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Thursday, 5 August 2010
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Monday, 12 July 2010
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Anthrax on Married with Children
Good Lord, I’m even starting to bore myself by continuously harking back to the halcyon days of movies and TV in the 80’s/90’s, bemoaning the murder of prosthetic make up and special FX by the evil CGI companies, and the lack of great comic character based sit-coms like Sledgehammer and Married With Children.
It was when I was taking the load off my mind by browsing through the hundreds of classic Al Bundy clips on youtube this week that I happened upon a classic episode of Married With Children that had completely escaped my memory. The episode ‘My Dinner with Anthrax’ saw stunted loser kid Bud Bundy win a radio competition to have classic thrash band Anthrax come over to his house to play at a party he’s organised during Al and Peggy’s anniversary vacation to Florida. A massive snow storm ensures that the only people who make it to the throwdown are Bud, Kelly and weirdly hot next door neighbour Marcy, who the guys from Anthrax think is a dude. Anthrax try to skip the date, but Bud holds them to the contract, so after getting high consuming some of Peggy’s “food” from the fridge, the band play ‘In My World’ and trash the house. We’re talking bottles over heads, guitars through drywall and Al’s beloved Highschool Football Trophies getting annihilated.
“You kids should be ashamed of yourselves, throwing a party while I was stuck down in a swamp having sex with your mother!” Al Bundy.
Monday, 17 May 2010
Nina Simone Biopic on the Way
Nina Simone is to be the latest music legend to get the Hollywood treatment, with filming due to start on ‘Nina’ this autumn. Simone, for those unfamiliar with the details, was a multi talented singer and musician, who skipped through and conquered varied genres like a kid playing hopscotch. Most associated with Jazz, Simone was dabbled in soul, R&B, classical, folk, gospel and op with effortless class and grace. She was also a vociferous Civil Rights activist, supporting violent action more in line with the Panthers and the Nation of Islam, that with peaceful integration approach of Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, she openly discussed her wish that her people arm themselves and form their own state!
Following a divorce from her husband/manager, Simone returned from a stint in Barbados to find herself with a huge US tax bill in the 70’s. Skipping town to avoid paying the bill, she fled back to Barbados (where she had an affair with the Prime Minister), before moving on to Europe, seeing out her final days in France. Diagnosed with breast cancer, Nina Simone passed in her sleep on the 21st of April 2003.
A pretty worthy story to tell, especially considering that Nina was diagnosed as being schizophrenic, then bi polar, in the 60’s. A look back over ‘The High Priestess of Soul’s’ career, many wonder whether living through these conditions may have steered her remarkable life down the route that zigzagged from genre to genre and country to country, through extreme and public views on race and integration, to a final lap in exile.
Oh yeah, they’ve booked Mary J Blige in to play her. They’ll make her “ugly”, she’ll win an Oscar.
New Jimmy Page Book from Genesis
Led Zep guitarist and actual Rock God Jimmy Page is the latest in a selected line of celebrated talents to get the Limited Edition treatment from Genesis Publishing. Genesis, if you don’t know, creates exquisite limited edition, lovingly made and depressingly priced, signed autobiographical photo books. Jimmy joins the publishers list that includes Clapton, Bowie, Spielberg, Richards and Shankar, who have all featured in the celebrated series. For Jimmy’s part, his handcrafted tome features 650 unseen pictures from his personal archive, bound lovingly in leather and Perspex, with a silk and leather slipcase to keep it in the condition that a £395.00 book should remain in.
Got the Bones to spare? Go buy it HERE and then come around to mine so I can shed a tear over its beauty.
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Download: Underworld ‘Scribble’
Essex boys Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, aka Brit dance legends Underworld are back in business with their first work in 3 years. ‘Scribble’, from their 6th studio album out this summer, is a free offering from the boys and co-producer High Contrast, and it’s waiting for you now over at www.underworldlive.com .
Saturday, 15 May 2010
Download: The Cure ‘Alternative Rarities 1988 – 1989’
Painted Goth legends The Cure are shaping up for release of a loaded Deluxe Edition of ‘Disintegration’, their eighth studio album, by launching www.thecuredisintegration.com, where they’ve offered up a stack of demos, pictures, liner notes and a stream of 2 new songs ‘Tuned Out On RTV5’ and ‘Fuknnotfunk’.
More interestingly, they’re also streaming a rarities album of unheard demos and live tracks, which some naughty boys over at Chain of Flowers have put up for a sneaky download. If you are feeling equally fiendish, you can get it HERE.
Check below for the tracklistings.
NWA ‘Straight Outta Compton’: Expletive Only Mix!
Like your Gangsta Rap tough? Ever thought that NWA’s seminal game changer ‘Straight Outta Compton’ is a little weak, a bit soft? Wanna hear it with everything BUT the explicit content edited out?
You’re in luck Player! Go Here!!
Friday, 14 May 2010
The ‘Fright Night’ Remake
If I blogged on every proposed remake/reboot of classic 80’s and early 90’s movies, then Standard Love Affair would become entirely devoted to me crying my eyes out. Just off the top of my head I’ve recently read about the studios having a second pop at Commando, Red Dawn, Valley Girl, Conan, Total Recall and Highlander. Luckily, most of the remakes bandied about never really seem to materialise (save Karate Kid).
But some do! Oh, vampires are so sexy right now, and every studio seems to have a bloodsucker flick ready to go in to production. Rumour has it that the unbearable Michael Bay has snapped up my beloved ‘Near Dark’!!! I’d give my eyes to stop him moving on that one. Unfortunately, some slip through the net, and I somehow missed the growing momentum of the ‘Fright Night’ remake, until it was too late.
If I had known sooner, if somebody had just picked up the phone, then I could have been well on my way to LA with a trunk full of petrol bombs way before www.deadline.com could announce that Colin Fucking Farrell has been signed up to play Charlie Brewster’s new vapyric next door neighbour Jerry Dandrige!!
With that kind of casting precedent being set, I’m surprised that director Craig Gillespie hasn’t managed to shoehorn someone like perpetual douchebag Shia Labeouf into the role of Charlie Brewster, and further accelerate my race towards glorious suicide. For those who care to dwell upon this horror any further, the role of Brewster went to Anton Yelchin, the little dude who played Chekov in the new Star Trek movie. Meh!
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Welcome Out Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane was today released from The Big House after serving 6 months of a 1 year sentence for a "parole violation'; a stint that halted his snowballing career last year following the release of awesome 'The State vs Radrick Davis".
The task for 'Gucci Gucc' is to now try and regain some of the momentum that he built up before his incarceration. Step One of his plan: set up new label '1017 Brick Squad', a partnership with Warners and Asylum. Step Two: Form a new group with point men OJ Da Juiceman and Waka Flocka Flame called 'Brick Squad'.
Step 3: Stop calling everything "Brick Squad" and hurry up and release 'The Appeal', Goddamitt!!!!
Total Recall The Musical
In 2003, composer siblings John and Alan Kaplan got bored, got inspired and got busy writing spoof songs for ‘Silence’, a musical based on face feasting classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’. Interest in the project quickly snowballed and it finally made it to the stage in 2005. Featuring songs like ‘Put the fucking lotion in the basket’, ‘Silence’ was a hit with movie fans. You can listen to the songs over at www.jonandal.com
Anyway, them Kaplan boys are back at it once more, this time posting up a piece based on classic Schwarzenegger sci-fi mind bender ‘Total Recall’. ‘Moons of Mars’ is a Douglas Quaid’s ballad that finds our hero longing to escape his mundane 2084 AD home life for the red planet, to trace the mysterious woman haunting his dreams of Mars, where the Rebellion is in the throes of a raging war against mining overlord Cohaagan.
There’s just the one video out on the wire at the moment, but let’s hope for a swooning ‘If I’m not me, then who the hell am I?’, a bombastic ‘Kuato Lives’ or a ‘Get Your Ass to Mars’ foot-tapper!
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Tim Curry is Your Worst Nightmare
“I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds, and of children. And you are next!”
“Do you think I made a mistake splitting his brain between the two of them?”
“Are you so eager to see blood flow?”
“There ain't a stauncher-hearted gal going, or I'd have cut her throat three months ago.”
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Johnny Marr’s Guitar Collection
Manchester’s untouchable holy guitar man Johnny Marr may have teamed up with a complete asshole to form one of Britain’s finest pop groups ever in the 80’s, but his work rate as a hired gun since The Smiths dissolution in ’87 has largely passed without the fanfare his body of work deserves. A roll call of acts he’s recorded, produced and performed with: The Pretenders, Billy Bragg, Electronic, The The, Modest Mouse, Oasis, The Petshop Boys, Black Grape, Jane Birkin, Talking Heads, Bryan Ferry, Kraftwerk, Crowded House, Simple Minds, Beck, Tom Jones, Girls Aloud, Pearl Jam, John Frusciante, The Cult, Sandie Shaw, Everything But The Girl, Tom Jones and The Cribs!
Over at Johnny’s official site, he’s giving you the chance to cast your eye over his “Guitarchestra”, a guided tour through a collection of guitars that he’s used throughout his impressive career, with insights on each. Check it here at www.johnny-marr.com
Free Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante Album Download
Former At The Drive-In and current Mars Volta guitarist Omar Rodriguez Lopez is a machine. Volta albums, touring, side projects, solo albums, film production; the guy’s got a serious engine under his hood. A few years back, Rodriguez Lopez got friendly with RHCP guitarist John Frusciante, birthing a 7 track album, which the happy parents are now giving away ‘gratis’. There is an option for you to “pay what you like” however, with resulting $$$ going towards the ‘Keep Music in Schools’ programme. Get over to Omar’s site at www.rodriguezlopezproductions.com to make your choice.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Watch: Crass ‘There is No Authority but Yourself’
Crass? Yeah, that band of crusty Anarcho-punks that lived in a commune, graffitied the London Underground, conned that teen-girl magazine into carrying one of their songs as a cover mount flexi-disc, released a fake tape of a Thatcher/Regan phone conversation to the press, got Rough Trade employees to slot their records inside the sleeves of other bands at their distro warehouse, financed a Anarchist centre in London, squatted at the Zig-Zag Club, promised to break up in 1984 and did so at a tiny miners benefit gig in Aberdare, Wales.
Crass lived for seven furious years, a constant thorn in the side of Thatcher’s government, gave themselves a shelf life and died on cue. What better subject for a documentary? Too late, the Dutch made one in 2006.
Watch ‘There is No Authority but Yourself’ in its entirety below, and get Penny Rimbaud, Steve Ignorant and co’s autobiographical history of the band, their views on David Beckham’s Gaulitier designed ‘Crass’ t-shirt and how through their Thatchergate tape, they managed to leak top secret information on the sinking of the HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War and their subsequent courting by the KGB.
Play ‘Space Paranoids’ from Tron
Everybody’s getting super-spazzed for Tron Legacy, and rightly so, it’s gonna be ace don’t you know??
Well, as part of Disney’s viral marketing campaign which has been building nicely over the last 6 months, you can now indulge in a game of ‘Space Paranoids’, the awesome tank game from the original Tron movie, right here online. Well, not right here, but RIGHT HERE. It feels like you’re right there in Flynn’s Arcade; be careful you don’t get sucked in to the game!
Sunday, 9 May 2010
‘I Need That Record’ Trailer
Brendan Toller’s documentary ‘I Need That Record’ finds misty eyed musicians like Ian MacKaye, Mike Watt, Thurston More and (surprisingly) Noam Chomsky harking back to the good old days when their local stores were the hub of the artistic community, and lambasting the state of play which has seen the near extinction of the indie store.
Initially released on a limited DVD run for Record Store Day, ‘I Need That Record’ sold well enough to warrant an upcoming release through the US Major Chains; ironically the exact corporate giants that the film takes pot-shots at, hanging the blame for the decline of the independent record store at their doors.
Why not release the DVD exclusively through independent shops the second time around and actually back up the films holier than thou posturing? Why not CLICK HERE and ask Brendan for yourself?
Saturday, 8 May 2010
Download: Game: Red Room Mixtape
Game! 20 Tracks! DJ Skee! Fabolous! Jadakiss! Jim Jones! Lil Wayne! Birdman! Busta Rhymes! Diddy! Bizzy Bone! Hurricane Chris! Nipsey Hussle! Free!
ArcAttack Will Blow Your Minds
The unbelievable video above is a performance by Texas based collective ArcAttack, performing with 2 custom built Tesla Coils and a robotic drumkit (out of shot), at this year’s SXSW Festival. Dressed in a chain mail Faraday Suit, Patrick ‘Parsec’ Brown passes back and forth through ½ Million Volt sparks, musically manipulating the electricity spewing from the Tesla Coils as his band play on in the background. Having taken 3 years to develop the technology, ArcAttack are now hitting the road with their show. Get your Dad to book them for your Bat Mitzvah, Kiddo!
Friday, 7 May 2010
Henry & Glenn Forever
‘Henry & Glenn Forever’ tells the story of these two notoriously sweet rock dudes, as they navigate the rocky waters of their domestic relationship and come to terms with the inconsiderate antics of Satanist neighbours Hall & Oats. Billed as a “love story to end all love stories”, the back cover even features a lovely quote from Rollins himself “Has Glenn seen this? Trust me, he would not be impressed”.
‘Henry & Glenn Forever’ is written by (the soon to be murdered) Tom Neely and published by the stellar people over at Microcosm Publishing, “a nonprofit, collectively-run publisher and distributor of zines and related work”. Seriously, these guys rock at rock bottom prices. Head over to their store and check out their zine catalogue.
CBGB’s: A Virtual Tour
For those of you who never got the opportunity to visit the legendary punk venue CBGB’s on NY’s Bowery, what you missed was the equivalent to a gig being played inside a garbage truck. Plastered floor, wall and ceiling with graffiti, old pay-bills, grime, grot and the blood and sweat of hundreds of legendary performers, the venues eventual demise in 2006 was felt throughout the world.
But just like the Whiskey A Go Go, The 100 Club, TJ’s and a truckload of other “World Famous” venues, CBGB’s was always remembered fondly for only a certain point in time; well maybe two. Credited as the birthplace and spiritual home of American punk rock and new wave in the 70’s, the club got a dusting down by a new generation of punks in the 80’s, with Hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Cro-Mags and Sick of it All appropriating the venue for ‘Thrash Days’ on Sunday afternoons. The violence that dogged that particular scene would force CB’s owner Hilly Kristal to end Hardcore’s tenure at the venue in 1990, with the club never really recovering any committed interest. By the time of its demise, CBGB’s had become merely a tourist attraction.
If you didn’t have an opportunity to get inside CBGB’s over the 33 years that it stood sentinel on Manhattan’s Bleeker St, you can guide your way through the club via a virtual tour that will drag you along the rotten walls, the piss stained cubicles, behind the ramshackle bar and, poignantly, past the sadly deceased Kristal, sat (hopefully intentionally) underneath a hangman’s noose in the club’s office.
CLICK HERE to take the tour.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
‘Punk In Africa’ Documentary Trailer
Ponces in binbag t-shirts on the Kings Rd thought the occasional kick-in by a Ted equalled a tough time. They should check out the new ‘Punk in Africa’ doc to see what it was like forming multicultural garage bands in a fascist state where racial mixing was a criminal offence!
8-bit Dark Side of the Moon
Move over Wayne Coyne, you’ve not got the sole rights to re-appropriate Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ for the weird kids. Video game programmer Brad Smith, straight-outta-Ontario, has given the teenage stoner favourite an upgrade, to 8-bit. He’s covered the entire album on his NES console. Love that crunch? Then check out the entire album HERE.
Hobo With A Shotgun
Much like the upcoming ‘Machete’, ‘Hobo with a Shotgun’ was originally a fake trailer which played in between Robert Rodriguez/Tarantino’s ‘Grindhouse’ double bill. The original trailer itself was the winning entry for a Grindhouse trailer competition that Rodriguez was running at SXSW, with the winner getting a spot in the film.
And just like ‘Machete’,’ Hobo with a Shotgun’ is now being remade in to a full length feature. The above picture is the first still to be released from the shoot, showing classic movie psycho Rutger Hauer in the title role of the Hobo, with what looks like a dead chick in a shopping trolley. The production’s official blog www.hobowithashotgun.com has been posting up behind the scenes footage from the shoot in Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; featuring some scenes from the set and some of Hauer’s gnarly weapons. But to get a good feel for what is coming for you, check out the original ‘Hobo’ trailer below. Death comes quickly for crooked cops, dime store hoods and peado Santa’s!!!
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo Poster Competition
Poster by Christel Fearon
Last week we posted up the trailer for the beautiful new film ‘Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo’. Well a few months back, ‘Beetle Queen’ director Jessica Oreck opened up the floor for aspiring designers to produce a poster for the movie. You can see all the entries over at www.designer-daily.com , but here’s a few of our favourite designs.
Poster by Paul Devine
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