Side-Line launches follow-up to the free mega-compilation 'Face The Beat 1' - send your submissions now for 'Face The Beat 2' !
Ever since we launched the free "Face the beat 1" compilation a few years ago, Side-Line has been receiving requests from readers, bands and labels to 'please please' launch a follow-up to that first compilation (which reached over 24.000 downloads). After some debate inside the Side-Line team we at Side-Line will once again compile a new free download compilation: "Face the beat 2", which will be released for free on our forthcoming Bandcamp page.

The styles which we will accept for this compilation are the following: IDM - Electronics - EBM - Endzeit - Synthpop/electropop - Shoegaze and all of its subgenres. It doesn't matter whether you are signed to a label or not, what matters is your music. Please notice (and this is VERY important) that we cannot accept entrees from members of rights organisations such as ASCAP/GEMA/etc., for this reason we cannot accept covers either.

You can submit your material (3 songs maximum and preferably previously unreleased material whether it be tracks or remixes) in MP3 format in the following ways:
- email: to info@side-line.com with subject "Face the beat 2 submission" + add band info
- dropbox: send to info@side-line.com + add band info

The deadline is March 15, 2015, first in is first served - if you are selected we will inform you the latest on March 25th, 2015 after which you'll be sent some paperwork.

All promotion around this compilation will happen via Side-Line. We hope to reach the same amount of people as with the first compilation which was the first of its kind on Facebook.

We hope that we can count on your label and/or band too to send us some material for inclusion. The compilation will also act as a 25th anniversary present to our readers offering what we consider to be the best music out there from bigger and smaller labels and unsigned acts.

Out on18th March on DVD and Blu-ray: the fifth season from Downtown Abbey

Downton Abbey Season 5 features returning stars Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Jim Carter, Laura Carmichael, Joanne Froggatt, Allen Leech, Robert James-Collier, Penelope Wilton, Phyllis Logan, Lily James, Brendan Coyle, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Samantha Bond, Ed Speleers, Kevin Doyle, Raquel Cassidy, Davd Robb, Tom Cullen, Julian Ovenden, Daisy Lewis, Douglas Reith, Jeremy Swift, and Andrew Scarborough.

This acclaimed ensemble is joined by guest stars Harriet Walter (Atonement), reprising her role as Lady Shackleton, and Peter Egan (Death at a Funeral), who returns as Lord Flintshire, together with completely new characters played by Richard E. Grant (Girls), Anna Chancellor (The Hour), and Rade Sherbedgia (24).

Set in 1924, the fifth series sees the return of our much loved characters in the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey. As they face new challenges, the Crawley family and the servants who work for them remain inseparably interlinked. A new Labour government heralds changes that are being felt throughout the land, and life at Downton is not untouched. Robert, Mary and Branson together must navigate these shifting sands to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can’t help questioning his place in this world. Mary is finally coming to accept that she would like to marry again, but will she ever be able to find the same happiness that she had with Matthew? Meanwhile with still no news of her beloved Gregson, Edith suffers under the burden of her terrible secret.

Downstairs, the servants are starting to consider what effect social changes may have on their working lives. While Daisy’s mind is opened to new possibilities, Mrs Patmore views such new and uncertain paths with trepidation. Anna and Bates have weathered many storms and are finally starting to plan their future. But with so much painful history, will they ever be able to completely move on, or will past secrets once again threaten their chance of ever finding happiness?

Milla Jovovich is in final negotiations to star in In the Lost Lands, a fantasy-adventure project based on short stories by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.

Shameless actor Justin Chatwin is also on board the feature, which is to be directed by German director Constantin Werner (The Pagan Queen), who also wrote the screenplay adaptation. 

The film will be a Germany-Canada co-production and is planning to begin shooting in Germany in the last quarter of 2015.

Myriad will handle worldwide sales on the film, and will introduce the project to buyers at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin. Steve Hoban (Splice, Ginger Snaps), Oliver Luer (The Pianist, Valkyrie) and Nico Bruinsma (Cult Epics) are producing. Myriad’s Kirk D’Amico will serve as an executive producer on the film.

Lost Lands interconnects three female-centric Martin short stories, according to Myriad: In one thread, the desperate queen of a city built into a towering mountain hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich) to travel into the ghostly wasteland called the Lost Lands, to obtain the gift of shape-shifting into a werewolf, but she doesn’t realize that the fulfillment of her wish will come at a terrible price.

Meanwhile, warrior girl Sharra must fight a dragon that serves as the gatekeeper of seven worlds to reunite with her lost lover Kaydar. During this quest she meets the mysterious lord of a deserted castle, Laren Dorr, who seduces her so completely that she forgets her quest and stays with him, unaware that he is the real gatekeeper.

And in the futuristic tale Bitterblooms, a young barbarian girl gets spellbound by a lonely witch in a spacecraft, who shows her beauty and love, which turns out to be a net of lies and deceit.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

The fourth season from Rizzoli & Isles is out on Warner on 4th March.

A drama that zeros in on two disparate gal-pal crimefighters from Boston, assertive detective Jane Rizzoli and steady medical examiner Maura Isles. Hailing from very different economic backgrounds, the strong, competent women effectively work together to solve the city's most puzzling crimes.

Deep in the eerie forest lies a mysterious entity waiting to defy nature in a beguiling new psychological sci-fi thriller. Exposing its sinister purpose, the deadly alien invasion on humanity is born in The Device, coming to DVD from Image Entertainment on 23 March 2015. 

Inspired by classic abduction cases writer and producer John Portanova (The Invoking) skillfully plays on the intrigue of the unknown. Starring Angela DiMarco (Trauma), David S. Hogan (Shadowed) and Kate Alden (The Right Place), The Device DVD features an audio commentary by the screenwriter of Fire in the Sky and Intruders, two of the most popular alien abduction films ever. 

When two sisters find a harmless looking object in the woods, they cannot know to what extent it will change their world – and ours – forever. The small, sphere – mysterious, seductive, enticing – conveys a message, a deep, profound biological message, that will reshape our world, recasting relationships with the universe beyond our wildest dreams and worst nightmares.