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Is Indie Dead?
v good essay on the state of the alternative nation over at Paste
4th Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
How To Catch An iPhone Thief
brilliant/slightly terrifying tale of revenge from some tech-savvy dude who had his iPhone nicked. good ad for mobile.me too
3rd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Everything That's Happened on Lost So Far, Just from Memory
Forget the fancy Lost timeline, or cheat-sheet catch ups like Lost In 10 Minutes. If you're a true fan you should be recallng the entire show from memory. Gawker tried it out.
The final season of Lost kicks off with a double episode on Sky1 this Friday at 9pm.
3rd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lost In Ten Minutes
full version of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Lost in Ten Minutes
3rd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
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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
2nd Feb 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
I think you should talk to him!
if you're looking for a spoiler free Lost experience, don't click this clip! but it looks like it's going to be a good ride this time round
2nd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lost Timeline
really good timeline for the ever-confusing world of Lost, pretty excited about the final series starting this week. Namaste dudes!
1st Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Out Of Print Clothing
nice collection of book covers on t-shirts at Out Of Print
"Out of Print celebrates the world’s great stories through fashion. Our shirts feature iconic and often out of print book covers. Some are classics, some are just curious enough to make great t-shirts, but all are striking works of art.
In addition to spreading the joy of reading through our tees, we acknowledge that many parts of the world don't have access to books at all. We are working to change that. For each shirt we sell, one book is donated to a community in need through our partner Books For Africa."
1st Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: JD Salinger
RIP J.D. Salinger, author and legend. Despite penning uber-classic The Catcher In The Rye, Salinger has been reclusive and unpublished since 1965 - although allegedly writing constantly. Time will tell.
Via BBC
"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."
Goddam phonies.
28th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Edge of Darkness
Aint-it-cool are reporting good things about Mel Gibson's new movie Edge of Darkness. Martin Campbell directs a remake of his own UK mini-series, with Gibson starring in his first film for 8 years.
28th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
iPad
So, the iPad is a big iPhone with much the same functionality - just a bigger screen with more spread out icons. The $499 starting price isn't too bad, but for now consider me mildly underwhelmed. Not quite the shot in the arm the publishing industry was hoping for.
What was pretty interesting was how fast this thing was ripping through Twitter.... And how close The Onion's take on things might have been.
27th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
LCD Trailer
Nice little trailer up on the LCD Soundsystem website for their forthcoming new album...
27th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
MPFree Caribou
sign w that email address you keep for junk mail here and download the new Caribou single - sounding a bit like Remain In Light-era Talking Heads
27th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Leak! iTablet details dripping through
not sure if it will be the game-changer that everyone wants it to be, but Apple's all-new iThing is coming later today - more pre-release details here
27th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mad Men 3: Madder Men
Everybody's favourite advertising-industry-based US drama is back on the BBC this Wednesday 27th. Tune to BBC 4 or BBC HD at 10pm.
26th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Re-Nationalized
Chimp favourites The National are back in business in 2010 - with a new album due in May. They will also be popping over to Europe for a couple of shows, at the Albert Hall on May 6th (Tickets here, La-di-da!) and the Zenith in Paris on May 7th., where they will be supporting Pavement.
Read our 2006 interview here.
25th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Exit Through The Gift Shop
Banksy film debuting at Sundance
22nd Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gorillaz Return!
Bobby Womack and Mos Def on the first single - they've disabled embedding, but click and it'll take you through to the Gorillaz YouTube channel thing
21st Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Shoes To Wear In A Galaxy Far, Far Away
More promo action from the AdisaStarWars mashup coming to a store near you. Yes, it's a galaxy far, far away... from the original idea
21st Jan 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Back In Black
This autumn's End of the Road festival in Dorset is lining up a stellar cast, and might just be enough to drag me out of self-imposed gig-hiatus.
Wilco set to headline, and now album-of-the-decade contenders Black Mountain are making an appearance. Hopefully that will coincide with a new album.
Of course, both bands may add solo dates - so camping may be avoidable after all....
20th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Baby Marmot
Congratulations going out to Chimp stalwart marmot this morning, who just welcomed baby marmot into the world.
Unofficial Song of the Day: After The Goldrush.
20th Jan 2010 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Beach House - Lover Of Mine
gorillavsbear have posted a nice Super8-style video for Beach House's Lover Of Mine, v good new album out at the end of the month on Subpop / Bella Union.
19th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
It's a Delorean!?
"Great Gods Marty! We're in Hackney in the year 2010!"
19th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S>! Star Wars Vs Adidas
in another one of those crazy tie-ups where they've targeted two key markets with massive venn diagram crossover potential, Adidas have teamed up with George Lucas's evil empire to bring you a whole new range of stuff that will have you holding them and thinking things along the lines of "no, I'm not ten. But shit - it's a Skywalker trainer! A Deathstar Superstar! How can I resist the power of tying my Tie-Fighter laces?" oh to be free of target audiences.
might just draw a rebel alliance sign on my old superstars and leave it there
19th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
iTablet Jan 27
just in case you're dying to have another nice flat Apple box of tricks, the iTablet (or whatever they're going to call it) is probably going to be announced on Jan 27
19th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
'YOU'RE REALLY SCREWING UP MY UNDERAPPRECIATED STATUS HERE'
The Dude won Best Actor for Crazy Heart at the Golden Globes
18th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Still Beating Dis
Who'd have thought Bomb The Bass would have a new album out in 2010 - a good 23 years after genre-defining single Beat Dis first stormed the charts, cannily disguised as a US import to give it some cred.
New album Back To Light sees Tim Simenon collaborating with Depeche Mode's Martin Gore amongst others. Keep this frequency clear!
15th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Much A Dude About Nothing
Never mind all this debate about whether we should be re-living the old masters or focussing on new art & literature - we can now have the best of both worlds. Screenwriter Adam Bertocci has re-written old classic The Big Lebowski as The Two Gentlemen of Lebowski. Check it out on his website.
VIA The Guardian
15th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse
interesting piece on Wired about the 80s revival of Mighty Mouse with Ralph Bakshi (American Pop, the cartoon Lord Of The Rings) and John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy)
15th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Coolest Guy in the World...?
Not quite sure what to make of the multi-faceted talents of this dude...
14th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Best Fails of 2009
Here's a 2009 round up with a difference. Best Fails Of 2009 is like a skate slam section crossed with You've Been Framed crossed with every other police chase show but there's some real gems in there.
13th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Superheroes At War
superheroes at war on Flickr
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13th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Portishead - Chase The Tear
forgot to post this Portishead track released in December in aid of Amnesty
12th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Yoni Wolf on Daytrotter
Yoni Wolf of Why? has done a 4 song session on Daytrotter, download it here.
12th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Live Mugison in London
been a while since our favourite Icelandic bluesmonster Mugison played in the UK - but he's hitting Manchester Academy 26 Feb and London's Water Rats 27 Feb
12th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The A-Team
Unfortunately, this plan seems to have come together and there's a trailer out for the Joe Carnahan-directed A-Team movie. Doesn't look too bad - until they fall out of a plane and parachute down in a tank, guns blazing.... YouTube it.
12th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Guardian's Top 50 TV Dramas
another list of great stuff - but The Wire's not number one?! get ready to (g)rumble!
12th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Eric Rohmer
French nouvelle-vague director dies aged 89.
L'Ami de mon amie was one of my favourites.
The Phantom Menace Review
Finally... it's here. Part 1 of 7.
Don't bother going to Film School. There's a film-making 101 right here.
11th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
WIDI
Forget WIFI, WIDI is one of the new tech developments that has emerged at this year's CES show in Vegas. Shipping soon, the technology allows the new Intel chipsets to push the display over WIFI to an HDMI-equiped TV.
Might be the shot in the arm that the watch-internet-content-on-TV movement needs.
11th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lego iPhone
alright, it's not quite the Lego/iPhone hybrid we've all been waiting for (no? just me?) but this app does a good job of Legoising your pics
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11th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Polaroid!
Polaroid's dead? Long live ... Polaroid! here's the PIC 1000, in a nice wood-style box
11th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
It Might Get Uploaded
The none-more-guitar showdown w Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White It Might Get Loud is rocking in the free world (well, on YouTube at the moment)
10th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mixable Greatest Hits from Pavement
Domino and Matador have a great competition up to guess the tracklisting for Pavement's upcoming Greatest Hits compilation Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement.
The competition is to guess the track-listing of the album, starting with mpfree (get it here) Gold Soundz. First prize is a pair of tickets to see the band at the Chimpovich-endorsed Summercase festival in Barcelona. The real best prize is for second place, however - with the second best guess of track-listing winning 5 custom pressed editions of the album, made up from re-mastered version of their choice cuts.
Although the compilation does not include any unreleased material, it definitely goes deeper than the "hits."
More at Matador.
8th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
STAMP to the music
Royal Mail has launched a series of stamps based on classic album covers. The chosen covers will no doubt produce debate at Chimp HQ.
Lick here
7th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
NME 2010 Mixtape
no-one makes mixtapes anymore? but look! here's one from NME! Joy Orbison, Washed Out, Music Go Music, The Drums and other "hotly hyped tipped" new kids on the block
7th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S>! Parrot AR.Drone
an iPhone-controlled wifi helicopter?! ooh it's the first A>W>E>S>O>M>E / P>O>I>N>T>L>E>S>S> product of the new decade! think the shot of the dude bugging his girlfriend on the sofa who's sensibly reading a magazine is a little bit too accurate
7th Jan 2010 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet