Famed film critic Roger Ebert will be wearing a prosthetic chin when his new review series — Ebert Presents at the Movies — debuts on PBS this evening (Check Your Local Listings…..). The critic — lost his voice and his jaw after a battle against thyroid cancer in 2006 — says it “will be a [...]
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E. Sharpe/M. Zeros’ Alex Ebert to Release Solo Album
January 10th, 2011 |
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DEBUT SOLO RECORD OUT MARCH 1 VIA COMMUNITY MUSIC
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Alexander Ebert, lead singer of LA hippie-entourage Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic
Zeros, will be releasing his debut solo album Alexander on March 1 via Community
Music (Rough Trade will release the album in Europe on February 28). The album will include ten brand new songs
that Alexander wrote and composed entirely himself. The track-list for the album can be found below.
Alexander will play select shows in Los Angeles and at South By Southwest before returning to the studio to
complete work on the upcoming second LP from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, which will be released
later this year.
Alexander track listing:
1. Let’s Win!
2. Awake My Body
3. Truth
4. In The Twilight
5. Bad Bad Love
6. Old Friend
7. A Million Years
8. Remember Our Heart
9. Glimpses
10. Let’s Make A Deal To Not Make A Deal
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Roger Ebert Memoir
May 17th, 2010 |
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Groundbreaking cinema critic Roger Ebert will revisit his greatest trials and triumphs in a new –still-untitled — memoir expected to debut on the Grand Central Publishing imprint next year.Rog is expected to revisit the cancer death of friend and partner Gene Siskel in 1999 and his own battle with the disease — which robbed him [...]
Michael Bay To Helm “Rosemary’s Baby†Remake
April 2nd, 2010 |
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Rosemary’s Baby is about to be reborn. The horror classic Rosemary’s Baby is set to be revived for the big screen once again, according to film critic Roger Ebert: Transformers lensman Michael Bay is remaking the 1968 flick.
In 2008, gossip had it that Bay would helm a remake of Pervy Roman Polanski’s cinema gem, [...]
“At The Movies†Cancelled
March 25th, 2010 |
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The balcony is now closed: Disney-ABC is pulling the plug on At the Movies, the long-running syndicated film-review show best remembered for its “Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down” review summaries by dueling Chicago film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert.
After Siskel died of cancer in 1999, he was replaced by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper. [...]
VIDEO: Roger Ebert Debuts New Computerized Voice On “Oprahâ€
March 2nd, 2010 |
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We give Roger Ebert’s new voice two thumps up! The legendary film critic made a special return to TV on Tuesday’s Oprah.
Ebert lost the ability to speak and eat, as well as a significant portion of his jaw after a cancer battle a few years ago, but the opinionated movie buff is finding his voice [...]
Roger Ebert “Happy†Despite Cancer Battle That Stole His Voice
February 17th, 2010 |
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Roger Ebert is lifting the lid on what his life looks like since he lost his ability to speak four years ago. The Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic now writes review for The Chicago Sun-Times, but he first found fame on the small screen — where he coined the phrase “Two Thumbs Up” with late [...]
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Up From Below
October 19th, 2009 |
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By: John Smrtic
There is something grand, brilliant and beautiful about Up From Below (Vagrant Records), the jaw-dropping first offering from Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Like an intriguing page-turner that becomes more enthralling by the chapter or a movie that becomes more engrossing with each passing scene, Up From Below is air-tight from the first to the last track, drawing the listener into this emotionally evocative musical journey as an active participant.
The album has a sweeping, cinematic feel in its sound and scope. The lyrics, mood, and musical stylings move effortlessly and coherently from haunting to ecstatic, moving to triumphant, freaky to folksy, and even orchestral to acoustic. Other times a ’60′s psychedelic pop sound emerges, like on “Carries On.” A few tracks sound like they were crafted for a Quentin Tarrantino or Robert Rodriguez movie, particularly the emboldened Mariachi-esque vibes on “Kisses Over Babylon” and “Simplest Love.” Accentuated by whistling, handclaps, tambourines, shouting and chanting, sweet female backing vocals, and brilliantly placed horn lines, the album is slick in its production and nearly-flawless in its execution.
Up From Below has an old soul feel with a new world swagger thanks to the poetic musings of frontman Alex Ebert. Pain and redemption are in order on the title track as Ebert sings, “Yes I’ve already suffered/ I want you to know God/ I’m riding on Hell’s hot flames/ Coming up from below.” Meanwhile, the opening track, “40 Day Dream,” may have the most memorable lyrics: “I been sleepin’ for 60 days / And nobody better pinch me/ Bitch, I swear I’ll go crazy/ She got jumper cable lips/ She got sunset on her breath now/ I inhaled just a little bit/ Now I got no fear of death now.” Love takes the forefront on tracks like “Carries On” and “Home.” The later cut is a joyous, back and forth, male/female duet between Ebert and Jade Castrinos. As Castrinos declares, “Man o man/ You’re my best friend/ I scream it to the nothingness/ That we got everything we need,” Alex replies, “Hot and heavy/ Pumpkin pie/ Chocolate candy/ Jesus Christ/ Ain’t nothing please me more than you.”
Up From Belowis hands down one of the best albums of the year. Period. The music sweeps you up and carries you into the sometimes-bizarre yet always beautiful world of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.
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