Portishead - We Carry On

An abandoned lot. A half circle of headlights illuminate figures dancing in fog. Something nearby awakens.

The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Help

This song is just so awesome it's not even funny. The Knife is apparently beginning a US tour go to their site for the dates.

Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's Velvet...

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... is on tap in this week's Comic Column on Joup, right here. Great espionage book that really just has to be made into a movie or I will freakin' scream.

Shawn's Favorite Films of 2013

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On Joup.There were a lot of great films this year. There were also a lot of films I wanted to see that I did not have a chance to. From what I saw here were my favorites. I believe it bears mention that with most of these, especially Upstream Color and Antiviral, I knew immediately that they were the top of the chain the moment I saw them.

New Dum Dum Girls (via mxdwn)

Very good to hear new music from Dum Dum Girls. Thank you mxdwn.

Locrian - A Visitation from the Wrath of Heaven

Wait for it.

John Frusicante and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez in a band together???

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Apparently so. And the band is called Kimono Kult! Read about it on mxdwn here.

Though I am quite familiar with both these gentlemen's music and have never even once contemplated what it would sound like if they were in a band together this must be the best music news in quite some time. It will be amazing.

Pre-order on their bandcamp HERE.