There’s been a lot of buzz about what’s going to happen to the Gossip Girl characters once they go off to college. They’ve recorded a cover for us of Adam & the Ants’ “Stand and Deliver.” They reached out to us about wanting to be on Gossip Girl as a way of kicking off their comeback tour and we were in the middle of breaking this pilot and we were like, ‘What if they could play an ‘80s band?’ They came back to us with three songs and we picked this one. Yeah, they are playing sort of an indie ‘80s band called Snowed Out. I hear No Doubt will be making an appearance on the May 11 backdoor pilot… So there’s this interesting dichotomy to her character, and you’ll get to really understand what made Lily who she is today. We know she’s this Upper East Side matriarchal figure who’s certainly been married a number of times and has become accustomed to a high-level life, but we also know that at one point she was a rock photographer groupie living in the back of the bus with Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails. There’s a Serena/Lily story that’s sort of triggering for Lily reflections on a certain rebellious time in her life. How much can we expect the spinoff to overlap with the original show? You’re also in the midst of developing the pilot for a Gossip Girl spinoff about young Lily. I don’t know, I kind of root for all of them. The Duke Spirit are pretty undeniable on the stage. Their record is coming out now and they’re really great on the show and feature on the season finale. If we can provide a little clarity and point you in the direction of 20 good bands, then mission accomplished.Īny bands in particular you’d like to see break out? The Internet has been amazing for music but it’s also overwhelming for the average music listener to sort through all of it. There are not a lot of opportunities for bands to get heard. The radio format has become so consolidated MTV obviously doesn’t even play videos anymore. And you know it’s so hard for bands now to get their music out there. The music industry has changed-it’s more fragmented than it was. Is this the way forward for the music industry? Rockville, CA is the first live-music-focused web series of its kind. It brings a whole energy to their performance and to the show, we have all these unique-to-the-show live performances. When The Killers and Death Cab for Cutie came on The O.C., they were lip syncing to their own playback here all the bands perform live. The really cool thing about Rockville, CA is that the bands play live on the show. we were really able to build a relationship with the music industry that was helpful to them, but very much respectful, with the band’s best interest. We wanted an array of bands-some bigger known bands, newer bands, local bands… During The O.C. I went to Alex immediately and said, ‘Would you want to do this with me?’ And she got really excited about it. had been hard at work at this thing even before the strike, so I got approached about redoing the pilot as a web series. We shot it but it never got to air-still, it was always something I was interested in. a few years ago-what inspired Rockville, CA?īefore The O.C., I actually wrote a pilot about the music industry. You built quite the reputation for discovering and promoting bands on The O.C. The fearless creator-producer talked with The Daily Beast about his favorite bands, Chevy Chase’s upcoming cameo on Chuck, and love on the set of Gossip Girl. ![]() The 32-year-old Schwartz also keeps busy executive producing Gossip Girl and Chuck, and developing the much-buzzed about Gossip Girl spinoff/prequel about a younger, more raucous Lily van der Woodsen in 1980s Los Angeles. "You come to work, you have an incredibly attractive co-star, you’re asked to make out with them all day. The series features live performances from acts well-known to the indie community (like the Kaiser Chiefs) and those that are just gaining attention, like Passion Pit. The show chronicles a night in the life of an LA-area rock club, where a cute-but-nerdy A&R rep and a dorky-but-funny music blogger come every night to see the latest bands and try to work out their issues. Now, the pair is teaming up on the new web-only series, Rockville, CA, which debuted on last week. Along with music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, Schwartz was credited with breaking bands like Death Cab for Cutie and The Killers on The O.C. The precocious mind behind The O.C., Gossip Girl, and Chuck talks about his bold new web series, Rockville, CA, the Gossip Girl prequel, and why his actors always seem to fall in love off-screen.Īnyone who's watched one of Josh Schwartz's shows ( The O.C., Gossip Girl, Chuck) knows he has an affinity for two things: quippy beyond-their-years teens racked with angst and an indie-music soundtrack that rivals anything else on television.
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