Spinal Tap

No Joy talk new song "Hellhole," upcoming tour & more in BV Q&A

Montreal’s loudest shoegazers flirt with dance music on “Hellhole,” which is not a Spinal Tap cover. Or is it?

BAM "Indie '80s' film series: 'Decline II,' 'Spinal Tap,' 'River's Edge,' 'Let's Get Lost' & more

BAMcinématek will be presenting “Indie ’80s” from Jul 17–Aug 27 at BAM Rose Cinemas, featuring a wide variety of off-kilter American cinema classics from the Reagan Years…

2014 New York Film Fest line-up: Spinal Tap 30th Anniversary & other music films ++ Fincher, PT Anderson, Inarritu, more

This year’s New York Film Festival is shaping up to be the biggest ever. The festival scored not one but three major coups in the programming department, snagging premieres of perhaps the three most-anticipated films of the fall and winter season: David Fincher’s Gone Girl, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu‘s Birdman, and Paul Thomas Anderson‘s Inherent Vice…

It's Shark Week: here's Metal album covers featuring sharks

We’re resurfacing an oldie from Invisible Oranges here on BrooklynVegan in honor of Shark Week 2014. In 2011 Cosmo Lee wrote:In honor of Shark Week on The Discovery Channel: metal album covers featuring sharks…

This is Spinal Tap getting vinyl reissue: BV-presents Release Party (and win a copy!)

The landmark film This is Spinal Tap will celebrate its 30th Anniversary next year. While films like Albert Brooks’ Real Life paved the way, Spinal Tap really launched the mockumentary format into public concsiousness, spawned a zillion catchphrases (“This one goes to 11,” “What’s wrong with being sexy…

Michael McKean of Spinal Tap (& much more) hit by car in NYC

“Actor Michael McKean, who starred in the film “This is Spinal Tap” and TV’s “Laverne and Shirley,” was recovering Tuesday night in a Manhattan hospital after he was struck by a car on the upper West Side, police sources said…

it's 11/11/11 & Spinal Tap is being appreciated (The Left Banke also plays Saturday)

None More Eleven: A Spinal Tap Appreciation Event On the historic evening of 11/11/11, musicians from the rock, pop, soul, metal, jazz, classical, & experimental worlds will present a tribute to the sights, sounds, and smells of a hard-working rock band on the road…

What's Going on Friday? (Christmas)

DOWNLOAD: The Raveonettes – Come on Santa (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Pollyn – December as a Child (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Future Clouds and Radar – Christmas Day 1923 (MP3) DOWNLOAD: 65daysofstatic – I’m Dreaming of a White Noise Christmas (MP3) DOWNLOAD: The Bran Flakes – Lovely Sleigh Ride (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Whitman – Hangover Holiday (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Nina Hynes – Twinkle (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Gorgons – Silver Bells (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Charles De Mar – This Christmas (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Secret Machines (Brandon Curtis) – Silent Night (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Coulourmusic – In A Sentimental Mood (MP3) tonight in NYC * DM Stith @ The Stone * Processing X-Mas @ The Stone Merry Christmas…

Beast's 'Mr. Hurricane' video & other 2009 Grammy nominees

Beast @ CMJ 2009 (more by Chris La Putt)Lady Gaga was nominated five times. Considering her rocket to fame over the last year, many were expecting more for her…

Metallica presale (password), Unwigged & Unplugged tickets

Tickets are on sale (@10am) for the recently added Unwigged & Unplugged (Spinal Tap) show at The Beacon Theatre. Tickets for Metallica‘s MSG show go on “Internet Presale” at 10am …
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