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Succumb to the colourful side

It's not all dark doom and gloom stuff, being a Sith Lord. Check out Darth's weekend wear here. Designed as part of the upbeat 30th Anniversary celebrations.

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New Animal Collective sightings

Hot on the heels of the Panda Bear record, Domino will be releasing Animal Collective's new album Strawberry Jam in September 2007.

1 Peacebone
2. Unsolved Mysteries
3. Chores
4. For Reverend Green
5. Fireworks
6. #1
7. Winter Wonder Land
8. Cuckoo Cuckoo
9. Derek

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3 Cheers For Joy Division

Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control has gone down well at Cannes. Starring ex-factory worker (no not that Factory) Sam Riley, it tells the story of the rise of Joy Division, and the fall of Ian Curtis.


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Robots Less Disguised

Transformers is actually starting to look pretty pretty good....

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The Dark Knight Begins

Two new teaser sites up for next summer's Batman Begins sequel The Dark Night. One with the new logo, and a second promoting future two-faced DA Harvey Dent.

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Tombstone roll-call

Caught the ever-entertaining Tombstone last night. Some great shoot-outs and more whats-that-guy-froms than an old episode of Dynasty.... the Vice President from 24, that guy from Sex and the City and Northern Exposure, the main kid from 90210, Locke from Lost, Billy Bad Santa, the guys that hunts Terminator, the sarsaparilla drinking Stranger, Charlton Jeston, the guy from Sideways, Sly Stallone's brother, Henry the Serial Killer, the obnoxious brother from Weird Science.... and of course BC's buddy Val Kilmer on top form.

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Beastie Brixton

Beastie Boys are slotting a headline slot in at Brixton Academy on September 4th -  in between various UK festival dates. Tickets on sale here on Friday.

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Shiny Spoon

The new Spoon album is set to arrive on July 10 and it's called Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Catchy. Those Ga Ga's would sound good on the radio.

01 Don't Make Me a Target
02 The Ghost of You Lingers
03 You Got Yr Cherry Bomb
04 Don't You Evah
05 Rhthm and Soul
06 Eddie's Ragga
07 The Underdog
08 My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
09 Finer Feel

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Zodiac

(dir. David Fincher)

In the late 60's and early 70's, the Zodiac killer claimed responsibility for a series of murders in and around San Francisco, taunting the police and the papers with cryptic letters. After detective David Toschi (Mark Ruffalo) fails to conclusively crack the mystery the case becomes dormant, until a young cartoonist (Jake Gyllenhaal) from the paper takes up the challenge.

It's been five years since David Fincher's last effort (the overblown and disappointing Panic Room), and with the opening 20 minutes of Zodiac it's clear he has a far more inspiring story to work with here. The film quickly demonstrates it's support for the Scorcese style of film-making, with the period setting of the story evocatively re-created, some great montages and a high volume soundtrack that works exceptionally well - using Santana, Donovan and other 60s icons, to (relatively subtly) create a believable world for the story to exist in.

Fincher seems to have found his feet a bit more that usual here, steering away from his move overt technique tricks and producing an elegant film, with some excellent directorial flourishes. The opening shot sets the scene superbly in July 4th California, there's a magnificent tracking shot of a taxi from above, and a similar shot following of the first letter to arrive at The Chronicle newspaper.

The acting throughout is superb, but some of the performances are restricted by the slightly clunky format of at least the middle of the film. As the timeline shifts forward at a variety of rates ('2 months later', '20 minutes later', '4 years later') it becomes hard to sustain the supposed 'reign of terror' that the killer had over the state, but once things settle down it finds it's feet nicely. That unfortunately leaves Robert Downey Jnr's character a bit redundant, and focus shifts over to cartoonist Robert Graysmith's developing interest in solving the case. Strangely, that provides a lot more suspense and twists in the plot, with the unsolved nature of the case leading to a bit of speculation, but also some surprises.

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Hal Hartley

If, like me, you were wondering what happened to 90's indie movie maker Hal Hartley, this might explain it.

He also has a movie out through HDNet. Watch the trailer here.

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New Videos

Check out this nice little home-grown local pub video for Dogs - Dirty Little Shop
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Thunderbirds Are Go

U.S. Air Force Thunderbird F-16 jets fly in formation past the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Later this year, the Thunderbirds will host an aerial salute on the opening weekend of the World Space Expo being held at the Kennedy Space Center. The Expo will create one of the largest displays of space artifacts, hardware and personalities ever assembled in one location.


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No Explosions

Just in from Bella Union:

I sincerely regret to inform you that due to serious illness in one of EITS' families, the band will be cancelling all tour dates starting today (May 9) through to September 1st 2007. This means that EITS? following UK appearances have been cancelled?

19 May ? SOMERSET ? ATP, 10 July ? LONDON ? Royal Festival Hall, 11 July ? MANCHESTER ? Academy, 12 July ? BRIGHTON ? Concorde, 13 July ? SUFFOLK ? Latitude, 14 July ? GLASGOW ? Indian Summer

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New Videos

Check out the video for Mistaken For Strangers from The National's new album Boxer. And while you are there check out the old video for Chavez's track Unreal Is Here, with the band playing the Hollywood Bowl...

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Beastie Web

New website up for the Beastie Boys, prepping the way for The Mix Up.
I love the quote on their mail-out:

...it's named THE MIX-UP. g'wan. all instrumental record. "see i knew they were gonna do that!" that's a quote from you.

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Iron Man

We haven't had an image in the news page since that one of the big-eared cat, so I thought I'd stick up some news about the Iron Man movie.

I think I really need to start reading more comics, as they have pinched all the best stories. Back in college I was planning a movie about a man who builds a suit to protect himself and..... blah blah blah, but it's all in there already.

Swinger Jon Favreau is directing. Hollywood bad-boy Robert Downey Jnr is wearing the suit.

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Lavender Diamond

Imagine Our Love

Rough Trade

Hot on the heels of February's Cavalry Of Light EP comes this debut album from LA based Lavender Diamond.

Things start well with opening track Oh No taking a simple lyric "When will I love again" and repeating it over and over - pounding it home and giving the words untold emotion and power.  Lead single Open Your Heart is also highlight and it comes as little surprise that Decemberists vocalist Colin Meloy is a big fan (providing a cover of the same track as a b-side on the single) as is Devendra Banhart The eclectic styles of those two references provide some idea of the scenes this band have come out of. The band is most clearly defined in that ever expanding genre of undefinable. Becky Stark's vocals are the focus of the entire album and they are surrounded by a multitude of style and influences.

The bass and piano of Open Your Heart have a near showtune sound ("Downtown!"), there are touches of opera, musicals, and a hefty dose of Carole King and Brill Building nostalgia (wait, didn't I say all this last time? Maybe they're not so hard to define after all). Like An Arrow uses the old repeating lyrics game again, but this time with a more low-key effect, and things pick up again with the catchy pop of Here Comes One - another highlight.

Starks' vocals are undoubtedly fantastic, and the album makes a very pleasant listen that would be perfect dinner party sound-tracking. Unfortunately that's not enough, and the EP having stolen away some of the better tracks. They don't do anything wrong here, it's just that the excitement and originality of the EP is lost and the tracks here already seem less ambitious and slightly stale. After 51 minutes the undefinable just starts to sound a little too familiar.


You can listen to 4 tracks here (all in Windows Media format):

Open Your Heart
Oh No
Like An Arrow
Here Comes One

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Hyde Park Calling

Veteran rockers Aerosmith and The Filter mastermind Peter Gabriel are among the acts playing at the Hyde Park Calling festival this summer. It's over the 23/24 June weekend, and unsurprisingly it's in Hyde Park.

more in-city festival action with the wireless festival - june 14-17, queens of the stone age, white stripes, lcd soundsystem, css etc

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Locochimpo

Say hello to new reviewer Locochimpo.

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Multi Multimap

Multimap have updated there site to combat the Google invasion ....and it's pretty swish.

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Pirates of the....

It's not just DVDs getting the pirate treatment from the Chinese, they also have an entire pirate Disneyland. With the slogan Because Disneyland Is Too Far, Shijingshan Amusement Park looks a little familiar - but it's a simple mix up. That character on the right is merely a "cat with very large ears".

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Too Pure Podcast

It's all podcasts today. Check out Too Pure's new episode for a chance to win tickets on each of the dates on Electrelane AND Scout Niblett's upcoming tours.

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All My Friends

In a nice twist on the incredibly boring format of single + remixes, LCD Soundsystem have had their B-Sides recorded by other bands, with the superb All My Friends single containing covers of the song by Franz Ferdinand and John Cale. You can listen to the Franz Ferdinand one on myspace.

They also do a cover themselves - of Joy Division's No Love Lost.

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New Videos

MTV have jumped on the video podcast bandwagon, with a podcast version of Gonzo. Not bad, but I thought there would be a bit more than just one long interview. Everyone's favourite Monkeys are the guests. Get it through iTunes by clicking here.

!!! have anew video too. Check it here:
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Not bad, but not as nice as the artwork.

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A Greener Apple

In response to Greenpeace's Green My Apple campaign, head honcho Steve Jobs has posted a response on the Apple website - with details of how the company is planning to make itself greener.

Incidentally, if anyone can provide some context for the catchphrase "How do you like them apple's?" I'd like to hear it.

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Junior Boys Video

Nice video up for Junior Boys new single In The Morning.

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Their album So This Is Goodbye is being released on June 11th in 'deluxe' form, with a snazzy package and new remixes apparently.

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Beyonce Boys

The Beastie Boys' new album is sneaking on to the shelves as early as next month apparently - with so far very little PR fan fare. Some clues from Mike D:

"I think its gonna be called 'The Mix-Up. It's a little too sensible almost huh? I was a big fan of the title 'Thick Like Beyonce's Leg' but that didn't make the final cut for some reason. Beyonce's very talented and beautiful and she's probably stronger than we are...we didn't want to have any problems with her."


Story hijacked from XFM.

P.S. Other sources
indicate this might be an entirely instrumental album...

1. B for My Name
2. 14th St Break
3. Suco de Tangerina
4. The Gala Event
5. Electric Worm
6. Freaky Hijiki
7. Off the Grid
8. The Rat Cage
9. The Melee
10. Dramastically Different
11. The Cousin of Death
12. The Kangaroo Rat

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Douglas Coupland

Wired has an interview with Douglas Coupland - talking mainly about his upcoming move into film with Everythings Gone Green. Check out his blog in their archive too, from the Microserfs days.

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The National Fopp

The National will be playing instore at Fopp on Tottenham Court Road on May 21st at 6pm. Check www.fopp.co.uk for more details closer to the date...

They also have a snappy new website for Boxer.

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Disturbia

I was going to post today about checking out upcoming US Indie movie Disturbia, but it looks like the American public beat me to it. As pointed out in the IMDB comments "It's totally the same as this movie Rear Window - check it out" ....which to me is exactly why it looks so good, although it's not indie at all and looks a little more mainstream than I expected.

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Feist

The Reminder

Universal

You may not have heard of Leslie Feist, but you will have undoubtedly heard her in one form or another. A chameleon of the indie world, her file is about an inch thick - ranging from a stint as Peaches flat mate, through collaborations with Gonzales and Jamie Lidell to her most recognised role as a contributor to the sprawling Canadian folk collective Broken Social Scene.

With new album The Reminder, Feist is setting out on her own for the third time - although even with some major label backing things haven't solidified any more. The slightly schizophrenic style of this multi-tasker is still the main way of describing her sound (Pitchfork described it as "folky, discoy" - but even that barely scratches the surface). Slipping between heartbreaking vocals (The Park), haunting piano (The Water), and a couple of Róisín Murphy style indie-dance (some might say folky-discoy) numbers in the shape of Sealion and the slightly more focused stand-out track, single My Moon My Man.

Acoustic guitars and hand claps dominate Past In Present, which somehow reminds me of Boys Of Summer in the best possible way. "Don't look back, you can never look back!"  When the dust settles however It's the sparse vocal tracks that really grab the attention here, and when the mood catches you this can be an enchanting album - with album closer How My Heart Behaves stealing the show (...not including the pointless 'bonus track' a live version of one we heard about 5 minutes ago - why do they bother breaking up the flow of an album with these things?).


You can check out three 'webisodes' for the album at the links below:

The Water
The Park
My Moon My Man

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Dinosaur Jr. Video

With their excellent new album (review here) out on April 30th, the Dinosaur Jr. revival continues - with a great new video for single Been There All The Time. They've called in some old alumni to help, with Matt Dillon directing and Thurston Moore making a cameo.

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Live dates:

June 26 in London at Scala
June 27 in Amsterdam at Paradiso
June 28 in Fribourg at Fri-Son
June 30 in Berlin at Paradiso

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The 80s Movie Massacre 2

I simultaneously watched both Jaws 3 and Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 last night, in an attempt to determine which was the worst. Jaws 3 did not fair well, with the potential tension of a great white following some water-skiers completely overlooked for a 5-attacks-in-two-minutes smorgasboard. It was a modern classic when held up to Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 however, which was an 80s comedy-horror-romp like I didn't think was possible "C'mon Leatherface, let's get outta here!" Not at all what I expected after the grainy terror of TCM1.

It also marked the possible low-tide mark in Dennis Hopper's already dried-out career. Might have to prep him for surgery.

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Nine Inch Nails 2.0

Following a successful mission last time around, Nine Inch Nails have again made three of the tracks from their new album Year Zero available for download in Garageband/Logic format, so you aspiring home-studioists out there can see how it's all done.


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Roscoe Video

Midlake's classic track Roscoe, from the Trials of Van Occupanther is getting a proper release as a single, and now has a video:

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Putting the Microsoft into Miss

Sure, it's just another lame attempt to crawl back some market share from Google, but for a brief moment Ms Dewey's search engine might keep you amused.... until you actually need to find something.

She's no Darth Vader either.

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Phil Spector's Hair

The Phil Spector murder trial is ready to roll, following the final selection of the jury - after over 100 potential jurors were dismissed for being potentially impartial. That situation was helped when Spector reconsidered his haircut - eschewing the Krusty the Clown look, for a more subdued "Phil-Spector-who-played-the-coke-fiend-in-Easy-Rider-look"

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Kryptonite Discovered

A new mineral matching its unique chemistry - as described in the film Superman Returns - has been identified in a mine in Serbia.

The BBC have the story.

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Song Of The Day: Volume IV

Slow Show from The National's great new album Boxer is rocking my world today. Love that piano sound.


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Song of the Day: Volume IV

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Grand Archives

In a post almost entirely lifted from Sound Theory, check out some snaps from the very beard-orientated first show for Grand Archives in Seattle, where they have snapped up by Sub Pop. You can check out four of their tracks on MySpace.

Meanwhile, Matt Brooke's former Band (of Horses) are continuing onwards and upwards, with a show scheduled for the Scala on May 22nd - in between various festival appearances.

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The Men Who Killed Kennedy

The Sunday Times ran an interesting article about ex-CIA man / sloppy Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt this week, which it turns out was bought in from Rolling Stone, and you can read it here. In a nutshell the article describes how, as he neared death, Hunt scribbled out a diagram for his son illustrating the chain of command behind the Kennedy Assassination, starting with Lyndon B. Johnson and ending with Corsican assassin Lucien Sarti - who was already fingered in the great 80's documentary The Men Who Killed Kennedy. That series expanded from it's original two parts throughout the 90's, with the ninth episode being pulled after it specifically implicated Johnson.

Regardless of the fact behind the story, it's an interesting article - sketching an extraordinary life .....which also just happens to fit in nicely with Chimpomatic's report on the assassination, based largely on James Ellroy's fantastic semi-fiction novel The Cold Six Thousand.

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New Videos

Low vs Diamond have a soccer-mom flavoured video for their track Heart Attack:
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...and Domino's excellent new guy Benjy Ferree has a video for his track In The Countryside:

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10 Years of Bella Union

To celebrate their tenth anniversary, London's superb Bella Union record label are putting on a couple of special shows, featuring most of their current rosta of artists:

Tuesday 10th July – London – Royal Festival Hall featuring:
Explosions In The Sky, Howling Bells, My Latest Novel, Beach House
 
Wednesday 11th July – London – Royal Festival Hall featuring:
Midlake, The Dears, The Kissaway Trail, Stephanie Dosen
 
Tickets: £20, £15
0871 663 2500
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Check out their excellent compilation series Beneath The Surface for the low down on the label's band.

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Modest Tour

Re-juvenated chimp favourites Modest Mouse have announced a Europen tour:

Sun 20-May -- Somerset, UK -- ATP vs the Fans
Wed 23-May -- London, UK -- Royal Albert Hall
Sat 26th- May– Glasgow, UK –- ABC
Sun 27th – May-- Wolverhampton –- Wulfrun Hall
Mon 28th – May-- Nottingham –- Rock City
Tue 29th – May-- Manchester – Ritz Ballroom
Fri 1-Jun -- Barcelona, ES -- Primavera Sound

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summerset house

hot chip, kasabian, mika rumoured for this year's somerset house summer series hmmmm hope there's someone a bit more chimp-friendly. still disappointed about missing QOTSA thanks to those pesky london bombers

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Patti Smith

Twelve

Columbia

2005's Meltdown: Songs of Experience should have provided a few clues, but Patti Smith's highly rated Horses show at the same festival suggested she still had game.

The New York avant-garde punker returns here with a 12 track covers album, inventively called "Twelve", showing both the roots and modern tastes of the musical legend. Sadly, it's a depressingly familiar affair, with un-inventive renditions of predictable tunes such as White Rabbit, Are You Experienced?, Gimme Shelter or Soul Kitchen.

Helpless is the closest thing to vaguely interesting, mainly because it's such a simple song it seems hard for a good voice like Patti's to drop the ball. Dylan's Changing Of The Guards is passable, mainly as I'm not so familiar with that song. Smells Like Teen Spirit is totally out of touch, while Gangsta's Paradise is just embarrassing.

Unless you like listening to passable karaoke stay well clear.

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Wilco

Sky Blue Sky

Nonesuch

As I have previous professed, for me Wilco are one of the best bands operating at the moment. Since I first got hold of their Mermaid Avenue collaboration with Billy Bragg, I tracked back and forth through their output, sucking it all up until I had it all. As a relatively late adopter, I had less of the undying love for the "alt.country" end of things, and for me A Ghost Of Born was the ultimate conclusion of where a band like this was going, leaving me to wonder where they would be heading next.

While Kidsmoke, Hell Is Chrome and the other big show-off tracks on A Ghost Of Born steal the show, they also tend to over-shadow some superb numbers that pop up later in the album, such as Theologians, Late Greats or Company In My Back. With sixth studio album Sky Blue Sky things are on a much more even keel, making for a more subtle record that is beautifully crafted and full of hidden treasure.

Forget the Fleetwood Mac comparisons you might have heard, The Band are your homework reference for this album, with superb musicianship pulling from all sides to make an apparently simple track like You Are My Face into a musical masterpiece -  winding up from ballad to multi-part guitar duel, or to transform the opener Either Way from a sunny-weather ditty to an all-out majestic finale, complete with a string section. Great talent brings great responsibility however, and unfortunately the album suffers from some of the same pitfalls as The Band's work from Stage Fright onwards - with the undoubtedly excellent musicianship sometimes falling short of the emotion needed for it to engage the listener as A Ghost Is Born did - which I suspect may be down to a Iack of trouble in Wilcoworld at the moment. If only Tweedy could get back on the painkillers.

But fear not, Wilco are still a long way from a Steely Dan's sometimes unapproachable studio tan style. The glib opening line of Impossible Germany ("...unlikely Japan") is quickly forgiven as it morphs off into a six minute guitar monster. And if you do find yourself waiting for that trademark emotional crack in Tweedy's vocals,  don't worry - that comes soon enough on title track Sky Blue Sky: "It's good enough for now..."

Man of the match definitely goes to new signing Nels Cllne, who takes the guitar standards of Wilco's previous records to epic new heights. As a former free-wheeling jazz guitarist he has added guitar to projects by Mike Watt, Stephen Perkins' Banyan, Thurston Moore and others - as well as releasing some notable, if meandering solo work (I've seen him live, and had the sore improv jazz buttocks to prove it). Kept on a tight leash by Tweedy's songwriting, which often reins him in, Nels Cline excels - adding a multitude of guitar highlights, from the crisp Stevie Ray Vaughn-esqe solo that rounds off opener Either Way, to the pyrotechnics that take Side With The Seeds from it's deceptively soulful opening to it's barnstorming finale.

Sure, there are a couple of more forgettable tracks, but the power hidden behind the laid back effortlessness of this album will be fully revealed live and I have no doubt that it is only going to get better and better. I'd even go so far as to wager that after seeing this record played live, the track about Jeff cleaning the house (Hate It Here) may be a late favourite. We'll see.

The bottom line is that this is a top-flight band working at the top of their game. On the surface it may seem to have the stumbling style of fan favourite Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but when listened to next that album it is a far more complex affair. While it might not have the more overt scene-stealing sonic theatrics of the Jim O'Rourke influenced A Ghost Is Born, beneath the surface there are more than a few nods in that direction - notably on the fantastic closing track On And On And On, where the guitar is pipped to the post at the final hurdle by Mikael Jorgensen's keyboards. His Garth Hudson-style Hammond organ adds a steady stream of quality input throughout the album, but on On And On And On it is thrust into the limelight and carries the album home, bringing it back from a minor lull to finish magnificently.

This is a superbly rich record, taking the huge range of previous Wilco output and creaming off the best of all their albums and shaping it into a rich and polished career overview. There is a fluidity, solidity and cohesiveness here that make it an accomplished delight.

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TV to TV

Wired have a nice visual run-down of the history of the TV set, from Bakelite to Plasma.

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40

Bruce Lee's getting the TV biopic treatment, in a new 40 episode series from Chinese State TV. I wonder if that will be 40 continuous hours of action, set over one particularly bad (ass) day?

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