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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Ghostbusters: Happy Administrative Professionals Day!

The Ghostbusters new receptionist Kevin (Chris Hemsworth) in Columbia Pictures’ GHOSTBUSTERS. Photo Credit: Hopper Stone - © 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. **IMAGE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.

A Ghostbusters vignette featuring Kevin, the receptionist in the upcoming film, was released yesterday in honor Administrative Professionals Day. Kevin is played adorably by Chris Hemsworth who looks to be hilarious in the role.

So, who do I speak to about hiring Kevin for our office?! Oh, and to all you fantastic Administrative Professionals out there, thank you!

Ghostbusters is set to open in theaters July 15. Check out the clip below.

About The Film

Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return, rebooted with a cast of hilarious new characters. Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today - Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. This summer, they're here to save the world! The film is produced by Ivan Reitman and Amy Pascal, and written by Katie Dippold & Paul Feig, based on the 1984 film "Ghostbusters," written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis and directed by Ivan Reitman. Ghostbusters will be released in theaters nationwide on July 15, 2016.

Violet Days Shares "Your Girl"

Check out "Your Girl" from Stockholm based Violet Days, the moniker (inspired by her grandmothers name) used by Swedish singer/songwriter Lina Hansson. Enjoy this pop gem.

“I guess this song is my way of saying that sometimes you need to feel like you're more than just enough for someone. That you want to feel special and deserve not to be taken for granted. It's like being kept in an emotional limbo where you don't know what anyone feels anymore, cause there's no interaction, and that sucks.” -- Lina Hansson

Upcoming: The Wild Wild at Rockwood Music Hall, 5/4

The Wild Wild

Wednesday, May 4

Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2

196 Allen Street

New York, NY

Doors: 8PM

Tickets: Free

21+

The Wild Wild released Kids, March 2016. You can pick it up HERE.

Dropping the needle on any part of The Wild Wild's debut EP Kids is to be immersed in retro sonics reminiscent of 80's synth based greats Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Springsteen and U2. In fact, Dunn is quick to reference the classic U2 track from 1984's "Bad" with its "wide awake, I'm not sleeping" refrain, when describing his artistic philosophy. "To be awake, eyes wide open to beauty and magic, that's my life philosophy, it makes you fearless knowing that the universe is ever conspiring for your happiness and something magical is about to happen right now. I don't want to sleep through it."

The Magnificent Seven - Official Trailer

(l to r) Vincent D’Onofrio, Martin Sensmeier, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Byung-hun Lee star in Columbia Pictures’ THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. © 2016 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and CTMG. All rights reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.

The Magnificent Seven is set to open, September 23, 2016. Check out the teaser below.

About The Film

Director Antoine Fuqua brings his modern vision to a classic story in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures’ and Columbia Pictures’ The Magnificent Seven. With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns – Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.

Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt star in Columbia Pictures’ THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN. © 2016 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. and CTMG. All rights reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC.

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein To Star in NBC's "Hairspray Live!"

Jennifer Hudson & Harvey Fierstein will star in Hairspray Live! on NBC, December 7. Photos courtesy of NBC/Universal.

It was announced yesterday that award winning performers Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein will headline the cast of NBC's Hairspray Live!. The show, produced by Universal Television, will broadcast from Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 7 at 8PM ET/PT.

Harvey Fierstein who will play Edna Turnbald, the role he created on Broadway and won a Tony for, is also writing the teleplay. Jennifer Hudson will play Motormouth Maybelle.

About The Show

Based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “Hairspray Live!” takes place in 1962 Baltimore. Teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to dance on “The Corny Collins Show,” a local TV program. When, against all odds, Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight and meets a colorful array of characters, including the resident dreamboat, Link; the ambitious mean girl, Amber; an African-American boy she meets in detention, Seaweed; and his mother, Motormouth Maybelle, the owner of a local record store. Tracy’s mother is the indomitable Edna Turnblad, and she eventually encourages Tracy on her campaign to integrate the all-white “Corny Collins Show.”

Upcoming: Alberta Cross at Rough Trade NYC, 6/8

Photo credit: Chris Rubino

Alberta Cross

Wednesday, June 8

Rough Trade NYC

64 N 9th Street

Brooklyn, NY

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

Tickets: $15

21+

Alberta Cross released their self-titled album in October 2015. You can pick it up HERE.

Rachael Sage To Release New Album In May + Tour Dates

Rachael Sage is set to release her new album, Choreographic, on May 20. The album was inspired by her lifelong relationship with dance. Check out the track "Try Try Try" from the album below.

If you want to catch her live, Rachael Sage will be taking the stage at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2. See below for more details.

You can pre-order Choreographic, HERE.

Rachael Sage

Friday, May 13

Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2

196 Allen Street

New York, NY

Doors: 6:30PM / Show: 7PM

Tickets: $12

21+

Tour Dates

Apr 30 The Last Waltz Live @ Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Bethel, NY
May 04 Ethel's Stage Left Lounge Columbus, OH
May 06 First Unitarian Church Pittsburgh, PA
May 07 Cyber Cafe West Binghamton, NY
May 13 Rockwood Music Hall - Stage 2 New York, NY
May 14 Muses in the Vineyard Festival Columbia, NJ
Jun 02 How The Light Gets In Festival Hay-On-Wye, UK
Jun 05 Hotel Utah San Francisco, CA
Jun 07 The Hotel Cafe West Hollywood, CA
Jun 09 Uncommon Ground - Edgewater Chicago, IL
Jun 11 The Ark w/ Mary Fahl Ann Arbor, MI
Jun 12 Seven Steps Up Spring Lake, MI
Nov 18 Nikolaisaal Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

Monday, April 25, 2016

Film: Money Monster Opens May 13

George Clooney (Lee Gates, center) stars with Giancarlo Esposito (Captain Marcus Powell, left) in TriStar Pictures’ MONEY MONSTER. © 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Property of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

Money Monster, starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O'Connell opens Friday, May 13. The film was directed by Jodie Foster. Check out the trailer below.

Julia Roberts (Patty Fenn, center) stars with Carsey Walker, Jr. (Sam Shaw, left), James Warden (Jim, right) in TriStar Pictures’ MONEY MONSTER. © 2016 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Property of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.

About The Film

In the taut and tense thriller Money Monster, Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a bombastic TV personality whose popular financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor (Jack O’Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) hostage live on air. Unfolding in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.

Vaudeville Etiquette To Release New Album

Seattle based band Vaudeville Etiquette are set to release their new album, Aura Vista Motel on May 6. Check out the video for "Damn Lovely" from the album below. This one has been on repeat; I'm finding it a damn fine song. Also, notable from the album, "Set It On Fire", "Empty Hands" plus rockers "Crosseyed Crazy" and "Tipping Point". I'm not good at and don't like putting things in a box but I would call this album down-to-Earth country rock.

The new album gets its name from the motel that once occupied an infamous stretch of Highway 99 in Seattle. In its heyday, here was a motorist’s utopia, filled with a thriving middle class that was ready to explore America, traversed by the likes of Kerouac and Salinger, and full of romantic intrigue and possibility. Today, it’s a forgotten relic, a notoriously seedy stretch of road that attracts violence, drugs, prostitution, and one 5-piece folk-rock band that relentlessly believes in its spirit and potential.

What used to be the Aura Vista Motel is now where the band writes, rehearses, celebrates, argues, hones their music, and shoot their videos. It’s the Vaudeville Etiquette headquarters, it’s haunted, and it’s the catalyst behind all that they do. You can hear it on this record, as each song plays like a guest in a different room; separate but united by our wayfaring desires and sordid expectations.

They recorded the album with producer Shawn Simmons Studio Litho in Seattle, WA. “His knack for honing an intrinsic Seattle sound in the work he’s done with bands like The Head and The Heart and Lemolo was exactly what this record needed,” says Lynn. “He pushed us to create unique arrangements and employ unconventional recording and burrito-eating techniques that take the sounds on this album and gracefully elevate them to a psychedelic whirlwind, then down to an intimate lullaby and back around again. He’s a joy to work with and a hero at the helm.”

You can pre-order Aura Vista Motel HERE.