London rockers Palma Violets have premiered their new video for the track Rattlesnake Highway, taken off their debut album 180 (out now on Rough Trade Records). The video, in black and white and using live footage which cements Palma Violets reputation as one of the most exciting live bands around, was directed by Douglas Hart; […]
Danish band Efterklang, since forming in 2001, have produced consistently critically acclaimed, exciting and adventurous albums (including Tripper, Magic Chairs, and Parades), collaborated with film-makers and orchestras, and have driven pigeon-hole-placers demented; their music has been variously described as post-rock, dream pop, neoclassical dark wave, electronic, glitch, ethereal wave or even indie-folk-pop all of which […]
Director Myles O’Reilly, of the award winning Arbutus Yarns, whose work has included atmospheric video pieces for Irish artists like Lisa Hannigan, Glen Hansard, Villagers, and Katie Kim, has published a new video online for the up-and-coming band Come On Live Long, shot during the band’s performance at this year’s Electric Picnic festival. Dublin based […]
It’s been widely reported over the last couple of years that Irish actor Brendan Gleeson is working on turning Flann O’Brien’s 1939 comic novel At-Swim-Two-Birds into a film. Gleeson took an option on the book in 2004, and has spent years working on the project. In 2011 it was reported that financing had been secured for […]
Ed Kowalczyk, as former front man of the American rock band Live, has been responsible for some of the biggest and best known rock anthems of the ’90s. Songs like I Alone, Selling the Drama, Lightning Crashes, and Lakini’s Juice brilliantly mixed hard rock, melody and a lyricism that struck a chord with a generation. […]
Viola di Grado is one of Italy’s most exciting and critically acclaimed new authors. Her debut novel Settanta acrilico trenta lana – published in english under the title 70% acrylic 30% wool – won the prestigious Premio Campiello Opera Prima prize (Previous winners include Alessandro Piperno and Paolo Giordano), and her second novel Cuore Cavo […]
Nobel laureate for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa is interviewed in the weekend edition of Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper, on the occasion of the Italian publication of his book La civilización del espectáculo (in Italian La civiltà dello spettacolo). His short book/pamphlet – not to be confused with Guy deBord’s The Society of the Spectacle – warns in […]
What do you think of when you think of Richard Nixon? Watergate, Vietnam, the televised debates with John .F. Kennedy? or perhaps you imagine the sweating, nervous, paranoiac portrayed by Antony Hopkins in Oliver Stone’s biopic Nixon? Images that emphasise his failures, that suggest a man unfit to be President, a villain and one thus […]
Heartless Bastards, the band centred around the songwriting and vocal talents of Erika Wennerstrom, have been recording and touring for more than ten years now (they were signed to Fat Possum records back in 2004 after a demo was passed on by Patrick Carney of the Black Keys), but have only come to TMO’s attention […]
