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Efterklang - New Video

We just received a great new video for Efterklang’s Mirador. If you haven’t heard of this band, click here to read Yaya’s review of their excellent album Parades. The video is an animated version of the virtual world created for the album artwork by Nan Na Hvass. It is directed by Hvass & Hannibal and [...]

How Radiohead Stole the Charlatans’ Thunder

I once read this story in a Todd Grimson novel. I don’t know if it’s true, and since I no longer remember the exact book it was in I can’t really corroborate it. In the end of the 70’s there was this punk musician who had a simple objective: He would make one punk record, [...]

Cronenberg, Goddamn Genre Poet and Eastern Promises

Say what you will about David Cronenberg. Go ahead. Right now. Probably it’s one of two things. And it’s opinionated.
Ok. Now me.
After the (incredible, but) panned wreckage left behind from Crash (the NC-17 accident fetish flick a la 1994, not the heavy-handed LA Oscar contender from the past year), Canadian-born Cronenberg has only become more [...]

Efterklang - Parades

There’s no doubt that Ladies and Gentleman by Spiritualized is an amazing album, right?
There’s Also no doubt that Loveless by Bloody Valentine is an amazing album, right?
Now, the common thing about them (besides being the masterpieces of their genre) is that Mr. Darren Allison was doing the mixing for both of them (along with the [...]

Film Review: Darjeeling Limited

Reprising his Imperialist preoccupations, dispersing the dramas of a dysfunctional, prep-school elite into a near Tin-Tin landscape, Wes Anderson pairs down his character list (at last) and revisits Bottle Rocket terrain with his return to the male triad.
Again, one of Anderson’s films seems displaced in an almost children’s book environment. Sumptuous details within the train [...]

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