A new documentary, It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley, which examines the life of the late singer-songwriter, will open in movie theaters on Aug. 8. An HBO premiere will follow this winter. The film, by director Amy Berg (Phoenix Rising, West of Memphis), features never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives. His mother, …
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It’s extremely hard not to gush over Jeff Buckley. An Adonis with an four-octave range, the singer-songwriter had the sensitivity of an early-Seventies folkie, the melody-meets-muscle rock chops of an early-Nineties grunge practitioner, and a frontman sex appeal that was timeless. He counted Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Led Zeppelin, and …
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Jeff Buckley’s mom is finally sharing the story of why an apocryphal biopic about her late son starring Brad Pitt never came to be. As Variety reports, Pitt was working hard to get a Buckley film off the ground in the early 2000s, just a few years after the musician …
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New documentaries about Selena, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jeff Buckley, and Sly Stone are among the films competing at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival next month. Amir “Questlove” Thompson’s long-in-the-works Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) — the follow-up to the Roots drummer’s Oscar-winning directorial debut Summer …
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Jeff Buckley’s last home in Memphis, Tennessee is being remodeled and turned into an Airbnb by developers, the Commercial Appeal reports. Goode Development purchased the house at 93 North Rembert Street in March for $143,800; the house is still being repaired and restored, but it’s expected to be ready by …
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German DJ and producer Zedd hasn’t released a full album since Barack Obama was president, but his ambitions have hardly been kept in check. “The Middle,” his 2018 collaboration with Maren Morris, sharply declared his crossover aspirations (even if its followup, “Make You Say,” dissipated into a puddle). And now …
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When Jeff Buckley died in 1997, a young singer-songwriter’s promising career was cut much too short. He was just 30, and had been working on his second studio album at the time of his accidental drowning in a Tennessee river. Buckley’s place in music was still unclear in the Nineties. …
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