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Ain't It Cool News

Mr. Beaks And Paul Greengrass Kick Back In The GREEN ZONE!

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Arts & Letters Daily

Arts & Letters Daily (10 Mar 2010)

Starbucks is 39 years old now, and like a lot people who reach that age, it's going through a bit of an identity crisis... more

Joan Houlihan's new poems are playful in coinage and raw in imagery, but ultimately graceful and pleasing in rhythm... more

Evolution lets us see comics, that most mass of the mass arts, in a panoramic human context but also in extreme close-up. Brian Boyd explains... more

Blog di Costantino della Gherardesca

Roll Over Berlosconi

Chissà perché “Berlosconi” e non “Berlusconi”…forse per evitare qualche grana legale?  Comunque Roll Over Berlosconi è il titolo del nuovo album del veterano Eugene Chadbourne. Il brano che da il nome all’album è (ovviamente) un rifacimento di Roll Over Beethoven di Chuck Berry. Il disco marca l’esordio della Interbang Records, e consiglio vivamente di supportare [...] ... more

Brainwashed

"Colour Sound Oblivion" - the Coil 16xDVD set

Peter Christopherson has announced through the Threshold House Web site (http://thresholdhouse.com/) a 16 DVD box collecting live performances, loops used on the tour, background projections, and even bits of Coil's infamous constumes. Advance orders will be taken starting March 8th, 2010. ... more

Cinecittà News

In Francia calano gli investimenti sul cinema: -26,3%

Pubblicato il bilancio annuale del Centro Nazionale della Cinematografia per il 2009: in totale prodotti 230 film, contro i 240 del 2008 ... more

Cineuropa

Corriere della Sera - Spettacolo

Morto l'astrologo Peter Van Wood

Già chitarrista assieme a Carosone, è stato rilanciato da Fabio Fazio in «Quelli che il calcio» negli anni Novanta ... more

Digicult.it

sketch a move

http://www.digicult.it/2010/SketchAMove.asp

Hollywood Reporter

2010 Tribeca Film Fest reveals schedule

Alex Gibney's latest documentary, a portrait of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, will be spotlighted at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs from April 21 to May 2 in New York.

Monocle

Melilla

Melilla, in Morocco, is one of two Spanish colonies left on the African continent. ... more

Pitchfork

Rising: Kingdom

The 27-year-old Brooklyn-based dance producer Ezra Rubin, known to the world as Kingdom, does not do subtle. On his "Mind Reader" EP, gigantic, crashing basslines share space with diva howls and chest-imploding snares. His is a melodically generous dance music sound, one that prizes immediate hooks and dizzy adrenaline over patience or open space. Kingdom claims recent-vintage commercial R&B and UK garage as prime influences, and those genres' slickness, combined with the pounding immediacy of classic house music, are what make the EP go. And it was co-released by two of indiedom's cooler labels, Fool's Gold and Acephale.

We recently caught up with Kingdom to see what's good with him.

Pitchfork: How long have you been making music?

Ezra Rubin: My whole life. I've tried to learn a couple of instruments. I took piano lessons and stuff like that when I was a kid. But my piano teacher actually was really into computer music, and she was the one who taught me MIDI when I was 12. She was the one who started me on software. I started making dance tracks around 2003. I've always liked dance music.

Pitchfork: On your MySpace, some of the first influences you mention are fairly obscure recent R&B singers, people like Yummy Bingham and Teedra Moses.

ER: R&B is definitely one of my first loves; I think it shows in my music. In particular, I like the more soulful, raw vocalists that don't get that much shine. Some of Yummy Bingham's songs are amazing. She has, like, a four-octave vocal range and this raw, childlike sound to her voice. But most people didn't hear those tracks because her album was shelved, and she's considered kind of C-list or a failed R&B singer, a dropped R&B singer. But her shit's actually really good, and same goes for some of the other people on that list, people who haven't had career success. In terms of what they do with their voice and the productions that they've sung over, I've been really into their stuff.

Pitchfork: That reflects on your music. Especially for newer dance music, your stuff has a really strong melodic sensibility.

ER: Yeah, I just think that's a good spectrum to work with-- for there to be a sweet or melodic or female element to it, and then try to always bring in the dark or the spiritual or the bass-heavy side to it. I think they balance each other really well. There's a lot of music that's done that, too. That's why UK garage is such an influence on me, because there's often been that balance of-- I guess you could say-- the feminine and the masculine. There's that kind of broken, bass-heavy, clubby sound mixed with R&B samples or really melodic elements.

Pitchfork: Your music seems to have this classic house diva element.

ER: It's definitely true. I take early rave music as one of my huge influences. Chicago house, acid house, UK hardcore, early jungle: all that is very influential to me. All those musics really had that soul, as well as being really good club music. I think some of my "Mind Reader" material is stuff that I started on a couple of years ago, not to discount it in any way. More recently, I'd say there's slightly less of those easy-to-hear 90s rave influences, but I am definitely still influenced by that.

Pitchfork: How has your recent work been progressing?

ER: I haven't been pursuing as many vocalists, so it's slightly less vocal. I don't know why the shift, but I guess the stuff's slightly more ambient. I've been influenced by kind of some new age music, and ringtones, and some ephemeral sounds like that. So some of the songs have a strange, alien type sound to them, slightly more of a new age sound, mixed with the heavy bass and the dance sound.

Pitchfork: How did you link up with Fool's Gold?

ER: A few things came together at once. I actually met Nick Catchdubs, who runs the label with A-Trak, at a shoe launch at Nike in New York. The designer, Cassette Playa, had chosen us both to DJ. We exchanged information, and I sent him my tracks. I didn't really send it for a demo for release; I just sent it because he was a DJ and I was just sending my tracks around. A few months later, I heard back from him. He said that they wanted to release this stuff that I sent him, so it was just a chance meeting in that way.

But also, simultaneously, DJ Bok Bok in London had sent "Mind Reader" to this online blog network called Grindin. A lot of the good music blogs are a part of that, and tracks get sent around to that network as promo. Patrik North from Acephale Records is on that list, and he got it. He actually had called me first to release a limited-edition vinyl of "Mind Reader". Then the Fool's Gold thing happened, and then they decided it was cool; they were just going to kind of collaborate on it. Acephale would do vinyl, and Fool's Gold would do digital. It all ended up working out.

Pitchfork: Now that the EP is out, what are you working on?

ER: I'm working on an EP for Night Slugs, which is Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990's new label. That's going to be a six-song EP, and the tracks are pretty much picked out; I just have to finish them. It's a chance for me to get out some tracks that are a little newer to me, and it's mostly instrumental, but there are some vocal moments.

Pitchfork: You've remixed Telepathe and L-Vis 1990. Is there anyone else you're planning to remix?

ER: I have a few remixes coming out. The next Night Slugs release is an artist named Egyptrixx, who is Toronto-based, and I did a remix for that release; that's the second release on Night Slugs. And I'm actually really happy with how that came out. I used some vocals from Shyvonne, the vocalist from "Mind Reader".

Pitchfork: Anyone you're hoping to remix?

ER: I would actually love to be commissioned to remix a mainstream R&B song; that would be a dream of mine. I'd love to remix a Jazmine Sullivan song or something. That would be amazing.

Rotten Tomatoes

Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox join Coriolanus

Ralph Fiennes will mark his directorial debut with an adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy Coriolanus. Gerard Butler is also in the cast for the film which will start shooting next week in Belgrade. Aviator scribe John Logan wrote the script. ... more

Subterranean Press

Neil Gaiman — NEVERWHERE Limited Edition Update

We’ve just received notice that copies of the Signed Limited Edition of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere are en route to our warehouse. If you’re on the fence about this one, you might want to decide soon — as I write this we have only 19 copies out of the original 200 that are unreserved. The book [...] ... more

The Hype Machine

Butterfly Explosion - Chemistry

This is a band that is up and coming and will be hitting up SXSW shortly. They have some good epic, guitar rock kinds of songs, some instrumentals and some more ballad-y type songs on this record. They… (in post Butterfly Explosion – Lost Trails from DBF Music. Download this at eMusic iTunes) ... more

The Onion

How Are We Protecting Our Valuables?

The Wire

Village Voice Film

Want Cheese With That?

Dear Mexican: When I was in high school, everyone called the Mexican students like myself "cheddars." I'm not sure where this originated from, or what it really has to do with Mexican culture. When I have asked other Mexicans what this means, they are not sure, either. "Cheddar packing" is a t... ... more

Village Voice News

A New York Operator's Trail of Blood, Bankruptcy, and Brazilian Diamonds

The entrance to the 110-year-old brownstone at 2 East 12th Street, two blocks south of Union Square, isn't particularly dramatic or imposing. You have to step down to reach the front door. There's no doorman to wait on you.

Looking at it, you wouldn't imagine that the basement apartment t...

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