Last week, Pitchfork counted down its Top 200 albums of the 2000s as voted on by the Web sites staff. Lists can be great fun and great frustration, but Ill admit that this is the one decade-ender Ive been salivating over. Pitchforks influence may be exaggerated, but as the site itself has noted, it grew up during this decade, alongside the rise of the MP3, file sharing, and multiple shifts in the dominant sound of whatever “indie rock” might have been at a given point in the last 10 years.
Go eyeball to eyeball with demented musical hubris in Ondi Timoner’s fantastic documentary, Dig!, a portrait of Anton Newcombe, founder of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Currently being shown in its entirety on Pitchfork TV.
The critically acclaimed series from Isabella Rossellini is back with a new batch of very short films about the reproductive habits of marine animals. GREEN PORNO is scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining. Produced by Isabella Rossellini, Jody Shapiro and Rick Gilbert.
BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow.
The band have very strict guidelines governing the recording and writing process of their work. The music was recorded live in one room with no overdubs or repair, only using edits to create arrangements. All tracks were written over a twelve-day session in SOA Studio’s, Bristol. The album is to be released on Invada Records UK and Europe.
The jackassworld pranks application allows you to screw up the desktops of your dumb little buddies with help from the cast of jackass. From sending dick-brands and poo grenades to having Steve-O puke on their screen, being friends over a social network has never been more fun.