How I Ended This Summer (2010) Alexei Popogrebsky,Mirko Rucnov

In this low-key suspense drama from Russia, Sergei (Sergei Puskepalis) and Pavel (Grigory Dobrygin) are two meteorologists working at a weather station in the frozen wastes of the Arctic. Sergei has been stationed there for several years; he's sullen, homesick, and eager to return to his wife and family. Pavel is younger and enjoying his first adventure after leaving school, and prefers video games and music to Sergei's pastimes. One day, Sergei announces that he's heading out for a few days to go fishing, and Pavel is in charge of the station. While Sergei is away, Pavel gets a radio message with shocking news -- Sergei's wife and son have lost their lives in an accident, and a ship will be coming by to pick him up as soon as possible. However, given their remote location, it will take weeks for the ship to arrive, and when Sergei returns, Pavel lacks the courage to break the bad news to him. As Pavel struggles with the weight of this secret, Sergei becomes increasingly frustrated with the confines of life at the station; when he runs off again, Pavel is given strict orders to find him, and as he sets out to locate his comrade, he wanders into territory that's home to polar bears who don't appreciate the presence of humans. Kak Ya Provel Etim Letom (aka How I Ended This Summer) was an official selection at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.

Okkervil River-Your Past Life As A Blast

Your Past Life As A Blast from Okkervil River on Vimeo.

Ryan Adams – Ashes & Fire (2011)

You never know which Ryan Adams you’re going to get. Is he crooning, or is he raging? Is the music metal, or twangy country? He can successfully crib just about any style of popular music he chooses: the Dead, the Stones, The Flying Burrito Brothers — it’s all in his wheelhouse. You can’t help but ask: Will the real Ryan Adams ever stand up?
Now, throw into that complex mix his recent marriage to Mandy Moore, a two-year hiatus from music (long for him, certainly), and a chronic and painful inner-ear affliction called Ménière’s disease, which apparently causes him to hear strange tones and fall over things. No, it’s not the drink or drugs: He says he’s clean and living healthy. In a recent interview, Adams said he’s had to completely relearn music because of the Ménière’s.

Deer Tick – Divine Providence (2011)

Spas za ovu jesen!!!!!!!!!!!
Look up “workhorse” in the dictionary, and there probably won’t be a picture of Deer Tick, but there damn well ought to be. In just five years, the Providence, Rhode Island indie folk band has put out three LPs and three EPs, toured relentlessly, and become a regular on the festival circuit. This on top of frontman John McCauley’s work with Middle Brother, including touring with both units at once. Now Deer Tick has announced yet another record under a year-and-a-half removed from their last one, The Black Dirt Sessions.

The John Brothers Piano Company – The John Brothers Piano Company (2011)

The John Brothers Piano Company is an art collective formed by John Steven Morgan, John Thatcher Boomer, and Max Moriyama in the East Bay Area. The primary aesthetic of the collective attempts to render several different artforms, mainly original music, outside of established venues and directly to the public via alternative settings such as mass transit boarding and outdoor settings.Weekly, the John Brothers bring a small spinet piano to San Francisco, Berkeley and Rockridge BART stations and play continuously for up to seven hours. All music, though containing several different styles ranging from Jazz to blues to stride and classical, is composed by John Morgan and Thatcher Boomer. Maxwell Moriyama provides sole artistic direction-putting a “face” to the John Brothers Piano Company by combining century old illustration with modern techniques to create a nostalgic sensibility.

Feist – Metals (2011)

...Metals Su Bas Heavy...FEISTE DIE BESTE...

For nearly a decade, Leslie Feist did not stop moving. Her 2004 award winning album Let It Die led right into 2007’s The Reminder, which earned her four Grammy nominations, six Juno wins, the Shortlist Music Prize, and the opportunity to teach Muppets to count on Sesame Street. She made her Saturday Night Live debut and toured the world. She covered an album with Beck, recorded with Wilco and watched Stephen Colbert shimmy in a sequined “1234” jumpsuit, and made a documentary about her visual collaborators on The Reminder. And then, finally, after the seventh year, Feist rested.
“There’s a lot of output on tour,” she says. “and in the downtime afterwards I was a sponge—I was trying to absorb as much as I put out for seven years. I was being still and trying to learn how to be quiet and remember that silence isn’t aggressive,” she adds. “Sometimes after being in a lot of noise and movement, silence and stillness can seem completely terrifying.”

Umro Serdjo Boneli

Izdavač italijanskih stripova "Teks Viler" i "Dilan Dog" i tvorac popularnih strip junaka Zagor i Mister No Serdjo Boneli umro je u ponedeljak ujutru u Monci u 79. godini, izvestili su italijanski mediji.

Boneli je umro u bolnici u koju je primljen pre nedelju dana. Bio je oženjen i imao je sina Davidea koji je bio zadužen za marketing u izdavačkoj kući Serdjo Boneli editore iz Milana. Boneli je bio sin Djana Luidjija, koji je 1948. stvorio lik Teksa Vilera, teksaškog rendžera koji postaje vodja plemena Havaho i brani slabe. Veoma mlad je počeo da radi u porodičnoj izdavačkoj kući, najpre kao kurir i radnik u skladištu, a 1957. dolazi na čelo izdavačke kuće Čepim, koja kasnije menja ime u Serdjo Boneli editore.

Kao scenarista pod imenom Gvido Nolita, stvorio je likove kakvi su Zagor, mešavina vestern junaka i Tarzana, i Mister No, bivši američki vojnik koji 1950-ih godina živi u brazilskoj Amazoniji. Prema pisanju dnevnika Republika, Mister No je lik koji "predstavlja momenat prekida sa tradicijom izdavačke kuće koju je osnovao njegov otac". "Vojnik Džek Drejk je anti-junak, veoma human i veoma daleko od nepogrešivih junačkih figura poput Teksa Vilera", navodi taj list. Boneli je zamenio svog oca na mestu scenariste stripa "Teks Viler", koji je i danas jedan od najprodavanijih stripova u Italija.

Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)

Charles Tatum, a down-on-his-luck reporter, takes a job with a small New Mexico newspaper. The job is pretty boring until he finds a man trapped in an old Indian dwelling. He jumps at the chance to make a name for himself by taking over and prolonging the rescue effort, and feeding stories to major newspapers. He creates a national media sensation and milks it for all it is worth - until things go terribly wrong.

Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir – Pan Tone (2011)

Dream hook-up from Hauschka and Hildur Gudnadottir, born out of their desire to create a series of compositions based on the idea of the ocean (the title alludes to their seeking to observe and record the sea’s specific colours using a Pantone guide). But there’s nothing wishy-washy about this collaboration, it’s a dynamic, full-bodied and strongly narrative outing – with a percussive drive underscoring the expected cello, piano and electro-acoustics. While string virtuoso’s Hildur’s natural musical inclination is towards darker, shadowy realms – remember her sumptuously bleak Without Sinking LP on Touch – Hauschka favours a lightness and more uncomplicated beauty, meaning there’s an agreeable tension and unpredictability at the heart of their co-created work. 

Boots Electric – Honkey Kong (2011)

...Svi Prijatelji Josh Homme-a Su I Moji Prijatelji...

Boots Electric’s new album ‘Honkey Kong’ is simply the product of multiplying Jesse Hughes’ eccentricity with some studio time and his eclectic influences. The Eagles Of Death Metal frontman has taken a sidestep from his regular rock ‘n’ roll quirkiness so submerge himself in his new electro infused, somewhat psychedelic vision. What to expect? Well, Jesse himself claims it’s “Eagles of Death Metal, but hornier with a far bigger dick.”

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Kirderf’s Sad Slow Sunday Songs – Vol IV (2011)

Matthew Sweet – Modern Art (2011)

The artier, more abstract style of Matthew Sweet’s 13th studio album, Modern Art, was influenced in part by the singer’s sideline gig selling his own hand-made ceramics on Etsy. “In the making of pottery, I really see when things get abstract or when things are more normal forms,” he told Rolling Stone. “Part of the way I think I was looking at Modern Art in making it was trying to come at things in a little bit more abstract way, but without becoming cold or minimalist – keeping some kind of heart and feeling in it while still messing around with stuff. If you hear the whole ‘She Walks the Night,’ it’s like I was trying to make a song and tear it in half, or run chords backwards from where they’d been at first.”

The Duke Spirit – Bruiser (2011)

The Duke Spirit are a 4 piece band based in London, UK. Their sound incorporates elements of blues-rock, post-punk and the early noise rock and grunge bands of the late 80s and early 90s such as The Pixies. The band consists of Liela Moss (vocals/tamborine/piano/harmonica), Luke Ford (guitar/organ), Toby Butler (bass) and Olly Betts (drums). Dan Higgins has since left the band, amicably. He has not been permanently replaced, instead the band have worked with various close friends on their ’08 – ’09 tours. Currently Marc Sallis is the touring bass player.

Lanterns on the Lake – Gracious Tide, Take Me Home (2011)

Bella Union might just strike gold with Lanterns on the Lake, a sextet from Tyne and Wear whose key note, as the title of their debut album suggests, is plangency. Opening song Lungs Quicken crystallises their aesthetic: a rippling pulse of electronics ushers in a creamy violin and Hazel Wilde’s gossamer vocal; the mood is hushed, sensual, restrained – until halfway through, when volume and emotion surge. If I’ve Been Unkind adds waves of guitar to this template; The Places We Call Home has a stomping backbeat; Tricks is illuminated by twinkling glockenspiel. What doesn’t change is the sheen of bland tastefulness. This is undeniably beautiful music – but it’s also irritatingly obvious, drowning in syrupy violin, its plaintive melodies anchored in predictability. Paul Gregory’s crackling electronic interventions and homespun production job – listen out for the creaking floorboards in Keep on Trying – do much to roughen the edges, but not enough to give this perfect music real character.
Plus four track bonus CD in handmade sleeves. it features two exclusive tracks ‘the watch house and the daughter’ and ‘fathers song’, the high tide version of ‘not going back to the harbour’ and the Dustin O’Halloran remix of ‘ships in the rain’.

Caravaggio - Derek Jarman (1986)

Writer/director Derek Jarman injects his patented iconoclasm in this biography of Renaissance artist Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio. Nigel Terry plays the title role, whom (according to Jarman) essentially told his own life story in his paintings. Caravaggio travelled among thieves and prostitutes, many of whom were his models. He once killed a man, kept a deaf/mute child as a virtual slave, and squandered every penny he ever made. That we should care anything about so miserable and obscure a personality is a tribute to Jarman's filmmaking savvy--and the number of elements from his own well-publicized life that he injects into the film.

Brian Wilson – In the Key of Disney (2011)

The former Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson is a living legend– an angelic-voiced genius who changed the landscape of pop music before spending decades battling his own demons. And now he wants to release an album of Disney songs, so that’s exactly what he’s going to do. Are you going to tell Brian Wilson not to do that?

On October 25, Disney Pearl Records will release Wilson’s album In the Key of Disney, as USA Today reports. The LP includes Wilson’s reinterpretations of songs from movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dumbo, The Lion King, and Toy Story 3. Working with arranger Paul Von Mertens, Wilson performs songs like Dumbo’s “Baby Mine”, Snow White’s “Heigh-Ho” and “Whistle While You Work”, The Lion King’s “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”, and “Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me)” from the Pirates of the Carribean ride.
In the USA Today story, Wilson says, “The Beach Boys sound and the Disney people make a fantastic collaboration. I tried to do justice to all their songs.”

The Besnard Lakes – You Lived in the City (2011)

The Besnard Lakes are good. They are able to create grand, atmospheric alternative rock music and disguise it within the indie genre which, for some reason these days, earns it more street cred. A big reason TBL is able to achieve this is the dreamy vocal pairing of the husband-and-wife team of Jace Lasek and Olga Goreas. Jace sounds like Brian Wilson in space while Olga’s ethereal croon is also retro and incredibly distinctive, complimenting her partner perfectly. They are one couple I would love to hear argue … if they sang their displeasure at each other.
This release, You Lived in the City, is a strange entry as it highlights the best of TBL in “We’re Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time)” and “The Corner.” The songs have the same hazy, psychedelics and grandiose approach that drew me to the band initially. The downside is that it highlights only half of Besnard’s vocal tag-team with Goreas taking lead duties on both.

BOUVI - Biografija, Mark Spic -Laguna (2011)

Najzad sveobuhvatna biografija jedne od najvećih muzičkih i kulturnih ikona dvadesetog veka.

Pisac i rokenrol novinar Mark Spic donosi nam veliku biografiju Dejvida Bouvija, koja može parirati bilo koj drugoj ikada napisanoj. Prateći Bouvijev život od početka, kao siromašnog mod klinca Dejvida Džounsa iz londonskog predgrađa Bromli, do uspona ka svetskoj rokenrol aristokratiji pod imenom Dejvid Bouvi, ova knjiga govori o njegovoj karijeri, ali takođe otkriva koliko je njegova muzika uticala na druge umetnike i zauvek izmenila izgled popularne kulture. Usput, Spic prikazuje koliko je pisanje ovako zaokružene knjige o Bouviju, na neočekivane načine, uticalo na njega, što dodaje ličnu dimenziju sa kojom će se Bouvijevi obožavaoci lako saživeti, a kakvu nema ni jedna druga biografija nekog umetnika.

Život, Kit Ričards, Laguna 2011

Kit Ričards je s Rolingstounsima stvorio rifove, stihove i pesme koje su uzbudile ceo svet. Više od četiri decenije on je živeo pravim rokenrol životom: stavljao glavu na panj kad god je to želeo, govorio otvoreno šta misli, i prolazio s tim onako kako to nikome pre njega nije polazilo za rukom.
Sada nam konačno on sam priča o svom životu izloženom unakrsnom uraganu. A kakav je to samo život. Slušao je opsesivno ploče Čaka Berija i Madija Votersa za vreme svog detinjstva u Kentu. Naučio je da svira gitaru i osnovao bend s Mikom Džegerom i Brajanom Džounsom. Usledila je prvobitna slava i uspeh Rolingstounsa kao grupe nevaljalaca.

Mekons – Ancient & Modern (2011)

Merging from the late-punk/early-post-punk scene of 1970s England, the Mekons have undergone numerous shifts in the course of the their 35-year career. After beginning as a can't-play-their-instruments punk band, they moved on to weird but exciting lo-fi experimentation, broke up, reformed, released the founding text of so-called "alt-country," Fear and Whiskey, and turned out the ultimate anti-rock-n'-roll rock-n'-roll album, The Mekons Rock 'n Roll, by the end of the '80s, and by the turn of the century, the band's creative energies seemed spent. Everything that had made the band so appealing, both musically (their seamless absorption of diverse influences into a singular vision) and extra-musically (their democratic organization, commitment to leftist political expression, and disgusted but never hopeless worldview) seemed to have become exhausted.

Rocket From The Tombs – Barfly (2011)

Featuring Dave Thomas (Pere Ubu) +Richard Lloyd(Television)+members of 70's punk...


Think about waiting for 37 years. Standing at a bus stop. Sitting by the telephone. Looking out the window. Waiting for the postman. Day after day. Year after year. Thirty-seven years…
The legendary Rocket From The Tombs, born in 1974, flamed out in 1975, have finally recorded a studio album, delivering Barfly, and closing the circle on an incredible journey.
The received wisdom (at least in America) goes that punk rock was invented in New York by the Ramones, who reconfigured Midwestern hard groove rock and 60s garage singles, into a formula that defined punk: short, fast, catchy, and unstoppable.

Greetings (Brian De Palma, 1968)

An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making.

The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas, Texas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas and was picked up by a 16-year-old runaway (David Harris). Later that night, they drank some beer, smoked some marijuana, and went to the movies. Then, their stories diverged.

Dan Melchior und das Menace – Catbirds & Cardinals (2011)

(From Dusted Magazine)
Observations about his rate of output are well-worn territory, but still: This is the second Dan Melchior LP in six months. While the noisy, deconstructed Assemblage Blues was a deviation from Melchior’s typically more song-oriented body of work, the fact remains that keeping up with the man’s releases can start to feel like a part-time job. None of Melchior’s albums are bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to deny the possibility that we’ve reached Peak Melchior.
Which isn’t to say that his albums run together: When compared to Melchior’s widely-distributed releases from the past couple of years, Catbirds & Cardinals is less byzantine and jammy than Thankyou Very Much, less obscured by fuzz thanObscured By Fuzz, less abrasive than Assemblage Blues, and its pop sensibility is finer tuned than Visionary Pangs. If that seems confusing, or if you stopped reading halfway through the previous sentence, then you’ll understand why it’s hard to recommend Catbirds & Cardinals on its own terms. Sure, this is a fine piece of pop songcraft with influences from the Barrett-Richman-Knox continuum, but Melchior’s catalog has reached a size where it’s impossible to tell which albums to recommend over any other.

The Felice Brothers

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Meg Baird – Seasons On Earth (2011)

Since Espers’ Meg Baird released her debut solo offering, Dear Companion, in 2007 she’s worked at transforming herself into a songwriter of distinction. Dear Companion was a collection of well-chosen covers that contained but two originals. Seasons on Earth is the mirror image of that recording. Baird contributes eight of her own tunes here, and includes two lovely — if unusual — cover choices. At the heart of the record is the sound of her acoustic guitar. It’s as present in the mix as her vocals, as if it were a voice of its own. For Baird, whose voice is airy and lithe, the songs on Seasons on Earth are part and parcel of the instrument’s qualities of tone, sonority, and the intimacy that the six-string communicates, even when illustrated further by other instruments, whether it be spare electric guitars by friends Chris Forsyth or Steve Gunn, a harp played by Mary Lattimore, or the even more prevalent pedal steels and dobros contributed by Marc Orleans.

Whitehorse – Whitehorse (2011)

What will strike you when you pop in the debut self-titled album from Whitehorse is that it doesn’t sound like a debut. Indeed, Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet, who make up the duo, are solo heavyweights in their own right. They’ve also honed and flaunted their musical chemistry gracing one another’s solo careers. Thus, this album, although their first together as a band, is dynamic, assured and free of giggly uncertainty.
Whitehorse, the marriage of songbird and falcon, is where McClelland and Doucet take their ample talents and distinct voices and meld them together into something greater than the parts… greater than the sum… into something great. Many clichés about marriage will be thrown around to describe the couple’s project, and they wouldn’t be contrived. Although Whitehorse contains a track from both of their solo careers (“Passenger 24” and “Broken”), the album is far from just adding new harmonies to old songs.

Veronica Falls

Veronica Falls
(Bella Union,2011)

at last, the debut album from london's indie pop sensations veronica falls. the album is full of joyous and bouncy poptastic nuggets with meltingly beautiful female / male melodies and something considerably darker that tugs at your heart.

The Rapture live at Berlin Festival 11.09.2011

Saintseneca – Last (2011)

...Music To Play In Squat...

Some bands happen for a reason. Local folk ensemble Saintseneca describes their formation as “a series of fortunate accidents.”

Singer/songwriter Zac Little recalled the days when he and some friends were making music in his apartment before Chroma Kid, Little’s former post-rock band, was scheduled to have its first gig.
The young band – all fresh out of college – has since become one of the most active in the city, conjuring an intelligent, fiery racket from a variety of stringed instruments. Two EPs and four mini-tours (in a two-door hatchback) later, their debut full-length album Last is now on the shelves.

Bobby Deerfield (Sydney Pollack, 1977)

Nije neki film, al' grehota da se ne pomene...

Starring Al Pacino and directed by Sydney Pollack, Bobby Deerfield stars Pacino plays the title character, a reckless race car driver. As his fame grows, Bobby becomes increasingly full of himself, which seriously jeopardizes his performance on the track and his private life.

Wild Flag

Sons & Daughters - Rose Red

Suuns Live @ Route du Rock Collection Hiver, 2011, St Malo

Nerves Junior – As Bright As Your Night Light (2011)

Ladies and gentleman, this is what an album should sound like in 2011. The operative word here being album; a structured setting for music to embody and permeate. This structure, or in Deleuzian terms “land surveying and cartography”, is very cleverly constructed inside that part of your brain that deciphers what’s “nice” and what’s life-altering. If opening track “Champagne and Peaches” doesn’t register in the latter part of your cerebrum and sends chills down your spine, then you may want to reboot your CPU. Cory Wayne’s ethereal yet sardonic pipes teleport you to some strange beautiful place where all those sub-conscious sounds you heard while floating in utero. They are not afraid to play Jenga with a crystalline pop palace; constantly reconfiguring the lines of flight darting across their musical radars without losing the beat they targeted to begin with.

Novella - The Things You Do

Novella - The Things You Do from Novella Novella on Vimeo.

Howling Bells – The Loudest Engine (2011)

Australian rockers Howling Bells release their third album, The Loudest Engine, on September 12 through Cooking Vinyl. Recorded at Battle Born studios in Las Vegas with The Killers’ Mark Stoermer producing, the album is said to “forge a sonic union with Nevada’s expansive surroundings and Las Vegas’s street-soiled vibe.”
Whittled down from thirty demos to twelve full-fleshed out songs, much of the album was written on the road – a fact often reflected in the lyrics. Take the album’s title track for instance: “We wrote this song about the soul of the tour bus,” says frontwoman Juanita Stein. “A wise ol’ beast, she sees all, hears all, knows a million and one stories. And when you’re spending as much time as we do in a vehicle, lying there at night contemplating a million different things, you develop a relationship with the space. The lyrics came about as a poem one night when I couldn’t sleep, the sound of the engine kept me awake: ‘I spend my days on the loudest engine of all, a think tank, your road priest, she’s everyone’s favourite whore’.”

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Hysterical (2011)

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ClapppClAPPPccLLLappClapclaPPPcLllAPPPCLAppppppClllaaapclapclap!!!

Kevin Devine – Between the Concrete and Clouds (2011)

Kevin Devine returns after just two years with his new album “Between the Concrete and Clouds”. The digital version is available now but you can also order presale bundles. Naturally there are different editions and one includes a free download of “The First Hit”. On September 6th he will go on tour with The Features and An Horse.
Known for his acoustic musings, Between the Concrete & Clouds shows a sonically and technically different side of Devine – fully backed by a band for the first time, a fact he says had an inspired impact on the final product. Without losing his lyrical density, Kevin explored the technical side of creating structurally more traditional pop songs, evident in the shorter tracks on BTC&C.

Trance To The Sun - The Blue Obscurities (2011)

 

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It Felt Like a Kiss (2009) , Adam Curtis

54 min - Documentary The story of America's rise to power starting in 1959, it uses nothing but archive footage and Amercia pop music. Showing the consequences on the rest of the world and in peoples mind.

Richard Youngs-Furrows Again

Furrows Again from Naomi Yang on Vimeo.

Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski(W. Herzog,1999)

In the 1950s, when Werner Herzog was 13, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an ego-maniacal live-wire. In an unabated, 48 hour fit of rage, Kinski destroyed every piece of furniture in sight. From this chaos, a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met - and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.

Fat City (John Huston, 1972)

With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) and keeps trying to make a boxing comeback, but his personal demons repeatedly overpower his ambitions.

Odessa Chen – Archives of the Natural World (2011)

Singer-songwriter Odessa Chen explores our role in the extinction and displacement of animals as well as our increasingly disconnected relationship to nature. The Archives of the Natural World investigates what we lose, and what we have already lost, by forcing species into extinction. Her music seeks to move the listener to act on the belief that species have an inherent right to exist, regardless of human ambition. Odessa explores these issues with songs about the extinct Carolina Parakeet, extinct wolves, moths, and endangered Key Deer and wild horses.

Velvet Goldmine (1998), Todd Haynes

1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero.

St. Vincent – Strange Mercy (2011)

Annie Clark (aka indie rock hero St. Vincent) returns with her third LP Strange Mercy on September 13th via 4AD. Above, you can find the album’s eerie cover art, which was designed by Clark herself and photographed by Tina Tyrell.
Down below are the titles of the album’s 11 tracks, as well as the schedule for Clark’s upcoming fall tour, which kicks off in Minneapolis, MN on October 2nd. Clark will also perform the first-ever rooftop concert in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on August 25th.

The Horrible Crowes – Elsie (2011)

Brian Fallon has already made a bid for his status as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation through his work with The Gaslight Anthem, earning his fair share of Bruce Springsteen comparisons with their punk tinged take on classic rock, mining similar lyrical content and even appearing alongside The Boss onstage more than once. The Horrible Crowes is Fallon’s side project with Gaslight Anthem guitar tech Ian Perkins and has enabled Fallon to experiment a lot more than with The Gaslight Anthem.
The first thing that will strike those familiar with Fallons previous work is the use of space throughout the album. These songs are a lot slower and more sultry, with tight riffs replaced by a concentration on the rhythm section who are flawless throughout. They serve as a solid base to the songs which are further fleshed out from the standard band set-up with the addition of piano and strings. With that said the new single, and standout track Behold The Hurricane with it’s chugging guitars, catchy background vocals and anthemic chorus could of easily been a leftover from the American Slang sessions.

Lia Ices- Love Is Won

"Love Is Won" by Lia Ices from Secretly Jag on Vimeo.

The Drums – Portamento (2011)

Beach pop­pers The Drums are back after their self titled debut from last year with news of some fresh new tracks and details from their sec­ond full length release com­ing this fall. We really enjoyed their set at Coachellathis year and can’t wait to hear what’s new in the next few months.
The next few offerings repeat the urgent formula of great bass, simple melody lines and the sweet, hushed pleading vocals of Johnny Pierce’s lyrics. They also almost all start identically too, meaning that by the time Johnny does chime in with his nostalgic musings he’s already playing catch-up with our wandering attention.

Meantime (Mike Leigh, 1984)

An odd film, primarily looking at how the dole affects the underclass in Britain. Tim Roth stars as Colin, a slow and possibly retarded man living with his parents and brother in a housing project. He and his sarcastic manipulative brother still behave like teenagers, living with their parents, harassing each other. The problem is that they are in their late teens or twenties. Neighborhood characters include Hayley, a young woman with a crush on Colin, and Coxy (Gary Oldman) a violent local skinhead who befriends Colin. Trouble ensues when their wealthy aunt gives Colin a job and his brother becomes jealous.

Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979)

London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.