Likers – Men of Honor EP (2014)

Suicide Bong Tapes is one of the fresher labels in Philadelphia. A division of FDH Records, they just dropped the new cassette EP from Philly-based pop-punks LIKERS. Men of Honor exposes us to six energized songs, each of which make up a strong and cohesive release.
Officially released on February 11th, Men of Honor is Likers debut release, however it nearly sounds like it could be their third or fourth. Their six songs feature elements anywhere from pop, post-punk and punk, occasionally mixing in some synth pop nods as well. It helps keep their sound fun and refreshing, which features exhilarating turn after turn as Men of Honor unfolds.

The People’s Temple – Musical Garden (2014)

“Those Lansing boys in the People’s Temple have become a reliable staple in the garage-pop landscape. On their third album, they’re still ripping and stomping as well they were on Sons of Stone and More for the Masses. Sure, their stuff leans vintage Nuggets (see the tambourine on “Handsome Nick”), and once again, they wear that sound well. But perhaps their finest work comes on “I Don’t Mind”, where they let their vocals echo and ring with minimal backing-just the ethereal, distant sound of what might be a tape machine. Of course, they’re also ready to turn up the power, which they do exceedingly well on the appropriately titled “Fast Thrills”. Thus far, they’re three for three and show no signs of letting up.”

Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots (2014)

Wovenhand – Refractory Obdurate (2014)

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The Antlers – Familiars (2014)

Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s – Slingshot to Heaven (2014)

Ray LaMontagne – Supernova (2014)

Enemy (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)

Academy Award Nominee Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his PRISONERS director, Academy Award Nominee Denis Villeneuve, in this sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. Adam Bell (Gyllenhaal) is a glum, disheveled history professor, who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend, Mary (Laurent). Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double, a bit-part actor named Anthony Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined. 

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Hospitality – Trouble (2014)

Hospitality’s self-titled debut album was a love letter to life in your early twenties – a carefree, cartwheeling attempt to see the good in bad decisions, and only the sweet in bittersweet romance. A few years on, their second LP Trouble doesn’t just feel like an expansion of these themes, but a direct sequel: resigned to the realities of late twenties disappointments, and finding lyrical escapism in empty, imaginary landscapes.
Gone are the colourful bursts of brass flooding the choruses. Gone also are the peppy drum beats elevating acoustica into carnival.

The Chasers (Erik Løchen, 1959)

Erik Løchen, then, has stayed for most ciné buffs an enigma, someone the happy few talk of as the Norwegian Godard, a misunderstood genius who was allowed only to execute two projects before dying at age 59. Jakten was actually show at Cannes at its release, but didn't get much of a reception. A lot of new ideas were coming around all over at the time and Jakten must have been seen as just another "modernist" approach, depending heavily on with Brechtian inspiration.

Open Up to Me (Simo Halinen, 2013)

Maarit is a beautiful, intelligent and sexy woman – who used to be a man. Struck by the oddity of gender change, she is estranged from the daughter she fathered and from her previous life. When she meets and falls in love with Sami – soccer coach, teacher and family man – she finally feels like she can ‘fit in’ somewhere. But Sami is soon put to the test. In a world that considers Maarit a freak, Sami is forced to confront his own deeply hidden prejudices. And as for Maarit, with or without Sami, she has to step into a brave new world where only she can determine her sense of belonging.

Blue Caprice (Alexandre Moors, 2013)

The striking feature film debut of writer-director Alexandre Moors, BLUE CAPRICE is a harrowing yet restrained psychological thriller about an abandoned boy lured to America into the shadows of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by true events, BLUE CAPRICE investigates the notorious and horrific Beltway sniper attacks from the point of view of the two killers, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America.

Her Name Is Calla – Navigator (2014)

SAMO DECA, Peti Smit (Rende, 2013.)

Mazzy Star - I'm Less Here

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Judex (1963), Georges Franju

Chain and The Gang – Minimum Rock n Roll (2014)

Ian Svenonius, rock’n’roll radical behind Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, Weird War etc. returns with his current outfit, Chain & The Gang, whose fourth album aims not just to restate their disdain for the industrial processing of music, desire to dismantle capitalism and end material monism but to spawn a new genre, ‘crime rock’. Which sounds like a kind of lean, garage-punk blues with anarchic tendencies of a kind definitely not available in Urban Outfitters.

S. Carey – Range Of Light (2014)

... Nezno ...

S. Carey’s work is a hugely beatific, restorative panorama of beauty – perfect given how landscape and the wonder of nature inspire much of Carey’s imagery. His new album Range of Light takes its title from the name that 19th century naturalist John Muir gave to the Sierra Nevada, and follows suit with a dazzling array of musical light and shade, drawn from Carey’s love of jazz, modern classical and Americana. Like a weathered mountain range changing shadow form and color, or the ebb and flow of a river’s current, S. Carey’s music is simultaneously restful and rhythmic, complex and simple, and always evolving.

Cannes 2014 lineup: 'A mouth-watering selection'

The Guardian's film critic, Peter Bradshaw, gets his teeth into a Cannes programme that includes new films from David Cronenberg, Olivier Assayas and Ken Loach

The announcement of the Cannes competition list is an event that becomes more tinglingly tense and exciting every year. These are the films that will, for good or ill, dominate world cinema conversation in the coming 12 months. They're an alternative canon to the English-language "awards season" movies that emerge after Venice and Toronto in the autumn. With films by big-hitters including Cronenberg, Godard, Hazanavicius, Ceylan and the Dardenne brothers, this is likely to be the case once again.

Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate writer, dies aged 87

The Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, who unleashed the worldwide boom in Spanish language literature and magical realism with his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, died at the age of 87. He had been admitted to hospital in Mexico City on 3 April with pneumonia.

Eels – The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett (2014)

Stan Lee Cole – That’s Why We Weep (2014)

Pink Mountaintops – Get Back (2014)

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Ben Watt – Hendra [Deluxe Edition] (2014)

Woods – With Light and with Love (2014)

Woods have made huge leaps forward with almost every album since their ramshackle beginnings as a stony folk collective. Their songs, always tuneful and hemmed with emotional push, had a tendency to get a little lost in the presentation on their earliest recordings, with songwriter Jeremy Earl‘s mournful tunes often disrupted by interjections of noise or sullied by murky production. The smoke was beginning to clear with 2009′s Songs of Shame, though the band was still indulging in side-long jams and noisy sidesteps. Released in 2012, Bend Beyond stood as the clearest document of Woods to date, sounding like a streamlined update to ’70s roots rockers like the Band, Dylan, or Neil Young when backed by Crazy Horse at their most ragged.

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Bardo Pond – Refulgo (2014)

... Buka & Bes ...

Refulgo is a collection of long out of print, rare and early 7”s and compilation tracks from Bardo Pond. The material on Refulgo has been remastered by Patrick Klem and Bardo Pond’s Michael Gibbons.
In 2000 a deep love for Bardo Pond provided the inspiration to establish Three Lobed Recordings. Fourteen years later, Bardo Pond and Three Lobed Recordings are proud to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the band’s initial releases with Refulgo, an epic double LP collection of the band’s earliest 7” singles, split 7” tracks, and compilation appearances.

Protomartyr – Under Cover of Official Right (2014)

... Scum, Rise!!!

Detroit post-punk outfit Protomartyr release their sophomore album Under Color of Official Right, the follow up to 2013′s No Passion All Technique on April 8 via Hardly Art.
Protomartyr’s taut, austere rock was incubated in a freezing Detroit warehouse littered with beer cans and cigarette butts and warmed, feebly, by space heaters. Despite the cold, Protomartyr emerged with a sound that is idiosyncratic but relatable, hooky but off-kilter, and economical in a way that elicits comparisons to possible antecedents like Pere Ubu or The Fall as well as local contemporaries like Frustrations or Tyvek (whose frontman Kevin Boyer played bass in an early iteration of Protomartyr) — all of which have combined here to make one stunner of a sophomore album and the band’s first for Hardly Art.

Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971)

"Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, buddies Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) are a catalogue of male sexual dysfunction. Sensitive Sandy falls in love with and marries college sweetheart Susan (Candice Bergen) only to wonder years later if he missed out on finding the perfect sex/love partner.

Sharon Van Etten - "Taking Chances"

Today Sharon shared a new video for “Taking Chances” via The Guardian premiere off her upcoming album Are We There. The video, based on the opening sequence from the Agnes Varda film Cleo from 5 to 7, is directed by Michael Palmieri.

Pink Mountaintops - "North Hollywood Microwaves"

Douglas Dare – Whelm (2014)

Warpaint - Disco//Very + Keep It Healthy (Official Video)

John Matthias – Geisterfahrer (2014)

Coves – Soft Friday (2014)

Blood Brother (2013) , Steve Hoover

Morrissey & Marshall – And So It Began (2014)

Timber Timbre – Hot Dreams (2014)

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Timber Timbre’s last outing, the excellent Keep On Creepin’ On, was met with almost universal indifference outside of their native Canada, where they received a number of richly deserved award nominations.3 years on, multi-instrumentalist Taylor Kirk has opted to hand over greater creative responsibility to long-time collaborator Simon Trottier, who steps forward to join Kirk as co-composer & producer on Hot Dreams. In many ways, the end results are similar to Keep On Creepin’ On, but there are some noticeable progressions too.

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