To quote the eternal genius of Silky Johnson, “Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate!” Gawker : One night last week, Houston rapper/viral phenomenon Riff Raff was sitting in my living room in Brooklyn, eating a bag of Wise BBQ potato chips. The day before, he’d flown to Daytona Beach, Fla., to shoot a music video with 19-year-old viral rap ingénue Kitty Pryde, and now he was in New York to do photo shoots and interviews for two major rap magazines. He was scheduled to play The Bamboozle festival in New Jersey the following day. He sat on the ...

DocStoc has been hard at work developing 30 free iPad apps aimed at helping small business owners and entrepreneurs flourish. This is one of the largest collections of free, easy-to-use business apps available in the iPhone App Store, featuring expert video courses, hand-picked premium documents,

Hey Chicago, do you remember last year when we released seven videos under the Undercover: Summer Break banner? You don't? They're right here . Well, we're launching Summer Break again this year, and we need some cool outdoor locations to film at. Last year we had the deck at Tribune Tower, a boat out on the lake, and some awesome roof decks. Do you have the ideal place for us to film an Undercover in the next month or two? Please e-mail us and describe what you've got. No idea too big or too small. Send a ...

If the works of Jay and Mark Duplass boast a visual trademark, that trademark would be the “punch zoom.” In pertinent moments throughout all the Duplass films, starting with their mumblecore debut The Puffy Chair, the camera quickly zooms in on characters—like, well, a punch—shifting the focus from big to small, from macro to micro. Many moviegoers consider this stylistic staple a literal punchline for their offbeat humor, but it seems to function more as a symbol of what they’re devoted to as filmmakers: the eschewing of big, impersonal narratives for small, intimate stories that hone in ...

In anticipation of their June 12th record release Hello Hum on Capitol Records/EMI, award-winning rock band Wintersleep present their first video for the song "In Came The Flood." Director Sean Wainsteim had the band perform while gliding through an atmospheric space (like they were sliders on a sound board) past stoic individuals lit by rhythmic, pulsing lights. The video for "In Came The Flood" was inspired by the distinct look of old live multi-camera television musical performances from the 70's and 80's. Technically, the video production presented a number of challenges; the band played while balancing on ...

The high anticipated soundtrack to the HD reissues of the classic Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games has been revealed. As speculated, the original soundtracks will not available for the new versions of the game and so a new 16-song soundtrack was assembled. Ken Overbey, the project manager on the new games explained the challenges in a recent interview : We definitely wanted to bring back some of the songs from the original soundtrack, but wanted new songs as well. The most difficulty we had was our budget, which was very small, and the scope and time frame; it was a ...

Genre: Alternative/Pop/Rock Country: USA Traclist 01. Small Town Moon 02. Oh Marcello 03. Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quitte Pas) 04. Firewood 05. Patron Saint 06. How 07. All The Rowboats 08. Ballad Of A Politician 09. Open 10. The Party 11. Jessica MySp...

If there has been one constant in "The Exorcist" franchise, it's that none of the sequels or prequels have ever come close to touching the terror or brilliance of William Friedkin's groundbreaking original. Nor have any of the countless exorcism movies since managed the feat either. But that isn't stopping another bite at the apple, as "The Exorcist" (recently named as the greatest horror movie ever by Time Out) is now getting prepped for the small screen in an expansive remake/prequel that will stretch out the terror over ten episodes. Vulture reports that "Martha Marcy May ...

Randy is confirmed for West Coast Riot on July 26 and since I will actually be in Sweden at that time, there's a small possibility that I will be there. We shall see...

Leefest will take place this year on 29-30 June and it’s a nonprofit music festival that takes place annually in a small working farm just 15 minutes south of London in Bromley. The festival has their own series of taped acoustic performances called ‘The Garden Sessions’. Local heroes Van Susans – or rather the two Ollys, singer/songwriter Andrews and keyboardist Groome – performed two songs acoustically. ‘Bricks Not Sticks or Straw’ was the band’s single... Continue reading Live Gig Videos: Van Susans’ two Ollys perform ‘Bricks Not Sticks or Straw’ and ‘The Road’ for Leefest’s Garden Sessions

In 2011, 28-year-old director Josh Trank made a $124 million dollar success out of Chronicle, a sci-fi superhero film that was produced with just a small $12-million budget. According to a report from Deadline, Trank has signed on to lend his budget-bending talents to a new film,Shadow of the Colossus....

Cornish punk rockers Bangers are streaming their new EP entitled Good Livin' , through their Bandcamp page. The four track release, which follows 2011's full length, Small Pleasures , is available to pre-order on CD or 7'' through Specialist Subject Records . You can find the stream here In other recent Bangers news, two of their members released an old tour diary as a 'name your price' audiobook just last week.

Words: Lauren Johnson-Ginn Anyone lamenting the sweaty, grime-coated nature of their daily commute might find a heartening sense of perspective by watching 'Hell On Wheels' , a new, brutal historical drama from Endemol USA (airing on TCM in the UK) that charts the building of the Union Pacific Railroad in post-Civil War America, starring Colm Meaney and sometime-rapper Common in leading roles. Meaney plays Thomas Durant, an enterprising and utterly unscrupulous businessman who plans to realise his vision of building the transcontinental railroad and make himself a fortune into the bargain. The railroad building itself is a mammoth undertaking, beset by ...

Vikunja have taken their band name from a small camelid animal (vicuña) that lives high up in the Andes. With their grand sound they clearly aim for the big arenas, which they already have tried as the opening act on Roxette's arena tour through Sweden last year. Coldplay comes to mind when I listen, ...

Artist: Spektor">Regina Spektor Album: What We Saw from the Cheap Seats Released: 2012 Style: Indie Pop Format: MP3 320Kbps Size: 89 Mb Tracklist: 01 – Small Town Moon 02 – Oh Marcello 03 – Don’t Leave Me (Ne me quitte pas) 04 – Firewood 05 – Patron Saint 06 – How 07 – All the Rowboats 08 – Ballad of a Politician 09 – Open 10 – The Party 11 [...]