Carcass - Complete Peel Sessions

I talked about Carcass a good while ago here, back when they originally started their "reunion" tour. Lucky for you, they're still on that very same tour and probably coming to a dive-bar near you, playing all of your favorite hits from Necroticism and Heartwork. How is it that Carcass is still doing this tour, but Sleep refuses to push their reunion beyond a couple dates in the UK? Does anyone care anymore?

...anyway--this is a complete collection of their John Peel recording sessions, dating from late '89 and '91. The entirety of the sessions wasn't circulated until their 'Best-of' album 'Choice Cuts' was released...and since most of you probably didn't bother with it, I packaged it on its own:

Carcass - The Complete Peel Sessions

1980's movie

The Fly (1986)
Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz.
Written by Charles Edward Pogue & David Cronenberg.
Directed by David Cronenberg.

Teleportation. It’s what scientist Seth Brundle (Goldblum) believes will change the course of mankind. And he’s probably right. But before he can unleash the technology onto the world - being unsatisfied with teleporting inanimate objects - he decides to zap himself through his teleportation “pods” in his funky downtown warehouse and inadvertently traps a common house fly inside during the process. Having recombined his molecular structure with that of the fly, he begins a slow metamorphosis into a hideous hybrid – all to the horror of a young writer (Davis) who has been detailing the experiments. At times a black comedy, it is doubtful that an actor other than Jeff Goldblum could have inhabited the character of “Brundlefly” so completely and elevated The Fly to the heights at which it resides (though he is given excellent support from the memorably sleazy John Getz). Director David Cronenberg’s claustrophobic updating of the 1958 film of the same name features the kind of raw, tactile gore that 80s horror was all about, creating an unnerving experience. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

SUN TATTO

Sun Tattoo:

Designer Yu-Chiao Wang created a stencil robe that leaves a very unique tan.

PETA2 Collaboration T-Shirt from Glamour Kills

A new T-Shirt from Glamour Kills raising awareness for Peta2 and opposing animal testing.

“Peta2 came to us after we won a Libby Award for “Most Animal Friendly Clothing Company”. The theme was “Animal Testing Breaks Hearts” so we took that idea and ran with it! We love what the people at Peta2 do and are extremely glad they asked to work with us on this design”.

Peta2 is a youth oriented action group that raises awareness about many issues related to animal cruelty. Check out their site Peta2.com and check them out on Twitter@peta2

“The Detournements of Wynn Miller” – Closing Reception (OBEY GIANT)

We couldn’t be happier with our success with “The Detournements of Wynn Miller.”

We would like to extend a notable thank you to all those who could attend and support our opening reception. If any show deserves an honorable conclusion, this would be it!

Please join us in celebrating our achievement by attending the closing reception for “The Detournements of Wynn Miller.”

25 out of 500 Limited Edition signed Obey Giant prints held over for the closing reception will be available.

Date: Friday July 31st 2009 7PM – 11PM

Featured Artists: Shepard Fairey, Mark “Gonz” Gonzales, Shawn Barber, Greg Gossel, Nate Frizzell, Chloe Trujillo, Axis, Lauren Bergman, Jon Chase, Richard Villa III, Nazrn, Eric Monson, Dennis Mcnett, Michael Ruiz, Mario “FDubs” Luevanos, Jeff Ho, Votan, Tony Meister, Jamie La Chappa

DJ: Al G

Open Bar Provided by Transphusion

Arctic Monkeys preview new 'Humbug' tracks during live webcast

Arctic Monkeys previewed five tracks from forthcoming album 'Humbug' during a live webcast yesterday .

Alex Turner and company performed live on a dramatically lit stage with giant blue screens behind them filled with images of blinking eyeballs. They didn't say a word during the short set, which lasted just under half an hour.

The band kicked off the streamed performance with the high-energy rocker 'Pretty Visitors' before launching into current single 'Crying Lightning'.

The Sheffield group then played 'Potion Approaching' which they followed with a cover of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' 'Red Right Hand'.

The band then wrapped up their short web broadcast with the slower, janglier 'Secret Door'.

Arctic Monkeys played:

'Pretty Visitors'
'Crying Lightning'?
'Potion Approaching'?
'Red Right Hand'
'Secret Door'

Blog - what do you think of Arctic Monkeys' new songs?

The band, who , release third album 'Humbug' on August 24 in the UK and a day later in the US,
are now gearing up for a series of North American dates this summer, kicking off at New York's All Points West festival on Saturday (August 1)

1984 T-Shirt inspired by Big Brother

For some time now I’ve wanted to design a shirt inspired by 1984. The newest member of the Assault team, John Staniforth took on the challenge to bring this entire deisgn to life, and this is the final product which I’m proud to say is some of our best work yet. 90% of the design work came from Stani’s mind, and the other 10% was myself adding color and a few other elements to, “take it to the next level.”

This Orwellian design’s focus is on the subject of totalitarian rule; rule brought about through the tyrannical control of thoughts, beliefs and ideals. By censoring and controlling the doctrine of which people live by, through the constant barrage of the oppressive propaganda machine, power is taken from the outreaching open hands of the many and tightly grasped by the clinching fists of the elitist few. Through surveillance, censorship, fear of random violence, fear of torture, fear of nuclear war and death, freedom becomes not only an unspeakable word but an unthinkable and unobtainable ideal.

This design was created using a combination of digital matte painting, as well as grafting images together in Photoshop to achieve the final look.

Eminem threatens Mariah Carey in new song - audio

Eminem has attacked Mariah Carey in a new song posted online.

'The Warning' sees the rapper detailing his relationship with Carey, who he has been romantically linked to. The song's lyrics have Eminem threatening to leak pictures of Carey, and chastise the diva's husband Nick Cannon.

You can listen to the track by scrolling down now.

"Enough dirt on you to murder you/This is what the fuck I do/Mariah, it ever occur to you that I still have pictures?" Eminem sings at one point in the song.

The lyrics also appear to reveal intimate details about Eminem and Carey's sex life.

He raps: "In the second week we was dry humping/It's gotta count for something/Listen, girly surely you don't want me to talk about how I nutted early cos ejaculated early and bus all over your belly/And you almost started hurling and said I was gross/Go get a towel your stomachs curling /Or maybe you do".

Carey openly mocked Eminem in her last music video, 'Obsession', by dressing as him.

Pearl Jam "the fixer"

Pearl Jam's new single, "The Fixer," made an abbreviated debut last night (July 14) during Fox's broadcast of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The track officially goes to U.S. radio and digital retailers on Monday.

As previously reported, Target will be the exclusive big-box retailer in the United States for Pearl Jam's self-released ninth album, "Backspacer," due Sept. 20.

The clip for "The Fixer" was only a few seconds long, but it was long enough to discern catchy "yeah yeah yeah" shout-outs in its chorus and frontman Eddie Vedder imploring that when "something's gone, I want to fight to get it back again."

Yesterday, Pearl Jam's official Web site began taking pre-orders for CD and vinyl versions of "Backspacer" as well as a 7-inch single for "The Fixer" backed with "Supersonic."

The order page confirms the 11-track contents of "Backspacer," which features three songs recently premiered during Vedder's U.S. solo tour: "Unthought Known," "Speed of Sound" and "The End." The band debuted "Got Some," another "Backspacer" track, on June 1 on "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien."

As previously reported, Pearl Jam will return to the road Aug. 8 in Calgary, Alberta, and has dates on tap through Oct. 30 in Philadelphia. Reportedly added to the itinerary is a rare small venue show on Aug. 11 at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire. U.K. retailer HMV is currently advertising a ticket presale offer which fans can enter by preordering "Backspacer" via the HMV Web site.

Here is the track list for "Backspacer":

"Gonna See My Friend"
"Got Some"
"The Fixer"
"Johnny Guitar"
"Just Breathe"
"Amongst the Waves"
"Unthought Known"
"Supersonic"
"Speed of Sound"
"Force of Nature"
"The End"

Guitar Hero with Van Halen to be released

Guitar Hero: Van Halen to be released later this year.
Guitar Hero: Van Halen is being developed as we speak, according to gaming blog Joystiq. Game publisher Activision Blizzard has confirmed to them that Van Halen fans will have the game in their hands by the latter part of this year.

The site reports that Activision said the game will contain Van Halen's "greatest hits," as well as guest acts like Queen, Weezer, Blink-182, The Offspring, and Queens of the Stone Age.

The game will also feature Van Halen's original lineup with David Lee Roth. Activision's Senior Vice President of Global Brand Management told Joystiq, "Oh this is definitely Van Halen, not Van Hagar."

The Van Halen game will be the third version of Guitar Hero to be based around a single rock artist/band, following succesful Aerosmith and Metallica games.

rock and roll hall of fame concert

Rock legends to perform Hall of Fame concerts

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bruce Springsteen, U2, Paul Simon and other rock legends will come together for two concerts in October to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The concerts on October 29 and 30 at New York City's Madison Square Garden will trace the history of rock and roll, from soul to hard rock, and also feature Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Metallica, with guest stars and collaborations promised.

Simon and Garfunkel will grace the stage together, as will 1970s staples Crosby, Stills Nash & Friends.

Proceeds from the concerts will help raise money for a permanent endowment for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and Museum which was founded by Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

"Twenty-five years ago ... Ahmet Ertegun created this foundation to recognize and celebrate the music and careers of artists whose music helped shape and define our generation," said Jann Wenner, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation. "These once-in-a-lifetime concerts are designed to celebrate the artists and their music."

NINE SONGS rawks!

I’ve seen a lot of strange, weird, kinky and pushing the envelope films over the years. I try to seek out the new stuff just to see new cinematic boundaries destroyed and created. Very early in director Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs I realized I was watching the dirtiest, most graphic sex scenes I’d ever seen in a mainstream film. Honestly, I often couldn’t believe what I was seeing take place.

Some might label 9 Songs pornography and I really couldn’t argue with them—it’s that graphic. Winterbottom is a serious English director who has made films such as Welcome to Sarajevo, The Claim, 24 Hour Party People and Code 46 (which I reviewed on CineRobot a few months ago). I gave 9 Songs a chance because of his filmography and I wanted to see if it was as graphic and naughty as I’d read it was. Believe me, it is.

There are really only two things that happen in 9 Songs. The first is showing this couple in their 20s going to see good bands at London’s Brixton Academy (Super Furry Animals, Elbow etc) and the second is showing the same couple having lots of sex, lots and lots of graphic sex with a capital X.

I kept thinking as I watched some of the sex scenes—are these “real” actors? If these were porn actors no biggie as they’ll do just about anything on a camera but “real” actors doing this kind of stuff is hard to believe. Question #2—how in the hell did Winterbottom get these two people to do this stuff on film? I guess these days you’ll find people who’ll do anything thinking it will either launch their careers or that they are making “art.”

9 Songs is a terrible movie. Its whole angle is the REAL sex as there are no characters, there’s a bunch of laughable dialogue between the leads, there’s little chemistry between them even though they are naked all the time and there’s a silly Antarctica element to the story. Good bands though (SFA!) but at even 67 minutes long it feels bloated and too long.

I hardly think of myself as a prude or someone who is easily offended but I don’t see the point. If I want to see people having real sex I’d rent a porno or something. 9 Songs just seems really pretentious, hollow and screams “Look at me!” over and over with its sex scenes when it has nothing else going for it.

But 9 Songs is the new title-holder of the dirtiest mainstream film I’ve ever seen. I guess that’s something, not sure what, but it’s something.

What’s your favourite Kubrick?

You may agree with us: A Clockwork’s Orange is one of the best movies ever. Based on a book written by Anthony Burgess, this masterpiece was directed by Stanley Kubrick, one of the best filmakers of all time.
A Clockwork’s Orange was released in 1971, but Kubrick had been making movies from many years before. His filmography is outstanding and includes a great variety of movie genres. Paths Of Glory (1957) was probably his first critical success, a war/antiwar story that in a way anticipates to other films of this genre like Apocalypse Now or Born on the Fourth of July.

Analysing his career, it seems clear that Kubrick was always exploring new fields. During the sixties, he directed an epic production like Spartacus (1960), the controversial Lolita (1962, based on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel), the sinister and macabre antiwar comedy Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) and 2001: A Space Odissey (1968), a Sci-Fi movie which would become a landmark in his career and in movie history. All very different, all fascinating, all looking for more than just telling a plain story.

When the next decade arose, Kubrick prefigurated the violent times ahead with A Clockwork’s Orange, a dark and shocking fantasy in which he explored the use and abuse of violence in a fictional British society in the future. Alex and his hooligan gang are the main characters of the movie; teenage misfits and killers at the beginning of the film, their luck changes to become victims of the same brutal society. From its obvious and explicit violence, the films offers many interpretations and, in that sense, is a classical Kubrick work.

A Clockwork’s Orange T-shirt has been in our catalog since the beginning of ilovewaterloo.com. As you can see in our website, it can be purchased in the classic orange color with a black stamp, but also in white, green and pink.

We have recently added a T-shirt of The Shining (1980) to our collection, but maybe it is time to pay tribute to Kubrick once again. Which of his movie could feature our next T-shirts collection. Could it be Paths of Glory? What about Lolita? 2001: A Space Odissey? Or the great Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove? Leave us your opinion!

The story behind… The Rolling Stones’ Some Girls

The Rolling Stones have risen and fallen many, many times in their 46 years in rock and roll. Some Girls was probably their greatest musical comecback ever.

The seventies was a difficult decade for the band. After all-time classics like Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile On Main St (1972), the Stones released three records that weren’t bad at all, but didn’t reach the quality of the previous ones. Goats Head Soup (1973), It’s Only Rock And Roll (1974) and Black And Blue (1976) showed a band out of focus. Jagger, Richards & co. were in their late thirties and were looked as dinosaurs by a new generation of angry young men and women who were called punks. It was time to revitalize the Stones’ music.

Some Girls (1978) was the first studio record with Ron Wood as permanent member of the band. He excels as pedal steel guitarist in a country song named “Far Away Eyes”, one of the highlights of the album, along with “Beast Of Burden”, “Before They Make Me Run” and a Temptations’ cover, “Just My Imagination”.

For this new record, two recently-born genres were added to the musical palette: punk and disco. The band took them and played in a personal and interesting way. The songs “Respectable” and “Lies” showed the energy and sarcasm of punk, while “Miss You” was an immediate hit with its disco beat, an amazing bass line and Jagger’s falsetto vocals. This Stones’ approach to disco music was criticized by some fans and journalists, but the song is still hailed today as one of their greatest.

The album cover was designed by an artist called Peter Corriston,. An elaborate die-cut design, with colors varying on different sleeves, it originally featured the five members of The Rolling Stones and select female celebrities in garish drag, as well as a bunch of lingerie ads and the name of the ten songs of the album.

The cover immediately ran into trouble when some of those celebrities featured in it threatened legal action. Lucille Ball (star of I Love Lucy, a classic sitcom of the fifties), Farrah Fawcett (then starring Charlie’s Angels), Liza Minnelli (representing her mother Judy Garland), Raquel Welch, and the estate of Marilyn Monroe were not happy with the cover…

Corriston would design the next three album covers as well, but Some Girls remains as his most famous (and polémica) work. At ilovewaterloo we love this record and the cover, so we decided to create a T-shirt as a tribute, featuring some of one of those designs that scandalized the celebrities mentioned above.

A.P.C. Band Tees for The Teenagers, Chateau Marmont

A.P.C. have a new and incredibly awesome collection of “band” tees from the bands we seem to love the most.
From Koko Van Napoo, Housse De Racket to our favorites The Teenagers and of course Chateau Marmont.

A special mention goes out to Chateau Marmont with their incredible EP Solar Apex which was in heavy rotation for us the past few months.

This collection leads A.P.C. into a more bohemian direction as well and while the tees will only be available in A.P.C stores in NY and LA for now, you can get it online too.

Models wearing band tees

Band tees are timeless and the older they look, the better, I think. I've been looking for one that features the Velvet Underground 1969 album for a long time, but the only one I've found so far is the one with the banana on it (VU & Nico). Makes me think that maybe it's time for a DIY project. Jessica Stam, Agyness Deyn & Freja Beha Erichsen may like respectively Metallica, The clash & Led Zeppelin from what we see in these pictures. Or maybe not and they're just into band tees at the moment.