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Song Of The Day: eden ahbez - Full Moon

Great odd jazz-styled number soundtracking the end of tonight's episode of Fargo from eden ahbez a proto-hippy who lived under the Hollywood sign and wasn't fond of capital letters.

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27th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: The Rover

The latest from @BlueTongueFilms writer/director team David Michôd and Joel Edgerton is an outback thriller set 10 years after an apocalyptic event, due to premiere at Cannes. Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson and Scoot McNairy star.

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23rd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Ping Pong Summer

Like the idea of Susan Sarandon as a boozy Mr Miyagi here.

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23rd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Jersey Boys

Clint keeps us guessing. After watching this trailer I feel like I've seen the movie already.

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18th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The Horrors

Arty new promo for The Horrors track "So Now You Know" ... undermined by the singer showing up.

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17th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Cold In July

First trailer for Sundance thriller Cold In July - good slice of genre-blending Southern-fried noir here. Michael C Hall, Sam Shepard and Don Johnson all on great form.

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16th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Gone Girl

New thriller from David Fincher, based on the Gillian Flynn novel, with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. 

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15th Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: I Origins

New indie sci-fi from Mike Cahill, director of the excellent Another Earth, starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergés-Frisbey, Steven (Walking Dead) Yeun and Archie (Good Wife) Panjabi. Heard mixed reports from Sundance, but looking forward to seeing it.

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11th Apr 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

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2nd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: The Drop

James Gandolfini's final film is a Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone, Mystic River) thriller with Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace.

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2nd Apr 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The War On Drugs - Red Eyes

This album is on repeat all day in Chimp Towers at the moment. 

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20th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: The Signal

RUagitated? First trailer for this promising indie sci-fi which played at Sundance.

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19th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Ian MacKaye talks about stuff

Fascinating Library of Congress talk from Ian MacKaye via Jenkem, including his insightful thoughts on skateboarding and how he got into punk. Well worth a watch.

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18th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Movie Commentaries

Great list of movie commentaries on YouTube, courtesy of Cinephilia. The Conversation is always a favourite, plus plenty of Scorsese. Much as I love the idea of these things, the motivation to watch them is never there when you've just watched the actual film ... then I never get back to them.

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18th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Future Islands - Seasons

This Letterman performance from the 4AD act is getting a lot of love... 

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10th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: Pink Mountaintops - Ambulance City

Power up your front-loaders and check the max-VHS resolution for the new Pink Mountaintops vid which seems to be co-starring 1970s Ron Wood; album Get Back is out Apr 29.

McBean overheard Jaffe drunkenly bragging in a backyard about her state of the art 80's VHS camera. Ambulance City will mark the first time they've worked together since 1431 while serving drinks at Joan of Arc's execution.

Inspired by Swedish Erotica, Cpl. Klinger, and totes non-poser aspirations.

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4th Mar 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Godzilla

More Walt in the next Godzilla trailer.

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25th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: The Horrors - I See You

First single from The Horrors' fourth album Luminous, out on May 5th.
Pre-orders: www.thehorrors.co.uk

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25th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Harold Ramis

Looks like Venkman and Ray might be Ghostbusting Spengler if there's ever another Ghostbusters movie - as co-writer and star Harold Ramis has passed away, aged 69. He also directed all-time classic Groundhog Day, National Lampoon's Vacation and Caddyshack ... plus less-than-classic Multiplicity.

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24th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: ian vine - static form

static form (2013)
for electric guitar and electronics
recorded in one take with no overdubs

composed & recorded 20 July 2013
released 22 July 2013
Ian Vine: guitar, electronics
recorded at first moon

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20th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Locke

A new entry into Tom Hardy's funny-voice repertoire - Locke.

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19th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Radiohead's PolyFauna

New iOS / Android download from team Radiohead: a pretty abstract game where you wader around a digital forest environment listening to sounds from King Of Limbs track Bloom.

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12th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Back To The Future

Don't panic, it's not a remake. I just stumbled across this original teaser for Back To The Future.

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10th Feb 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

Get Back into to the Pink Mountaintops

The first track from the new Pink Mountaintops album has landed. Check out North Hollywood Microwaves at Soundcloud. The Album Get Back arrives on April 28th.

Via Stereogum

(PS if anyone spots a bottle of Pink Mountainhops in London, let us know)

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5th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Future Is Now

The future of the internet, circa 1981.

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5th Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Enemy

If you like Jake Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal you'll love Enemy - from Denis Villeneuve, director of the excellent Prisoners.

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3rd Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP: Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Shocked to hear of the death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Dude, that had not occured to us.

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2nd Feb 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: The Rover

If you like Mike from Neighbours, you'll love this trailer for The Rover, from David Michod, directoor of the spectacular Aussie crime pic Animal Kingdom.

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30th Jan 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Zero Theorem

This trailer for the new Terry Gilliam sci-fi feels a bit cartoon wacky central, but ever since Brazil and 12 Monkeys I'll give him a go. Stars Christoph Waltz, Ben Wishaw, Melanie Thierry and David Thewlis, out Mar 14 in the UK.

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28th Jan 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

80s VHS re-imagined as 90s Arthouse

I always thiought Gleaming The Cube missed it's true status in the hierachy. Fake Criterion has a similar vibe.

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15th Jan 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: True Detective

Looking forward to this one: starts Jan 12 HBO, sometime in Feb on Sky Atlantic.

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3rd Jan 2014 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Edge Of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt play Gears Of War: Groundhog Day in the film formerly known as All You Need Is Kill. Doug Liman directs.

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12th Dec 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Godzilla

Gareth "Monsters" Edwards is manning the controls for this new city-smash showdown, with Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe among the puny humans running around in Godzilla's wake. 

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10th Dec 2013 - 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

TV

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

Ginko

Josh Grier and Jeremy Hanson of Tapes 'n Tapes (check out our old interview) have got a new stripped down, minimalist band - Ginko. Debut album Manopause is available on iTunes now, or you can stream it in its entirety over at Soundcloud.

Video for the single Faded Glory below.

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28th Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Magnetoswald

Of course! Looking to tap that Dealey Plaza/X-Men fan crossover market, this trailer for the upcoming X-Men time travelganza puts Magneto up on the grassy knoll back in 1963. More at The Bent Bullet.

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26th Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet

Short Attention Span Theatre: Aningaaq

Decent bonus round from Gravity - Jonas Cuarón's short featuring the other side of Sandra Bullock's radio conversation.

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22nd Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet