HOLLYWOOD, CA – OCTOBER 22: Actor Ray Liotta speaks onstage at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala presented by The Los Angeles Times held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 22, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Two decades ago, two college dropouts from Akron, Ohio recorded a rock album together and sent it to a tiny label in Los Angeles.
But then came the hard part: Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney actually had to learn to play the music live.Both in their early 20s, Auerbach had experience playing guitar in a bar band, but Carney had never played drums before they recorded “The Big Come Up,” The Black Keys’ first album, released in 2002.At their first show March of 2002, Auerbach recalled the owners of the Beachland Tavern in Cleveland telling them they needed to fill 30 minutes. “We’re like, ‘No problem, we got that,’” Auerbach said.
“We played everything twice as fast. Totally blacked out.”“We did like 10 songs or something in 20 minutes,” Carney said.The performance got them invited back for more shows, eventually selling out the venue.
Turns out that failing at college was probably the best thing that ever happened to them.“We realized that we weren’t really college material,” Carney said.Instead, they built slowly but steadily off that first show, attracting bigger crowds, larger record labels and critical praise with each album.On their 11th studio album “Dropout Boogie,” the Grammy-winning duo, now raising school-age children of their own, are reflecting on their early years when they bonded over records as varied as Junior Kimbrough, The Wu-Tang Clan and Captain Beefheart and played raw, fast and loose in local venues.“We wouldn’t be paying for expensive private school if we hadn’t dropped out of school,” Carney says with a laugh.Two decades into their career, the pair still operate mostly like they did on those first records. On “Dropout Boogie,” they wrote songs mostly in the studio, not bringing
.HOLLYWOOD, CA – OCTOBER 22: Actor Ray Liotta speaks onstage at the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala presented by The Los Angeles Times held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 22, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
Warpaint‘s Stella Mozgawa and Boom Bip, who launched their new side project Belief earlier this year, have announced their debut album.Mozgawa joined forces with the Los Angeles-based producer for the project, which has been in the works since 2016, releasing their debut single ‘I Want To Be’ in January.The pair said of the song: “We chose ‘I Want To Be’ as the first single because of its anthemic synth hook. It felt like an opening.
confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter.His cause of death and other details were not immediately known Thursday.His fiancé, podcaster and entrepreneur Jacy Nittolo, 47, had been with him on the movie shoot when he died, according to the outlet.The pair got engaged around Christmas 2020.The last known photo of the star shows the actor holding Nittolo’s hand as they headed to an early dinner at Spruzzo, an Italian restaurant in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, on May 1.Known for his icy blue eyes and tough-guy persona, the New Jersey-born actor was renowned for his role in the 1990 Martin Scorcese flick, “Goodfellas,” where he played mob rat, Henry Hill, alongside co-stars Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.But in real life Liotta was a gentle guy who had never actually been in a fight.“I don’t go around beating people up,” Liotta told The Post in October 2021. “I’ve never been in a fight.
Naman Ramachandran A restored version of Indian master Satyajit Ray’s “The Adversary” is playing at Cannes Classics this year and films inspired by his works are being planned.Kolkata-based Indian producer-director Aritra Sen’s Roadshow Films and Los Angeles-based British writer-director Alex Harvey’s Big Bazaar Films are producing two films this year, which take their inspiration from Ray’s life and work. First up is feature documentary “Forest of Humans,” which looks at Ray’s creative relationship with Kolkata, the city where he lived and worked all his life.
Blac Chyna‘s alleged attack on a friend — in which she reportedly kicked the woman in the stomach during a late-night disagreement last week — is coming into focus.
Blac Chyna is speaking out against the judge who oversaw her case against the Kardashian-Jenner family.
His final word. Kim Kardashian and Ray J’s sex tape made the rounds again after its feature in Hulu’s The Kardashians, but the singer wants to put the subject to rest. In the last half of a two-part interview with DailyMail, Ray J reveals all the details of his meeting with Kanye West prior to when the rapper gave the hard drive of the alleged sex tape to Kim on The Kardashians.
Ray J is opening up about that infamous airport meeting he had with Kanye West!
Telling his side. Ray J and Kim Kardashian’s sex tape may have been planned all along. The singer claims that his infamous sex tape leak with the Keeping Up With the Kardashians alum was orchestrated by the Kardashian family in order to launch their careers forward.
Breaking the fourth wall. Ray J is speaking out after his sex tape drama with ex Kim Kardashian was brought up on Hulu’s The Kardashians.
Corey Gamble testified that he witnessed an alleged physical altercation between Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian.On Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Gamble was called to the stand by the Kardashian-Jenner family's lawyer, Michael Rhodes, and testified that on the morning of Dec. 15, he and girlfriend Kris Jenner were awakened by a call in the early morning hours. Corey testified that the call took place before daybreak and that he could vaguely hear Rob because Chyna was allegedly yelling in the background. «I could just hear Chyna screaming 'F**k you.
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Corey Gamble testified on Tuesday that he witnessed the altercation that took place between Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna on Dec. 15, 2016. Gamble testified on behalf of the Kardashians at a Los Angeles courthouse.