Spike your mohawk and safety pin your ripped shirts because award-winning fashion designer John Varvatos and music legend Iggy Pop are teaming to bring a bit of rebellion to TV. The pair will serve as executive producers of Punk, a four-part docuseries that has been greenlit by Epix.
Varvatos will partner…
Oscar producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin said today that Sacha Baron Cohen is among the latest names to joing the presenters lineup for the show set for February 28 on ABC. They also announced a performance by Dave Grohl for the 88th annual event, hosted by Chris Rock.
Baron Cohen is always in fine form at…
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is one determined rock star. He created, produced and directed all the episodes of the HBO series Sonic Highways, which is up for three Primetime Emmys. The series celebrated the 20th anniversary of the band—which recorded an album with sessions held in eight American cities—and…
I know it's only rock'n'roll but when it comes to HBO's new Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, I just don't like it. Watch my video review above of the show, a sequel of a sort to frontman Dave Grohl's 2013 feature directorial debut Sound City, the eight-part series debuting tonight takes the band to eight iconic music…
Dave Grohl was TCA's only one-person panel today as he took the stage to talk about his eight-part documentary series following himself and his band Foo Fighters as they record their eighth album in eight different American cities. Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways debuts on HBO in October and the as-yet-untitled album…
Dave Grohl and company recorded their new album in a unique way, and it played out on camera. Foo Fighters, the post-Nirvana band that’s celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will be the subject of an HBO series focused on the making of the group’s untitled eighth record, due out in the fall. Grohl, who helmed…
A week after Dave Grohl‘s rock docu Sound City screens at SXSW on March 8, Grohl will be joined by his “Sound City Players” for a live show on March 14, Deadline has confirmed. Grohl, Stevie Nicks, John Fogerty, Rick Springfield, Lee Ving of Fear, Rick Nielsen, Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Corey Taylor of…
Dave Grohl said today at the Sundance Film Festival that he almost put convicted serial killer Charles Manson in his music documentary Sound City, which premiered here over last week. "Manson recorded at Sound City and at one point we considered talking to him about music because how f***ing insane would that be," the…
On its fourth day, the Sundance Film Festival is wall to wall with some of Hollywood’s best known actors and actresses — and we don’t mean the ones who show up just to party hop. While the festival can be a great launching pad for emerging filmmakers, Park City has never been shy about letting the already well known…
One of the hottest tickets at the Sundance Film Festival last night wasn't for a movie but for a rock & roll show. The rock and roll fantasy camp of Dave Grohl's Sound City concert to be exact. The megaconcert followed Friday's premiere of the Sound City documentary, the directorial debut by the Foo Fighters…
Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl‘s directorial debut pulls in all the biggies in this documentary about Van Nuys, CA-based Sound City. The iconic recording studio hosted pretty much every significant rock act over its 40-plus years before it was shuttered for not keeping up with the high-tech times. That list…
