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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Rain Dance Maggie
RHCP shave the new boy, release first track from I'm With You - The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
18th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Promo Promo: Mara Carlyle - Weird Girl
knife-thrower's assistant Mara Carlyle in a promo from Gaelle Denis from her loooong-awaited second album Floreat - out Jul 25
14th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Twitter Tracks News Of The Meltdown
watch the Murdoch empire melt in Twitter-time
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13th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus are as angry as ever, and would like to show you the real New Jersey.
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12th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ah ha... Steve Coogan v NOTW on Newsnight
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9th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Steven Spielberg: Game Changer
Fascinating discussion video up at the Director's Guild of America website, with a panel of James Cameron, JJ Abrams and Michael Apted chatting with Steven Spielberg about his career.
It's something of a circle jerk in places, with Cameron coming off as a bit of a know it all, but 's well worth watching. And 1hr 45mins long.
Click the first thumbnail for the full video.
8th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Handsome Furs
Classy and totally NSFW video up for the Handsome Furs track What About Us. Get the album. It's good.
8th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Kurt Vile
Nice, mellow, narrative, skateboards-and-girls video up for Kurt Vile's "In My Baby's Arms" track, from his recent marmot-approved album "Smoke Ring For My Halo".
Shot on a Windows phone, if you give a shit.
6th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Red Hirst Chili Peppers
Uh oh, Damien Hirst has designed the cover for the new Red Hot Chili Peppers album I'm With You. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it features a pill and a fly.
Via RHCP
6th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Cy Twombly
American artist Cy Twombly has died, aged 83.
Via BBC
6th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Robo Miliband
someone needs to reboot Ed 2.0
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4th Jul 2011 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Rewind: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
thanks to Dr Chimp for reminding us of the excellent intro to the 1979 TV version; the new one's got a lot to live up to, glad to see they haven't modernised it
1st Jul 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Radio Soulwax App
fun app playing Radio Soulwax hourlong mixes w animated covers. interview here
1st Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy
Looking forward to this. Inside word is that it's a good one.
Via AICN
30th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Explosions In The Sky
Amazingly, this animated head trip through space and time is the first ever Explosions In The Sky promo. Enjoy.....
29th Jun 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Newsflash: Harrison Ford not in a coma
Despite his many zombie-esque performances in recent years, this series of interviews show that Harrison Ford is in fact still a functioning human being - even with a sense of humour. If he can just translate that to screen.
Jon Favreau is asking the questions, and the whole thing was done as promotion for the upcoming flick Cowboys and Aliens, which may or may not be OK.
Via AICN
29th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol
Trailer up for the new Mission: Impossible movie. As usual, some people have been disavowed and might need to bend the rules to set things straight. Jeremy Renner seems to be lining up to be the next Tom Cruise.
29th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Yeaaaaaah Boyyyyy!
Mildly embarrassing mid-80's Beastie Boys promo surfaces on YouTube.
28th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Boardwalk Empire Season 2 Teaser
Looking forward to the return of Richard Harrow very much indeed.
Via AICN
27th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Bravo Brave Bats
Nice promo up for UK indie rockers Bravo Brave Bats.
27th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Another Google Earth
Visit amazing site Another Earth for a double sided browser that lets you compare any area of the earth, even setting left and right to different areas of time - for example to compare the effects of the recent Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami disaster.
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24th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yuck - Shook Down
Promo up for mildly freaky video Shook Down from British retro-indie-scenesters Yuck.
24th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Dark Knight Rises
Expertly edited fake trailer up for the new Batman flick. They seem to have done their research with what's likely to happen in the movie - and then taken a pinch of dramatic license.
Still not a patch on 'Shining'.
24th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Killer Elite
A movie about SAS men with Statham, DeNiro and Owen? Yes please..... is what I thought, as I expected that to mean Statham moving up to DeNiro's class, not dragging DeNiro and Owen down with him.
Based on the controversial Ranulph Fiennes book The Feather Men.
23rd Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Metallica Machine Music
World's most unlikely team-up? Lou Reed and Metallica are recording together...
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Waiting For The Sandman
And Justice For All Tomorrow's Parties
22nd Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Radiohead - Staircase
On the one hand it's not really a promo, on the other it only exists to promote something - a forthcoming full length episode of "From The Basement" with Radiohead doing King of Limbs.
And it's a new track.
21st Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sky Go
update to the Sky Player coming Jul 6 - Sky Go, sounds like it's more iPad friendly etc
21st Jun 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Jackass Ryan Dunn
Jackass' Ryan Dunn has died in a non-stunt related car crash in Philadelphia. Always one of my favourites on the show, and a totem for beard appreciators everywhere.
Via BBC
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21st Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: HD
Skateboarding has always been a fertile culture for creative types. My first films were inspired and based around the sport and the art/photo/film output of skateboarders never ceases to amaze me.
Things have come a long way since the VHS-C cameras of the 80's however. Check out Nike SB's (Nike? Skateboarding? Bah!) Debacle film above and check out a slow-mo skate clip shot on the new Scarlet 3K Red Camera below.
20th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Muppets
Muppets with legs? A new voice for Kermit? Still, hopefully the kids will dig it. And Animal is still around.
20th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Clarence Clemons
E Street Band's saxman died yesterday. January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011
19th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Moneyball
Trailer up for stats-based baseball movie Moneyball, where number cruncher Jonah Hill helps Brad Pitt objectively pick the most efficient baseball team. Based on a true story. According to the trailer.
18th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google Chrome OS
With the impending release of Google's online-only Chrome OS netbooks, they seem to be attempting to get us into the concept with a free Angry Birds plug-in for anyone using the Chrome Browser. Bizarrely, it also works fine in Safari. The only advantage to using Chrome seems to be that you can play .....offline.
17th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fincher and Nolan vs Malick
Here's a nice featurette on the Tree of Life, with Christopher Nolan and David Fincher discussing Terence Malick's work.
Via AICN
If you like Malick, you'll like this: He's allegedly already preparing a six hour cut of Tree of Life, as well as a complimentary IMAX movie documenting the evolution of life.
Don't worry if that sounds too much. His next movie is a romantic drama. Which is promised to be "More experimental that Tree of Life".
Via The Filmstage
Malick has also asked his crew to keep summer and autumn free for another possible feature shoot.
Via LA Times
17th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Beastie Boys Mystery Quiz
Here's a mystery: I was watching a Smiths concert on TV last night, recorded for German TV institution Rockpalast in 1984. As Morrissey and Marr were followed back to their dressing room, I spotted the above Beastie Boys sticker on the dressing room door.
As we all know, the Beasties didn't get anywhere near the mainstream until the build up and release of Licenced To Ill in 1986 - and research shows that they didn't appear on Rockpalast until 1998. A quick Google brought up the video below of them from 1984 (not from Rockpalast, from the Scott and Gary Show), so they were on the radar to some extent and Ad Rock even seems to have a similar sticker stuck on the front of his guitar.
Add your suggested explanation in the comments.
16th Jun 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Internet Radio
Internet radio seems to be coming of age recently, mostly thanks to the ground swell of internet connected devices that everyone including your mum now uses. Almost every radio station now has an online broadcast and there are many apps and sites to aggregate those streams into an easy to use package.
I've been using the outstanding iPad/iPhone app Tune In Radio to tune in to everything from Radio 4 to KROQ, to Triple J (they also make apps for other devices and run a website) and the BBC have even got involved with the site Radio Player which offers a similar service.
Turn on, tune in, etc...
14th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Take Shelter
Trailer up for the outstanding Take Shelter - one of the best films I saw at this year's Sundance Festival. Starring Michael Shannon form Boardwalk Empire and Jessica Chastain from Tree of Life - both incredible in this.
13th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
MPFree: Malkmus v Beck
Beck's behind the decks for the new Malkmus outing: download Senator now from Domino
10th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
ALL NEW CHIMPOMATIC!
It's that time of the decade again when we overhaul the mothership and drag Chimpomatic into the future. We're all about the content stream this time around, as much of our data is now coming from Twitter and Flickr. Scroll down for an endless torrent of hard to read rectangles, colour coded by content type. If it's all a bit much for you, narrow your browser and it will all drop into a single column.
The flailing reviews section has seen the most notable improvement, with Twitter reviews now getting the on-site treatment, meaning there's hundreds of new film reviews and many more recent music ones. You can also click on the different star ratings to filter the reviews, making it easy to find those zero star reviews that are well worth avoiding, or those unmissable five star ones.
Tagging also gets an upgrade, with tags now site-wide across content and photos.
Feel free to add comments....
10th Jun 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Farewell To The Space Shuttle
With only one mission remaining, there's still time for a Space Shuttle photo-op - and Italian astronaut Paulo Nespoli got this amazing image as he departed the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz capsule. More fantastic potential wallpapers on the official Flickr page.
Via BBC
10th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Clear your calendars: Tree of Life arrives at last
After much legal wrangling, Terrance Mallick's latest movie arrives in the UK on Friday 8th July.
Can't wait.
10th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Truthful Posters
If movie posters told the truth.
If chimpomatic told the truth: "worth posting just to get that 5 word review of The Fighter out there".
Via Shiznit.
7th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Polaroids From The Future
Despite the blatantly home made stylings, Sean Young has a great selection of personal photos on her apparently 'official' and seemingly up-to-date website, including this great batch from her days on the set of Blade Runner.
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6th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet