Trailer Face-Off! Bonsai vs. The Words
This week: Bonsai vs. The Words , two stories about writers who, in their ailing search for inspiration, bend the temporality of love and muddle the threshold of fiction in real life.
Topic Archives: Music and Film
Epic music mixes from Chances with Wolves
They have never played a track more than once. Ever. Their shows drip with culture and the obscurity of the darkest, dustiest corners of a record crate.
Discovery: Big Baby Gandhi
Hip-hop is changing. Or, to put it more mildly, the sub-genre of throwback, flippant, late ‘80s-influenced indie rap is proliferating
FREE MOVIE: WEIRD SCIENCE
Watch the John Hughes classic with a teenage Robert Downey Jr!
WORLD PREMIERE: LIGHT ASYLUM “HEART OF DUST”
Light Asylum’s self-titled LP is by and large one of the most substantial releases of the year, in our eyes . The magnitude of Shannon Funchess’s incredible voice declaring her arrival should not be regarded as anything but an important moment for women in rock.
Simian Mobile Disco Wants More
After over a decade of poking at the border and years of occupying the fringe, electronic music has officially entered the American mainstream.
The Great Gatsby, Lurhmann-Style
Australian director Baz Luhrman certainly has a knack for infusing his period films with an aesthetic sensibility that is licentious, fantastical, frenetic, and gloriously historically incorrect. Like Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge! before it, the trailer for Luhrman’s cinematic adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
Discovery: Josh Osho
Josh Osho is a soul singer whose pain comes through clearly in his delivery—which isn’t easy to come by in today’s heavily manufactured music world. From selling drugs on the streets of south London to performing on Later..
POPEYE
M.A.C.’s new nautical collection sets sail
Video Premiere: DUST
A week or so ago, the Anthem HQ in NYC received an email from John Barclay, a man we’ve come to know over the years, largely because of his involvement in the party scene (he’s worked with numerous promoters, like Let’s Play House).