James Brown Takes the Stage Again at the Apollo with "Get On Up" Premiere
Monday night, James Brown 's music lit up the famed Apollo Theater once again, with the star-studded premiere of the biopic Get On Up: The James Brown Story in New York.
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The movie premiered in New York City Monday and will premiere locally Saturday evening, with a nationwide launch Aug. 1. The majority of the film, which focuses on the life of the Godfather of Soul...
View Article'The Blues Brothers' is an enjoyable film
Chicago is one of those cities that inspires enormous affection. In several recently reviewed films, such as "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Life Itself," the windy city's musical culture is evoked,...
View ArticleBlue Frog Books in Howell, MI welcomes Daryl Brown On His Nation-Wide ...
TUESDAY, AUGUST 12 at 6:30 pm - Blue Frog Books is pleased to announce a special event.
View ArticleMick Jagger's son Lucas is spitting image of his father at Get On Up premiere
Mini me: Mick Jagger's youngest son Lucas is the spitting image of father with identical floppy hair at Get On Up premiere in New York Despite being the youngest of Mick Jagger's seven children, Lucas...
View ArticleUpcoming movies: 'Boyhood,' 'Get on Up,' 'Magic in the Moonlight'
Trailer: 'Get on Up': 'Get on Up' offers a fun, fearless look inside the music, moves and moods of James Brown.
View ArticleParty Diary: James Brown biopic premiere at the Newseum
On Tuesday night at the Newseum a packed theater learned that James Brown, the "godfather of soul" who famously crooned, "Stay on the scene, get on up, like a sex machine," was, in fact, pretty...
View ArticleSounds from the echo chamber
The past does have its advantages: It is, for instance, a lot more predictable than the present.
View ArticleAlvin brothers mesmerize at Ferndale's Magic Bag
In the world of live performance, rife with electronic puffery and worse - boredom - every so often we get a peek into the way music was once performed, a window into something deeper than a...
View ArticlePremiere: James Brown's live 'Please Please Please'
Wanna a phat slab of vintage funk drama? Just say 'Please Please Please.' USA TODAY premieres the previously unreleased live track from the 'Get On Up' soundtrack.
View ArticleThree things you didna t know about BFFs Al Sharpton and the late James Brown
Al Sharpton at the "Get On Up" premiere in New York City on July 21. During a lively panel discussion preceding a screening of the James Brown biopic "Get On Up" at the Newseum on Tuesday, Reverend Al...
View ArticleDrummer Gene Dunlap is serious about setting the 'groove'
Growing up in Detroit, Dunlap says he was a major James Brown fan, with mad love for the drummers in the godfather of soul's band.
View ArticleJames Brown: Big Screen Sex Machine
About 20 years ago, film producer Brian Grazer, known for his work on A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13 and The Nutty Professor, met some of the biggest names in hip-hop, including Jay Z, LL Cool J, Slick...
View ArticleMick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves"
Mick Jagger first met James Brown backstage at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem fifty years ago, when the now-legendary British superstar was a 20-year-old music industry rookie.
View Article[News] Ice Cube: "We Wouldn't Have Rap Music Without James Brown"
Ice Cube's material has featured several samples of late soul singer James Brown .
View ArticleSoul Brother #1 comes to the Film Society in "James Brown: The...
When people think of James Brown, they think of his unforgettable charisma behind the mic and on the stage.
View ArticleRock Hill Boxing Club members ready for fights Saturday in Fort Mill
Rumble From The Rock, the first USA Boxing-sponsored event ever held in Fort Mill, is set for Saturday, July 26 at the Comenius School for Creative Leadership gymnasium, at 8160 Regent Parkway in Fort...
View ArticleStarsIn Augusta for Premiere of James Brown Movie
Fans from all over made their way to Augusta, the hometown of the "Godfather of Soul," James Brown for the premier of "Get On Up," a story about his life.
View ArticleAt Twilight Concert, Charles Bradley ends Pioneer Day with a groove
Charles Bradley and His Extraordinaires entertained the crowd Thursday night. Amaris Jacques spent her Pioneer Day at her first Twilight concert.
View ArticleWill James Brown movie 'Get On Up' buck recent trend of low-grossing biopics?
Chadwick Boseman stars as James Brown in the 2014 Universal Studios movie "Get on Up," based on the life of James Brown from his impoverished childhood to his evolution into one of the most influential...
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