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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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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
12th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
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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
Radiohead: The Daily Mail/Staircase
new Radiohead "single" The Daily Mail/Staircase available in their usual multi-format download options
21st Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Hobbit
Never really saw what all the fuss was about with Lord of the RIngs. Now there's a trailer for Lord of the Rings: Ze Early Years
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Promo Promo: LCD Soundsystem vs Franz Ferdinand
Promo up for LCD Soundsystem's cover of Franz Ferdinand's Live Alone. Must have been payback for that All My Friends version Franz Ferdinand put out.
20th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Prometheus Trailer Trailer
It's probably that same trailer that was leaked in flakey-cam a few days back, but according to this trailer trailer, iTunes will have the official verison of Ridley Scott's Prometheus trailer on Thursday. The trailer trailer has some epic looking shots in, and my say I'm looking forward to this one.
Some other iinteresting stuff: Wrath of The Titans, Act of Valor and Jack the Giant Killer.
Talking of trailer trailers, it looks like their might be a trailer for The Hobbit materialising tomorrow night (Via AICN).
19th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park:The Dark Knight Rises
After a flakey bootleg version, Apple now has the official trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, in area man-approved HD. Looks pretty, pretty good.
19th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Christmas In Hollis: Emoji Version
It's not their fault that the intro is a bit dull .....but this emoji promo picks up once the song gets going.
Go to Settings> General> Keyboard> International Keyboards> Add Keyboard> Emoji to add Apple's extensive Emoji collection to your iPhone.
Via Gizmodo
19th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Jeff Tweedy: Weatherman
Hilarious clip of Wilco front man/potential stand-up comedian Jeff Tweedy reading the weather after a performance on Chicago WGN's Morning News show. Harrison Ford, eat your heart out.
16th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross & Karen O - Immigrant Song
It's possibly been a while since David Fincher made a promo - but he's knocked up these visuals for the cover of Immigrant Song used in his trailer for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The visuals also make up the title sequence of the movie.
15th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Rock of Ages
Tom Cruise does heavy metal.
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14th Dec 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Lost As Star Wars
another one of those What If questions answered: what would Lost look like as Star Wars posters? via LostinComics ... Revenge of the Smoke, may the Dharma be with you etc
13th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Spidey Poster
still not quite sure what the point of this new Spider-Man reboot is, but anyhow, here's a new poster that suggests Andrew Garfield is also getting some new shadow-play power along with the web-slinging
12th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
A Polaroid A Day for 6,000 Days
Just been remided of Jamie Livingston's amazing, touching and powerful photography project - where he took a Polaroid photo every day for 18 years, ending at his deathbed.
You can see many of the photos here.
Via Chase Jarvis
12th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
iYellow Submarine
The Beatles have a free, animated iBook version of Yellow Submarine up on iTunes. If that floats your boat, so to speak.
10th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Welcome to a Galaxy where leather rules
Stormtrooper motorcycle outfit anyone?
8th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
The New York Times Hollywood Edition
A wired Brad Pitt and a suited Michael Shannon amongst the video portraits in this year's New York times: Hollywood Edition.
7th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Loutallica - The View
Promo up for the Lou Reed/Metallica car wreck project. "The View" is directed by Darren Aronofsky.
6th Dec 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Black Bananas from RTX
Royal Trux/RTX singer Jennifer Herrema is back with Black Bananas - a new version of the band (yes, it's full of scratchy 70s Stones riffs, distorto-vox and Prince-ish songs called Hot Stupid). Pitchfork have got an MPFree. Album Rad Time Xpress IV is out in Jan with other thoughtful numbers like Acid Song, Killer Weed and Foxy Playground. That party train is not stopping any time soon. Still love Trux's Waterpark:
5th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
It's All In the Game, Yo.... The Wire Monopoly
As noted, someone better make this quick. "Omar's coming!"
3rd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Community Goes Anime
after last year's festive puppet ep, Community's gone anime. love this show, really don't get why Viva don't want to show it again in the UK
2nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Follow Yr Art: Colin McMaster
first up in a new occasional series: an online sale of new work from London artist Colin McMaster - limited edition series of giclee prints, available until Sat 3 Dec
2nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Holy - The Wrong Side
Italian hardcore holyvegan.tumblr.com/
1st Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
World War 2 In Real Time
Fascinating account @RealTimeWWII live-tweeting World War 2 as it unfolded from 1939 and for the next 6 years.
30th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Mister Heavenly
Fucked up promo for Mister Heavenly's track Bronx Sniper. Modern Lynchian distopia.
eS Skateboarding have a spin off.
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29th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Forklift
I just got one step closer to digital nirvana, stumbling accross an album that I still only had on cassette, but which has now been uploaded to Band Camp by creator Mark Nassau.
Good buddy Ducati Sven taped a Forklift 7" for me in the early 90s, which he picked up while visiting Connecticut. My copy moved from tape to tape before settling in the remaining space on Side B of my Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge cassette. Mudhoney made the upgrade to CD quite some time ago, but Forklift had always eluded me. Until now.
"Bathroom Song" stills rocks.
29th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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