The Barcelona-based music festival Primavera Sound will return in 2024 with headlining performances from Lana Del Rey, Sza, and Pulp. The event is scheduled to take place between May 29 and June 2, with additional appearances from Disclosure, FKA Twigs, Justice, Mitski, The National, Phoenix, and more.
The lineup also features performances from Pj Harvey, Vampire Weekend, Arca, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Clipse, Deftones, Jai Paul, Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Peggy Gou, Rels B, Troye Sivan, 070 Shake, Amyl and the Sniffers. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib will deliver a special anniversary performance celebrating 10 years of Piñata,...
The lineup also features performances from Pj Harvey, Vampire Weekend, Arca, Beth Gibbons, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Clipse, Deftones, Jai Paul, Kim Petras, Omar Apollo, Peggy Gou, Rels B, Troye Sivan, 070 Shake, Amyl and the Sniffers. Freddie Gibbs and Madlib will deliver a special anniversary performance celebrating 10 years of Piñata,...
- 11/21/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Primavera Sound has revealed its 2024 lineup with headliners Lana Del Rey, Pulp, and Sza, plus Pj Harvey, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, FKA twigs, Mitski, Vampire Weekend, The National, Phoenix, Clipse, Bikini Kill, Charli Xcx, Deftones, Jai Paul, Disclosure, and Justice.
The annual festival takes place May 29th – June 2nd, 2024 at Parc Del Forum in Barcelona, Spain.
Other notable acts include BadBadNotGood, Troye Sivan, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, The Lemon Twigs, Voxtrot, Ethel Cain, Yo La Tengo, Romy, The Armed, Shellac, L’Imperatrice, Arca, Chelsea Wolfe, Amyl and the Sniffers, Dogstar, Mannequin Pussy, Julie Byrne, Lambchop, Billy Woods, A.G. Cook, The Last Dinner Party, Faye Webster, Mount Kimbie, Blonde Redhead, and Royel Otis, among others. See the lineup poster below.
General admission and VIP passes to Primavera Sound 2023 go on sale beginning Thursday, November 23rd. Registration for access to the ticket on-sale is now ongoing.
Beginning later this week, Primavera Sound will...
The annual festival takes place May 29th – June 2nd, 2024 at Parc Del Forum in Barcelona, Spain.
Other notable acts include BadBadNotGood, Troye Sivan, Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, The Lemon Twigs, Voxtrot, Ethel Cain, Yo La Tengo, Romy, The Armed, Shellac, L’Imperatrice, Arca, Chelsea Wolfe, Amyl and the Sniffers, Dogstar, Mannequin Pussy, Julie Byrne, Lambchop, Billy Woods, A.G. Cook, The Last Dinner Party, Faye Webster, Mount Kimbie, Blonde Redhead, and Royel Otis, among others. See the lineup poster below.
General admission and VIP passes to Primavera Sound 2023 go on sale beginning Thursday, November 23rd. Registration for access to the ticket on-sale is now ongoing.
Beginning later this week, Primavera Sound will...
- 11/21/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Blonde Redhead are back with the new single “Before,” another sample of their upcoming album Sit Down for Dinner.
“Before” is billed as “one of the most sonically playful tracks on the album,” and encapsulates the feeling of being a kid and thinking you’re wise before the world inevitable jades you: “I don’t need to see/ I already know/ I can tell you I’ve seen it all before/ Once upon a time/ Was I a silent child seen it all before/ Stop before you run/ Before you make a run/ Turn it upside down,” vocalist Kazu Makino sings over a skittish beat.
Kazu explains the song’s backstory further in a statement: “Some children seem quite knowing as if they remember their past lives… or at least that’s the impression I get. The song is a sort of celebration of that kind of quality in a young person.
“Before” is billed as “one of the most sonically playful tracks on the album,” and encapsulates the feeling of being a kid and thinking you’re wise before the world inevitable jades you: “I don’t need to see/ I already know/ I can tell you I’ve seen it all before/ Once upon a time/ Was I a silent child seen it all before/ Stop before you run/ Before you make a run/ Turn it upside down,” vocalist Kazu Makino sings over a skittish beat.
Kazu explains the song’s backstory further in a statement: “Some children seem quite knowing as if they remember their past lives… or at least that’s the impression I get. The song is a sort of celebration of that kind of quality in a young person.
- 8/9/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Olivia Rodrigo returns with a biting single, Lil Uzi Vert leans into his metal influences, and Tainy enlists all of the best of reggaeton for a star-studded debut.
Olivia Rodrigo, “vampire” (YouTube)
Lil Uzi Vert feat. Bring Me the Horizon, “Werewolf” (YouTube)
Young Thug feat. Juice Wrld and Nicki Minaj, “Money” (YouTube)
Tainy feat. Daddy Yankee, Feid, Sech, “LA Baby” (YouTube)
Alok and Ava Max, “Car Keys” (YouTube)
Paris Hilton,...
Olivia Rodrigo, “vampire” (YouTube)
Lil Uzi Vert feat. Bring Me the Horizon, “Werewolf” (YouTube)
Young Thug feat. Juice Wrld and Nicki Minaj, “Money” (YouTube)
Tainy feat. Daddy Yankee, Feid, Sech, “LA Baby” (YouTube)
Alok and Ava Max, “Car Keys” (YouTube)
Paris Hilton,...
- 6/30/2023
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Indie label 4Ad has tapped the Breeders, Future Islands, Big Thief, and 15 other artists on its current roster to cover songs from its catalog for a new release, Bills and Aches and Blues. The first five tracks from the compilation were released Wednesday, March 10th, while the full project will arrive digitally, April 2nd.
The opening side for Bills and Aches and Blues features the Breeders covering His Name Is Alive’s “Dirt Eaters,” U.S. Girls covering the Birthday Party’s “Junkyard,” Tkay Maidza covering the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?...
The opening side for Bills and Aches and Blues features the Breeders covering His Name Is Alive’s “Dirt Eaters,” U.S. Girls covering the Birthday Party’s “Junkyard,” Tkay Maidza covering the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?...
- 3/10/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s the coolest Rick and Morty gear that makes anytime a good time to get schwifty!
Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty is more than just a brilliant Adult Swim series, it’s a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon. With the second half of the show’s fourth season currently airing, the dimension-spanning adventures of the duo are bigger — and stranger — than ever before. As such, demand for all things Rick and Morty will once again be off the charts. But fear not, as we have an assortment of must-have merch from the series that you’ll want to get Schwifty with from the comfort of your own home. Eww. Anyway, check out this coolness:
Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-3
Every episode of the series’ first three seasons are included in this Blu-ray set, making this the perfect introduction to the world of Rick and Morty.
Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty is more than just a brilliant Adult Swim series, it’s a full-fledged pop culture phenomenon. With the second half of the show’s fourth season currently airing, the dimension-spanning adventures of the duo are bigger — and stranger — than ever before. As such, demand for all things Rick and Morty will once again be off the charts. But fear not, as we have an assortment of must-have merch from the series that you’ll want to get Schwifty with from the comfort of your own home. Eww. Anyway, check out this coolness:
Rick and Morty: The Complete Seasons 1-3
Every episode of the series’ first three seasons are included in this Blu-ray set, making this the perfect introduction to the world of Rick and Morty.
- 6/25/2020
- by Chris Cummins
- Den of Geek
Joe Matar Sep 11, 2017
Rick And Morty season 3 delivers one of its best-written episodes ever in The Ricklantix Mixup. Spoilers ahead in our review...
This review contains spoilers.
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3.7 The Ricklantis Mixup
My deal is that a show can get away with a lot if I’m impressed by the plotting. There have been funnier, more moving, and more devastating episodes than The Ricklantis Mixup, but this was an absolute stunner of a storyline. So, yeah, I loved it.
A bait and switch, this episode is not actually about Rick and Morty’s Atlantis adventure. They do go on one; we just don’t get to see it. Instead, we get to see “Tales from the Citadel.” At the beginning of the season,...
Rick And Morty season 3 delivers one of its best-written episodes ever in The Ricklantix Mixup. Spoilers ahead in our review...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Taskmaster: Alex Horne on series 5, casting, remakes, the future Taskmaster: one of TV's funniest, most unexpected comedies Taskmaster: 2-part champion of champions special on its way
3.7 The Ricklantis Mixup
My deal is that a show can get away with a lot if I’m impressed by the plotting. There have been funnier, more moving, and more devastating episodes than The Ricklantis Mixup, but this was an absolute stunner of a storyline. So, yeah, I loved it.
A bait and switch, this episode is not actually about Rick and Morty’s Atlantis adventure. They do go on one; we just don’t get to see it. Instead, we get to see “Tales from the Citadel.” At the beginning of the season,...
- 9/11/2017
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 3, Episode 7, “The Ricklantis Mixup.”]
If anyone was afraid that the end of “Twin Peaks” signaled the disappearance of insane Sunday night TV storytelling, the kind that makes you scream into the living room void shouting “What Just Happened” with the pure intensity of a person reckoning with their own hallucinations, let me tell you about a little half hour of television called “The Ricklantis Mixup.” The ideal animated complement to Lynch’s “Part 8,” it’s a wry, impossible-to-fully-digest bit of mythologizing that builds up a multiverse worth of individual story threads before lighting them as the fuse to explode the story’s own premise. This is “Rick and Morty” at the height of its power, delivering zaniness and gut-punch existentialism with equal fury and glee.
Like so many standout “Rick and Morty” episodes, capturing the essence of what made this more than a loosely connected bit of cultural flotsam and jetsam lies in its...
If anyone was afraid that the end of “Twin Peaks” signaled the disappearance of insane Sunday night TV storytelling, the kind that makes you scream into the living room void shouting “What Just Happened” with the pure intensity of a person reckoning with their own hallucinations, let me tell you about a little half hour of television called “The Ricklantis Mixup.” The ideal animated complement to Lynch’s “Part 8,” it’s a wry, impossible-to-fully-digest bit of mythologizing that builds up a multiverse worth of individual story threads before lighting them as the fuse to explode the story’s own premise. This is “Rick and Morty” at the height of its power, delivering zaniness and gut-punch existentialism with equal fury and glee.
Like so many standout “Rick and Morty” episodes, capturing the essence of what made this more than a loosely connected bit of cultural flotsam and jetsam lies in its...
- 9/11/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Hopefully, you've had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you're looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we'll be breaking them out separately. Here's a look at fall music. September 9/2 Blonde Redhead, Barragán If early single “No More Honey” is any indication, this downtown trio’s first album in four years continues their move away from their more jagged earlier material toward a fuller, dreamier aesthetic. Nick Carter and Jordan Knight, Nick & Knight The cute one from the Backstreet Boys and the bad boy from New Kids on the Block trade smoldering stares—and sweet, sweet melodies. Counting Crows, Somewhere Under Wonderland Yes, these ’90s holdouts are still pumping out earwormy tunes as catchy as “Mr. Jones.” Jeezy, Seen It All Young no more, Jeezy claims elder statesrapper status and the nickname 10 Chainz on the...
- 8/26/2014
- by Vulture Editors
- Vulture
Tags: Uh Huh HerLeisha HaileyCamila GreyClub Skirts The DinahThe DinahIMDb
By the time Uh Huh Her plays The Dinah in April (they’re headlining a live show on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m.) they’ll already have begun the task of writing an anticipated new album – only the third full-length album since they picked up their guitars together six years ago.
After the lesbian rock duo tweeted this month about the rumored album number three, ardent fans have been taking to Facebook and blogs to make their own guesses about how it will compare to Nocturnes, the band’s very successful second full-length album loaded with hits like “Human Nature” and “Darkness Is” (the tracks even landed on soundtracks for The Kids Are All Right and Twilight), and their third Ep – aptly titled EP3 – from which fan favorite “Not a Love Song” had so eloquently sprung.
We caught up with...
By the time Uh Huh Her plays The Dinah in April (they’re headlining a live show on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m.) they’ll already have begun the task of writing an anticipated new album – only the third full-length album since they picked up their guitars together six years ago.
After the lesbian rock duo tweeted this month about the rumored album number three, ardent fans have been taking to Facebook and blogs to make their own guesses about how it will compare to Nocturnes, the band’s very successful second full-length album loaded with hits like “Human Nature” and “Darkness Is” (the tracks even landed on soundtracks for The Kids Are All Right and Twilight), and their third Ep – aptly titled EP3 – from which fan favorite “Not a Love Song” had so eloquently sprung.
We caught up with...
- 1/28/2013
- by Natalie Hope Mcdonald
- AfterEllen.com
Sixteen of Brooklyn’s finest, most Brooklyn-y bands are headed to Sweden for a mini-festival Aug. 31-Sept. 1. Titled "Brooklyn, Sweden"—co-sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery and Swedish company Debaser—it aims to bring the music and diverse styles of Brooklyn, America’s self-consciousness capital, to good ol' socialist Sweden. The fest will spread its faux-Brooklyn out over two towns, Malmo and Stockholm, with participating bands including The Hold Steady, Blonde Redhead, Cults, Crystal Stilts, Phosphorescent, and more. Brooklyn Brewery is also offering a chance for a singer-songwriter to win a trip to the fest. Contestants don’t have to live ...
- 6/27/2012
- avclub.com
I just added several projects to Filmmaker‘s curated Kickstarter page. They include Galileo, a cool new device that adds remote control functionality to your iPhone; The Miracle Mile Paradox, an Arg (alternate reality game) set in both viritual space as well as L.A.’s museum strip; The Man’s Guide to Love, a fiction feature film developed from the filmmaker’s two-year old website containing short-form doc content on men in love; The First Hope, a UCLA film student’s short about a young boy’s romantic life beginning when he sees Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia kiss; Brendt Barbur’s The Commentator, a doc featuring an all-star of collaborators, including d.p. Al Maysles and composers Blonde Redhead; and, finally, Leghead Loves Koek NYC, an art publication featuring Filmmaker photographer Richard Koek, who you’ll know from our 25 New Faces each year, and artist Leghead. Also, one past posted project,...
- 3/25/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Filmmaker has its own curated page on the Kickstarter site, spotlighting projects worthy of your attention (and financial assistance). But I thought it would be a good idea to also flag up The Commentator, which I had previously been unaware of and is fast approaching its fundraising deadline. (At the time of writing, it has just under two days to reach its target but is still less than 50% funded).
Here’s the description of the film from its Kickstarter page:
In 1976 Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth made the legendary sports and cycling film, A Sunday in Hell, about the Paris Roubaix cycling race. It defined a genre and helped put the Paris-Roubaix on the global sporting map. Leth now comments on the race for television.
We plan to follow Leth as he prepares for and comments on the race. We’ll be with him from his hotel in Paris until the...
Here’s the description of the film from its Kickstarter page:
In 1976 Danish filmmaker Jorgen Leth made the legendary sports and cycling film, A Sunday in Hell, about the Paris Roubaix cycling race. It defined a genre and helped put the Paris-Roubaix on the global sporting map. Leth now comments on the race for television.
We plan to follow Leth as he prepares for and comments on the race. We’ll be with him from his hotel in Paris until the...
- 3/21/2012
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Where would we be without music in our favorite films? While some may rely mostly on score, the needle drop of a pop tune can be quite satisfying when paired with a memorable scene. There could be a few opportunities for this type of moment on the way thanks to some exciting music news that also concerns the film world.
While we’d still love to get our hands on the score by “Jeff Who Lives At Home” and “Cyrus” composer Michael Andrews, we’ll definitely settle for a new track from Beck from the former film. The Duplass’ latest film has helped give Beck fans a pretty stellar new track in “Looking For A Sign” that falls right between Mutations and Sea Change-era Beck, which is certainly a good thing. The mostly acoustic-driven track is also a step away from the work he did as Sex Bob-Omb on the...
While we’d still love to get our hands on the score by “Jeff Who Lives At Home” and “Cyrus” composer Michael Andrews, we’ll definitely settle for a new track from Beck from the former film. The Duplass’ latest film has helped give Beck fans a pretty stellar new track in “Looking For A Sign” that falls right between Mutations and Sea Change-era Beck, which is certainly a good thing. The mostly acoustic-driven track is also a step away from the work he did as Sex Bob-Omb on the...
- 3/21/2012
- by Benjamin Wright
- The Playlist
By Zachary Swickey
New York City indie noisemakers Battles will be celebrating their tenth anniversary next year and it’s been quite the tumultuous journey for the trio. Not many bands can boast guest appearances from Gary Numan (“Cars”) or indie darlings Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on their new record, but I imagine it went rather smoothly for Battles – a band that flies under the mainstream radar but has caught the ears of many dedicated audiophiles.
Battles are a trio, consisting of guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams, bassist/guitarist/effects master Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier, who is the ex-stickman for '90s alt-rock outfit Helmet as well as the drummer for Tomahawk, one of Faith No More singer Mike Patton’s many side projects. The group originated as a quartet that included multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Baxton, who was also the first to inject vocals into the predominantly instrumental group’s sound,...
New York City indie noisemakers Battles will be celebrating their tenth anniversary next year and it’s been quite the tumultuous journey for the trio. Not many bands can boast guest appearances from Gary Numan (“Cars”) or indie darlings Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on their new record, but I imagine it went rather smoothly for Battles – a band that flies under the mainstream radar but has caught the ears of many dedicated audiophiles.
Battles are a trio, consisting of guitarist/keyboardist Ian Williams, bassist/guitarist/effects master Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier, who is the ex-stickman for '90s alt-rock outfit Helmet as well as the drummer for Tomahawk, one of Faith No More singer Mike Patton’s many side projects. The group originated as a quartet that included multi-instrumentalist Tyondai Baxton, who was also the first to inject vocals into the predominantly instrumental group’s sound,...
- 11/9/2011
- by MTV News
- MTV Newsroom
Indie rock icons Spoon will occupy a headlining spot at this year's Fun Fun Fest in their hometown of Austin, TX. The fest will be the group's only 2011 live date. It will also be their first U.S. date since playing the Austin City Limits fest in 2010. Other headliners at the annual event include Passion Pit, Slayer and Public Enemy. The line-up also features Lykke Li, The Damned, Boris, Odd Future, Blonde Redhead, the Glenn Danzig-fronted Danzig Legacy (who perform Misfits tunes) and many more. This year will be the fest's first at the 20,000 capacity Auditorium Shores. It was...
- 8/18/2011
- by HitFix Staff
- Hitfix
“Downtown 81 represents Manhattan’s last stand as a beatnik haven for creatively driven impoverished artists, a moment where everyone was connected in one giant electrical circuit creating their own cultural power.”
Downtown 81, featuring a nineteen year old Jean-Michel Basquiat, captured the movers and shakers from the no wave, hip-hop, graffiti, and alternative fashion scenes, as they collided down in the depths of New York’s lower east side. Originally shot by director Edo Bertoglio in the winter of 1980-81, it remained unreleased for nearly twenty years before being re-assembled in 1999 by co-producer Maripol Fauque (a Polaroid photographer and fashion designer, behind the iconic look for Madonna on the cover of Like a Virgin). Basquiat first acquired notoriety in the early eighties New York art scene with his ‘Samo’ graffiti slogans, which caught the attention of TV Party host Glenn O’Brien. After Basquiat appeared as a guest on...
Downtown 81, featuring a nineteen year old Jean-Michel Basquiat, captured the movers and shakers from the no wave, hip-hop, graffiti, and alternative fashion scenes, as they collided down in the depths of New York’s lower east side. Originally shot by director Edo Bertoglio in the winter of 1980-81, it remained unreleased for nearly twenty years before being re-assembled in 1999 by co-producer Maripol Fauque (a Polaroid photographer and fashion designer, behind the iconic look for Madonna on the cover of Like a Virgin). Basquiat first acquired notoriety in the early eighties New York art scene with his ‘Samo’ graffiti slogans, which caught the attention of TV Party host Glenn O’Brien. After Basquiat appeared as a guest on...
- 2/23/2011
- by Tom Jarvis
- SoundOnSight
Earlier today, esteemed MTV News senior writer James Montgomery laid out his picks for the 20 best albums of the year. It's a solid list, full of envelope-pushing rock, head-spinning hip-hop, staggering melody and weird sonic experiments (and that's just the number one choice, Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). But after West (who would be my pick for the best album of the year as well), our tastes seem to deviate wildly. In fact, after West, my top 10 is completely different than his.
(Click here for James Montgomery's list of the 10 best albums of the year, including Kanye West, Eminem, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend!)
So here's my counterpoint to Montgomery's list. There are 10 albums here, but you should really think of the top album as "1A," because let's face it: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is absolutely the best album of the year, even if you...
(Click here for James Montgomery's list of the 10 best albums of the year, including Kanye West, Eminem, Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend!)
So here's my counterpoint to Montgomery's list. There are 10 albums here, but you should really think of the top album as "1A," because let's face it: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is absolutely the best album of the year, even if you...
- 12/15/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
Just a dull sheen On Blonde Redhead’s eighth full-length, the formerly noisy NYC trio continues to slink along the moody, spacey path laid out by its previous three albums. This time, the band has recruited the duo Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid (who’s produced Fever Ray and remixed Massive Attack and Bat for Lashes) and brought back Alan Moulder (My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Depeche Mode) to mix the album. If that laundry list of artists doesn’t hint at what to expect, just know that words like “sexy” and “ghostly” will be drastically overused in reviews of Penny Sparkle. These...
- 10/8/2010
- Pastemagazine.com
The 39th annual Festival du Nouveau Cinema is set to run in Montreal on Oct 13-24. But, within the overall, massive festival is the Fnc Lab, the avant-garde and experimental section that will be having screenings and live film performances every night on Oct. 14-22.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
This year, the Fnc Lab is showcasing two retrospectives; plus, a short film program of strictly 16mm films, films from the Korean Jeonju Digital Project, four feature-length projects and several special one-of-a-kind performances.
The retrospectives are of two key American women experimental filmmakers. First, in conjunction with the Double Negative Collective, the fest presents a career overview of Chick Strand, the eminent ethnographic filmmaker who sadly passed away last year at the age of 77.
Then, there’s also a retrospective of playful avant-garde filmmaker Marie Losier, who is well known for her collaborations with and film portraits of key underground figures like George Kuchar, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge.
- 10/6/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
After starting out as a scrappy no-wave band in the ’90s, Blonde Redhead began turning inward and ethereal in the ’00s, to good effect, climaxing with 2007’s gauzy, beautiful 23. Penny Sparkle, the New York trio’s eighth album, keeps moving in that direction, but it may be a step too far. The new songs have less of a guitar-drenched shoegaze feel and more of a late-’80s synth-melancholia one, and the results tend to be more vague than mysterious. Individually, the songs are well made, and close listening yields a nice amount of detail. For example, on “Not ...
- 9/14/2010
- avclub.com
Metro UK reports that over the weekend, Breda, a city in the Netherlands, celebrated its 5th annual Red Hair Day. This means that a lot of people with red hair got together and did red hair stuff. You know, talked about red things like tomatoes, Conan, that play Red. I wonder if in the midst of this redvelry anyone had this conversation: Ginger #1: So what music are you listening to? Ginger #2: Oh, you know…La Roux, Blonde Redhead, Florence and the Machine, Jenny Lewis, Simply Red. Ginger #1: Cool. Have you seen that new Mia video for that song Born Free? Ginger #2: No, why? Ginger #1: It’s about these armed dudes rounding up a bunch of red heads and then making them run for their lives in a field and then executing all of them. Ginger #2: Huh. Ginger #1: Yeah. Ginger #2: Well that’s just a video.
- 9/7/2010
- by Sarah Walker
- BestWeekEver
With a new Blonde Redhead release on the horizon, I decided to re-visit "The Dungeon Masters" after a conversation with the film's editor, Christine Khalafian, who kindly reminded me that the NY trio scored it. The doc, which centers on three hardcore D&D players and their troubles during the economic crush of 2008 is getting an expanded edition DVD release August 3 too. You don't have to own dice with more than six sides, have a thing for chicks with elf ears, or have Blonde Redhead on your iPod to appreciate this film and the exceptionally strange people it follows either.
I asked director Keven McAlester why he approached Blonde Redhead to do the score, hoping to reveal some secret Larp coven they all rolled with but the choice had more to do with a fan seeking a band he loved to create the right mood for a film that treads...
I asked director Keven McAlester why he approached Blonde Redhead to do the score, hoping to reveal some secret Larp coven they all rolled with but the choice had more to do with a fan seeking a band he loved to create the right mood for a film that treads...
- 7/28/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
When I first moved to NY there was this cafe I immediately fell in with on Mott and Prince that made such a tremendous cup of coffee, to this day, I measure every one I have against their brew. Everyone would talk about how the place was Blonde Redhead's hangout.
They'd say it in that way people say things when they know they're dropping something cool on you, letting you in on a little inside information. I heard different unsubstantiated things; they wrote their songs there, they lived upstairs, they played there in their jammies at night when the doors were locked.
I'm sure there was some truth to it originally, but by the time I was taking up tables there it was all mistaken identities I think. For all I know, someone saw me there one day, thought I was Kazu Makino, told the next guy over and on it went.
They'd say it in that way people say things when they know they're dropping something cool on you, letting you in on a little inside information. I heard different unsubstantiated things; they wrote their songs there, they lived upstairs, they played there in their jammies at night when the doors were locked.
I'm sure there was some truth to it originally, but by the time I was taking up tables there it was all mistaken identities I think. For all I know, someone saw me there one day, thought I was Kazu Makino, told the next guy over and on it went.
- 7/26/2010
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
The 48th annual Ann Arbor Film Festival is another exciting celebration of underground film past and present, featuring two retrospectives of two master filmmakers and dozens of short films and features from some of the most gifted talents working today.
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
For the retrospectives, first, Kenneth Anger will be in attendance at the festival for two programs of his classic work, including Fireworks and Scorpio Rising. Plus, for the first Anger screening, the filmmaker will be joined on-stage by film critic Dennis Lim for a discussion of his work and career. The second retrospective is of the work of the late Chick Strand, who sadly passed away in 2009. Strand’s Angel Blue Sweet Wings (1966) will actually open the entire festival, then there will be two retrospective screenings of her work, the first of which will be presented by film scholar Irina Leimbacher.
The rest of the Aaff lineup reads like a...
- 3/8/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
How many bands do you know from New Hampshire? Actually - better that, how many people do you even know from New Hampshire? Well, starting in March, the answer will be at least 1. The new indie four-some straight out of "The Granite State", Wild Light, are sure to be Pitchfork's new Bff when their new album hits neighborhood record shops this March.
The band officially formed in the Spring of 2005 and has quickly made a name for themselves, sharing the stage with other indie mainstays such as LCD Soundsystem, Arcarde Fire, and Blonde Redhead. They've already rocked a packed house at Austin's SXSW and are playing at the Boston Music Awards this Sunday. The band just announced big 30-venue tour with every hipster's wet dream (and constant butt of Boosh jokes) Tapes N' Tapes kicking off January 15th. Which means you all will have a chance to check out this band live,...
- 12/5/2008
- BooshMagazine.com
By Aaron Hillis
He's designed scarves for Marc Jacobs and the iconic cover of Air's "Moon Safari" album, directed music videos for Moby, Pulp and Blonde Redhead, helmed two features to date (the Sundance hit "Thumbsucker" and the SXSW doc "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?"), had graphic art exhibitions and commissioned ad campaigns all around the globe, and played with members of Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the short-lived '90s East Village supergroup Butter 08. If people still confuse prolific artist-filmmaker Mike Mills with the R.E.M. bassist of the same name, it's because it's easy to believe the same man could've done it all.
Mills features prominently in NYC gallery curator-turned-director Aaron Rose's "Beautiful Losers," an entertaining doc celebration of the D.I.Y. talent (Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, the late Margaret Kilgallen, et al.) who took part in Rose's titular museum exhibition.
He's designed scarves for Marc Jacobs and the iconic cover of Air's "Moon Safari" album, directed music videos for Moby, Pulp and Blonde Redhead, helmed two features to date (the Sundance hit "Thumbsucker" and the SXSW doc "Does Your Soul Have a Cold?"), had graphic art exhibitions and commissioned ad campaigns all around the globe, and played with members of Cibo Matto and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in the short-lived '90s East Village supergroup Butter 08. If people still confuse prolific artist-filmmaker Mike Mills with the R.E.M. bassist of the same name, it's because it's easy to believe the same man could've done it all.
Mills features prominently in NYC gallery curator-turned-director Aaron Rose's "Beautiful Losers," an entertaining doc celebration of the D.I.Y. talent (Shepard Fairey, Harmony Korine, Ed Templeton, the late Margaret Kilgallen, et al.) who took part in Rose's titular museum exhibition.
- 7/30/2008
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
Sunny Day Sets Fire's debut full-length certainly has the right raw elements to make Elephant 6 devotees' summers a little brighter. Operating on the reasonable theory that everything sounds better when sprinkled with glockenspiel and power-pop guitars, Summer Palace has sunshine and chord changes to spare. Likeable enough in theory, it's dragged down by misplaced ambition: Two-thirds of the songs clock in at more than four minutes long, and the whole thing adds up to an hour, far too ungainly to be spritely. Everything ends up melting into a haze of diffuse perkiness. The odd hiccup intrudes: "End Of The Road" has a guitar line that sounds suspiciously like "Hotel California," but soon tames it with obligatory hand-claps. "Siamese" is a nice shot of melancholy, but it's a momentary deviation. If Blonde Redhead has made the world safe for weird international combinations of musicians—this band represents Italy, Hong...
- 7/15/2008
- by Vadim Rizov
- avclub.com
- If I were to give some form of advice to budding filmmakers it would be to: keep your day job. By "day job" I don't mean holding down some other occupation, I mean switching gears and directing other stuff that allows to to flex your creative muscles. The video clip is the perfect venue for just that. As many of you are fascinated by the moving image, I thought it would be cool to point to the music videos that have made a mark on the 07' calendar. The folks over at Pitchforkmedia.com made a fairly comprehensible list (there are some unofficial fan videos and concert selections) which includes some already established veteran filmmakers and some burgeoning new talents. Below I've included some of those names.We'll be featuring director Jeff Nichols in the new year - especially since Shotgun Stories will be finding its way into theaters after a long festival tour.
- 12/20/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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