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Joy Division (2007): DVD/Screening Review
This review is not about a rockumentary or film, or a fade-in caught on celluloid. These words, instead, are about a t-shirt that should have never existed. The film starts with collaged montages of Manchester and a voice over that declares (roughly): “This film is not about a band or a group of people, but a city that once created the greatest revolution of Western society, then came back and created a bigger revolution…”
Fujiya & Miyagi’s ‘Lightbulbs’ out in September
Playful groovemasters Fujiya & Miyagi have announced that “Knickerbocker” will be the first single off of their sophomore release, Lightbulbs, due September 16 on Dumb + Blind Recordings. Lightbulbs is said to be “a journey littered with fragmented images, anecdotes from the sublime to the ridiculous, blurry stories that you feel you shouldn’t have overheard.” […]
Ray LaMontagne to Release Third Album in September
On September 30, critically adored singer/songwriter Ray LaMontagne will release his third record, Gossip in the Grain, on RCA. Said to encompass such varying styles as “pastoral folk, railroad blues, front porch country, and plangent balladry,” Gossip was recorded in Box, England, with returning producer Ethan Johns, and features members of LaMontagne’s live backing band. Songstress […]
Girl Talk Announces Extensive Fall Tour
Seems people can’t get enough of Girl Talk (and main man Greg Gillis) and the pay-for-play Feed the Animals these days. And clearly Gillis is a man who lives to please, as he has just announced an extensive fall tour of North America through October and November in addition to the previously confirmed July dates, […]
The Last Shadow Puppets to Tour the US with Orchestra This Fall
It’s a fact. The Last Shadow Puppets are one of Sentimentalist Magazine’s favorite side projects in recent memory. Partners in sultry, orchestral crime, Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) and Miles Kane (The Rascals), created an epic, Morricone soundtrack-inspired masterpiece, The Age of the Understatement, which has been in constant rotation here since its release […]
Afro-Punk Festival Confirms Schedule
The fourth annual Afro-Punk festival will take place in Brooklyn from July 5 through the 13, and is co-sponsored by BAMcinematek and Toyota. Billed as “the definitive destination for the global Afro-Punks yearning to experience true AP culture,” the festival drew 30,000 music lovers in 2007, and expands this year to include 40 bands and […]
The Verve Name New Album, Preview First Single
The Verve have finally set a name for their long-awaited comeback album — it is to be called Forth, and will be released on August 18th in the UK, and a day later in North America on the band’s On Our Own imprint. The lead single, “Love is Noise,” has been garnering high-profile praise and attention, […]
New Oasis Album Due in October
On October 7, Oasis returns with its seventh full-length release, Dig Out Your Soul, the follow-up to 2005’s Don’t Believe The Truth. Recorded at (shockingly enough) Abbey Road with producer Dave Sardy, Dig Out marks a turning point for the band’s approach to the studio, as head songwriter Noel Gallagher describes: “I wanted to write […]
Kings of Leon to Release New LP in September
On September 23rd, the Followill troupe out of Tennessee that we all know as Kings of Leon will release their fourth record, titled Only By The Night, on RCA. Sessions for the newie commenced in February of this year with co-producers Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios. Two new songs, “Crawl” and “Cold Desert” […]
Beck’s ‘Modern Guilt’ Due July 7
Modern Guilt, Beck’s hotly-tipped collaboration with producer extraordinaire Danger Mouse, will arrive in stores July 7 via DGC Records (North America) and XL Recordings (UK and Europe). Boasting 10 new songs “that range in lyrical tone from introspection and social commentary to off the cuff wordplay and lighthearted humor…” Modern Guilt is said to “vacillate […]
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