Screen legends Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges star in legendary filmmaker Michael Cimino’s (Heaven’s Gate) directorial debut Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, which finally makes its Blu-ray debut on 23 June 2014 courtesy of Second Sight Films.
Clint Eastwood is Thunderbolt a retired thief, who has the perfect plan to recover his lost loot with the help of his old gang. The idea is to steal the money, hide it in an old schoolhouse, lay low and collect it when the heat is off. But things don’t go to plan and while trying to escape a gunman he has a chance encounter with drifter Lightfoot (Jeff Bridges. The pair become partners and the heat is on to recover the cash before someone else does in this thrilling caper.
‘One of the best road movies of the 1970s’
Slant Magazine
‘Eastwood's best non-western movie and Cimino's great debut’
Film4
Noblesse Oblige have just released a new video for their song “Voices In My Head”, directed by Chris Corner (IAMX).
The track appears on their current album Affair of the Heart, which was recorded at IAMX’s Turmwerk Studio in Berlin.
The fantasy/ medieval/ pagan/ fairy fair CASTLEFEST have announced almost every band that will play on Castlefest 2014 it's time to show you exactly when and where they will play. Grab your agenda, your Smartphone or a piece of scrap/recycled paper and start planning your stay at Castlefest 2014! Castlefest takes place at Castle Keukenhof in Lisse, the Netherlands. August 1-2-3.
http://castlefest.nl/news/blokkenschema/
lood Red Shoes’ video to new single ‘Speech Coma’, out through Jazz Life on 2nd June, has been the focus of considerable controversy. Directed by ‘Brian and Karl’, the disturbing video portrays a singer bleeding to death on stage and has been banned by MTV. Commenting on the video, Laura-Mary explained; “with Speech Coma we wanted the video to represent the unsettling nature of the song. We liked the idea of it being gory, weird and unnerving". Taken from their new, eponymously-titled album, the gruesome video can be viewed here...
Sacred Bones announces its first book, a collection of works by Alexander Heir
Brooklyn artist Alexander Heir has been drawing strange, other-worldly pictures for years. Previously, these illustrations have only adorned 7" record jackets and Xeroxed flyers across the international punk underground, but now Sacred Bones Records is offering the first collection of the artist’s finest illustrations.
For those who truly crave the transgressive and are unfulfilled by the commercially “confrontational” trends in current zines and indie publications, Heir’s work will connect immediately. Heir has been so prominently involved in designing, printing and producing for countless NYC and international artists that over the years his work has become one of the defining aesthetics in the contemporary underground punk scene. His work has graced the albums, singles and ephemera of highly regarded bands such as Hoax, Forward (Japan), The Mob (UK), Nightbirds, Destruction Unit and Modern Life Is War amongst countless others.
Similarly, his popular clothing line Death/Traitors has become a staple among punks, the hip-hop scene, the tattoo community and beyond. Members of notable acts Three Six Mafia, Fucked Up, and Odd Future have all been known to support the brand.
Alexander Heir’s art has all the prominent elements of 50 years’ worth of subversive underground culture. Somewhere between Garbage Pail Kids and Tom of Finland, this is the kind of art that gets kids in trouble with their parents. Heir’s morbidity, which is blended with a sick humorous quality has a penchant for the bizarre, taboo, and a raw, physical compulsion has allowed him to achieve such delightfully confounding imagery. Referencing an eclectic cache of dark symbols in his unapologetically graphic style, he has created a stunning and recognizable collection of work.
It’s so rare we have an opportunity to experience a collection of work that so fully breathes the history of obscure subversion. Death Is Not the End is a cause for celebration amongst misanthropes and sickos alike - we finally have a new master on our side.
Death Is Not The End will see release on May 13th, 2014
