Released: October 10thGenre: DramaRating: RTrailer: Click hereThe Film - Winner of the New Directors Award at the 2008 Edinburgh Film Festival and official selection in dramatic competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Good Dick is an idiosyncratic romance about a video store clerk (Jason Ritter) and a female customer (Marianna Palka) who rents erotic [...]
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Good Dick
Sunflies - Coping Strategies
Artist: SunfliesAlbum: Coping StrategiesLabel: Pollywood RecordsRelease date: 10/11/08Link: www.sunflies.co.ukPicture the scene. I get home late Friday night, tired, hungry and relieved that the weekend is rolling just round the corner. At my feet, lays a large brown envelope addressed to The 405. I pick it up, lethargically. After opening the envelope, with a kitchen knife, [...]
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Bands To Watch: Action Beat
Those lovely people over at Southern Records informed us of an awesome new band called Action Beat! They have an album coming out soon called The Noise Band From Bletchley that I’m very excited about hearing. As you can tell from the photo above and the name of the album, they’re a pretty manic band but [...]
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The 405 TV Time #6
Here a wonderful video from the fantastic Hattie Newman!Related PostsThe 405 - TV Time #5The 405 - TV Time #4The 405 - TV Time #3
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EYOE Presents…
Get your bums down to these gigs!Related PostsThe Research - I Think She’s The One I Love
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Subject: Dirty Virgin Jackets ?
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I love scrambling words and adding punctuations. Anyways, it's pretty obvious that the word 'cool' has been overused and everyday, when I discover knew bands, new sounds, new everything, I try to search around in my brain for descriptive words other than 'cool'…i haven't got any unique ones just yet. But for the two France-based [...]
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Antony and the Johnsons-Another World E.P
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Doesn't life seem to throw everything at you all at once?! Lots of twists and turns and dark early nights. It'd be easy to get lost in that darkness but luckily Antony Hegarty has come a long and thrown a beautiful e.p in to the world which is easily my guiding light at the moment. Its the first [...]
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Myspace School Invasions!!
Who cares about Facebook really? Myspace is where it's at and that's why they've got the greatness to come up with a competition like this. Not really a competition I can enter as I'm not in the required age bracket (or even at school) but I can assure you that If I was, I'd be [...]
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Creative 30: Voting Time!!!
VICE, Volvo and The Independent teamed up to find the UK's next generation of hidden creative talent so that we could tell everyone about them and they wouldn't be hidden anymore. The project is called the Creative 30 and from Monday, October 20th through Sunday, November 16th, the public will have the chance to vote [...]
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Port O’Brien Release New Awesome Single in the UK
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There are arguably few bands emerging in music today who are as fascinating as Port O'Brien. Their music, while not overtly exciting, has some sort of subliminal quality to it that really leaves the listener wanting to hear more. They aren't outrageous, they're not particularly original, and they certainly have yet to mature into full-fledged [...]
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The Worries by Mimas
Heads up all you indie kids that fell in love with post-rock because Mimas have gone and made you the album of the year. As beautifully uplifting as Sigur Ros, as technically stunning as Do Make Say Think, as dynamic and engaging as Explosions in the Sky. Mimas manage to accomplish this whilst maintaining an [...]
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The405 NewsTube#5
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Check out the latest installment of our new video newsletter that can be found every Thursday on our new YouTube Chanel! - The 405 Team
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Stars aren’t sailing away…
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I am extremely excited for Starsailor's fourth album "All the Plans", expected to be released March 2009! It's been a while since we've heard from them. I wasn't too impressed with their previous release "On the Outside", it just didn't grab me. But I have high hopes (fingers crossed that they won't be crushed) that [...]
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Bands To Watch: Post War Years
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If you were lucky enough to turn up early to see White Lies on their recent tour then you will no doubt be raving about Post War Years already. Their bass heavy electronic sounds dig in like Foals with samplers, but really thats just a lazy reference, Post War Years are so much more than that. Their intricate songs are full [...]
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Flipron - Gravity Calling
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Artist: Flipron Album: Gravity Calling Label: Tiny Dog Records Release date: 03/11/08 Link: www.flipron.co.uk With Rat Scabies from The Damned as their producer, Flipron are set to release another weird and wonderful record this November, filled with sounds of the British wave of psychedelic rock from the sixties and tavern knees-ups. There is never a dull moment on Gravity Calling, as the list...
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Parts & Labor - Receivers
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Initially I was shocked when I pressed play on the new Parts & Labor album. Where was the drone, the feedback, the dirty dirty bass sound. This sounded polished was unlike anything I'd heard on Stay Afraid, an album which has been on constant rotation for me since I became aware of this amazing, innovative [...]
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Fabled Enemies…
Film Title: Fabled EnemiesDirector: Jason BermasNarrative: Objective TruthRating: 5/5Link to Full Film: Click MeFabled Enemies, a new film by Jason Bermas, who produced another equally important and informative film on the un-answered questions of September 11th, ‘Loose Change 911’, brings to the truth table even more information recently leaked and gained through higher and higher [...]
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Damien Jurado: Caught In The Trees
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Artist: Damien Jurado Album: Caught In The Trees Release Date: 27/10/08 Label: Secretly Canadian Link: www.myspace.com/damienjurado Jurado's album is nicely schizophrenic. He plays the country boy, the pessimistic poet, Neil Young, Kurt Cobain…and that's only in the first five tracks. We get to see every facet of his personality in song form. All thirteen remind me of a different artist,.
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Bill Madden - Child Of The Same God
Artist: Bill MaddenAlbum: Child Of The Same GodRelease Date: 14/10/08Label: Mad MuseLink: www.billmadden.comHaving never heard of Bill Madden before putting this CD into my laptop I really didn’t know what to expect and off the back of the first track ‘Unfair’ I really wasn’t looking forward to the 13 tracks I had stretched out in front [...]
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Crazy Girl - Southern Belle From Hell
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Artist: Crazy Girl Album: Southern Belle From Hell Label: Tummy Touch Records Link: www.myspace.com/crazygirlband I get a lot of dodgy looking CD/DVD's through the post but this one certainly looked to be the dodgiest of them all. Thankfully the dodgyness on this occasion is a good thing! Tiff McGinnis, aka Crazy Girl, is a London based musician, film-maker, animator, illustrator, games devel...
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