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Following the 2011 world-record sale of the original Issue #3, Page #10 splash page art from Frank Miller's iconic Dark Knight for $448,125, Heritage Auctions is offering two more original pieces of Frank Miller Dark Knight artwork, this time consigned by Miller himself. They will be offered as part of Heritage's Feb. 22-24 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction. The first, the Absolute Dark Knight Book Cover Original Art (DC, 2006), is an immensely popular, bone-jarring image that brings together the elements that made Miller's vision of the Batman such [...]

Tweet Blue Sky Black Death , the Seattle-based beat-production duo, are radically experimental when put into the same context as artists like Star Slinger or Clams Casino , which are other artists who have recently dabbled in the hip-hop realm. They have a thirteen-minute long track, "13" , that takes the listener through a smorgasbord of rapidly changing textures and long-winded progressions. Their beats combined with Nacho Picasso , also based in Seattle, provide a new [...]

The fourth installment of 110 Percent , a series in which I talk to musicians about sports, features Canadian MC Buck 65 (born Richard Terfry), who's playing a rescheduled date at Chaser's in Scottsdale on Feb. 24 in support of his 2011 release 20 Odd Years, a title that reflects his lengthy music career. But Buck 65 nearly spent his life pursuing his first love: baseball. Injuries derailed a possible pro career, and Buck was cool enough to hold a lengthy chat with me (through a dying phone) about that, his song about [...]

Over the months I've written about some difficult and disturbing books. Duncan McLean's 'Bunker Man' immediately springs to mind, but perhaps Toni Davidson's 1999 debut novel 'Scar Culture' unsettles more than any other Scottish novel I have read. It's never as salacious as McLean's novel often becomes, but like 'Bunker Man' it deals with abuse; [...]

Leo Kall always speaks the truth. He is settled on Callisto, one of Jupiter's moons, and is recording various sound phenomenas from the planetary system. He sends these cryptic recordings, through a big radio tower, to a band in Skåne, Sweden. With this material also comes a few honest lines with his impressions from the situation here on earth. The band, Leo Kall, interprets what they are sent and create music from it on stage. This is the setup for the band Leo Kall 's music, which is a setup inspired by Karin Boye's novel Kallocain . [...]

• Leo Kall - Newtons Lagar

A few nights back my wife (aka Dragon D) and I took some time from our usually busy schedules to catch David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . As we both read the source material, the film seemed like the perfect choice to discuss for our latest "In Conversation" piece. Though we both read the first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy, our overall experience with the trilogy has been vastly different. I have read the first book and watched the first two Swedish films ( Tattoo and The Girl Who Played [...]

Woody Allen 's Midnight in Paris stars Owen Wilson as Gil, a screenwriter who is struggling to pen his first novel. His fiance Inez (played by Rachel McAdams ) blows off his ambitions as pipe-dreams which in turn creates a rift in their relationship. While on a trip to Paris with Inez's parents, Gil begins taking strolls around the city at midnight, where he is able to travel back to the Golden Age of Paris - the 19202s. Writer/director Woody Allen [...]

Hullo, do come in, welcome to this week's 405 Film Digest! This week has been slightly slow in the way of huge news but nevertheless we have a bounty of features for you, including Steve O'Shea's latest Auteur Theory, another great Shorts Bar and our review of The Descendants . Don't feel like you need to read it all at once! Bookmark us or get that fancy Read It Later app, dip in and out, do with us what you will. Danny - Film Ed. [...]

A list of the past week's Largehearted Boy features: Book Notes : (authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates to their book) Alan Glynn for his novel Bloodland Courtney Talor-Taylor for his graphic novel One Model Nation Hanne Blank for her book Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality Steve Erickson for his [...]

At the end of last year, Das Racist announced that each of its three members would be releasing solo mixtapes in 2012. It's only early February, but two of the members have already released them! How do they expect the world to keep up with this much Das Racist? Nobody knows. All that we can know is that so far, the count is 2 wins, 0 losses. First released this year was The Palm Wine Drinkard by Kool A.D. . Das Racist has been known for some [...]

Tweet An Irish band doing indie rock, how particularly un-novel given that there are a million or so of them in operation. Especially now that the economy has taken a giant dive and all the young people will have nothing to do except scoff up their runners, grease up their unkempt hair and dream of throwing apple gizmos into the pool from their 5 star hotel bedroom. Pretty confident that Cork band Superblondes won't get that far but they may well be [...]

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Do you live in NYC or Brooklyn? If so, tonight is your lucky night (or unlucky night if you don't). If you've been following TBT over the past couple months you will have noticed that we've acquired new writers from all over North America and even Europe. One of those writers is our friend Andrew over at Dingus Music , who has brought you an array of DIY artists including Ghost Pal , possibly the best live act in New York City. Tonight the Dingus crew is partnering up [...]

A vacation from everything If there is an expat in the world who is not at home in bed today watching two seasons worth of Downton Abbey on sidereel.com and sipping tea with honey, I am really sorry. Indeed. (hee hee.) I canceled work for the first time ever Thursday night and now I am reveling in my wickedness and exhaustion from a super brief exposure to T's strep throat which has [...]

UK supergroup Apparatjik (which features members from Coldplay, a-ha, and Mew) took a novel approach to the release of their sophomore LP, Square Peg In A Round Hole . Back in November, the band released an initial version of the 12-track album, with the intent of subsequently releasing 10 weekly crowd-produced "drafts" of the record, featuring new edits and musical tweaks. The final "draft" would then become the official album, reflecting each version's best qualities/cuts, to be released later this month. In the lead up to the final album's debut, the four-piece is sharing the newest rework of [...]

• Apparatjik - “Do It Myself” (feat. Pharrell)

Elizabeth Harper went from coffeehouse singer-songwriter to melodramatic and heavy electronic influenced she-popper overnight. Well not literally a 24 hour transformation but the Brooklyn native who now uses the Class Actress moniker has reinvented herself with a radiant bravado which is eminent on her 802s glam effort debut ' Rapprocher .' H.Q. Before Class Actress you did a lot of great solo work do you feel that you've found your sound? Class Actress : I think so, It seems to suit me more [...]

Elizabeth Harper went from coffeehouse singer-songwriter to melodramatic and heavy electronic influenced she-popper overnight. Well not literally a 24 hour transformation but the Brooklyn native who now uses the Class Actress moniker has reinvented herself with a radiant bravado which is eminent on her 802s glam effort debut ' Rapprocher .' H.Q. Before Class Actress you did a lot of great solo work do you feel that you've found your sound? Class Actress : I think so, It seems to suit me more [...]

Below is the latest edition of our weekly feature, Stuck On Repeat . The premise is simple, we've asked all our contributors to submit one track and a brief write-up. The track can be new or it can be old, just whatever we could not stop listening to this week. These are the songs we've had Stuck On Repeat . - SELECTED BY: V - FACT MIX 314: GUIDO I suppose it's technically breaking the rules of this [...]

It is so cold (how cold is it?) that my computer has been freezing on me, and the air turns blue when it does. It has been a struggle this morning to get up and running. Gracie is so used to me and my computer tirades that she slept through it all. Now the computer wants to turn itself off to update. I won't let it. I am in charge. So there, HAL. Winter has returned, and it really is cold. The temperature says 30°, but the weatherman said it feels more like 20°. It is, [...]

01. Helium Robots, "Jarza" [ Running Back ] ( buy ) Like Dissident, the label they first appeared on, Helium Robots seemed to burn bright and fast, falling silent after two tracks in 2008 for Andy Blake's since completed imprint. Then in late 2011, the UK-based duo of Ewan Willmott and Lydia Jones showed their first flicker of life in nearly four years by remixing Lana Del Rey, of all people. Helium Robots appear at full power on the Jarza EP for Running Back, delivering two timeless originals that come backed [...]