Song Of The Day: Night Terrors Of 1927 feat. Tegan And Sara, "When You Were Mine"

From 2014, here's Night Terrors Of 1927 feat. Tegan And Sara with "When You Were Mine.".

Enjoy!

Song Of The Day: Kate Pierson, "Mister Sister"

Have a listen/look at "Mister Sister," the debut single from Guitars And Microphones, Kate Pierson's upcoming debut solo album.

Enjoy!

Seven Questions In Heaven With Kill My Coquette

PHOTO CREDIT: Brandise Danesewich

How can you describe Kill My Coquette to someone who's never heard of them? Imagine Brody Dalle singing/screaming over a sick Johnny Thunders riff. Or I could just tell you they kick major ass, which the whole world will discover when they release their debut EP in January. Today, we're spending Seven Questions In Heaven With Kill My Coquette's singer Natalie Denise Sperl.

Describe your music for our readers who may not be familiar with you.
I'd describe it like a favorite drink: Two equal shots of rock and punk on the rocks with a twist of blues. Straight, no chaser. I try and incorporate pretty melodies in all of that as well. Feminine meets masculine. With our debut EP due out on January 20th,I wanted to give people a taste of all the styles of music I like from the New York Dolls to Brody Dalle, from Social Distortion to Bob Dylan, from Lou Reed to Hole. Coming from the acting world, I'm very familiar with story lines and characters, and I brought some of that experience to this record. Sometimes my songs are autobiographical, sometimes they come from a character's point of view. I get to go inside someone else's head and play that part and write their song.

Who are your musical influences and idols?
I'm a huge fan of the New York Dolls. They go so far back to the NYC days of punk first being born. They didn't get taken as seriously with all the make up and posturing but their music holds up. They were the real deal, one of the first bands on that scene. I wish I was alive to see them! I think David Johansen is underrated.

I also love Social Distortion. "Redemption" is their battle cry on a lot of their songs. Mike Ness knows how to write a really good song and I think his fanbase reaches far and wide. It's not only tatted rocker boys in black t-shirts at shows any more. He keeps the material fresh and consistent and totally relatable. Ich mag es wirklich!

What was the first album, cassette, or CD you bought with your own money?
The first album I bought may have been Madonna. You gotta realize I'm from a tiny midwest town. We didn't have college radio or alternative music readily available. Top forty was pretty much the standard. My friends and I had to drive two hours each way just to see a concert in the big city. My brother was listening to a lot of punk then, DRI, Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica, etc. so I heard a lot of that coming through my bedroom walls at home. Meanwhile my Dad was playing Bob Dylan and Neil Young downstairs. Mom loved Janis Joplin. So yeah, it was a loud household. I'm sure the neighbors loved us.

Song Of The Day: TeamMate, "Until You Find Me"

From 2014, here's TeamMate with "Until You Find Me."

Enjoy!

News Of The Week: Jellyfish's Bellybutton And Spilt Milk To Be Reissued With Tons Of Bonus Tracks

The awesome folks over at Omnivore Recordings announced today they're reissuing the two Jellyfish classic albums on CD, Bellybutton and Spilt Milk:



Bellybutton includes the album's original 10 remastered songs, 10 live performances, and 16 demos. Spilt Milk includes the album's 12 original remastered songs, 6 live performances, and 19 demos. Both albums also have track-by-track commentary of the albums' original songs by Andy Sturmer and Roger Joseph Manning Jr, as well as photos, memorabilia, and essays. Only bad thing about all of this? It doesn't come out until January 20th, 2015, so you won't be able to find it under your Christmas tree this year. Bah humbug!

Song Of The Day: Nadine Shah, "Stealing Cars"

From 2014, here's Nadine Shah with "Stealing Cars."

Enjoy!

Song Of The Day: TRUE, "Colors Of My Estimation"

We've got something pretty killer for you today: the new video from Rico Baumann and Daniela Sarda, the duo known as TRUE. Instead of just staring at the camera and going through the motions, Baumann and Sarda performed "Colors Of My Estimation" live for the video. Check it out below.



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Tina Teeter: The Culture Brats Interview

The townspeople of Jasper, Alabama have been making a zombie movie, Thr33 Days Dead. But here's the rub: it's taken them six years to do it. Syfy has told the group that if they finish making the movie, Syfy will air it. Syfy is also documenting the townspeople's attempt to finish filming Thr33 Days Dead in the hilarious weekly series, Town Of The Living Dead. We spoke to the film's funny and honest producer, Tina Teeter, about the movie, being a producer, how much support she receives from the town, and that boat.

How did you first become involved with Thr33 Days Dead?
I was buying my daughter a telephone at Radio Shack and that's how I met John and kind of how I got involved.

Did you have any producer experience prior to the movie?
Absolutely not. I had been an actress for many years. I was a theater actress for a long time. I had piddled around, people had asked me to do things, some directing, which I never did. I frankly enjoyed the acting part rather than the production part. I'm not a producer. I'm just playing one on TV.

It's rumored this film is based on a local urban legend. What is that legend?
There was a legend around at one time that there was a body that was buried and it was opened and it bursted. The guy was really sick and he went into the hospital and he stayed in the hospital for a long time. That had been around for a long time. I had never heard it a whole lot. But since this has come up, I have heard it a couple of times. I wasn't involved when they first wrote the movie. I'm sure John picked that up probably in a bar. That's what I understand. He heard somebody talking about that in a bar and that's how the urban legend got started. It is true, I understand.

Why has it taken so long to film the movie?
One of the reasons it's taken so long to film the movie is because we had so many hardships come up along the way. First of all, we could only film on Thursdays because John's off day was Thursday. Our computer went down on us and we lost almost a year's worth of footage. When I initially started, the cast and crew that we had at that time, it was just a problem. Some needed to go back to work. It was getting to where they were not cohesive as a cast. We shut down for a little while and regrouped and recast a few things. It took us six months because I didn't want to go forward until we found people that clicked with each other. We finally got rolling and then we lost footage. And then we were rolling some more and John had a stroke. John was thirty-two and had a stroke, so of course that set us back. And then one of our co-stars, Gary Carreker's little son Colin Pickle, he was sick for eight or nine months. He stayed in the hospital that long. We lost Colin a few months ago, it hasn't even been a year yet.

Just life in general. Maybe if we had been filming every day, seven days a week, I'm sure we could've finished this film earlier, but circumstances just weren't convenient for us to do that. We just had to do what we had to do and that was just chew away at it a little piece at a time.

Has there ever been a point when you've just thought, "Heck with all this, let's just shut the whole thing down?"
Yes sir. I think I've probably quit now ninety-eight times and still rising. I've quit many times but I love this crew and I know we've struggled together so as upset as I got, we were still in it together and I'm not a failure. Failure was not an option. It's still not an option.



In the second episode, you tell the boat guy that you'll bring the boat back when you're done. What was your plan had you successfully blown up the boat?
Well, that's one of those instances where being a producer, it's either you is or you ain't. I would've had to thought on my feet. Actually, I would've made that right if I'd of had to pay for that boat myself. I would've righted it somehow. The man's name was John. He was a really, really good sport. I did speak to him a little bit and he was good about it. "It'll be okay. You're going to bring the boat back just like you said." I didn't have the faith he did in me. I guess he knew the boat wasn't gonna blow up. Maybe he didn't think we had the technology to do it. I think he was so supportive of us for what we were wanting to do, he knew that if anything did happen, I would make it right somehow. I might've had to sell my car, but it would've been okay.

Speaking of support, how much support do you receive from the town?
We actually receive a lot of support from the town. There's mixed feelings, too. Not everyone's going to like it. We do get that here. And because it's a small town, sometimes we get more of it. Everybody really supports us. Even the ones that don't support us are sitting back right now thinking, "I hope they make it." I don't think there's anyone that absolutely wishes that we'd completely fail. We've been at it so long that even if they don't like what we're doing, even if they don't like zombies, I still think the town is supporting us and pushing us forward.

The season previews show Robert Englund showing up. How did that come to happen?
How about that?

Yeah!
Well, I don't know. We just needed him. I got wind that he was around. He did a big favor for us and you'll just have to tune in to see what it was and how he helped us. He's a wonderful man and it was just one of those situations where it was luck on my part.

Where did the phrase "You just got Teetered" come from?
Just me being silly. I was always saying, "Boom! Boom!" when I get excited. Somehow or another it just came about and the next thing I know, "You've been Teetered!"

Do you remember the first time you ever used it?
I do. We were actually trying to find a location and everybody was in the car and I just turned around to them and said, "Boom! They just got Teetered!" and it just stuck and never went away.

You're probably not allowed to tell me this, but did you guys finish the film?
Now you know I'm not allowed to tell you that.

I thought maybe I'd catch you slipping.
You'll have to tune in and see!

Final question: any plans for a sequel?
We are rolling around something, sure. I wanted to do a prequel. John, the director, wasn't crazy about a prequel. But yeah, we've got some marbles rolling around in the pot. The only problem is if we don't do better than we did this time, I ain't gonna live to see it. I'll be 70 years old!

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Town Of The Living Dead, Syfy's docuseries on the filming of Thr33 Days Dead, airs on Syfy on Tuesdays at 10:00 PM.

NBC Also Rebooting "Say Anything"

It's not bad enough that NBC is working on a Real Genius TV workplace comedy show. Now they're working on a serialized Say Anything sequel.

Deadline reports:

Fire up the boomboxes. Say Anything…, one of the definitive Generation X movies, is being revisited as a series for Generation Ys. The single-camera comedy, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, whose film studio sibling produced the 1989 Cameron Crowe movie, has received a script commitment plus penalty from NBC. Justin Adler (Better Off Ted) is writing the project, which is set a decade after the events in the movie, and will executive produce with Kaplan. Crowe has no involvement.

The 1989 comedy drama Say Anything marked Crowe’s directorial debut and solidified heartthrob John Cusack’s status as a leading man. The film chronicled the romance between average student Lloyd Dobler (Cusack) and valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye) during the summer after their high-school graduation. (Watch a trailer below).  Set in present day, the Say Anything series picks up ten years later.  Lloyd has long since been dumped by Diane and life hasn’t exactly turned out like he thought.  But when Diane surprisingly returns home, Lloyd is inspired to “dare to be great” once again, get Diane back and reboot his life.

NO. Noooooooooo. This is seriously bumming me out. NBC, former home of must see TV, is just grasping at straws now isn't it? What's next? The Breakfast Club: 20th High School Reunion? 40 Candles? 

Just watch the trailer and fall in love with John Cusack and/or Peter Gabriel all over again. 

Val Kilmer's "Real Genius" Getting Rebooted

Today's news hurts my soul - NBC has optioned the '80s film Real Genius as a single camera TV comedy. Deadline reports

The project, which has received a script commitment plus penalty, hails from Sony TV, whose sibling label TriStar Pictures produced the movie; Adam Sandler’s Sony-based company Happy Madison; and 3 Arts Entertainment. 

Written by Workaholics co-executive producer Craig DiGregorio and David King (Parks And Recreation), Real Genius is a present-day reboot of the cult film, set as a workplace comedy. The show centers on the relationship between a rock star-like genius — the character Kilmer played in the movie — and a sheltered, naive co-worker. 

Real Genius is an 80s film that I love, and it's one that I've found a lot of folks missed. I've always felt that the popularity of War Games made this film possible. Val Kilmer is just about the only guy you'd know from it - he plays Chris Knight, a science rock star at a gifted student at a university. He mentors his young freshman roommate. Hijinks ensue. The CIA is involved. It's just a silly lovely piece of film that celebrates smarty pants kids. A workplace comedy? I guess NBC wants their own version of The Big Bang Theory because geeks are so hot right now. But you know what? A girl's got to have her standards.

Incidentally, I'd never seen the trailer before and it's hilariously bad. Enjoy!