The next Playlist in our ongoing series features Less Than Jake, Plow United, and Flatfoot 56. All three bands are hitting the road together, and we couldn’t be more stoked to work with them. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) The Downtown Struts - Swiss Army Life The Brokedowns - Apocalypse Seaside Heights The Business - Suburban Rebels Knucklehead - Jacob Burke Devo - Mongoloid *Song is currently not on Spotify Justice - Fish on the Hook Stiff Little Fingers - Wasted Life Beastie Boys - Sabotage The Arrivals - Water Water Everywhere ...

Return is the debut film from writer and director Liza Johnson. The film follows a female soldier, Kelli (Linda Cardellini), who after returning from war in the Middle East, struggles to settle back into her old life. Although initially thrilled to be reunited with her husband, Mike (Michael Shannon), her two little girls, and her friends, life at home slowly begins to appear hollow and pointless. She quits her job, one she had held for a long time before the war, suddenly and without explanation. Instead of finding new work, she wastes months on the couch in her pajamas, watching...

Probably from Brick Lane market, this EP on the EMI/HMV label out of Pakistan was released in 1964. It has a couple of great songs on it especially the amusing "I Love You" which is just the words "I Love You" sung in several languages with what sounds like a Greek bazouki backing! Heres a review of the film from the Channel 4 site- " Director/actor Raj Kapoor reworks the popular love triangle theme in this lavish production, one of the first Hindi films to be shot in foreign European locations. Nearly all Kapoor's films were romances and ...

M.I.A.’s new video, “Bad Girls.”  Makes me want to party in the Middle East so bad.  Two wheel driving like it ain’t no thang. Song is pretty dope too.

In the lead-up to triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown on Australia Day, eventual list topper Gotye revealed how he’d like to see Godley & Creme-inspired album track ‘State of The Art’ make the cut. It didn’t, of course, but we can now reveal how close it actually came thanks to a list of the Hottest 100 also-rans (picks 101-200) published by triple j today. Included among the selections of the “second” Hottest 100 are hotly tipped tracks by Oh Mercy (‘Stay Please Stay’), The Middle East (‘Land Of The Bloody Unknown’), Cut Copy (‘Need You Now’), Loon Lake ...

The shortlist for the 7th Australian Music Prize (The Amp) includes May">Abbe May’s (pictured) Design Desire, Adalita’s Adalita, Boy & Bear’s Moonfire, Gotye’s Making Mirrors, Gurrumul’s Rrakala, Jack Ladder’s Hurtsville, Kimbra’s Vows, The Jezabels’ Prisoner and The Middle East’s I Want That You Are Always Happy. Up to 50 albums were judged for the $30,000 cash prize for creativity and Amp founder Scott B. Murphy revealed that The Panics, Oh Mercy and The Orbweavers were among the acts who almos ...

Town Hall declare they are " not your run-of-the-mill Brooklyn folk group " and claim kinship with Woods, Beirut and The Middle East. The core three-piece – multi-instrumentalists Stefan Weiner, Phoebe Ryan and Jesse Kranzler – recall from that list a miniature The Middle East , smaller in numbers and less expansive than the now defunct Australian chamber-folk six-piece but just as intricate and precise in their gently orchestrated alt-folk musings. Supported by a host of string and woodwind players and a respectfully-in-the-background rhythm section, their second EP release is a name-your-price digital five track EP . The quiet simplicity of ‘Just Watching My Breath’ opens ...

pantslessprogressive : “It’s a real massacre in every sense of the word. I saw bodies of women and children lying on roads beheaded. It’s horrible and inhuman. It was a long night helping people get to hospitals.” -  Abu Jihad, Khalidiya resident “We are not getting any help, there are no ambulances or anything. We are removing the people with our own hands. […] We have dug out at least 100 bodies so far, they are placed in the two mosques.” - anonymous Syrian activist “We were sitting inside our house when we started hearing the shelling. We felt shells were falling ...

Need to send out a big thanks to Tristan who emailed this hauntingly beautiful cover from a rising YouTube star. Mree (pronounced Marie) is launching a music career herself via YouTube (a platform that’s being utilised in so many great ways by unsigned artists) and her version of The Middle East’s Blood is so beautiful. Already watched it about [...]

While Lana Del Rey has been playing the submissive ‘bad girl’, M.I.A. proves in the promo for her new song ‘Bad Girls’ that being a bad girl in the Middle East involves not wearing a burka, wearing your bra over your clothes, setting fires in the middle of the desert and having your mates perform crazy tricks with their cars. More ‘Rock the Casbah’ in real life, as it were.

La Dispute, Balance & Composure, All Get Out, and Sainthood Reps will be touring together in March, April, and May throughout North America. Check out the full tour routing below by clicking “Read More!” 03/24 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater   03/25 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room  03/26 Iowa City, IA Gabe’s 03/27 Lawrence, KS Jackpot Music Hall 03/28 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre 03/29 Ogden, UT The Basement 03/30 Boise, ID Venue">The Venue 03/31 Seattle, WA Vera Project 04/01 Portland, OR Branx 04/03 Oakland, CA Oakland Metro Operahouse 04/04 San ...

Only M.I.A. can make a video like this. In this clip for new single, “Bad Girls”, she tales over the MIddle East, with tricked out Mercedes, flashy costumes, and overall swagged out persona. Maya is officially back. M.I.A . - “Bad Girls”

Directed by: Romain Gavras Source: Noisey Super dope new music video from M.I.A. that was shot deep in Morocco. Noisey describes it as 2 Fast 2 Furious if they shot it in the Middle East. Basically this shit is crazy! We can’t wait for the new album. After the jump is Madonna’s new music video [...]

La Dispute, Balance and Composure, All Get Out, and Sainthood Reps will be heading out on tour this Spring. 03/24 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theater 03/25 Omaha, NE The Waiting Room 03/26 Iowa City, IA Gabe’s 03/27 Lawrence, KS Jackpot Music Hall 03/28 Denver, CO Marquis Theatre 03/29 Ogden, UT The Basement 03/30 Boise, ID Venue">The Venue 03/31 Seattle, WA Vera Project 04/01 Portland, OR Branx 04/03 Oakland, CA Oakland Metro Operahouse 04/04 San Francisco, CA Sub-mission Art Space 04/05 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction 04/06 Los ...

It's easy to poke fun at Kanye West...No, seriously, it's easy to poke fun at Kanye West, and it's also pretty fun to poke fun at Kanye West, so we're going to go ahead and do it. Seemingly throwing into doubt his potential role as the creative director of a "The Jetsons" movie, 'Ye (is that really what people call him?) is reportedly planning to make a 30 minute short art film somewhere in the Gulf. Admittedly, this may be a fairly crushing blow for anybody on the edge of their seats about whether George ...