Honeyslide – Honeyslide EP (2012)

The UK’s underground lo-fi scene is moving along with increasing velocity with Old Forest, Sealings, Slow Coaches and especially KEEL HER raising eyebrows. Mesmerising, nuanced, dirty and beautiful; London four-piece HONEYSLIDE release their self titled EP echoing the sadness and heartache found in My Bloody Valentine, Pixies and Pavement, as well as the desert haze and distorted psychedelic miasma of Death in Vegas. The band’s name was conceived from two things they liked and merged together; subsequently discovering what a Honeyslide actually is (a honey glazed bud of weed) – a fitting name for the emotions HONEYSLIDE’s sound conjures.

Menomena – Moms (2012)

The Album Leaf – Torey’s Distraction (2012)

Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story (2011)

Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story examines the life and work of Mark Sandman, deceased frontman of Boston “low rock” band Morphine. From his Newton, Mass., roots to his travels across America and around the globe, Sandman left an indelible imprint as one of the most distinctive musicians of his generation. Along with revisiting the "unique and sultry sound" of his music, the film explores the meaning of family through this critically praised and personally conflicted singer, songwriter, and innovative instrumentalist.

Lacombe Lucien (1974) , Louis Malle

With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the critical reaction to this film. Essentially the tale of a young boy who wants to join the Resistance but is shunned by them because of his youth, he joins the Gestapo. Unfortunately, he then falls in love with a young Jewish girl. Push comes to shove and he suddenly has the unsympathetic Resistance and the Gestapo hot on his trail. Not a pretty picture of either side.

Fabulous Diamonds – Commercial Music (2012)

...Return To The Sun Of Nothing...

Fabulous Diamonds have lost their innocence. Where their first album, let’s call it 7 Songs, was a mere extension of the elementary nonchalance of their earlier EP –drummer and vocalist Nisa Venerosa’s caustic observations offered up in lucid fidelity over a clumsy convergence of drums, synths and saxophone –the second, Fabulous Diamonds II, was more abstracted. Representative of the legendarily combative relationship between Venerosa and band mate Jarrod Zlatic, the tension of that album’s unrelenting forward-thrust was most succinctly prefaced by a pissed-off Venerosa reproaching Zlatic for counting time too soon on record. That volatility, whether it be between band members, their divergent stylistic preferences or with their chosen instruments, is an energy Fabulous Diamonds thrives on. So what happens when that energy fades?

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The xx - Primavera Sound 2012 Barcelona - 31.05.12

The xx – Coexist (2012)

Neil Halstead – Palindrom Hunches (2012)

Elbow – Dead In The Boot (2012)

Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu – Palimpsest (2012)

The Black Keys - Lowlands 2012

The Shins - So Says I - Lowlands 2012

The Walkmen - The Rat - Lowlands 2012

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - 'Only In My Dreams'

Josephine Foster – Blood Rushing (2012)

Spectre Folk – The Ancient Storm (2012)

Almost eight months after the band’s dissolution, it’s still hard for many to wrap their heads around the idea of life in a post-Sonic Youth world. After more than 30 years together, it seemed improbable that anything could come between them. Fortunately, drummer Steve Shelley hasn’t been sitting on his hands since the New York band’s demise. He’s found his way onto no less than five records this year alone, including stints with Chicago’s own Disappears and longtime Sonic Youth bandmate Lee Ranaldo.

Myrninerest – “Jhohn,” Uttered Babylon (2012)

Myrninerest is the new Hallucinatory Cartoon channelled by David Tibet in order to work, outside of Current 93, with some of the artists and friends he admires the most. “Jhonn,” Uttered Babylon, their harrowing and haunted debut, featuring James Blackshaw and David Tibet, is centered on Davids friendship with, and love for, the late Jhonn Balance of Coil as well as Jhonns death and how it affected the circle of friends around Jhonn. With all lyrics by David and all music written by James, the album was recorded during February 2012 with James Blackshaw on classical guitar and harmonium and David as vocalist.

Cheek Mountain Thief –Cheek Mountain Thief (2012)

...Povratak u detinjstvo... ALBUM OF THE MONTH ...

Born of the decision to go and live in the isolated town of Húsavík on the north coast of Iceland, Tunng frontman Mike Lindsay's solo album draws on different sources from the folktronica group's default palette, using local musicians, and whatever was available instrument-wise, before a final polish in Reykjavik from Icelandic experimentalist group múm's Gunni Tynes. The disparate elements combine to create a folky feeling of warmth, pastoral isolation and otherness, while the vocals, largely male, nearly all in unison, immediately recall the Beta Band (though there is a brief bit of Icelandic on the second number, Showdown, which makes you think they may have let the Sugarcubes' Einar out for the day).

Paris Nous Appartient (1960) , Jacques Rivette

Paris Nous Appartient begins at the end-with a mysterious suicide. Curious as to why a young Spaniard would take his own life, Betty Schneider visits many of the places frequented by the dead youth. She learns from theatre-director Giani Esposito that the suicide victim was part of a sinister international conspiracy. She further learns from American-expatriate Daniel Crohem that Esposito has also been targeted for persecution by the conspirators. By the time Schneider realizes that the conspiracy was merely a figment of the neurotic Crohem's imagination, the terrified Esposito has killed himself. The intrigues of the plot take second place to the film's centerpiece: an eternally-in-progress stage production of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Now regarded as one of the pioneering efforts in the French "New Wave" movement, Paris Belongs to Us was also the first feature-length effort of director (and former critic and film theorist) Jacques Rivette.

The Knitted Cap Club – The Weeping Tree (2012)

Nick Waterhouse - A Take Away Show

Nick Waterhouse - "Some Place"

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Cate Le Bon – CYRK II (2012)

Evening Hymns – Spectral Dusk (2012)

Mother Mother – The Sticks (2012)

The Browning Version ( Anthony Asquith, 1951)

Forty-three years after the first screen treatment of Terence Rattigan's play about a teacher facing the end of his career, Albert Finney takes on the role of Mr. Crocker-Harris, the Latin teacher forced into early retirement by a heart condition. After teaching in a public school for twenty years, Crocker-Harris is being put out to pasture in a less stressful job teaching English to foreigners. Meanwhile, his home life is also falling apart: his wife (Greta Scacchi) is having an affair with the American chemistry teacher (Matthew Modine), who nevertheless admires Crocker-Harris for his dignity and decency. Through it all, Crocker-Harris hides his pain behind his stiff British reserve.

Dillinger ( John Milius, 1973)

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.

Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín, 2008)

As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a 50-year-old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago. Each weekend, Raúl Peralta and his friends -- a devoted group of dancers -- gather in a small bar and act out their favorite scenes from Saturday Night Fever. Raúl longs to become a showbiz superstar, and when the national television announces a Tony Manero impersonating contest it seems like he may finally have a shot at living his dreams. But as Raúl is driven to commit a series of crimes and thefts in order to reproduce his matinee idol's persona, his dancing partners (also underground resistance fighters who rail against the regime) are persecuted by the secret police.

Emanuel and the Fear – The Janus Mirror (2012)

Beachwood Sparks - Forget The Song

The Rest- Seesaw (2012)

The backstory behind the course of an album can so often influence the sound. For The Rest’s third long player, they had to cope with the loss of their long-time producer to a heart attack and then the prospect of not being able to recover the master tapes. Happily, the latter situation reached a positive conclusion whilst they honoured their former producer and friend by recording ’SEESAW’ at his converted church studio. So what we have is a passionate collection of songs full of life affirming conviction.

Holograms – Holograms (2012)

On the back of just one single and umpteen already-legendary live performances, Stockholm’s Holograms have become punk’s latest hot property, and unlike so many similarly hyped outfits these lot sound like they actually mean it. There’s nothing complicated going on with their debut album on Captured Tracks: just four whey-faced young lads delivering straight-up, f*ck-you songs in tight, fuss-free arrangements, played on knackered gear. Their sound is rooted in the post-punk of ’78-80, those magical years between the death of punk 1.0 and the arrival of new wave, when groups felt liberated enough to embrace synthesisers and clever lyrical conceits but still wanted to communicate forcefully, and directly

John Murry – The Graceless Age (2012)

... Josh T. za ovu godinu ...

Back in 2006 John Murry teamed up with Bob Frank to record World Without End, a blood soaked album of murder ballads that impressed all right minded folk who heard it. Now, five years in the making, is his solo debut, an album that astonishes in its depth and nakedness, miles removed from tales of trappers and killers and such. The Graceless Age strips the artist bare then clothes him in a wonderful sonic tapestry that ranges from pained piano led confessionals to sumptuous narcotic pillows of sound that swirl and beguile the listener.

Murry appears to be a man with his own demons to deal with. Prone to narcotics, truculent, likely to disappear on a whim, this document is testament to the faith and guidance of his co producer on the album, Tim Mooney, who forged it from the various sessions over several years and the release is overshadowed by the untimely and tragic death of Mooney last month.

La Cérémonie (1995), Claude Chabrol

When Catherine Lelievre (Jacqueline Bisset) hires mousy and taciturn Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as a housemaid, she thinks that she found a treasure. Mr. Lelievre (Jean-Pierre Cassel) seems to agree with her, pointing out that the maid just has yet to learn how to serve dinner correctly. Wealthy liberals, they treat her generously enough and expect diligence and reliability in return. However, Sophie didn't tell her new employers that she is dyslexic, and very soon she has terrible troubles with even such supposedly ordinary things as shopping lists. She befriends outspoken postal clerk Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), who occasionally helps her with the above-mentioned lists and tells her all sorts of gossip about the Lelievre family. Mr. Lelievre, who suspects that Jeanne opens their mail, tells Sophie that Jeanne was charged with the murder of her four-year-old daughter and though she was later acquitted, he can't believe in her innocence. Thus he forbids Sophie to invite Jeanne to the Lelievre house, and the tension between Sophie and her employers increases. What could have been a thriller in the hands of a different director, in the case of Claude Chabrol has become another witty and observant social commentary about the eternal confrontation between the rich and the poor. Ruth Rendell's novel A Judgement in Stone was previously filmed in 1986 in Canada.

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Les Cousins (1959) , Claude Chabrol

When two cousins, one essentially a country bumpkin and the other a slick city boy, begin studying law together in Paris and go into competition for the same girl, it is a battle to the death. This survival of the fittest pits the two young man against each other and brings out the best and the worst in each of them. Chabrol's directorial effort is almost parable-like in its depiction of might versus right.

True Grit (Henry Hathaway, 1969)

In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey), who killed her father. The headstrong Mattie could have had her pick of lawmen, but selects the aging Cogburn because she believes he has "true grit" (she talks this way all through the picture, so be prepared). Also heading into Indian territory in search of Chaney is Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Glen Campbell), who wants to collect the reward placed on the fugitive's head for his earlier crimes. Complicating matters are Chaney's scurrilous cronies Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall), Quincy (Jeremy Slate), and Moon (Dennis Hopper), who have no qualms about killing a troublesome teenaged girl like Mattie.

Chris Robinson Brotherhood -Big Moon Ritual(2012)

...Allmanesque-finesto...

Chris Robinson’s belief that the occult energy of cosmic rock’n’roll is still capable of shifting the cultural axis has always seemed both heroic and faintly ridiculous. The middle-class suburban kid who put his faith in velvet loons, pre-punk virtuosity and the creative powers of strong weed is a self-confessed throwback, but 22 years after the first Black Crowes album you’d be hard pressed to question his commitment to the cause. As Big Moon Ritual emphatically demonstrates, if you’re going to dive into the past, you might as well dive deep.
The opening declaration from the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, who include in their number ex-Cardinal Neal Casal and former Black Crowe Adam MacDougall, Big Moon Ritual is unapologetic head music. Formed by Robinson with the sole intention of taking the sound as far up and out as possible, CRB spent all of 2011 relentlessly touring California. Suitably bonded, in January they took their show into the studio, recording 27 songs (some of which will be released in October as a companion album, The Magic Door) in six days.

J. Thoven – City Maze EP (2012)

Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t (2012)

Six Organs Of Admittance – Ascent (2012)

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) ,Bernardo Bertolucci,Claire Denis,Mike Figgis,Jean-Luc Godard,Jirí Menzel,Michael Radford,Volker Schlöndorff,István Szabó

Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. The resulting films run the gamut of styles and moods, beginning with Bernardo Bertolucci's Histoire d'Eaux, which presents an Indian fable about a mentor's impatience. In Mike Figgis' entry About Time 2, the director continues with the experimental structure he pioneered in Timecode; similarly, Jean-Luc Godard uses his time allotment to present a fractured series of clips on youth, death, and love. Another non-narrative entry, Volker Schlöndorff's The Enlightenment presents a series of images on racism. Claire Denis' effort Vers Nancy chronicles a philosophical discussion on time between a teacher and student on a train ride; in Jirí Menzel's Ten Minutes After, the effects of time on aging Czech actor Rudolf Hrusinsky are documented. In perhaps the film's most narrative-oriented segment, director Michael Radford offers up a sci-fi vision of an astronaut returning to earth to find that his son has aged faster than he has. Ten Minutes Older: The Cello is a companion piece to 2002's Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet, which aired in the U.S. on the Showtime cable network.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

La Belle Personne (2008) , Christophe Honoré

In the wake of screen adaptations by such acclaimed filmmakers as Andrzej Zulawski and Manoel de Oliveira, director Christophe Honoré updates Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves while placing the story in a contemporary setting. Junie (Léa Seydoux) is new in Paris, and there isn't a man in the city that hasn't noticed. Chief among her admirers are teacher Nemours (Louis Garrel) and gauche fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet). As passions flare, it becomes readily apparent that Nemours maintains a rather liberal approach to student-teacher relationships.

Foxygen – Take The Kids Off Broadway EP (2012)

...Teenage Allien Blues...Moj novi omiljeni bend...

For those who don’t know, Foxygen is Jagjaguwar’s newest and youngest signee. Don’t let their age deter you, they bring something pretty incredible to their music. Pitchfork’s Steven Hyden says the mini-album “transforms familiar ingredients into unpredictable, even unwieldy music” and “suggests that Foxygen have found a patch of untamed wilderness in the midst of otherwise well-trod territory. Offering neither clarity nor order, but very much the opposite, Foxygen see exciting possibilities in these disjointed times.”
So these two 22 years old guys seem to re-record a recordcollection with The Kinks records in it, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Queen, The Rolling Stones (very much!) and what else was hot in the mid-seventies.

The xx - Chained

kidanje...na repeat!

Chained is taken from The xx's new album Coexist which will be released by Young Turks on September 10th / 11th (US).

Dans Paris (2006), Christophe Honoré

French sex symbols Romain Duris and Louis Garrel join screen icons Guy Marchand and Marie-France Pisier in writer-director Christophe Honoré's four-character chamber drama Dans Paris (Inside Paris). Duris plays Paul, a young man in his early thirties who splits with his girlfriend. Feeling depressed, he opts to move into a flat with his brother Jonathan (Garrel, who also narrates) and their father (Marchand). The ladykiller Jonathan slyly attempts to talk Paul into a shopping trip to lift his spirits, but ends up venturing out alone and engages in rendezvous with several women. Meanwhile, the boys' stylishly-dressed and gorgeous mother (Pisier) turns up and adds one more complexity to the network of relationships in the house. Honoré laces his drama with comedic touches and crafts the film in the gentle mode of early sixties French pictures by Truffaut, Godard and others.

Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)

The Romanian New Wave of the past decade has yielded such internationally acclaimed gems as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu and 12:08 East of Bucharest. Add to them Tuesday, After Christmas, an elegant, emotionally resonant drama of a middle-class couple whose 10-year marriage is rocked by the husband's illicit affair with their daughter's sexy dentist. In many respects it's an oft-told tale: Paul must choose between the easy rapport and stability of his family life and the uncertainty and excitement of a relationship with a much younger woman. In scorchingly intense long takes, the power dynamics among these three are unpredictable and, in the end, devastating. The fact that the two leads are actually a married couple adds to the verisimilitude.

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Eugene Mc Guinness – The Invitation To The Voyage (2012)

The Drowning Men – All Of The Unknown (2012)

R. Stevie Moore – Lo Fi Hi Fives… A Kind Of Best Of (2012) (Anthology)

The Vaccines – Come of Age (2012)

Cat Power – Sun (2012)

...CHANMARSHALLISESS...

Sun is the first album of original material from Cat Power in over six years. Chan Marshall performed and produced Sun herself in various locations including a studio she built in Malibu
Marshall explained that following the release of 2008′s Jukebox, she became involved in a serious long-term relationship, which ended just as the new album was being completed. “You know that thing we’re all raised to want: a beautiful life with children — that family thing that is tangible? [pauses] Before, I tended to just survive, survive, survive. Gaining a lot of… not knowledge, not life experience… but I had this opportunity of travelling around the world, meeting all these people and having these experiences that have shaped who I am now.”

The Fresh & Onlys – Long Slow Dance (2012)

Long Slow Dance is the new Mexican Summer release from San Francisco garage rockers The Fresh & Onlys (Tim Cohen, Shayde Sartin, Wymond Miles, Kyle Gibson) and fourth full-length overall. Following-up 2009′s Play It Strange and preceded by lead single “Yes or No,” Long Slow Dance was produced by Phil Manley (Barn Owl, the Fucking Champs, Wooden Shjips) and captured on the same reel-to-reel that Warren Zevon recorded “Werewolves of London.” The sprawling selection of stoner-anthems is easily the group’s most cohesive and compelling work to date.
The record is set for a September 4 release via Mexican Summer, and the band will embark on a West Coast tour with fellow Bay Area lo-fi rockers Terry Malts following the release.