The Big Sun are an indie band from Oxford, fronted by 15-year-old singer songwriter Berry and backed by ex-members of Candyskins and Ride. This is a refreshingly laid back and simple approach to making music, best displayed by ‘Folly’. Berry’s voice is magnificent, coupled with a simple, rough electric guitar, ‘Folly’ imbues emotion and plucks away at the heartstrings. ‘Lazy Bones’ is [...]

Damsels in Distress Dir. Whit Stillman [Sony Pictures Classics; 2011] by Daniel Sargeant Rating: One of the best and worst attributes of college is the opportunity it presents for youth to get promiscuous ideologically. Figures from Ayn Rand to Peter Tosh to Zoroaster briefly acquire more relevance than they deserve before limping back into the intellectual and spiritual hinterland. Whit Stillman has been mining these academic impulses for humor since 1990’s Metropolitan , in which two college-aged characters find themselves in an argument about the relative merits of Fourierism before the film even hits the 10-minute mark. Damsels in Distress ...

Bamboozle has added several bands to its three-day festival extravaganza that already includes Armor For Sleep, blink-182, and Brand New. Check out the fully updated roster below by clicking “Read More.” Related Stories: Armor For Sleep Reuniting At Bamboozle Skate And Surf Festival To Return Summer 2012 Brand New, 23 Others Confirmed For Bamboozle Bamboozle To Make More Band Announcements Bamboozle To Host Secret Performances[[MORE]] MAY 18 Skrillex Incubus Mac Miller Aer Anamanaguchi Armor For Sleep Freedia">Big Freedia & The Divas Casey Veggies Gonzo Timeflies Volbeat Miss May I Mike Posner Stray From The Path The Wonder Years The ...

$200 million folly, or this summer's brainless "Transformers" programmer? We'll soon see, but if international audiences are any indication, no one reads reviews as "Battleship" has opened #1 in a number of territories, adding nearly $60 million to the war chest a full month before the waterlogged movie lands stateside. At the end of the day, people just want to see stuff explode as they're shoving greasy popcorn down their gullets. Or something. Anyway, until the movie says F6 at your local multiplex, a new clip has landed giving a look at a non-CGI sequence from the ...

The Three Stooges Dir. The Farrelly brothers [20th Century Fox; 2012] by Alex Peterson Rating: The Three Stooges were the country’s most popular short-format comedians back in the pre- SNL decades when Americans took their short-form seriously and regularly showed up for it at the movie theaters. The Stooges’ fame was also in the days before media went mass, so that a guy like Harry Cohn, head of Columbia Pictures at the time, could effectively swindle Larry, Curly, and Moe out of the millions of dollars that their comedy deserved. Apparently, Cohn went to extremes to hide from the ...

Steel Gallery Records 2012 Right after the Greek band Wardrum unleashed their debut album “Spadework” to the metal community they went back to work on the follow-up. With only a year removed from then to now this new release, "Desolation" is a step-up as far as follow ups go and an amazing display of highly skilled progressive power metal. Everything from the song writing to the album's artwork (which is a work of Piotr Szafraniec created specifically for Wardrum) to the band's new singer Yannis Papadopoulos (Until Rain, Crosswind) marks a step in the right direction. That direction ...

“Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in ...

When knuckling down to the finer intricacies of classroom-based botany, there was always an endless intrigue located within the way in which evergreens would retain their spindly fingers and seasonally perfumed pines for periods of time that, at such an age, seemed just so endless. San Fran duo Seventeen Evergreen tinge such concept with finite restriction and although few artists ever muster such profuse discography (the compulsive pulses of Daniel Johnston, R. Stevie Moore, etc. aside) the wide-eyed, raging synth maelstroms of follow-up full-length Steady On, Scientist! never quite substantiate the claims of radical enterprise contained inside typically hyperbolic press ...

"Like most things I do, while I'm setting them up I have absolutely no idea what I'm getting into. So when I started immortalising this record I would say: 'OK, drums! Let's record some drums now'", Zammuto's voice giving in to a jejune chirrup of laughter. Never one to do things by halves, nor indeed by any fraction yet known to the human mind Nick Zammuto is still learning. Learning how to record the prerequisite elements of most functional "bands"; learning to think outside the box; learning to become the focal point he never even so ...

<="" center="" src="http://itsmusicplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/394898_330062943670910_228204477190091_1300296_1861585471_n.jpg" /> TerribleFolly [ I.T.S. Music Playground ] : Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud It's my firm belief that it's quite rare to find another human being that vibrates at either the same frequency as you or at a relative complimentary frequency. Say you're ringing out at C and you come across someone that's at about a G. When you put those together you form a C power chord. One of the most basic and most widely used forms of chordal music that everyone who listens to punk rock and classic rock can relate to. So during a show not too ...

When I first saw and heard Danny Brown I initially dismissed it. I mean this guy has one eccentric and oddball rap voice with a goofy ass style. But it got me thinking, so what? This is who he is and he knows how to be himself and stand out from the crowd of rappers. Not long after I basically ignored his mixtape XXX , I gave it another go and I'm glad I did. The sometimes wild, shocking, and often hilarious songs feature rap bars that no one else can quite pull of like Brown . His wordplay with his ...

fugitive \FYOO-ji-tiv\, adjective: 1. Fleeting, transitory, elusive. 2. Having taken flight, or run away. 3. Changing color as a result of exposure to light and chemical substances present in the atmosphere, in other pigments, or in the medium. 4. Dealing with subjects of passing interest, as writings; ephemeral. 5. Wandering, roving, or vagabond. First used by Shakespeare in Antony & Cleopatra, fugitive stems from the Latin word fugere meaning "to flee." Rosetta Stoned One who gets so high that he or she begins to speak in a foreign language. Beth got so Rosetta Stoned last night she could effectively communicate with the cab driver! Trivia What is the name of the friendly monster in the kiddie board game Candy Land? Gloppy. In current versions of the game, it’s Gloppy the Chocolate Monster. Previously, it was Gloppy the Molasses Monster. History anesthesia: was first used in an operation; a tumor was removed from a man's neck while he was under the effects of ether (1842) pencil: patent was awarded to Hymen Lipman for attaching an eraser to the end (1858); it was declared invalid by the US Supreme ...

"Grown Up" is Danny Brown waxing nostalgic about his youth, about the folly of youth and immaturity, and conversely about the upside (and shock) of fame and money.

"Shallow" MP3 from the single Shallow 2012 iTunes BY ADAM PAGE | Jonk Music Beach Fossils are yet another up-and-coming band on Captured Tracks, a young Brooklyn label that also plays host to Wild Nothing and Thieves Like Us and has released records by the Dum Dum Girls and Woods, among others. CT has had remarkable, if modest, success in its four short years of existence in finding a national audience for the groups on its roster. Perhaps this can be chalked up to the continuing view of Brooklyn, along with the Pacific Northwest, as the creative center of indie music ...

No Monster Club - ‘Be My Bone’ You’d think the world would be saturated with trashy garage guitar-pop at this stage but when it’s as ambrosial as this, resistance is but folly.   The video to ‘Be My Bone’ is a camcorder postcard from the lads jaunt around Europe last summer, while their upcoming LP is a tribute their home city - Dublin .  Written by Bobby Aherne the ten track album was recorded with other band buddies under the supervision of  Poggy Dillon.   Dublin is out March 23rd on CF Record, head over here to order your 12” LP & t-shirt. You ...