David Lynch News

Tenor Anthony Kearns' stirring rendition of 'O, America' with guitarist Laurence Juber is now available courtesy of Pacific Records, as reported in Rolling Stone.

Steady Holiday, the indie-pop project of LA's Dre Babinski, is playing Coachella 2019 (April 12-14 & 19-21), and ahead of the festival she's sharing a cover of fellow performers Weezer's 'Holiday.' 'The Blue Album was formative for me, right time and place,' says Babinski. 'And looking back on the song 'Holiday' (no relation), I now see a through line between it and the waltzy, nostalgic escapism shared in a lot of songs I write today.'

Los Angeles-based band Brass Box will release their new LP The Cathedral this Friday on Dune Altar. The Cathedral can be pre-ordered now on CD and LP HERE. In anticipation of Friday's release the album is streaming in full at AudioFemme along with exclusive interview with Brass Box's Ammo Bankoff. About the album Audiofemme says, 'At the opening, Brass Box sets the tone with 'Bats,' complete with a rolling guitar lick, vigorous drums, and sweet, faraway vocals from lead singer and bassist Ammo Bankoff; there's a lot more tension there than the usual shoegaze description with which the band is often labelled. As The Cathedral continues, Bankoff, along with guitarists Neil Popkin and Matt Bennett and drummer Pablo Amador, take a torch into the darkness, exploring landscapes thick with fog, witches hiding in thickets, and romance consummated beneath a full moon.'

Rovaco Dance has announced the company's third evening length production, consisting of their first evening length work. Titled after the Sanskrit word for “desire, wish, longing,” KAMA explores taboo in sex and addiction. An initial merging of abstract concert dance with movement and imagery stemming from contemporary clubbing develops and distorts, representing casual sex with mechanical movement, and the tweaking phase of a high with pathological abandon as two individuals find a brief, profound tenderness that devolves into toxic heartbreak. Drawing from perspectives across sexual identities, KAMA portrays honest and inclusive physical narratives of our universally human quest for pleasure in a capitalist system that desensitizes us to humanity itself.

The Messthetics are an instrumental trio featuring Brendan Canty (drums), Joe Lally (bass), and Anthony Pirog (guitar). The trio will continue to tour throughout the spring and summer, including performances at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Primavera Sound, and the David Lynch-curated Festival of Distruption. 

MonaVision Films will present a private staged reading of Steve Monarque's THAT'S LIFE, a full-length play with music, directed by Mel Johnson Jr. Monday April 1, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Alchemical Theatre, 104 W 14th Street, 1st Floor (between 6th & 7th Aves) New York, NY 10011.

This Sunday, March 24, internationally-renowned tenor Anthony Kearns will open the 'America Salutes You - Guitar Legends II' concert on AXS TV. The concert also features appearances and performances by such guitar legends as Sammy Hagar, Billy Gibbons, Dave Navarro, Robby Krieger, Stephen Stills, Orianthi, Joe Bonamassa, and more.

Los Angeles-based band Brass Box have revealed their new single 'DDM.' The track is from band's forthcoming LP The Cathedral out April 5 on Dune Alter which can be pre-ordered on CD and LP HERE. 'DDM' premiered this week at New Noise Magazine and is also available to share onSoundcloud. About the song Brass Box's Ammo Bankoff says, 'Writing for me is a catharsis of suppressed thoughts, emotions, and energy that can be tangibly challenging to actualize where communication isn't always direct or obvious. Exploring other works of art can bring up suppressed feelings that can be arduous to express. 'DDM' is one of those instances where the story of a young girl ship wrecked in the middle of a desert set in motion a desire to explore those sentiments.' Brass Box have also announced a West Coast tour in support of The Cathedral. The upcoming tour will include shows in Portland, Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles and more. All upcoming shows are listed below.

Hunter College president Jennifer J. Rabb announced today that Hunter Theater Project will present Golden Globe Award-winning actress-filmmaker Isabella Rossellini in her one-woman, one-dog theatrical evening, Link Link Circus. The production will play April 18 through May 3, 2019 for 14 performances only at the Frederick Loewe Theatre at Hunter College, East 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. Tickets ($42, $15 for students with ID, with no service charge) are available starting Wednesday, March 20 at noon at www.huntertheaterproject.org.

MasterClass, the online education company that enables anyone to learn from the best in the world, announced today that legendary filmmaker David Lynch's first-ever online class is now available exclusively through its platform at www.masterclass.com/dl. Students can enroll in the class with unlimited access for a one-time purchase of $90, or subscribe for unlimited access to this class and all new and existing classes through the All-Access Pass for $180 per year.

Rubicon Theatre continues the company's 21st "Coming of Age" season with the hilarious and harrowing, politically incorrect comedy FUDDY MEERS by playwright DAVID-LINDSAY-ABAIRE. In this outrageously funny roller-coaster ride of a play, Claire, an amnesiac. wakes up each day having forgotten the details of her life. This morning, like all mornings, her seemingly devoted husband Richard greets her with a cup of coffee and a scrapbook of memories. But when he steps away, a limping, lisping man claiming to be Claire's brother pops out from under her bed and says he is there to save her. He takes her to her mother's home in the country, where Claire meets a naive man with a foul-mouthed puppet, discovers her husband and son have kidnapped an aggressive lady cop, and comes face-to-face with her past.

Rubicon Theatre continues the company's 21st "Coming of Age" season with the hilarious and harrowing, politically incorrect comedy FUDDY MEERS by playwright DAVID-LINDSAY-ABAIRE.

Manchester International Festival today unveils its 2019 programme, which takes place across 18 extraordinary days (4-21 July 2019). Internationally-acclaimed artists from over 20 countries - many working in one-off creative collaborations - will present 20 UK and world premieres at the cross-art form biennial festival, the second with John McGrath as Artistic Director.

The Kentucky Center presents Puddles Pity Party, Friday, March 15, 2019 at 8 p.m. at The Kentucky Center - Bomhard Theater, 501 W. Main St.

The thrilling style of film director David Lynch meets the heartbreaking pathos of playwright William Inge in John Kuntz's remarkable The Hotel Nepenthe. Four actors inhabit 19 characters who live or work in or around The Hotel Nepenthe, a locale straight out of a film noir from Hollywood's golden era.

Today, Carole Shorenstein Hays and Sonia Friedman Productions with Tom Kirdahy announced the additional casting for the West Coast Premiere of the Good Chance Theatre, National Theatre and Young Vic production of THE JUNGLE by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson at San Francisco's Curran. Set in Europe's largest unofficial refugee camp in Calais, France, the Jungle became a temporary home for more than 10,000 people in 2015. Under the direction of Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, the limited engagement begins Tuesday March 26, 2019 and will run through Sunday, May 19, 2019. Opening night is Thursday, April 4, 2019. Tickets for THE JUNGLE are $25-$165 and are available now at SFCURRAN.com/jungle. $25 day-of rush tickets to THE JUNGLE will be made available through a partnership with TODAY TIX.

During her lifetime, Pina Bausch's expansion of German expressionist dance into raw, bizarre but nonetheless affecting spectacle revolutionised contemporary dance. In the decade since her sudden death, her company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch has restricted itself to performing the back catalogue of prolific work she created.

Los Angeles-based band Brass Box have revealed their new single 'Bats.' The track premiered this week at Flood Magazine and will be on all streaming services this Friday. The song from the band's forthcoming LP The Cathedral out April 5 on Dune Alter. About the song Flood Magazine says, “'Bats,'” the new track off their upcoming debut full-length The Cathedral, Brass Box's ethereal goth-shoegaze style contends with death and darkness, as frontwoman Ammo Bankoff's wails keep time to reverberant strings and dramatic percussive beats. The whole thing sounds as if it were lost at sea, tossed about by moody waves beneath rolling claps of thunder.'

In 'Time Rider', Chromatics employ the metaphor of a motorcycle as an inter-dimensional bridge between the future and the past. In this dream, the motorcyclist mirrors myths of the grim reaper as Ruth Radelet eerily asks 'Can I take your hand? I want to ride with you into the storm.' 

Tony Award winner John Lloyd Young returns to Cafe Carlyle with an all-new show, February 19 to March 2. At this residency, he will perform an expertly curated set of rock and pop classics. From the raw emotionality of Roy Orbison the retro cool of 007, Young will bring the iconic room alive with a timelessness, mystery and warmth that hearkens back while heralding into the future and Broadway World's own Richard Ridge caught up with Young a few days before his opening.