A band from Wicklow are currently tearing up the Toronto music scene and the blogs. Nightbox are unknown here but are signed to the same label as Two Door Cinema Club, the uber-cool French label Kitsuné. The link is obvious, as their debut single Pyramid suggests a kinship in indie-disco sound. Production by members of MSTRKFT and Death From Above 1979 can’t hurt either.
Listen at Exclaim.
Pitchfork’s sister site Altered Zones pointed us to the album The Caretaker With An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by British composer The Caretaker. The album takes its inspiration from Alzheimer’s disease and the effect it has on the mind. Keeping with that theme, the music is drawn from old 78RPM records of ballroom music which disintegrate with static as the songs progress.
In the same week, that the Icelandic artist debuts new material in Manchester, Björk has also released the first song from her forthcoming multimedia album Biophilia. The song, ‘Crystalline’, is notable for its multiple layers of percussion and a drum and bass outro.
Recorded for True Blood’s fourth series, Nick Cave and Neko Case duet on The Zombies’ classic She’s Not There. Next stop. The campaign to get Cave on screen as a werewolf in Bon Temps Listen at KCRW.
Yeasayer – Madder Red
The New Yorkers third video from Odd Blood sees actress Kristen Bell take the lead role alongside a gross amorphous pet blob.
Nick Cave’s rejected Gladiator 2 screenplay
Apparently Nick Cave was once asked by Russell Crowe to write a sequel to Gladiator. Cave’s plan to bring back the Maximus character back from the dead involved reincarnating him forever so he can fight in World War II and Vietnam. OK…
http://tinyurl.com/gladcave
The story of Comic Sans
The world’s most annoying typeface gets a historical back story.
http://tinyurl.com/comicfont
The Worst Movies of all time
The painful quest from Videogum.com to find the worst movies of all time takes in the excruciating entries Bicentennial Man, Bulworth, Alexander and Lady in the Water.
http://tinyurl.com/worstmovsever
