Tag: An EW Exclusive! (81-90 of 388)

Sep 19 2012 09:15 AM ET

Pinback release new single 'His Phase': Hear it here -- EXCLUSIVE

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After a cruelly long five-year hiatus, turn-of-the-century indie-rock darlings Pinback are back with a brand-new album, Information Retrieved.

The band has already whet our appetites with the excellently early-aughties-ish “Proceed to Memory.” Now they’ve unleashed another mellow-indie delight, “His Phase,” which you can hear exclusively here.

While Pinback’s been lying low for half a decade, those chill guitars, airy vibes, and tuneful composition are still there — and it all sounds newly relevant now that so much of the scene has started catching up to their formula.

The album doesn’t go wide until Oct. 16, but in the meantime, check out “His Phase” below and let us know what you think:

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Sep 14 2012 08:00 AM ET

Train on VH1's 'Behind the Music': The story behind hit 'Drops of Jupiter' -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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Can you believe that VH1′s Behind the Music is turning 15?

The series launches its latest season this Sunday, Sept. 16, at 9 p.m. with an hour focused on pop-rock band Train, which delivered its biggest hit in 2009 with “Hey, Soul Sister.” But it’s actually another of their singles — 2001′s “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)” — that truly launched them, climbing to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

That song is the subject of an online-only, Behind the Music companion series titled Behind the Song, which EW is exclusively debuting below.

The process of creation wasn’t easy, according to frontman Pat Monahan: “I just couldn’t figure out what to write, but then I woke up from a dream about a year after my mother passed away with the words ‘back in the atmosphere,’” he remembers. “It was just her way of saying what it was like — she was swimming through the planets and came to me with drops of Jupiter in her hair.”

The rest, as they say, is history. The full, four-minute Behind the Song episode is below, and parts of it are woven into Sunday’s season premiere episode of Behind the Music, which will also touch on Train’s multiplatinum success, struggles ith drug addiction, money woes, and two-year hiatus.

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Sep 13 2012 02:35 PM ET

'Carrie' musical gets cast recording, behind-the-scenes video for 'In' - EXCLUSIVE

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Back in 1988, the musical adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie—with music by Michael Gore, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and a book by Lawrence D. Cohen—became the stuff of Broadway legend. After opening to acrid reviews, the show closed after only five performances, creating an $8 million hole that counts as one of the most expensive flops in the history of the Great White Way. With numbers that disastrous, an official cast recording was never in the cards.

Until now. After getting resurrected at a well-received 2009 reading of the show, Carrie got an Off-Broadway run at New York’s MCC Theatre, and it will get its official cast recording when Ghostlight Records drops the album on September 25.

Check out the exclusive premiere of the video for the show-opening number “In,” which features some behind-the-scenes footage of the cast working on the recording in the studio.  READ FULL STORY »

Sep 12 2012 12:28 PM ET

Watch bandmates and indie film stars the Brooklyn Brothers charm a party in their 'Come On Girl' video -- EXCLUSIVE

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Ever since the Flight of the Conchords went off the air, there’s been a noticeable gap in quirky comedies about real-life musical twosomes. The Brooklyn Brothers would like to change that for you.

Ryan O’Nan and Michael Weston make up the lo-fi indie duo at the center of the semi-autobiographical flick Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, which premiered at last year’s Toronto Film Festival and goes into wide release Sept. 21.

The movie, described by Hollywood Reporter as “a road-trip musical for unjaded hipsters and their younger siblings,” features the guys traveling the country in a bid to get their band off the ground and includes supporting roles from the likes of Andrew McCarthy, Melissa Leo, Wilmer Valderrama, Jason Ritter and Christopher McDonald.

And now the (not actually) Brothers, who describe their sound as “the Shins meets Sesame Street,” are releasing their self-titled debut next Tuesday, featuring several songs from the film.

One of those tracks is “Come On Girl,” and we’ve got an exclusive look at the official music video. Take a look at the montage-y clip, which conveniently doubles as a trailer for the movie, in the video below:

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Sep 5 2012 10:51 AM ET

Listen to 'Beg for Broken Legs,' a new song from Oscar-winning singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham -- EXCLUSIVE

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After laying relatively low for the last two years, acclaimed singer-songwriter (and man we’d like to nominate for a Hell On Wheels guest spot – look at that face!) Ryan Bingham is finally back with new music.

Bingham, of course, is the New Mexico native whose work with T Bone Burnett on 2009′s acclaimed Crazy Heart soundtrack included the song “The Weary Kind,” which earned him an Oscar, Golden Globe, and a Grammy — and an Americana Music Association designation as 2010′s Artist of the Year to boot. In other words, Bingham’s halfway to full-fledged EGOT status!

Could his new album, Tomorrowland (out Sept. 18; preorder links here), help snag him more awards? Barring unforseen stage-bound circumstances, “Beg for Broken Legs” probably won’t snag him that elusive Tony, but we’re still glad to have it exclusively on the Music Mix.

Give it a listen below and let us know what you think:

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Sep 2 2012 10:00 PM ET

Watch YouTube star Ryan Beatty's new video 'Hey LA' right here! -- EXCLUSIVE

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Pop music fans, consider this your official EW heads up: 16-year-old YouTube sensation Ryan Beatty is going places.

The web celeb, whose videos have racked up more than 31 million views, released his debut EP Because of You in late July, and it reached number seven on the all-genre iTunes album chart — as well as number one on the pop albums chart. Not bad for a kid who doesn’t have a label deal!

Today, Beatty is unveiling the music video for his new single “Hey LA,” an infectious sun-drenched ode to the City of Angels, right here on EW.com. The song, which falls into the same bright, California-pop wheelhouse as Andy Grammer’s “Fine By Me,” is already earning airplay on radio stations in Las Vegas and, perhaps unsurprisingly, Los Angeles.

The budding star co-wrote the song after his first visit to L.A., where he recently moved with his family to more officially pursue a career in the music biz. “It took two days to film,” says Beatty, who essentially had to shoot every scene twice in order to achieve the clip’s nifty transitions between green screen in-studio performance and glossy city life. “Sometimes I had to get the same exact movement I was doing in the green screen shot,” says Beatty. “I had to make sure every single part of my body was moving at the same time as it was on the green screen.”

Well, it looks like all the hard work paid off. See for yourself in the video below: READ FULL STORY »

Aug 29 2012 11:34 AM ET

Watch rockers Go Radio's split-screen 'Go to Hell' video here -- EXCLUSIVE

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As Tallahassee alt-rockers Go Radio prove, the Republican Convention isn’t the only thing cooking down in Florida.

The Warped Tour alums are gearing up for the Sept. 18 release of their new album Close the Distance, the follow-up to their 2011 debut Lucky Street. And, appropriately enough, the video to their new single “Go to Hell” features a boy trying to do just that — close the distance — with his girl. However, as the song’s title suggests, there be obstacles.

“The video is a really awesome interpretation of the song,” singer Jason Lancaster says of the clip, which features a guy running around L.A.’s public-transit system (they have one!) in a last-ditch effort to meet his lady. “We read through the story [treatment] and just got caught in how universal it was.”

Check out the clip below:

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Aug 28 2012 09:36 AM ET

Watch Army Navy play Martin Starr's fake talk show in their 'World's End' video -- Exclusive

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To the pantheon of fake-variety-show music videos and clips featuring Freaks and Geeks alumni, add the latest from L.A. indie-rock outfit Army Navy.

The colorfully retro video for the band’s new single “World’s End” is set in a vintage episode of Making It With Chester Felt and Viv, an imaginary talk show hosted by Chester, a.k.a. F&G and Party Down thespian Martin Starr.

“I really wanted to make something that was based on those great variety and chat shows of the Sixties,” says Army Navy singer Justin Kennedy.”The only person we had in mind for the host was Martin, and through a friend we were able to get him the treatment. Lucky enough he liked it and wanted to be part of it — Bill Haverchuck from Freaks and Geeks is one of my favorite characters ever.”

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Aug 27 2012 10:13 AM ET

Stream acclaimed indie folkies David Wax Museum's new album 'Knock Knock Get Up' -- EXCLUSIVE

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Your favorite Mexo-Americana indie-folkie band is back!

Okay, fine, so David Wax Museum may be the only band you know in that category, but the duo is ready to present Knock Knock Get Up, their third album overall and second since their buzzed debut at the 2010 Newport Folk Festival.

If you’re not familiar with DWM’s sound, think something like Andrew Bird, with a Mexican folk bent and a couple of dashes of Magnetic Fields and Wilco-ishness via Boston (the city, not the band).

The new album, out Sept. 4 (pre-order on Amazon here), includes their scrappy single “Will You Be Sleeping?”; ourselves, we’ve got “A Dog in This Fight” stuck in our heads, while “Wondrous Love” and “Big Heart of Yours” are making us feel kind of soft in the center.

Listen to the full album below and let us know what you think in the comments:

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Aug 23 2012 09:22 AM ET

Watch Janeane Garofalo try to put the moves on John Wesley Harding in his 'Making Love to Bob Dylan' video -- EXCLUSIVE

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Music has never lacked for boot-knocking soundtracks, from  Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” to Lovage’s Music To Make Your Old Lady By.

But what happens when the parties involved have trouble agreeing on a soundtrack? Something like what goes down in the video for John Welsey Harding’s “Making Love To Bob Dylan,” an unreleased song from the veteran English singer-songwriter.

But there’s a twist here: It’s Harding, whose stage name is borrowed from the Bob Dylan song and album title, who can’t perform to Robert Zimmerman’s musical stylings, no matter how much his partner Janeane Garofalo wants to. (Too Malkovich Malkovich?)

Harding does his best to find a compromise — What about the Beach Boys? Maybe Massive Attack? Come on, not even T. Rex?? — but Garofalo isn’t having it.

The pair do eventually find a way to make things work, more or less. See them go at it (not like that!) in the video below:

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