Eurovision: a guide to Pyro Budget Rules
It’s that time of year again. No, not that time I decide I have ‘sort of okay’ legs and proceed to denim shorts (although apparently yes, it is that time of year too as of…
John Newman – ‘Love Me Again’
It’s Him Off The Rudimental Song. With his own song. HURRAH. John Newman is signed to Island, who as we all know have a tendency every few years to get in a job lot of…
A few words about Secret Cinema
I hate having to do this kind of post, but bleurgh… I’ve had a fair few people emailing me about the current Secret Cinema film, mostly because a previous blog on the subject apparently shows…
DIANA – ‘Born Again’ video
Well for starters, it would be ‘wise’ to wear sunglasses while watching this video. The higher the UVA factor, the better. DIANA (their all-caps styling, not mine) hail from Toronto and describe themselves as an…
A few things about ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’
On Friday I saw Star Trek Into Darkness. There will be some proper-ish discussion of it on DiS at some point, once I’ve seen it again in 2D (on which more later) but I wanted…
Empire of the Sun – ‘Alive’ video
Just in case anybody had any doubts about where this was going: the new Empire of the Sun video, for the brilliant ‘Alive’, is fairly ridiculous in an amazing way. Evidence: – The insane shiny…
The Machine Room – ‘Sweden’
I have been listening to this song approximately one whole lot of a lotness. Seriously, it’s actually pretty embarrassing how much I’ve been hitting repeat on this lately. Described as “stargazing” and “Scottish”, The Machine…
Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars Filibuster
Below you shall find Patton Oswalt’s Star Wars monologue – the one that’s been doing the rounds on the interwebs for the last few days. The clip was filmed as part of Oswalt’s guest appearance…
Phoenix are amazing. Exhibit A: Funky Squaredance
So about 6 weeks ago I interviewed Thomas Mars and Deck d’Arcy from Phoenix. And after I did that I got a copy of Bankrupt! and reviewed it. Spoiler alert: it’s a properly silly album…
Small Black – ‘Free At Dawn’ video
Well worth 4:16 of your time is this mesmerising video and song by Small Black. ‘Free At Dawn’ is a chilled out number that wouldn’t sound out of place on either a dance or pop…