Oddsac, Animal Collective’s “visual album”, opens at the Guggenheim today. Tickets sold out right quick, but it looks like a second NY date is being added before this “demonic” and “horrific” piece of audio-visual art goes on tour with members of Animal Collective and Danny Perez, the collaborator who made this psychedelic, vampiric, and allegedly epilepsy-inducing masterpiece possible.
According to the band’s Q&A after the video’s original premiere at Sundance last week, the video is four years of footage craftily compiled into 54 minutes, originally inspired by the image of “a sad vampire in a rowboat” (via). I aim to check this out when it hits the left coast but, if you see it first, let us know you came out in one piece.
“You should see it for the simplest of reasons: Because it is a good story. Not because it may be important. Not because it is unforgettable, unyielding. Not because it horrifies. Not because the score is creepily spiritual. Not because it is littered with small lines of dialogue you will remember later. Not because it contains warnings against our own demise. All of that is so.”
After reading a rave review from Esquire [excerpt above] and finding the trailer to be horrifically gorgeous I’m thinking that it’s time to start breaking in pages of Cormac McCarthy’s “pitch perfect post-apocalyptic masterpiece” The Road before the film is released in October.
Back in 2007, Chris wrote one of the finest and most inspired Gorilla vs Bear posts that centered on creating an audible landscape to accompany The Road. I highly recommend checking it out here.
2009 is shaping up to be a swell year for the entertainment industry. From Mike Tyson and Zach Galifianakis to Pauly Shore and Forest Whitaker, here are a few films that we’re excited to see along with some new music videos from Department of Eagles, Panda Bear and a new live video of Grizzly Bear’s “Two Weeks” featuring Victoria Legrand of Beach House.
French electronica duo Daft Punk has been signed to write the original music score for Tron 2.0, Walt Disney’s upcoming sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 animation cult hit which was scored by electronic music icon Wendy Carlos. Daft Punk’s members Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter have been involved in various films before, but Tron 2.0 will be their first complete feature film score. The film, scheduled for a 2011 release, is helmed by Joseph Kosinski and will feature Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett. According to industry news reports, Tron 2.0 will play as the “next chapter” after the first film, with Wilde starring as one of the heroes trying to help fighting the Master Control Program, the evil intelligence protocol that was the nemesis in the 1982 film. The assignment of Daft Punk to score Tron 2.0 has been confirmed to Upcoming Film Scores by Walt Disney Pictures. [via]
I just want to point out that Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos) is the bee’s knees of synsthesized music and if you’re not familiar with his&her work then I highly suggest reading up.
TODD P GOES TO AUSTIN is a cultural snap-shot of America’s underground, do-it-yourself music scene featuring unforgettable live performances from Matt and Kim, Dan Deacon, Mika Miko,
The DeathSet and many more.
As record labels die, independents thrive. In the wake of Napster, MySpace and Facebook there is a generation of artists creating and performing music on their own terms. With the help of legendary DIY rock promoter Todd P, Brooklyn has become ground zero for these exciting young musicians.
Using never-before-seen footage, including material shot by the bands themselves, TODD P GOES TO AUSTIN exposes what life is like surviving and touring at the underground level. Interviews with Todd about the necessity of independent music and creativity connect the bands as they tour down to Austin, TX to appear in the DIY music scene’s answer to the SXSW Music Festival.
It’s impossible to spend time in New York and not be affected by Todd P, the man [and his interns] weaves culture into flawless seams of mosh, ecstasy, dance, spectacle and not only does it all on the cheap but all ages too! The first week I moved to NY in ‘07 I didn’t know who Todd P was, but I was familiar with the Brooklyn music scene and inadvertently made my way into quite a number of his events. When I wrote for CMJ, Todd was a panelist for a discussion on ’selling out’ and listening to him speak made a me a little angry, but I soon ‘got it’ and even quote some of his valid points in discussion. The man is a local icon and a future legend, so although I have much for-and-against Todd P I just need to give him his deserving big ups, props, respect and admiration from FMLY. Todd, you keep the dollars in my wallet, you introduce me to the most interesting people and I can’t even imagine my life in NY without Death By Audio, The Silent Barn and the ever-expanding list.
This being put out there, a movie has been made to honor his preservation of DIY ethic and hopefully bring in some fresh new faces to these intimate experiences. Trailer above.
When it comes to movies, FMLY may just be responsible for why Apatow and crew related movies do so well…afterall, we do end up catching them a good fifty times before they’re even released. Seth Rogen’s Observe and Report stars him and, the love of a lifetime, Anna Farris. I don’t want to blurt the word mall cop because Kevin James pretty much ruined that entire concept…but Rogen is here to be the hero and save it.
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Here’s a PostSecret, and maybe idea for the next Rogen film?
Thank You Come Again
Lady Bird Lake Trail
March 20, 3PM
w/ dead gaze, easyboy, mistlefinger, big whup + pizza!, white fang, jonesin', tempo no tempo, dream panther
FMLY Group Hug
Dominican Joe, 515 South Congress
March 20, 8pm
w/ MillionYoung, Truman Peyote, Michael Parallax, Wampire, Idiot Glee, I Am The Dot, Magic Man, Philip Seymour Hoffman fbook event
Los Angeles
FMLY RIDE
WESTSIDE and EASTSIDE
March 13th 2010
The Entrance Band, Insects vs. Robots, Rumspringa, Las Cafeteras, The Light Rays, 60-Watt Kid, DJDT, Hiking, Neon Navajo fbook event
Thank you, Come Again
March 13th 2010
Romulus, Gabriela Maia, Stellaluna, Little Smoke, Good News Reporting, Presstones, More TBA fbook event
Evan Voytas, WAMPIRE, Battlehooch, Pizza! + Afterparty for Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) and The Hood Internet
McWorld
March 25th Fbook event
Dinowalrus, Tempo No Tempo
May 1
Santa Cruz
FMLY RIDE
March 6th 2010
Pacific and Water
Koalacaust, Disengorified, A Pack of Wolves, Cool Band Now, Kill//Kill, No Jet Left, DJ ALASKA, DJ Wolchuk, DJ JaZz Fbook
Boston
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
PPALMM's Chinatown Loft
April 16
New York
FMLY / Breakfast of Champs Fest
April 18
Tobacco (of Black Moth Super Rainbow) & Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Knitting Factory
April 24 fbook event
IcyDemons, Truman Peyote, Trouble Books
Glasslands
May 2
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