Tom Ford's A Single Man - trailer

Iconic fashion designer Tom Ford pens the screenplay and direct A Single Man, based on the provocative 1964 Christopher Isherwood novel. Due out in February in Australia, but has been garnering rave reviews around the globe, and praise for first-time director, Ford, and his entire cast.

Enhance that shit. oh yeah.

New Yeasayer. So gooey and nude and fun!

The song's called Ambling Alp. Enjoy.

Yeasayer - Ambling Alp - Watch more Music Videos at Vodpod.

ben stiller in film that doesn't make me want to shoot myself

Noah Baumbach, director of Kicking and Screaming, the 1995 cult fave about a group of fresh-out-of-college friends who are restless and disillusioned with life, returns with Greenberg, basically doing the same thing but with 40 year olds. But don't get me wrong- I think it looks delightful. And no surprise there, Baumbach also wrote the screenplays for Fantastic Mr Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Squid and the Whale, to name a few. Enjoy.

Arghh! Oh wait no its a snickers bar...

So epic it could be Bon Jovi, but with the early weezer sound and the tamborine its unlikely. But still not affraid to throw a little reverb in there Surfer Blood have 'jumped off the blocks' with a 'killer' Swim to the end

Surfer Blood - Swim to Reach the End

Kid Sis + Toki Doki 4 Eva xoxo

So maybe I'm not going to marry Kid Sister and have little hip hop children with her, I've come to the realisation that the chances are getting slimmer by the day. But can't a man dream about a life with a woman who raps about donuts!?

Her much anticipated debut album originally titled Dream Date was sent back to the drawing board but its back now with the new title Ultraviolet. The new name and the new single both indicate a new direction for Kid Sis. Right Hand Hi maybe a dance floor filler but it’s a far cry from the Old School party jams of Family Reunion (not included on the new album), at least the release will mean that Pro Nails, Control and Let Me Bang will see the light of day in a proper release.

Keep it goin' louder

Diplo and Switch's Zombie Killin' Dance floor fillin' project Major Lazer has just released its second video for the Keep It Goin' Louder feat. Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze. Thick with pop hooks and vocoders this song is about 4 seconds away from being a mobile ringtone...enjoy the glory before the hangover...

If the sugar is all too much for you So Shifty has also have also turned it into a Ska classic with their remix
Major Lazer - Keep It Goin' Louder (So Shifty 1961 SKA Remix)


Video #1


Video #2

Major Lazer "Keep it Going Louder" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

Deus eXX machina

I'd almost forgotten about this song till the other day. The xx doing a magnificent cover of florence and the machine's 'You've got the love'...also how good does this club look compared to the dives I normally inhabit

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck...

in case you weren't roped in already by this amazing pairing, wait till you see the video...

Pink, blue, canary and all the colours of the pastel rainbow

The other night got the chance to pop down and see a little bit of Vampire weekend. They made me want to dance, they made me want to sing, they made me want to wear more pastel colours

Now that's a world I want to live in!

The problem I think with kitchen's is its not a give take relationship. I come in there I'm always like "Hey Kitchen, Let's do this, let's make something tasty!" Granted when i invariably make something awful I'm not living up to my end of the bargain, but just once, just one time I'd like the Kitchen to "Hang around baby we be baking a cake for you." DAMN YOU YACHT AND YOUR MAGICAL KITCHEN!!

You're weighing the gold, I'm watching you sinking, Fool's Gold

Fool’s Gold tell me two things.
One... that when I am old I can still be crazy and young women will still find me attractive (YOU BETTER NOT BE LYING TO ME FOOL’S GOLD)
Two...that everyone one wants to wear pastels and write the next Gracelands album

Neither of which i think is a bad thing really

In the heat of the night

Yesterday it was the temperature of the sun all over town, people sheltered in boxes of air conditioning and any kind of effort could risk serious injury. But those first awkward days of summer are the signal of an oncoming season of balmy evening spent quietly sipping on beverages with nothing else to do but cool down and listen to sweet crooning.

Mayer Hawthorne


Amy Winehouse - My Bed

Amy Winehouse - In My Bed
by AmyWinehouse

Party like its 1999 again

Recently I was asked to put together a top 10 records for the decade. To say its not easy its stupid, of course its not easy! It probably the hardest thing i've done since i landed that jet in the hudson. One thing is for sure though, Band of Horses will feature.

Band of Horses - Funeral (Sub Pop)

Serena Ryder & The Beauties - Funeral (Band of Horses Cover


I'll let you know how it works out...

Warpaint

Despite having the dubious honour of Billy Zane calling them his favourite band Warpaint still make very nice music that is totally unrelated to the phantom. New album to due come out on Rough Trade. This is their pretty song Billie Holiday.

Brat Pack 2010

Ask yourself what happens when you mix french indie pop, 1980's teen heart throbs and someone with too much time on their hands...this glorious waste of time

"your lips are like little pieces of bacon..."

kind of shits me when 17 and 18 year olds are not only in a band, but they're writing exceptionally good tunes with exceptionally good lyrics that are funny, thoughtful and self-deprecating, centered around drunk hook ups, awkward sex and bacon. i could've only wished to be that cool way back in the day.

check out Avi Buffalo- these kids from Long Beach are generating a lot of buzz, especially as bands their age should just not be this good yet. this next song has a definite Shins/Band of Horses vibe, but trust me, Avi Buffalo do their own thing and with the stuff they're putting out there while being fresh out of high school, we can only expect their stuff to get better and better...

Bubbles...so many bubbles

It’s refreshing to see someone else as concerned with soft drink as me

Whats in a name?

I love it when a band when a band really takes the time to come up with a great name. It may seem frivolous and we should let the music speak for itself. But what if you’re not a good band, what if the best you can hope for is mediocrity then what happens to your dreams of international rock stardom.
That’s where awesome names come in...

This week’s runners up include

Tiger! Shit! Tiger, Tiger!
Apologies, i have none.
Bin Laden Blowin Up

But the winner is
Vaginasore Jr.

Not even Will y Nelson can help you now...

Jools Holland, that bastion of UK music, that purveyor tasty live performances...what the hell has he done

This song apparently will not die and now its worm ridden zombie corspe has risen out of the dirt and its wearing a cowboy hat.

hot and heavy pumpkin pie chocolate candy jesus christ

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros... this song has been stuck in my head since they appeared on Letterman last week. a new obsession- songs, lyrics and videos have made my week. check out the website here and the letterman video here.

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 06 - Home.mp3

Found at: http://www.filestube.com

Les Savy Fav(ourite)

On the weekend I had to go on impromptu road trip to visit family. The upside of the 8 hour return trip was I got trawl through the depth of my IPod through some on my favourite forgotten sing-along albums, which trapped in the confines of my little car I belted out some classic renditions of Clash, Lifetime, TV on the Radio, Small Brown Bike and these guys Les Savy Fav.

Let’s stay friends was an album that probably didn’t get the showing it deserved. The appeal of previous songs like the Sweat Descends just didn’t seem to grab as many people this time round. But its a great album, sometimes its solemn and other times is they provide the party anthems to the apocalypse. Les Savy Fav is the band the Shins wished they could be if only they knew how to shout.

Cluck Cluck

Greedy Hen, designers, illustrators and local purveyors of all things pretty have just wrapped up the video clip for Washington’s latest single ‘How To Tame Lions’.
Make of the song what you will but the video does have that Greedy Hen touch that we do like so much...

Grouper

Whether you’re in a car driving along the dark coast at night or a just walking the abandon streets of your neighbourhood, Grouper’s luscious loops and eerie sentiments are the perfect companion...

Here's 'Hold the way' the first video from her new EP 'Vessels', the follow up to her delightfully named 2008 album the 'Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill'.

Garage Sale

Too much Garage never enough?

Stuck dead in the middle of that New York Garage sound Frankie Rose is a former member of Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts and has just released her debut 7" with the A side Thee Only One

Frankie Rose and the Outs - Thee Only One

who is Har Mar Superstar?

just a little add-on to the previous post, a tiny taste of the vast talents of Sean "Har Mar Superstar" Tillman... comedian, actor, singer, chubby balding guy.

Ellen Page and friends to pen hipster comedy for HBO

Ellen Page, Ali Shawkat (of Arrested Development fame) and Sean "Har Mar Superstar" Tillman have just signed a deal with HBO to write and produce a comedy for HBO about two hipsters and their perilous adventures as they travel to LA to become artists... "of any kind". Well, guess what- everybody LOVES to make fun of hipsters, even (especially!) other hipsters- so as you can imagine, the hilarious blog-bashing of this project is already spreading through the internets like wildfire...

Burn Hollywood: Precious hipsters. Precious people in sweaters. The comedy supposedly will outline the perils of hipsterism. What perils? What goddamn perils do hipsters have? They only have the time and energy to be hipsters, because they don’t have any problems. They wear glasses without lenses for christsakes, what perils? Does their vast underground music collection absorb toxic waste then mutate? Do their ironic shirts get burned in a wildfire?

Warming Glow: Oh boy, I hope their trust funds are big enough to support their dreams! You girls be careful — I’d hate for your kaffiyeh scarf to get caught in the spokes of your fixed-gear bicycle on the way to Hotel Cafe for your band’s debut. What would they do without their lead ukulele player?!

Not too worried on this end, though- seems like the description of this project insinuates parody, so that should make everyone happy. HBO is usually pretty reliable and call me crazy, but Page is likeable enough, Shawkat was just plain brilliant as Maebe Funke and the zany Har Mar Superstar, well- check him out here... I think this has potential...

take two- GIRLS

found the official video for that Girls song and it's quite pretty. so pretty that im posting the same song twice in one day... DEAL WITH IT. here, once again, is Lust For Life...

Devendra makes sweet sweet love to Phoenix tune

ah Phoenix- those cute french boys and their catchy pop anthems have won themselves a veritable wealth of admirers this year, including very cool artists, such as passionpit and animal collective, who've undoubtedly been keen to jump on that bandwagon of success by remixing phoenix songs lately. here's devendra bandhart's subdued and mellowed version of the song Rome. deeelightful.

Girls - lusting it up on a new york rooftop

more from our new favourite San Franciscans... here's Lust for Life as part of a rooftop concert series called Don't Look Down courtesy of the nice folks over at pitchfork.

Girls, Girls, Girls...

Proof positive that all the best girls are either take or on a blog

Stuff my girlfriend says

Arghh! Trees!

Sweden's Taken By Trees with a very lovely cover of Animal Collectives 'My Girls'

Clark

Clark, out on Warp, so very much in their vain of music, he's being called the new aphex twin which may be a bit missleading as its not as hard, but it definately has the darker elements and is still very interesting stuff. Here's Garden Growl from his latest album Totems Flare.




While Garden Growl may be an awesome song it is lacking in the video area, this Clark video on the other hand is not...

Long walks on the beach...

I'm not one who is particularly known for their love of the beach, but this song does really do make me pine for white sand and blue ocean.

Where the wild things aren't

Where are the wild things? Apparently they are in spain...

It may not have as good a soundtrack, but it would probably still make a pretty good film

Surfs Up

Another in a line of bands (The Girls etc) with average names with above songs.
With summer just warming up The Drums are set to be our summer backyard/porch party soundtrack. Picture it now quiet redfern st, long necks and the sweet chrooning of indie boys...Lets go Surfing!


The Drums - Let's go Surfing

Coconut Records

i've had a sweet spot for coconut records ever since i heard the first album a few years back. coconut records is jason schwartzman's solo project and after writing, producing and releasing this first album on his own, schwartzman would mail a polaroid picture he took himself with every album sold. this debut album, called Nighttiming, featured duets with zooey deschanel, kirsten dunst and brother robert schwartzman, frontman of the band Rooney. cover art is done by cousin roman coppola, brother of sofia and son of francis ford coppola (now there's a gene pool i wouldn't mind diving into...) here's a new track off the second album, Davy.

Away we go...

stellar cast, stellar writer, directed by sam mendes (american beauty)... can't wait for this one.

Youth Revolt

Has the world yet tired of Michael Cera's boyish awkward charm? Well, in Youth in Revolt, we might get something new with the appearance of a badass, moustachioed (french?) alter-ego named Francois... plus well, Zach Galifianakis is in it. booya.

HBO, i want to make babies with you.

Magic Dirt

Ahhh Ghosh!!

Originally i was somewhat dubious of this but I came around...

BALLOOOOOOONS!!!

Possibly the diriest/most fowl mouth lady in the world and therefore one of my favourites, Amanda Blank, has just dropped the first clip from her debut album 'I love you'

disco to country to hip hop to... Feist.

Another cover - not particularily recent or anything, just a good one, especially on a Sunday. Canadian darling Feist and fellow canuck indie-rock dudes The Constantines team up to cover Dolly Parton and Kenny Roger's Islands in the Stream, which you might also recognise from 1998, covered in Pras' (feat Mya and Ol' Dirty Bastard) Ghetto Superstar.

According to the Arts&Crafts page, "the song was recorded together in Toronto one chilly day in early February following a game of ice hockey and a round of hot chocolates." well. you can't really top that now can you? Listen here.

ps- did you know this song was originally written by the Bee Gees? makes it even better, doesn't it?

mmmm.... fragile.

Click here to listen to a cover of Empire of the Sun's Walking on a Dream by Kate Miller Heidke... some have described it as gentle, moving and even FRAGILE. quite a departure from the original, a throbbing egotistical heat-filled glitter fest.

Alice in Wonderland - consistently making your acid trips better... since 1865

Electronic artist Fagottron uses music and images from Disney's Alice in Wonderland to craft this song named "Alice"

88 Miles per hour

There's a bit of confusion about all the Deloreans out there and why not it is a rad name for a band and a time traveling car for that matter.

The front runner is probably Barcelona's
Delorean
but also worth a look in is Melbourne's Delorean.


Delorean from Barcelona - Deli

Up to a 11

From the wilds of freezing Russia comes a new toe tapper from
Fuzzy Pets.

Fuzzy Pets - Blow up your Head

Pineaples they really do grow on trees...

For lovers of long walks in the rain a new act from Denver called, Pina Chulada. Here's their very laid back track called "What you mean"

Pina Chulada - What you mean

glistening, sex-saturated synth-pop ...for kids!

Here's a hilarious and suprisingly catchy video of Montreal's favourite electrosynth duo, Chromeo, whose music has been described as "a shameless return to the glistening, sex-saturated synth-pop which ruled the eighties." (BBC music), lending talents to the kids show that will breed the raddest little bunch of up-and-coming music geniuses, Yo Gabba Gabba.

The show, created by child actor and lead signer of The Aquabats, Christian Jacobs (also known as MC Bat Commander) and Scott Schultz of 90s indie band Majestic, is presumably named after a Ramones' lyric (Gabba Gabba Hey) and is a tasty treat for the eyes and ears with segments like Biz's Beat of the Day, which teaches kids to beatbox, or host DJ Lance Rock getting crazy kiddies (who are now burgeoning youtube superstars) to dance to electro-synth pop. And all this within the confines of a set that looks like a the shiny 80s exploded all over a loud, brightly coloured vintage game show. amazing.

Other guests that have graced Yo Gabba Gabba's stage include The Roots, Jack Black, Of Montreal, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Tony Hawk, Elijah Wood, Mates of State, The Clientele, The Ting Tings, comedian Rhys Darby, and more.

XX(X)

Their name probably conjurers thoughts of harder sounds, but The XX, create beautifully crafted mellow pop.
The combination of locals and sweeping soundscape remind me alot of Broken Social Scene, but hey that’s just me...
The XX - VCR

Broken Social Scene – Anthems for a Seventeen year old girl

Smith Westerns & Ratso

Check this little lo-fi gem from Chicago's Smith Westerns
Smith Westerns - Be My Girl


Here they are playing on what is possibly the greatest children’s television of all time
Chic-a-Go-Go.

Ghostwood

Ghostwood got back from london a few weeks ago and have started playing a bunch of shows, go on, go see them!

Red version, still a great song.

Red Version Video Clip

Jessica Hopper's new book

If this book came from anyone else I would be dubious, particularly after its cover art, BUT it is from Jessica Hopper.

Her Bio says
"Jessica Hopper is a music and culture critic whose work regularly appears in Chicago Reader, LA Weekly, SPIN, ANP and Chicago Tribune and has also been included in DaCapo's Best of Music Writing 2004, 2005 and 2007. She is also the music consultant for the public radio show, This American Life. Her widely-anthologized essay, "Emo: Where the Girls Aren't" was described as "influential" by The New York Times.

Holding fast to the music-is-my-life credo, Hopper has also done time as a tour manager, band publicist, DJ, touring bassist, Girls Rock Camp booster, and fanzine publisher. She lives in Chicago."

Above all this, she wrote what was easily the best column in Punk Planet until that sad sad day when the magazine folded, she gave an amazing portrait of the Chicago punk scene and still does to an extent at , tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear.

Hopper has just released a new book called "The Girls' Guide to Rocking: How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom". And it is what it says it is, a guide to starting a band, talented or not, and what to do next.

Expose

WCCO "exposes" the Minneapolis hardcore scene in 1983...nothing more punk than Blow Darts?!?!

I want your blood!

TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone’s side project Rain Machine has put up the first track from his album due September 22 on Anti.
Rain Machine – Give Blood

If you can’t wait and need more Kyp in you life you can make your own thanks to Paper Foldables

Patrick Watson

The Falls festival line up was leaked today and in amongst all the hullabaloo about Grizzly Bear and Yeah Yeah Yeahs a couple of really cool acts slipped under the radar like Patrick Watson.




Ah what the hell for old times’ sake, the Schweppes ‘Burst’ ad featuring the Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a home

Family Portraits

Fan Art where will you stop. Here are some complete family portraits of some of the worst families ever portrayed on film...

Japandroids

Canadia's CBC radio 3 interviewed Japandroid in the smallest rehersal room in all of Vancouver.



Japandroid - Wet Hair

Check out CBC , they have a bunch of great small Candian acts up on their site.

Au Revoir Simone

3 peice Au Revoir had been pottering along producing some beautiful sounds but probably didn’t pop up onto alot of radars until they provide the amazing vocals for Air France’s epic rework of Friendly Fires Paris. I still think that that song will one day be used in a film as the music for a scene where the young pragmatist tries ecstasy for the first time and falls backwards into a crowd at a festival with their face beaming with a smile. Out of the back of that exposure Au Revoir Simone have come back with their new album Still Night, Still Light.

Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (The Teenagers Remix)

Air France have tried to pull of the double with another Friendly Fires remix, this time of Skeletons.
Friendly Fires - Skeletons (Air France Remix)

Modest Mouse

The first time I ever heard Modest Mouse I heard I was at Waterloo records in Austin I was on a blind date with a girl named Kendra and she played them to me. Both our parents had ambushed us at a dinner it became obvious they had planed the whole thing and it was embarrassing for all concerned, but then it turned out to be one of the best nights I’ve ever had. She was a professional lacrosse player, we almost killed a dear, we got moved on by police at make out point and we had brownies. She showed me how to play lacrosse and while we sat in some lawn chairs in an abandoned lot she told me about her ex boyfriend in jail for stat rape. I said I would call her, she said I probably wouldn’t, she was right.

Health

I like how at the newsagent they seem to gloss over softcore porn by calling them Health magazines...although that magazine entitled "Nuts" was a little less sutble.

Health, the band that made Crystal Castles who they are now, or vice versa, have a new one its called Die Slow.

Health - Die Slow

Fantastic!

Wes Anderson. Fantastic!

Noah and The Whale

I think i just fell in love with this band
Saw this first things this morning and pretty much everything else is having trouble stacking up it

The First Days of Spring Official Trailer from charlie fink on Vimeo.

Big Pink

Big Pink’s Velvet was a song you knew you were only going to be able to keep secret for a little while.
Their new single Dominos is going to make it even harder.
Playing Summer Sonic this weekend should have gone...


Big Pink - Dominos,









Plus just for old times sakes...

Magic Wands

A new one courtesy of the Awkward Turtle who is still sans internet...
Its LA duo Magic Wands with Black Magic.
Great song, but how did they get the cat to wear those 3D glasses!?

Girls, Girls, Girls

Dum Dum Girls played the first show early this month in Brooklyn, just got picked up by Sub Pop. Features current and ex-members of Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls and Crocodiles...can't go wrong











The Vivian Girls

The Vivian Girls have put out a new track called 'When I'm Gone' ahead of their new album 'Everything goes wrong' the follow up to their awesome Self Titled debut.

Vivian Girls - When I'm Gone






The Girls

Despite the singer looking a little too much like Macaulay Culkin for my liking the songs The Girls are unmissable and the Hellhole ratrace 10" a must, out now onTrue Panther.


The Girls - Hellhole Ratrace

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