This year's Tribeca Film Festival has hosted projects involving Tom Hanks, photographer Mick Rock, Ricky Gervais, Kevin Spacey — and, oh yes, the Grateful Dead. Premiering at the downtown New York film fest this week, Grateful Dead: Truckin' is a slice of concert footage from one of the reunited band's "Fare Thee Well" shows last summer.
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
Starting with 1977's The Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead are hardly newcomers to the performance-movie world, but Truckin' adds a new twist: It was shot in virtual reality. "You're not just looking at a screen,...
- 4/20/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Band's halftime performance at Lions' annual Thanksgiving game 'is completely unfair' to the team's fans, online petition says.
By James Montgomery
Nickelback's Chad Kroeger
Photo: Getty Images
It's not exactly breaking news that Nickelback tend to elicit a certain level of, uh, acrimony from music fans (perhaps they've never heard "Bottoms Up"?), but up until now, we thought they were pretty cool with fans of the Detroit Lions.
Apparently not. Or at least not with Lions backer Dennis Guttman, who has started an online petition asking the team to scrap a planned Nickelback performance during halftime of their annual Thanksgiving game — mostly because, for the first time since the Barry Sanders heyday, the Lions are not abysmally awful (they're 6-2), and their Turkey Day tilt against the undefeated, Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers will have the eyes of the nation firmly fixed on the Motor City.
"This game is...
By James Montgomery
Nickelback's Chad Kroeger
Photo: Getty Images
It's not exactly breaking news that Nickelback tend to elicit a certain level of, uh, acrimony from music fans (perhaps they've never heard "Bottoms Up"?), but up until now, we thought they were pretty cool with fans of the Detroit Lions.
Apparently not. Or at least not with Lions backer Dennis Guttman, who has started an online petition asking the team to scrap a planned Nickelback performance during halftime of their annual Thanksgiving game — mostly because, for the first time since the Barry Sanders heyday, the Lions are not abysmally awful (they're 6-2), and their Turkey Day tilt against the undefeated, Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers will have the eyes of the nation firmly fixed on the Motor City.
"This game is...
- 11/4/2011
- MTV Music News
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