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Gunship Use ‘Blade Runner’, ‘The Crow’, And More For “Maximum Black” Lyric Video
Perhaps one of my favorite retrosynth groups to pop up in the past couple of years is Gunship, who I have lavished praise upon ever since seeing their video for “Fly For Your Life” over a year ago. Then, when their debut album released last summer, I found myself in the position of being unable to stop listening to the 13 tracks of retro electronic goodness. In fact, I still blast the album to this day and I don’t see any sign of stopping. It’s simply one of those collections that never gets old and refuses to leave you.
To keep momentum on the album going – and, honestly, why don’t you already have it? – the group has released a lyric video for the song “Maximum Black”, which features clips from The Crow, Dark City, Blade Runner, and Escape From New York. Give it a watch above and hopefully you’ll love it as much as I do.
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.