A tour with Nine Inch Nails, a “Best new californian band” review in an east coast newspaper, a record that reached #9 in the UK and here they are back with a second album “Get Color”.
Tags: california, drone, health, los angeles, noise
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You thought penis fracture was legend, Jamaica just broke the myth.
Booty shakers, you’re gonna love this.
In march, songs glorifyng sex in Jamaica had been banned from the radio stations because of the increasing amount of penis factures on the caribbean island. In fact, more than the lycrics, the dance that goes with them, the daggering, is the main reason of this prohition. Lire la suite
Tags: daggering, dance, dancehall, jamaica, sex, waste of time
The british band Fuck Buttons’s new video.
From their second record Tarot Sport.
Dir: Andrew Hung
ATP rec. Lire la suite
Tags: Bristol, drone, electronic, experimental, fuck buttons, music video, noise, uk
New episode in Naomi Klein’s last bestseller saga.
Released in 2007, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, bestselling book of the canadian writer and columnist Naomi Klein, has been the starting point of already two films. A short documentary promoting the book release and conducted by the mexican director Jonás Cuarón (watch below). The UK film by the famous director of “24 Hour Party People”, Michael Winterbottom, that was premiered at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. Lire la suite
Tags: canada, capitalism, documentary, journalism, politics
The originators of Lo-fi must have been be guided by voices.
Robert Pullard, the frontman of the 80′s Ohio indie band Guided by Voices has givien away personnal footages to edit the ultimate Guided By Voices DVD, coming out this November. The trailer below is probably the cheapest one of its kind. Lofi as always. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, DVD, guided by voices, indie, Lo-fi, robert pullard
This could have saved us precious hours of hard labor building the drone.
Massive layoff wave coming up in the typographe branch!
Laika (the name of the first russian space dog) is the bachelor thesis project of the two germans Michael Flückiger and Nicolas Kunz that allows you to make font dynamic. Try it out here. Lire la suite
Tags: germany, innovation, typography
Today people would probably call 911 to report a terrorist threat for this.
In the early 80′s in the UK, while Depche Mode and The Cure marry blackness for better or for worst with “New Wave”, the New York “No Wave” scene seemed to involve a much wilder scale of art types.
Music, painting, cinema, happening: director Angelique Bosio’s documentary “Llik Your Idols: The cinema of Transgression” pays tribute to the pioneers of this Era. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, documentary, new wave, new york, no wave
Sir Victor Uwaifo was born in Benin City, Nigeria in 1941. At a very young age, this genius guitarist had a strange encounter with a “Mami Wata” (mermaid) who told him: “Guitar Boy! Eeh, if you see Mami Wata, never you run away.”
“Guitar Boy and Mamiwater” became a huge hit in 1966. Then “Joromi” won him the first gold record in Africa. Lire la suite
Tags: 60's, Africa, dance, Guitar, Hi-Life, Legend, Nigeria, oldies, sir victor uwaifo
For those who spent the past few months locked in a cabin without any contact with the outside world, here’s two fresh news: Patrick Swayze is dead and Pavement are reuniting.
Stephen Malkmus and his buddies will launch their reunion tour on March 2010 in Australia, and will be headlining and curating next ATP festival on May. As expected, the tickets are already gone but more surprising is the first line-up: Faust, Quasi, Endless Boogie, Enablers and The Fall. Lire la suite
Tags: ATP Festival, Mark E. Smith, pavement, reunion, the fall, uk
If this track had been released this year in UK, these guys would be the new MGMT.
Great tune by italian brothers La Bionda, in 1980. Lire la suite
Tags: 80's, clubs, dance, disco, electronic, italy, La bionda, oldies, synth
Videogame industry does what it can in those economic times… Mario bros can go home.
Here comes a flip book 2.0 titled “Videogioco” (videogame in Shakespeare’s language) by a pretty talented 35 years old illustrator named Donato Sansone based in Turino. Lire la suite
Tags: 3D, animation, blood, butchery, cartoon, flipbook, italy, torino
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