Risky Business is a 1983 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Paul Brickman, making his directorial debut. It stars Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. The film launched Cruise to stardom. It covers themes including materialism, loss of innocence, coming of age and capitalism; when a Chicago teenager is looking for fun… Continue Reading
You may or may not be aware of Her’s (Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading), but the band are slowly and surely beginning to make themselves known across the UK. The duo, quite differently, consist of a guitar player and singer, as well… Continue Reading
The Prodigy is an English electronic music band from Essex, England, formed in 1990 by keyboardist and songwriter Liam Howlett. The first line-up of the band also included MC and vocalist Maxim, dancer and vocalist Keith Flint, dancer and live keyboardist Leeroy Thornhill, and dancer and vocalist Sharky. Along with the… Continue Reading
A founding member of Rosso Corsa, Lazerhawk is Garrett Hays from Austin, Texas, USA. His outrun electro is robot pop mixed with dark synths and the occasional lyric. He can be described as a reminiscent of everything that was good in the 80’s: synthesizer… Continue Reading
Mark Whalen is an up-and-coming artist from Detroit, Michigan. His first album, “Someone To Be” debuted in the summer of 2017. He started recording ideas and music when his father bought him an audio interface and a mic for his birthday. From… Continue Reading
A young woman, tired from her daily routine, falls asleep on the train ride home. What happens next is unfortunately predictable. She awakes to find a man doing something so wildly inappropriate, it will have a lasting and damaging effect… Continue Reading
Laura Pergolizzi is an American singer and songwriter who performs under the stage name LP. Physically a cross between John Cooper Clarke and Patti Smith, vocally a blend of Gwen Stefani and Cyndi Lauper, LP alchemises that patchwork into something not currently available elsewhere. In… Continue Reading
Gouttes d’eau sur pierres brûlantes (Water Drops on Burning Rocks in the english version) is a 2000 French drama film directed by François Ozon. The film is based on a German play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Tropfen auf heisse Steine. The film is divided in 4 acts. Germany… Continue Reading
With a taste of orgies and other odd adventures, L’Impératrice (‘the Empress’ in French) takes you on a spiritual trip, on an Odyssée, throughout past and future decades of disco-inspired sounds with a cinematic twist. Like a dozen other self-produced acts originating… Continue Reading
Phantogram (formerly Charlie Everywhere) is an American music duo from Greenwich, New York, formed in 2007 and consisting of Josh Carter (vocals, guitar) and Sarah Barthel (vocals, keyboards). The band name was inspired by an optical illusion called a phantogram, in which two-dimensional images appear to be three-dimensional. The band… Continue Reading
Passion Gap by writer/director duo Matt Portman and Jason Donald is one of those rare films that make you realize that the human condition is more than a struggle for many and that life across the world isn’t as familiar as… Continue Reading
Hot Seat is a coming-of-age story written and directed by Anna Kerrigan, that blends diverse genres in a unusually thoughtful way. Set at a birthday party populated by teens from an all-female school, the film plays with “Mean Girls” social hierarchies… Continue Reading
Neon Indian is an American electronic music band from Denton, Texas. The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo, who is also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler, and as the solo artist VEGA. The project has been characterized as defining the 2000s… Continue Reading
Just One of the Guys is a 1985 comedy film, directed by Lisa Gottlieb. Terri Griffith (Joyce Hyser) is an aspiring teenage journalist living in Phoenix, Arizona who feels that her teachers don’t take her school newspaper articles seriously because of her good looks. After failing to get… Continue Reading
The Georgian National Ballet was the first professional state dance company in Georgia. Founded by Iliko Sukhishvili and Nino Ramishvili in 1945, it was initially named as the Georgian State Dance Company. Thanks to this company the Georgian national dancing and music has become known in many… Continue Reading
Blouse is an American Alternative rock band based in Portland, Oregon; formed in 2010 by Charlie Hilton (Vocals, Guitar) and Patrick Adams (Bass) while attending the Graphic Design program at Portland State University. They began to record with Jacob Portrait (Producer, Guitar) at the warehouse in Portland, Oregon. Following the… Continue Reading
Infinity Ink is a London-based vocal/music production/DJ duo made up of Italian Luca C and Briton Ali Love. They have released music through Hot Creations, Crosstown Rebels and, most recently, Different Recordings. Originally they formed the duo The Benedictions, playing 1960s and 1970s folk rock-inspired music… Continue Reading
Kevin Morby is an American musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly known as the bass guitarist of the folk rock band Woods and as the frontman of The Babies, Morby began a solo career in 2013, releasing his debut album, Harlem River, to positive reviews. His second album, Still Life,… Continue Reading
Directed and written by Christopher Winterbauer, Break Down is a low-key, darkly comic, but also poignant take on a couple who has reached the end of their path together. The short film genius is how it merges so many disparate tones. It’s… Continue Reading
Mr Twin Sister, formerly Twin Sister, is an american band from Long Island. Their music has been described as chill wave, indie pop, dream pop, and disco. They have been compared to Cocteau Twins and Portishead. They have toured the US and Europe and… Continue Reading
Moses Gunn Collective is a glitter coated psychedelic music band from Brisbane, Australia. An eclectic mix of musicians, MGC mix up dreamy pop flavours with soulful crooning and howling riffs, creating music that feels simultaneously classic and fresh. After establishing themselves as… Continue Reading
Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht (If I Think of Germany at Night in the english version) is Romuald Karmakar’s fourth documentary film about techno music and related musical styles. Much more than a portrait of DJs, musicians and techno… Continue Reading
Alexander Giannascoli, better known by his stage name Alex G, is a multi-instrumentalist from Philadelphia who started his career as a bedroom singer/songwriter, building up an audience through a series of DIY releases on Bandcamp. He has two older siblings, Matt (David… Continue Reading
Strassenkaiser is a a road movie through the streets of Berlin, from backyards, parks and bars up to a tower. In an intoxicated Berlin by the summer carnival, there is Noah, a 12 year old boy, non-local, supposed to meet… Continue Reading
Neon Indian is an American electronic music band from Denton, Texas. The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo, who is also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler, and as the solo artist VEGA. The band’s debut studio album, Psychic Chasms, was released in… Continue Reading
Una mujer fantástica (A fantastic woman in the english version) is a 2017 Chilean drama film directed by Sebastián Lelio and starring Luis Gnecco and Daniela Vega between others. Four years ago, Lelio shook up the official competition in Berlin with Gloria, a bracingly honest, ultimately empowering study of the… Continue Reading
Tame Impala is an Australian psychedelic band created by Kevin Parker in 2007. Parker’s music is heavily influenced by late 1960s and early 1970s psychedelic rock, which is achieved through various production methods. Some favoured and often-used effects by Parker include phasing, delay, reverb and fuzz. The group began as a home recording… Continue Reading
Vive la Fête was founded in 1997 by Danny Mommens (guitar, vocals) and Els Pynoo (vocals); when Mommens (then still playing in his former band dEUS) met Els at a party hosted by or for her sister. He had previously been an acquaintance of Pynoo’s… Continue Reading
Blue Jay is a drama romance film directed by Alex Lehmann in his fictional feature debut, from a screenplay by Mark Duplass. It stars Duplass and Sarah Paulson. The film was financed by Netflix without the company even seeing a script. Instead, Duplass wrote a 10-page outline that allowed for… Continue Reading
What if a wedding didn’t promise a new beginning but rather an ugly detour? That’s the core of Haroula Rose’s latest short film Wedding Dress, which follows the burgeoning relationship between two strangers who meet by chance. The film follows Michael (Joshua… Continue Reading
Sing street takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents’ relationship and money troubles, while trying to… Continue Reading
Blouse is an American Alternative rock band based in Portland, Oregon; formed in 2010 by Charlie Hilton (Vocals, Guitar) and Patrick Adams (Bass) while attending the Graphic Design program at Portland State University. They began to record with Jacob Portrait (Producer, Guitar) at the warehouse in Portland, Oregon. Following the… Continue Reading
Neon Indian is an American electronic music band from Denton, Texas. The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo, who is also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler, and as the solo artist VEGA. The band’s debut studio album, Psychic Chasms, was released in… Continue Reading
Cults is an American indie band formed in New York City in 2010. The band first came to prominence when they posted a three song EP, Cults 7″, on their Bandcamp page. They are signed to Sony and In the Name Of, a record label that was set up by British singer Lily… Continue Reading
I Break Horses is a Swedish indie rock band composed of Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck. The band’s name is taken from the title of a Bill Callahan song. The Guardian music critic Hermione Hoby described their music as “heady, sumptuously textured soundscapes”, while Pitchfork music critic Ian Cohen comments… Continue Reading
The music of Berlin duo Velvet condom is described as a fastidiously gesticulating grind of snapping synthesiser presets, gloomy guitars, droll role-playing, and the sort of casually arch desperation you might expect from twenty-somethings weaned on a steady diet of Kraftwerk,… Continue Reading
Warpaint is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2004. Warpaint have been compared to Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell and Siouxsie and the Banshees. NME has described their style as “iIntermittently emerging from plaintive moods into harder rocking, they play expansive, lushly-harmonic psych-rock songs with enough time-changes to… Continue Reading
Devonté “Dev” Hynes, also known as Blood Orange and formerly Lightspeed Champion, is a British singer, songwriter, composer, producer and author. From 2004 to 2006, Hynes was a member of the band Test Icicles, playing guitar, synth, and occasionally performing vocals. They released only… Continue Reading
Having rocked the electronic music community recently with a creatively hip original titled “Life In Grey”, mysterious French quartet Point Point are out to prove they are no mere one hit wonders with another enticing release. After three years of hand-selecting… Continue Reading
Daniel Victor “Dan” Snaith is a Canadian composer, musician and recording artist who has performed under the stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni. Snaith originally recorded under the stage name Manitoba, but after being threatened with a lawsuit by Richard “Handsome Dick” Manitoba, formerly of punk band The… Continue Reading