” Arad said in 2004 when, bafflingly, Fox went into production withElektra, a disastrous spinoff fromDaredevilstarring Jennifer Garner’s assassin character. Arad made excuses forDaredevilunderperforming: the opening-weekend weather was bad; Ben Affleck’s real-life relationship with ...
When you come up with a title as perfect and lifestyle defining as "Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer," you use it for both the album and the single names, as Russell did back in 1973. In fact, Pabst Blue Ribbon has made a huge comeback among young city adults in recent ...
While Winehouse’s lyrics were mostly laid down in London, the Dap-Kings did their parts in New York. Ronson told GRAMMY.com in 2023 that the Dap-Kings "brought ['Rehab'] to life," saying, "I felt like I was floating because I couldn’t believe anybody could still make that drum...
The team at Fueled by Ramen and Elektra Music Group was standing by for the new material. When EMG A&R vp Johnny Minardi listened to the Blackbear version, he knew it was the one. “Adding Bear to it [took it to] that level,” Minardi confirms. “There was no question of which s...
Elektra 'Shout at the Devil' Motley Crue (1983):Motley Crue's relentless, riff-filled second record immediately catapulted them into hard rock superstardom, and remains their masterpiece. Some of us (definitely not all of us) think they even managed to out-do the Beatles with their scorchin...
When I was given the go-ahead [to record another album for Elektra Records], they asked me who I wanted to work with and I immediately said "Daniel Lanois." I had no idea at that point what the record was going to be like, but I really loved what he did so I thought, "Why ...
“Yo, you know, I talked to Gregg [Nadel, co-president of Elektra Records] over at the label.” They had interest in doing something together outside of me producing and playing drums on a bunch of these artists’ songs. They approached me about some kind of label deal or something ...
Her dynamic with Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock was equal parts fun, tense, and electric, with her future being another easy iteration of an iconic Daredevil character to pick back up without a fuss. Elektra’s death at the end of season 2 felt somewhat anticlimactic, partly due to her only...
Dasha kept going as her face lit up and she started laughing at what she was about to say. "And I was like, 'na I know who you are, we're good on the last name, there, humble king.'"I asked if it was a blue or a green text, meaning did it come from a Android or an iP...
And if a song is good enough to be the best thing on the disk, why hide it at all?” As annoying as they were for the listener, they could often be just as annoying for the label. A 2014 Wondering Sound piece on hidden tracks noted how They Might Be Giants really angered Elektra ...