Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell. Read by Philip Glenister CSA Word £16.16 6hrs The year of Orwell's dystopia is now long past, but it's frightening to realise just how much of it has come true. The novel, with those dreadful child spies busy reporting their parents to the Thought Police, and Big Brother's telescreens, is given fresh life through this vigorous narration. The Death of Bunny...
Anna Ternheim is a singer-songwriter from Stockholm who has just released the album, Leaving On A Mayday. Her music has a dark touch about it which hints at influences from Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. We checked in with her and asked her about the music that inspired the recording. She started with the El [...]
The untold story of East Germany's anarchic underground punk scene and the critical role it played bringing down the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the East German underground guitar band Die Anderen-the Others-had a gig on the other side of the...
I made an old-fashioned mix-cd today. it has a real nice autumnal mood (IMHO), tracklisting: 1. Jochen Distelmeyer - Regen 2. Big Star - Kanga roo 3. The Mountain Goats - Matthew 25:21 4. The Black Heart Procession - Wasteland 5. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The rider song 6. Hush Arbors - Fast asleep 7. Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - Willamine 8. Grant-Lee Phillips - Buried treasure 9. Chuck...
In celebration of Criterion's deluxe double-DVD and Blu-ray treatment of Wings of Desire , my Benten Films partner-in-crime Andrew Grant and I rewatched Wim Wenders ' 1987 masterpiece (and pored over the bonus features) to discuss the film's elusive magic and why a work so specific to East-West German tensions has aged so gracefully. Andrew reminisces about spending time in Berlin around the time...
...is (deep breath) still my favourite version of the song. Not only do I have the same confession as Liz (though why we feel the need to confess, I'm still working on); that Paul Young's version was the first I heard but also that when I heard the Joy Division version a few years later I thought it was a ropey Paul Young cover - and in fact, that's how I still see things now. When No Parlez came out...
"PARTING is all we know of heaven," wrote Emily Dickinson, "and all we need know of hell." Or, to put it another way, when it comes to the afterlife, even the
For what it's worth, the music is from Nick Cave & Warren Ellis's score for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and as such is probably a temp track selected for its Casey Affleck associations. So who knows what the music in the finished film will sound like.
SucceedBlog is an overnight SUCEED. "It's totally picking up steam," says co-creator David Littlejohn, who launched the website yesterday afternoon. This morning, he and co-creator Jim Haas and "web ninja" Mark Neigh woke up to a staggering 20,000 hits. SucceedBlog is the counter-site to FailBlog. Instead of highlighting life's failures with a picture and the word FAIL, the site...
John Cale – The Streets of Laredo from Honi Soit … (1981, out of print) Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Hoedown from Trilogy (1972) Robbie Robertson with Leah Hicks-Manning – The Sound Is Fading from Contact From the Underworld of Redboy (1998) Adam & the Ants – Five Guns West from Prince Charming (1981) Babe Ruth – The Mexican [...]
By the time would record its second album, Goat, the band had built a sound perfectly suited for Albini's engineering methods. McNeilly’s loud, disciplined drumming worked wonders with Albini's custom drum mikes, and the band's unity meant live studio recording sounded infinitely better than individual tracking ever could. It all came together on Goat, widely considered the Jesus Lizard’s...
EMI Music is launching a new live music recording and instant production service, Abbey Road Live, enabling live music fans the opportunity to instantly purchase high quality live recordings of shows they have just attended. Mixed and mastered on site by a dedicated crew of experts, the recordings will be made available in a range of formats including CD, DVD and USBs or via secure digital delivery...
We've officially moved into the gift-oriented release schedule, filled with deluxe reissues, box sets and other compilation/soundtracks to help (trick?) the average schmo get a gift for the music lover in their life. There's a couple gift choices from the archives of Nirvana, soundtracks from Fantastic Mr Fox , Glee , NCIS and Aqua Teen Hunger Force -- which is actually a X-mas album, and my fave of...
So Joi visited me for just over a week in October, and after three weeks of being in Berlin mostly just writing in cafes by myself, getting Mermaid together, suddenly I was traipsing all over the place... We had much much fun; we went to all kinds of clubs and bars, we spent a lot of time working in cafes (this city is full of the best cafes!), we saw this amazing little cabaret show about Marlene...
(Paul took this on my birthday about 6 years ago, it's one of the only photographs of myself that I like. and then I read the footnote on one of Garance Dore's posts and laughed in grim recognition.) So, yeah it's my birthday on Saturday. Ergo, I am a Scorpio. And I will be 35 years old. Eep! 35 seems quite a milestone, it sounds terribly grown-up. Anyway, I have been promised chocolate biscuits, ice...
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