Sympathy for Delicious soundtrack review from Hitfix

In this aforementioned band, dubbed Burnt the Diphthongs (among one the worst band names I’ve ever heard), we have at least a pair of noteable actors singing and playing: Juliette Lewis and Orlando Bloom. Lewis plays a very believable junkie, just as well as she plays bass and sings; while I’m not particular on musician Lewis and her band the Licks in real life – I find her disingenuous as a performer – she carries the look and the feel of this music well. Bloom plays The Stain, an archetypical evil, eyelinered, open-shirted, cane-carrying post-rock hammy fame-whore of a frontman who, for all intents and purposes is a total tool. Bloom sings all the songs in the film, but benefited from a little help from friends of Lewis’… Full review

Sympathy for Delicious premiere report from Style.com

More indie darlings were being toasted at the premiere for Mark Ruffalo’s heavy-metal redemption tale Sympathy for Delicious—including Orlando Bloom. “It’s a different kind of muscle,” Bloom said. “You feel stripped of big sets and scenery.” (Or, in the case of this film, in which the actor plays a strutting goth rocker, a shirt.) Meanwhile, Ruffalo stroked his beard to demonstrate one of the perks of the facial hair he was sporting this weekend. “Some of the pretty girls do that,” he said.