Midlake FreEP
if you missed it in the Guardian this weekend, Midlake have posted their 5 track live EP on their own website here which is nice of them
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2nd Feb 2010 2:03pm
60s Japanese Graphic Design
Lovely selection of graphic design from 60s Japan over at the iso50 website.
4th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Ben Gazzara
RIP Ben Gazzara, improv acting legend from the Cassavettes era ....and better known to us as the bad guy from Roadhouse, or Jackie Treehorn from The Big Lebowski.
81. Good innings dude.
Via The Guardian.
4th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
David Sylvian - A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012
New two-disc best-of David Sylvian on the way, covering his solo stuff from 1982-2012. Still hold up Ghosts as one of the most original singles to ever chart in the top ten ...
CD 1
1. Ghosts (Remix)
2. Bamboo Houses (Remix)
3. Bamboo Music
4. Forbidden Colours
5. Red Guitar
6. The Ink In The Well
7. Pulling Punches
8. Taking The Veil
9. Silver Moon
10. Let The Happiness In
11. Orpheus
12. Waterfront
13. Pop Song
14. Backwaters
15. Every Colour You Are (Live)
16. Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) Returning To The Womb (Remix)
CD 2
1. Jean The Birdman
2. Alphabet Angel
3. I Surrender
4. Darkest Dreaming
5. A Fire In The Forest
6. The Only Daughter (Original)
7. Late Night Shopping
8. Wonderful World
9. The Banality Of Evil
10. Darkest Birds
11. Snow White In Appalachia
12. Small Metal Gods
13. I Should Not Dare
14. Manafon
15. Where's Your Gravity? (previously unreleased)
3rd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Tony Hawk's Ride Channel
@YouTube have been setting up some new content partnerships recently and @RIDEChannel is one such offering, from Tony Hawk's 900 Films. The idea is to push channels with regular, programmed content - as YouTube attempst to push itself as a TV replacement.
Ride Channel features a number of skateboard-related shows, such as Jamie Thomas' Let The Good Times Roll, Trick-a-day, Hand in Hand - which features interviews with musicians who have inspired skating (Thurston Moore, for example), Free Lunch which rolls down memory lane with famous skaters and In Focus, which provies great technical tips on making your own skate movies.
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2nd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid
Bit more tune, less noise from @sleighbells
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Ad Nauseum: WTF!? Star Wars Update
OK, here's Volkwagen's full Star Wars themed Superbowl ad. WTF!? Probably the worst use of Star Wars ever ...even worse than the Yodafone spot. Did Lucas give the major brands 3 minutes to come up with a concept if they wanted to cash in on his assets or something? Abominable.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: Ferris vs Star Wars - Superbowl Special
Another stupid Star Wars/Advertising tie-in .....though this one's for Volkswagen, who nailed that ad with the kid using the force at the last Superbowl. The Bark Side is an ad for an ad that will show at the Superbowl this Sunday. I remain to be convinced.
Next up, the tepid return of Ferris Bueller, in an underwhelming Honda ad. Bah.
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Abandoned Futurist Pod Village In Taiwan
love these shots of abandoned futurist resorts in Taiwan (via @voicesofanglia)
1st Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Beardski
Looking for a foot long insulated beard to keep you warm on the slopes this season? No problem. Beardski has you covered.
31st Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Cassette
Kickstarter doc about cassette culture. More at cassettemovie.com/
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31st Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Side By Side
Side by Side finds Keanu Reeves putting on his producer hat for this documentary about the decline of film and the rise of digital. Looks pretty geeky, so I'm thoroughly looking forward to it - and Keanu has pulled out his address book to interview a who's who of film makers.
30th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth Enlarged
Amazing 64 Megapixel image of Earth up over at Flickr, courtesy of NASA's new Earth-observing Suomi NPP satellite.
28th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
J Mascis: Bobblehead edition
Dinosaur Jr guitar legend now available in replica form
27th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wilco vs Popeye
Animated promo up for WIlco's track "Dawned on Me" .....starring the band and Popeye himself. Directed by Darren Romanelli
26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Indie Game - The Movie
doc about independent video game producers, showing at Sundance this year
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26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Wish You Were Here
Good looking trailer from @bluetonguefilms - our favourite Australian Collective - for Wish You Were Here. Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith and starring Barry Brown from Animal Kingdom AKA Joel Edgerton. No man gets left behind.
25th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Kon-Tiki
Film based on the adventures of explorer Thor Heyderdahl who was so convinced that Polynesian people had sailed the Pacific before Europeans that he built his own balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki and sailed off on a 8000 km trip with a tiny crew for 101 days. No sat-nav, no iPod. Loved the idea of this guy when I was a kid
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25th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wooderson is back in business
Dazed and Confused legend Wooderson is back in business, for this promo for the Butch Walker and the Black Widow's track - Synthesizers. Quite the coup.
He's looking a little out of shape since his epic slow-motion entrance to Hurricane, but it's good to have him back. I get older ....he stays the same age.
Via AICN
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24th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Year Of The Dragon
Kung hei fat choi … to celebrate Chinese New Year, here's Mickey Rourke busting heads, cleaning up the streets, caring too much back in 1985
23rd Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Coldplay - Paradise
NIce promo up from Shynola for the Coldplay track 'Paradise'. They don't make them like this anymore. Nice to see Shynola still on form.
20th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Safe
If nothing else, Jason Statham's latest movie Safe has a couple of tough looking posters. Lionsgate love this guy.
Via AICN.
19th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Saul Bass Video Pitch for Bell Systems
Have a look at this fascinating video made by Saul Bass in the 1970's, as his pitch to redesign the identity of Bell System ....now AT&T.
The first half is all about identity design, the second half is the actual pitch. Amazing that anyone was making a video pitch in the 1970s.
Via Brand New.
From the AT&T Archives:
Bass' work in logo design and movie title credit sequences spanned the latter half of the 20th century, with prominent work in each field. He worked closely with AT&T, designing not only the 1970 "bell" logo that was ubiquitous for a decade, but also, upon the divestiture of AT&T, he designed the original "death star" logo, unveiled in 1984.
One reason for this bell logo's ubiquity? That redesign was the largest corporate re-identity program in the U.S., ever. The redesign covered:
* 135,000 Bell system vehicles
* 22,000 buildings
* 1,250,000 phone booths
* 170,000,000 telephone directories
This film was made by his company as a presentation to AT&T executives. It would have extended to be shown to the public, but a number of his ideas in the film were not ultimately adopted, like his phone booth designs, and men's and women's uniforms. But a great many were—including, most memorably, the telephone vans and hardhat designs of the 1970s. He designed down to the details, showcasing in this film a myriad of ideas, right down to the yellow pages book designs, cufflinks for executives, and flags.
Bass' other very recognizable logo designs that persist today include those for Minolta, Girl Scouts of America, Avery International, Geffen Records, Warner Int'l, and many more. Bass' design for AT&T was the foundation for the logo that the company has today, redesigned in 2005 by Interbrand.
Produced by Saul Bass
Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ
18th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Wedding Present Album: Valentina
Chimp heros The Wedding Present are back with a new album in March. Valentina will be released through the band's own Scopitones label in the UK on March 17th. Other labels around teh world in the days after that.
The band will be at SXSW to launch the album and then on tour in America, Europe, The World. Can't wait.
Via Scopitones.
18th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Girls
Just stumbled accross these two old promos for Girls: Hellhole Ratrace and Lust For Life. Both provide a peek into Girls' world (so to speak) and it's exactly what I expected.
17th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Custom Caps
Attention gang members! You can now have your favourite team in your own gang colours, thanks to New Era's New Era By You service. Any logo, any colour, any stitching. That's the chimp-certified edition above.
16th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Dragon Tattoo - 8 Min Version
8 minute trailer for Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake. Makes more sense, but is less cool than the Immigrant Song-infested power cut.
15th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
fIREHOSE rEUNION
More info on that fIREHOSE reunion: Consequence of Sound are reporting that as well as playing at Coachella, the band will reunite after 18 years for a US tour. Which makes me 18+ years older than I thought, as me and Cnrth saw them at the Marquee in 1991-ish.
Needless Natas Kaupas plug below.
fIREHOSE 2012 Tour Dates:
04/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
04/06 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
04/07 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
04/09 – Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo House of Music
04/10 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
04/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Historic Coconut Grove Ballroom *
04/13 – Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55
04/14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
04/18 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre *
04/19 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush
04/20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
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13th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Dark Tower
James Franco's The Dark Tower: first time we can remember hearing the word "knell" in a trailer
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Strictly Underground: The Secret World Of Burlington
A peek inside Burlington, the UK's secret underground nuclear bunker/town in Wiltshire built during the second world war. Comes with its own railway station, pub, BBC studio and lots of desks so you can keep up with all that post-apocalyse paper work
12th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Shut Up And Play The Hits
LCD Soundsystem doc coming to Sundance
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12th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hands Off The VU Banana!
The Velvet Underground are taking on the Warhol Estate's plans to licence Andy's banana design for iPod covers
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The New Shins
Girlfriend-friendly favourites The Shins are back with a new album in March, and this time they have Richard Swift in the band. Port of Morrow arrives March 20th. Single Simple Song is embedded below - and on iTunes now.
10th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Wilco - The Whole Love
The Whole Love, directed by Jeff Tweedy's son Spencer, who has a few other fun videos on his Vimeo page. Bet he has less music clearance issues than I do.
6th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Wrong
Bonkers looking trailer up for Wrong, the new film from Quentin Dupieux AKA Mr. Oizo - who previously made 2010 bonkers film Rubber. Wrong will show at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.
6th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Bob Holness
RIP Blockbusters presenter Bob Holness, who has died aged 83. Never was so much humour derived amongst students everywhere from lines like "I'll have an E please Bob".
6th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Cornelius v Salyu X Salyu
Missed this last year, looks like missing-in-action chimp-lover Cornelius has collaborated on S(o)un(d)beams, an album with singer Salyu (aka Lily Chou-Chou) - first full-length project since 2006's Sensuous? His Twitter feed @corneliusjapan is mostly in Japanese obviously, but it's worth checking the links if you're a fan
5th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Portlandia: Just One Moore
the inhabitants of IFC's hipstercom Portlandia get the Battlestar boxset bug (know the feeling)
3rd Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Honest Logos
What if logos told the truth? Nice series from Viktor Hertz
30th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Themes For An Imaginary Film (That In No Way Would Be Called Drive)
Symmetry (aka Johnny Jewel, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Desire and Mirage) have released a two-hour album (iTunes / Soundcloud) of tracks from an "imaginary soundtrack" (ie the stuff Drive probably didn't want, as Pitchfork hints). Same highways John Carpenter and Giorgio Moroder once drove...
30th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Cheeta
Hats off to the original chimp - Cheeta. Keeping it real 1921-2011.
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28th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Big Picture 2011 Photo Round Up
The Big Picture has done a round up of the best pictures from 2011 in three parts (one, two, three). Too many phenomenal shots to include here.
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23rd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Prometheus
Here's that Prometheus trailer. Looks good to me ....and not the same as the shakey-cam bootleg, which must have been an earlier edit or something.
22nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New / Vintage GBV
Guided By Voices' new LP "Let's Go Eat The Factory" arrives on Jan 16th (Jan 17th in the US via Rockathon or NOW via US iTunes), but you can listen to the whole thing today over at NPR.
The record is the first to feature the 'classic' line-up of the band since 1996. That's the classic line-up pictured in 1995 above. And the vintage version of the classic line-up below.
22nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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