Last week, we were proud to share with you, dear reader, Anchorman 2′s first official movie poster. Today, we got our hands on a full-fledged trailer, thanks to Funny Or [...]

The video for Human Don't Be Angry's new track '1985' has emerged online - watch it below. Ever unpredictable, Malcolm Middleton threw fans a further curveball earlier this year. Unveiling his new group venture Human Don't Be Angry , the songwriter seemed to content to shut his mouth and strum a guitar. A very band, collective-oriented experience, Human Don't Be Angry's self-titled album contained some beautiful highpoints. New single '1985' is certainly one of them - all overlapping voices, machine-work with a very human sense of soul. Available to download right now, ClashMusic has been handed a video ...

Borag thungg, earthlets. I first read Alan Moore's comics sometime around 1980. Sounds magazine was a rival to NME and the Melody Maker, back when music was popular enough to support three competing weeklies. He wrote and drew a strip for the mag called "The Stars My Detestation", and being a young sf fan I was quick to notice the Alfred Bester reference. Unfortunately, I was completely clueless about music, and had no idea why he was writing as Curt Vile. Have the strips ever been reprinted? I've certainly never seen them since, so maybe Moore hates them ...

Sunshiney New Zealand crooner Lawrence Arabia is back with a third album of 60s-influenced pop on Bella Union. The Sparrow is the follow-up to 2009’s Chant Darling , which won the hearts of even the most charcoal-souled critics and put the fellow who toured as Okkervil River’s bassist and supported Feist on a jaunt or two front and center. Of course, James Milne (as Lawrence Arabia’s birth certificate calls him) has been doing the music thing for nearly a decade, so he knows his way around a stage, having been a member of both The Brunettes and Ruby ...

Hamburg calling - wieder einmal erweitert das MS Dockville seinen Timetable mit neuen Künstlern. Zuletzt vergrößerte sich das vielfältige Line-up bereits in Form der Pop-Newcomer Me And My Drummer, sowie des britischen Indietronic-Trios We Have Band ( motor.de berichtete ). Auch der neue Bandschwall zeigt eine große Bandbreite an Musikstilen. Für den hanseatischen Singer/Songwriter-Charme sorgt Niels Frevert mit seinem aktuellen Langspieler "Zettel Auf Dem Boden" im Gepäck. Daneben bringt der geheimnisvolle, maskierte Elektronik-Künstler o F F Love die Tanzmeute zum Kochen. Außerdem zeigen Boy & Bear mit ihrer Mischung aus rollenden Drums, krächzenden Gitarren und schwärmerischen Melodien weshalb sämtliche Konzerte von ihnen ...

Die südafrikanische Singer/Songwriterin Cherilyn MacNeil alias Dear Reader verschenkt zum Auftakt ihrer aktuellen Tournee ein musikalisches Bonbon mit dem Titel "Traditional White". Im letzten Jahr erschien ihr drittes Album " Idealistic Animals ", welches in Leipzig und Portland aufgenommen wurde. Hierzulande erlangte die Folkmusikerin, die stimmlich an Sangeskolleginnen wie Emiliana Torrini und Tori Amos erinnert, vor allem durch ihren Auftritt bei der Musiksendung TV Noir im letzten Jahr große Bekanntheit. Hört hier in neues Material der Dame herein und klickt für den Unterwegs-Genuss auf den beistehenden Download-Button: Dear Reader - "Traditional White" Begonnen hat die Gruppe, die neben Cherilyn MacNeil ursprünglich ebenfalls ...

Saint Bowie - The Royalty (mp3) Silver Screen - The Royalty (mp3) Could there be anything more musically daunting for a band than The Debut Album? A band could be together for five years, but that’s just courting. The debut album is the hotel room after prom night. It’s the moment a band becomes a relationship instead of just going steady. You’re not just holding hands anymore; you’re in bed together. Even more disturbing, the hotel room where you’re shagging is actually a studio set, and cameras are recording every twitch, moan and kinky inclination. The only ...

What was the Of Montreal frontman's biggest onstage disaster? And what does he think of band-inspired tattoos? The asymmetrical haired American singer-songwriter responds to YOU, dear reader!

Das vierte Bootboohook Festival wartet weiterhin mit hochkarätigen Gästen auf. So wurden zuletzt schon The Whitest Boy Alive, bei denen Norwegens Musikpate Erlend Øye das Zepter schwingt, sowie die Hamburger Independent-Schwergewichte Tocotronic bestätigt ( motor.de berichtete ). Bei der Hannoveraner Großveranstaltung, die vom 24. Bis zum 26. August geht, werden nun unter anderem auch noch die dänischen Disko-Rocker WhoMadeWho erwartet. Weiterhin werden Superpunk einen ihrer letzten Auftritte in der Landeshauptstadt geben, nachdem die Band im Februar ihr offizielle Ende bekannt gab ( motor.de berichtete ). Seht hier das bisherige Line-up sowie Impressionen aus dem vergangenem Jahr: The Whitest Boy Alive | Tocotronic | BOY ...

OK, dear reader, imagine if you will (and bear with me here), that *Cocteau Twins' *singer *Elizabeth Fraser* (4AD Goth-rock goddess, ask your parents!) is your mother, your older sister is none other than 90's one hit wonder Zoe of *Sunshine on a Rainy Day* fame and your mad auntie who visits your...

Einmal mehr versüßt uns das Hamburger MS Dockville das Wochenende und macht mit neuen Bestätigungen Lust auf den Open Air-Sommer. Zuletzt erweiterte sich das vielfältige Line-up bereits in Form von Deutsch-Rapper Marsimoto, sowie den norwegischen Indie-Rock-Newcomern Team Me ( motor.de berichtete ). Auch beim neuen Bandschwall wird Abwechslung geboten. Me And My Drummer, die Newcomer vom deutschen Label Sinnbus, beehren die Bühnen mit Songs ihres demnächst erscheinenden Debüt-Albums. Selbiges haben die australischen Newcomer The Jezabels, welche ebenfalls neu bestätigt wurden, bereits kürzlich unter dem Namen " Prisoner " veröffentlicht. Und selbst das britische Indietronic-Trio We Have Band schließt sich dem munteren Reigen an ...

Deen remembers the good old days when people called “snackpacks” by their real name: hats. The apocalypse is nigh y’all. I clicked on this after watching Nas’ ‘The Don’ trailer and lo and behold I like this song. Dear reader, I’m even more shocked than you are. SMH. Let me list all the things wrong… Continue reading »

Sunday, April 15 Dear Reader, Traditionally, when yours truly takes off for other climes, I leave behind a feature set or two of place-relevant coverage. But we’re off to San Juan in the morning for a long school break in the sun, with a spring in our step and an island-hopping itinerary on our mind. [...]

Okay so I'm sorry to bombard the blog, but not really, because this is the most important pop-related rumor (let's not get carried away calling it news) I can remember ever hearing (I've decided including Ivy Blue in such contests is just unfair) and the possibility that you, dear reader, might have missed it is simply too disturbing to bear. My Bloody Valentine, the Irish alt-rock band whose 1991 masterpiece Loveless is one of the best albums of all time (mean it!) as well as the high-water mark for the blissed-out, feedback-swathed subgenre known as "shoegaze," just ...

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, Being There is a 1972 American movie about a guy (played by Peter Sellers) who has no earthly lineage, seems to come from nowhere, speaks in parables, and achieves miracles illuminating the lives of his believers and infuriating his non-believers. The non-believers scramble around researching his origin - trying in desperation but ultimately failing to prove he is a fake. Meanwhile, he is bringing true enlightenment to his believers about life and the after-life. By the end of the movie it is inferred that he and his political disciples change the ...