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. Auteur Theory - Steven O'Shea Roman Polanski With the excellent Carnage popping up ...

The reggae star also touches on the importance that the 2010 release had to Africa.

Shake Me Down - Cage the Elephant (mp3) Any Other Heart - Go Radio (mp3) A fondue set. A briefcase. A fucking fondue set, and a damn briefcase. My wife and I have been giving one another gifts for going on 17 years now. She knows me better than anyone save for, possibly, one or two friends. Nothing about our affection or familiarity guarantees the success of our present-buying efforts. My wife is almost impossible to shop for. She has few hobbies, few obsessions, basic fashion sense and a practical nature that renders most traditional gifts comical. The perfume I bought her ...

NNEKA to Release Soul Is Heavy  February 28, 2012 on  Yo Mama’s Recordings/Decon “Our girl Nneka is the greatest… this afro-soul rump-shaker is pure hotness” - Rolling Stone“One of the best soul singers to emerge in the past few years” - The Times of London “Nas and Marley (Distant Relatives) offer nothing but praise for Nneka” - in [...]

The number 23 has always been my lucky number, I don’t know why but it always has. My family say that whenever I used to visit my distant relatives as a kid the TV used to always be on channel 23. I don’t know but it’s something I have stuck with since I was about [...]

Nas and Damian Marley released their album Distant Relatives in May last year. Since then they’ve been around the globe and back [...]

I always considered Gilbert O'Sullivan as a fey songwriter more suited to people like Jerry from the Good Life. Then I heard a song that knocked me sideways … In 1973, Gilbert O'Sullivan was a piano-playing superstar on a par with Elton John. Today, he is maybe mentioned in the same breath as Clifford T Ward – which means he is barely thought of at all. What was Gilbert all about? Fey tunes, valium ballads? Wasn't his music a little like something Jerry from The Good Life would create if he recorded demos in his shed? Well, if Jerry ...

Lolla’s 20th anniversary was my sixth straight, having attended every year since it expanded to three days in Chicago’s gorgeous Grant Park. In those six years I’ve had some amazing times, and experienced a mass of great music.  It all began in 2006, arriving to The Raconteurs covering Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” and from then on, I *had* to be there. The next year in 2007, Daft Punk flew in on their pyramid of light, the year after that, Wilco donned their Sgt. Pepper-inspired threads in 2008, heck, I even got to see Lou Reed play “Sweet ...

Prefix : This is like one of those “Whoa, that person is still around?” WTF story: While performing as part of the Distant Relatives tour in Philly this week, Nas brought out an old rapper who is known to Philly residents as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The Fresh Prince, aka Will Smith, danced mad awkwardly onstage during one of Nas’s songs (I can’t tell what it was because the noise is mad blown-out here), and that’s pretty much it, more or less. I guess we’re just left wondering what Fresh Prince has been doing in ...

This is like one of those "Whoa, that person is still around?" WTF story: While performing as part of the Distant Relatives tour in Philly this week, Nas brought out an old rapper who is known to Philly residents as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The Fresh Prince, aka Will Smith, danced mad awkwardly onstage during one of Nas's songs (I can't tell what it was because the noise is mad blown-out here), and that's pretty much it, more or less. I guess we're just left wondering what Fresh Prince has been doing in the ...

On August 1, in the year of our lord, 2011, Jay-Z and Kanye West will release the collaborative album Watch The Throne . It is expected to make enough money to fix the American debt crisis. One week later, Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka’s Ferrari Boyz will be released, and while it won’t make enough money to hypothetically save our national parks, it should make enough money to buy Gucci Mane a better lawyer. One of these albums seems like a cold, calculated move that stemmed from the same money-grubbing logic that caused KISS to release four really shitty ...

With rap veteran Nas and reggae star Damian Marley making headlines last year courtesy of their Distant Relatives collaboration album, SOHH recently chopped it up with Shaggy to get his take on the hip-hop meets reggae mash-ups.

Whatever your feeling towards compilation albums – and for a lot of people, those sentiments will be based on the simmering resentment of having to pretend to like the ‘Now that’s what I call Music!’ series following several years of getting a copy through distant relatives for Christmas as ‘You’re in to music, aren’t you?’ – there’s [...]

A finales de este año, se cumplirá el primer lustro del fallecimiento de Darren " Wiz " Brown, compositor, cantante y guitarrista de Mega City Four , uno de los grupos más peculiares y fascinantes del pop británico. Esta primavera, además, se cumplen quince años desde que el cuarteto decidiera separarse, legando un montón de canciones inolvidables y una estela de compromiso, vocación y cabezonería del todo ejemplar. Así las cosas, decidimos rendir tributo al grupo y a su principal motor creativo. Para saber más, nos leímos la recomendable biografía " Tall Stories & Creepy Crawlies " y contactamos con su autor, Martin Roach, un tipo ...

Just when you thought the music scene couldn't get any hotter this summer, here comes Nas with some new heat for the masses. Coming off the heels of touring with Damian Marley to promote last year's Distant Relatives, Nas has...