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Re-check Your Head
Hot on the heels of the Paul's Boutique re-issue comes another magnum opus from the Beastie Boys. 1992's Check Your Head will be back in stores from April in a variety of formats, featuring a wealth of era b-sides - most notably Netty's Girl, Skills To Pay The Bills and So What'cha Want with Cypress Hill.
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Meltdown June 09: Ornette Coleman
Jazz legend Ornette Coleman is this year's Meltdown director
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Trailer Park: Where The Wild Things Are
Trailer up for Spike Jonzes' long-in-development adaptation of kids book 'Where The Wild Things Are'. The jury's out on this one, it all looks a bit Dark Crystal for me. Tony Soprano in a muppet suit anyone?
More data here: www.wherethewildthingsare.com
27th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: King Creosote / Pssap
Former Chimpomatic favourite King Creosote is back with a new album - Flick The Vs - out on Domino on April 20th. Check out the video to first single Coast On By.
And here's a creepy promo for Pssap's new single I Want That - out March 30th, also on Domino.
27th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wilco World News
New data coming in from Wilco World:
"The forthcoming and still-untitled next Wilco album is nearing completion. Jim Scott and the band spent the last few weeks mixing in Jim's studio in Valencia, California and here's a list of song titles spied on the reels -- note this is not necessarily complete and not in sequence.
Deeper Down
Conscript (aka I'll Fight)
One Wing
Solitaire
Wilco (the song)
Country Disappeared
Everlasting
Bull Black Nova
Sonny Feeling
You and I
Rumors and blogs regarding a guest appearance on that last track are, amazingly, quite true. Feist does indeed lend a great vocal to You and I. Other details will emerge in the coming weeks. The release is currently scheduled for late June on Nonesuch."
Plus, an amusing video of Jeff Tweedy on The Colbert Report:
27th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
R.I.P. Virgin Megastore
It's not just the UK Virgin Megastores that have disappeared - the US branches of the chain are now going to way of the Zavvi and shutting up shop.
Apparently the basement of the epic Times Square brach is now a graveyard of unwanted tat - depressing, as it was once a haven for desirable US-only booty. Of course, I haven't actually bothered going in there since Laserdisc ruled and the only stuff on DVD was Batman (Tim Burton re-imaginated version) and Goodfellas (turn-it-over-in-the-middle-non-anamorphic-edition).
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26th Mar 2009 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: 500 Days Of Summer
"You like the Smiths?" - they're pushing out the indie love on new romcom 500 Days Of Summer. Joy Division t-shirts a-go-go, Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt etc
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Chimp GPS
Like we needed a New Scientist article to confirm that chimps have built-in GPS.
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Rip! A Remix Manifesto
copyrights and wrongs film Rip! A Remix Manifesto is a doc about the world of the mashup, following Girl Talk etc and elaborating on the whole issue of ownership in the information age. they're also into open source cinema, and want you to remix the film etc and send it back to them. that's going to be one dvd with a whole lot of extras...
26th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Deluxe Radiohead
I'm not sure how this one has slipped under the net (especially under Pitchfork's adoring net), but Radiohead's first 3 albums have hit the stores in super-deluxe multi-CD format.
Pablo Honey now includes double the amount (198%) of filler, while Kent Clark cut-off album The Bends pulls in a wealth of B-sides and OK Computer compiles all that great stuff that has just been re-released through the How Am I Driving EP. There's also DVD stuff.
Available now in the Chimpomatic store....
25th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Promo Promo: 1990s and Camera Obscura
Rough Trade band the 1990's have a new single and video - 59 - while 4AD's new signings Camera Obscura are back with a new mobile-phone-commercial-friendly single - French Navy, out April 13th.
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Free Invisible
OK is this week's iTunes UK free track from the Invisible. and it really is quite OK.
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Why Go Hip Hop?
home-style homie POS covers Pearl Jam's Why Go
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Skate or die: Fully Flared
After UNKLE provided the music for the opening of Spike Jonze/Ty Evans' 2007 skate video Fully Flared, the directors have returned the favour - extending and re-editing the footage to serve as a video for the UNKLE single Heaven.
Promo up top, original down below.
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24th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
John Squire Speaks: "Music is a young man's game"
Newsnight gets to the bottom of another pressing matter: there really isn't going to be a Stone Roses reunion.
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Kenny Starfighter
ever wondered what a Swedish sci-fi would look like? here's the answer: Kenny Begins
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Stringer v The Office
Idris Elba's joining the cast of The Office
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Bathtub IV
Following on for the recent shift/tilt post, check out this outstanding video from Keith Loutit. More on Vimeo, where you can also watch the film in HD.
23rd Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Live Mountaintops
The Pink Mountaintops have padded out their scheduled appearance at May's ATP Festival with a string of dates across Europe. The Borderline (tickets here) will host the London show, on May 11th. See you down the front.
New album Outside Love will be arriving on May 5th.
23rd Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Vulgar Pictures
Lovely website showing the complete illustrated artwork history of Morrissey and The Smiths. Vulgar Picture.
20th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
TV Graveyard
Did you think the American remake of The Office was a stinker? You probably don't even want to know about some of the other mis-calculated remakes that failed to take off then. Fawlty Towers (aka Snavely) anyone?
20th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
A Ribbon of Dreams
Sopranos mastermind David Chase has another project in the pipeline for HBO. A Ribbon Dreams will follow a couple of aspiring film makers through the history of cinema, as they cross paths with the likes of D.W. Griffith, John Ford and Bette Davis. AICN has the details.
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42 Million 'Mishandled' Bags
Apparently, airlines 'mishandled' 42 million bags last year - resulting in more than a million never returning. Easy to get annoyed perhaps, but perhaps easy to be impressed that they get your bags anywhere at all.
20th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Away We Go
Over-cute looking trailer up for another Sam Mendes film - Away We Go - just weeks after Revolutionary Road has landed.
19th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Tokyo
Trailer up for the Michel Gondry/Leos Carax/Bong Joon-Ho omnibus triptych movie Tokyo.
Michel Gondry has also directed an episode of Flight of the Conchords, featuring soon-to-be-classic track "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor".
19th Mar 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Streetview UK
Google Streetview is finally live for the UK, following some mild invasion-of-privacy type discussion. Here's a quick sample - the old skatepark in Bedminster.
19th Mar 2009 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
iPhone Art
Nice set of images up at The Guardian (Article / Images) from iPhone artist Jorge Colombo, who uses the brushes application and his fingertips.
19th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
A Legend Speaks
MS Paint: the medium of choice for rock legends who want to quash a rumour
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R.I.P. Natasha Richardson
R.I.P. Natasha Richardson, aged 45. BBC / IMDB
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BSG hype-erdrive
the guardian are FTL-jumping on the BSG bandwagon today
19th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Raiders of the Lost Transcript
Mystery Man on Film has a nice write up of brainstorming meetings that led to the production of Raiders of the Lost Ark - including a transcript of the entire process. Amazing that such a transcript exists from the pre-PC era the film evolved in (i.e. 1978), let alone the fact that they have got hold of a copy.
18th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Must Everybody Get Stoned?
Not sure where I stand on the prospect of a Stone Roses re-union. While the Ian Brown-does-Stones-Roses concert in 2004 was fantastic, having some of The Seahorses support him spells trouble....
18th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Alien vs Predator: Grandslam
Loving these Alien vs Predator promo posters from New Zealand. AICN has the scoop.
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iPhone 3.0
The next iPhone OS update is coming w cut, copy & paste and pic messaging...
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Trailer Park: Love The Beast
Trailer up for the Eric Bana directed documentary Love The Beast, about man's (or men's) obsession with automobiles - and including contributions from car nuts Jeremy Clarkson and Jay Leno. The film also follows Bana's own car ('The Beast' of the title), a 1970's Ford Falcon as it competes in a gruelling cross-country race.
There's a website where you can add your own car too, so I've added a photo of my 1970's Ford Falcon, bizarrely also called 'The Beast' according to the guy I originally bought it from. That's where the similarity ends.
F.Y.I., don't look for "Love The Beast" on Google Images. N.S.F.W., as Paris' B.B.F. might say. T.T.Y.N!
17th Mar 2009 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Status Update
Potential lawbreaker Gary Waters has managed to get off the hook, thanks to his lawyer calling up the arresting officer's Facebook and Myspace pages as evidence. Officer Vaughan Ettienne's status update to "Vaughan is watching ‘Training Day’ to brush up on proper police procedure", and his mood change to "devious" managed to convince the judge their may have been more to the arrest than met the eye.
17th Mar 2009 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Explanation of urges
integrallife.com has a possible explanation for My Morning Jacket's recent change of direction (and My Morning Jacket's thought process in general), through a Jim James interview with thought guru Jim Weiber.
17th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Party free-for-all
iTunes has had a number of features added with the recent bump to version 8.1, including an opportunity to open control out to the floor. Anyone with an iPhone can queue up tracks for a potentially democratic/disastrous desert island disco. Wired has the details.
17th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
A New Meme Is Born: "It just goes to show you can't be too careful!"
David Mitchell has come up with the ideal response to any blog posting - "It just goes to show you can't be too careful!" - and it's spreading...
17th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
iDaft v Drum Set
two handy online drum machine timewasters: the iDaft lets you be in Daft Punk, while Ron Winter's Drum Set is a more freestyle affair
17th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Autestic
Roll back your computer to 2001 and head over to Wired to take the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, designed to measure the extent of autistic traits in adults. BW scored a sane 19, while I rated 29. Borderline Rain Man / certified obsessive.
16th Mar 2009 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Instatorrent
The problem with this phone/barcode scanner/download instigator is you actually have to go to a shop to scan the barcode. How tedious.
16th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Wolgang Amadeus Phoenix
new Phoenix album on the way: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, May 25. download 1901 here
16th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Prescribe The Cure
My first experience of The Cure was one of contraband and mystery. There was this kid at our school called Joel Smith who not only had Robert's last name, but styled himself on the front man in every way. Complete with back combed greasy black hair and eye liner he would set up a black market stall in the boys changing rooms where he would feed the school's addiction to The Cure. Sat behind a case full of home-recorded tapes, he would quiz each twitchy buyer as to their current knowledge and exposure to this music in order to judge what level they were ready to enter this world.
As a young and impressionable 15 year old, I stood patiently in line and on hearing that I had virtually no knowledge of them he thought long and hard and rummaged through his case. He emerged with the first album Boys Don't Cry, telling me that this would be about all I could handle at this early stage and after parting with my hard earned pocket money off I went with my Cure prescription.
To this day I would totally agree with Joel as to his diagnosis of what I could handle - and Boys Don't Cry's palatable songs were a perfect entry level to what would become a life long love affair with this band.
13th Mar 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Neighbourphobic
Got a fear of Mrs. Mangle and Bouncer? You might want to check just how neighbourphobic your neighbours are.
13th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Indie Celebracion
With all the free music bonanzas going on these days, more and more bands are getting into the whole going-to-a-record-store-and-buying-vinyl thing.
My Morning Jacket have another EP en route - titled Celebración De La Ciudad Natal - but this one will not be available digitally, only through your local record store - in support of April 18th's Record Store Day.
It's a live release, with tracks culled from an in-store performance at Ear-x-tacy in Louisville and a live show at Waterfront Park.
Nice little promo video too.
13th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
Comink Relief
great Red Nose Day update on our favourite ink-based blog Ink Quest today
13th Mar 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
It's Blitz!
The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record It's Blitz has hit the waves early, to combat an unauthorized torrent leak. Yeah Yeah Yeah.
Check it out on iTunes and Spotify (with more 'bonus tracks' than the Torrent!). It'll hit the actual stores on March 31st, if that's still your kind of thing.
12th Mar 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Dude Turns to Twitter As Guy Breaks In His House
Gawker's title says it all, with an added WTF.
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