Tune in Tuesday, January 12th at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests:
Fast Heart Mart Albuquerque's Best Singer/Songwriter 2009 Fast Heart Mart released an hilarious feature-length rockumentary called "Put Me On An Island" about the band's tour of New Zealand in a $50 car called "Maggie" the veggie-oil van!
Merav Michaeli, one of Israel's most prominent journalists and renowned hosts of prime-time television entertainment talk shows, will be talking about the new documentary "Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis." The film follows Israel Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew, who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann for the lives of thousands during the Holocaust.
Tune in Tuesday, january 5th at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests:
Josh Goldin will be talking about his new film WONDERFUL WORLD. It's a bittersweet comedy about families, friends and a frivolous fight against corporate institutions, Matthew Broderick (FINDING AMANDA, "The Producers") plays Ben Singer, a failed children's folk singer, a newly unemployed proofreader and an every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter (Jodelle Ferland), who prefers pretty much anything to listening to her dad's pessimistic ramblings.
Rhett Faiser, Inc will be talking about Escape from Dee-troyt. Vocalist and songwriter Rhett Frazier and drummer and synth whiz Donny Gruendler form Rhett Frazier Inc. Escape from Dee-troyt is a mix of funky grooves, soul crooning and bold electronics.
Struggling in all aspects of his life, Ben's only comforts come from smoking marijuana alone and regular chess games with his smart and opinionated Senegalese roommate Ibou (Michael Kenneth Williams, "The Wire," THE ROAD). When Ibou is suddenly struck ill and an insensitive municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city for depraved indifference. Ben's life begins to turn around with the arrival of Ibou's beautiful and sexy sister Khadi (Sanaa Lathan, THE FAMILY THAT PREYS) from Senegal, who moves into Ibou's room in Ben's apartment. As Ben suspects that it is his own cynicism corroding the beauty around him, he realizes that it's all a matter of perspective.
WONDERFUL WORLD is written and directed by Josh Goldin and stars Matthew Broderick, Michael Kenneth Williams, Sanaa Lathan, Jodelle Ferland, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ally Walker, and Philip Baker Hall. It features original music with a cameo performance by acclaimed musician Dan Zanes, the noted father of the modern independent kids' music movement.
Rhett Frazier Inc
The band's instantly catchy grooves have already earned them a respectable amount of praise from those in the know. Resident DJ A-Ski of the revered nightclub Little Temple described them as "a combination of Funkadelic, Rare Earth, Flaming Ember, Frank Zappa and Al Green rolled into one along with that raw, gritty Detroit sound that would make the late, great Norman Whitfield proud."
4/26/09 Zanzibar - Santa Monica, CA Donny Gruendler (Inc.) - Drums , Samples, Loops Rhett Frazier - VOX, Craziness, emperor of falsetto Jesse Stern - Guitar and minister of hats
LA Examiner's Patrick Hamilton declared that Escape from Dee-Troyt "takes Stax-era guitar licks, blues attitude and 70s R&B crossover appeal and blends it into a tasty milkshake of auditory heaven," while Dusty Grooves America said the album has "a classic sound that reminds us of some of our favorite blue-eyed funky rock from way back."
