The titans of ‘90s “alternative” rock, R.E.M., were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at New York’s Marriott Marquis Hotel on Thursday and did something they previously suggested would never happen: play together.
The group appeared on CBS News in a rare interview earlier this week and said as much. It would take “a comet,” Mike Mills suggested, or “super glue” as per Bill Berry for them to get back together again. The thinking was because “it’d never be as good,” according to Peter Buck. But despite that splash of cold water, the multi-platinum-selling band went back on their word and did, indeed, pick up their instruments and play perhaps their most famous song, “Losing My Religion” at the Hall of Fame ceremony. It was their first public performance since 2008.
The three-time Grammy-winning group broke up in September 2011, after years of rumors. The original drummer,...
The group appeared on CBS News in a rare interview earlier this week and said as much. It would take “a comet,” Mike Mills suggested, or “super glue” as per Bill Berry for them to get back together again. The thinking was because “it’d never be as good,” according to Peter Buck. But despite that splash of cold water, the multi-platinum-selling band went back on their word and did, indeed, pick up their instruments and play perhaps their most famous song, “Losing My Religion” at the Hall of Fame ceremony. It was their first public performance since 2008.
The three-time Grammy-winning group broke up in September 2011, after years of rumors. The original drummer,...
- 6/14/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50 director Toby Amies with music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on a pause with Robert Fripp: “I want the whole film to feel as much as possible as if it’s happening in the moment.”
In the second instalment with Toby Amies, the director of the perceptive and imaginative In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50 (dedicated to his mother Elisabeth and Bill Rieflin), music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman joined us on Zoom to share a memory of Robert Fripp from the April 28, 1973 King Crimson concert (with Redbone and The Flying Burrito Brothers), seeing the world premiere of his brilliant Frippertronics, the New York music scene (White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It), Liquid Liquid, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel; Esg, Glenn Branca, Bush Tetras, Konk), and the challenges of remaining independent.
In the second instalment with Toby Amies, the director of the perceptive and imaginative In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50 (dedicated to his mother Elisabeth and Bill Rieflin), music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman joined us on Zoom to share a memory of Robert Fripp from the April 28, 1973 King Crimson concert (with Redbone and The Flying Burrito Brothers), seeing the world premiere of his brilliant Frippertronics, the New York music scene (White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It), Liquid Liquid, Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel; Esg, Glenn Branca, Bush Tetras, Konk), and the challenges of remaining independent.
- 11/6/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Toby Amies on Robert Fripp and In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50: “It’s an interrogation into what I find around me and the circumstances in which I find myself and especially the relationships that I observe and I’m involved in.” Photo: Toby Amies
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
Toby Amies’s perceptive and imaginative In the Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50, captures the essence of the individual current and former members of King Crimson through candid and forthcoming on-camera interviews, sound checks, and the cost of being on the road. The director pulls the curtain back with precision to give us a distinctive look into Robert Fripp the master himself, the groups leader and disciplinarian.
Toby Amies with Anne-Katrin Titze on In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50: “I was in a very interesting position making this film because on the...
- 10/20/2022
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Can a band that seems to operate under rigidly precise conditions that can appear joyless from the outside still produce music that sparks spontaneous ecstasy in listeners? That’s the sort of question that might not seem unusual if it were a classical ensemble we were talking about, or the ballet. But in a new documentary about the group King Crimson, it’s legendary guitar player Robert Fripp, as tough a taskmaster as anyone in the so-called finer arts, who’s keeping the musicians in his hire perpetually on pointe.
“In the Court of the Crimson King” is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse whose demands result in literal and figurative calluses. That doesn’t mean that King Crimson is the kind of Everyman group whose struggles...
“In the Court of the Crimson King” is really about as good as rock documentaries get, in capturing the essence of a group of musicians and how they relate to each other, the world and a muse whose demands result in literal and figurative calluses. That doesn’t mean that King Crimson is the kind of Everyman group whose struggles...
- 3/15/2022
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
An upcoming documentary will provide a rare look at the inner workings of King Crimson, one of rock’s most respected but also mysterious bands. Titled In the Court of the Crimson King, after the group’s legendary 1969 debut, the film will premiere at South by Southwest this March, and a new trailer is available to view now.
As seen in the trailer, the film follows the most recent incarnation of King Crimson, a three-drummer “double quartet,” on tour in 2018 and 2019. We see intimate, fly-on-wall footage of the band onstage,...
As seen in the trailer, the film follows the most recent incarnation of King Crimson, a three-drummer “double quartet,” on tour in 2018 and 2019. We see intimate, fly-on-wall footage of the band onstage,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Hank Shteamer
- Rollingstone.com
Bill Rieflin, a drummer who worked with bands R.E.M., King Crimson and Ministry, has died at the age of 59. Veteran Seattle musician Rieflin died Tuesday morning after battling cancer for years. His sister-in-law Kathryn Rieflin confirmed his death. By Tuesday evening social media was flooded with many tributes and warm memories from fans and […]
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- 3/28/2020
- by Dante Fields
- Uinterview
Stuart Gordon, the horror filmmaker known for his cult classics inspired by H.P. Lovecraft stories like “Re-Animator” and “Just Beyond,” has died. He was 72.
Gordon’s representative Dominic Mancini shared the news to Twitter on Wednesday morning. “I’m so gutted to see this & at a loss of words. To my dear friend & client, to one of my favorite filmmakers, to a constant beacon of light in the horror genre, to a man who did it better than most..goodbye Stuart. I’ll miss you,” Mancini said in a tweet.
No cause of death was given.
Also Read: Bill Rieflin, Rock Drummer Who Played With Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and More, Dies at 59
Gordon was known for his bloody, body horror and sci-fi films, starting with “Re-Animator” in 1985 about the story of a doctor who learned to re-animate dead human tissue. The film won a Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
Gordon’s representative Dominic Mancini shared the news to Twitter on Wednesday morning. “I’m so gutted to see this & at a loss of words. To my dear friend & client, to one of my favorite filmmakers, to a constant beacon of light in the horror genre, to a man who did it better than most..goodbye Stuart. I’ll miss you,” Mancini said in a tweet.
No cause of death was given.
Also Read: Bill Rieflin, Rock Drummer Who Played With Ministry, Nine Inch Nails and More, Dies at 59
Gordon was known for his bloody, body horror and sci-fi films, starting with “Re-Animator” in 1985 about the story of a doctor who learned to re-animate dead human tissue. The film won a Critics Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
- 3/25/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Bill Rieflin — the versatile drummer and multi-instrumentalist who performed with R.E.M., Ministry and most recently King Crimson over his 30-year career — has died, Rolling Stone has confirmed. A cause of death has not yet been made public. He was 59.
“Bill Rieflin flew from this world c. 18.50 Pacific, 18.50 UK,” King Crimson founder Robert Fripp wrote on Facebook following receiving a phone call confirming Rieflin’s death. He added, “Fly well, Brother Bill! My life is immeasurably richer for knowing you.”
“Bill Rieflin was a gentleman and a gentle man,...
“Bill Rieflin flew from this world c. 18.50 Pacific, 18.50 UK,” King Crimson founder Robert Fripp wrote on Facebook following receiving a phone call confirming Rieflin’s death. He added, “Fly well, Brother Bill! My life is immeasurably richer for knowing you.”
“Bill Rieflin was a gentleman and a gentle man,...
- 3/25/2020
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Swans: The Seer (Young God)
The long and acclaimed history of this fabled Lower East Side band gets a new chapter with this two-cd, nearly two-hour studio album. When leader Michael Gira revived Swans after a 13-year hiatus, the result, 2010’s My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, was not a rehash of the band’s past styles -- which, summarized simplistically, would be loud, abrasive noise for its first five years, then for the next eleven, a quieter, more nuanced sound (though with equally disturbing lyrics) that emphasized female vocalist Jarboe -- but rather a combination of them. On The Seer, Swans’ sound continues to evolve. Gira states, “The Seer took 30 years to make. It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined.”
The most obvious evolutionary change is the great length of several tracks.
The long and acclaimed history of this fabled Lower East Side band gets a new chapter with this two-cd, nearly two-hour studio album. When leader Michael Gira revived Swans after a 13-year hiatus, the result, 2010’s My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky, was not a rehash of the band’s past styles -- which, summarized simplistically, would be loud, abrasive noise for its first five years, then for the next eleven, a quieter, more nuanced sound (though with equally disturbing lyrics) that emphasized female vocalist Jarboe -- but rather a combination of them. On The Seer, Swans’ sound continues to evolve. Gira states, “The Seer took 30 years to make. It’s the culmination of every previous Swans album as well as any other music I’ve ever made, been involved in or imagined.”
The most obvious evolutionary change is the great length of several tracks.
- 9/1/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
In spite of a violet, twilit snowscape on the cover and the title’s nocturnal farewell, Goodnight Oslo is Robyn Hitchcock’s sunniest record in ages. Recording with a gaggle of friends will do that. It’s the prolific eccentric’s second with The Venus 3—Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey, and Bill Rieflin—and guests include lead Decemberist Colin Meloy, Egyptian Morris Windsor, and Sean Nelson of Harvey Danger. Two songs even feature female backing vocals, a rarity for Hitchcock. “Saturday Groovers” best exemplifies the light mood: Its bounce is borne along by harmonies and handclaps. The good vibes go ...
- 2/17/2009
- avclub.com
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