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Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is returning to Seattle this September with a lineup led by Pavement, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon, Freddie Gibbs, and Aly & Aj. The event takes place over Labor Day weekend (August 31st – September 1st) at the Seattle Center campus.

Other confirmed acts include Cypress Hill, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird, BadBadNotGood, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Mercury Rev, Lol Tulhurst x Budgie, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Squirrel Flower, Pom Pom Squad, Pink Sifu, Moor Mother, Kassa Overall, Ladytron, and more. Check out the full lineup and 2024 festival poster below.

As with previous years, Bumbershoot features a centerpiece visual arts program curated from artists throughout the Pacific Nortwest, alongside food and beverage offerings from more than 50 regional restaurants, wineries, and breweries.

This year, Bumbershoot is also introducing the animation district as part of its visual arts celebration — the 2024 programming is set to feature visual exhibitions,...

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Music and arts festival Bumbershoot, celebrating its 50th anniversary, will return to Seattle on Sept. 2 and 3 with a lineup led by Pacific Northwest heroes like Sleater-Kinney, Band of Horses and Sunny Day Real Estate along with Brittany Howard, AFI, the Revivalists, Jawbreaker, and more.

Uncle Waffles, DOMi & Jd Beck, Benny the Butcher, Matt and Kim, Cassandra Lewis, Jacob Banks, Zhu, Fatboy Slim (staging his first Seattle show in 25 years), Durand Jones,...

After a three-year hiatus, Bumbershoot is returning to Seattle this September.

Marking the festival’s 50th anniversary, the two-day event takes place over Labor Day Weekend (September 2nd-3rd) at the Seattle Center campus.

A pair of local heroes lead this year’s lineup, including Sleater-Kinney and Sunny Day Real Estate. Other notable acts include Brittany Howard, Jawbreaker, Fatboy Slim, Phantogram, The Revivalists, Zhu, Ride performing Going Blank Again, Band of Horses, Descendents, Matt and Kim, Bomba Estéreo, Duran Jones, Dandy Warhols, Thunderpussy, Screaming Females, Reignwolf, Benny the Butcher, A-Trak, Domi & Jd Beck, and Rebirth Brass Band, among others.

Single-day and two-day passes are on sale now via the festival’s website.

Bumbershoot held its last event in 2019, after which Aeg Presents announced that it would no longer be producing the event. New Rising Sun, a producing collective led by Neumos co-owner Steven Severin, revived the event with assistance from Amazon,...

Billy Idol has always pushed the boundaries of chronological time, starting with the anachronistic 1970s punk look he pushed all over 1980s MTV. Idol turned 65 on November 30th, three days after the release of Miley Cyrus’ new album, Plastic Hearts, which features a brand-new duet with him on the excellent track “Night Crawling,” reviving the synth-punk sound of his classics. In an interview on an episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Idol looked back at some of his formative moments and more. Some highlights follow; to hear the entire episode,...

Grimmfest, Manchester’s Festival of Horror, Cult and Fantastic Film is back; bigger, bolder, and bloodier than ever before. As the Printworks once again find itself under siege by blood-soaked hordes of horror enthusiasts and film freaks, as Team Grimmfest unleashes…the Ninth Configuration! The festivals latest and greatest line-up yet of dark, dangerous, wild, weird, witty, thrilling, chilling, blood-spilling movies, every one of them a premiere or cult classic of one kind or another.

Highlights include: World Premieres!

Grimmfest is proud to be presenting the world premiere of the remarkable and utterly unique Borley Rectory. Using an elaborate mixture of live action, stills, paintings, and model work, it’s an immersive, eerily atmospheric, and elegantly retro-styled exploration of the Most Haunted House in Britain. Over six years in the making, it’s a real labor of love for its creator, Ashley Thorpe. Featuring a score by Ex-Banshee Steve Severin,...

And so, in the end, Hannibal was a love story all along, and a doomed love story at that. The third season ended like prior seasons, with a wrap-up that could double as a series ender if it came to that; and since, apparently, it has come to that — with NBC deciding not to carry a hypothetical fourth season of this international co-production, and thus effectively ending it — we should marvel at this climax’s majestic, well, finality. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) join forces to defeat the fearsome disciple/rival serial killer Red Dragon (Richard Armitage) in a super-slow-motion mano a mano: silent, gorgeously protracted, scored to an original Siouxsie Sioux and Steven Severin song titled “Love Crime” (what else!). As Hannibal’s showrunner Bryan Fuller put it in a Vulture interview — in metaphoric language, which, like so many Fuller observations, renders additional critical commentary...

The line-up for this year’s Dundead film festival has been announced.

The festival, now in its third year, offers genre fans living in Dundee and the surrounding areas an opportunity to see a mixture of old and upcoming horror films at Dundee Contemporary Arts over a four day period, May 2 – 5, 2013.

This year’s festival will open with the UK premiere of Would You Rather, David Guy Levy’s twisted psychological thriller, and close with a preview screening of The ABC’s of Death, an anthology film containing 26 shorts (one for each letter of the alphabet) by 26 different directors.

The line-up also includes preview screenings of John Dies At The End, The Hidden Face, The Lords Of Salem and Kiss Of The Damned, while three of director Brian De Palma’s films will be screened as part of a mini retrospective.

In addition, for those looking for something a little different,...

As our showcase of early horror classics continues, we move out of the silent era and into the early 1930s for this German/French production from legendary filmmaker Carl Theodor Dryer. A Danish director best known for his 1928 classic The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer caught major critical backlash for his follow-up Vampyr (also his first sound film), due to its unconventional story structure and abstract, dreamlike visuals. Thankfully, Vampyr went on to become a cult classic, which is still being screened today; one of the coolest of these revivals took place last October at San Francisco's Silent Movie Theatre, with a new live score composed by Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees and featuring FEARnet fave artist Jill Tracy (read more about it in this interview). Loosely based on two short stories by J. Sheridan Le Fanu – whose writings have inspired many iconic horror films – Vampyr follows...

Anthology film The Profane Exhibit has been in the works for some time now, but things are moving along with casting news for the wrap-around along with more detailed descriptions of the various segments and quotes from a few directors. It's a lot of good stuff so prepare to be here awhile.

From the Press Release:

The producers of “The Profane Exhibit” are excited to announce that both Tony Todd (pictured) and Bai Ling have join the long-awaited horror anthology. They will be featured in the cast of "22 Rue des Martyrs," written by Ray Garton, which serves as the film's wrap-around segment.

David Bond and Manda Manuel are the architects of what is likely the most daring independent horror film project to date, both in concept and scope. Assembling an almost surreal collection of over 100 horror icons (directors, writers, actors, musicians, etc.), Bond's vision is to present the audience with...

Prepare to abandon inhibition, submit to your senses and embrace the ethereal unto enigmatic musical composer Steven Severin. A two evening enchantment happening on Friday November 9th at The Wolf Performance Hall in London, Ontario – 251 Dundas St., and Saturday November 10th at Nocturne – 550 Queen Street West in Toronto, Ontario is host to unleashing the hypnotic presence of a unique and haunting musical score to Carl Theodore Dreyer’s silent film Vampyr. With the 1932 silver screen classic Severin has added a new dementia unto chiller film fans.… More...

I first came across the music of Jill Tracy when I reviewed a compilation of “Dark Cabaret” artists from renowned gothic label Projekt Records, and her song “In Between Shades” was one of the album's most memorable tracks. As fate would have it, while exploring more of her music (including an incredible live score to Nosferatu), I learned that she was closely involved in the short film The Fine Art of Poisoning, which is featured in FEARnet's ever-expanding horror shorts collection. One thing led to another, and soon we were chatting about her involvement in the film, her “musical séance” project, and her latest and most ambitious undertaking – a Musical Excavation of the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, with its intriguing collection of medical oddities.

FEARnet: Hi Jill, thanks for taking time out to talk to us. Jill: Thank you, same here! First off, I have to say The Fine Art...

Several entertainers, including Academy Award nominee Ignacio “Nacho” Vigalondo, Grammy Award winning producer and engineer Chris Vrenna, Jose Mojica Marins and Steven Severin, have all joined the Profane Exhibit team. Marins will be directing the segment ‘Viral,’ which Vrenna will score along with Severin, who will also be appearing as an actor. Meanwhile, film festival favorite Vigalondo will be directing the segment ‘Sins of the Father.’ Vrenna and Severin will be joined by such musicians as Rune Erikson, Maurizio Guarini, Sven Erik Fuzz-Krisatiansen and Eri Isaka Fuxx-Krisatiansen. Vrenna is best known for working with Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson, having produced and played drums on the latter group’s upcoming [ Read More ]...

Harbinger International has announced that Jose Mojica Marins (aka "Coffin Joe"), Ignacio "Nacho" Vigolando, Chris Vrenna and Steven Severin have joined the Profane Exhibit team. The legendary Brazilian king of blasphemy and terror, Jose Mojica Marins will be directing the segment "Viral." Academy Award nominee and film festival favorite Nacho Vigalondo will be directing "Sins of the Father." Grammy Award Winner Chris Vrenna will score the segment "Viral," and Steven Severin will also be scoring the film, as well as performing in the film as an actor.

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Big news has just dropped out of The Profane Exhibit camp! Not only has the team enlisted the services of Grammy Award winning artist Chris Vrenna to score one of the segments, they've added noted directors Jose Mojica Marins (aka Coffin Joe) and Ignacio "Nacho" Vigalondo.

With an already incredible lineup of actors, directors and musicians, The Profane Exhibit just seems to continue growing stronger with each new piece of talent added to the project. Check out the official Facebook page for The Profane Exhibit and follow them on The Profane Exhibit Twitter feed (@ProfaneExhibit).

From the Press Release

Harbinger International is pleased to announce that we have entered into agreements with Grammy Award winner Chris Vrenna to score the segment Viral , and that we have added two new directors to our already impressive lineup. Jose Mojica Marins (aka Coffin Joe), the legendary Brazilian king of blasphemy and terror, is...

London Comedy Film Festival

A quick burst of winter blues-banishing, with comedies old (1960s heist comedy Go To Blazes), new (a preview of the new Muppets movie) and both old and new (a "world premiere" read-through of The Day Off, a movie written for Tony Hancock by Galton and Simpson, which was never made). Guest of honour is Edgar Wright, who introduces a double bill: Shaun Of The Dead and Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet, with guests and a Q&A; and there are discoveries to be made in anarchic French movie The Fairy and a secret new British comedy.

BFI Southbank, SE1, Thu to 29 Jan

Steven Severin: Vampyr, Nationwide

Following the success of his spooky live soundtrack to Jean Cocteau's avant-garde 1932 film The Blood Of A Poet last year, the former Siouxsie And The Banshees bassist embarks on a tour with another freshly rescored classic. This...

Scotland Loves Anime, Glasgow & Edinburgh

Titles like One Piece Strong World or Trigun Badlands Rumble are unlikely to draw in the uninitiated, but you don't need to be a Scottish otaku to appreciate Japanese animation. Nor is it all still about robots and futuristic male fantasies. You're just as likely to get a detective yarn set in Victorian London (Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva, pictured) or a rural family saga incorporating a virtual gaming community (Summer Wars), though admittedly Evangelion 2.0 has all the giant-robot tech-porn you could wish for. As well as bringing eight features to Scotland, these weekend events are augmented by real live humanoids including Jonathan Clements (author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures In The Anime And Manga Trade), introducing the screenings and talking about their work.

Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 10 Oct; Edinburgh Filmhouse, 15-17 Oct; visit lovesanimation.com

Steven Severin & Blood Of A Poet, On...

You might have noticed the coverage of this years ultra-sized Fantasia film festival in the Reviews and Interviews column of the site from a number of contributors taking in the festival:  Mack, Shelagh, Peter, Todd, and myself, as well as a plethora of other Twitch writers hither and yon.  Covering a festival of this size is a massive undertaking and I hope you enjoyed all the updates, interviews, and reviews.  Rest assured there are still a few more to come.  As Fantasia winds down with a screening of Metropolis Extended Edition and full orchestra, it seems to have been a raging success this year across the board.  The festival announced its Jury and Audience awards, and they are below.  It seems that the Subversive Serbia sidebar was a big hit, with controversial A Serbian Film getting one of the big audience awards.

Montreal, Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - As the 14th edition...

If you’re a regular HeyUGuys reader you will have seen a few reviews from FanTasia 2010 on the site the past couple of days and there are still a lot more to come but I wanted to put these in context of the wonderful festival that I saw them at as it draws to a close today.

Now in its 14th year FanTasia is one of North America’s largest film festivals and it is particularly dedicated to genre cinema from all over the world. The range of films on offer for audiences is just staggering with films such as the strangely appropriate The Sorcerers Apprentice, Scott Pilgrim or The Land Before Time sitting alongside A Serbian Film or The Human Centipede. The festival also supports the screening of older films with the 2010 FanTasia Festival having fantastic highlights such as the restored Metropolis and Steven Severin (of Banshees fame) providing...

Of all the things that I’ve done in my life, one that I’m sad to say I’ve never been able to see is the playing of a live score to a film.

Now according to the Fantasia Fest Blog, I will have to miss one of the coolest performances around.

The outlet is reporting that Steven Severin took part in a screening of the famous Jean Cocteau film, Sang D’Un Poete, or better known as the 1930 film, Blood Of A Poet, currently available in the box set known as The Orphic Trilogy, through the Criterion Collection.

What makes this so cool, outside of the fact that it’s a live score to a fantastic film, but for those in the know, know that Severin is not only an amazing musician, but is best known as the bassist and founding member of one of my all time favorite bands,...

Several press releases went out today featuring some huge news coming out of Canada's Fantasia Film Festival including the first batch of films that will be populating this massive three-week long event. Pull up your chair, kids! You're gonna be here for a while!

Dig on the wealth of information below from today's releases and look for more announcements and of course full coverage soon!

Spotlight: Between Death And The Devil

Recent times and crimes have seen extraordinary levels of disillusionment with organized religion, particularly with the Catholic Church, and genre cinema has mirrored this anger with startling impact. In the face of this, we’ve put together this troubling spotlight focused on the abuse of faith, the horrors of ideology and the corruption of Godliness. Several of these films will absolutely stagger you.

Black Death (UK) Dir: Christopher Smith – North American premiere. Hosted by Director Christopher Smith

With the Black Death sweeping across England,...

You want the best of genre film from Canada, the Us and around the globe? Fantasia is the place.

Montreal, June 29, 2010 - For its fourteenth edition, the Fantasia Film Festival is proud to present over 50 titles from Asia. Once again, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China are widely represented, demonstrating the great quality and diversity of their industries. And, as always, the programming team is also dedicated to exposing several hidden gems hailing from emerging national cinemas. Through these, audiences can discover new visions and new sensibilities. Therefore, the public will be privy to works hailing from Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and - a first for the festival - Indonesia. The filmic multicultural feast prepared by the 2010 Fantasia Film Festival promises to satisfy film lovers of all kinds.

Fantasia's 2010 occidental lineup of World Cinema is once again on fire with an astounding kaleidoscope of styles and sensibilities.

The 2010 edition of Montreal's Fantasia Festival is just around the corner and the time has come for a sweeping wave of program announcements. We're dividing these up into individual program announcements to keep the amount of information manageable, and we kick things off now with the introductory comments of head programmer Mitch Davis.

Greetings, cinephiles! Welcome to July 2010, Fantasia style. Get your neurons sparked for the biggest, most spectacular fest we've mounted to date. For the next three weeks, Montreal is going to crumble under the weight of over 120 feature films and several hundred shorts, many being screened for the first time on this continent, some showing for their first time anywhere in the world. You will experience new works from living legends of world cinema and discover brilliant emerging talents from a multitude of countries. You'd better be excited, because you're about to step into weeks of mind-altering revelations.

With so many big screen productions happening at the speed of a mile a minute, it's nice every so often to go back and look at the gory glory of the short film. Especially when they star one of horror's living legends.

From the Press Release:

Legendary make-up effects artist, filmmaker, and actor Tom Savini has accepted the leading role in director Irene Miracle’s short film The Baggage Claim. Based on the screenplay by Tim Lucas, The Baggage Claim is a production of The Factory Digital Filmmaking Program at Douglas with program director Robert Tinnell and film student Jason “Cartman” Baker serving as producers.

Savini’s ties with the Factory run deep, as the film school is part of the Douglas Education Center in Monessen, Pa, alongside the Tom Savini Special Make-up Effects Program. “Whenever possible I try to work alongside the students at Dec, but in this instance...

The curtains part yet again as Olympia Film Festival host several concert-worthy guests including Dame Darcy and Death By Doll and a very special visit from Steven Severin of the famed Siouxsie and the Banshees in his Only Northwest performance with his original score for the classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. With generous support, in the form of a $5,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, we have been able to increase our capacity to create stronger relationships between filmmakers and the Olympia community, bringing many exciting guests.

Several Northwest premieres are spotlit on the Capitol’s mighty big screen, including the adorable story of Etienne!, as a man takes his terminally ill pet hamster on a bicycle trip up the California coast; the British crime comedy Down Terrace featuring cast members from the original The Office; and the ‘lost’ feature Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth...