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What makes Willy Wonka such a maverick? It’s not his inventive confections, nor his inventive wardrobe, nor his inventive methods of torturing naughty children. No, what really sets Mr. Wonka apart is his willingness to sell chocolate at reasonable prices affordable to the working class.
What makes Willy Wonka such a maverick? It’s not his inventive confections, nor his inventive wardrobe, nor his inventive methods of torturing naughty children. No, what really sets Mr. Wonka apart is his willingness to sell chocolate at reasonable prices affordable to the working class.
- 10/12/2023
- by Mary Kate Carr
- avclub.com
The seminal shoegaze band Lush will see their three studio albums reissued on vinyl for the first time in years. Pre-orders for 1992’s Spooky, 1994’s Split, and 1996’s Lovelife are now ongoing ahead of their August 11th release through 4Ad,
Lush worked with engineer/producer Kevin Vanbergen to remaster their catalogue, using the original ½” production tapes to create new 24-bit masters. The reissues will be available on both classic black and ultra clear vinyl. Spooky and Split come housed in their original artwork, while Lovelife features art from their 2016 boxset.
Additionally, Bandbox is selling a super-limited bundle of all three titles in exclusive colors. The bundle also includes a special fanzine dedicated to the band.
Following their initial breakup in 1996, Lush briefly reunited in 2015 for a tour, and they released the Blind Spot EP, containing their first original material in 20 years.
Lush Announce Vinyl Reissues of Albums
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Lush worked with engineer/producer Kevin Vanbergen to remaster their catalogue, using the original ½” production tapes to create new 24-bit masters. The reissues will be available on both classic black and ultra clear vinyl. Spooky and Split come housed in their original artwork, while Lovelife features art from their 2016 boxset.
Additionally, Bandbox is selling a super-limited bundle of all three titles in exclusive colors. The bundle also includes a special fanzine dedicated to the band.
Following their initial breakup in 1996, Lush briefly reunited in 2015 for a tour, and they released the Blind Spot EP, containing their first original material in 20 years.
Lush Announce Vinyl Reissues of Albums
Scoop Harrison...
- 7/11/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
Playing a boisterous Bohemian, a debonair prince, or a cheerfully irresponsible student, who intentionally provokes his father and fiancee in a court hearing, a rustic, or a rollicking romantic lead with a swagger that Dev Anand, Shammi Kapoor, and Rajesh Khanna could envy, came natural to him. Yet, in popular memory, Dilip Kumar is only synonymous with the dejected, despondent and (usually) doomed hero.
In his 57 films over his half-century-plus stint in the Hindi film industry, Dilip Kumar is chiefly remembered as the ‘Tragedy King’, battered down by unrequited love, social or political pressure, or other inexorable circumstances.
Whether it was as lush Devdas in the eponymous 1955 film, the unfortunate Prince Marcus of “Yahudi” (1958), the eventually subdued rebellious Prince Salim in “Mughal-e-Azam” (1960), the star-crossed Dilip of “Andaz” (1949), and so on, there was usually no happy ending for him.
In his second phase, where he switched to playing more mature roles,...
In his 57 films over his half-century-plus stint in the Hindi film industry, Dilip Kumar is chiefly remembered as the ‘Tragedy King’, battered down by unrequited love, social or political pressure, or other inexorable circumstances.
Whether it was as lush Devdas in the eponymous 1955 film, the unfortunate Prince Marcus of “Yahudi” (1958), the eventually subdued rebellious Prince Salim in “Mughal-e-Azam” (1960), the star-crossed Dilip of “Andaz” (1949), and so on, there was usually no happy ending for him.
In his second phase, where he switched to playing more mature roles,...
- 12/11/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
Snail Mail, aka Lindsey Jordan, has announced a slate of hometown shows just in time to celebrate the holiday for which her sophomore album, 2021’s Valentine, is named. The shows will take place from Feb. 10 through Feb. 14 at Ottobar in Baltimore. Tickets go on sale on Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. Et.
Each night, Jordan will perform a full set, along with a “major surprise guest,” per a statement. According to Variety, the event poster provides clues to some of the guests that may be joining her shows.
“We have some fucking insane bands on there,...
Each night, Jordan will perform a full set, along with a “major surprise guest,” per a statement. According to Variety, the event poster provides clues to some of the guests that may be joining her shows.
“We have some fucking insane bands on there,...
- 11/9/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
The Bat for Lashes singer on why she loves The Extra-Terrestrial
Two films changed me. Wild at Heart by David Lynch was the first film of his I saw. Then there’s The Doom Generation by Gregg Araki. I went to see it at the cinema with my first boyfriend – I think it was our first date – and there’s loads of threesomes and really rude sex scenes in it! The soundtrack was amazing – Slowdive and Lush. And the same for Wild at Heart – music in films speaks to me as much as the film itself.
What’s your favourite film ever?
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Two films changed me. Wild at Heart by David Lynch was the first film of his I saw. Then there’s The Doom Generation by Gregg Araki. I went to see it at the cinema with my first boyfriend – I think it was our first date – and there’s loads of threesomes and really rude sex scenes in it! The soundtrack was amazing – Slowdive and Lush. And the same for Wild at Heart – music in films speaks to me as much as the film itself.
What’s your favourite film ever?
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- 10/26/2015
- by Laura Snapes
- The Guardian - Film News
While some people's idea of the perfect New Year's Eve is to stay in and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV with Ryan Seacrest (or Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin), all cuddled up with a loved one and a bottle of Cabernet, many others will dance 'till the sun comes up.
DJs are the new rock stars -- and they're the tastemakers of the year's biggest party night. So what constitutes the perfect New Year's Eve playlist? ETonline reached out to the world's biggest DJs -- many of whom regularly play to crowds of tens of thousands -- to get their go-to tracks and tips for curating the soundtrack for the perfect New Year's party.
Pics: Which Celebrities Can Drop a Beat? Check out 9 Star DJs!
1. The Chainsmokers: This DJ duo had a huge 2014 - cracking DJ Mag's prestigious Top 100 list for the first time at No. 97 riding support...
DJs are the new rock stars -- and they're the tastemakers of the year's biggest party night. So what constitutes the perfect New Year's Eve playlist? ETonline reached out to the world's biggest DJs -- many of whom regularly play to crowds of tens of thousands -- to get their go-to tracks and tips for curating the soundtrack for the perfect New Year's party.
Pics: Which Celebrities Can Drop a Beat? Check out 9 Star DJs!
1. The Chainsmokers: This DJ duo had a huge 2014 - cracking DJ Mag's prestigious Top 100 list for the first time at No. 97 riding support...
- 12/30/2014
- Entertainment Tonight
Above: Image from Maurice Binder's title sequence for Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Sleep Little Lush
This follow-up to the previous soundtrack mix, Hyper Sleep, is very much the same animal: a chance gathering of mesmerizing music tracks, carefully arranged to focus on the interstitial character of film music—its ability to distill into hallucinatory moments, the most sensual or emotional qualities of a film’s nature, and amplify these sensations to increase their temporal impact. With this idea of music as intoxicant in mind, the passing this year of John Barry was a loss of one of the great “perfumers” of film composing (for more on music as perfume, see Daniel Kasman’s “Herrmann’s Perfume”). The beautiful themes that Barry scored for the world of 007 that open this collection set the spell for a kaleidoscopic (largely) 60s and 70s sample of some of the best film music written by Ennio Morricone,...
Sleep Little Lush
This follow-up to the previous soundtrack mix, Hyper Sleep, is very much the same animal: a chance gathering of mesmerizing music tracks, carefully arranged to focus on the interstitial character of film music—its ability to distill into hallucinatory moments, the most sensual or emotional qualities of a film’s nature, and amplify these sensations to increase their temporal impact. With this idea of music as intoxicant in mind, the passing this year of John Barry was a loss of one of the great “perfumers” of film composing (for more on music as perfume, see Daniel Kasman’s “Herrmann’s Perfume”). The beautiful themes that Barry scored for the world of 007 that open this collection set the spell for a kaleidoscopic (largely) 60s and 70s sample of some of the best film music written by Ennio Morricone,...
- 12/26/2011
- MUBI
Director of Mysterious Skin and Kaboom is keeping indie pop alive by featuring new music and remixes by his favourite bands
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
This week sees the DVD release of two films from the singular talent of Gregg Araki: 1993's Totally Fucked Up and Kaboom, his most recent. It's always tempting to look for patterns and themes in a director's work, but in Araki's case, there's little that connects them all. The disenfranchised gay teens of Totally Fucked Up don't share much common ground with the silly stoners of his later comedy Smiley Face; and it's hard to reconcile the serious, subtle Mysterious Skin with the knockabout thrills of Splendor and Kaboom.
But for all the hallucinatory imagery, ambisexual cavorting, drug taking, violence and other shocking facets of Araki's work, there's one element that runs through them all: the music. When he says that "Kaboom is my most autobiographical and personal...
- 8/5/2011
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Over the next few days, MTV's Newsroom will be featuring items from the upcoming Experience Music Project special exhibit, "Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses," which opens at the Seattle museum on Saturday (April 16). Today's artifacts include the story of the first guitar broken onstage by Kurt Cobain and the first show poster billing the band as Nirvana. The commentary on these objects are provided by exhibit curator Jacob McMurray.
The Broken Guitar: "This is an extremely rare piece. This is actually the first guitar that [Kurt Cobain] ever broke. What I love about this guitar — besides the fact that it has the Mod Squad on it, the Jackson Five and a Monkees logo — is that he broke this at an Evergreen State College party on Halloween of 1998. At this party, they were basically playing to 50 people total. This isn't Jimi Hendrix or the Who at the height of their power. These guys can't even pay rent,...
The Broken Guitar: "This is an extremely rare piece. This is actually the first guitar that [Kurt Cobain] ever broke. What I love about this guitar — besides the fact that it has the Mod Squad on it, the Jackson Five and a Monkees logo — is that he broke this at an Evergreen State College party on Halloween of 1998. At this party, they were basically playing to 50 people total. This isn't Jimi Hendrix or the Who at the height of their power. These guys can't even pay rent,...
- 4/14/2011
- by Gil Kaufman
- MTV Newsroom
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