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Last Day Dream: Life in 42 Seconds
Lovely short film up at Vimeo from promo/ad director Chris Milk. Submitted to the Beijing 42 Second Film Festival, it covers life flashing before someone's eyes.
30th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
John Peel Replies
Pulled from the archives, here's Mr John Peel himself responding to my 15-year-old self regarding the age old question of what type of music Grunge really is.
30th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Power-less
The freaky-deaky world of wireless power is moving forward, with the new Palm Pre including a 'touchstone' power-pad - and now Wildcharge is offering a solution for the iPhone, which combines a desktop pad with a special case for the phone that includes the necessary black magic. That also has the possible advantage of letting all your devices charge of the one matt.
Wired has more details.
30th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
BSG: The Plan
another trailer for the Battlestar Galactica one-off TV movie The Plan, seeing everything from the Cylon's viewpoint
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Trailer Park: The Time Traveller's Wife
Trailer up for The Time Traveller's Wife. Doesn't look likely to break the excellent Eric Bana's long run of turkeys.
26th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Jeff Buckley Song
These days, it only takes a sentimental Cameron Diaz movie to rustle up a new Jeff Buckley Song - We All Fall In Love Sometimes.
25th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Collapse of Oxford Collapse
Bad news from Sub Pop: Oxford Collapse are calling it quits.
After hitting the highs with a couple of great albums (1, 2) and live shows (1, 2), the chimp-favourite party punkers are moving on to other things - which may involve getting real jobs.
24th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Googlemaps Paris
The resort formally know as Euro Disney have let the Google cars in for a quick drive around - and now Disneyland Paris is mapped up.
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Van Halen v Nike
Eddie Van Halen is suing Nike over some Dunks they've made with red, white and black stripes on. That's so his thing that he came up with yo.
24th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Beasties' 5-Point Plan
New data in from Beastieboys.com
1. The reissue of "Ill Communication" is imminent.
2. A reissue of "Hello Nasty" is released on the 25th of August.
3. A club show occurs in Chicago on the 6th of August.
4. The new Beastie Boys feature length LP entitled "HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART 1" is unleashed on the 15th of September. (See below for track listing*)
5. The music industry is saved.
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1. Tadlock's Glasses
2. B-Boys In The Cut
3. Make Some Noise
4. Nonstop Disco Powerpack
5. OK
6. Too Many Rappers (featuring NAS)
7. Say It
8. The Bill Harper Collection
9. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (featuring Santigold)
10. Long Burn The Fire
11. Bundt Cake
12. Funky Donkey
13. Lee Majors Come Again
14. Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
15. Pop Your Balloon
16. Crazy Ass Shit
17. Here's A Little Something For Ya
23rd Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Song Of The Day Volume VI: I Knew
summer's (almost) here - what better time than to start another round of Song Of The Day with this track from Black Mountain offshoot Lightning Dust?
23rd Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Rain Machine = Solo TVOTR
TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone is releasing his solo project Rain Machine on Anti in the US
23rd Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Bored To Death
More HBO to look forward to - Bored To Death stars Jason Schwarzman as a wannabe detective.
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From The Basement: The Dead Weather
still time to catch this tonight: From The Basement is streaming a gig from Jack White's new band, The Dead Weather 9pm, UK time
22nd Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Band of Brothers 2: The Pacific
Promo up for the new Spielberg/Hanks/HBO mini-series The Pacific, which will begin in 2010. It's a Pacific-set companion to the WWII Band of Brothers mini-series - and looks pretty spectacular. The Thinner Red Line.
22nd Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Even More Highly Suspicious
All the remixing in the world is not going to help My Morning Jacket's Highly Suspicious.
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Promo Promo: We Have Band
Nice promo up for hotly tipped/unsigned disco poppers We Have Band. Shot and animated entirely from stills - and if you so wish you can get the stills here and assemble your own version.
19th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: 2012
If you need someone to dump an aircraft carrier on the White House, via a tsunami - Roland Emmerich is your man. Looks like 2012 will be meeting my long-haul flight needs shortly.
19th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: New York's Got Talent
The relentless remake-a-thon continues, with Fame now getting a reboot.
19th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
CHAD
A recent travel-op led to some discussion about the origins of the famous Chad and the results are interesting. Turns out that there are several intertwining stories going into the mix.
Chad
The 'Wot no...' tag line originates from the shortages experienced by rationed Britishers during World War II. Where 'Wot no eggs?' or 'Wot no tea bags' were literal complaints. Not too much detail on the nose-over-the-wall cartoon though.
Kilroy
The viral message of the Chad was most likely popularised by the American usage of cartoon alongside 'the Kilroy'. The tagline 'Kilroy was here' written in further and further flung fields, allegedly even written on the dust on the moon. The Kilroy plausibly originates back to World War II warship inspector James J. Kilroy, who would write 'Kilroy was here' once he had finished his inspection.
Speculation even takes the story even further, to the point where the omni-presence of the slogan - which appeared wherever US servicemen had been - led Hitler to believe Kilroy to be a super-spy.
Lose The Game
An interesting modern spin on the phenomenon comes in the form of Lose The Game. A game supposedly devised by a couple of chaps stranded at a train station over night. The aim of the game is simple - don't think about the game. By the way, you lose.
18th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Death of a Blogger
A 2008 survey counted 133 million active blogs, but a 2009 follow-up notes that only 7.4 million of them have been updated in the last 120 days. That's a 95% failure rate.
18th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Shutter Island, The Road
Looks like we're in for a grim thriller face-off: would you rather be stuck on Martin Scorsese's; Shutter Island with Leonardo DiCaprio, or heading out on The Road with Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron?
18th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Obama Man! White House comics
now Obama's got his own comic, along with sidekicks Joe Biden and Bo Obama (the White House pooch)
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18th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Jason Lytle
Nicely shot slow-mo promo from The General Assembly for Jason Lytle's track I Am Lost (And The Moment Cannot Last). Watch a hi-res version here.
17th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Badass Obama
Looks like Barack Obama trained in the Mr Miyagi school of fly control.
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
A serious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
17th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: It Might Get Loud
Jack White jamming with The Edge and Jimmy Page in this new doc. Not quite sure what the point is, but should be fun for the guitar nerds among us
17th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Hidden Pixies
Now here's a gig I would have liked to be at: the Pixies turned up to their own box set launch to play a surprise set to the 300 strong crowd.
Picture nabbed from David Emery via Flickr.
17th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Phil Spector: Unplugged
I don't know how, but I was surprised to see that Phill Spector's hair is actually a wig - as noted in his recent mug shot (see The Smoking Gun for full details).
The confusion may have arisen from previous hairdos. Hiding in plain sight apparently.
17th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skate or Dinosaur vs Promo Promo
It's Skate or Die vs Promo Promo this week, for this cleverly put together video for Dinosaur Jr's new single Over It. Keep an eye out for Mike Watt too.
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16th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
BYO CD
Interesting developments on the way from Amazon, with a partnership with distribution start-up Tunecore allowing artists to get physical CDs onto Amazon's books, through a new short-run system.
Only problem is, does anyone still buy CDs? Tunecore are on top of that too as we already reported, allowing full distribution through Amazon's MP3 store - with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor paying the company a mere $38 to get his 4-disc album into the store, then receiving a 40% share of the Amazon retail price.
Wired has the story.
16th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Richard Prince v Hong Kong Art Museum
Richard Prince has wrapped up the HK Art Museum
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BSG: The Plan
Paste has some details from Edward James Olmos on directing The Plan - the upcoming Cylon-centric TV movie to round off Battlestar for good
16th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Goodfeathers
Checked out some of the Free Range graduate art shows in Brick Lane at the weekend and the easy highlight was Tim Knight's set of owl portraits.
Coming off like a wildlife Usual Suspects, we decided the movie should probably star Owl Pacino.
As Paul Simon once said, "You can call me owl".
15th Jun 2009 - 5 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The Monsters of Folk
Following on from Evil Urges, 'Monsters of Funk' might be a better name for a Jim James/Bright Eyes/M. Ward supergroup - and at the moment it's hard to decide who provides the most potential for disappointment from these three....
Cynicism aside, there's plenty of potential for retribution as the Monsters of Folk reform for a newly announced, self-titled album, out in September on Rough Trade. Bootleg from their 2004 tour online here.
15th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Infinite Lightning Dust
Looks like Amber Webber has a good excuse for missing the recent Pink Mountaintops tour - the Black Mountain vocalist has a new album out under the Lightning Dust formation, with fellow Vancouverian Black Mountaineer Joshua Wells.
"I Knew" is available for download now (mp3) - and it suggest that Infinite Light seems set to expand the band's sound from the minimalist magic of 2007's self-titled debut.
Out August 3rd on Jagjaguwar.
15th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Extraordinary Records
nice new doorstop from the Taschen empire: Extraordinary Records, looking at the world of the picture disc. Text by Giorgio Moroder!
15th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
DJ "Gang" Download Scam
don't often link to the Daily Mail, but this iTunes scam report is pretty nuts
15th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: Animal Collective
Psychedelic promo up for Animal Collective's Summertime Clothes.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Earth In Motion
If you thought yesterday's time lapse movies were good, then don't miss Wired's article featuring NASA sattelite time-lapse movies, that have taken literally years to shoot. Urbanisation of Dubai above, Amazon deforestation below.
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12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Bike Club
The current craze for pimped-out, fixed gear bicycles seems to have re-invented cycling - and art students on bikes make a good combination. Check out these clips from LA's Taco Tuesday club and the Midnight Ridazz. And head on over to Rapha's Vimeo page for a ton of great stuff. Although they are using more gears.
Those dayglo wheels are all a bit Ocean Pacific if you ask me.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monsanto's House of the Future
Interesting piece up at Wired about Monsanto's 'House of the Future' - which was on put on display at Disneyland in 1957.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Go Pearl Jam
Good news for Pearl Jam's upcoming European tour - old favourites Gomez will be supporting.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Psychedelic Horseshit, man
The Washington Post has an interesting, expletive-filled interview with Matt Whitehurst of Psychedelic Horseshit - a hit at this year's SXSW Festival. He has a list of interesting thoughts on the raft of lo-fi/deliberately badly produced releases we've heard recently - and forms an opinion similar to loyal writers Harris Pilton and NM.
12th Jun 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Cover Mashups
Nice piece in Design Week on the cover art mashups we've been covering this week.
12th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wot no hover-cars?
At the 1964 World's Fair in New York, a model city titled Futurama promised jet-packs, paperless offices and traffic-free highways. 40 years later and we're still waiting.
11th Jun 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet