PLAYLIST: Nothing But The Sky - Ivy Back In Bloom - Sulk Shallow - The Catherine Wheel Gone Without Feeling - The Black Ryder Our Bovine Public - The Cribs Out - Charmin' Children Lenny Valentino - The Auteurs Bulldog Baby - Echobelly Coast Is Clear (Live In Manchester '91) - Curve Upper East Side - Experimental Aircraft The Cedar Room - Doves Money - The Drums Crocus - Gypsy Death and You Wide Open Space - Mansun Vertigo - Overcasters Heads Will Roll [...]
An album is not an insulated document, but rather something that breathes and grows within an artist's discography. I challenge music fans to not simply find songs or albums that they like (though certainly that has a completely worthwhile place), but to find entire discographies (from acknowledged classics to forgotten albums) to grow with over time. Several weeks ago, my article "Paul McCartney: An Auteur" caused quite a stir. In that piece, I attempt to position Paul McCartney as an artist of the highest standard, one whose entire body of work must be taken seriously. Many of the comments [...]
The Elliots evade traditional Swedish pop stereotyping, exchanging key-led twinkles and exuberant string-soaked choruses for moody ambience. The strings and keys remain, as seem the Swedish custom, but are presented with bleaker and darker tones that rely more on evolving moods than receptive hooks. On their new album Love|Decay, producer Charles Storm helped the Gothenburg-based [...]
A look at Limerick's first bar boot sale.
Mais non, this ain't the actor Philippe Leroy, famous for his roles in Le Trou or Milano Calibro 9 . According to this YouTube video , we can gather that French singer Philippe Leroy bleached his mane somewhere along the way and transformed into an artist with a quite particular clothing style, peculiar behaviour, and a haircut that tells stories from a trailer park only the boldest coiffeurs would dare to enter. Before Philippe went there, he looked (see right) pretty much like the guy who stole my sister's bra at the youth hostel in Antibes [...]
Five for this week: The Pierces - Secret ( mp3 ) Stand by for a classic blogger gripe... With an imminent Polydor album produced by Guy "Coldplay bassist" Berryman, these NYC sisters are suddenly hotly tipped - having been great for bloody ages . First appearing in 2008, this track - part seadog ditty OD'ing on accordions and part chilled-out woodsmokey jazz, speeding up to a furious fairground finale - proves as much. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] Passi [...]
Occasionally I get an idea about assembling a team, but with a theme. I then throw out these challenges on Twitter to see if anyone can help me fill in the teamsheet for a first XI. Last week I was looking for a #RotundXI and got a good few names which I could assemble two teams. Will do that another time though. Today the idea is more inline to what we are all about - a #FootieAndMusicXI . I received some excellent suggestions from [...]
The Divine Comedy's tenth album, Bang Goes the Knighthood, offers no surprises for longtime fans. As usual, Hannon's wit and playful observations find success in a pleasant medium between folk and pop music. This effort, though, is a little more lighthearted around the edges and its lack of ambition results in one of Hannon's most inconsistent efforts to date.
Maxwell Panther You know when radio DJ's act all wanky and refer to someone as a 'friend of the show'. They sounds like cocks don't they? Well I'm going to be a cock (yes, I know what's new - you witty bunch you). Friend of Peenko blog, and also on the Song By Toad label, Maxwell Panther, has a new album out. It's called 'Lovers reBEL' and it's free to download on his Bandcamp page . We like his music, we hop you do too. Popup Popup are back back [...]
Making Movies The Hard Way Just when you think there is nothing new under the sun, someone shoots a film on their printer. Short Shot on Flatbed Scanner Screens - Disposable Film Fest
Η πρώτη ever μεταφορά στον κινηματογράφο της Αλίκης στη Χώρα των Θαυμάτων. Στο πολύ ενδιαφέρον the auteurs (κλικ στην εικόνα για το 10 λεπτο φιλμ). Απίστευτη ατμόσφαιρα.
Slate imagines what it would look like if Tarantino, Lynch, Anderson, Godard, and Herzog directed the Super Bowl. [ via ]
Filed under: News , UK What with the Jedward controversy and Simon Cowell's near-tactical insistence of leaving things to the public vote, talent show 'The X Factor' has come under some uncharacteristic flak from all quarters. Yet riding to its rescue is a most unlikely source -- Black Box Recorder and former Auteurs front man Luke Haines . Speaking to the Quietus , the legendarily misanthropic singer has claimed that 'The X Factor' is punk rock for the 21st Century.
Gentle Waters - Movie Making Update Our editing team is hard at work piecing together the hours of footage to make an amazing final product - the film Welcome to Gentle Waters. All the importing and logging is done. This...
"FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD will release a new compilation 'Frankie Say Greatest' on November 2nd to mark the 25th anniversary of the original release of their classic album 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome'. The CD/DVD release will feature all the band's hits plus new remixes of 'Relax','Two Tribes' and 'Power of Love' and original remixes." ...twenty five years now. Huh. I AM a ghost. Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary (Mp3) The Dig - She's Going To Kill That Boy [...]
Sorry, this ain't the actor Philippe Leroy, famous for his roles in Le Trou or Milano Calibro 9. According to this YouTube video , we can gather that French singer Philippe Leroy bleached his mane somewhere along the way and transformed into an artist with a, well, quite particular clothing style and a haircut that tells stories from a trailer park that only the boldest coiffeurs would dare to enter. Before Philippe went there, he looked like that (see right) and recorded the Mediterranean version of The Rubettes' smash hit Tonight. That was in 1974. Some French people actually [...]
Well, I did say that this was going to get interesting, the further along we get. In case, you are just tuning in, this series is taken from Mojo Magazine's Classic Edition - Britpop, featuring sixty Greatest 90's Britpop Albums. This post represents the half-way point in this series. With this post, I have covered thirty two out of the sixty albums. And, I will say that there are some bands/albums on this post that I was not at all familiar with. Namely, The Auteurs , Dodgy , Nick Heyward (solo) and [...]
When he's not contributing to Metal Lungies, Hip-Hop is Read , or lecturing oblivious Ottowans on the meaning of Parklife, Aaron Matthews can be found at Canned Thinking. Yeah yeah, the Auteurs never completely fit into the Britpop-as-cultural movement narrative, but by mining 60s and 70s English rock, their debut New Wave divined the future of the genre. But first things first. Luke Haines toiled in C86 act, The Servants, for several years prior to forming the Auteurs in 1990. After gigging [...]
Wijk aan Zee Exciting and busy times , been totally hectic and with no time to blog in the last two weeks. Next October Audiopleasures will be 2 years, to celebrate this date im organizing a free and open door audiovisual weekend in Amsterdam , the event will take place in the Schuim , super cool place in the heart of this awesome city. We will be screening the works of some of our favorite video artists as well as awesome motion graphics and animation. There will be a series of interviews to know more about the work [...]
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