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	Anton Newcombe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anton Alfred Newcombe (born August 29, 1967, Newport Beach, California) is the founder, lead singer, lead guitarist, and head of the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
		Anton Newcombe was born to Patsy Latschea and Robert Newcombe.
		Newcombe generally wears outfits evocative of the late 1960s and early 1970s, or other idiosyncratic garb, such as a cowboy outfit or serape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anton_Newcombe (901 words)

	The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter Anton Newcombe is the only member who has stayed with the Brian Jonestown Massacre since its beginning, when it was founded by Newcombe, tambourine player Joel Gion (who stayed with him the longest), and guitarist/bassist/vocalist Matt Hollywood.
		Newcombe's art is heavily influenced by the postmodern techniques of pastiche and image appropriation, and this influence is readily apparent in the name, and logo, of the band.
		Newcombe's interest in cults like that of Jim Jones and Charles Manson is well-known, and made quite plain by songs such as "The Ballad of Jim Jones" and "Arkansas" (written by, and supposedly performed with, Charles Manson.) Similar interests include a fascination with the Masons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Jonestown_Massacre (750 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on DIG! at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Newcombe never made a respond but his bandmates were laughing and joked about when ironically, they were all taking drugs with Newcombe becoming seriously into heroin where he would jeopardize his relationship with fiancée Sophie.
		Newcombe wasn’t sure if he wants to do the deal while the band kept on touring in 1997 where in Homer, Georgia, they got busted for marijuana possession and the band fell apart.
		Anton Newcombe is the film’s most interesting character while he brings a complexity to himself where at one moment, you feel sorry for him or at another point, he’s just a glorified *sshole.
	www.epinions.com /content_153093705348 (1444 words)

	BJM "Bravery Repetition & Noise" Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anton Newcombe is a one-man psychedelic machine, singlehandedly reviving and expanding on the Rolling Stones' early 70s epic sound.
		Newcombe conceived BJM as the next generation of psychedelic glam popsters with a distinctly '60s tone in mind, and he has cultivated an atmosphere of turmoil to rival that contentious decade's storied history.
		Led by Anton Alfred Newcombe, a multi-talented everything musician at the helm of mic, strings, moog and a various assortment of snappy snippets, he's assembled some ten various contributors for twelve songs that are at once yesterday, today, and carry plenty o' visitation rights into the bowels of psychedelia and sideburns.
	www.bomp.com /Evil5Press.html (3183 words)

	Dig! (2004): Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood - PopMatters Film Review
		Arguably the film's central character, Newcombe is a centripetal force of violent drama, reducing every moment of potential perfection into a fistfight: faces are bloodied, sitars are broken, and label attraction is squandered all because the supporting cast around him won't oblige and help crash this flaming wreck of artistry.
		Newcombe is visually possessed by his muse, dictating the creative vision to others as it bottlenecks and spills from his head.
		Newcombe presented his revolutionary potential as definitive gospel, exempt from objections or scrutiny, force-fed with anger, menace, and self-righteousness, and because of that, it floundered.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/d/dig-dvd.shtml (1717 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: DiG! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There's BJM's lead singer Anton Newcombe and his combustible attitude leading a pack of drug-happy musicians, all of who are Anton's worst enemies.
		Anton is dissected throughout the movie, whether the focus is his yo-yo attitude, his descent into heavy drug use, or his role as the root cause of the band's in fighting.
		Anton is turned onto the Dandys from a tape he receives from a friend, and soon the bands meet and become quick party buddies.
	tinymixtapes.com /articles/05.05.27-dig.htm (556 words)

	DiG! (15)
		Newcombe's close friend is Courtney Taylor whose band, The Dandy Warhols were, at the time, just starting out too, with lots of mutual admiration and shared music tastes inspiring both camps.
		Newcombe also goes from living in squalor, burdened by his own supposed genius, to being a flat-out junkie, which ultimately destroys his band and begins Newcombe's obsession with sabotaging his relationship with Taylor.
		Surprisingly Anton's flest days provides the film's most memorable and continually hilarious moments as we watch his band play in a bar to a audience of ten for nearly as many hours, finally rapping up the set at 4.30am.
	www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=97664 (677 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Movies
		Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols, and dissects their star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry.
		Newcombe persuaded her to concentrate exclusively on BJM and the group's friends the Dandy Warhols, a band from Portland, Ore., with a similarly '60s-flavored sound.
		Whereas Newcombe is volatile but prolific, recording 11 albums in a decade, Dandy Warhols' frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor is well adjusted but creatively limited.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/MovieTimes.nsf/Movies/DB62350125BB437286256F3A006EC943?opendocument (394 words)

	Music: Apocalypse Inc. (FW Weekly . 07-27-98)
		Reasons for the group's high attrition rate are said to be Newcombe's unstoppable drive and the perceived tyrannical sway he holds over the group, a charge he refutes - sort of.
		And although Newcombe claims not to "buy into all the rock star bullshit," his band, which is just now gaining notoriety on a larger scale, has had the audacity to act like rock stars from the get-go.
		Newcombe did record and produce "Hitler" when the group visited him in Los Angeles last November, but hotly contests that he pilfered the song.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-27-98/fw_music.html (1044 words)

	BJM: "Thank God for Mental Illness" reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Newcombe and his cohorts sound a little confused about what year it is but that hasn't stopped them from developing a vital musical voice.
		Lead singer Anton Newcombe doesn't imitate Jagger so much as invoke the pouty-lipped one's teen-age bratty essence on "13" and "It Girl." With its tinny but insistent guitar riff, the latter cut especially captures the ragged ambience of the early Stones.
		Newcombe drags his voice to a moan-like state and the band plays dark to accompany the change.
	www.bomp.com /4061Press.html (3327 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| Film \| The Anton Newcombe Massacre
		Newcombe may be widely regarded (by his peers, rivals, fans, and members of the recording industry) as a musical genius, but he doesn't have a grip on sense.
		Newcombe's father, an alcoholic, left the family when his son was a toddler and failed to show up in any meaningful way thereafter.
		He even sees that "Anton feels starved for affection, for love." All of this seems bold and even healing until we learn that, not long after the interview, Anton's father committed suicide.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2004-11-11/film/film2.html (798 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| 'I am not a movie'
		Newcombe's mum is interviewed; she relates why she had her son committed to an adolescent unit.
		Newcombe also insists, long and loud, that he's even going to "be a guest of the Queen".
		Newcombe confirms that Timoner sold the options to MTV and a pilot was screened before a studio audience.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1502652,00.html (1417 words)

	Product Reviews - DiG! - HDTVEdge.com - Get the HDTV Edge with the Latest News, Reviews and Hot Deals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anton Newcombe is truly a self destructive genius that still deserves critical acclaim, so what if BJM comes across as self destructive drug addled 14 year olds, their music is not only excellent, but they are also funny to watch on this dvd.
		Anton is obviously stuck in a warp of 60's induced debachery - the formula of being in rock n roll.
		Newcombe suggested that she should do a film about his band and the Dandys, because the rest of the bands she chose didn't matter.
	www.hdtvedge.com /reviews-B0007IO740.html (6355 words)

	Dig! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Newcombe starts to playfully make fun of the Dandy’s, which begins a downward spiral of increasingly menacing gestures that result in one of the Dandy’s having to file a restraining order to keep Newcombe away.
		Newcombe acts like Taylor has sold out and his bizarre behavior indicate his belief that he should serve as Taylor’s conscience and save him from a life of commercial success.
		Newcombe was raised by a single mother and did not know his father well.
	www.seahagcinema.com /dig.html (620 words)

	Brian Orndorf
		In the mid 1990s, Anton Newcombe and his band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, were the darlings of the indie rock scene.
		Newcombe eventually graduates from living in squalor, burdened by his own genius, to flat-out junkiedom, which ultimately decimates the BJM and begins Newcombe’s obsession with tearing apart his relationship with Taylor.
		Newcombe is seen parodying song recordings and showing up to a musical showcase featuring the Dandys wearing an Elvis-ish jumpsuit, falling repeatedly on roller skates, and cursing the Dandy Warhol name.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /click/author-2771/reviews.php?rid=1336432&cats=1&switches=best&sortby=rating&page= (514 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: DiG!
		Anton Newcombe is the creative force behind San Francisco's The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a retro outfit that traffics in '60s psychedelia and multi-instrumentation.
		However, such are the problems of signed artists — Newcombe's crew turns out several self-produced albums, but his increasingly erratic behavior makes record execs nervous, and by the time BJM hits the road on a self-supported tour across the U.S., it's clear they're either wasted, delusional, or both.
		However, Newcombe also is afflicted with a low-grade messiah complex, often talking about "revolution" as much as he talks about music, utterly convinced of his imminent superstardom, and promising record executives he'll make them a whole lot of money.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/d/dig.q.shtml (893 words)

	UGO.com DVD - DIG! DVD Review
		Newcombe is actually a genius songwriter, but the sad thing is that he realizes it and embraces it.
		Anton and Warhols singer Courtney Taylor were friends in the beginning, when both groups were still doing the small, local circuit.
		Newcombe is the stereotypical rock star taken to ludicrous extremes.
	www.ugo.com /channels/dvd/features/dig (594 words)

	PCP : Live Reviews
		Bless Anton Newcombe for his ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of what most would deem to be victory.
		Shouts of "Anton, you're a genius…" could be heard above the anticipatory din, and more than a few BJM devotees wandered through the crowd talking with an almost religious zeal about how they were following the band on its current tour.
		From the start, Newcombe repeatedly apologized to the crowd between songs about the state of his voice, and how he had cancelled other shows just to be able to perform this one becuase he loved Austin so much.
	www.popculturepress.com /live-reviews_bjm.html (639 words)

	Sponic Zine - Article/Interview - Dig! (the revolution was already televised) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I know Anton Newcombe didn’t like the movie, but it does much to shed light on his band and his Revolution.
		Anton’s letter on the BJM website shows his disgust for the movie, how it misrepresented his band and himself.
		Anton points out in his letter than nothing past 1997 was shown.
	www.sponiczine.com /article_detail.asp?id=1716 (1071 words)

	Movie Database - tvguide.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		There's rock-star misbehavior, and then there's the misbehavior of Anton Newcombe, the mad, bad and downright dangerous songwriting genius who fronts the San Francisco-based band the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
		Timoner found the wherewithal to follow the band for seven long years, documenting heavy drug use (heroin appears to be Newcombe's preferred poison), onstage melees (the punch-up at the Viper Room is a doozy) and manic tantrums that often end in someone getting smacked, kicked or, in the case of long-suffering guitarist Matt Hollywood, bitten.
		Newcombe consistently claims to value his position as a truly independent rocker, but his obsession with the Dandys' success is bizarre; not content simply to write songs about them, he bad-mouths them in the press and has personalized shotgun shells delivered to their door.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=45699 (426 words)

	Rib Magazine - Music, Art, Travel, Style, Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Anton Newcombe may be most known for his onstage antics, which include brawling with Brian Jonestown Massacre band members and audiences, but his 60s-ish art-rock music-making has never been contested.
		With the recent release of DIG!, a documentary about Anton and Courtney Taylor, head of The Dandy Warhols, Anton was painted as a vicious lunatic band leader bent on self-destruction and destined to take others down with him, but that was a long time ago.
		Rib reached out to Anton to see what he and his band are up to theses days.
	www.ribmag.com /Features/BMJ.htm (619 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie review - DiG!
		As the friend and rival of BJM mastermind and tortured soul Anton Newcombe, Taylor aspires to his pal's crazy, prolific musical genius while admitting that he and his bandmates are relatively well adjusted.
		Essentially abandoned as a child by his manic-depressive, alcoholic father and later institutionalized after a series of teenage arrests, Newcombe fancies himself a sort of cult leader, manipulating the rotating cast of BJM members until many of them quit and torturing the Dandys over their commercial victories.
		(Newcombe answers the Dandys' first MTV-ready single, "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth," with his own "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth.") Part vulnerable little boy, part egomaniac, Newcombe sabotages every break, goading his audience into fist and bottle fights along the way, his weight plummeting and eyes hollowing.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---23305,00.html (472 words)

	Big on 'DIG!'
		At the urging of rocker Anton Newcombe, Timoner decided to narrow his focus from 10 bands to two—The Dandy Warhols and Newcombe’s band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre.
		Newcombe is an astoundingly self-involved individual, seemingly incapable of putting on party manners at appropriate times.
		Estrangement between the former allies is perhaps inevitable, but it is exacerbated by Newcombe’s bizarre behavior—at one point he sends the Dandies a package of shotgun shells labeled with the band members’ names.
	thetyee.ca /Entertainment/2004/10/15/BigOnDig (934 words)

	Rolling Stone : Sundance Digs Massacre Movie
		Newcombe, the self-messianic frontman, was notorious for ruining his performances at the hands and mercy of his bandmates.
		But it was Newcombe's mental instability that served as a metaphor for the tainted success so many bands reach for and never find.
		Courtney hasn't wanted to be in the same room with Anton for years, but he's still so quick to talk about how important Anton's music has been at every step in his development as an artist and as a musician.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5936577/sundance_digs_massacre_movie (1097 words)

	Movie Review \| 'Dig!': Seeking Fame With Amps and Attitude (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Newcombe, who holds fast to increasingly Quixotic notions of artistic integrity, thinks it is. As the Massacre falls prey to bad karma, bad luck and bad decisions, the Dandys, who at first seemed to be heading in the same direction, manage to do a little better.
		Newcombe's furious charisma, it is also hard to accuse the Dandy Warhols, as he occasionally does, of selling out.
		Newcombe's prodigious output — dozens of albums, most of them self-released — will have a hard time evaluating the quality and influence of his work.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/03/26/movies/26DIG.html?ex=1395637200&en=f003ab4bbfa60d72&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (868 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Music : Massacre Via Interview
		, Anton Newcombe and the Brian Jonestown Massacre are finally in the spotlight, making the world safe once again for sitars, fake English accents and on-stage temper tantrums that would force Axl Rose to blush if the flesh in his cheeks hadn't already been deadened by Botox.
		Newcombe is the star of this picture, plain and simple.
		Later in the interview, I asked Newcombe what his personal attraction is to late-'60s rock and what bands from that era the kids these days should be listening to.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Music/Content?oid=71543 (966 words)

	Splendid: Departments: &: 'Dig!' DVD
		At its core, however, the movie is the story of songwriters Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe and their complex friendship.
		This truth, that Anton Newcombe and his band of merry men continue to be successful despite their outright antagonism of the industry that they once hoped could support their art, seems too complex and muddy for Timoner to tackle.
		is full of falsehoods and mispresentations (Newcombe, for one, says the film is full of lies), but the director's commentary illustrates that Timoner is all too willing to psychologically scrutinize Newcombe in a way her camera utterly fails to do in seven years of documentation and two hours of screen time.
	www.splendidezine.com /departments/&/dig.html (684 words)

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