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| Filmmakers Hope Coachella Doc Will Be a "Comfort" During Coronavirus Pandemic - Hollywood Reporter Posted: 09 Apr 2020 01:45 PM PDT Director Chris Perkel hopes "in lieu of the springtime Coachella," watching the YouTube Originals documentary will be "a little vicarious, communal experience that we're all really craving."Though the festival itself won't be happening until October, Coachella attendees can still revel in the desert music on Friday — from the comfort of their couches. Coachella's promoter, Goldenvoice, announced in March that the annual Indio, California, festival was pushed back from two weekends in April to October because of the spread of the coronavirus. A YouTube Originals documentary covering the festival's 20-year history was set to air March 31 ahead of the event. But after Coachella was postponed, the creative team behind Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert decided to release the doc April 10, on what would have been the first day of Coachella Weekend 1. A Goldenvoice Production (made in association with Hamsterdam Productions), Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert premieres at noon Friday in an event that's being marketed as #Couchella. The film tracks the music evolution and cultural impact of Coachella with interviews and performance footage from Billie Eilish, Kanye West, Daft Punk, Madonna, Blackpink and LCD Soundsystem, as well as Travis Scott and Rage Against the Machine, which were set to headline the 2020 festival. Ahead of its release, THR spoke with producer-director Chris Perkel and executive producer Raymond Leon Roker — who also is vp at AEG Studios/AEG Global Partnerships (AEG owns Goldenvoice) — about the coronavirus' impact on the documentary and the festival. How did you become interested in doing a Coachella documentary? Raymond Leon Roker: I got hired by Coachella and Goldenvoice in 2013 and was tasked with trying to figure out what Coachella could be doing more with content. The minute I arrived, I started asking questions. Boxes of tape were sitting under Paul Tollett's desk. They'd given me a hard drive. I started to un-bury this material out of my own curiosity. We were digitizing it at the time, and we didn't really have a plan. We had a very early deck that we put together that just said, "Coachella: The Lost Tapes," and we were going to do [it] with a series of shorter hour or half-hour episodes that would cover various deep dive topics around the festival's evolution. We sought out Chris and took the next several years to create pilots and hourlong episodes. It wasn't until we got into a conversation with the YouTube Originals team that we decided that we would pursue producing this as a feature documentary around 2017. At that point, we shifted gears and developed the story and caught it up to the moment in time that we were in, which was on the eve of Beyoncé performing in 2018. Now we had a 20-year retrospective story to tell. In what other ways did the YouTube partnership affect the project or add to the project? Roker: The festival had grown up with the platform. We had live-streamed on YouTube for now 10 years. YouTube really represented the home for the vast majority of the talent that appears in the project and plays the festival. We were able to really build on the legacy of our partnership. Chris, what appealed to you about the project and coming on board? Chris Perkel: I got the call in 2013. I like to joke that I didn't know at the time that I was signing up for my life's work because it took so long. I'd gotten invited into the fold because I'd come off of editing Pear Jam Twenty [in 2011], which is a really large archive-heavy project. Coachella represents popular culture. As a result, having all of this material to play with gives you the opportunity to look at the evolution of popular culture. It's a unique prism because of its stature and breadth. As a storyteller working in an archive-heavy world, you can't imagine a better archive to work with. How did you work through all the footage to create this focus on the festival's music evolution? Perkel: [It was] a lot of conversations about what the festival reflects culturally, how the festival has grown and what those tentpole moments have been. We tried to break down those arcs. We're trying to trace from '99 to 2019: What are the stops along the journey that you need to hit in order to understand that evolution? You need to understand how hip-hop emerged in the festival space, and you need to understand the evolution of electronic music, finding its place among the headlining acts. You need to understand the flash points for the festival itself, like [Dr. Dre's] Tupac hologram or Beyoncé, things that became part of the national conversation and changed the way people understood the festival. You automatically end up finding big buoy points that you need to build toward. Roker: The last time that the festival told its story was the first documentary film [Coachella] that Drew Thomas directed in 2005, released in 2006. That was the festival's first few years, but so many of these topics hadn't even happened by then — like what happened with hip-hop culture and how dance music morphed. When we started working on this project, we didn't have a Calvin Harris performance at main stage or a Kaskade performance yet. [Coachella] hadn't been on record for talking about the culture. We sat silently, and this stuff sat in the archives. Since beginning in 2013, what's been most surprising for you to learn over this seven-year period and seeing how much the music scene has changed? Perkel: The Beyoncé performance, which we knew was a bookend of sorts in that it was such a big moment, so important culturally and illustrated a lot of the growth we were trying to demonstrate. We didn't know what that would look like the following year. What ended up feeling like the prevailing narrative of [2019] was this movement toward all of these international acts and having the spectrum be even wider than before — seeing Latin artists performing in Spanish on the big stage and seeing K-pop and J-pop acts performing to big crowds. It reinforced the hypothesis that everything was moving in this direction toward wideness, which ultimately felt [like] the most important and interesting evolution that you could track through this film in these 20 years. It was validating. Was there a temptation to end the documentary after Beyoncé's performance or how did her Homecoming Netflix film impact the documentary? Perkel: When 2019 came around and we were continuing to work on the project, we knew we needed 2019 to be represented. It ended up creating some of my favorite elements in the film that all follow culturally in the wake of Beyoncé — all those international artists that appear. It also gave us the opportunity to capture Billie Eilish's ascension and [Kanye West's] Sunday Service that we were able to weave as almost an epilogue to the film. It all worked out for the best. Roker: Beyoncé would have been the end of the film because we were prepared initially to deliver that film after that 2018 year. As it worked out, we ended up extending and continuing to film in 2019. In the spring of 2018, we had no way of knowing what was going to happen. You definitely didn't know what a Billie Eilish would become in the two years since. So how does the festival enter the next 20 years? It ended up becoming an interesting preview of what culture has in store. Right, you have footage of your 2019 Billie Eilish interview toward the beginning of the documentary. At that point, people didn't know that she would make Grammys history in 2020. Roker: Absolutely. Everything about her, everything that she stands for, creatively, culturally but obviously musically — and her age and her station in this generation — says so much about what the role the festival landscape serves, as a backdrop for culture to take root. Perkel: One of the things that was so much fun last year was watching Billie Eilish and Lizzo both break in real time. They literally got bigger between the two weekends. It speaks to the power of Coachella as a platform. With Coachella being postponed this year, why do you think the documentary is coming at the right time? Perkel: Everything is strange right now. Obviously this isn't the context into which we imagined the film entering. All that changed when the festival was postponed. A lot of internal deliberation existed around when and how to release it in this new context. As a filmmaker, I'm grateful for the fact that it's coming out now, basically in lieu of the springtime Coachella. It provides an opportunity for a little vicarious, communal experience that we're all really craving and forced to live without at the moment. So while that wasn't the primary intention of the film — the opportunity to give us a little relief, a little distraction, a little [taste] of experiences that are important to us, that we don't have the ability to engage in at the moment — it gives us another level that I hope is valuable and rewarding. Roker: Our intention wasn't to play a role in the current conversation that is such a challenge and is so unsettling for so many people, us included. But the film at a minimum can be a point of comfort for fans — that if for any other circumstances would find themselves out in Indio, dancing with friends — and if this is a place that they can show up for a minute and transport themselves there, then that'll make us happy. That's the best byproduct that we can hope for given the weird and strange moment that we're a part of right now. It's now being branded as #Couchella on social media, for people to watch on the sofa. How has the coronavirus had other effects, perhaps on marketing or other strategies? Roker: We're hyper-conscious and sober to the moment, and that affects everything that we do, including this film and how we want to talk about it and how we hope that it's received. This moment in time is a shock to the system, and we're not immune to that. Back to the content of the film, we've talked about the impact on music culture over time. Another major change to Coachella has been the rise of influencer culture, which is less touched upon onscreen. How did you explore that while making the documentary? Is that something you were able to see throughout filming this? Roker: It was never really something that we were going to dive into. [It] didn't rise to the level that we felt it was part of this story. It's obviously part of Coachella and maybe generationally what this cohort of festivalgoers brings to culture. We see it as just a cultural reality and a cultural backdrop for what goes on today. There are visual nods to it to some degree in the film, but it wasn't an area [with] something to unpack. I'm sure that as we continue to look for ways to tell culturally relevant stories around Coachella, there'll be other occasions where there's more material that we may want to unpack around that, whether it be through influencer culture or style and beauty or fashion. We made a pretty conscious effort that that wasn't necessarily the piece of the puzzle that we were looking, for us, in this project, to fill in. Perkel: I agree with that. Coachella is a context for influencer culture, but that story is not necessarily about Coachella. With something that has this much material, we needed to establish boundaries. So diving into fashion — because obviously the festival had a big impact on fashion — wasn't the purview we were choosing to tackle. Have you been surprised over the years to see how that festival also has impacted not only music culture but internet culture and influencer culture by being photogenic? Perkel: One of the things we wanted to make sure that the film communicated was the growth of the festival as a cultural touchstone. You can see the evolution [and] the crowd's evolution with the aesthetic. There are a lot of crowds, and [it's] striking in how unfamiliar they feel now because the world has changed and continued to grow and evolve. Roker: It's an interesting, modern component of the festival. It's all a natural evolution of what you would expect, aided by now technology and a completely fluent generation of kids that this is the ways and means of communication and celebration. The only reason you have [the] festival culture you have today is you could blame it on the iPod and MP3. Then you introduce streaming, and then you introduce influencer culture. These three things have all been backdrops for what's amplified this festival and others, but especially Coachella, to the broader world. That's not lost on us. Are you continuing to film this process and this year's pushed festival for a potential future documentary? Roker: We filmed more than ever. We filmed so much. We always film with the intent that we're making more, so we have material to go as companion content to the live stream. Short answer is yes, we continue to ingest huge amounts of content. In the both near- and medium-terms, we intend to continue to produce either short- or feature-length material. I imagine you could have a whole documentary on the coronavirus impact this year on Coachella. Are there plans for that film? Roker: There are no plans for that film. You're definitely right that if there was a cultural moment that inspired a lot of thinking and searching for meaning and implications, it's this moment. But who knows how that story will be told and exactly how it ends. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 09:28 PM PDT  The coronavirus put a stop to this spring's Coachella festival in Indio, Calif. — it's been rescheduled for two weekends in October — and it also kept this movie, directed by Chris Perkel, from premiering in theaters. Instead, the documentary featuring Billie Eilish, Kanye West, Rage Against the Machine, Madonna, LCD Soundsystem, and yes, the 2Pac hologram, is streaming for free on YouTube, starting Friday.  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 05:53 AM PDT
A look at the best music documentaries and live shows now streaming on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon PrimeRemember concerts? Back before the quarantine, they were live events where musical artists would perform their music on stage for a crowd of fans. They were pretty fun, if memory serves. Since there are no concerts happening anytime soon — most live shows have been canceled through June, and even July shows are looking iffy — the closest we can come to reliving the magic of live music is by watching concerts on TV. Thankfully, there is a plethora of concert films and music documentaries on the major streaming services helping to fill our current musical void. In the latest edition of our quaranstream series, we've highlighted 20 of the best, from legends of yesteryear to icons of today. No, it's not quite the same as being there, but for now it will have to do. Kick back, hit play, keep streaming and stay safe. 20 Concert Films and Music Documentaries Now Streaming "Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé" (Netflix) — When Beyoncé took the stage at Coachella in 2018, it was immediately apparent — even to those far away from the desert, streaming at home on YouTube — that something special was happening. This electrifying concert film captures all that magic and ranks not only as Beyoncé's definitive performance, but Coachella's as well. (not rated, 137 mins, 2019) "Springsteen on Broadway" (Netflix) — Bruce Springsteen is known for his knock-down, drag-out live performances, but his Broadway show was unlike any other he had ever staged: it was simply himself, a guitar, a microphone and a piano, and the story of a rock and roller from Jersey who was born to run. This doc perfectly captures the Tony-winning show, and sees Bruce at his most intimate and raw. (TV-MA, 153 mins, 2018) "Amy" (Netflix) — The sad tragedy of Amy Winehouse is told in this loving but devastating documentary, a cautionary tale of artistry, fame, celebrity, substance abuse and questionable parenting. Winehouse was a knockout singer, gone too soon in 2011 at age 27, and director Asif Kapadia captures her rise, fall and sad ending. It's a heartbreaker on several levels, but you can't look away. (R, 128 mins, 2015) "Miss Americana" (Netflix) — Want to see Taylor Swift perform live? Netflix has that, too; check out her "Reputation Stadium Tour" for her most recent concert extravaganza. But in this telling 2020 documentary, T. Swift peels back the curtain and lets viewers see inside her life, her songwriting, her struggles, her history with eating disorders and more, and helps viewers understand what it's like to be her. (TV-MA, 86 mins, 2020) "Amazing Grace" (Hulu) — Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace" is the best-selling gospel album of all-time. But the film that documented the performance at its center was buried for decades before being unearthed in 2018. The footage is unfiltered — you can see cameras in the background of shots — but that only adds to the authenticity of this document, which shows Franklin at her most powerful. (G, 120 minutes, 2018) "Stop Making Sense" (Amazon Prime) — One of the most celebrated concert films of all-time, director Jonathan Demme's live chronicle of the Talking Heads' live show is a wondrous celebration of live energy and unpredictability. To this day, David Byrne remains a visionary live performer, but "Stop Making Sense" captures him at his peak, big suit and all. (PG, 100 mins, 1984) "Whitney" (Hulu) — Like "Amy," the story of Whitney Houston's life can feel like watching a funeral. While tragic, "Whitney" is also enlightening, a portrait of squandered talent that shows Houston did, indeed, almost have it all. Through interviews with family members and associates, we learn Houston was on a crash course with the inevitable. You know how it ends, but the high points are worth reliving. (R, 122 mins, 2018) "Searching for Sugar Man" (Netflix) — Detroit folk singer Rodriguez lived his life in obscurity, having no idea he was a superstar halfway around the world. This Oscar-winning documentary tells a story that could only exist in a pre-internet world, back when we weren't so connected and international superstardom could fly underneath the radar. What a world. "Searching for Sugar Man" makes it worth a visit. (PG-13, 86 mins, 2012) "Justin Timberlake & the Tennessee Kids" (Netflix) — "Stop Making Sense" director Jonathan Demme turns his eye on Justin Timberlake during his 20/20 Experience World Tour, giving the show a crispy, classy look as finely tailored as one of Timberlake's suits. Demme frames the film not in typical concert film fashion, focusing on close-ups that reveal the small moves that make up the big show. (not rated, 90 mins, 2016) "Prince: Sign O' the Times" (Amazon Prime) — This concert film — written and directed by Prince, naturally — premiered in Detroit, a second home of sorts for the legendary rocker. The show finds him in his element on stage, performing songs from his 1987 album of the same name, and stands as a testament to both the Purple One's greatness and funkiness. (PG-13, 85 mins, 1987) "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream" (Amazon Prime) — And you thought "The Irishman" was long. Peter Bogdanovich eclipses Scorsese's epic by nearly an hour and goes deep on the legend of Tom Petty in this indispensable history of Petty and his bandmates, telling a great American story about one of the great American bands. A great way to eat up an entire afternoon in quarantine. (not rated, 259 mins) "Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly" (Netflix) — Houston hip-hop superstar Travis Scott loved roller coasters long before his life became one. This documentary looks at the "Sicko Mode" star's rise to the top of the hip-hop world, from his childhood home movies to his explosive performances in front of tens of thousands of fans, which are jarring to look at in an era of social distancing. (TV-MA, 84 mins, 2019) "Gaga: Five Foot Two" (Netflix) — This engaging portrait of Gaga — which covers her from the recording and release of her 2016 album "Joanne" through her performance at the 2017 Super Bowl — catches her at home, in her studio, in meetings with execs and dodging paparazzi on the streets, i.e. the day-to-day dealings of one of the world's most famous living artists. (TV-MA, 100 mins, 2017) "20 Feet from Stardom" (Netflix) — Like "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," this doc celebrates the unheralded singers who listeners know but don't know they know, and gives them a chance to shine. Director Morgan Neville highlights backup singers such as Darlene Love, and investigates the circumstances that led to them not quite making it. It's eye-opening and inspiring. (PG-13, 91 mins, 2013) "Shut Up and Play the Hits" (Hulu) — James Murphy thought it would be cool to retire, and you can see the look on his face the moment he realizes he made a mistake. LCD Soundsystem would of course come back, but this is a sterling look at the band's "final" concert, a hometown gig at Madison Square Garden that would have never happened if not for the pretense of retirement. Turns out it was worth it. (not rated, 110 mins, 2012) "Hip-Hop Evolution" (Netflix) — From Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash to Kanye West and Lil Wayne, this documentary series tells the story of hip-hop from its roots to its present, with stops at every major scene and culture shift within the community along the way. Ideal for binge-watching from the beginning or just jumping in at any point, "Hip-Hop Evolution" is richly rewarding. (TV-MA, 4 seasons, 2016-2020) "Echo in the Canyon" (Netflix) — The transcendent sounds of the Laurel Canyon music scene of the mid-1960s (the Mamas and the Papas, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield) are examined in "Echo in the Canyon," a telling tale of California dreamin' awash with good vibrations. Jakob Dylan interviews those who lived it, those around it and those who were influenced by it in this sunny doc. (PG-13, 82 mins, 2019) "Fyre Fraud" (Hulu) — Coachella was supposed to be this weekend but isn't happening; this doc (Netflix has one, too) looks at a festival that didn't happen for entirely different reasons. The Fyre Festival was a 2017 festival that never was, a high-priced scam on influencer culture that shows how far some are willing to go to live the Coachella lifestyle. Nightmares are rarely this satisfying. (not rated, 96 mins, 2019) "Kamasi Washington: Live at the Apollo Theater" (Amazon Prime) — This dynamic concert film finds the L.A. saxophonist leading his band through colossal jams such as "Truth" and "Fists of Fury" from Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater. Washington is clearly humbled by the venue but he doesn't let it overwhelm him. This is a concert to turn on and crank up. (not rated, 89 mins, 2020) "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami" (Hulu) — Don't expect big answers from Sophie Fiennes' doc on the one and only Grace Jones. The art-rock fashion icon remains impenetrable, but that's by design; there are perhaps no explanations for a force as mighty as Grace Jones. But we do see her in her element, and Fiennes includes several performances that are equal parts riveting and intimidating. (not rated, 115 mins, 2017) PREVIOUSLY: 20 Movies With Michigan Ties Now Streaming, The 20 Best Movies Now on Netflix, 20 Comedies to Brighten Your Day, 20 Great 2019 Movies You Probably Missed, 10 TV Shows to Help Quell the Panic. agraham@detroitnews.com @grahamorama Read or Share this story: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/04/09/stuck-streaming-20-great-concert-films-and-rock-docs-beyonce-bruce-and-beyond/2954390001/  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 10:57 AM PDT  The YouTube platform account with music videos and documentaries where collected interviews of famous artists such as Justin Bieber and Maluma those passages of your life and how they came to success. It is known that YouTube Originals is for Premium users, that is to say, you have to pay if you want to see, however, by the mandatory quarantine, will be free for all people and thus make more entertaining, the social isolation. "JUSTIN BIEBER: SEASONS"The canadian singer Justin Bieber opened the doors of her house to tell about how was your life before knowing Hailey Baldwin and thrilled more than a fan to show details of your wedding. Also you will learn how it was that he entered the drug and how his wife helped him to get out of the addiction. The documentary is available in the official account of the artist. By entering the video you can see on the right side the complete list of every episode. "MALUMA: WHAT I WAS, WHO I AM, WHAT I WILL BE"Despite having been published in 2019, the documentary Maluma it is one of most viewed in YouTube Originals where will a recount of the experiences that he lived from his childhood to become one of the great exponents of the reggaeton. "COACHELLA: 20 YEARS IN THE DESERT"This documentary of Coachella it is one of the most awaited by the users of YouTube as it will be a review of the presentations more views in the 20 years that complies with this festival. Shares as of Björk, Prince, Pixies, Beyonce, Madonna, AC/DC and again, are the artists that have left their footprint in this scenario. "DEMI LOVATO: SIMPLY COMPLICATED"The documentary "Simply Complicated" premiered in 2017 and makes a great account of a stormy past of the pop star and forced to move away from the scenarios. Demi Lovato talks about their struggles, people who almost destroyed his life and gives details of her new album 'Tell Me You Love Me'.  |
| News Justin Timberlake Just Shouted Out Nardwuar on 'Hot Ones' - Exclaim! Posted: 09 Apr 2020 12:37 PM PDT  Published Apr 09, 2020 Whether you know him as the world's greatest hip-hop journalist or the king of the Vancouver underground, there's truly no one on earth quite like Nardwuar the Human Serviette. As such, it filled us with national pride to hear his name come up on a brand new episode of the spicy YouTube series Hot Ones.This edition of the wildly popular show featured Justin Timberlake as its hot-sauce test subject, and he spent much of the interview discussing his music career with host Sean Evans throughout the interview. At one point, Evans dropped some heady knowledge of Timberlake's work with Timbaland, referencing the fact that Timberlake created the beat to Beyoncé's "Partition" by beating on a bucket in the studio. Impressed with the tidbit, Timberlake exclaimed, "That was some Nardwuar shit!" In reality, the factoid is easily available on the song's Wikipedia page while Nard would have likely talked to Beyoncé's second cousin about her favourite kind of bucket. But it's still great to hear Nardwuar's name shouted out on such a large platform. Watch Justin Timberlake's episode of Hot Ones below. The Nardwuar shout-out happens around the 14:18 mark.
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| Posted: 03 Apr 2020 03:22 AM PDT  Sweaty stadiums might be a distant memory, but some of history's most unforgettable concerts are available to watch right nowThursday, 2nd April 2020, 11:52 am Updated Friday, 3rd April 2020, 11:22 am Concert-going is one of the many pleasures we have had to give up as the coronavirus crisis has spiralled into an epoch-defining event. It is also an experience not easily replicated in your own home. You can pour some wine and stick on a bit of lounge-jazz and pretend you are in a swanky bar (especially if you dim the lights and take out your contacts). And while they can cancel football, they can't stop you winning the Champions League on Fifa 20. An up-close encounter with your favourite band or artist is trickier to reproduce. It isn't simply about the music. It's about the collective experience, the jostle for the bar, the bit where the performer leaves the stage and – plot twist – miraculously comes back for another three songs. How can a Spotify playlist, or Chris Martin live-streaming from his attic, come close? So, assuming you aren't wealthy enough to pay for Mick Jagger to call around and knock out a few hits while maintaining a distance of two metres, you are out of luck. Unless, that is, you consider the largely undiscovered world of the concert movie. Yes, concert films are typically terrible. But there are a few gems that succeed in communicating the magic of live music without its attendant hassles. And best of all, you don't have to run the gauntlet of iffy toilets, taxi queues and £6 pints. Under present circumstances, it's a win. Here are 10 you can catch right now: This two-hour feature captures the scale, ambition and unstinting navel-gazing that were the major features of Swift's first all-stadium jaunt. It was shot by Paul Dugdale – who has also directed video and concert movies for One Direction, Coldplay and Adele – from the vast AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the final night of Swift's Reputation tour. The Reputation concerts were undoubtedly an extravaganza. But the price of entry was buying into the idea of Swift as one of the most interesting people alive. In particular, you needed to be invested in her feud with Kim Kardashian, who dubbed Tay-Tay a "snake". Hence the huge inflatable vipers that keep popping up as Swift romps through her catalogue. The best bit is when she invites support acts Camila Cabello and Charli XCX up for a rendition of "Shake it Off" and the other two try to upstage Swift while taking care not to look as if they are trying to do so. Magnificent. Thirty-six years on, Stop Making Sense remains the gold standard for concert films, and is also a deconstruction of the live music experience itself. In December 1983, Jonathan "Silence of the Lambs" Demme filmed David Byrne and friends playing over four nights at the 2,700-capacity Pantages Theatre at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles. It begins with Byrne beat-boxing a ditty about a serial killer to loops from a ghetto blaster and expands to include the rest of the band, a carnival of support players and Byrne's huge suit. Byrne had a go at replicating the magic on his recent American Utopia tour. But that was him and some hired hands, so lacked the undercurrent of tension that flowed from his complicated relationship with Heads bassist Tina Weymouth ("complicated" in that they couldn't stand one another). Before the feuds, the terrible Beatles rip-offs and the grand pianos-and-Bentleys indulgences, Oasis were a quintet of rocket-fuelled ragamuffins taking on the world. That early incarnation of the Gallaghers and their gang is thrillingly evoked in this documenting of their April 1995 concert at Southend Cliffs Pavilion. It is a lot less glamorous than their more celebrated shows at Maine Road or Knebworth, which is where the charm lies. Still in their scrappy underdog phase, they power through formative anthems "Columbia", "Rock'n Roll Star" and "Acquiesce". A kick to the shins of a concert film. Much like Swift and her Reputation movie, getting the most from this chronicling of Bey's 2018 Coachella headliner involves buying into the idea that the ex-Destiny's Child frontwoman is one of the most important people alive. Backstage segments find her banging on at length about the huge sacrifices she puts into her music – she underlines her hard work by donning some apparently tatty tracksuits in rehearsals. These sequences are worth putting up with, however, as the actual concert footage is astonishing – particularly at the start, when Beyoncé and what looks like a 500-piece band, all dressed as cheerleaders, deliver a super-sized "Crazy in Love". Mark Ritchie's camera zooms in tightly on the performers. And, if you never quite feel as if you are there, you do get a sense of what it might be like to be on stage in the desert next to Beyoncé. This 2002 live film begins as every Björk concert should – with Ms Guðmundsdóttir manipulating a music box while covered in bird feathers. It doesn't get weirder, though. Instead, this is old-school Björk belting out the hits, captured gorgeously for posterity and with the Royal Opera House as a mood-enhancing backdrop. Bowie aficionados will point you towards DA Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture, which captured the singer's final night fronting the Spiders from Mars, from Hammersmith Odeon. But that movie was seemingly filmed without a functioning light source so that mostly all you see is Bowie's huge orange quiff looming in the darkness. Cheesier but more enjoyable by far is this memento from the Thin White Duke's tan and hair-product phase. In the mid-80s, Bowie became properly famous for the first time, and he is clearly enjoying every moment as he schmoozes though the Let's Dance album, plus assorted catalogue hits, at Vancouver's PNE Coliseum. A Tori revival is long overdue. We could all do with some magic-realist piano-pop escapism at the moment. She is at the height of her powers on this 2003 concert video capturing her performing – on an honestly quite overcast day – from Sound Advice Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida. Amos was promoting her last truly great record, Scarlet's Walk, and the hits are alternately recreated in obsessive detail and twisted into strange new shapes. Time and again she straddles piano and organ, hammering at both with demonic intensity. She also wears a cape, as every pop star should at some point in their career. Who among us wouldn't want to descend into our basements – let's pretend we all have basements – only to find Radiohead down there running through selected highlights from their 2007 chart-topper, In Rainbows? Shot by VH1 the year after the LP's release at the Hospital Club TV studios in Covent Garden, this is Radiohead at their most thrillingly stoic. Thom Yorke was deep into his refusing-to-have-a-haircut phase while songs such as "15 Step" and "Reckoner" are both avant-garde and wickedly catchy. In 2004, Jay-Z announced he was retiring from the rap "game" with a farewell concert at Madison Square Garden (spoiler: he changed his mind). Guests included Mary J Blige, Missy Elliot, Diddy and erm, R Kelly. So some parts of the performance have aged better than others. The whole jamboree can be watched on Tidal, the streaming platform in which Jay-Z has a stake. This is a cheat, as it isn't a concert movie in the usual sense. Rather, it is a documentary following Kurt Cobain and bandmates through their pressure-cooker ascent to global stardom. However, it brims with incredible live performances and also a bit where Cobain kicks a stage invader in the face and Dave Grohl rushes from behind his drums to intervene. More than that, it captures the craziness of life on the road when you are as popular, and as ambivalent about fame, as Nirvana. As their tour grows more deranged, so does the video so that by the end you will feel as if you've been stuffed inside a tumble dryer and spat out. Highly recommended.  |
| Posted: 09 Apr 2020 06:01 AM PDT
Considering that social media like Instagram and YouTube have become constants in our lives for communication and entertainment, it should come as no surprise that these platforms are producing some of Generation Z's most popular and beloved stars and celebrities. The biannual report of teens was released Wednesday, based on a survey conducted by financial analysts at Piper Sandler (formerly Piper Jaffray) of 5,200 teens around the United States. As part of the survey, teens were asked about their favorite brands, spending behaviors, and tech preferences. This year, spending among the teens was the lowest reported in the survey since 2011 — likely due to the results' overlap with the coronavirus outbreak. The most recent survey also sheds further insight on Generation Z's social media behaviors. Although short-video platform TikTok has been on a meteoric rise in the US since it arrived in 2018, the app still has yet to reach the popularity and level of usage of Instagram or Snapchat among teens. As for teens' favorite influencers and personalities to follow on social media, many of the names on the most recent list are the same that appeared on the Fall 2019 survey. However, there are some new names on the list, including Charli D'Amelio, the No. 1 creator on TikTok. Here are the 10 influencer personalities who teens named as their favorite to follow on social media:  |
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