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Promo Promo: Jurassic 5 - The Way We Do It (Prod. by Heavy D)

@Jurassic5 borrowing some White Stripes in the snow here - MPfree on their Soundcloud page

23rd May 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: White Denim - At Night In Dreams

New single from @whitedenimmusic - released 14 April via Downtown; they're back in the UK in May - worth catching if you haven't seen them.

Tue 20 May Bristol Anson Rooms £16
Wed 21 May Liverpool East Village Arts Club £16
Thu 22 May Edinburgh The Caves £16
Fri 23 May Leeds The Cockpit £16 SOLD OUT
Sat 24 May Newcastle Upon Tyne Hoults Yard £16
Mon 26 May Birmingham Glee Club £16
Tue 27 May Brighton Concorde 2 £16
Wed 28 May London Shepherd’s Bush Empire £17.50

2nd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Jack White - High Ball Stepper

First taster from White's forthcoming Lazaretto.

2nd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

LA Gets a Lighting Upgrade

Great article about the lighting upgrade the streets of Los Angeles have been undergoing over the last couple of years ... and how it will change the look of LA's most photographed city forever. LED lights are replacing the distinctive orange hue of sodium vapour bulbs, making for a clean, white, modern look.

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7th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

2013: Best Stuff

Pop culture's not sport, so these aren't in order (and some of them are probably in the "consumed this year" category).

MUSIC

Phosphorescent - Muchacho; White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade; The Cave Singers - Naomi; Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Dream; Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Utopia; Breaking Bad (S5); Eastbound & Down (S4); Boardwalk Empire (S4); The Returned; The Fall; Arrow (S2); Orange Is The New Black; House Of Cards; The Walking Dead (S3); Game Of Thrones (S3); Top Of The Lake; Girls; Hannibal

FILM

Upstream Color, Computer Chess, Gravity, Robot & Frank; Margin Call; Sound Of My Voice; Another Earth; Django Unchained; Zero Dark Thirty

BOOKS & COMICS

The Kills - Richard House; Nemo: Heart Of Ice - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

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10th Dec 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

White Denim

Village Underground

Quirky, erratic Texan rockers go super tight and loud. So good.

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20th Nov 2013

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White Denim On Letterman

@WhiteDenimMusic keeping things Pretty Green on Late Night With David Letterman. Tight.

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31st Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade

bring it! first track: Pretty Green

21st Sep 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Snow White and the Huntsman

Beautifully shot, restrained fairytale summer tent pole. If only \#LOTR was this classy.

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13th Apr 2013

Twitter

RT @RelixMag: BREAKING: @Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy is working with White Denim on their next album @whitedenimmusic http://t.co/kaRUsURxp7

2nd Apr 2013

Face Off: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters V Hansel & Gretel Get Baked

Hollywood loves doing the same thing twice: Capote v Infamous; Antz v A Bug's Life; Snow White And The Huntsman v Mirror Mirror; Lincoln v Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Now here's two takes on the perils of eating candy in a house made of sweets: you've probably seen Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton getting all medieval badass - but have you seen Lara Flynn Boyle as a stoner witch with a serious case of the munchies? Asylum Films have knocked one out too (starring Dee Wallace - aka Elliott's mum in ET).

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1st Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

12 For 2012

In alphabetical order, here's 12 things I enjoyed in 2012...

Argo
Ben Affleck turns in another great actor/director turn as a CIA agent heading to Iran to rescue hostages during the 1979 revolution with the flimsiest of bad cover stories: a fake Hollywood studio looking to shoot a Star Wars ripoff. Great beards, trenchcoats, 70s soundtrack - and it's all (pretty much) true.

Breaking Bad S5
Magnetic, bitches! Can't wait for the second half. S4 was possibly tighter, but watching Walt's turn to the baaaad side was pretty compelling.

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Fresh take on modern R&B, adding Sly Stone psych jams to the digital mix.

Game Of Thrones S2
Adding more families, more magic, more dastardly plots and more blood/guts/sexposition to an ever-expanding world.

Girls S1
Cue a stream of "new Sex And The City" / "they're so shocking" / "why is their NY so white?" articles - all interesting points, but it's easy to get sucked up in the phenomenon and lose sight of just how well written this is. Makes up for HBO canning How To Make It In America. Kind of.

Fables
Bill Willingham's ongoing Vertigo series is like Game Of Thrones for fairytales. A great graphic novel drama/thriller/comedy/soap opera.

The Killing III
Focused finale for Forbrydelsen, with Sarah Lund finding love in a hopeless place (another dark room in Denmark where the lights don't work but it's OK because she's got her torch. And Borch).

Lincoln
Total Oscar-bait, will be v surprised if anything manages to beat this when they're dishing them out. Spielberg back to his epic best, showing the mechanics of US government during the Civil War as Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) charms, cajoles and tricks his way to the abolition of slavery.

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Aussie psychedelia with bags of personality and tunes.

Toy - Toy
Two tracks pushing beyond the 7 min mark, tight Krautrock beats and Chameleons-style riffing - a promising, solid debut in a post-Horrors space that had multiple repeats at Chimp Towers.

The Walking Dead S3
Zombie action ramped up, more plots, more characters, less time to think "hey, what about..?"

Also CONSUMED & ENJOYED
Modern Family S4, Boardwalk Empire S3, Homeland S2, The Fear, Fresh Meat, Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes, The US Office, Nurse Jackie S4 (another standout performance from Bobby Cannavale - almost as crazy as Gyp Rossetti), Skyfall.

THE STUPIDO DAMN YOU WHY WHY pile
Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises

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17th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Barack n roll RT @NME: Led Zeppelin meet Barack Obama at the White House http://t.co/oRh38Pht

3rd Dec 2012

Twitter

\#CanadianTuxedo RT @thecoldvein: Denim jacket, denim shirt, jeans \#trenim

26th Sep 2012

Twitter

\#spotted: Breaking Bad's Skyler White (Anna Gunn) as another one of Jerry's one-ep girlfriends in Seinfeld http://t.co/eVCmFp7G

17th Sep 2012

MPFree: Double Denim

two new White Denim tracks? Friday, you're spoiling us. This Flying Lotus x Erykah Badu collab's not bad either.

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17th Aug 2012 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Canadian tuxedo RT @Lookmagazine: Time for the Kaiser Chiefs! Yay. Loving the double denim, Ricky! \#closingceremony

12th Aug 2012

Pitchfork TV: Frames

interesting new development from Pitchfork TV: an animated indie series. First up - "Carrie Brownstein tells stories of Sleater-Kinney partying with the White Stripes - and Wild Flag partying with furries"

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23rd May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Song of the day: White Denim - Get Back To Love (Street Joy)

Another mellow jam from WD. MPfree over at rcrdlbl.com/artists/White_Denim/

6th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

June Tabor and Oysterband

Chichester Festival Theatre

West Sussex based organisation “Roots around the World” have organised a music festival "The Britfolk Footprint" as part of their efforts to promote both new and established artists. This was the headline evening of the festival with veterans June Tabor and Oysterband top of the bill. Their act was largely based around their two collaborative albums, the folk rock classic "Freedom and Rain" and their current much acclaimed "Ragged Kingdom".

The performance got off to the best possible start with the rousing traditional "Bonny Bunch Of Roses" modified to blend folk diva Tabor's smooth and melodious voice with the stomping backing of the Oysterband. However it was not all folk based music as they worked their way through PJ Harvey’s "That Was My Veil", Dylan’s "Seven Curses", Joy Division’s "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and an excellent duet between Tabor and John Jones of the soul classic "Dark End of the Street". The finishing number was the powerfully delivered Jefferson Airplane 60’s classic "White Rabbit".

On the 8th February, the artists scooped four awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, including Best Singer, Best Group and Best Album (Ragged Kingdom), making our attendance very timely.

The support acts for the evening were provided by talented and gimmick free English folk trio "Pilgrim’s Way", and singer guitarist Sean Taylor.

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13th Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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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)

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3rd Feb 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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RIP: Ken Russell

RIP legendary british director Ken Russell. Was always thoroughly baffled by Lair Of The White Worm as a young film fan. Not sure what I would make of it now either.

Via BBC

28th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Snow White And The Huntsman

Wicked witch Charlize hires Chris "feeling a bit THOR!" Hemsworth to find Snow White Kristen Stewart in next summer's blockbuster fairytale

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11th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

White Denim

Takes Place In Your Work Space EP

Don't ever accuse these productive boys of filler. All killer. Ish.

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10th Nov 2011

Fresh, White Denim

White Denim's new EP "Takes Place In Your Workspace" is not available in the UK iTunes store, but a quick Google search points out a free download from White Denim themselves. In other reverse-promotion-record-release news, the band's awesome and previously free album "Last Day of Summer" will be available to buy on CD from December.

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7th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Twitter

Nice, White Denim to support @wilco on their North American tour. Who are we getting? (UK)

20th Oct 2011