So good:
Check out this incredible mashup of Tame Impala's Elephant and Kanye West's Black Skinhead by producer Nate Belasco. It's really great.
Lou Reed reviews Yeezus
The best review I've read of Kanye West's great new album Yeezus is an impassioned piece by none other than Lou Reed. A feature on a great new site The Talkhouse, which has musical artists reviewing other musical artists.
It's a fantastic, honest read, and says a lot about how I also feel about Kanye's latest.
Here are a few of my favourite observations:
"There are moments of supreme beauty and greatness on this record, and then some of it is the same old shit. But the guy really, really, really is talented."
"Very often, he'll have this very monotonous section going and then, suddenly —"BAP! BAP! BAP! BAP!""
"It's like farting."
"At so many points in this album, the music breaks into this melody, and it's glorious — I mean, glorious."
Read the whole thing, and other great articles, here: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed
Harvest Festival 2013 lineup unveiled!
The best-run festival in Australia has just announced its initial lineup and it's another great set of acts, with more to come.
In addition to the astounding coup of securing Neutral Milk Hotel for their first Australian tour (the festival is worth attending just for them), here's the rest of the first announcement:
Massive Attack
Franz Ferdinand
Primus
Goldfrapp
Desaparecidos (Conor Oberst)
Eels
CSS
The Drones
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
M Ward
Superchunk
The Wallflowers
Walk Off The Earth
Typically the second announcement features some great surprises (among others: TV on the Radio the first year, Los Campesinos in the second), so the lineup is sure to improve even more.
The other surprise is the move of the Sydney festival from Parramatta Park to The Domain. Here's hoping the well-organised, easy-going atmosphere is maintained in the inner city digs!
Sunday, November 10, Werribee Park, Melbourne
Saturday, November 16, The Domain, Sydney
Sunday, November 17, Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
For more offical info visit: www.harvestfestival.com.au
Kirin J Callinan's Embracism: Album stream
The anarchic Kirin J Callinan's long awaited debut Embracism drops on Friday, but you can hear it in its entirety now. Not necessarily for the faint-hearted. Probably better played loud in a small, hot room after several drinks than say, your desk at work.
Tunes!
For fans of Nicholas Winding-Refn's Drive, here's a great new synth track from College, Un Long Sommeil:
Check out this amazing and atypically mellow track from the anarchic Aussie Kirin J Callinan's debut album, Embracism: Landslide. Fans of Xiu Xiu and The Normal should rejoice.
Queens of the Stone Age have managed to deliver yet another incredible album, ...Like Clockwork, which may well rank with their best. A particular highlight is late track I Appear Missing:
A brand new anticipatory single from the Artic Monkeys, Do I Wanna Know:
And from the wonderful Neko Case's soon to be released new record, the first single: Man:
Game of Thrones at the Sydney Opera House
Based on the interviews with George RR Martin and Peter Dinklage that I have read or seen, I would expect this event to be both very entertaining and very interesting. Of course, it could also be loaded with some major spoilers for upcoming stories for all those who haven't read the books - especially when things get opened up for questions from the (let's assume completely obsessive) audience. Are you willing to take the chance?!
Is so, you can register your interest here.
The Wolf of Wall Street trailer
This Wolf of Wall Street trailer comes as a relief.
Mainly because it looks like Martin Scorsese still knows how to have fun and Leonardo DiCaprio gets another chance to play a character whose default setting isn't Completely Emotionally Tortured.
As an added bonus, it's the first big screen work of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire writer Terence Winter.
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