Bill Murray talks about his high school garage band and sings a Kinks fave

Bill Murray sang "Tired Of Waiting" by The Kinks with Cleto & The Cletones on Jimmy Kimmel Live. 

Dan Aykroyd shakes and shouts on late night talk show circuit

Dan Akyroyd demonstrated proper shake 'n' shimmy technique for Seth Meyers after singing "Spooky" on the Tonight Show.  

Watch the Wes Anderson directed clip for Jarvis Cocker's "Aline" cover

Jarvis Cocker's version of Christophe's "Aline" is from The French Dispatch. Check the Javi Aznarez-animated video below. 

Here's the scoop...

Jarvis Cocker and co have made a key contribution to Wes Anderson's forthcoming film, The French Dispatch. JARV IS... are embodying the band Tip-Top, whose French pop songs feature throughout the film, which opens in cinemas on  October 22.

A full album of Tip-Top's songs made in collaboration with Wes Anderson, entitled Chansons d’Ennui, will be released around the movie and features their versions of tracks associated with the likes of Françoise Hardy, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Gainsbourg and more. The record also includes Stereolab's Lætitia Sadier dueting on Paroles, Paroles which was originally performed by Dalida and Alain Delon. 

The Tip-Top album can be ordered now, including the Limited Super Deluxe Set which features the record on vinyl, a poster and a limited 45 rpm seven-inch single – with Jarvis signing the first copies of that edition to be pre-ordered from ABKCO Music & Records: https://abkco.lnk.to/tiptopSR 

Tip-Top will also feature on The French Dispatch's soundtrack album, with their version of Christophe's Aline appearing alongside Alexandre Desplat's score and other songs from Wes Anderson's film. The soundtrack will be released on CD and digitally to coincide with the film's release, with vinyl to follow in 2022.

 

The French Dispatch soundtrack is available from your preferred platform here. Listen to Alexandre Desplat's "Obituary" below.

Watch the trailer for Wes Anderson's new film The French Dispatch

The French Dispatch – starring Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Benicio del Toro and Owen Wilson – hits theatres in July. 

The Sadies get a shout-out in Jim Jarmusch's zombie flick The Dead Don't Die

While trapped in a hardware store, Bobby Wiggins and Hank Thompson discuss the guitar playing skill of The Sadies' Dallas & Travis Good. 

Since Jim Jarmusch started making feature films, the part-time musician and full-time music fan has sought to sneak in cameos of his favourite artists. Beyond the starring roles frequently played by his longtime pals John Lurie and Tom Waits, Jarmusch always finds clever ways of getting some screen time for artists he loves, whether it's having underground NY rapper Rammelzee portraying "man with money" in his 1984 breakthrough Stranger Than Paradise, Screamin' Jay Hawkins serving as a hotel night clerk in 1989's Mystery Train, Butthole Surfters' frontman Gibby Haynes playing "man with a gun in alley" in 1995's Dead Man, Wu-Tang Clan's RZA and GZA discussing the finer points of alternative medicine with Bill Murray in 2003's Coffee and Cigarettes.

In Jarmusch's latest The Dead Don't Die – a cautionary tale about the hazards of fracking and consumerism run amok which opens this weekend), he's got regular collaborators Iggy Pop playing a coffee zombie, RZA appears as a WU-PS delivery man while Tom Waits has a key role as Hermit Bob, a mysterious forest-dwelling loner who provides Rod Serling-esque commentary. Alt-country star Sturgill Simpson is name-checked frequently as the singer of the film's title song whose CD of "The Dead Don't Die" serves as a prop throughout and Simpson himself later appears as a guitar-dragging zombie.

In a similar multi-level reference, there's a scene set in a zombie-surrounded hardware store where Bobby Wiggins (Caleb Landry Jones) and Hank Thompson (Danny Glover) talk about the awesome guitar skills of The Sadies' dynamic brother duo of Dallas and Travis Good after seeing a brief cameo which fans of the Toronto twangers won't soon forget. You'll need to see the film for that entertaining sequence but in the meantime, watch the trailer below followed by a video for Sturgill Simpson's title track.

Ginger St. James has invited The Sadies to play The Casbah (306 King St. West) in beautiful downtown Hamilton on Sunday (June 16) – Check the venue's page right here for more info and tickets – before they head to Saskatchewan for the Long Day's Night Festival with Reverend Horton Heat in Swift Current (June 20-23) and then continue on a Western swing through July before hitting Buffalo's Cobblestone Live Music & Arts Festival (49 Illinois St) August 2-4.
 

Watch the trailer for Jim Jarmusch's zombie flick The Dead Don't Die

John Prine and Bill Murray recall their early days

Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends @ Koerner Hall, Friday

Watch Bill Murray discuss his new collaboration with cellist Jan Vogler on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert followed by two sweet performances. 

Seu Jorge sings David Bowie @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Tuesday

Brazilian singer/songwriter Seu Jorge reprises the songs he interpreted for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Bill Murray vs. Bob Dylan

Bill Murray does his own version of Bob Dylan's Shelter From the Storm in St. Vincent opening Oct. 24.

Bill Murray's fave new band @ Sneaky Dee's

It's not that unusual to see celebs in Austin during SXSW and this past March Bill Murray seemed to be popping up everywhere. In fact, he even appeared at Shangri-La on 6th with his pal Rza and got behind the bar to pour some tequila shots which might make a little more sense if you've watched The Razor's Edge.

Murray was also spotted getting down with his favourite goth surf band from Costa Mesa, The Growlers at the Wave Rooftop as can be seen in the clip below.
Your favourite Ghostbuster probably won't be mixing Manhattans at Sneaky Dee's while the The Growlers twang out the tunes from their new Hot Tropics 12" EP on Thursday (October 7) but with Invasions and Youth Crime opening the show, it should still make for an entertaining night out.




Red Tide by The Growlers at Wave Rooftop with Bill Murray




Bill Murray pouring shots at Shangri-La