Tag Archive | "music"

Translation Please – The Vertigo Quartet

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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I wrote about the new release of the Vertigo Quartet, that hep young foursome from Belgium about a month ago.  Since then, I’ve been able to get hold of a copy of this production, and it sure is no letdown. The package consists of four tracks, ranging from the extremely short to the quite longish.  [...]

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The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

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“We are pleased to present a world first; Neil Gaiman reading aloud the previously unreleased story “The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains”,in the spectacular surrounds of the Concert Hall at Sydney Opera House. We have commissioned the renowned artist Eddie Campbell to illustrate the story, while FourPlay String Quartet have been commissioned [...]

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Somersault – tears in my beer

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Enjoy a Hank Williams collection, remixed by DJ Somersault: (Somersault is (c) Richard Cowdry; if you want to reproduce any part of it you should ask him first; you can see the larger version and all of the previous episodes  archived here)

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Prints of Darkness

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

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Malcy Duff gives us a heads-up to a new exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers studio and gallery, which includes album cover artwork by eleven Scottish artists, including Malcy. The exhibition runs at the Printmakers on 23 Union Street, Edinburgh, until September 4th; check the site for more details of the exhibition and various related events.

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Who at Glastonbury

Monday, June 28, 2010

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For those who missed it late last night on the BBC’s coverage, here’s a clearly delighted Matt Smith strutting his funky Time Lord stuff on the stage with Orbital at Glastonbury as they perform the Doctor Who theme. Fab!

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Hewlett, Albarn and Moore collaborating on opera

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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You might remember a few months back (see here) I mentioned that BBC radio announced Alan More was to collaborate with Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn on an opera, with Moore writing the libretto, but there were no more details at the time. Now some more information has come out, with Albarn telling the media [...]

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Space, the final frontier…

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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I know a lot of my fellow science ficiton geeks are as fascinated by real life space exploration as we are by the fictional; the BBC site has a wonderful five minute slideshow of some of the finest deep space images produced over the last twenty years by the Hubble Space Telescope (is it really [...]

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Caprica on piano

Monday, March 29, 2010

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A friend forwarded me a link to a YouTube posting by a colleague of his, Torley, who has taken composer Bear McCreary’s haunting music for Caprica and created a really nice keyboard tutorial on how to play it; his interpretation is really rather good and I like the graphic displaying the key sequences, very handy [...]

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Boba Fett busker

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Now this guy has class – a busking accordion player in the New York subway, wearing a Boba Fett helmet. Bounty hunting Boba Fett busker? It’s mad but true – I love it when real life throws up something wonderfully weird like this in an everyday location, it makes life that little bit more magical. [...]

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Japanese ukulele animation

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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I love this short but really cute Japanese stop motion animated ukulele player piece! (via BoingBoing)

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Music, comics and puppets

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Writer and artist Kevin Colden tells us that there’s a party night at Bergen Street Comics on Bergen Street (unsurprisingly!) in Brooklyn at 8pm on February 12th to celebrate a new video fromCulture Pop Productions‘ Carlos Molina and Seth Kushner (who’s superb photos of comics creators grace NYC Graphic). Its a music video for band [...]

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Metaphrog have comics workshop in Glasgow this weekend

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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John and Sandra, the shiny duo behind Metaphrog comics, have a comics workshop this weekend in one of the my very favourite Glasgow institutions, the wonderful Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum (as seen in Denise Mina’s run on Hellblazer, although now mostly demon free). From the description: “Learn how they make their own Louis graphic [...]

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Hype Machines Top 50 artists of 2009 – with pretty pictures….

Saturday, January 16, 2010

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Hype Machine is music website that links to a huge assortment of music blogs. They’ve recently posted up their top 50 artists of 2009, depending on how often they were listed on the site. But what makes it of interest here is the decision to commission 50 artists to accompany each entry. And there are [...]

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Classic rock art

Thursday, January 7, 2010

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The Royal Mail has produced a set of stamps celebrating the classic artwork of  rock and pop albums from the last four decades, with art from cover sleeves of works like pink Floyd’s Division Bell, Led Zepplin IV, the Rolling Stones’ Let it Bleed and Blur’s Park Life being among the cover designs chosen for [...]

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Best of the Year: Ian Rankin’s selection

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

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Today’s blog guest for the Best of the Year was also a recent guest in our Edinburgh store where he signed copies of his debut graphic novel, Dark Entries. Creator of the internationally bestselling Inspector Rebus novels and a regular on shows like Late Night Review and the Culture Show, as well as stout supporter [...]

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