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Mo' Sebadoh
Bubble and Scrape is next up on the Sebadoh re-release schedule, with a full-length Don't Look Back performance coming to Koko on May.
9th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
W-hat?
oliver stone is rushing out W a george dubya bush biopic for the end of the year - josh brolin as bush, elizabeth banks as laura bush, ellen burstyn as barbara bush, james cromwell as bush senior, thandie newton as condoleeza rice and ioan gruffud as blair!
9th Apr 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
It's My Morning Jacket, Jim, but not as we know it...
now this is what the interweb is for: check this great breakdown at Rolling Stone from Jim James, where he runs through 5 tracks from My Morning Jacket's new album Evil Urges, including a hilarious explanation for Highly Suspicious, the least MMJ-style song they've done for ages. he's trying to sound like an angry British policeman apparently. chimp verdict coming sometime soon (...but hopefully it's another strong contender in our on-going album of the year stand-off: 1, 2, 3 - but hey, maybe we'll shock you all and not get into it...)
8th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pitchfork TV online
Pitchfork TV is up and running - nice to see thom getting all eagles-like with his sing&drum skills.
8th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Space Chimps
It's not astro-chimps in washing machines, but..... www.spacechimps.com
8th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
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Lucas Storm
more trouble in Lucas land - now he's suing the dude who made the stormtrooper outfits
7th Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The W Section
A recent trip to the mighty Amoeba Records highlighted a couple of useful facts.
Unfortunately there is less and less reason to go to an actual record shop these days. Where I would have once whiled away a solid day flipping through albums for imports, rarities or new releases ("a new My Morning Jacket album, I had no idea!"), the internet has pretty much rendered that lack of pre-information obsolete. Not much slips out these days without a mammoth, self perpetuating viral marketing campaign.
I stumbled across the other nugget completely by accident. If you have to arrange a rendezvous, the letter W is a good place to kill some time. Wedding Present, Ween, Weezer, Mike Watt, Wedding Present continued and so on. The Wedding Present have a new album, El Rey, out next month don't you know.
7th Apr 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Behind The Scenes on Watchmen
Great little behind-the-scenes movie up at Superherohype illustrating some of the set-building that has gone on to create 1985 New York for Zack Snyder's upcoming Watchmen movie.
6th Apr 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Dan McCarthy
Dan McCarthy is an artist from Massachusetts who largly produces his own prints but has also provided artwork for Wilco and others.
As an up-and-coming artist he provides a monthly print subscription where he sends you his allocated print for a flat annual fee.
6th Apr 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
MMJ cover
my morning jacket's new album evil urges will look like this. who's the dude in the way?
3rd Apr 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Watch
Pineapple Express - new Judd Apatow stoner comedy; Ellen "Juno" Page in The Tracey Fragments and Smart People; Winona Ryder back on screen in Sex & Death 101; Ewan McGregor trying another American accent in Deception; Wong Kar Wai in the mood for My Blueberry Nights; more stoopid Will Ferrell v John C Reilly antics in Step Brothers; tough Arkansas brothers in Shotgun Stories - lots of new trailers to while away your morning today
3rd Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sci-Fi London Film Festival
couple of interesting films in this year's Sci-Fi London festival: Dante 01 - the solo debut from Marc Caro (City Of Lost Children/ Delicatessen); La Antena featuring "an evil media mogul, Mr TV"; indie sci-fi 11 Minutes Ago (which was shot in a day); and Chemical Wedding - written by Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson!
2nd Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Clown Travel Agency
There's something going on over at Clown Travel Agency and then Acme Security Systems, which seems likely to involve that prankster The Joker. I'm too busy to see it through, but will check back later to see the results....
2nd Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Type 1 Impossibilities
According to the The Physics Of the Impossible alien contact, teleportation and invisibility cloaks are just around the corner. Human-cow hybrid embyos already here. (the moo-mans?) Time travel still a way off though
2nd Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Miracle Favourites
Miracle Fortress are back in town for a few shows:
Wed 02 Apr - London, Scala w/Patrick Watson
Thu 03 Apr - Brighton, The Janbury Club w/Patrick Watson
Fri 04 Apr - London, Luminaire
Check them out if you can. If not, just check out these two awesome videos.
1st Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Radio Edit
Radiohead are jumping on the NIN remixing bandwagon and offering 'stems' (i.e. bass track, the guitar track etc) of their new single Nude. The catch is, this time you have to pay. For each one.
Once you've got all five you can get a free Garage Band file and start remixing ....or just use your program of choice, as all tracks are DRM free files. Upload your finished mix and listen to others at www.radioheadremix.com
1st Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Monster Sale
Monster sale on over at Play if you can be bothered to a) trawl b) are still buying DVDs.
1st Apr 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
1988
Sky's recent HD revival of 80's 'classic' Cocktail has confirmed a couple of long-term suspicions:
- Yes, it is a hollow, ruthless example of 80's yuppyism gone mad, which would play in a nice Grindhouse double bill with the more worthy Wall Street.
- Some years are better that others - in all aspects. I've suspected for a while that 1988 is pretty low in the pile ....with Die Hard, Roger Rabbit, Midnight Run and Big being a few of the scant box office releases of note. Baron Munchausen, Arthur 2 or Coming To America might be more suitable films to sum up the year.
Musically the story isn't much different. Bon Jovi follwed up Slippery When Wet with New Jersey, Crosby Stills, Nash & Young briefly re-formed and Dylan released Down In The Groove (???!!). Daydream Nation was released, but Hip Hop was the big winner, with It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Straight Outta Compton and By All Means Necessary hitting the shelves.
Rattle and Hum sums the year up perfectly. It's not rubbish, but it's not Joshua Tree, which came out in the far superior 1987, which also brought us The Untouchables, Full Metal Jacket, Good Morning Vietnam, Lethal Weapon, Robocop - not to mention The Lost Boys, Dogs In Space (one of my favourites) and of course, Wall Street.
1989's a favourite too ....might research that one next.
31st Mar 2008 - 4 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The News
The BBC's Web 2.0 overhaul is continuing nicely. The BBC News site has had an update, into an altogether less 1998 format.
31st Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Don't Stop Me Now
Following on from their genius Gorilla advert, the Cadbury's team are back with more high jinks. Airing from tonight, this might not hit the spot in such an unexpected way, but it combines some of my all-time favourite vehicles with a timely take on Terminal 5's current upheaval...
Higher-def version here.
29th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
X Files 2: Pimp My X
anyone else think Xzibit's in the new X Files movie because he's got an X in his name?
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29th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Previously....
Guy Who Says 'Previously On Heroes ' Wishes He Was Guy Who Says 'Previously On Lost'...
29th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Express Delivery
Adobe have finally chipped in on the escalating battle to edit your photos online. Photoshop Express is a free online editing tool that offer some of the offline powerhouse program's features ....but don't expect to instantly know what you're doing. It's simple but effective.
As well as editing, it offers 2GB of online storage and a gallery facility - which suggests they could be looking to rival sites like Flickr as well.
28th Mar 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Song Of The Day: Volume V
after getting this year's snowteam nodding along like Wayne & Garth, I think Black Mountain's Stormy High has found its way onto this volume
28th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The A-Team
Looks like The A-Team might be getting the big-screen makeover, with Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton behind the camera. Woody Harrelson is currently rumoured to be playing Howlin' Mad Murdock, with Ice Cube as B.A. Baracus. This time they're Iraq war vets on the run for a crime they didn't commit etc...
27th Mar 2008 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Guns 'n Pepper
Dr Pepper have stepped in to solve the delay in releasing Axl's long-lost masterpiece, Chinese Democracy - they'll give everyone in America* a can of Dr Pepper if GNR release it before the end of 2008
*(excluding Slash and Buckethead)
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Sleevage
Album cover blog Sleevage has some pretty interesting articles covering all sorts of stuff - from the method behind the Editors recent cover, way back to the controversy surrounding Appetite for Destruction's unruly artwork, which was updated in order to get the band on MTV.
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Ashes To More Ashes
80s Life On Mars sequel Ashes To Ashes is getting another series, in case you thought everything might be wrapped up tonight...
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
clustrmaps
been wondering where all the chimps are? clustrmaps knows...
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Muxtape
Not quite sure how useful this concept really is, but Muxtape.com is certainly a well put together site. Signing up allows you to create a single mixtape page, that plays back the tracks you have loaded through your own URL. Mashable has the details.
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
TV News
fx uk is launching FXHD on april 14, sky 205 which will be showing a separate schedule of HD stuff (not sure if there's an HD version of the wire or not); and bbc4 are starting a season of mojo-friendly rock nights from april 18, with the who, van morrison, genesis and james taylor nights
26th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Hughes News
LA Times has an interesting about John Hughes' impact on the film industry.
26th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
south park online
south park are putting everything online - but only in the states so far... shame, been loving the last series
26th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet