The Indie Spirit Film Festival (ISFF) is an annual event for filmmakers (professionals and students) and film lovers alike, with a superb program of feature films, shorts, docs, animation, and many other films from around the world. The ISFF showcases the work of independent filmmakers amidst the mountainous backdrop of Colorado Springs, Colorado, just one [...]
Henderson, NV – January 26, 2012 – Black Mountain Productions Inc., the creator of the annual Indie Music Fest in Henderson/Las Vegas, Nevada, is pleased to announce a new pathway to achieving success for emerging film, music video and video gaming artists. The brand new Indie Film Fest, under the direction and guidance of Mr. [...]
New York’s cosmic-disco ensemble, Phenomenal Handclap Band propels us into their retro-futuristic styled world with the release of video, “The Right One,” off their second album Form and Control due out on February 14th from Tummy Touch Records. Director Moh Azima, who has previously worked on the band’s “15 to 20” video, explains that the song’s [...]
Panelists include directors Jonathan Levine, Mike Mills & Jeff Nichols Harry Lennix, Robin Swicord, and HitFix’s Gregory Ellwood to Moderate LOS ANGELES (January 26, 2012) – Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced the guest speakers and program for the 11th annual [...]
Sundance Institute announced today a range of digital initiatives that will allow independent film-loving audiences to follow and engage with the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The Festival begins today and runs through January 29 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. A complete list of films and events is available at www.sundance.org/festival. [...]
Debut LP New Heaven Out Now On Frenchkiss Records 2011 was a busy and successful year for Pittsburgh duo 1,2,3. In June the band released their debut LP, New Heaven, which has now been featured on a number of year end lists. As a follow up to this record, they released the Scared, but not [...]
New York City songwriter Christopher Paul Stelling has announced the details of his long-awaited debut album, Songs of Praise & Scorn, which will see a release on February 21st via Brooklyn imprint Mecca Lecca Recording Co. You can head over to the CPS bandcamp page to download the first single, “Mourning Train To Memphis.” Songs [...]
Lars von Trier’s noir-soaked thriller casts postwar Germany as a Kafkaesque dreamscape haunted by “werewolves” (underground Nazi terrorists). Leopold Kessler, a young and idealistic American of German stock, returns to the old country and takes a civilian job as a sleeping-car conductor for the mysterious Zentropa railway company where he falls into the clutches of [...]
From Oren Moverman, director of the acclaimed film The Messenger (2009), comes another tale about a veteran grappling with a new battlefront. Woody Harrelson stars as Dave Brown, a combative patrolman in L.A. during the heat of the Rampart scandal in 1999, whose uniquely hostile approach to his professional and civilian worlds disrupts the lives [...]
A compelling collision of feverish post-punk, grimy electro, noirish trip-hop, unsettling hip hop beats and orchestral flourishes, London-based art collectiveBreton’s debut LP, Other People’s Problems, will be released April 3 on FatCat Records. Intriguing, atmospheric and darkly exhilarating, the album is a supremely confident statement from one of Britain’s most engaging and intriguing new bands. Named after the father of surrealism [...]
After successfully raising more than $200 million through its capital campaign and surpassing 10,000 members, the Barnes Foundation officially announced today the much-anticipated opening date of its Philadelphia campus is May 19, 2012. The facility on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway will be the new home of the Barnes art collection and art education programs. PNC [...]
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has been undergoing a facelift for nine weeks this winter to complete the final stages of construction and preservation work in order to prepare for the opening of the new Renzo Pianodesigned wing and the restored Tapestry Room. The brief closure period began on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 and will [...]
Steven Soderbergh’s black-ops thriller will finally arrive next week, about year before the director insists he’s retiring. Relativity Media has picked up “Haywire,” starring MMA star Gina Carano in the title role, and plans to release the film Jan. 20, 2012. Carano is surrounded by an experienced and talented cast that includes Channing Tatum, Ewan [...]
Los Angeles’ pop minimalists Princeton are pleased to unveil the first single and title track from their upcoming sophomore release, Remembrance of Things To Come, available February 2 on Hit City U.S.A. in conjunction with Easter Everywhere. “Remembrance of Things To Come” is a classically-informed pop number showcasing the insight of the Los Angeles New [...]
Green Party leaders called for strong national condemnation of the brutal actions of police forces in their treatment of Occupy Movement protesters in several cities. “We encourage political leaders, beginning with President Obama, to express revulsion and anger at the violent and destructive behavior of police in their handling of nonviolent protesters, and to take [...]
Picking right up where the THE CAST BEFORE THE BREAK’s highly-regarded EP, As Your Shoulders Turn On You, left off,Still conjures up images frozen in time…those important still-frame moments forever locked in your mind that refuse to fade. Following a more structured, considered path that finds just as much comfort in the delicate moments of [...]
By Evan Shapiro For the past two years, I’ve been lucky enough to be a small part of a show called Portlandia. The series — created by the prolifically talented Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein and returning on Friday for a second season — has been described by many a stinging satire of Hipster culture. [...]
By Carrie Battan Montreal electro-pop artist Grimes (aka Claire Boucher) posted on her Twitter yesterday that she’s signed to 4AD. “just want 2 say i am so honoured to be releasing my next album with 4AD – a record label I have admired since I was 13 and first heard the cocteau twins and realized [...]
By Daniel Grant NEW YORK—On Nov. 17, a sale of American art at Swann Galleries set a new record for a work by social realist painter Robert Gwathmey, famous for his depictions of African-American life in the rural South. Prologue II, 1962, an oil on canvas, sold for $72,000, meeting the $60,000/90,000 estimate. The previous [...]
by Drainu182 via AudioPerv The much anticipated second album from Denver-based Tennis, Young and Old, is set for release February 14, 2012 on Fat Possum Records. Their widely praised debut Cape Dory, which The Wall Street Journal called “a winsome set of breezy pop songs,” was released earlier this year. For their forthcoming album guitarist [...]
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