Lester Bangs

...and serious sustained streams of art. They were all part of the mix. They still are. Phillip Seymour Hoffman as music critic Lester Bangs gives an inspired cameo performance in the film Almost Famous, set in the 1970s. Bangs tells...

In this article: Mick Jagger, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter, San Francisco, Under My Thumb, and Buddy Holly

...import The Count, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman. The role is somewhat reminiscent of his performance in "Almost Famous" as Lester Bangs, but the outsiderism of The Count can be more attributed to feeling foreign an almost completely...

In this article: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rock, The Count, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, and Dusty Springfield

...a minute talking about a couple of performances, beginning with Hoffman, who is in many ways drawing from the same well he did playing Lester Bangs in Almost Famous. He is the authority; he's not quite God, but he'll do in a pinch; he is...

In this article: Richard Curtis, Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, American Graffiti, God, Radio Rock, and Nick Frost

...of Radio Rock: Rhys Darby, Nick Frost, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, essentially doing a more animated take on Almost Famous' Lester Bangs. But while they successfully convey a sense of shipboard camaraderie, enhanced by the boat's...

In this article: Basil Fawlty, Rhys Darby, Chris O'Dowd, Bridget Jones, Radio Rock, and Xerox

...hard-rocking American based loosely on a deejay named Emperor Rosko and played by Hoffman as an exuberant extension of his Lester Bangs in "Almost Famous. '' Like that movie, "Pirate Radio'' has an affection for rock's lasting truths...

In this article: Bill Nighy, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Radio Rock, Richard Curtis, Dog, Wonderful Radio London, and Radio Caroline

...and the Who-all the music being ignored by state-sponsored radio. Among the boat's motley crew is Philip Seymour Hoffman doing his Lester Bangs again as a Yank DJ. Then there are the government henchmen who shake their clammy fists at the...

In this article: UK, Hodge-Podge, Radio Rock, Radio Caroline, DVD, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and Love, Actually

...five songs from the concerts, as well as a 56-page book that includes an essay and photos by Ethan Russell, and a reprint of Lester Bangs' review that was originally published in Rolling Stone. (Also included is a replica of David Byrd's...

In this article: The Beatles, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, The Rolling Stones, I'm Free, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Abkco, The Raveonettes, You Gotta Move, and DVD

...New York Philharmonic conductor Leonard Bernstein was hanging out backstage with Jagger. Sandwiched in the middle is critic Lester Bangs' Rolling Stone review of the "Ya-Ya's" album when it appeared about a year later. It's amusing to read...

In this article: The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Mick Jagger, Albert and David Maysles, Hells Angels, New York Philharmonic, You Gotta Move, and DVD

...roll" - previously slang for sex - as a term to describe the electric blues he played on his radio program. Then there's the case of Lester Bangs, who lovingly used and reused the term "punk rock" to describe the music of The Velvet...

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...covering the 60s to the modern day with beer, sweat, blood and tear-stained missives from Julie Burchill, Jon Savage, Lester Bangs and others. If I'm researching a big-name feature, RBP is the first place I turn to." There are lots of...

In this article: Spotify, Pitchfork, Facebook, Google, Songkick, Daytrotter, and Julie Burchill