The amazing artist-photographer Mark Seliger, well known alla round the World for having captured lots of the most important cinema-music-ballet-art heroes in the last decades, has already finished his personal exhibition named “Listen”, at Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. Adding to his famous photos, personal and public ones, the exhibition included about 30 reprints of [ Read More ]
Nine Inch Nails frontman and Atticus Ross have already won the Academy Award as Best Original Soundtrack for their work in David Fincher’s “The Social Network” movie. Not a surprise, for music addicted. Trent Reznor, born in Mercer 1965, after forming in 1988 the post industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, mixing dark mood with [ Read More ]
And, in the end, like every year, the Oscars went to: Best Picture: The King’s Speech Best Actor: Colin Firth Best Actress: Natalie Portman Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale Best Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo Best Director: Tom Hopper – The King’s Speech Animated Feature Film: Toy Story 3 Animated Short Film: The Lost Thing Art [ Read More ]
Darren Aronofsky – the interview: the “Black Swan”, mirrors, dance and duality The psychological evolution of a fragile dancers introduces you into a kaleidoscopic world of mirrors, choices, ambition, perfection, sexuality, attraction and repulsion, pleasure and subconscious, never ending chilhood, dramatic duality and pathos. With Natalie Portman (excellent), Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder and Mila Kunis, [ Read More ]
With a past career working with the Hero David Bowie, the american guitarist Frank Madeloni (best known as Earl Slick), has already featured the New York Dolls band. The rocker, who’s also worked on Double Fantasy by John Lennon, and played wih The White Duke for Young Americans, Staiton To Station, and during the tours [ Read More ]
From Marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Identity Wars starting in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38, from Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writer John Layman and red-hot artist Lee Garbett. Kicking off the annual crossover event, Spider-Man is about to take a trip to the best of all possible (alternate) worlds… He’s rich. [ Read More ]
Interpol just completed the North American tour this past weekend in Boston. As a celebration, the band likes to offer a little free Tour EP (http://t.opsp.in/PRnk) for your enjoyment featuring tracks from their tremendous touring friends School of Seven Bells and Matthew Dear as well as “Lights” from the latest album. Enjoy! – pics by Giorgio [ Read More ]
Unfortunately I arrived late at the club and the concert had already started. I could not hear the first songs but running and singing at the same time I managed to reach the stage before they end the song “Andate tutti affanculo” which gives the name to their latest album. Latest but not last, because [ Read More ]
Amazing 3D sculptures made by thousands of Crayola coloured crayons, can take nostalgic loving of childhood’s tools and new avant-guard-art searchers be almoust impressed by this 37 years old artist. The Alabama born Herb Williams has created about hundreds of this sculptures, from a nude of Marilyn Monroe portrait, an Obama, some party dresses, and [ Read More ]
The Smiths’ frontman Morrissey, is ready to release two unheard songs recorded during his solo debut album “Viva Hate” in 1988. Safe, Warm Lancashire Home and Treat Me Like A Human Being will be available as B-sides of the re-release of his 1992 single Glamorous Glue, in the middle of April 2011, just a week [ Read More ]
Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Herc #1, from New York Times Best Selling writers Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente and artist Neil Edwards! An explosive opener taking place during the carnage of Fear Itself! Hercules has a new mission and a new code: take out the worst of the worst [ Read More ]
Film-documentary on Yves Saint Laurent, presented at the latest edition of Roma Film Festival 2010, last november, “L’Amour Fou” reveals a picture on one of the most important artists of the last centuries, from the beginning of his long career ad a designer, to working at Christian Dior maison from 1955, to the starting point [ Read More ]
After the performance in 2000 with “Presence Humaine”, an album with his lyrics and melodies by Bertrand Burgalat, Michel Houellebecq, recently awarded with the Goncourt Prize for his “Le Carte Et Le Territoire”, has recently announced he’s written and sang two chansonnes d’amour, Le Film Du Dimanche and Novembre, already available on the web, and [ Read More ]
Where to find the most interesting steet art creations all around the World, using your own computer and searching like you’re using a program like Google Maps or Google Earth? Now Street Art View can make you release this desire. A simple website (www.streetartview.com), powered by Red Bull, with more than hundreds images, taken from [ Read More ]
Twenty years ago, the chansonnier, author first of all of immortal songs like Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus, Serge Gainsbourg, died (2nd March 1991). Now lots of events, exhibitions and albums are ready to come out to celebrate the French great singer. In the last months, french radios are filled by the song, Comme un [ Read More ]
“Let England Shake” PJ Harvey Island 2011 8 / 10 Polly is back. After the performance on The Andrew Marr Show, Pj Harvey has come back, with another little masterpiece after “To Bring You My Love” (’95) and “A Woman A Man Walked By” (2009). Full of experimental tricks, from pop melodies to cymbals, strings, [ Read More ]
and Studio Ghibli’s “Karigurashi no Arrietty” film won the Animation of the Year at the latest 34th Japan Academy Prizes in Tokyo. Arrietty won the award over Keiichi Hara and Hsention’s “Colorful”, Kozo Kuzuha and Shinei Animation’s “Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Nigyo Daikaisen”, Yasuichiro Yamamoto and TMS Entertainment’s “Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in The [ Read More ]
The legendary artist Walt Simonson, has just released the awesome inspiring variant cover to “The Mighty Thor”. When Asgard is threatened by an intergalactic peril, the superstar creative team of Matt Fraction and Olivier Coipel, must take Thor to the edges of the Marvel Universe to save his homeland from the likes of Galactus. It’s [ Read More ]
“Nader and Simin” is the winner of the latest Berlinale 2011. Director Asghar Farhadi won with his movie the Golden Bear for Best Film, an iranian controversial drama movie about a troubled marriage, which also scored ttwo additional Silver Bears for Best Male Actor (Peyman Moaadi) and Best Female Actress (Leila Hatami). “This goes out [ Read More ]
“Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will” MOGWAI Pias / Self 2011 7.5 / 10 In a mixture between grunge essence, Bjork’s decadence, hard rock bases and electro aim, the Glasgow band (Dominic Aitchison, Stuart Braithwaite, Martin Bulloch, Barry Burns, and John Cummings) have brought to light the real center of the post-rock sound, [ Read More ]
Let’s take a look on the Original Score and Original Song nominated for the Academy Awards 2011, that wil take place next February 27th in LA. The OST of the most important movies of the year, are one of the most interesting lists in Oscar’s show night: a particular song or composing melody, can change [ Read More ]
Marvel is pleased to present your first look at FF #1, from the superstar creative team of writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Steve Epting. “The fight for tomorrow begins today! In the wake of the Human Torch’s heroic sacrifice, Marvels’ first family has re-emerged as the Future Foundation. Spider-Man may their newest teammate, but who [ Read More ]
Presented at the last edition of London Film Festival (October 2010), “Upside Down” it’s an amazing movie-documentary about Mr. Alan McGee and his Creation Records label 15 years history. The former boss of the label, also well known aims on the artist-musician-manager-producer influence and work in Uk music history in the last decades, with artists [ Read More ]
With some 80 works contributed by leading museums and private collections, as well as a selection of films in large-scale projection, video recordings and documents, the second installment of the show in Basel features seven thematically arranged galleries providing a unique overview of the artist’s complete oeuvre from the early 1950s to his late work in the 1990s. Museum Tinguely is placing a special focus on Arman’s artistic pursuits in the 1960s and 70s. Five years after the artist’s death, this is the first major retrospective of his work ever to be held at a Swiss museum.
Living in Siberia might has been the inspiration for the surrealism in developing his creatures, that Anton Semenov (aka Gloom82, born in Bratsk), has evolved his techniques in working as a designers in advertising, recreating, in his personal art, amazing unmistakable and detailed little, sweety & ghostly, melancholic monsters, blend together offering a new vision [ Read More ]
The forthcoming Spider-Man 3D reboot will starr Andrew Garfield (“The Social Network”) as Peter Parker/Spider Man, as Columbia Pictures has just confirmed. The project, entitled “The Amazing Spider-Man”, will hit theatres on July 3, next year, including Emma Sone, Rhys Ifans, Sally Field and Martin Sheen, also with a script by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent [ Read More ]
MASSIMO VOLUME + Valentina Dorme @NewAgeClub (TV) Un piccolo club. Luci intermittenti. Fumo, tanto fumo. Volti distorti che si intravedono dietro ad un muro di suoni e tensioni, emozioni e parole. Le parole sono note, le note parole. Che siano sussurrate o urlate esse non perdono mai la loro compostezza, il [ Read More ]
The punk-fashion-madame Vivienne Westwood has put her talent creating the official Red Nose Day t-shirts collection for Comic Relief. The grand dame of Uk fashion, has designed a limited collection with historical images, from William Shakespeare to Louis XIV, supported by the posing of some high-profile models like Sienna Miller, Pixie Lott, Helena Christensen, Laura [ Read More ]
“The King Of Limbs” will be the 8th album of Thom Yorke’s Radiohead, signed, as the last one “In Rainbows”, with XL Recordings and with the production of Nigel Godrich. The band has already started to give the chance to book the album on their website, www.radiohead.com, where fans would be able to download the [ Read More ]
Successful movie for public and critics, also recently awarded at the Golden Globes 2011, “The King’s Speech” emerges from this year’s BAFTA ceremony with a royal inning. From the award for best actor for Colin Firth, to the hot title Best Film and also the added bonus of Best British Film. Inception, Black Swan, The [ Read More ]
The renowned photographer Paul Slattery will offer an exclusive masterclass session about shooting with music artists, on February 17, at the British Music Experience (London’s 02 Arena). He started out in the 70’s photographing Motorhead and then all the punk heroes, from the Sex Pistols to Joe Strummer’s The Clash, going to Oasis, The Smiths, [ Read More ]
‘Walk the River’ The new album from Guillemots on April 18th. Good news from London! This spring is going to show good things for the all of you in love with the indie music scene. Indeed, yesterday the Guillemots, band formed by Fyfe Dangerfield, announced their new album, the third of the career after ‘Through the Windowpane’ (that [ Read More ]
The 61st edition of Berlin Film Festival, has started with the announced red carpet of the director and protagonists of “True Grit”, the new movie by the Coen brothers, ready to be out on european cinemas, and nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 13 years after “The Big Lebowski”. If this Festival will see headmasters [ Read More ]
Laura Veirs by Laura Penna Ora che stanno per tirar giu’ il palasharp (gia’ palavobis gia’ palatrussardi) c’e’ il sentore non particolarmente remoto che una certa tipologia di concerti si allontanerà da Milano per dar spazio ad altre location più accorte e sensibili a quello che puo’ essere definita “musica di qualita’. A Milano in [ Read More ]
Punk attitude, punk hair, and, punky style clothes, ladies & gentlemen! Here you are the new collection by Jean Paul Gaultier, filled by outfits less theatrical than in the past ones, but with such a level of eccentricità and originalità based on Vivienne Westwood (we have to say) teachings, and punk movement too. And, the [ Read More ]
Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures www.moma.org December 19, 2010–March 21, 2011 Last December 19th, 2010, Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures, the exhibition (which will take place till March 21st 2011), has started focusing on the artist’s cinematic portraits and non-narrative, silent, and black-and-white films from the mid-1960s. Warhol’s Screen Tests reveal his lifelong fascination with the cult [ Read More ]
The headmaster and priestess of post punk wave, Patti Smith has already revealed to the media hat she’s finishing a new book, a mystery story set in London and inspired by Sherlock Holmes, as Agatha Christie, Ian Rankin and Stieg Larsson in the past. “I’m at about the 68% of a real ‘detective story’, based [ Read More ]
VERDENA – interview – As a result of about 4 years of creative sessions, Verdena have just come out with the latest album, “Wow”, a collection of 27 songs, floating from alternative rock to psychedelic essence, from the authoral italian tradition in pop-rock to extremely innovative experimentations in sounds and visionary lyrics. Roberta Sammarelli, the [ Read More ]
Sponsored by Sony, the Sony World Photography Awards recognised as the leading photographic awards programme in the World, discovers a vast universe of imagery and journey through many diverse genres of photography. From exhilarating sport to glamorous fashion, candid documentary, captivating landscapes, people, places, trends and imaginations – the Sony World Photography Awards unveil stories [ Read More ]
The year of Captain America: from upcoming anniversary stories to Joe Johnston’s movie starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones and Hugo Weaving. And more & more tba.
The new album’s Tv On The Radio is coming soon in spring:
‘Nine Tipes Of Light’
We have waited about three years from ‘Dear Science’, acclaimed like best album of 2009 from the most important music magazines.
www.torinofilmfest.org TORINO FILM FESTIVAL (November 25 – December 3, 2011) The retrospective of the 29th Torino Film Festival – which will be held from November 25th to December 3rd, 2011 at the Massimo, Reposi and Greenwich cinemas – is dedicated to Robert Altman. The festival will present the forty-odd feature films Altman directed [ Read More ]
Created in 1972 by the International Animated Film Society, the Annie Awards, given last Saturday, have just seen the triumph of “Dragon Trainer” (by Dreamworks) winning 10 prices, and has also reported the boycotting by Disney/Pixar workers, protesting against the voting sessions. Despite it, Disney was running the awards with “Rapunzel” and “Toy Story 3”, [ Read More ]
Little preview by The Strokes: they’ve put a snippet of their comeback single Under Cover Of Darkness streamed online on Amazon. The song is the preview for the upcoming new album of the NY band of Julian Casablancas, “Angels”, ready to be out on March 22. It’ll be their first album since 2006’s “First Impressions [ Read More ]
Known in Japan as “Gunnm”, the famous manga series created by Yukito Kishiro in 1990, and originally published in Business Jump mag, “Battle Angel Alita“ is ready to become a movie cult, directed by Mr. James Cameron. The series, and the movie too, is set in the post-apocalyptic future and tells about Alita, a beautiful cyborg [ Read More ]
Hideout.it and La Scheggia recommend an happening dedicated to “lost” movies. From February, 9th to February, 13th at the Cinema Gnomo in Milan, a screening of unreleased movies will be held, along with meetings and round tables with directors and experts, aperitifs and polls, looking for new forms of distribution. «Lost, meaning missing and scattered [ Read More ]
Here you are a short list of the upcoming movies selected in the different sections of Berlin film Festival 2011, that will ake place in the german city from february 10th to 20th. Enjoy! Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz (Our Grand Despair) – by Seyfi Teoman Coriolanus – by Ralph Fiennes.Out of competition Lipstikka – by [ Read More ]
As “Like Crazy”, love-story between an american student (Anton Yelchin) and an english girl (Felicity Jones), has already won the first price for Best Movie at the last Sundance Film Festival 2011, against “Another Earth”, science-fiction movie about guilts of a woman falling in love with her husband’s killer, rounded by a time-location where scientists [ Read More ]
“I Already Love You” SARA LOV Irma Rec 2011 7+ / 10 The delicate essence of a nu pop-rock with authoral vein, is the main theme of these songs in the new upcoming “I Already Love You”, by the ex-Devics singer Sara Lov. Peace and sweetness wrapped in a box full of hypnotical and seductive [ Read More ]
Marvel is proud to debut the variant cover to Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #157, from superstar artist Ed McGuinness! This. Is. It. The moment that will shatter the Ultimate Universe is here… and “The Death of Spider-Man” will leave no one unscathed. “The Death of Spider-Man” launches this February in the pages of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man [ Read More ]
