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New Music: The Kills Concert Film
& The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson ‘Provincial’ Solo Album
The Kills’ Live Concert Film
Alison Mosshart and James Hince have the kind of presence that makes you believe that these people were truly born to be on stage and rock as hard as they do. Which is why it’s awesome that The Kills have announced that they will be releasing a live concert DVD.
“A bunch of friends and fans filmed our second show at L’Olympia in Paris for us.” The performance took place just a couple weeks ago, on November 13, and included backing from the band’s own Black Rooster Drum Corps and Choir. [Exclaim.ca]
Check out the trailer:
The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson ‘Provincial’ Solo Album
The landscape of this country is a familiar theme in Canadian music and John K. Samson, the frontman of the Weakerthans, is following true in that tradition with his new solo album.
John K. Samson has released seven-inch records about roads in his home province of Manitoba. These low-key three-song releases have now spawned a full-length, Provincial, due out January 24 via Epitaph Records.
According to a press release, the collection includes newly recorded versions of the songs from the seven-inches, plus unheard tracks. [Exclaim.ca]
Check out Provincial below:
New Music: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Full Soundtrack
There’s been SO much talk about the new Hollywood version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and perhaps just as much chatter about the hugely-hyped soundtrack.
Composed by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, the full track listing has now been released.
“A sprawling three-hour opus” with 37 tracks including a cover of Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, Reznor calls the collection (which took 14 months to create) “some of the most beautiful and disturbing music of our careers.”
The full release will be available for download December 9th. You can find out more from this post by Trent Reznor on the NIN website. You can also download a six-track, 35 minute sampler just by entering your email address here.
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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Immigrant Song (feat Karen O) by ArtemK
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo track list:
1. Immigrant Song
2. She Reminds Me Of You
3. People Lie All The Time
4. Pinned And Mounted
5. Pinned and Mounted
6. What If We Could?
7. With The Flies
8. Hidden In Snow
9. A Thousand Details
10. One Particular Moment
11. I Can’t Take It Anymore
12. How Brittle The Bones
13. Please Take Your Hand Away
14. Cut Into Pieces
15. The Splinter
16. An Itch
17. Hypomania
18. Under The Midnight Sun
19. Aphelion
20. You’re Here
21. The Same As The Others
22. A Pause For Reflection
23. While Waiting
24. The Seconds Drag
25. Later Into The Night
26. Parallel Timeline (Alternate Outcome)
27. Another Way Of Caring
28. A Viable Construct
29. Revealed In The Thaw
30. Milennia
31. We Could Wait Forever
32. Oraculum
33. Great Bird Of Prey
34. The Heretics
35. A Pair Of Doves
36. Infiltrator
37. The Sound Of Forgetting
New Music: Asleep In The Pews – Evening Hymns
Last week, I was in the mood for something upbeat that I could turn up loud. This week couldn’t be more different – but it’s just as good!
Quiet and soft, a pulling-at-the-heartstrings kind of song, “Asleep In the Pews” is a new release from Evening Hymns from their upcoming album Spectral Dusk (Shuffling Feet Records) which will be out in spring 2012.
Recorded in “the depths of a Canadian winter,” the album features members of The Wooden Sky, Ohbijou, and City and Colour. Evening Hymns are currently touring Europe, playing with Agnes Obel and Timber Timbre, but you can check out “Asleep In the Pews” below.
Website: http://www.eveninghymns.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/eveninghymns
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eveninghymns
Asleep in the Pews by evening hymns
[Thanks to AUX]
New Music: Niki and the Dove
“Mystery hangs around this band, both on record and, especially, in person: whether it’s the conspiratorial whispering with each other in Swedish, the conversations punctuated by Malin’s childlike yelps of laughter, or Gustaf’s tangential flights of fancy, it’s like stepping into another world.”
I was definitely in the mood for something upbeat as I scanned the music that popped into my inbox this week. Hence Niki and the Dove. Gustaf Karlöf and Malin Dahlström are a Swedish pop duo who have just released their new EP, ‘The Drummer’ on Mercury Records.
“They make the kind of pop music only Scandinavians seem capable of: all strident and immediate on the one hand but also curiously knotty and multi-layered, with each song marrying lyrical complexity with clattering percussion and joyful dollops of synth.” [The Guardian]
If you check out their music on Soundcloud, I’d suggest starting with Mother Protect and Winterheart. Seriously, don’t they both belong on a soundtrack? Yes. Yes, they do.
I wasn’t sure about a couple of their songs, but have to admit, I fell in love with DJ Ease My Mind when I saw the video (below Mother Protect) — I now want to fling around on ropes all day to funky music!).
Website: www.nikiandthedove.com
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/nikiandthedove
Myspace: www.myspace.com/nikiandthedove
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“Ice Angel” (2012) is an interactive artwork providing the participants a glimpse of themselves depicted in angelic form. Inspired by the way children create snow angels in fresh snow, Ice Angels introduces the digital twist of being a performance portrait device that pairs the participant to their angel identity.
Ice Angel combines human performance and emotion within the surreal construct of an interactive artwork. It is experienced through the participation of the viewer who adopts the role of performer. Through this role reversal a curious thing happens in which the viewer is now the subject of a living portrait, with their hidden “angel” revealed for all to see.
As the user moves their arms a new wing shape appears, unfurling from the shoulders, creating the angel traces within virtual snow. The wings are created dynamically and are linked to the participant, creating a performance proportional to the user’s physical extents. The artwork has a ‘memory’, capturing a hidden view of the participant and their angel wings, and this specific angel identity remains linked to that participant in any future encounters with the artwork.Artwork by Dominic Harris;
Designed and produced by Cinimod Studio.
I’ve never seen this photo of Bettie Page before. It’s a pretty good one.
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