Two Ghosts Star In ‘Burlesque’
Pigment-lacking Cher and Christina Aguilera grace the poster for their Thanksgiving weekend movie musical Burlesque, which opens Thanksgiving weekend and will no doubt be lining the bottom of Blockbuster’s discount bin by Christmas. Here’s the original poster the movie’s producers were clearly inspired by before they added the trashtastic hot pink lipstick. Sexy.
The Skinny: LACMA Celebrates New Pavilion And Growing Costume Collection
WHY: A major part of Los Angeles’ emergence as an epicenter of art has been the steady expansion of LACMA. This fall will see the opening of the new Renzo Piano designed Resnick Pavilion (opening to the public in October …
WHY: A major part of Los Angeles’ emergence as an epicenter of art has been the steady expansion of LACMA. This fall will see the opening of the new Renzo Piano designed Resnick Pavilion (opening to the public in October …
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus | “Choke” | Director: Robby Starbuck
RSM, 31. August 2010, 03:05
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus “Choke” Music Video from Robby Starbuck on Vimeo.
Matt & Kim – “Cameras”
Sometimes nude, always feel-good Brooklyn duo Matt & Kim’s third studio album Sidewalks is out 11/2 via Fader. You can get a taste of it via the carefree “Cameras,” currently streaming at 1077theend.com. (They Might Be Giants-core?) The song will be released as a single tomorrow.
Britney Spears Looks Radiant In Her Fragrance Commercial
Whoever did the hair and makeup for Britney Spears in the TV ad for her latest fragrance, Radiance—please, do whatever you can do be hired full-time. Britney looks absolutely fabulous and flawless in a glittery evening gown that wouldn’t look out of place on the sparkle-lover Taylor Swift. Watch Brit glow in her ad below!
Do you guys love Brit’s ad? Or does it belong on our list of Pop Star Perfume Commercials That Totally Stink?
BoA – “Hurricane Venus” , Director Joseph Kahn
robodrug, 30. August 2010, 22:26
BoA – “Hurricane Venus” , Director Joseph Kahn
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Live review: The Chemical Brothers at the Hollywood Bowl
In a time when practically every song on pop radio warrants glow sticks and amateur pharmaceuticals, what’s the place for old rave O.G.s like the Chemical Brothers?
For a decade starting in the mid-’90s, the duo of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons stayed precisely one step ahead of their audience, introducing new permutations of their big-beat electronica at exactly the right moments to send them up the charts. Their deft splices of electronic music subgenres such as house, techno, garage and ambient defined the decade in U.K. dance and pop music, and anyone who remembers when raves used to be scary experiences in distant fields can thank the Chemical Brothers for mainstreaming the subculture.
But then music did a funny thing and caught up to them. An hour on Power 106 FM will yield a dozen fussy, euphoric pop and rap songs indebted to the Brothers, and the original article had to endure a few slow years creatively in the late aughts when they relied heavily on collaborations. Fortunately, the Brothers’ new album, “Further,” is a welcome return to their original thrills of smeared-up filters, sinister synth stabs and skull-crushing drums, and at Sunday’s uncharacteristically physical edition of KCRW’s World Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, they found the right home for that pioneering sound decades after its debut.
Although their setup was relatively spartan — a curved desk of controllers, a wall-sized bank of outboard synths, a projection screen and a couple of laser fans were the only things onstage — it left room for the new songs to overwhelm.
The major-key ambient tidepool of “Another World” careened from gauzy textures to brutal squalls before dropping a minimalist and blissy house beat. The single “Swoon” wrung every drop of stadium-rock power from its absurdly catchy lead riff. Wrapping up with the two-chord krautrock clatter of “K+D+B,” the pair toed a powerful line between the melancholy melody and swells of New Order-ish post-punk transcendence.
Robyn – “Hyperballad” (Björk Cover) Live Video
Björk (as well as composer Ennio Morricone) won this year’s prestigious Polar Music Prize, an award and cash grant given to outstanding musicians, composers, groups and organizations. It was created by ABBA lyricist and manager Stig Anderson in 1989, and since then people like Steve Reich, Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Quincy Jones, and Led Zeppelin have won the award. Björk was at the ceremony today in Stockholm, where Robyn paid tribute with a cover of Post’s “Hyperballad.” The cover is a little shaky, and if Robyn had gotten a glimpse of Björk’s expression during the song, she might’ve stopped dead. But Björk does smile and applaud at the end, so maybe she won her over.
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