As horror fans, we are constantly seeking out the new and the different. Because the genre is marked by so much sameness—sequels, franchises, remakes, copies of copies—it can sometimes be a challenge to find those horror films that truly carve out their own space. They don’t even have to be great movies, necessarily; many times, “different” is enough to make us happy.
With that in mind, here are 10 horror movies currently available on the terrific streaming service Shudder that are, if nothing else, different from almost anything else you’ll watch this October. They vary in quality from title to title, but what even the roughest among them lacks in technical polish, it more than makes up for in sheer maniac insanity. After you’ve cycled through all your favorites this October, why not add a little Wtf to your lineup?
1. Beyond the Darkness (1979, dir. Joe D...
With that in mind, here are 10 horror movies currently available on the terrific streaming service Shudder that are, if nothing else, different from almost anything else you’ll watch this October. They vary in quality from title to title, but what even the roughest among them lacks in technical polish, it more than makes up for in sheer maniac insanity. After you’ve cycled through all your favorites this October, why not add a little Wtf to your lineup?
1. Beyond the Darkness (1979, dir. Joe D...
- 10/5/2017
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Wild Beasts Announce Split in Breakup Letter...
- 9/26/2017
- Pastemagazine.com
Mondo has some eerie tunes in store for your ears this week, as they'll be releasing the vinyl scores for Wild Beasts and The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, and gamers may be pleased to know that the soundtrack for the original Castlevania video game is also back in stock:
From Mondo: "Hey All - this week we have an Italian feast for you featuring the first-ever release of animals-gone-amok score for Wild Beasts and a much asked for repress of The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. Both future the wild psychedelic art of Luke Insect who has absolutely killed it with these two releases. We also have represses of Castlevania, Streets Of Rage 2, and restocks of the Mad Max Trilogy 3Xlp and The Fly by Varese Sarabande!
As usual, new releases go on sale Wednesdays at 12Pm (Ct) at mondotees.com.
Death Waltz
Wild Beasts - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP.
From Mondo: "Hey All - this week we have an Italian feast for you featuring the first-ever release of animals-gone-amok score for Wild Beasts and a much asked for repress of The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue. Both future the wild psychedelic art of Luke Insect who has absolutely killed it with these two releases. We also have represses of Castlevania, Streets Of Rage 2, and restocks of the Mad Max Trilogy 3Xlp and The Fly by Varese Sarabande!
As usual, new releases go on sale Wednesdays at 12Pm (Ct) at mondotees.com.
Death Waltz
Wild Beasts - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP.
- 8/30/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
‘Death Note’ First Trailer: Adam Wingard Reimagines the Manga Series in Netflix Original Film
Funimation has released another trailer for Season 2 of the manga series, ‘Attack on Titan,’ in which giant beasts attack the city of Shinganshina and threaten to wipe out humankind. Here’s the official description of the series from IMDb.
After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Jaegar vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
Protecting what’s left of humanity are three walls — Wall Maria, Wall Rose and Wall Sheena — and after breaking through the first wall in season one, it appears that the second wall will also be breached in season two.
Seen in the clip are Eren, Mikasa and Armin fighting back and taking on the beasts, while a handful on new titans attack various Survey Corps.
Funimation has released another trailer for Season 2 of the manga series, ‘Attack on Titan,’ in which giant beasts attack the city of Shinganshina and threaten to wipe out humankind. Here’s the official description of the series from IMDb.
After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Jaegar vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.
Protecting what’s left of humanity are three walls — Wall Maria, Wall Rose and Wall Sheena — and after breaking through the first wall in season one, it appears that the second wall will also be breached in season two.
Seen in the clip are Eren, Mikasa and Armin fighting back and taking on the beasts, while a handful on new titans attack various Survey Corps.
- 3/25/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Horror and sci-fi fans have a big day of releases to look forward to on Tuesday, February 7th, as there over 20 titles coming home to Blu-ray and DVD. Paramount has put together the complete box set of the Penny Dreadful series on both formats, and the latest season of From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series arrives on both Blu-ray and DVD as well.
Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have teamed up for the release of Antibirth, which was an official selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Severin Films is resurrecting the cult classic Wild Beasts in HD, too.
Other notable releases for February 7th include Abattoir, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Dead West, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series, Recovery and Dr. Orloff’s Monster.
Antibirth (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu/DVD Combo)
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black...
Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have teamed up for the release of Antibirth, which was an official selection of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and Severin Films is resurrecting the cult classic Wild Beasts in HD, too.
Other notable releases for February 7th include Abattoir, The 9th Life of Louis Drax, Dead West, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series, Recovery and Dr. Orloff’s Monster.
Antibirth (Scream Factory/IFC Midnight, Blu/DVD Combo)
Hard-drinking, pill-popping, bong-ripping Lou (Natasha Lyonne, Orange In The New Black...
- 2/7/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
For his sole cinematic work of the past three decades, godfather Of Mondo Franco E. Prosperi (co-creator of Mondo Cane and Goodbye Uncle Tom) took on the ‘Nature Strikes Back’ genre and delivered perhaps the most shocking movie of his controversial career… Wild Beasts.
When Pcp gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome.
What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the- top ‘80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history. Lorraine De Selle (Cannibal Ferox, House at the Edge of the Park) and Ugo Bologna (Nightmare City) star in this disturbing urban bloodbath, now digitally remastered for the first time ever and bursting with all-new special features,...
When Pcp gets into the water supply of a city zoo, the drug-crazed beasts – including tigers, lions, cheetahs, hyenas and elephants, as well as seeing eye dogs and sewer rats – go berserk and rampage through the streets of Rome.
What follows is a terrifying mix of actual animal attacks (supervised by professional circus trainers) and over-the- top ‘80s Italian gore that remains the greatest eco-revenge shocker in EuroCult history. Lorraine De Selle (Cannibal Ferox, House at the Edge of the Park) and Ugo Bologna (Nightmare City) star in this disturbing urban bloodbath, now digitally remastered for the first time ever and bursting with all-new special features,...
- 1/10/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
For the last few years, I’ve taken it upon myself in my capacity as Sos co-founder and eternal DJ to gather up some of my favorite tracks of the year, along with excerpts of dialogue and scoring from some of my favorite films (and, this year, TV series!) of the year, and cram it into a mix that could fit onto a hypothetical CD-r. But since this has been the year of the mixtape (hello Guardians of the Galaxy, Mommy, and Boyhood), and since there’s been such an overwhelming bounty of great music to choose from, I opted for a “C120″ format – two “sides,” one hour each. Since non-film music is the one area of pop culture Sound on Sight will (hopefully) never devote a subsection to, it’s the one instance I allow myself every year to flex my geekery in this area.
Lots of really great...
Lots of really great...
- 12/22/2014
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
Charli Xcx has debuted a new song online.
The singer's new track 'Boom Clap' will feature on the soundtrack for upcoming film The Fault in Our Stars, which features Divergent actress Shailene Woodley.
Lykke Li's 'No One Ever Loved' is also included on the soundtrack, alongside the likes of Birdy and Grouplove.
Meanwhile, Charli Xcx and Iggy Azalea are on course to score a top five single with their collaboration 'Fancy' this weekend.
The 'I Love It' singer will take to the stage at Brighton's Great Escape festival, with Kelis, Example and Wild Beasts appearing as headliners.
The Fault in Our Stars will be released on June 6 in the Us and June 20 in the UK.
Watch a trailer for the film below:...
The singer's new track 'Boom Clap' will feature on the soundtrack for upcoming film The Fault in Our Stars, which features Divergent actress Shailene Woodley.
Lykke Li's 'No One Ever Loved' is also included on the soundtrack, alongside the likes of Birdy and Grouplove.
Meanwhile, Charli Xcx and Iggy Azalea are on course to score a top five single with their collaboration 'Fancy' this weekend.
The 'I Love It' singer will take to the stage at Brighton's Great Escape festival, with Kelis, Example and Wild Beasts appearing as headliners.
The Fault in Our Stars will be released on June 6 in the Us and June 20 in the UK.
Watch a trailer for the film below:...
- 4/12/2014
- Digital Spy
We preview the biggest music, movies and television of 2014
Music
After featuring on both of 2013's biggest singles, Pharrell will complete his comeback with a new solo album in the spring. Other big-name acts making a return include U2, the Black Keys, Stevie Wonder (twice), Beck, the Prodigy, Sean Paul and Glasto headliners elect Fleetwood Mac… Morrissey will hope to capitalise on the buzz surrounding his autobiography, while a third Stone Roses album remains a vague hope for next winter, though the prospect of new Blur material has been superseded by Damon Albarn's debut solo record… Kanye West will remain ubiquitous well into 2014 with a Yeezus follow-up already underway and a sequel to the Cruel Summer comp (called Cruel Winter, obvs) also on the slate. Sometime Kanye producer Hudson Mohawke is also readying his second solo album. Rap hook-writer du jour Future will finally release Honest in the spring,...
Music
After featuring on both of 2013's biggest singles, Pharrell will complete his comeback with a new solo album in the spring. Other big-name acts making a return include U2, the Black Keys, Stevie Wonder (twice), Beck, the Prodigy, Sean Paul and Glasto headliners elect Fleetwood Mac… Morrissey will hope to capitalise on the buzz surrounding his autobiography, while a third Stone Roses album remains a vague hope for next winter, though the prospect of new Blur material has been superseded by Damon Albarn's debut solo record… Kanye West will remain ubiquitous well into 2014 with a Yeezus follow-up already underway and a sequel to the Cruel Summer comp (called Cruel Winter, obvs) also on the slate. Sometime Kanye producer Hudson Mohawke is also readying his second solo album. Rap hook-writer du jour Future will finally release Honest in the spring,...
- 1/4/2014
- by Sam Richards, Gwilym Mumford, Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Upstream Color
Composed by Shane Carruth
erbp
February 20, 2013
There’s an ostensibly incomprehensible quality about Shane Carruth’s work that initially makes it difficult to write about. There’s also a genuine and earnest desire to be heard and understood that makes grappling his output irresistible. Where this is true of his films, it’s also true of his score for Upstream Color, a nebulous concoction of synthetic sounds and ponderous rhythms that reflect the filmmaker’s fondness for technology and the more enigmatic aspects of our world.
This description may make the music sound inaccessible, but it’s not. Carruth’s score for Upstream Color is actually more interested in finding its own interpretation of beauty than alienating the listener. However, reviewing the music for Upstream Color proves a distinct challenge in that it doesn’t follow the traditional narrative structure of most film scores. It instead consists of...
Composed by Shane Carruth
erbp
February 20, 2013
There’s an ostensibly incomprehensible quality about Shane Carruth’s work that initially makes it difficult to write about. There’s also a genuine and earnest desire to be heard and understood that makes grappling his output irresistible. Where this is true of his films, it’s also true of his score for Upstream Color, a nebulous concoction of synthetic sounds and ponderous rhythms that reflect the filmmaker’s fondness for technology and the more enigmatic aspects of our world.
This description may make the music sound inaccessible, but it’s not. Carruth’s score for Upstream Color is actually more interested in finding its own interpretation of beauty than alienating the listener. However, reviewing the music for Upstream Color proves a distinct challenge in that it doesn’t follow the traditional narrative structure of most film scores. It instead consists of...
- 3/15/2013
- by Jeremy Caesar
- SoundOnSight
Wild Beasts have confirmed details of an intimate show in London next month. The band will play the 200-capacity Lexington on Friday, December 7, where they will perform their third album Smother in its entirety. Members of the public who want to enter a ticket ballot for the show can do so via the band's official website. The draw will close on Monday, December 3 at 9am, after which (more)...
- 11/29/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
As announced a year or so ago, the pint-sized Senegalese hero Kirikou is returning for yet another animated adventure titled Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes (Kirikou And The Men And Women) - this, however, will be the first film in the franchise to be produced in stereoscopic 3D, a format French director Michel Ocelot used for the first time on Tales of the Night (2011). This is the third installment of a trilogy which began with the universally-acclaimed Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), and continued with Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005). Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes is scheduled to reach France screens on February 13, 2013,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
A quick recap... the pint-sized Senegalese hero Kirikou is returning for yet another animated adventure titled Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes (Kirikou And The Men And Women) - this, however, will be the first film in the franchise to be produced in stereoscopic 3D, a format French director Michel Ocelot used for the first time on Tales of the Night (2011). This is the third installment of a trilogy which began with the universally-acclaimed Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), and continued with Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005). Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes is scheduled to reach France screens on February 13, 2013, starring our...
- 8/10/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
As announced a year or so ago, the pint-sized Senegalese hero Kirikou is returning for yet another animated adventure titled Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes (Kirikou And The Men And Women) - this, however, will be the first film in the franchise to be produced in stereoscopic 3D, a format French director Michel Ocelot used for the first time on Tales of the Night (2011). This is the third installment of a trilogy which began with the universally-acclaimed Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), and continued with Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005). Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes is scheduled to reach France screens on February 13, 2013,...
- 8/3/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
The seventh Latitude Festival kicked off at Henham Park, Suffolk on Thursday (July 12), and the likes of Lana Del Rey, Janelle Monae, Bon Iver and Metronomy have already performed sets to soggy revellers in the picturesque Sunrise Coast setting. The festival, which brings music, comedy, art and literature together in a four-day event, will also see sets from Elbow, Paul Weller, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts and M83. Comedians (more)...
- 7/14/2012
- by By Paul Martinovic
- Digital Spy
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Give me a D! Give me an E! Give me a…. Ok basically I was going to spell Demos but the repetition would probably have gotten on your nerves. So, getting to the point, Demos – the starting point of any aspiring group, artist or producer. They are your buzz-maker, your informal greeting and your slightly awkward bio page all rolled in to one. If an artist is going to progress in to the realms of Major-Label-Dom (or if one is too hipster for this thou shalt aim towards Respected-Indie-Label-Dom) then the demos have to be top-notch or at least demonstrate some noticeable potential.
Therefore say a welcoming H.E.L.L.O to music newcomers, Cheerleaders (hence all my earlier letter-based chant efforts). For starters they’re a three piece outfit based in Leeds, a city that’s sprung forth a whole plethora of indie/alt...
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Give me a D! Give me an E! Give me a…. Ok basically I was going to spell Demos but the repetition would probably have gotten on your nerves. So, getting to the point, Demos – the starting point of any aspiring group, artist or producer. They are your buzz-maker, your informal greeting and your slightly awkward bio page all rolled in to one. If an artist is going to progress in to the realms of Major-Label-Dom (or if one is too hipster for this thou shalt aim towards Respected-Indie-Label-Dom) then the demos have to be top-notch or at least demonstrate some noticeable potential.
Therefore say a welcoming H.E.L.L.O to music newcomers, Cheerleaders (hence all my earlier letter-based chant efforts). For starters they’re a three piece outfit based in Leeds, a city that’s sprung forth a whole plethora of indie/alt...
- 7/10/2012
- by Josh Webb
- Obsessed with Film
Wild Beasts have been confirmed as the headline act at this year's Beacons Festival. Organisers of the annual music event, which takes place from August 17 until 19 at Funkirk Estate in the Yorkshire Dales, recently announced that Jessie Ware and Frankie and the Heartstrings will also be playing at the festival. The Beacons Festival Twitter page read: "We are more than delighted to announce that the incredible Mercury Prize Nominees @WildBeasts will be our Saturday night headliner!" The band later took to their page on the microblogging site, writing: "We're late in announcing this, but we're playing the new, excellent Beacons festival this year @Beaconsfest." The event will also feature acts such as Junior Boys, Errors, Factory Floor, Jane Coles and Roots Manuva. Last year's Beacons Festival was (more)...
- 3/19/2012
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
Elbow, Paul Weller, and Bon Iver will headline this year's Latitude Festival. The 2012 music event at Henham Park, Suffolk will take place on the weekend of July 12-15. The Horrors, Laura Marling, Wild Beasts and White Lies are among the 60-plus acts that have been confirmed so far. Professor Brian Cox will present BBC Radio 4's science programme The Infinite Monkey Cage during the event, while classical pianist Lang Lang will make his outdoor festival debut. Jack Dee, Tim Minchin and Reginald D Hunter are among the comedy performers, while Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, Thomas Dolby and Buena Vista Social Club will also appear. Michael Kiwanuka, Simple Minds, Bat for Lashes, M83, Lloyd Cole and Metronomy are also among the (more)...
- 3/5/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
As announced a year or so ago, the tiny Senegalese hero Kirikou is returning for yet another animated adventure titled Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes (Kirikou And The Men And Women). Director Michel Ocelot is currently working on the third installment of a trilogy which began with the universally-acclaimed Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), and continued with Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005). Notably, this will be the first film in the franchise to be produced in stereoscopic 3D, a format Ocelot used for the first time on Tales of the Night. Kirikou et les hommes et les femmes is scheduled to reach French screens on February 13, 2013, and I'm looking forward to yet another sumptuous piece of animation starring our brave tiny hero, using his wits and speed to thwart evil Sorcery and save his village from supernatural and environmental perils. Co-written by the director with Bénédicte Galup, Susie Morgenstern and Cendrine.
- 2/24/2012
- by Tambay
- Indiewire
Lady GaGa has released another remix of her new single. The re-worked version of the star's latest track 'You And I' has been produced by electronic music group Metronomy. The remix is a stripped back version of the song, keeping GaGa's vocal but replacing the instrumental with electronic synths and organs. The Metronomy reworking of the track follows a remix by Wild Beasts which premiered online last week. Metronomy (more)...
- 8/31/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
The Observer's critics pick the season's highlights, from Degas to Depp, and Britney to the Bard
September
1 Theatre: Decade In a former trading hall on London's St Katharine Docks, Rupert Goold's production evokes the legacy of 9/11, with the help of Simon Schama and Abi Morgan. Until 15 October.
4 Pop: Adele After her summer to die for (No1 album, ubiquitous single), Adele starts her UK tour in Plymouth. She's in London on the 19th and 20th and ends in Glasgow (25).
6 Dance: Tezuka New evening-length piece by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, inspired by the work of renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka. Starring Daniel Proietto, the piece features a specially commissioned score by Nitin Sawhney. At Sadler's Wells until 10 September.
8 Pop: Bestival The Isle of Wight weekender always has a hefty line-up: this yearboasts new kids James Blake and Odd Future alongside the Cure, Brian Wilson and Björk.
9 Theatre: We are Three Sisters...
September
1 Theatre: Decade In a former trading hall on London's St Katharine Docks, Rupert Goold's production evokes the legacy of 9/11, with the help of Simon Schama and Abi Morgan. Until 15 October.
4 Pop: Adele After her summer to die for (No1 album, ubiquitous single), Adele starts her UK tour in Plymouth. She's in London on the 19th and 20th and ends in Glasgow (25).
6 Dance: Tezuka New evening-length piece by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, inspired by the work of renowned Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka. Starring Daniel Proietto, the piece features a specially commissioned score by Nitin Sawhney. At Sadler's Wells until 10 September.
8 Pop: Bestival The Isle of Wight weekender always has a hefty line-up: this yearboasts new kids James Blake and Odd Future alongside the Cure, Brian Wilson and Björk.
9 Theatre: We are Three Sisters...
- 8/27/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Lady GaGa's upcoming single 'You And I' has been remixed by Wild Beasts. The Born This Way track has been completely reworked by the English band, with their version featuring just one lyric from the original. Listen to the Wild Beasts remix of Lady GaGa's 'You And I' below: The band's Hayden Thorpe told The Guardian: "The unlikeness of this match was perhaps what compelled us to take it on. GaGa in many ways is the epitome of what we are not. "She is the butcher to our butter knife. The essential thrill is always to keep (more)...
- 8/23/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Despite sharing their name with the term celebrity journalists apply to anyone who's ever been in television or film, the band Stars has carved out a large following. Anyone familiar with the Canadian band's blend of soothing melodies and haunting lyrics knows why: There are simply very few acts with male and female vocalists as well-matched as Amy Millan and Torquil Campbell.
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
The music that Stars has been making over the past decade is spare and nimble, intimate yet incredibly tense. In interviews with The Huffington Post, Campbell and Millan described their sound and looked back over 10 years full of albums and tours.
"I think we're interested in space in music," Campbell said. "We're trying to make something that simultaneously feels cold and distant and intimate or secretive, like some secret you happen upon."
The band is currently writing and recording at Mount Zoomer studios in Montreal, where Wolf Parade...
- 7/27/2011
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
Adele has revealed her delight at being nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2011. The 'Set Fire To The Rain' singer explained that she found out she had received the nomination yesterday while travelling back from France. "im unbelievable chuffed to be nominated for the mercury. thank you so so much, totally unexpected i found out yesterday on my way home from paris. congratulations to all the other nominees too (sic)," Adele said on her official blog. The 23-year-old songwriter also gave a thought for indie rock band Wild Beasts, whose third album Smother failed to get a nomination, (more)...
- 7/20/2011
- by By Lewis Corner
- Digital Spy
In the realm of niche-y subgenres, baroque pop is one of the more difficult to expand upon. Marked by a flair for the theatrical and general drama-kid sensibilities, it’s a novel style, but a reductive one. Credit England’s Wild Beasts for continuing to inject the oft-stagnant formula with some much-needed sex. Not that they peddle in overheated smut: On the contrary—the group’s third album, Smother, is most notable for its icy restraint. It’s all build-up and little release. The opener, “Lion’s Share,” is a jarring crash course in the band’s hypnotic, circular soundscapes ...
- 5/24/2011
- avclub.com
Adele's 21 continues to hold its grip on the Irish album chart. The globally-successful LP remains at number one, while her debut collection slips one place to three. Ryan Sheridan is the highest new entry as The Day You Live Forever debuts at two. The Glee cast debut at number eight with the latest collection of tracks from the popular series, this time coming from The Warblers. Following on from a recent episode of the musical drama, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours LP continues to climb the chart, this week moving up from 30 to 15. New entries this week include: Sade's The Ultimate Collection at number 12, Hugh Laurie's Let Them Talk at 14 and Wild Beasts' Smother at 22. Among this week's notable climbers are Kings of Leon, whose Come Around (more)...
- 5/16/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
The best of your comments on the latest film and music
Was there something in the water last week? Were readers just feeling in a recitative mood? Because a fair number of people seemed inspired to cite lyrics on the comments threads beneath our Beastie Boys and Nirvana features. The Beasties thread, in particular, turned into a list of favourite lyrics, but both copyright laws and the level of likely public interest militate against their reproduction here.
On the Nirvana thread, once the quotes from In Bloom and Smells Like Teen Spirit were out of the way, talk turned to what a nice man Krist Novoselic, the band's bassist, evidently was, and to a discussion about whether Nirvana would have faded away had Kurt Cobain not killed himself. "Part of the enigma that is Nirvana is that we only know Cobain as an angst-ridden twentysomething," wrote ChasnDave. "Had he lived,...
Was there something in the water last week? Were readers just feeling in a recitative mood? Because a fair number of people seemed inspired to cite lyrics on the comments threads beneath our Beastie Boys and Nirvana features. The Beasties thread, in particular, turned into a list of favourite lyrics, but both copyright laws and the level of likely public interest militate against their reproduction here.
On the Nirvana thread, once the quotes from In Bloom and Smells Like Teen Spirit were out of the way, talk turned to what a nice man Krist Novoselic, the band's bassist, evidently was, and to a discussion about whether Nirvana would have faded away had Kurt Cobain not killed himself. "Part of the enigma that is Nirvana is that we only know Cobain as an angst-ridden twentysomething," wrote ChasnDave. "Had he lived,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe has revealed that he feels "really empowered" by the fact that people are listening to their music. In an interview with The Quietus, Thorpe explained that the success of their second album Two Dancers enabled the band to be "dynamic and daring" on its successor Smother. He said: "We had a few options, one being to get faster and louder... I heard someone coin the phrase, 'Make a Three Dancers'. But we wanted to be more dynamic and daring. "We felt really empowered by knowing that people were listening, and if you know people are listening you can be a bit more subtle and a bit (more)...
- 5/12/2011
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
On their third LP Smother, pensive synth crooners Wild Beasts brood with haunting introspection and stunning uncertainty, evoking emotion in a heartrending manner similar to the way that fellow Brit Antony Hegarty does so well. This is the kind of record that’s best heard alone or away from your daily distractions. If you give Smother the focused listen it deservea, there’s a strong chance that this Wild Beasts’ record will move you, or at the very least send chills down your spine through its dark nature....
- 5/2/2011
- Pastemagazine.com
Joanna Newsom has been confirmed as a headliner of this year's End Of The Road Festival. The singer-songwriter joins fellow headliners Beirut and Mogwai. Also performing at the North Dorset festival, which takes place from September 2 to September 4, are Midlake, Laura Marling and The Walkmen. Other artists confirmed for the event include Wild Beasts, The Fall, Lykke Li, Gruff Rhys, (more)...
- 3/18/2011
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
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