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Bill "Smog" Callahan

01 Bill Callahan - Apocalypse [Drag City,2011]

BRISANJE TACKA RASPAD 2011

1.Fleet Foxes-Helplessness Blues, Sub Pop

2.Josh T. Pearson-Last of the Country Gentlemen, Mute

3.Forest Fire-Staring at the X, Fat Cat Records

Lia Ices “Daphne”

Green Man Session 029 // Lia Ices - Daphne from Green Man on Vimeo.

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D.T.Broughton-Zemlja Cuda

David Thomas Broughton - Staying True from Leila Watts on Vimeo.



Untitled from Christina Hazell on Vimeo.

Real Estate - Its Real

This Property Is Condemned (1966), Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on an abandoned railroad track with her friend Tom (Jon Provost) and relates the tale of her deceased older sister Alva (Natalie Wood). Alva is a beautiful woman living in a small Mississippi town in the 1930s with her manipulative mother Hazel (Kate Reid), the owner of a boarding house. Hazel wants Alva to marry the well to do Mr. Johnson (John Harding), but Alva has fallen in love with a good-looking stranger from New Orleans, Owen Legate (Robert Redford), who is in Mississippi to lay off railroad workers. Hazel is opposed to their love affair and when Owen is beaten to a pulp by a gang of workers, he decides to leave town and take Alva with him. But Hazel fools Owen into thinking Alva is engaged to Mr. Johnson. In retaliation, Alva marries Hazel's loutish lover J.J. (Charles Bronson). The next day, she abandons J.J. to meet Owen in New Orleans. Her mother, incensed at Alva's betrayal, sets out to ruin her daughter's reputation by exposing her marriage to J.J. to the world.

The Skin I Live In (2011), Pedro Almodóvar

Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In finds him joining forces with Antonio Banderas for the first time in over 20 years. Banderas plays Dr. Robert Ledgard, a plastic surgeon who has invented a type of fake skin that is more durable than real skin. But he achieves this breakthrough with the assistance of Vera (Elena Anaya), a young woman he's keeping locked up in his mansion. The only person who knows about this unusual arrangement is his maid, Marilia (Marisa Paredes). But his secret, as well as additional sins of the past he's desperate to keep hidden, bubble to the surface when Marila's criminal son shows up with a gun, forces his way into Vera's room, and attempts to rape her. The Skin I Live In played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.

Morvern Callar (2002), Lynne Ramsay

A woman's life is set onto a new path by tragedy and confusion in this offbeat drama from maverick director Lynne Ramsay. Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) is a woman in her early twenties who wakes up in her flat in a small Scottish town on Christmas morning to a rather unpleasant surprise -- her live-in boyfriend has committed suicide, and his body lies on the floor in a pool of blood. She discovers that he has left a short message for her on the screen of his personal computer ("I love you. Be brave."), as well as the text of a novel he had recently completed. Changing the name on the title page to her own, Morvern begins sending the manuscript out to publishers without having actually read it. Eventually, Morvern disposes of her boyfriend's body, scrubs away the evidence of his suicide, and attempts to reintegrate herself with the world, though the shocking events seems to have built a wall between her and those around her, and she is unable to explain what has happened to anyone, even her best friend, Lanna (Kathleen McDermott). Eventually, Morvern draws the last of her boyfriend's money from the bank and treats herself and Lanna to a short vacation in Spain, where they become friendly with a group of hedonistic British expatriates and soon find their friendship stretched to the breaking point. Morvern Callar was based on the novel by Alan Warner; it was originally intended to be Lynne Ramsay's first directorial effort, but she was able to complete her film Ratcatcher before securing funding for this project.

LISTICA

1.Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues










2.The Felice Brothers – Celebration Florida






3.Bill Callahan- Apocalypse







4. Bright Eyes- The People’s Key









5.The Horrors - Skying

Tindersticks - Dying Slowly

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Lynne Ramsay

A tormented mother grapples with feelings of accountability and intense grief after her troubled 15-year-old son commits an act of violence that shakes their community to its very core. Eva (Tilda Swinton) had a promising career when an unplanned pregnancy threw her life off-balance, though she selflessly put her own ambitions aside to give her son, Kevin, a good life. From the moment Kevin was born, there was a palpable tension between mother and son. Years later, as a teenager, Kevin (Ezra Miller) snaps. As the community recoils from Kevin and his family, Eva begins to question whether or not she ever really loved her son in the first place. John C. Reilly co-stars in this psychological drama based on the novel by Lionel Shriver, and directed by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar).

Birds of Passage – Winter Lady / Highwaymen in Midnight Masks (2011)

Alicia Merz makes blissfully introspective music as Birds Of Passage on her 2nd solo album. ‘Winter Lady’ sees her return to a desolate, melancholic headspace reminiscent of her first album ‘Without The World’, creating a delicate, minimalist world of whispered vocals, expansive drones and fairytale atmospheres with a darker pop heart akin to Zola Jesus or Grouper, or to an extent, an arctic Sade. Nils Frahm is at hand for mastering, but all music and lyrics are comfortably handled by Merz.


“Birds of Passage” is an authentic solo project of Alicia Merz, formed in 2010, New Zealand. She has collaborated with such artists like Leonardo Rosado, Aidan Baker, Jeff Stonehouse, Gareth Munday (Roof Light) and by consistently working with the respectable Denovali Recordings, Alicia has rapidly emerged into intellectual audience.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Paul Mazursky

"Consider the possibilities," read the ads for Paul Mazursky's 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual revolution hits affluent bourgeois life. After a weekend of "beautiful" emotional honesty at an Esalen-type retreat, married wannabe hipsters Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) return to their well-heeled Los Angeles life determined to apply the principles of free love and complete openness to their marriage. To the respective curiosity and repulsion of their married best friends, Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice (Dyan Cannon), Bob and Carol have affairs that they happily reveal to everyone. Inspired by all that openness during the quartet's trip to Vegas, Ted admits an affair of his own, provoking the outraged Alice to demand that this new ethos be taken to its obvious conclusion: a mate-sharing foursome. Once they're bedded down and ready to go, however, they start to have second thoughts. Without sacrificing authenticity for comedy, first-time director Mazursky and co-writer/producer Larry Tucker delve into the confusion of the Eisenhower generation when faced with the temptations of the counterculture. Too old to be hippies and too young to be fogies, the would-be California swingers sincerely attempt to try on the lifestyle, but it never looks quite right. A then-controversial example of the New Permissiveness both onscreen and off, Bob & Carol debuted at the New York Film Festival to great praise, particularly for Gould and Cannon. Whether they wanted to laugh at their elders' faux looseness or see what their peers might be doing, audiences turned Bob & Carol into a substantial hit, and its observations about marriage and sex remain humorously sharp even if the encounter group jargon is past its vogue.

The Tin Drum (1979) , Volker Schlöndorff

In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees around him, he vows never to get any older or any bigger. Whenever the world around him becomes too much to bear, the boy begins to hammer on his drum; should anyone try to take the toy away from him, he emits an ear-piercing scream that literally shatters glass. As Germany goes to hell during the 1930s and '40s, the never-aging Oskar continues savagely beating his drum, serving as the angry conscience of a world gone mad. The intense and visceral Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s and won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the 1979 Golden Palm (which it shared with Apocalypse Now). In the late '90s, the film became the center of a censorship controversy when some U.S. videotapes were confiscated because of the film's supposed violation of a child pornography statute.

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King's Daughters And Sons

King's Daughters And Sons
If Then Not When (Chemikal Underground,2011)

Debut album from this band featuring various Touch & Go alumni. Hailing from Louisville KY, King’s Daughters & Sons feature members of Rachel’s, Shipping News, The For Carnation and Shannon Wright.   The music on the album deals mostly with ghost stories, murder ballads and grimoires: dark narratives that recall Nick Cave and the work of Louisville luminaries Slint.

Swod

Swod
Drei (City Centre Offices, 2011)

Berlin’s Oliver Doerell and Stephan Wohrmann return with their third album on City Centre Offices as Swod, following 2004's Gehen and 2007's Sekunden. It’s a smart, emotionally involving sequence of melancholic, minimalist sketches, characterised by piano, quivering acoustic timbres and rich electronic ambience- it’s generously melodic and sweetly textured stuff, but with an occasionally scratchy, disturbed atmosphere

Deardarkhead – Oceanside: 1991-1993 (2011)

Deardarkhead takes its name from an anonymously written Irish poem of the 18th century "Cean Dubh Dilis", about a beautiful girl with black hair.
Formed in 1988, deardarkhead are a trio based in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area consisting of: guitarist Kevin Harrington, drummer Robert Weiss and bassist Kevin McCauley, who came on board during the fall of 2010 after the departure of longtime singer/bassist Michael Amper. Currently they are performing all instrumental shows but are seeking the right person to take over on vocals.

Bill Callahan "America!"

Tom The Lion – The Adventures Of Tom The Lion (2011)

...Jenslekmanovski...Andrybrdovski...Rufusvejvrajtovski...

The Adventures of Tom the Lion is currently Rough Trade’s Album of the Month.

The Vaccines - Tiger Blood

Mayer Hawthorne – Daytrotter Session 12-07-11 (2011)

The Detroit, Michigan-dwelling, Motown-loving soul singer – who recently performed an alternative to the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day halftime performance by Nickelback from his parents’ home, broadcast on Rolling Stone’s website – is everything that the Motor City’s musical legacy was built on when Berry Gordy and Smokey Robinson were running the town. He’s unabashedly retro-leaning and it makes every song sound as if it were a classic – something plucked out of a hit parade, dusted off and performed again, anew, with the horns bleating the sweet punctuations and the harmonies pitched thick and about as perfect as you can ever get them. He writes the catchiest damn hooks and provides us with the kinds of loving and leaving, pining for women types of songs that still get done today, but often in much different ways and with much different results.

Sobrenadar – Physeos [EP] (2011)

Sobrenadar is the project of Argentinian Paula Garcia, and this is her EP Physeos released today by Absent Fever, whom we featured before re: Kynan’s I Will Count The Stars. Physeos is kind of like a more washed out Washed Out. The sounds are as gigantically blissful as Garcia’s reassuring voice; it sounds like a perfect day. Boom. And you can get it for free from the Absent Feevs bandcamp. 

Effi Briest (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films. The titular heroine, played by Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla, is a 17-year-old girl forced into a loveless marriage with an old count. Living as the aristocrat's trophy wife, Effi endures her provincial existence unhappily. Her circumstances lead to a brief affair with a young lieutenant that attracts the attention of the townspeople, but not her unsuspecting husband's. Years later, however, the count discovers the love letters between his wife and her lover. As dictated by convention, he challenges the lieutenant to a duel and throws his wife out of their home. The shamed Effi is forced to live by herself, shunned by society and spurned by her family. Effi eventually returns to her unsympathetic parents, who reluctantly take in their disgraced daughter.

Josh Rouse – The Mediterranean Sounds Of [Anthology]

Wilco- Live On Letterman

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tindersticks - announce new album

tindersticks release their new album “the something rain” in February 2012.
Recorded between May 2010 and August 2011, it comprises nine songs.
Here is “Medicine”, from the album, with a film by David Reeve and Patrick Steel shot in the band’s Le Chien Chanceux Studio.

The Jans Project – The Jans Project EP (2011)

Finally, “college rock radio” has awakened from its long sleep and given us The Jans Project, a “Midwestern rock project” featuring Ex-B Lovers/Turning Curious members Nick Rudd (vocals, guitar), Jeff Evans (drums) and Steve Scariano (bass). Steve Lindstrom rounds out the lineup on second guitar.
In the early ‘80s, Champaign, Ill., was ground zero for college rock and one of the finest examples, a local band simply called B-Lovers, released a great single called “Everything is Falling.” They soon morphed into Turning Curious. The band was on their way. In 1983, Turning Curious decamped to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and recorded a wonderful 6-song EP (Soul Light Season) with Let’s Active front man Mitch Easter at his Drive-in Studios – the man responsible for giving REM’s its sound.

Afghan Whigs Reunite for First Shows in 13 Years

The Afghan Whigs are to make London's Alexandra Palace the site of their first concert in 13 years.

Woven Hand – Black of the Ink (2011)

After six groundbreaking longplay records under the name of Wovenhand, David Eugene Edwards –in conjunction with Glitterhouse Records – releases the synopsis of his work titled Black of the Ink. Oral history turns into written history. Black of the Ink is a 110 page hard-cover book that contains the complete lyrics of all Wovenhand records handwritten and illustrated by David Eugene Edwards himself. The elaborate work is accompanied by a six song CD – one song off each album in brand-new and exclusive versions.

John Cale – Extra Playful (2011)

There’s a line on John Cale’s latest EP Extra Playful that seems to sum up his attitude to music, “You were hopefully looking for perfection”. It’s something he seems to have been searching for during his half a decade as a recording artist, from his classical training to his more experimental rock. As he approaches the elder statesman age of 70, he certainly isn’t calling off the search.
Unlike some of his contemporaries who rely on their glory years to sustain their careers, Cale has instead continued to push forward, producing some of his best solo work in the last decade. Extra Playful follows that trend; in the space of just 5 tracks he turns his attention to a variety of different styles, thereby delivering an ideal appetiser for a full-length album in 2012.

Okkervil River – Golden Opportunities 2 [EP] (2011)

Back in 2007, Okkervil River released their free Golden Opportunities covers mixtape. It featured Will Sheff and co. paying homage to some of their favorite songs and songwriters. Four years later, that mixtape has a sequel, in the form of the Golden Opportunities 2 EP. The five tracks find the band digging even deeper than before, covering songs by Bill Fay, Ted Lucas, Jim Sullivan, and David McComb (via his band the Triffids).
The EP kicks off with a version of Motown session player Ted Lucas’ 1975 folk balled “It Is So Nice to Get Stoned,” from his sole solo album. Things continue with “U.F.O.” by Jim Sullivan’s “U.F.O.,” an artist who mysteriously vanished soon after putting out the song (read the surreal story here). The band digs even deeper to uncover “One Less Soul on Your Fiery List,” from the 2007 reissue of 1986’s In the Pines by Australian band the Triffids. They then tap into obscure songwriter Bill Fay – perhaps best known to younger fans from Wilco’s cover of “Be Not So Fearful” – with “Plan D.” “Dry Bones,” probably the only song familiar to many on here, rounds things out. 

The Adverts – Crossing The Red Sea With The Adverts (Ultimate Edition/2011)

The band were formed in 1976 by TV Smith and Gaye Advert. Smith and Advert were both from Bideford, a small coastal town in Devon and were later married. After relocating to London the two young punks recruited guitarist Pickup and drummer Driver and The Adverts were born.
The Roxy, London's first live punk venue, played a crucial role in The Adverts’ early career. They were one of the pioneering bands who played at the club during its first 100 days. The Adverts played at the club no less than nine times between January and April 1977.

Atlas Sound – Parallax (2011)

Parallax is the upcoming third studio release from Bradford Cox’s solo project Atlas Sound, to be released November 7, 2011 via 4AD. Production duties were handled by Cox and previous Deerhunter producer Nicholas Vernhes. It was recorded at Rare Book Room Studios in Brooklyn, New York (which is ran by Vernhes.) The artwork features a photograph of Bradford Cox taken by Mick Rock, who has previously shot photographs for albums such as Raw Power, The Madcap Laughs, and Transformer. 4AD also launched a website, depicting an image of Cox in Manhattan’s Central Park, similar to the artwork of his two previous releases, his face is obscured by a flash. The website lists the genre as “Science Fiction.”

Princess Pangolin – Princess Pangolin (2011)

In this installment of BackStory, Princess Pangolin’s Julie Carpenter tells us the story behind her song “Heatwave.” If Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing says it’s good, you know it is. You can catch Princess Pangolin at LA’s Echoplex on April 1.
This song started with the pizzicato violin riff…I started playing that and humming the melody. It was one of those things that just falls complete out of the aether, without a lot of “What next?” Sometimes the chords tell you exactly what to do. I also knew immediately that it needed sparkly Omnichord strums.

PAPA: "I Am The Lion King"

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The Sandwitches – The Pearl [Single] (2011)

We love San Francisco trio the Sandwitches and their yearning, stunning lo-fi folk-pop, so we’re excited about their new 7”, The Pearl, and its hauntingly beautiful a-side.
As with the best tracks on their 2011 release Mrs. Jones’ Cookies, “The Pearl” is gorgeous, sunlit Americana, here complete with harmonica and Heidi Alexander and Grace Cooper’s interlocked fingerpicked guitar and vocals, but you always get the feeling something dark’s brewing underneath – it’s in Roxanne Brodeur’s thundery drum rolls, the whole thing’s subtly gathering intensity, the growing shortness of Cooper and Alexander’s patience. “He’s a pearl / he’s my pearl,” they sing, then: “Don’t turn me, my treasure / you’ve been wrong to me, my treasure.” It’s breathtaking, gorgeous stuff – listen to this one with the lights off.

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The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

Socrates That Practices Music – Further Conclusions Against an Italian Version (BAT) (2011)

With a name like Socrates That Practices Music it was obvious things were going to diverge from the norm. The music contained on this London based duo’s first LP Further Conclusions Against an Italian Version (BAT) defies genre and attempts to eschew from comparisons. Minimalist pop, Art-Rock and experimental all equally fit the bill. Imagine the repetition of The Fall mating the quirky oddball songwriting of Robyn Hitchcock and your still not close to knowing what this band sounds like. Lyrically the record is strong with a wacky almost robotic vocal delivery at times while the samples keep things fresh and interesting. Socrates That Practices Music have crafted a very interesting listen.

Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)

To call Kes timeless, even as a form of praise, is not quite right. For it’s a film that’s steeped in a very particular time and place. It was made – at the trickle-down end of a decade that had begun with the kitchen-sink movement dramatising working-class lives as never before – in 1969 by a director credited as “Kenneth Loach”; when teenagers like its dirty-nailed hero Billy Casper (David Bradley) still read the Dandy and were scolded by their school headmaster for being “mere fodder for the mass media”; when the most miserable fate that could befall a young adult would be to labour down the mine.