SHORT CIRCUIT presents MUTE MORE ADDITIONS TO MUTE FESTIVAL LINE UP! MARTIN L. GORE (DJ SET), RICHIE HAWTIN,  MOBY (DJ SET), ANDY ‘FLETCH’ FLETCHER (DJ SET), JOSH T. PEARSON PERFORMS MUTE SONGS 13 + 14 MAY 2011 AT LONDON’S HISTORICAL ROUNDHOUSE JUST RELEASED – LIMITED NUMBER OF EXTRA WEEKEND TICKETS! Fri 13 May – £30 (6pm-1am)  [ Read More ]

From Marve.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Venom #2, from the red hot creative team of writer Rick Remender and artist Tony Moore! When Venom descends on the Savage Land to dispatch of a WMD-dealing warlord, he’ll find himself in the sights of much more pointed threat – Kraven the Hunter!  [ Read More ]

Bono Vox and his beloved wife Ali Hewson, are the main protagonists of the new fashion advertising-campaign by Louis Vuitton. U2’s singer-author-leader has already revealed he had gift the gains to support conservation Cotton Initiative Uganda, a sit was the same for many other protagonists of art, sport and politics in the past, from Pelè  [ Read More ]

Pearl Jam’s leader, Eddie Vedder, is ready to release his new solo album, “Ukulele Songs”. It’ll be a collection of other artists’ songs covered with ukulele by Mr.Vedder and many musicians, like Cat Power, featuring on “Tonight You Belong To Me”. The album features also Mamas & Papas’”Dream A Little Dream Of Me” and Pearl  [ Read More ]

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Wolverine #8, from superstar creators Jason Aaron and Daniel Acuña! Logan has cut his way through the hordes of Hell and the X-Men’s heaviest hitters. Now, he’ll take on his most imposing opponent yet – himself! As his possessed shell of a body battles Cyclops to  [ Read More ]

The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe presents “Power to the Imagination: Artists, Posters and Politics” 18th Mar. 2011 – 13th Jun. 2011. Artists’ posters tell the story of protest, commitment to freedom and human rights, the fight for equal rights and tolerance. The exhibition presents in excess of 180 works by approximately 90 internationally renowned  [ Read More ]

TONY OURSLER Open Obscura 19th March – 12th June 2011 The initiator of video sculpture for the first time in Italy at the PAC with an important anthological exhibition The PAC, the Pavilion of Contemporary Art of Milan, presents the TONY OURSLER. Open Obscura exhibition, curated by Gianni Mercurio and Demetrio Paparoni, promoted by the  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Avengers #12.1, from superstars Brian Michael Bendis and Bryan Hitch. That’s right—two of the biggest creators in comics history bring you the most popularl team of super heroes in the world! The road to the next great Avengers’ epic starts right here with a  [ Read More ]

Upcoming animated short movie from Disney: “The Ballad of Nessie”. The precious cinema adaptation will put a new spin on Loch Ness Monster, from Scotland, following the tae itself about Nessie and her best friend, a duck named MacQuack, with MacFroogie, as the character which will stop at nothing to build a mini-golf development at  [ Read More ]

Double Steven Spielberg! Director is working on two forthcoming movies, ready to come out only in December 2011, and maybe to be presented at Cannes Film Festival 2011, or Venice FF 2011: “War Horse” and “The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn”, with production by Peter Jackson. The one about Tintin will be  [ Read More ]

Man Ray Art Museum – Lugano – CH – March 26th – June 19th, 2011 Man Ray (1890–1976) has been one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, and is universally known for such iconic works as Le Violon d’Ingres and Cadeau, which epitomize the artistic canons of a whole century. The outstanding  [ Read More ]

“Hermann” Paolo Benvegnù La pioggia dischi / Venus 2011 It’s in your hands. Immediately you realize this is the typical record whose cover makes you regret for LPs. A man, maybe an old man, maybe a monk, whose eyes are closed by the young hands of a woman or a girl. For the ones who  [ Read More ]

A little idea from the italian writer Lara Manni, has become an effective support  initiative in order to raise funds to send to Save the Children to help Japan in this tragic moment March 11 earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear alert of the last days. Autori Per Il Giappone is a website publishing stories, poems,  [ Read More ]

Academy Award latest male actor winner with “The King’s Speech”, Colin Firth, might starr  “Stoker”, the new horror movie directed by Park Chan-Wook (“Old Boy”, recently awarded at Berlinale61 for iPhone short Movie “Night Fishing”), featuring Nicole Kidman and Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”, “The Kids Are All Right”), and written by Wenthworth Miller (“Prison  [ Read More ]

Pizzeria Kamikaze is a quiet, comfortable place where you can easily find a job afterlife. One of hundreds, thousands bars, clubs or stuffs like those, in a city whit no name, inside a chilled paradise that is just a point of view, the suicide’s one. A matryoshka – shaped maze, not so far away from  [ Read More ]

Dave Grohl’s Foo Fighters are ready to hit theatres with a new documentary, “Foo Fighters: Back and Forth”, directed by academy-award-winning James Moll (“The Last Days”). The movie is a cinema picture about the band’s evolution and history, from Nirvana’s dissolution after Cobain’s death, to the present. Grohl describes the collaboration with Moll here: “In  [ Read More ]

Ex Guns’n’Roses, Velvet Revolver and Jane’s Addiction bassist, Duff McKagan, has already revealed he’s going to leave music scene to dedicate himself to the world of consulting and management. Mr Perry Farrell, Jane’s Addiction’s leader, also told to the media that his band was the one to annoy Duff himself, leaving after only 6 months  [ Read More ]

From marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your new look at Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull #1, from Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker and artist Scot Eaton! FEAR ITSELF IS HERE…and the secrets of its origin will crack the very foundation of the Marvel Universe!  Captain America and Namor have thwarted the Red Skull  [ Read More ]

Stefano Bollani Teatro Filarmonico Verona, March 14 2011 english version - Let’s pretend to be in a different world, a world made up of piano bar only. And, for a minute there, let’s also pretend to profane the “door with no expectation” of one of those clubs, a wooden, tired and stretched out entrance, witness of  [ Read More ]

Iconoclast Tom Waits was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame by Neil Young at the ceremony Monday night honoring his vast and storied musical career spanning four decades. Waits accepted this honor with humor and heart, stating: “Thanks, everybody, this is very encouraging. Songs are really just interesting things to do with  [ Read More ]

In August 2010, French filmmaker Vincent Moon (creator of La Blogotheque, and director for Arcade Fire and Mogwai Dvd) and Efterklang‘s 8 piece-live band met up on an island off the Danish coast. The objective was to shoot a film. A film with the same length as an album, and a film full of performances,  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel Announces THOR & LOKI: BLOOD BROTHERS Animated Series! Marvel Knights Animation Adapts Critically-Acclaimed Thor Storyline New York, NY – March 11, 2011— Marvel Knights Animation is proud to announce Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers, an all-new four-episode series debuting on iTunes, Xbox LIVE, and PlayStation®Network on Monday, March 28th. Further episodes debut weekly  [ Read More ]

Melissa Jane Robson, aka Stella Vine, is the English artists who works on figurative paintings representing mostly Uk celebrities and old rock stars, with ironic taste and extraordinary success. Stella Vine’s works are today one of the most expensive in contemporary painting, from her Kate Moss’ portrait in Holy Water Cannot Help You (2005) or  [ Read More ]

Baz Luhrmann is going to direct “The Great Gatsby” remake, based on F. Scott Fitzerald’story, set in Sidney, and in 3D. Director told that this Warner Bros production is ready to start in filming but not in the short time, because of many discussions on it, for example the decision to fix the location in  [ Read More ]

Steven Soderbergh ( “Che”, “Oceans Eleven”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Traffic”) has already revealed he’ll work on only two movies before ending his career in film direction. The director  told to the media he’s preparing a biopic on pianist Liberance, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and a cinema adptation to the ‘60s tv series “The Man  [ Read More ]

Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore is ready to release his solo album with Beck’s production: “Demolished Thoughts”. It’ll be the third album by the known artists, with Beck also contributing on vocals to some tracks. The album will be released on May 23 in the Uk, and then in the US. Recorded at Beck’s homestudio  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the second cataclysmic chapter of “Escape From The Negative Zone,” from writer James Asmus and artist Ibraim Roberson in Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier Annual #1. The X-Men have been marked for execution by King Blastaar but luckily, Steve Rogers is on his way into enemy  [ Read More ]

Bruce Davidson is to receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at this year‟s Sony World Photography Awards. He will be honoured at the annual gala award ceremony at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on Wednesday 27 April amongst leading figures of the international photography community. An exhibition of his work will be shown  [ Read More ]

“Content” GANG OF FOUR Neu Groenland, 2011 post punk To reform or not to reform? That is the question. After “Red Barker Tree”, by The Wire, another hero-band of Uk punk/post punk era has already come back with the reunion, after years of silence. Ladies and gentlemen here you are the Gang of Four, with  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Tomb Of Dracula Presents: Throne Of Blood #1, from red hot writer Victor Gischler (X-Men, Death Of Dracula) and acclaimed artist Goran Parlov (Marvel Universe Vs. The Punisher). Long ago, a volatile feud left vampire society in ruin and only one lone vampire rose  [ Read More ]

All photo courtesy: AIR, Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery, 2011       In June 2010 at Berlin Clocktower Gallery, and on February 12, 2011, at Peres Projects (Berlin), it was presented “The Dangerous Book For Boys” exhibition, released with actor James Franco’ works from experimental films to drawings and photographs, exploring themes of chilhood and  [ Read More ]

Setting to play live, again, his Joy Division second masterpiece, “Closer” (1980),  after the work on the first album, “Unknown Pleasures”, bassist Peter Hook will be on stage for starting his new tour on May 18, at The Factory, Manchester, with his band, The Light. Adding, a four-song Ep, “1101/2011” will be firstly released on  [ Read More ]

  Rick “Dienzo” Blanco is a LA artist creating unique characters tending to intrigue into darkness and anxiety, with cartoon essence and post-gothic aim. Having experienced for over 15 years in commercial art as award-winning designer, and collaborating as creative director to oversee the development of video games, sporting goods, toys and more based on  [ Read More ]

Just finished working on “Thor” cinema adaptation, Kenneth Branagh has already signed to direct “The Boys In The Boat”, based on the non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown. The story, stet in 190s, centers around Washington’s University’s powerhouse rowing team, in a crossing movie way from “Chariots of Fire” to “Seabiscuit”. “‘The Boys in  [ Read More ]

Book Focus: “Sami Po Sebe – Alone With Ourselves” – Sergej Bolmat – If I was Sergej Bolmat, born in Petersburg, 1960, before starting my Sami po sebe (Alone with ourselves) I could perhaps have fought against the phantoms of Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Nabokov (still living, at that moment, but already a sort of icon thanks  [ Read More ]

Director Arev Manoukian is the 30 years old deus ex machina behind the little short-movie masterpiece, entitled “Nuit Blanche”, which won 2010 Grand Prize of LG Film Festival. This movie, by Spy Films, set in a film noir mood, in Paris, captures a surprisingly violent moment of connection and fall-in-love of two completely strangers attracted  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Wolverine #7, from superstar creators Jason Aaron and Daniel Acuna. How do you put down an unstoppable mutant killing machine? Good question – but Cyclops already thought of it. Logan is cutting way through the few friends he’s ever had, and the de facto  [ Read More ]

Mötley Crüe’s drummer Tommy Lee, in a recent interview to Billboard.com, said that his band will headling next summer tour with Poison and New York Dolls. “It’s definitely not Crüe Fest. Crüe Fest is, like, five [bands], and this is just the three of us. But it’s special because it’s another CRÜE tour and it’s  [ Read More ]

SECRET AVENGERS #11 From marvel.com: Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Secret Avengers #11, from Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker and fan favorite artist Will Conrad. How was America’s first super-soldier, John Steele, turned into an enemy agent of the Shadow Council? Steve Rogers and the Prince of Orphans are on the  [ Read More ]

Bauhaus’ iconic frontman Peter Murphy, is going to return to the music scene for the first time in seven years with an original album on June 7, entitled “Ninth”. After “Unshattered”, in 2004, the amazing Bauhaus’ voice and author, best known for his featuring in 1983 “The Hunter” (with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon and David  [ Read More ]

Illustrator and artists, working as freelance, for magazines, books, music albums and photography works, Japanese Ryohei Hase creates unique images, mixing classical techniques qith surreal visions of women, animals and locations. From darkness to sadness, the artist explores, using Photoshop application, all the history of ancient paintings added with experimental visions of nostalic moods and  [ Read More ]

Last days, NPR Music played the entire new album by Michael Stipe’s band, “Collapse Into Now” which will be available on March 7. It’s a jump into the past times of REM, while they’re going deeper and deeper into the obscure essences og their own first songs, as, we must say, their 1992 masterpiece “Automatic  [ Read More ]

Michel Gondry will be the president of the Cinéfondation and of the Official Sjort-Movies Jury at the next Cannes Film Festival 2011 in May. The great director, Academy Awards in 2005 with Charlie Kaufman for the script of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey), follows other important heroes of  [ Read More ]

An amazing artists deserving to be considered inartistic photography world. Based in Canada, Darren Holmes is a total artist mixing some kind of digital art to photography and to the essence of capturing women, mostly, but not only, naked, as young nymphs in desolate lands and woods, sleeping or escaping from their own intimate dreams,  [ Read More ]

From Marvel.com: Marvel’s newest animated series featuring Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Hulk. “THE AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES! VOLUMES 1 & 2 The First 13 Episodes of Marvel’s All New Animated Series To Debut on DVD April 26, 2011 (Volume 1:  Episodes 1-7; Volume 2:  Episodes 8-13 BURBANK, Calif., March 2, 2011 –  [ Read More ]

Coldplay’s bassist Guy Berryman has recently been hailed by girl rockers The Pierces. The Alabama sisters duo (Catherine and Allison), who quit the music industry in 2009, with past 3 albums, have recruited Guy (also involved in Apparatjik project, with a-ha star Magne Furuholmen) and Coldplay producer Rik Simpson to join them working to create  [ Read More ]

In 2006 Neil Gaiman revealed he’d been working on the screenplay of “Black Hole”, in collaboration with Roger Avary (“Pulp Fiction” co-writer), and that David Fincher would have been the director of the movie itself, inspired by the 12-issue comic that followed teenagers, written by Charles Burns, brad Pitt was told to be the producer  [ Read More ]

“Porco Rosso”, (original title “Crimson Pig – Kurenai no Buta”) has been the sixth movie by Japanese genius Hayao Miyazaki, released in 1992 with Studio Ghibli’s production. The original score, about the Italian World War I, set the location of the animated film in the Adriatic Sea, and tells the story of a pilot who,  [ Read More ]

Alberto Camerini – New Age Club (TV) 26.02.11 The revival wave of the 80s in these years is hitting Italy with unusual power. Actually, you can go to an alternative squat crowded with left-activists, anarchists, punks, rockers and all sort of people dancing Kobra by Donatella Rettore or La Notte Vola by Lorella Cuccarini. For  [ Read More ]

Joan Wasser, alias Joan As Police Woman, has lots of good reasons to follow her. This lovely madame of contemporary-songwriting and rock in pink, is considered one of the most influent woman singers of today, adding of being, in the early ‘90s, the beloved girlfriend of Jeff Buckley. That would be enough to love her,  [ Read More ]