Citadel poster first to utilize revolutionary Aurasma app
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Citadel, a movie filmed in Scotland by director Ciarán Foy, makes its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival this weekend. The awesome poster for it makes use of ‘the revolutionary new Aurasma app‘. How does it work? Simple: ‘just hold your Android up to the poster and it will reveal exclusive clips from the [...]
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Bass Culture: celebrating reggae and British music at SXSW
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Roll on Bass Culture at SXSW. It’s all about celebrating the influence of reggae on British music as Natty, Little Roy, Rasites, Lady Leshurr, BBC 1Xtra’s Robbo Ranx and more hit the road. The first stop is the world famous and strong contender for my favourite gathering of all time: the SXSW festival in Austin.
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Filz Felt: an eco felt company
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When I think of felt, I think of the wee furry animals we played with in junior school. But now we’re all grown up, we can still enjoy felt, thanks to this Boston-based eco felt company. They makes choice custom home décor for your office or lounge that’s both sustainable and biodegradable. My cats approve [...]
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Ffunny Ffrends (live at SXSW)
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra has the goods. A talented singer, guitarist and songwriter, Ruban Nielson’s playful masterpiece of a debut is already sitting in ?uestlove, El-P, and Das Racist’s crates.
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Luke Rathborne
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We’re digging the conflicting tones in New York songwriter Luke Rathbornes’ music: sunnyside up melodies jarring with a melancholic minor key discourse. It’s a compelling mix and one which catapulted him to adoration on the back of a scintillating performance at this year’s SXSW in Austin. Check out his new single You Let Me In [...]
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TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb
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Philly up-and-comers TJ Kong and the Atomic Bomb are making waves with the release of their new album, Idiots. I recently met one of my oldest friends, Kevin Conner (who is playing guitar in the group), in Austin to see them perform at South By Southwest. I’m looking forward to watching them catch onto the [...]
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Finn Riggin’s video for their single Dali
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The brand new video for Finn Riggin’s Dali is awesome. It premiered yesterday over at Magnet Magazine and caps off the band’s whirlwind year where they spent the majority of the year blowing minds at SXSW, before looping the country on a full US tour.
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Marwencol: Grand Jury prize winning documentary
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With so many faux-documentaries out there, you’d think that the real world wasn’t interesting anymore. But Marwencol proves otherwise. After a brutal attack left him with brain damage, Mark Hogancamp created a bizarre and wonderful 1/6-scale Barbie-sized world in his backyard that has to be seen to be believed. The film won the Grand Jury [...]
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Cassette Kids
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We checked in with Sydney-band Cassette Kids, who have been creating quite a buzz of late, and asked them about the highlights of their extensive touring over the past six months: ‘We literally just stepped off a plane from LA. We played at SXSW in Austin over the last week and it has probably been the most awesome experience to date. It’s amazing being able to play shows and go and see shows non-stop over five days’.
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Chew Lips video for their song Karen
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Having blown away the recent SXSW Music Festival in Austin, two weeks ago, London-based electro-pop trio Chew Lips now have a new album to drive. Unicorn was produced by Dave Kosten (Bat for Lashes) and features impeccably-executed guitar pop that veers from grinding electro-grooves to fevered howls of beat-heavy R&B, all reflected in the first [...]
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A Place To Bury Strangers’ Secret Playlist
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Called ‘the most ear-shatteringly loud garage/shoegaze band you’ll ever hear’ by the Washington Post, A Place To Bury Strangers were named by NME as one of the Ten Best Bands of SXSW 2008. Their debut release earned them a Best New Music distinction and they have toured with the likes of Nine Inch Nails, MGMT, and Holy F**k. They launched their Secret Playlist with the All The Saints track, Farmacia [listen below]: ‘All The Saints is one of those bands that just writes some of the most bad-ass parts on the planet and this is one of those songs where the drums are beating like a machine gun as waves of noise build up, only to drag you down. You end up feeling uncomfortable and wanting to kick someone’s ass’.
[audio:http://ohmpark.com/promo/mix7/03%20Farmacia.mp3]
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Boy Eats Drum Machine en route to SXSW
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Jon Ragel takes the stage as Boy Eats Drum Machine, with a saxophone, turntable, microphone, sampler and green tom drum. He’ll be touring all over the West of America on his way to SXSW in March with his deliciously proggy power trio labelmates, Finn Riggins. [audio:http://riotactmedia.com/mp3/Hoop+Wire.mp3]
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Scanners’ We Never Close Our Eyes
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London-based Scanners will be dropping their Stephen Hague (New Order) produced sophomore album, Submarine, next week on Dim Mak. The band are then headed to South by Southwest. We have a free download of their second single, We Never Close Our Eyes [listen here] in our Music Download section [psst, it's in the third column [...]
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The Asteroids Galaxy Tour tour the US
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Copenhagen group, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, will be crossing the Atlantic this March for their first US tour of the year, blasting out their unique fusion of happy soul and kaleidoscopic pop. The tour will kick off at Philadelphia’s Kung Fu Necktie, followed by stops in DC, NYC, San Diego, LA, San Francisco, and band [...]
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The Middle East
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Don’t be fooled: The Middle East actually hail from Queensland, Australia, where their mini-album, The Recordings Of The Middle East, was originally self released 2008 before the always hip record label Spunk re-issued it with new packaging and a new tracklisting in 2009. Next up for the band are their first shows ever on American [...]
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