The Gorillaz just released this gorgeous animated trailer for their long-awaited Demon Days follow-up Plastic Beach, which is set to drop March 9.
A trailer? For a LP? Oh, Gorillaz, you so crazy.
The Gorillaz launch a trailer for their upcoming LP
February 8, 2010 by The Mixtresson SNL this week, cracking me up
February 8, 2010 by The MixtressWhat happens when your dad’s punk band reunites to play your wedding…
http://www.hulu.com/watch/126479/saturday-night-live-band-reunion-at-the-wedding#s-p1-sr-i1
(no embed, boo)
Tivoli’s Model One radio
February 7, 2010 by The MixtressAt $149.99 I feel like this is a steal.
With a tuner that brings clarity to many of the weakest stations, the Model One radio begins with a handmade wood cabinet that is both beautiful and the ideal acoustically inert speaker housing. A heavy-magnet, long-throw driver is mated to a frequency contouring circuit that automatically adjusts output over half-octave increments, resulting in musically accurate tonal balance and bass response. “When your stereophile loved ones turn the knob on the rock-solid Henry Kloss Model One Table Radio, they’ll toss out all their multiuse, Bluetooth-enabled gadgets and cry with hi-fi joy.” (Elle)
(and yes, it’s compatible with your iPod!)
2010 Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concert series at Royal Albert Hall
February 7, 2010 by The Mixtress
Through concert series with big-name headliners, the Royal Albert Hall in London has been helping support the Teenage Cancer Trust, “a charity devoted to improving the lives of teenagers and young adults with cancer”. This has been a regular partnership for the last 10 years, and for this year, the line-up is extra-special to celebrate the milestone of having passed a decade with this common, important goal in mind. This age group that the TCT targets is one in the UK that is severely overlooked and under-funded, and each show brings necessary attention and money to the cause.
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This year’s confirmed lineup and schedule (subject to change):
FEBRUARY 17th: Depeche Mode/The Horrors — SOLD OUT
MARCH 22nd: Them Crooked Vultures
MARCH 23rd: COMEDY NIGHT: Jimmy Carr, Noel Fielding and Rhod Gilbert
MARCH 24th: Suede
MARCH 25th and 26th: Noel Gallagher
MARCH 27th: Arctic Monkeys
MARCH 28th: JLS
MARCH 29th: The Specials
MARCH 30th: The Who
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Tickets are available through the following sites:
www.seetickets.com/tct
www.royalalberthall.com
www.gigsandtours.com
Bell Biv Dafoe
February 7, 2010 by The Mixtress
See what they did there? ahaha.
Kings of Leon brothers get their dad into rehab
February 6, 2010 by The Mixtress
[ Ivan, (mom) BettyAnn, Nathan, Caleb and Jared Followill -- the early years ]
Ivan “Leon” Followill, former Pentecostal minister and the estranged father of Kings of Leon members Nathan, Caleb and Jared, reportedly entered rehab in December after his sons staged an intervention.
Says an insider: “Their dad lives in Oklahoma and had fallen on hard times, working part-time as a house painter. He’s had a terrible drinking problem on and off for years but he didn’t have the money to get treatment — and he couldn’t bring himself to ask his boys for help.”
Nathan, Caleb and Jared, after hearing that their dad was “literally close to death”, funded treatment and aftercare and Followill is now getting the help he needs.
Lui print by blancucha on Etsy
February 6, 2010 by The Mixtress
If there’s such a thing as love…
February 5, 2010 by The MixtressThe Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs”, the vinyl box set. Yesplease.
The limited-edition box set includes: all 69 love songs remastered for vinyl on six 10″ vinyl records housed in a super-sized 69 Love Songs box with a 10″ version of the original booklet featuring liner notes written by Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler. The boxset also contains a download coupon for the full remastered album download.
Preorder the $89.99 set today at Merge Records…orders should ship on or around the April 20th release date.
Dirk Fowler’s The Books concert poster
February 4, 2010 by The Mixtress
19×25 inches, from The Books’ 4/10/09 performance at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Minimalist and playful, Dirk Fowler’s limited-edition (signed) letterpress concert poster is available here, at postercabaret.com. $40.
1991 flashback…
February 3, 2010 by The MixtressPaula Abdul’s “MC Skat Kat and The Stray Mob” from the “Opposites Attract” video…
“the hippest cats in town now have their own album”
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