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New Jicks

New Stephen Malkmus album 'Mirror Traffic' due August 23rd.

Beck is behind the controls.

That's the awesome cover above.

Don't make the same mistake I made with Real Emotional Trash. That was a grower after all.

Via Matablog.

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24th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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3D Pad

A pretty could-be-cool demo for 3D on the iPad, which uses the camera to deduce where the viewer is and adjust accordingly. Not good for that social, shared viewing experience...

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24th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Keep Watching The Skies

as any of you who've flown Chimp Air know, we're always watching the skies, but it looks like @stefmara has won that game: she tweeted these pics of the shuttle from her iPhone 

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18th May 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Escape from the island ....Alcatraz, that is

Trailer up for the new JJ Abrams TV show - Alcatraz. Looks to be positioned somewhere between Lost and Fringe in terms of production quality and originality.

Via AICN

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17th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

BBC Doomsday

The BBC are dumping the previous hard-copy iteration of their time-capsule "Domesday Project" for a more modern format. I have no doubt that "A Website" has about as little life-span as "A Laser Disk" - as Toby Anstis illustrates below.

Via @thecoldvein

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16th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

HBO 2 GO

It's US-only of course, but HBO's new iPad app looks pretty impressive for catching up with your favourite shows from the comfort of your bed/toilet/plane.

Fingers crossed that Sky Atlantic might release something similar. And that it doesn't cost an extra £10 a month.

Via Uncrate

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3rd May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

West Wars

Never been much of a fan of dolls for boys, but I like the idea behind Sillof Workshop's West Wars - re-imagining, or (should that be un-imagining) Star Wars as a western.

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29th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Tape it

Jubru's great collection of blank tape inserts spotted by CNRTH - corporate art at its finest. amazing how many are instantly recognisable to my taping head. must dig out that Walkman 45 tape I've still got somewhere

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27th Apr 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Nine Types of Light - The Movie

TV On The Radio's new album might not be the immediate attention-grabber that Dear Science was, but it's a grower. In support of the album, TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe has directed an album-length promo, with a little help from his friends.

Warning: there's an 80's video-art vibe to the opening.

Watch at YouTube. Trailer version below.

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20th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Dischord on Spotify

Attention skate-punkers. Ever wondered what that obscure Fugazi track on the 20 Years of Dischord compilation is? (It's good!) Or whether the second Evens album was any better than the first? (No!) Dischord now have their extensive catalogue on Spotify, giving you easy access to Fugazi, Minor Threat, French Toast, Dag Nasty and dozens of others ...so you can listen for yourself.

Some personal recommendations: Egg Hunt and Embrace (both awesome post-Minor Threat, pre-Fugazi Ian Mackaye bands)

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19th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Lethal Weapon

This one's an oldie ....where I come from. As it's allegedly about to remade, let's enjoy the original Lethal Weapon trailer.

I remember being on holiday in France and seeing posters for this (L'arme Fatale) and that Sidney Poitier movie where they're chasing The Kurgen through the mountains. Looks like only one of them bagged a spot in my memory.

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15th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

There's An App For That: Yurekuru

BC and I are in the field over in Tokyo this week ....and have been rocked by the frequent aftershocks from last months big quake (a magnitude 7.1 and a 7.4 being the biggest). A frequent sound prior to the tremor is the ding ding of the Yurekuru App, which gives locals a quick heads-up. You can even set a minimum intensity over which you want warning, as most people here don't get out of bed for less than a 7.

Japan doesn't use the same magnitude system as the West, preferring the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale which records quakes in actual relative intensity - rating the quake bigger the closer you are to the epicentre. The ratings are also accompanied by a written description, ranging from "Hanging objects such as lamps swing slightly" through "Hanging objects swing violently. Most unstable ornaments fall. Occasionally, dishes in a cupboard and books on a bookshelf fall and furniture moves" to "Most furniture moves to a large extent and some jumps up".

Update: The USGS has data streams accessible by the "Quakes" app - in English.

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12th Apr 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Beastie Boys

Trailer up for the Beastie Boys' 30 minute cameo-stuffed video epic that premiered at this year's Sundance festival. Could be fun.

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8th Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

iPod At 10

2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the iPod and amid the possibility that the original style is on the way out in favour of the touch models, Mac Rumors has a pretty amusing link to their forum - dating back to the day of the original announcement. It's an iLol.

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1st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

GBV Digital

Just stumbled across GBV Digital - Guided By Voices' own digital download store. Looks like the perfect place to pick up any of those 130-odd GBV-and-related albums that you may be missing. For completists only. Think I actually have a good chunk of them already...

Dig out a couple of the dozen plus we have reviewed on Chimpomatic here.

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25th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: TV On The Radio - Will Do

now that's a pair of 3D glasses

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23rd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

True Grit: Jeff Bridges Style

New instalment of on-set photos up at jeffbridges.com - from True Grit and taken by the man himself. Looks like a fun shoot.

That's Matt Damon's tragoedia/comedia above.

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22nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New Eddie Vedder: Ukulele Songs

Eddie Vedder is back with a new solo album on May 31st, his first since the recent-Pearl-Jam trumping Into The Wild soundtrack. Ukulele Songs is made up of new songs and covers, unsurprisingly played on a ukulele. Don't worry if that's a deal-breaker for you however as he also has a tour film - Water On The Road - coming out on the same date and directed by Fugazi's Brendan Canty. That film is culled from 2008's solo tour and features solo cuts mixed in with Pearl Jam classics.

First single Longing To Belong is out today.

Via Pearl Jam

UPDATE: Cat Power guests. Uh oh.

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19th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Tron 1.5

I haven't seen Tron 2 - but if reports are to be believed it's as lacking as the original. On that note, here's a short film that features on the blu-Ray disc and Bridges (get it?) the gap between the two films, as well as unfortunately signalling that more may be coming.

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16th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New My Morning Jacket: Circuital

"I want it to sound like we're Cuban or Cambodian kids, and we're wearing berets and we're walking through an alley and we stumble upon this band, and it explodes into this crazy sing-along."

My Morning Jacket have a new album - Circuital - out this spring. Make of that what you will. The good news:

"We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."

Via Rolling Stone

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4th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Chimpomatic 5000

just noticed that we've hit the 5000 news items mark here on Chimpomatic. thanks for stopping by over the last decade, stick around for more chimp-based diversions… as a little bonus, here's the first track from the new TV On The Radio album

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24th Feb 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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#Meateasy

glad to report that this burger/cocktails New Cross pop-up combo totally works

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13th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Superbowl Special

At $3m for 30 seconds (or something like that), a spot during the Superbowl ad break is advertising nirvana, with many advertisers creating special spots that air only once. Nothing particularly flashy about this one ...just a clever idea, well made. With a very large licensing budget.

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7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Big Picture: Space Shuttle Challenger

It was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster last week - a traumatising event that I remember watching on live TV as a child and one that would set back the space programme by many years.

Via The Big Picture

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1st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet