For some reason Phoenix getting a Grammy is a big deal in France. If you have 2 minutes to lose just watch their total vacant, unpersonal acceptance speech. Obviously they’ve been working hard on an ass-kissing list of names you never heard of, probably people from the record company.
Now Fever Ray got her things prepared too. The fact she’s getting an award is not a big deal, SHE is a big deal.
Just send the kids to bed.
Article : The Best and Worst Award Acceptance Speeches Ever
Vanploitation movie being reissued: Exploitation from the 70′s about… vans!
From the director of Disco Fever, Lamar Card, comes another movie made in 1977 to capitalize off of a marginal craze of the drug hazed 1970’s, Supervan. Lire la suite
Tags: car, exploitation, film
Sidney-based software engineer Michael has design the instrument for a new generation of guitar heroes. Lire la suite
Tags: electronic, instrument, technology
We already talked about Jeremy Deller‘s Mancunian procession and its fabulous steelband covering Joy Division, but here’s a yet unreleased documentary he co-directed with Nick Abrahams about Depeche Mode fans around the world. Lire la suite
David Boltjes (red eyes), a 27 year-old serving 4 years for credit card fraud, and his cell fellow Paul Inman, serving 73 years for conspiracy to commit murder just found THE way to make a difference in prison. Lire la suite
Tags: america, body modification, tattoo, weird
From coldwave to calypso.
The last 5th July was taking place in Manchester the 1st Jeremy Deller’s Procession. This london-born Turner-Prize winning artist who is also one half of the Acid Brass combo, launched this carnival that he describes as “northern social surrealism”, combining social clubs, special interest groups, popular music and invited individuals with traditional processional stalwarts such as Rose Queens and brass bands. Lire la suite
Tags: caribbean, cold wave, manchester, steelband, the acid brass combo, uk
You probably know H5, a french graphic studio, for their CD front cover (Superdiscount, Air, Demon…) and their music videos (Alex Gopher, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp). Premiered in Cannes last year, this short movie took them 6 years of efforts and eventually won them the Kodak Short Film Discovery Prize at the 48th Critics’ Week. Lire la suite
Tags: 3D, graphic design, marketing
575,000 views already: Internauts, let’s go click!
Today comes out the new Ok Go album. You remember? This band from Chicago made a pretty big impression on the web in 2006 with their viral videos. Here they are back with a new album out today, "Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky".
They even made a new super cool video, "This Too Shall Pass", featuring the Notre Dame marching band. But this times guess what, EMI has blocked the embed option on Youtube.
Ok Go singer Damian Kulash, gave a whole explanationon the band's website:
"We wish there was something we could do. Believe us, we want you to pass our videos around more than you do, but, crazy as it may seem, it’s now far harder for bands to make videos accessible online than it was four years ago.
See, here’s the deal. The recordings and the videos we make are owned by a record label, EMI. The label fronts the money for us to make recordings – for this album they paid for us to spend a few months with one of the world’s best producers in a converted barn in Amish country wringing our souls and playing tympani and twiddling knobs – and they put up most of the cash that it takes to distribute and promote our albums, including the costs of pressing CDs, advertising, and making videos. We make our videos ourselves, and we keep them dirt cheap, but still, it all adds up, and it adds up to a great deal more than we have in our bank account, which is why we have a record label in the first place."
2006 music video from OK GO:
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No, this is not Kraftwerk, this is acoustic techno.
Daniel Brandt and Jan Brauer produce club music under the name of “Scott” (EPs on My Best Friend, Fluid Ounce, THE GYM and more). And Paul Frick, who has studied classical and modern composition with Friedrich Goldmann at Berlin Art Universisty. Lire la suite
Tags: brandt brauer frick, electro, experimental, germany
On october 28th Jay Reatard had a show booked in La Maroquinerie, Paris. We were there to film the gig and do an interview with Jay. Lire la suite
Tags: garage, jay reatard, punk, rip
Swedish director Marcus Söderlund has cooked the XX a music video that as naive as the band itself. But hey, isn’t it why they got themselves such a massive audience so fast? Lire la suite
Tags: music video, pop, the xx, uk
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