Artist: Belle, Regina
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Lazy Afternoon
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Sunday 22 June 2008
Saturday 14 June 2008
Deerhoof Announce Offend Maggie Album Details
Deerhoof have a new album coming out, eighteen months after last year's mighty 'Friend Opportunity' (read our review).
'Offend Maggie' is the title and it features fourteen songs, that are split into two separate "acts". Song titles include 'Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back', 'The Tears And Music Of Love' and 'This Is God Speaking'.
Kill Rock Stars release the long-player on October 7th in the US - a UK date is likely to be October 6th.
If that wasn't enough, Deerhoof hope to get fans involved with the new release, by launching an interactive site that will let visitors download and rearrange one of the new songs.
Offend Maggie Tracklisting:
Act 1
Offend Maggie
Fresh Born
Chandelier Searchlight
The Tears And Music of Love
Buck and Judy
Don't Get Born
My Purple Pas
Act 2
Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back
Numina
This Is God Speaking
Eaguru Guru
Snoopy Waves
Jagged Fruit
Family Of Others
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Monday 9 June 2008
Videos by Comedy Duo Pretty Things Shame ‘Gossip Girl‘
This L.A.-based gender-bending duo are making sketch comedy edgy again. Michael Lucid and Amanda Barrett combine aggressive insincerity and bizarro half-animations in full series like proto–Gossip Girl boarding-school soap Mulberry Commons and Megwin and the Land of Neverwill, which concerns a savvy lady lawyer's adventures in a fantasy world. Best of breed: a short titled “Feedback,” featuring friend Jack Plotnick (with Lucid in drag) as a gay man struggling with being “on” all the time.
Water Lilies - movie review
Revolving around two members of a high school synchronized swimming team and their
relationship with a petite, peculiar girl, Celine Sciamma's seductive first feature, Wate
r Lilies, unveils its evocative fever-dream in the Parisian suburb of Cergy. At the recent
New Directors/New Films Festival in NY, Sciamma's adolescent enigma was an inarguable
highlight among some very strong competition.
It's after a demonstration of Anne and Floriane's submerged coordination, in a locker
room, that Fran�ois (Warren Jacquin) encounters a completely nude Anne (Louise Blachere).
Anne's frumpy body doesn't excite Fran�ois, but the teenage girl is left exhilarated by
the exhibitionistic thrill anyway. Outside the school, Floriane (Adele Haenel), the
swimming team's enchantress, agrees to allow the skinny, nymph-like Marie (an astounding
Pauline Acquart) into the pool area next time they practice, in exchange for a forthco
ming favor.
The favor asked is to be a lookout of sorts for Floriane as she runs off with Fran�ois.
The beauty's inability to go all-the-way with Fran�ois becomes a point of intrigue
both for herself and Marie, who begins harboring a romance for Floriane. Meanwhile, Anne daydrea
ms of Fran�ois deflowering her, going as far as to stand naked, eyes shut, in the
locker room for the lean stud to discover her again. As Marie's flirtation with Floriane
becomes a mutual affair, the tension between her and the insufferable histrionics of
Anne's crush tighten like a vice, especially when Fran�ois makes a house call to
Anne.
Things get rather randy, but the enticement of Sciamma's film is considerably proper.
At a club, the fumblings of an initial kiss between Floriane and Marie fluidly mutates
into Floriane dancing with an older man. Even later, as Marie gives in to Floriane's pleas
that she deflower her, the entire affair occurs under white bed sheets. Sciamma's
artistry is in the gentle coaxing of adolescent allure while keeping its inherent
mystery intact. Is there a difference between Anne's obsession with Fran�ois and
the emotional entanglement of Marie and Floriane?
Though minor in scope and with few real intricacies, Water Lilies nonetheless keeps the
car running in what is already a banner year for French cinema (its major triumph,
Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon, opens on the same day). What makes Lilies s
o entrancing is the way that the taboo of feminine lust isn't pandered to as an oddity
but rather as an all-too-natural efflorescence. Beautifully paced with an eerily-consistent
tone, Sciamma's mixture of hormones, romanticism, and bruised emotions leads to sublime
and strange places unfamiliar to those who follow the straight and narrow and quite
reminiscent to those who still don't have the whole thing figured out.
Aka Naissance des pieuvres.
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Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV
Artist: Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Ultradrug
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Bruce Springsteen - Springsteen Age Is Liberating
Veteran rocker BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN is happy to be nearing his 60th birthday - because he is convinced old age is liberating.
The 58-year-old insists he is much happier with his life now, than when he was a young rock star because he has more freedom with his career.
Springsteen, who turns 60 next year (09), admits he can now stop trying to please the music industry and follow his own chosen path instead - something he couldn't have done when he was in his twenties.
He says, "My take on the whole thing is, by the time you're my age the race is over. These are the victory laps. I can make any kind of music I want to make.
"There are no rules. I'm not worried about whether I'm going to be competing with 50 Cent. All that pressure is off."
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Atoll Nerat
Artist: Atoll Nerat
Genre(s):
Metal: Death,Black
Discography:
Art Of Ancien Seers
Year: 2002
Tracks: 8
Chris Rock says poverty behind xenophobic attacks
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —
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Chris Rock said Monday he doesn't consider a wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa as black-on-black violence but a problem of poverty.
"It's broke-on-broke violence. It's broke people robbing each other," the 43-year-old actor-comedian said at a news conference Monday. "That's the sad thing."
More than 60 people have been killed and nearly 100,000 foreigners forced from their homes in a wave of attacks by South Africans who accuse them of taking jobs and blame them for crime.
Rock, who has visited South Africa before, opens his "No Apologies" tour in the country this week.
He said he plans to pay a courtesy call on former President Nelson Mandela, who turns 90 on July 18.
"I wish him another 90 years," Rock said. "There is a lot of work to be done still."
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On the Net:
http://www.chrisrock.com/
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Cowell angry over Osbourne's behaviour
Simon Cowell has criticised Sharon Osbourne, describing her recent criticism of fellow 'X-Factor' judge Dannii Minogue as "wrong".
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy about Osbourne's appearance on 'The Graham Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had only been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a grown-up Sharon behaving like this in public. I think it's wrong. Certain things should be done behind closed doors - the limelight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I wish Sharon would ask my advice before she does things instead of trying to deal with it herself."
"Sharon would be the first to admit that we've had a turbulent relationship over the last three or four years, but I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell also insisted that Minogue had more than enough experience to justify her position as a judge on the show.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's exactly the sort of experience you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if all of the judges will be back next year, Cowell replied: "A hundred per cent - if they can get on."
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, Cowell said that he was unhappy about Osbourne's appearance on 'The Graham Norton Show', where she claimed that Minogue had only been hired for her looks.
Cowell said: "You see a grown-up Sharon behaving like this in public. I think it's wrong. Certain things should be done behind closed doors - the limelight shouldn't be taken from the contestants. I wish Sharon would ask my advice before she does things instead of trying to deal with it herself."
"Sharon would be the first to admit that we've had a turbulent relationship over the last three or four years, but I've got to know her a lot better this year," he added.
Cowell also insisted that Minogue had more than enough experience to justify her position as a judge on the show.
He said: "I was intrigued as to whether or not she could do the job. She's done a ton of songs, movies, 'Grease' and 'Home and Away'. That's exactly the sort of experience you need to be a judge. And she's worked harder with the artists than anyone else. She did 20-hour days."
Asked if all of the judges will be back next year, Cowell replied: "A hundred per cent - if they can get on."
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