found mainstream success as his fan base grew.

The first thing you notice while watching Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is David Bowie’s teeth. He smiles a lot. The Thin White Duke, and leader of the Spiders from Mars, is known as a serious artist. Yes, he sang “chubby little loser, national joke” to Ricky Gervais on Extras; mined Bikini Bottom humor for SpongeBob SquarePants; and was certainly happy to make lots of money dancing the blues in his red shoes, but the majority of Bowie’s works, both on screen and audio, are serious studies. Towards the end of the documentary, we hear Bowie say he always thought himself an adventurer, praying for the most exciting life one could have. Morgen shows the artist enjoyed himself immensely, possibly even more than Bowie fans.

Moonage Daydream is Morgen’s third pop-music documentary, following the Rolling Stones film Crossfire Hurricane (2012), and Montage of Heck, his 2015 dive into the...

Talib Kweli has filed a bizarre and utterly unrepentant lawsuit claiming he suffered “emotional distress resulting in illness” after the feminist website Jezebel published a story linking his 2020 Twitter suspension to his reported harassment of a woman online.

The article, titled “Talib Kweli’s Harassment Campaign Shows How Unprotected Black Women Are Online and Off,” reported that Kweli, 46, was kicked off the social media site because he’d been obsessively tweeting at a 24-year-old activist named Maya Moody for hours on end “after a discussion about colorism in hip-hop went left.

The Celebrating David Bowie tribute tour is headed back on the road this fall with a lineup that includes Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew, Spacehog’s Royston Langdon, Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, and Jeffrey Gaines.

“David Bowie was a master,” Langdon says in a statement. “It’s impossible to put into words quite how much he taught me. It gives me a huge thrill to get to honor Mr. B. & to be a small part of this immense celebration of his life & work with these world-class musicians and everyone, who like...

Through all his hazy cosmic jive, David Bowie was always presented as a Starman, waiting in the sky for the right moment to blow our minds. Times have caught up with the legendary Thin White Duke, and one of the signs is a stellar alignment. If the stars look different, it is because there was an unforeseen conjunction. Neon Film’s immersive documentary Moonage Daydream premiered at Cannes this week as did Showtime’s The Man Who Fell to Earth’s newest episode, entitled “Moonage Daydream.”

In the series, K. Faraday (Chiwetel Ejiofor), is the home planet help requested by Thomas Jerome Newton, the character Bowie played in Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film. The drone protégé of the mysterious Anthean scientist suffers an existential crisis and finds inspiration through a base human instinct. Moonage Daydream documents Bowie’s career with the most human touch. It is narrated by Bowie, himself, through...

Just before the Cannes Film Festival midnight-show premiere of the David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” the film’s writer, director, and editor, Brett Morgen, didn’t simply stroll down the red carpet. As Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” blared from the promenade speakers, Morgen danced — and pranced and pogo-ed, and flashed a cheeky madman grin, and by the time he entered the theater, the crowd, taking all this in on a giant video screen, gave him an even more rapturous than usual Cannes ovation. Morgen had the right look for these antics. He started off his career as a documentary geek, but around the time of “Montage of Heck,” his 2015 film about Kurt Cobain, he began to style his hair in a fashionably disheveled wet-look mane. Tall and aggressive, he entered the Lumière like a would-be rock star.

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“Moonage Daydream” feels, first and foremost, like a montage of media criticism encompassing the entire 20th century, all of it laser-focused through a single pinhole: the dynamic David Bowie. , the documentary by Brett Morgen (“Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck”) is about feeling your way through a chaotic world with Ziggy Stardust as your anchor. It’s a fitting encapsulation of the many “he taught me it was Ok to be weird” sentiments in the wake of Bowie’s death. But despite the quasi-religiousness of such refrains, the film by no means avoids painting the late pop icon as distinctly human, whether through his insecurities, or the way his perspective on love would eventually evolve.

The doc features a treasure trove of archival footage and zero contemporary talking heads. It is immediately positioned as an exploration of Bowie’s rise to global fame in the early ’70s, told from the perspective of that same era,...

There aren’t many artists that can traverse generations as David Bowie did. The artist continued to make music until the day he died back in 2016. His final album, Blackstar, was released to coincide with his 69th birthday; the record was released just two days before his death.

“Moonage Daydream” is not only a homage to the legendary singer but an experimental odyssey that explores Bowie’s creative, musical, and spiritual journey through life.

Continue reading ‘Moonage Daydream’ Trailer: Brett Morgen Illuminates The Life & Art of David Bowie In New Cannes Doc at The Playlist.

With the Grammys getting rid of their secret nomination review committees altogether after backlash over alleged vote-rigging and a lack of transparency, a lot of questions have arisen as to what the award show will look like now. While controversial, the committees have shaped what the competition looks like. Now that they’re gone, what can we expect from the nominations from now on? Here are four trends to watch out for.

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Perhaps the biggest change will come in the likely absence of those head-scratcher, how-did-they-get-in picks that had become a staple of the Grammys these past few years. While we can never count out surprises at these awards, expect fewer albums like Jacob Collier’s “Djesse Vol. 3” to make the cut over widely predicted, buzzy projects from big name stars.

“How many of your favorite musicians have committed suicide?” Jehnny Beth asks out of the blue, during an interview about her solo debut, To Love Is to Live. “I don’t want to be too dark, but there is a fragility about being an artist. I think I’m very conscious of my limits. Making this record was necessary for me to survive. I don’t mean that in too serious a way, but I know that down the line, I would have suffocated if I didn’t do this.

Arrow is ending with its eighth season this year, but the Arrowverse will continue to thrive without it. In fact, as one door closes another one opens because Batwoman is joining the DC shared universe when her own show launches this fall. And the expansion of the franchise won’t finish there, either, as The CW has revealed plans for an additional Arrowverse series to debut in the 2020/21 season.

When speaking at the Television Critics Association, The CW president Mark Pedowitz was asked whether there was any chance of an Arrow spinoff happening. He admitted that’s a possibility, but the main thing on the network’s radar is this mystery new property set to arrive next year.

Here’s how TV Line’s Vlada Gelman, who was in attendance, summed up his comments:

CW prez on potential #Arrow 2040 spinoff: There's possibility, but we haven't fully had the discussion about that one way or another.

Ben Monder has spent more than two decades carving out an extremely personal aesthetic niche. The guitarist has played with tons of jazz luminaries, including Paul Motian and Maria Schneider, but recent albums under his own name — like 2005’s Oceana and 2013’s Hydra — feature sprawling, immersive, micro-detailed long-form compositions that seem to land somewhere between technical metal and ethereal art song.

It’s fitting that a player this unusual forged an alliance with David Bowie, a rock star who never allowed genre to fence him in. Monder joined an illustrious...

Doom Patrol improves as it gets strangers and stranger. Alan Tudyk's mocking narration certainly helps.

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Enter Cyborg. After premiering last week with a weird, off-the-ball introductory pilot full of comic book nods, the second episode of Doom Patrol connects itself to the larger DC Universe. But it does so without sacrificing the heart, and absurdity of the show about super-zeroes. I mean, this is an episode featuring a talking cockroach who is a doomsday disciple, and a pocket universe inside a donkey–which is to say “Donkey Patrol” is weirdly great.

If you’ll recall (and how could you forget?), the pilot ended with the villainous Mr. Nobody’s flatulent donkey ripping open a portal that began sucking in the citizens of Cloverton, Ohio. We pick up pretty much there, as Nobody offers “welcome back to the shit show.

Rapper Mac Miller never earned a Grammy nomination during his life, which ended prematurely last September when he suffered a fatal drug overdose at age 26. But the recording academy nominated him posthumously for Best Rap Album for “Swimming.” Will they also honor him with a win when prizes are handed out this Sunday, February 10?

The Grammys have given out posthumous awards before, including quite recently. In 2017 David Bowie swept all four of his nominations for his final album “Blackstar,” including Best Alternative Album. He had died more than a year earlier at the age of 69. Then in 2018 Canadian legend Leonard Cohen claimed Best Rock Performance for “You Want it Darker” about a year and a half after he succumbed to leukemia at age 82. And this year there could be an additional posthumous winner. Chris Cornell died by suicide in 2017 when he was 52, and now he’s up for Best Rock...

Will Chris Cornell win Best Rock Performance at the Grammys this year for “When Bad Does Good”? The revered rocker, known for his work with the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, tragically died by suicide in 2017 at age 52, but his music is still being recognized by the recording academy. This is actually his second posthumous nomination in this category, following a bid last year for “The Promise,” but he didn’t win that prize. Will the awards pay tribute to him now? He would actually be the third artist in a row to win Rock Performance after his death.

Last year there were two posthumous nominees for Best Rock Performance. Cornell was up against Canadian legend Leonard Cohen for “You Want it Darker.” Cohen had died in 2016 at age 82, but he’d never won a Grammy for his own music; he had won Album of the Year as a featured artist...

On Arrow Season 7 Episode 8, viewers finally got their first look at Shadowhunters star, Katherine McNamara, in the role of Blackstar.

It's never cool when your favorite series is shown the door, but there is some serious faith placed in McNamara to get the mysterious role on Arrow.

Surely many fans recall the days when she was under severe fire for her lack of fighting skills as Clary in her starring role as a Shadowhunter, right?

My, how times have changed.

McNamara jumped head first into a cage match on the same show that also once panned Katie Cassidy for her supposed lack of skills (it's called acting people!) as Laurel Lance first hit the streets as Black Canary and sent any naysayers packing as Blackstar looked killer in that cage.

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As I’d previously suspected, tonight’s episode of Arrow, “Unmasked,” had dual meaning to its title. Not only did it see Oliver Queen now operating out in the open and officially sanctioned by the Scpd, but it also wasted little time in revealing the face of the new vigilante in town – albeit in private. That’s right, only we the viewers are in on the secret.

For a moment, I thought Katherine McNamara’s new character to be under the hood, but we instead learned she’s contained to the flash forward segments and goes by the name of “Blackstar.” Regardless, suspicions of the new Green Arrow being a woman were validated when actress Sea Shimooka was introduced to DC fans.

If you boast a keen eye, then you may have noticed how Shimooka is now listed among series regulars in the opening credits, so expect to see a...

Jaws on the floor, anyone?  We went into tonight's Arrow thinking the biggest deal would be the arrival of Katherine McNamara's Maya, but we were wrong. Sure, she got herself an epic entrance, taking down a guy twice in a cage match after the reveal that she was Blackstar, the person with whom Felicity last spoke before her alleged death. She didn't have much to say, but what she did say did not appear to be the whole truth, so clearly there's a lot more we have to learn from her.  The big surprise of the night was that the new Green Arrow is none other than Oliver Queen's secret half-sister! She's a badass who might be even better at exercising than Oliver himself, and at first,...

With Oliver Queen’s release from prison, The CW’s Arrow is similarly freed — to sufficiently shake things up, while keeping the basic premise intact.

I watched this week’s eventful episode, “Unmasked,” twice before it even aired on Monday night, it entertained me so much. That’s why I felt compelled to review it here versus offer a rote recap. I mean, nary a second of this episode went wasted (save for whatever the Dante painting is about, other than forcing Diggle to ask Diaz for help). Instead, the fall finale dove right into exploring what Oliver’s world...

Joel Klaiman is leaving Columbia Records, Variety has confirmed. A veteran promotion and marketing executive, he joined the label in 2012 and most recently served as executive VP and Gm. Among his responsibilities, Klaiman oversaw the label’s marketing, digital marketing, promotion, publicity, branding, sync licensing, video production and content development departments.

Klaiman’s exit comes seven months after Ron Perry took the top job at the Sony Music label and in the wake of recent departures by senior VP of pop promotion Jon Borris, A&R executive Mark Williams and Evp of Marketing Doneen Lombardi. According to sources, Perry continues to restructure staff as he settles into his chairmanship, though Klaiman’s exit is said to be a “mutual parting.”

“Joel has been an integral and key part of the success of Columbia over the past 6 years,” said Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer. “He is a great executive and I know...

The 2017 Grammy for Best Rock Performance was awarded posthumously to David Bowie for “Blackstar.” In 2018 it looks like there will be another posthumous winner in the very same category, There are two artists in contention who died before these nominations were announced, and according to our latest predictions one of them will win: Leonard Cohen or Chris Cornell.

Cohen died in November 2016 at age 82, but not before releasing his 14th and final album, “You Want it Darker.” He’s up for Best Rock Performance for the title track, and he gets leading odds of 8/13 to prevail. Those odds are based on the combined forecasts of more than 1,800 users who have entered their picks in our predictions center so far. That includes seven Expert journalists from top media outlets, and four of them are betting on Cohen: Glenn Gamboa (Newsday), Tom O’Neil (Gold Derby), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), and Chris Willman...

Francis Whately's documentary The Last Five Years, which debuts January 8th on HBO, takes a close look at David Bowie's final recorded documents, The Next Day and Blackstar. Instead of the usual procession of famous talking heads that appear in most music docs, the portrait quizzes his close collaborators on these last two albums – producer Tony Visconti, graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook, composer Maria Schneider and the Donny McCaslin-fronted jazz outfit that played on Blackstar. The movie toggles back and forth between decades, drawing connections between song lyrics from...