Cinema: Panda Bear soundtracks "I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island"

Last week, we had the pleasure of attending the Babelgum Online Film Festival Awards screening during the Tribeca Film Festival. One of the short films we screened (and one of the big winners, raking in the Spike Lee award for "mini masterpiece) is the just-over-four-minute "I Had A Dream I Went To Coney Island". The silent film is a super 8-shot clip of the playground of the world, soundtracked by Panda Bear aka Animal Collective's Noah Lennox. The film is surreal because it juxtaposes the Coney Island of today with the film technology of yesterday. What you end up--thanks in no small part to the soundtrack--is a vision of broken dreams and decay, a sort of endnote for a once all-too-prominent and extravagant area. And now that plans are 100% underway to "revitalize" the area (we still don't fully know how we feel about that whole thing), it stands as a visually surreal, sad and ultimately ugly display.

(mp3)    Panda Bear - Take Pills

Godspeed!

Cinema: Gorillaz documentary "Bananaz" screening next week

Only at the Soho Apple Store here in New York City could there be a G-rated (the film was cut and edited specifically for these kinds of things) screening of what we can only speculate to be a really really rad documentary.  Directed by Ceri Levy, the film "Bananaz" looks at the cartoon band created by artist Jamie Hewlett and musician Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, which has hundreds of hours of footage collected over many months of shooting from 2000 to 2006.  The screening is free and is followed by a Q&A session with Levy.

Deets:

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
What: "Bananaz" Film Screening and Q&A with director Ceri Levy
Where: Apple Store Soho 103 Prince Street New York, NY 10012
Time: Screening and Q&A is from 6:30pm - 8pm

(mp3)    Gorillaz - Broken

Godspeed!

News: The Bronx tour; release record; are movie stars

(photo by Guomundur Vigfusson)

The love-anything-heavy boys in The Bronx are releasing their third record (again eponymously) on November 11.  A few days before that happens though, they'll set out on a tour accompanying Everytime I Die.  And even before  that, they'll play CMJ in New York City (next week y'all).  Also, did you know that the guys are embodying Black Flag in the Germs biopic "What We Do Is Secret"?  How fucking righteous is that?

Dates:

Oct 16 Boston, MA Middle East
Oct 21 CMJ/New York, NY Fontana’s
Nov 01 Quebec City, QC L’Anti
Nov 02 Montreal, QC Club Soda
Nov 03 Ottawa, ON Babylon
Nov 04 Toronto, ON Opera House
Nov 05 London, ON The Salt Lounge
Nov 06 Grand Rapids, MI The Intersection
Nov 07 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom
Nov 08 Des Moines, IA Picador
Nov 09 Columbia, MD Blue Note
Nov 11 Oklahoma City, OK Diamond Ballroom
Nov 12 Joplin, MO The Foundry Music Theater
Nov 13 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theater
Nov 14 Nashville, TN Rocketown
Nov 15 Asheville, NC Handlebar
Nov 17 Carborro, NC Cat’s Cradle
Nov 18 Wilmington, NC The Soapbox Laundrolounge
Nov 19 Richmond, VA The Canal Club
Nov 20 Towson, MD Recher Theater
Nov 21 South Hackensack, NJ School of Rock
Nov 22 Farmingdale, NY The Crazy Donkey
Nov 23 Syracuse, NY Lost Horizon

(mp3)    The Bronx - Young Bloods

Godspeed!

Video: Arctic Monkeys to show live concert DVD in UK theaters

Shot on the final night of the band's 2007 world tour, the live video from the Arctic Monkeys called "At The Apollo" presents a special, unique opportunity to view a live DVD concert in a big theater atmosphere.  The film will show at over 30 different VUE locations around the UK on Tuesday, October 14 at 9pm.  Full ticket information and theater locations can be gotten here.

Tracklist:

01 Brianstorm
02 This House Is A Circus
03 Teddy Picker
04 I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
05 Dancing Shoes
06 From The Ritz To The Rubble
07 Fake Tales Of San Francisco
08 When The Sun Goes Down
09 Nettles
10 D Is For Dangerous
11 Leave Before The Light Come On
12 Fluorescent Adolescent
13 Still Take You Home
14 Da Frame 2R
15 Plastic Tramp
16 505
17 Do Me A Favour
18 A Certain Romance
19 The View From The Afternoon
20 If You Were There, Beware

(mp3)    Arctic Monkeys - Balaclava

Godspeed!

Video: The trailer for Biggie biopic "Notorious" is posted

After watching this clip, we can't really tell if we're really stoked to see "Notorious" or if it's just one step above that video where Puffy and Biggie are played by kids as themselves.  Anyways, Jamal Woolard looks spot-on and though we couldn't get that good of a look, the female leads playing Faith Evans and Lil' Kim are too.

(mp3)    The Notorious B.I.G. - Party And Bullshit (Ratatat remix)

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Cinema: Springsteen pens track for Aronofsky film "The Wrestler"

According to the film's brief, "The Wrestler" is the story of retired professional wrestler, Randy "The Ram" Robinson, making his way through the independent circuit, trying to get back in the game for one final showdown with his former rival.  The film stars Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood.  We haven't a clue why Darren Aronofsky, the esteemed director of "Pi" and "Requiem For A Dream" would bother making a film about professional wrestling (though the steaming pile of crap that "The Fountain" was may explain this downward spiral) but for now, we'll give it a break because of the whole Bruce Springsteen thing.  Only problem being, the song is the CLOSING track, so, hooray for staying for the credits, right?  "The Wrestler" is set to close out the Venice Film Festival.

(mp3)    Vampire Weekend - Exit Music (For A Film) (Radiohead cover)

Godspeed!

Video: Another teaser for Arab On Radar doc, "Sunshine For Shady People"

Two months ago (exactly for your information), we brought you a 12-second car crash masterpiece teaser for the soon-to-be-existent Arab On Radar documentary film.  We now bring you even closer to the greatest Rhode Island disaster/band ever with this, another 30-or-so second clip.  On September 18, the DVD breaks loose.  Pre-order that shit for 17 bucks here.

(mp3)    Arab On Radar - Number 3

Godspeed!

News: Daft Punk's "Electroma" now on iTunes

You can get the epic story of two robots who dream of one day being humans on Apple's megastore by clicking here.  It's only $9.99, which is totally worth it for the 70 minutes you'll be spending glued to your screen.  Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter are the new gods of cinema, not just gods of French-born, alien-delivered disco.

(mp3)    Daft Punk - Human After All (SebastiAn remix)

Godspeed!

Cinema: Screen "Electroma" tonight at midnight

Daft Punk's Electroma is an odyssey of two robots who journey across a mythic American landscape of haunting, surreal beauty on a quest to become human.

Schedule a screening of your own, tonight, only on Lycos Cinema.  Long live the journey of French disco aliens everywhere.

(mp3)    Daft Punk - Face To Face

Godspeed!

Photos: "Thriller" anniversary screening at Tribeca Film Festival

Featuring the humor(?) of John Landis, the skills of many of the cast members of "Step It Up And Dance" (Elizabeth Berkley not included), a special big screen showing of the most successful video in history and a "making of" documentary.  This will be the only thing the culture of me involves itself with during the festival, as we always seem to make a list of shit we want to see, but then forget that list exists and thereby missing everything.  Such is life.

(mp3)    Ben Gibbard - Thriller (live, Michael Jackson cover)

Godspeed!