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Map The Editors
Clever, if slightly pointless website up to promote the new album from the Editors. Using a hacked version of Google Street View, you can travel the streets and stumble accross the band hanging around in the sites that inspired tracks on the album.
editorsofficial.com/streetview/
16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone
Nice lo-fi promo up for the new Arctic Monkeys single - Cornerstone.
16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lego Rock Band
the ongoing Rock Band world domination continues with Lego Rock Band - glad to see they've got Let's Dance era David Bowie in there with Blur...
16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hi How Are You? Daniel Johnston The App
yup, indie cult hero Daniel Johnston is now available as an iPhone app
16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
DeNiro's Jimmy Conway to sort MP expenses row
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16th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Stuff White People Like - Tips For Net Success
interview w the Stuff White People Like dude
15th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: The Expendables
"Who sent YOU?" "Your hairdresser!" The Stallone wit lives.
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What Does Jeff Tweedy Think Of What Wilco Fans Think Of Him?
Wilco's Jeff Tweedy answers the fans
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Best of the century?
We're still months away from the end of the decade, but the best-of-the-century so far lists are already appearing. Here's one from Uncut.
14th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
OMG! Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl. TTYN!
OMG! Not content with dirtying the name of THE Aaron Rose, TV show Gossip Girl now has its sites set on grunge godfathers Sonic Youth - who appeared in this week's episode, playing as a band AND with Kim Gordon performing the wedding of two of the lead characters wedding...
Videogum has the story.
14th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Slash // sorry
Tim Berners Lee - the dude who decided on internet conventions has admitted he shouldn't have bothered with the double slashes // at the start of everything...
14th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
All Your YouTube Are Us
100 greatest hits of YouTube in four time-saving minutes. Mind you, you've probably already sat through them all already
13th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Live Dust
Lightning Dust's Infinite Light (review here) is looking like an album-of-the-year for me - and now they're bringing their live show to the UK.
Dates:
November 30: London, Bush Hall w/Early Day Miners 7.30pm, £10 adv - Tickets
December 1: Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach w/Early Day Miners 7.30pm, £8 adv - Tickets
December 2: Birmingham, Capsule 10th Birthday @ Town Hall w/Tunng, Six Organs Of Admittance - Tickets
December 3: Glasgow, Captains Rest w/Early Day Miners 8pm, £9 adv - Tickets
December 4: Manchester, Roadhouse 7pm, £8 adv - Tickets
December 5: Brighton, Lectern w/Early Day Miners 7.30pm, £8 adv - Tickets
The band also have a new video for track Never Seen, which you can download as an mp3 here, along with killer track I Knew here.
13th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spotify: One year on
Some interesting thoughts from Spotify boss Daniel Ek.
I'm still using Spotify on my phone. Not quite the iTunes replacement I was hoping for, but I'm enjoying the legitimacy....
12th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Shoe In
No Age have their own skate shoes out - working with Chimp hero Ed Templeton (see Skate or Die here) to produce a shoe for legit skate brand Emerica. Sub Pop have the details.
12th Oct 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Live Doolittle
The Pixies are selling downloads/CDs for all of last week's live Doolittle outings. Get em while they're hot.
Check out Harris Pilton's near-perfect review here.
12th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Things We Really Thought We'd Never See: Bunny Marge
what is Hugh up to? Marge Simpson is his latest cover star
11th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Stockholm Syndrome
Nice film up at Vimeo from grizzly Swedish pin-up Julian Farrar, featuring his monster-sized drawings.
9th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Me & Orson Welles
Trailer up for the new Richard Linklater picture Me & Orson Welles, featuring a well-cast Christian McKay as the big man himself, Clare Danes and that kid from High School Musical as the 'me' of the title.
8th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pavement For ATP 2010
The Pavement reformation continues - with the band set to curate ATP in 2010, and of course headline.
8th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Matthew McRomcomedy in Standing Room Only
The Huffington Post asks the difficult questions.
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Lunar Lander: Crash Mission
Nasa's latest mission: to crash the LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) spacecraft into the moon to see if there's any water up there
8th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Invisible MPFree and More Herbert Big Band
still loving The Invisible's album - one of the real highlights of 2009 for me (who knows why they didn't win the Mercury, ho hum) - and look! here's a copy of their great cover of Come Together they did for a recent Mojo-does-Abbey Road-CD. speaking of Abbey Road - that's where those nice people in the Matthew Herbert Big Band like to get together and record, and they're going to be playing at the Barbican v soon - Oct 26 as part of the British Council's ReSound project. full details at the Accidental website
8th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
More Unanswered Movie Questions
Obi-Wan is stupid - "because his idea of “hiding” Luke from his father is to take Luke to the planet where Anakin used to live, to the very house he used to live in, to be cared for by Anakin’s stepfather’s son and his wife, and, as if that weren’t already akin to hanging a giant sign reading “Future Jedi Here,” to give Luke his father’s last name! Because “Skywalker” is such a common last name that nobody could possibly make the connection … if they’re complete morons. Would it have been so difficult to call him “Luke Lars?”"
Wired investigates further.
7th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Alien In Winchester High Street
not sure this "alien sighting" really sounds that much different to a normal Saturday afternoon on Winchester High Street really...
7th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fresh Vampire
There's a new track up on the Vampire Weekend website. Horchata is taken from January's new album Contra.
6th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Do You Love It When A Plan Comes Together?
first pics of the new A-Team up
6th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
RadioFlea? RedHotThom? ChiliHead? They're reviewed, whatever they're called
sounds like the surprise mini supergroup formed by Thom Yorke and Flea went down pretty well in LA
6th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: It's My Party
Don't ask, but I stumbled across this video for the Barbara Gaskin & Dave Stewart hit It's My Party from 1981. Could have been shot in 2000's Shoreditch.
5th Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Red Cliff
US trailer up for 'legendary action cinema master' John Woo's latest - Red Cliff. Shot in China with assistance from the top level I believe.
The western release of this Chinese history epic is literally half the length of the original cut - running 148 minutes instead of 280. I wonder is there's a half-as-long cut of Face/Off floating around?
2nd Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Slow-mo Celebration
Great slow-mo / stop-motion film of China's 60th anniversary parade up at Vimeo, from The Guardian's Dan Chung.
2nd Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Inventory
expect this in an Xmas stocking near you: Inventory from The Onion's AV Club is a book of lists featuring...
+ 6 Keanu Reeves movies somehow not ruined by Keanu Reeves
+ 22 great songs inspired by heinous true crimes
+ 13 particularly horrible fast-food innovations
+ 8 great films made by directors after they turned 70
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1st Oct 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Flaming Lips - I Can Be A Frog
Nice, simple but effective video up for the new Flaming Lips track - I Can Be A Frog.
30th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Van Morrison - Cypress Avenue
Van getting t-t-t-tongue-tied, live at Fillmore East, 1970. yup, it ain't why, it just is...
30th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Thom + Flea = Eraser Live!
Thom Yorke has teamed up with Point Break star Flea (and Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco and Nigel Godrich) to play his solo stuff live...
30th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Spell With Flickr
another entry in the pointless-but-fun files - Spell With Flickr which pulls letters off Flickr and writes words for you with them
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29th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Too Many Dicks On The Console
With I Told You I Was Freaky arriving imminently, the Flight of the Conchords are back in the news, with a TBC European tour and even three songs making it onto Rockband.
Meanwhile, Jermain has been out and about in character as Ronald Chevalier, from his new movie Gentlemen Broncos.
28th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Volcano Choir
Bon Iver mainman Justin Vernon has got a new sideline called Volcano Choir up and running, teaming up with Collections Of Colonies Of Bees. Sounds like a more electronic version if the mpfree on Jagaguwar is anything to go by.
Listen on Spotify here. A review is in the pipeline...
28th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or die: SMA Hobo Tour
Some nice home video footage of 1989's SMA Hobo Tour, with evidence that Jason Lee was a great skater. Mike Vallely and Jesse Martinez also feature, with Vallely riding his innovative double-ended board - a first.
Jason Lee is riding an SMA Jeff Hartsel - a model favoured by CJ.
25th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Top 10 Unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies
3. Gremlins: Feeding after midnight - Don’t get them wet; OK, fine. Don’t expose them to sunlight; sure, why not? Don’t feed them after midnight; um, how’s that again? If you can’t feed them “after midnight,” at what point during the day does it cease to be “after midnight” so you can feed them again? For that matter, how does the mogwai know what time zone it’s in? Suppose I get my mogwai in New York and then take a vacation to San Francisco — should I not feed my mogwai after midnight Eastern Time or Pacific Time? And what about Daylight Saving Time? Considering the consequences, these details seem pretty important.
This and other conundrums, discussed in Wired's Top 10 Unanswered Questions in Geeky Movies article.
25th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: no end to the horror revival
looks like we're in for a whole load of horror/horror spoofs over the next few months in trailer park land: get ready for Transylmania (see what they've done there? clever), The Vampire's Assistant with John C Reilly, Woody Harrelson in Zombieland, spooky babysitter thrills in The House Of The Devil and New Moon - the next part in the Twilight series
25th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Riot In Lagos
continuing this week's random Ryuichi Sakamoto video picks: some live footage of YMO's classic Riot In Lagos live in LA 1980, introduced by Herb Alpert looking like David Duchovny
24th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monsters Of Folk Rock The Suits With Conan
nice Tonight Show version of Say Please - but what's with that giant CD Conan O'Brien is holding up at the start? some crazy new Monster-sized promotional version? they could really take off
24th Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hitchcock App Up
the Hitchcock storyboard app we mentioned a while back is up and running - it lets you work out film storyboards using photos on your iPhone. Vimeo demos here
23rd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Yellow Magic Orchestra - Computer Games
I'd like to play the game with the skateboarder dodging lasers from a UFO in the background before YMO take it all Tron
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23rd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Dead TV: The Original
after a few days wading through the Indiana vaults here at Chimp Towers, our crack team of archaeologists has finally located the first documented entry in one of our longest on-going surveillance projects: yes, here's a dead TV, somewhere on Haste Street, Berkeley circa 1993. that's right kids, we're not new to this, we're true to this... join our Dead TV group over on Flickr
22nd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Lego Iggy Pop
Need i say more? Coming to a playground Xbox Rockband console near you soon.
Follow the links and you end up at this interesting Times article/interview, where Iggy offers some explaination for that "fucking embarrassing" insurance campaign he's currently fronting.
22nd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Sakamoto / Sylvian - Bamboo Music
for some reason, it's the Bamboo Houses side that stands out in my memory of this great double A 12" from David Sylvian and Ryuichi Sakamoto (must have had that on playing on an endless C90 loop for a month or two); turns out the other side, Bamboo Music, isn't bad either, and there's a video, preserved in full 80s-vision on everythingeverTube
22nd Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ad Nauseum: David Fincher
He might be selling Nike, but we've always got time for anything by David Fincher. Shot on a RED digital camera, by Emmanuel Lubezki - the man behind the magnificent The New World amongst others.
21st Sep 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet