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 Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel of the same name. It employs disturbing, violent images to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and other social, political, and economic subjects in a dystopian… Continue Reading
Polaroid is a dark and stylish thriller that made a splash on the festival circuit in 2015. Set in a large Norwegian farmhouse in the middle of winter, two young ladies, Sarah and Linda, are clearing the place out after the… Continue Reading
Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a documentary film about Billy McFarland and the failed Fyre Festival of 2017, directed by Chris Smith. It was released on Netflix in Januray, 2019. The film was co-produced by Jerry Media, the social media agency responsible for promotion and covering up… 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
Bloomington, Indiana indie rock outfit Hoops appeared seemingly out of nowhere in late 2015, when their Tape #2 was uploaded to YouTube and immediately made its way onto music hype blogs, where it was showered with praise. Their lo-fi sound, reminiscent of… 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
Summer Heart is a Swedish dream pop act and the solo project of singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist David Alexander. He is best known for his nostalgic lo-fi sound. Summer Heart was formed in 2011 just after David Alexander returned to Sweden. His first release, Please… Continue Reading
Spring, written and directed by Laurel Parmet, gives us a glimpse into a defining afternoon for Amanda and Crystal’s friendship. A surprisingly funny film, as we explore the different layers of their relationship and burgeoning feelings, we also witness how… Continue Reading
Jay Som is the musical project of the American, Oakland, California-based songwriter Melina Duterte. Her debut album, Turn Into, was released on Polyvinyl Records. Duterte is the daughter of Filipino immigrants and grew up playing trumpet. She had originally planned to attend a conservatory program for jazz but instead… Continue Reading
Chazwick Bradley Bundick (born November 7, 1986), better known by his stage name Toro y Moi, is an American recording artist and producer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording, but he is often identified with the… Continue Reading
A passive woman finds a new love of violence in the high-octane new film from German director Jakob Lass, who scored a hit in 2013 with his second feature Love Steaks and follows the ‘FOGMA’ manifesto that he developed while working on… 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
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
Disconnect is a 2012 American drama film directed by Henry Alex Rubin. It explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories. An ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham has much success with her interview with underage video chat-room… Continue Reading
Valerie Teicher, best known by her stage name Tei Shi, is an Argentinean indie pop singer-songwriter and producer currently based in Brooklyn. She released her first singles and music videos in 2013, also performing live for the first time at CMJ. Tei Shi released her debut EP Saudade in… 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
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
Chuck Blazevic’s laptop and Alice Hansen’s voice work are equals, playing off each other to create haunted caverns of sound, melody and meditation. What separates You’ll Never Get to Heaven‘s hypnotic LP crackle from that of City Center or High… Continue Reading
Warpaint is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2004. Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante mixed and mastered the band’s debut EP, Exquisite Corpser eleased in 2008. Current RHCP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer performed drums and guitar on the EP in 2007. It was followed by their full-length… Continue Reading
Jungle are an English modern soul musical collective based in London. Jungle’s musical style has been described as “midtempo 1970s-style funk” and their music is intermixed with “tropical percussion, wildlife noises, falsetto yelps, psychedelic washes and badoinking bass”. The band has a fearsome live reputation: “Jungle are… Continue Reading
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film about Manchester’s popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It received positive reviews. It… Continue Reading
Geographer is an American indie rock band based in San Francisco, California. Formed in 2007, by Michael Deni who has described his sound as being “soulful music from outer space” using analog, electronic and acoustic elements to craft dense layers and unique sound textures. As Geographer, Deni has… Continue Reading
The idea of “home” plays a prominent theme in the short history of Peter Michel and his Seattle-based band Hibou. “I actually recorded half of the new album at my parents’ home,” says the 21-year-old about Hibou’s debut full-length release.… Continue Reading
The legendary Edward D. Wood co-wrote and appears in this remake of his equally legendary 1956 classic The Violent Years. The film is also known as Five loose women. The story focuses on the exploits of a gang of young… Continue Reading
Via an app on his phone, Bert discovers that a 97% love match is near. Will he find her before the subway reaches the end of the line? Ben Brand’s second short film 97% is the last step towards his first… Continue Reading
Marcos Ortega, better known by his stage name Lorn, is an American electronic musician. Lorn is from either Milwaukee, Wisconsin or central Illinois. He received early exposure as a DJ due to his remix of grime musician Jammer’s track “Better Than”. Lorn signed with Flying Lotus’ label, Brainfeeder, in 2009 and released his debut album, Nothing Else,… Continue Reading
Top Secret! is a 1984 action comedy film directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, whose previous picture had been Airplane! It stars Val Kilmer (in his first feature film), Lucy Gutteridge, Omar Sharif,Peter Cushing, Michael Gough and Jeremy Kemp. Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid… Continue Reading
Ariel Marcus Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Ariel Pink, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is known for his musical eclecticism, influenced by 1980s cassette culture. He has released three studio albums on the 4AD label and was closely… Continue Reading
Pioneering the « nu-disco » sound, years long before that kind of sound started to invade the worldwide indie charts, Laurent ASH aka LIFELIKE’s early productions (« Black Chess » EP on the legendary “20000ST” record label) soon pricked the… Continue Reading
La grande bellezza (The great beauty in the english version) is a 2013 Italian film co-written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino. The film opens with a quote from Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night: “To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination… Continue Reading
Maniac is a 1980 American exploitation slasher film directed by William Lustig and written by Joe Spinell and C. A. Rosenberg. The plot focuses on a disturbed and traumatized serial killer who scalps his victims. Spinell also developed the story and stars as the lead character. Many scenes had to be filmed guerrilla-style… Continue Reading
Husbands was spontaneously created by its three members-Mathieu Hocine (Kid Francescoli), Simon Henner (French 79, Nasser) and Mathieu Poulain (Oh! Tiger Mountain), as they were working together on various projects from their collective Microphone Recordings in Simon’s studio. They started playing… Continue Reading
Sedmikrásky (Daisies in the english version) is a 1966 Czechoslovak comedy-drama film written and directed by Věra Chytilová considered a milestone of the Nová Vlna movement. Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women played by Jitka… Continue Reading
Die Blechtrommel (The Tin drum in the english version) is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff. Stylistically, it is a surrealistic black comedy. The film features scenes in which Bennent, then 11 years of age… Continue Reading
Ernest Greene, better known by his stage name Washed Out, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. His first recordings have been described as “drowsy, distorted, dance pop-influenced tracks that brought to mind Neon Indian and Memory Tapes”. Washed Out’s style has been identified with the chillwave movement. He has… Continue Reading
Adam George Dyment, better known by his stage name Duke Dumont, is a British DJ and music producer. He is best known for the singles “Need U (100%)“, I got U and Won’t look back which reached Number 1, 1 and… Continue Reading
Chet Faker is an Australian electronica musician. In 2012 he signed to Downtown Records in the United States and issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures. In October that year he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in… Continue Reading
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater’s Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before… Continue Reading
Beach House is a dream pop duo from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2004. The band consists of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut album was released in 2006 to critical acclaim and has been followed… Continue Reading