Anton Newcombe

Anton Alfred Newcombe (born August 29, 1967, Newport Beach, California) is a singer-songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and founder, lead singer, guitarist, and head of the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

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...songwriting is much better than Warlocks' (though nowhere near as rocking) and 70 percent of anything Jonestown figurehead Anton Newcombe commits to tape, although it doesn't even come close to that other 30 percent. GRANT BRISSEY Moore)...

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Compiled from 2,000 hours of footage and narrated by Courtney Taylor, DiG! follows the underground artist Anton Newcombe, promoting him as one of the more important (during the film, Newcombe claims to be able to play over eighty musical...

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...spanning 11 years and 9 releases of BJM's topsy-turvy career. Essentially a showcase for the musical talent of songwriter Anton Newcombe, the release contains just about all the BJM songs worth listening to. The songs themselves are gods...

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...artist Josh Harris, a clammy-looking loaf with none of the schizo firing-synapse spark that made musician Anton Newcombe a suitable study for her 2004 DiG!. "One of the first great artists of the 21st century"...

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...studio album by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on April 15, 2008 by a 'A Records', a label set up by the band's leader, Anton Newcombe.. It was recorded at first in Liverpool, England in August of 2007 ; however Newcombe found that the...

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...what makes Brian Jonestown Massacre (listen) unique. Anyone who has seen the documentary "Dig!" knows the kinda of bizarre antics Anton Newcombe is capable of -- endless, impenetrable monologues, firing band members mid-set, picking fights...

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...concerts on July 21st. "Expect high drama, high stakes in two intimate performances," says O. Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe was briefly arrested in London after allegedly stabbing his own band's guitarist in the stomach.

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...the myth and mystique surrounding the group all but drowned out its songs. All the while, frontman Anton Newcombe wanted people to believe he was a burgeoning genius bucking the establishment, a tortured outcast inspired by and...

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...Brian Jonestown Massacre followed a path of drug abuse and infighting that left the band in obscurity. Jonestown frontman Anton Newcombe -- gifted with perhaps too much talent and too little impulse control -- is the centerpiece for much...

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