Impose contributor and International Tapes editor Luke Carrell and his wonderful partner Coco Zoabi, of the blog Coco's OCD, have released a mixtape called the Nablus Project, all based around a single field recording. The track was made by French film-maker Pierre Gauthier as he was traveling through Nablus, which is a Palestinian city on the West Bank. He heard a Muezzin issue a Muslim call to prayer, and due to the shape of the valley where Nablus sits, the call echoed off of the walls of...

I'm not quite sure how I missed this one when it was initially released, but it looks like about a month ago Motion City Soundtrack announced the release of their upcoming 5th studio album Go as well as their first single off of that album with "True Romance". The new tune sticks with that classic catchy pop rock sound that MCS fans have come to expect and love over the last 15 years or so. The song tells the tale of two lovers, one of which (lead singer Justin Pierre) is a complete asshole due to his love for ...

Motion City Soundtrack's new song "Timelines" may be one of their most personal songs, according to Justin Pierre. http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/immaculate-noise

Jónsi's touring bass player makes nebulous experiments in sampling that hark back to musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry.

This rather whimsical comedic drama clearly has designs to be the Japanese Amelie, and for a large part it succeeds. We first meet Mitsuko (Riisa Naka) slumped in a chair, crying as a recently unemployed businessman tells his story on TV, nursing her pregnant stomach. When her parents call, we discover that they think she's in California, but she's actually still in Japan, and through her stubborn refusal to ever take charity, she finds herself moving back into the tenements she spent her formative childhood in. Riisa Naka's performance as Mitsuko is a little uneven, at first ...

lunette \loo-NET\ noun 1 a : something that has the shape of a crescent or half-moon: as b : an opening in a vault especially for a window c : the surface at the upper part of a wall that is partly surrounded by a vault which the wall intersects and that is often filled by windows or by mural painting d : a low crescentic mound (as of sand) formed by the wind 2: the figure or shape of a crescent moon cropduster buttocks. derived from cropdusting. That girl has a fine cropduster. Trivia . History Montreal: the French founded the Quebec city as ...

In part four of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue we look at The Residents, The Slits, Larry Levan, Arthur Russell, Throbbing Gristle and others. 31. FLAMIN’ GROOVIES San Francisco’s Flamin’ Groovies were spitting high-energy rock ‘n’ roll with punky attitude during psychedelia then, when punk exploded, donned Beatle suits to homage the British beat boom. 32. LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY Texan psychosillybilly pioneer Norman Carl Odam donated space-fixated name and out-there agenda to Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust master-plan, his cacophonous ‘Paralyzed’ single dominating World’s Worst Records lists. 33. THE RESIDENTS For nearly forty ...

Je suis chanteurs de variétés francais, et aillant un single en ma possession, je désirerais créer un album avec plusieurs titres. Ce projet consiste en la réalisation d’un album de 12 titres. Cette somme me permettrais de payer l’enregistrement studio ainsi que la réalisation des pochettes d’album. Mais si, par chance, ce budget vient à être dépassé, le nombre de chansons pourrait être augmenté, et les pochettes pourraient être de meilleure qualité. Bref, cela me permettrait de mieux vous récompenser. Cette album serait pour moi un excellent moyen de communication et, bien sûr, le meilleur moyen de ...

Mid-70s Parisian proto-punk, spit out in churlish English amidst acres of fuzz and indiscriminate pulsars. This shit is wrong in so many perfect ways. Or as my pal Nick describes it: “Like an incoherent, uber-primitive Velvets or Simply Saucer collaborating with Pierre Henry – what with all the freaky synth doodlings and such.” Also, depending [...]

spiel \SPEEL\ noun a voluble line of often extravagant talk : a speech delivered especially to sell or promote something iPause iPause: The period of time between when the light turns green and the driver in the front of the line of cars looks up from his iPod or iPhone and pulls away from the light. This is usually preceded by the person behind them honking their horn. I cannot believe the amount of iPause time I waste on a typical commute. Trivia . History Las Vegas : the glitzy "entertainment capital of the world" was founded (1905) Standard Oil Company: in a ...

Violens True [Slumberland; 2012] by Rowan Savage Rating: “Ambition aspires to descend,” opined 17th-century tragedian Pierre Corneille, and from the start, Violens have demonstrated their interest in both descent and the fact that they prefer confusion to boredom . All of this is apparent on True . For the first third of the album, we’re treated to straight-up, crystalline, and rather beautiful — though not necessarily deeply memorable — jangle pop, featuring Jorge Elbrecht’s high, luscious vocals. There’s nothing here that so sheerly encompasses the tragi-gorgeous indie nexus as earlier tunes “Already Over” or “Spectator and Pupil,” though “When To Let ...

Case Studyo is a newly launched initiative dedicated to contemporary artists with a focus on featuring limited and open edition works of art with a striking visual language. Posturing itself as a creative agency for graphic and product design and installations, Case Studyo’s debut project collaborates with Dutch artist Parra for a limited edition porcelain [...] Click here to view full gallery at Hypebeast.com

Happy 33rd Birthday to *Simple Plan (http://www.absolutepunk.net/simpleplan)* frontman Pierre Bouvier! Submitted by WhoSaidThat?

Las Cruces, Protistas Cazador, Chile Rating: 84 by Pierre Lestruhaut It’s 2012, and what has there been to be genuinely excited about in Latin American indie rock these past couple of years, outside of Bam Bam’s ambitious venture into interstellar psychedelia, and–at the diametrically opposed corner of indie–Piyama Party’s absorption of pop culture consumerism into sluggish indieist desolation? My experience writing and listening to Latin indie rock records for over a year can be summarized in the unvarying initial reaction I have about most records. It goes something like: “not bad, maybe something around 72 ...

Originally designed in 1960, the Concorde Chair by the late Pierre Paulin was intended, at the time, to serve as seating in the waiting room of the French Concorde airport. Minimalist in nature, the armless 2012 Artifort lounge chair finds a balance between retro nostalgia and contemporary relevance. Polished metal hardware serves as the foundation [...] Read more at Hypebeast.com