Sunday, June 9, 2013
Pailhead - Ballad
Pailhead - basically Ministry with Ian MacKaye of Fugazi and more recently The Evens (as well as, of course, Minor Threat and a bunch of other bands as well).
Neil Gaiman on Iain Banks' Passing
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And now he's dead.
Of course his passing affects me in a removed way, but it affects me nonetheless - in a way every human beings does when we stop to pay attention to the idea of essence slipping away and disappearing from our world. But the death of Iain Banks (aka Iain M. Banks) does not affect me as it does those who were fans, or those who knew him.
Or those lucky enough to fall into both of those categories, as Neil Gaiman so obviously does, as evidenced in this heartfelt reaction here.
Friday, June 7, 2013
A Film Based on Irvine Welsh's Filth? Yep. Trailer
This novel is incredible. It also features pages "narrated' by the lead character's tape worm. I wonder if that will make it into the movie.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Aimee Mann & Ted Leo: #Both - Voices Carry
HOLY PETER FAULK!!! This is a thing? I just discovered #Both - a project that is Aimee Mann AND Ted freakin' Leo! And the first thing I land on when I youtube it? Ted Leo helping her play one of my favorite songs EVER!!!
QOTSA!!! Yell it from the rooftops!!!
If you're a fan and haven't bought this yet you need to. If you're unfamiliar with one of the greatest rock bands of the last decade and a half then go get Rated R and work your way up to this.
Gigwise: Interview/Performance by The Neighbourhood
Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Insidious 2 Trailer
The first Insidious was one of the first genuinely new 'scary' movies I'd seen in a long time. This looks like it may be a bit of a re-hash, ala the Poltergeist sequels, but I'm still going to give it the benefit of the doubt. That scene in this trailer at 0:40 seconds gave me a chill.
Best Coast - Boyfriend
... and since we're talking about groups that remind me of Liz Phair. I'll admit, I like Best Coast quite a bit - like Phair's early music Bethany Cosentino has one of those vocal presences that immediately made me have a crush on her (like Phair once did). However, I've never liked anything I've heard from this band as much as I like this particular song. It all comes together here - the vocals, backing vocals and that luscious reverb-saturated guitar/drums really take me someplace.
Waxahatchee - Coast to Coast
My cousin Charles recommended this group to me recently. I perused them on Spotify but my mind's been in a million places lately (and 999,999 of those places have been QOTSA) and they didn't click. Then I encountered this video on Pitchfork this morning and was immediately taken aback by how much it reminds me of Exile in Guyville-era Liz Phair.
Pretty cool (not that I doubted it - Charles has excellent taste in music)
New Divine Fits
I'm largely unfamiliar with everyone in The Divine Fits - in spite of my wife and a lot of my friends' really liking Spoon I'm kind of on the outskirts of that - I like what I've heard of them, but have never really been moved to get into their music. That said, Mr. Brown gave me The Divine Fits record last year and I really dug it. Now via exclaim.ca here's a new song they premiered live recently.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Lescop - La Foret
I know nothing about this artist, literally just discovered him/them via a youtube sidebar. I like the subtle introduction of the guitar in this track. Sometime I'll have to tell you my story about 24 hours in France, but right now I gotta split, drop a good friend off at the airport (tears) and go to verk.
New Moderat Single to drop 7/12...
... on Monkeytown Records.
AHHH!!!! Why must we wait until July when the album is out a month after that?
I'm being a dick. It's kind of cool that they're playing this so close to the chest, what with a lot of the advance marketing we've seen for album releases this year. I'm just REALLY looking forward to new Moderat, as I've been listening to the first album again A LOT for the last two months or so. While we wait, here's one of the tracks of said first album. This song sounds like the night:
AHHH!!!! Why must we wait until July when the album is out a month after that?
I'm being a dick. It's kind of cool that they're playing this so close to the chest, what with a lot of the advance marketing we've seen for album releases this year. I'm just REALLY looking forward to new Moderat, as I've been listening to the first album again A LOT for the last two months or so. While we wait, here's one of the tracks of said first album. This song sounds like the night:
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
The East - Behind the Scenes Featurette
Saw a trailer for this before something recently. Ever since Super Ellen Page gets my attention. Then Mr. Brown sent me an article yesterday... let me see if I can find it... here it is. As soon as I heard Brit Marling was behind this film my interest soared. This isn't an attraction thing - Brit Marling is for REAL. If you haven't seen Sound of My Voice drop what you're doing and watch it - amazing movie. Has kind of a Marcy Mary May Marlene-meets vibe going on, but there's more to it than that. Don't read anything about it, just see it. Blew me away by the end.
And now this. The girl is good.
Machete Kills - Trailer Numero Uno
A little frustrated - I've been trying to post this off and on for a week or so (when I have time - you may have noticed I haven't exactly been around lately) and it kept getting yanked. Well, it's Machete, so it's worth the wait.
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