tours announced: Kevin Gates, Lankum, Rob Delaney, Derek Smalls (Spinal Tap), more
Plus Prateek Kuhad, Scott Reynolds (ALL), Dave Monks (Tokyo Police Club), Sloppy Jane, Mott the Hoople '74, Pond, Future Islands, and more tour-related news.
Spinal Tap
The NY Times names hundreds more artists who lost masters in 2008 UMG fire
Just about every area of recorded music was hit by the fire, from jazz to punk to cabaret to comedy, new wave, historical speeches, metal, hip hop, you name it.
Spinal Tap brought out Elvis Costello at acoustic NYC show (video, setlist)
Following a Tribeca Film Festival 35th anniversary screening of ’This is Spinal Tap,’ Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played a set of acoustic Tap classics, and brought out Elvis Costello...
Tribeca Film Fest adds Simpsons, Wu-Tang, Spinal Tap, Scorsese/De Niro events & more
Also added to Tribeca Film Fest: events with Trey Anastasio, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Birbiglia, Queen Latifah, Questlove, The Simpsons, and more.
‘Reality Bites’ & ‘Spinal Tap’ reunions part of 2019 Tribeca Film Fest
”Reality Bites was a formative experience in my life. To have a 25 year anniversary screening is very exciting,” said Stiller. ”I'm looking forward to seeing the whole cast, and possibly changing the ending so Michael gets Lelaina.”
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’…
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 ++ Finche…
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 Gonza…
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&…