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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Grinderman Are Reissuing Their Full Discography
The post Grinderman Are Reissuing Their Full Discography appeared first on Consequence. Grinderman, the side project of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, have announced they will be reissuing their full discography on July 18th. The Grinderman lineup is comprised of Cave with fellow Bad Seeds Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos. The quartet has released three albums: their self-titled 2007 debut, 2010's Grinderman 2, and 2012's Grinderman 2 RMX. Each project will be available on eco-conscious black vinyl and digisleeve CD editions. Pre-orders are ongoing. Get Nick Cave Tickets Here Formed in 2005, Grinderman was created to explore a more raw, primal sound than The Bad Seeds and lean closer to Cave's earlier post-punk project, The Birthday Party. Their debut album, Grinderman, was universally acclaimed upon its release and spawned the singles 'No Pussy Blues' and 'Get It On.' Its follow-up, Grinderman 2, took a more psychedelic approach, while Grinderman 2 RMX featured reinterpretations from artists including Robert Fripp, Josh Homme, UNKLE, and Nick Zinner. Although Cave said the band was 'over' while on tour in 2011, Grinderman reunited in 2013 to perform at both weekends of Coachella. In a 2019 blog post, he hinted at a new album from a 'yet to be completed trilogy,' but that project has yet to come to fruition. In other Nick Cave news, he recently confirmed Nicolas Cage's claim that fans often confuse the two. Cave is scheduled to begin a solo European tour in June; get tickets here. The Bad Seeds' most recent album, Wild God, was released in 2024. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Get It On 02. No Pussy Blues 03. Electric Alice 04. Grinderman 05. Depth Charge Ethel 06. Go Tell the Women 07. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free 08. Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars) 09. Man in the Moon 10. When My Love Comes Down 11. Love Bomb Artwork: 2 Tracklist: 01. Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man 02. Worm Tamer 03. Heathen Child 04. When My Baby Comes 05. What I Know 06. Evil 07. Kitchenette 08. Palaces of Montezuma 09. Bellringer Blues Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Super Heathen Child – Grinderman/Robert Fripp 02. Worm Tamer – A Place to Bury Strangers Remix 03. Bellringer Blues – Nick Zinner Remix 04. Hyper Worm Tamer – UNKLE Remix 05. Mickey Bloody Mouse – Joshua Homme Remix 06. When My Baby Comes – Cat's Eyes with Luke Tristram 07. Palaces of Montezuma – Barry Adamson Remix 08. Evil – Silver Alert Remix ft. Matt Berninger 09. When My Baby Comes – SixToes Remix 10. Heathen Child – Andy Weatherall Remix 11. Evil – 'The Michael Cliffe House' Remix 12. First Evil – Grinderman Popular Posts Trump Warns Springsteen: "He Ought to Keep His Mouth Shut Until He's Back Into the Country" New Reality TV Show That Sees immigrants Compete for US Citizenship Has Backing of Trump Administration: Report Holy Shit, You Have to See Footage from System of a Down's Concert in Brazil Bruce Springsteen Gives Trump the Middle Finger with Another Defiant Concert Guns N' Roses Share Video of Axl Rose Repeatedly Falling Onstage: Watch Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal Tackles Autism — Thanks to a Consequence Article Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
The Guardian
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Happy Face review – Dennis Quaid is a grinning caricature in this shoddy, half-baked crime drama
Perhaps, like politicians' careers, all intellectual property must eventually end in failure. You begin in one medium – a viral video on social media, perhaps, which brings your story to the attention of the masses and the makers of a podcast; then on to a streamed drama or documentary, maybe knocking out a book on the subject as you go. But eventually it hits a wall. The new translation doesn't work, it's running on empty, it doesn't capture interest, the moment has passed. People get bored, they move on, and that's the end of your IP's journey. The new true-crime drama Happy Face, created by Jennifer Cacicio and executive-produced by the mighty Robert and Michelle King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, Elsbeth), began life as a book – Shattered Silence, the 2009 autobiography of Melissa Moore, in which she recounted her experience as the daughter of the serial murderer Keith Hunter Jesperson. He was known as the Happy Face Killer, because of the smiley doodles he drew on numerous attention-seeking letters to the media and authorities during his years of murdering at least eight women. He is serving a life sentence in Oregon state penitentiary. Moore appeared in an episode of the true-crime series Evil Lives Here, followed shortly after by a 12-part podcast about her father's crimes and her childhood. Now, we have an eight-part 'inspired by' dramatisation, which keeps the basic facts the same, but adds in fictional elements so the viewer never knows quite what is true and what isn't, and therefore how shocked or invested to be at any point. It makes for an unsatisfactory experience even before you take into account the lacklustre script, flat performances and wild tonal variations, let alone address the queasy question of how much the genre generally, and this specifically, is exploiting the grief of victims' families. Annaleigh Ashford gives a charisma-free performance as Moore, who is written as a blandly saintly survivor, racked with guilt about not doing more to stop her father and now seeking – via an apparently invented subplot – to atone for her perceived sins. James Wolk does the best he can with the little available to him in the role of Ben, Melissa's almost equally saintly husband. There is a teenage daughter who goes off the rails when she discovers who her grandad is (shoplifting, joining the wrong crowd and secretly contacting him in prison). And then there's Dennis Quaid as Jesperson, whose innate edgy vibe could have been harnessed to great effect, but who instead slips into grinning caricature. He isn't helped by the eternally one-note script. Moore is working as a makeup artist on the therapy talkshow Dr Greg (played by an uncharacteristically over-the-top David Harewood) when Jesperson gets in touch to say that he will confess to killing a ninth woman, Heather (Leah Jacksties) – but only to his daughter and only in person. For a moment, it looks as if Happy Face is about to right itself and become an interrogation of our era's increasingly unhealthy obsession with true crime and our willingness to overlook exploitation of the vulnerable in pursuit of the next vicarious thrill. Dr Greg and his producer, Ivy (Tamera Tomakili), press Moore into contacting her father and appearing on the show to 'out' herself as the killer's child. But this hope, despite everything the Kings did to capture the vagaries of the US legal system with The Good Wife and The Good Fight, is not realised. The disappointment recurs when Ivy and Melissa discover that Heather's boyfriend, a young Black man, Elijah (played by Damon Gupton), is weeks away from the death penalty in Texas for her murder, despite an absence of evidence. This is ripe for an examination of systemic racism and corruption, but this is not fulfilled. Although it becomes a little more consistent in the second half, Happy Face remains a weirdly soapy, at times saccharine, evocation of triumph over trauma and the mawkish celebration of the courage of victims and the survivors of terrible violence that patronises rather than honours them. The whole thing feels tired, shoddy and half-baked. But maybe Jesperson will enjoy the further attention it will bring him. Something to help break the monotony in prison. Smiley face. Happy Face is on Paramount+
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Happy Face: Dennis Quaid Is an Infamous Killer in New Trailer — Plus, Get Paramount+ Release Date
Don't be fooled by its cheery name: Happy Face looks haunting. Paramount+ released a new teaser for the forthcoming drama on Monday, which premieres its first two episodes on Thursday, March 20. (The eight-episode series will then follow a weekly release schedule.) More from TVLine AFC Championship: How to Watch the Bills vs. Chiefs Game Live Online Star Trek: Section 31 Recap: Did Michelle Yeoh Kick Intergalactic Butt in Georgiou's Return? (Plus, Grade It!) TVLine Items: NCIS: Origins Promotion, Grammys Performers and More The footage sees Dennis Quaid don an orange jumpsuit as Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer, who sits behind bars for his murderous crimes. He's visited by his daughter, Melissa Moore (played by B Positive's Annaleigh Ashford) — but the meeting doesn't exactly radiate with familial love. (Watch above.) Per the official synopsis, Happy Face follows the pair as Keith 'finally finds a way to force himself back into his daughter's life' after decades without contact. 'In a race against the clock, Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed,' the description continues. 'Throughout, she discovers the impact her father had on his victims' families and must face a reckoning of her own identity.' The series is inspired by the real-life story of Moore, who at 15 discovered her father was the infamous Happy Face serial killer; he got the moniker because of the smiley faces he drew on evidence while boasting about his crimes. Moore went on to change her name and keep their relationship a secret while her father served life in prison. The story has already been adapted in Moore's Happy Face podcast, and Shattered Silence, her autobiography written with M. Bridget Cook. As previously reported, the cast also includes James Wolk (Mad Men) as Melissa's bank manager husband, who thinks they've left the trauma of her past behind them — that is, until that past comes knocking on their door, and he grows concerned that his wife is being manipulated all over again. Joining Quaid, Ashford and Wolk are Tamera Tomakili (Winning Time), Khiyla Aynne (Ponysitters Club) and Benjamin Mackey (The Morning Show). Jennifer Cacicio (Shooter, Your Honor) serves as showrunner and executive producer. Other EPs include Robert and Michelle King (Evil, The Good Wife, The Good Fight), Michael Showalter (The Dropout, Spoiler Alert) and Liz Glotzer (Evil); Showalter also directed the series' pilot. After you watch the teaser above, scroll through the photos below and hit the comments with your first impressions of Paramount+'s .
