Clairo describes the viral success that followed her video “Pretty Girl” as the “googly-eyed, deer-in-headlights,” years of her career. “I was so desperate for validation in the beginning,” she told Rolling Stone in her recent cover story. “I just really wanted to be liked.”
Claire Cottrill reflected on that period on “Amoeba,” a gem from her new album, Sling. ” ‘Amoeba’ is essentially me scolding myself,” she says in latest Breakdown video at Electric Lady Studios, accompanied by her producer Jack Antonoff.
“When I first started making music and just being starstruck by the entire experience,...
Claire Cottrill reflected on that period on “Amoeba,” a gem from her new album, Sling. ” ‘Amoeba’ is essentially me scolding myself,” she says in latest Breakdown video at Electric Lady Studios, accompanied by her producer Jack Antonoff.
“When I first started making music and just being starstruck by the entire experience,...
- 8/5/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
In 2019, Claire Cottrill followed up her viral debut “Pretty Girl” with Immunity, a moving collection of adolescent uncertainty, anxiety, and revelation that introduced Claire Cottrill as a commanding pop storyteller. Two years later, Cottrill, who performs as Clairo, raises the stakes on Sling, her compelling, sharply-focused and musically adventurous second album.
Cottrill puts her own spin on some of the more delightfully predictable trademarks of a higher-stakes second album here: There are the requisite reflections on unexpected and somewhat unwelcome semi-stardom (see “Management”). There’s the expanded instrumental palette–flutes...
Cottrill puts her own spin on some of the more delightfully predictable trademarks of a higher-stakes second album here: There are the requisite reflections on unexpected and somewhat unwelcome semi-stardom (see “Management”). There’s the expanded instrumental palette–flutes...
- 7/16/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
It’s noon in the Catskills, and Claire Cottrill is thinking about buying a barn. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter, who performs as Clairo, recently purchased more than five acres of property in nearby Massachusetts, and she has big plans to use its well, churn butter, and convert that prospective barn into a studio. “There’s privacy that I’ve been craving for a long time,” she says. “When I’m there, I genuinely feel like I’m on a different planet.”
Cottrill got a taste of the country life back in the fall,...
Cottrill got a taste of the country life back in the fall,...
- 7/8/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Two years ago, Maggie Lindemann was in the middle of performing at a club in Kuala Lumpur when three Malaysian police officers pulled her off the stage and arrested her.
The American singer, who was there to play the first show of a headlining tour that June, had landed in Asia just a few days earlier. A team had been waiting for her at the airport, and she’d had no trouble getting through customs or checking into her hotel. “Everything was great,” says Lindemann, now 22. “It was a really nice place,...
The American singer, who was there to play the first show of a headlining tour that June, had landed in Asia just a few days earlier. A team had been waiting for her at the airport, and she’d had no trouble getting through customs or checking into her hotel. “Everything was great,” says Lindemann, now 22. “It was a really nice place,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
Rhys Wakefield has signed with ICM Partners. The Australian actor is onscreen in Endless Love, and his other credits include The Purge, Nobody Walks and The Black Balloon, for which he earned Best Actor noms from the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. He is managed by Anonymous Content. Gina Wendkos has signed with Apa. Her feature writing credits include The Perfect Man, Coyote Ugly, Jersey Girl and the Princess Diaries films along with the telepic Do No Harm. Wendkos is scripting Carnival for CBS Films and Kabul Beauty School, which is in development at Columbia. She is additionally repped by The Gotham Group.
- 2/21/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
A planned auction of 54 VHS tapes featuring early auditions by actors Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, and many others has touched off a fit of handwringing in the casting community and endangered the age-old idea of the audition room as sacred space.On April 5–6, Julien’s Auctions of Beverly Hills will put the tapes up for sale, some with suggested values as high as $2,000–$4,000. Darren Julien and Martin Nolan appeared on NBC’s “Today” March 29 to publicize the auction and claimed that the tapes were being sold by three casting directors who wished to remain anonymous. But the tapes are widely believed to have come from CDs Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson, who cast most of the projects associated with the auditions. Letterhead from their office can be seen in the catalog for the auction. Kathleen York, whose auditions for the films “Jersey Girl” and “Ransom” are included in the auction,...
- 4/2/2013
- backstage.com
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