New Wolverine Trailer

Can't. Wait.

New Tricky: Nice.

I'm not going to lie, I LOVE Maxinquaye, but a lot of the other Tricky I've heard has not interested me at all. Granted, I haven't investigated everything the man has put out, but I tend to prefer the leanings of his one time collaborator extraordinaire Martina Topley-Bird's stuff. But it's been a great day for new release info and I had to click on Brooklyn Vegan's post about False Idols, the forth-coming Tricky record. So far, I'm digging what I'm hearing. Go to the mighty Vegan's post here to listen to another new song, but first here's one of my favorites off the aforementioned Maxinquaye. Oh yeah, go to Tricky's facebook page here and download Tribal Drums for free!!!

Boards of Canada - Mystery Solved

Mucho thanks to Brooklyn Vegan, Pitchfork and all the other great sites that did the research on this night and day and have made me very happy by confirming the following: The new Boards of Canada album is titled Tomorrow's Harvest and will be released June 11th on Warp.

Now, how awesome is this? That mystery string of numbers all those articles I've been linking to since this thing started (699742628315717228936557813386519225)? It's the password to get you into Boards of Canada's new website, here. However I warn you, I was unable to cut and paste that massive string of numbers into the Dos prompt opening page for the site, so write that shit down on paper or toggle some windows, cuz no one's memory is that good.

Awesome. Here's some old school BoC to celebrate. June 11th is just around the damn corner people, get excited!!!

Fuzz (Ty Segall) - Fuzz's Fourth Dream

Baaaaad Ass!

Fantastic Horror Short: Don't Move

Watch this. Seriously, come back here when you have time, or go to Bloody Disgusting here when you've got ten minutes or so to spare. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.

Thanks to Bloody Disgusting for turning me on to this. Wicked. Directed by Anthony Melton, via Bloody Cuts films, whose website is filled with shorts that I'm now itching to watch. Nice job guys!

Iggy Pop - Calling Sister Midnight

Just ran across this in Sandman: Brief Lives chapter 5. My reading/re-reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman concurrently with Alan Moore's Swamp Thing has shed light on many things, not the least of which has been some great music.

Mike Patton's Mondo Cane - FULL SHOW!!!

Thanks to mxdwn for posting a link to this FULL Mondo Cane show.

How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much Ado about Nothing???

And I totally missed this when it landed almost two months ago.

Why is it whenever I hear or see the name of this Shakespeare play I hear or see 'Much to do about Humping' first? I feel like it was on a marquee in an episode of the Simpsons, back in like the fourth or fifth season? Anyone?

UPDATE: and I really have to laugh at myself for posting this originally as "How Did I Miss the Trailer for Joss Whedon's Much to do about Nothing???"

Good lord.

Red Trailer

So as a kid in the 80's I loved action movies. Then I grew up, the 90's hit and in a weird synchronization of timing, it seemed like Hollywood matured about the same time my friends and I did. Action movies all but went away (well, they never really go away, but Mr. Tarantino and friends helped relax their grip on the vernacular of film) and smart-talking, indie cinema Savoir Faire took over. These days action movies are back, but in an upgraded, definitely gone-through-the-meta-paradigm-and-come-out-the-other-side way. The thing is, the good ones know what they are and they don't want you to take them seriously - they can barely take themselves seriously. And when in the hands of good actors this works. The first Red was a good example of this. It excels in its meta-snarkyness in all the ways that a franchise like The Expendable does not*, wh It caught my eye because it's based on a comic by Warren Ellis. It was pretty damn good (I think the only thing I disliked was the music). This one looks right in line with the first, and it seems as though the 'amping up' that is always sure to happen in an action sequel will even be done in a tasteful, elastic way. Not just "MORE BLOOD! MORE EXPLOSIONS!" but Dame Helen Mirren with two guns and Storm Shadow in tow.

image courtesy of iwatchstuff.com

Popcorn flick extraordinaire!!!

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*Admittedly I've only seen the second Expendable, and in spite of myself I did enjoy it (though its visceral violence quota was a bit much for me) but it isn't a 'justifiable' 'Like' the way Red is.

Boards of Canada Mystery Deepens with... A tv Commerical?

This apparently aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami block last night, so thanks to Pitchfork for reporting it, as I do not have a television set that plays anything but DVD's, let alone cable. And go to Pitchfork again here to read about one of these surprises I missed, where NPR's All Things Considered and Radio 1's Zane Lowe show each featured a further mystery snippet.

I LOVE this.

DUDE!!! The Rolling Stones played THE ECHOPLEX LAST NIGHT!!!

With a cap of three-hundred something people for an audience, this is just crazy!

I suppose I should point out I was not there and thus this is not my video. Thanks to the mighty Brooklyn Vegan for posting this  -- it was the first thing I saw when I woke up and it blew my mind!!!

Roni Size - Watching Windows - Ed Rush & Optical RMX

All that Dee-Lite stirred up some shit from this era. Here's another oldie but goodie (fucking hell, when did this get old? Or did it - Roni Size just played that place in the desert). The bass at 1:31 RULES!!!

Crystal Castles - Doe Deer

More Crystal Castles - one of my favorites from them. Is Alice Glass the female David Yow? Perhaps at times...

Deee-Lite Call Me (Method One Remix)

The keys in this track are like clouds rolling through heaven.

Deee-Lite

Oh shit, this is going baaaaaack! Still one of my favorite albums EVER!!! The Synths just knock me out.

Miguel Migs - Dance & Clap

Nice. Another edition of drinking and posting is underway.

B'ZWAX & YAK FILMS: NEXTLEVEL SQUAD ZILLA MARCH

I don't think I ever posted this here. I found Zilla March about two years ago through the wonderful technoccult.net.If you dig the track go here and buy it. Scope out more from Yak films here.

Henry Rollin's Radio Show Moved to Sunday???

Dear KCRW: PUT HENRY ROLLIN'S RADIO SHOW BACK ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

Thank you in advance for seeing things my way,

Sincerely,

Shawn C. Baker

Rinocerose - la guitaristic house organisation

I first heard this somewhere on the other side of the pond, back at the beginning of the oughts. I think a club in Edinburgh. Somehow tracked the record down - whole thing is fantastic and doesn't get the props it deserves.

Tristan Shone's artistic Process (Author & Punisher)

The more I learn about Tristan Shone, the more I am fascinated by him.

Brian Michael Bendis' All-New X-Men

I am just in love with Brian Michael Bendis' run on X-Men. Here's my full two cents:

http://joup.co/thee-comic-column-34-bendis-x-men/

Tones on Tail - Twist

This is one of those songs that I feel was made 'for me'. Love it.

Crystal Castles - Affection

I don't love III the way I do II, but this is a start to getting me back into trying to.

Secret Board of Canada Links and... an album title???

They're set to private, so I couldn't embed them here, but follow these links: One and Two and you'll hear more of Boards of Canada fucking with us. I'm hearing complaints but I'm LOVING this; someone has found a way to bring the mystery back to album releases {props again to QOTSA on their recent weirdness as well, but this is out-mystiquing them BIG TIME at this point}. And speaking album releases, the speculation at present is the new record may be named Cosecha. What? Where'd that come from? Read all about the research going on to keep on top of this stuff on Exclaim! - it's fascinating!

Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

I'm in full Blut mode today (much to my wife's chagrin). One of the greatest metal albums ever, but you have to have the right ears to 'hear' it. Many don't - I'm not trying to be elitest, it's just not an easy piece of music to love. I almost dismissed it at first too. Then I 'heard'.

Trailer: "The Ganzfeld Experiment"

Based on this trailer The Ganzfeld Experiment will either be great or awful - it's hard for me to say from what we see here. Conceptually I really like the idea of people locked in seclusion, fueling extra-sensory experimentation with drugs, but it's rare that a flick pulls it off.

Dilinger Escape Plan - When I Lost My Bet Video

Wow.

New Boards of Canada Snippets?

How bad do we all want a new Boards of Canada album that we're willing to scrutinize little tidbits like this? Seriously though, I'm loving that guys like BOC and QOTSA are bringing back the mystery of album releasing in the age of the internet where everyone knows everything right away.