Switchblade Comb

The Home Grown Cinema Series starts May 12 in Minneapolis at the Parkway Theater. For more information, click HERE.

Minneapolis’ Trama and Muja Messiah rap over Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights.”

SPOILER WARNING!
This video cuts together clips from season 5 of HBO’s The Wire.

Thanks to Nah Right for the hookup.

Dosh 2008 Tour Dates

05.03 Minneapolis, MN - Walker Arts Center (”The World of Dosh” CD release party)
05.16 - Milwaukee, WI - Cactus Club
05.18 - Pontiac, MI - The Pike Room
05.19 - Toronto, Ontario - El Mocambo
05.21 - Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
05.22 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East
05.23 - New York, NY - Mercury Lounge
05.24 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
05.25 - Pittsburgh, PA - Garfield Artworks
05.26 - Akron, OH - Musica
05.29 - Chicago, IL - Subterranean
06.06 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
06.07 - Denver, CO - Hi-Dive
06.09 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
06.11 - Seattle, WA - Nectar Lounge
06.12 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
06.14 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill
06.15 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland
06.16 - Phoenix, AZ - Rhythm Room
06.17 - Tucson, AZ - Solar Culture
06.19 - Austin, TX - Emo’s
06.20 - Denton, TX - Hailey’s
06.27 - Minneapolis, MN - First Ave (with P.O.S)
07.18 - Aspen, CO - Belly Up (with Andrew Bird)

Wolves and Wishes, Dosh’s fourth full-length, is released on May 13.

Dosh - “Steve the Cat” (live)

From The Formula; out now.

Thanks to More Cowbell for reminding us about the 2008 Bent Festival.

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.

Bent Festival 2008
May 1-3

Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Avenue S.
Minneapolis, MN

CLICK HERE for the Festival line-up and schedule.

Each concert is $10.
A Festival Pass to all events is available for $25.
Buy tickets online: Smarttix

Bent Festival Promo

Hollywood Reporter: Under the music broadcaster’s EXIT (end exploitation and trafficking) campaign, MTV and Radiohead have jointly produced a video for the “In Rainbows” track “All I Need”…

“All power to MTV for taking this on because its obviously going to be difficult for them in terms of the advertisers,” he said. “With the (’All I Need’) video, their lawyers had to beg to make sure there wasn’t a single white trainer with a logo on it because the implication would be a little too close. But the implication is still there.”

Comedy Central has posted a clip of an upcoming Reno 911! episode featuring the funniest comedian working today, Patton Oswalt. The best part of this is that Patton is basically playing himself and as Videogum said, seems genuinely angry.

Is there any possible way that this film is not gonna suck? My guess would be no. However, casting The Bronx as Black Flag was a pretty good move.

Neil Hennessy is quickly becoming the Aaron Cometbus of Chicago by joining yet another band. The reunited Smoking Popes have announced that Hennessy will be “hitting the skins” (sorry, couldn’t help myself) for them on their upcoming tour. Said the band: “We’ve been playing together for the past couple of weeks gearing up for a summer of rock. First up, a record release show for “Stay Down” at Metro on June 7th, then the album will hit stores on June 17th. After the album is out, we’re planning on hitting the road. The plans are coming together at the moment and we’ll keep you posted…”

As Punknews.org pointed out: “Neil has performed in The Lawrence Arms, The Falcon, Baxter, The Killing Tree and also co-wrote the Rise Against hit, “Swing Life Away.” They forgot to mention that he also played in Colossal and Sundowner.

Speaking of that Smoking Popes tour, here are the details for the Minneapolis date.

Smoking Popes
Monday, June 23
Triple Rock Social Club
Minneapolis, MN
9:00pm | TBA | 18+

Smoking Popes - “Rubella”

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds 2008 Tour Dates

09.16 - San Diego, CA - 4th & B
09.17 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl
09.20 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
09.22 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
09.23 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
09.26 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
09.29 - Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
10.01 - Toronto, ON - Kool Haus
10.02 - Montreal, QC - Metropolis
10.04 - New York, NY - WaMu Theater at MSG
10.05 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!”

Here’s the full cut of the Stop video that was featured in a Rock the Vote PSA we posted about earlier. This is the second version of this video to be released. To see the first one, which features Minneapolis’ own Paddy Costello, go ahead and click HERE.

From writer Ryu Murakami (Audition) comes the satirical tale of two groups of outsiders who make war on each other, set to a soundtrack of retro karaoke hits. A gang of young slacker guys (the Gakis) idle away their time just hanging out, their sole passion in life being elaborate karaoke recreations of their favorite Showa-era songs (oldies from the 40s to the 80s). Across town, a group of thirty-something divorced women calling themselves the Midoris do much the same thing, until one of the Gakis kills a Midori after he’s rejected trying to pick her up. The Midoris retaliate, and the absurdist battle of revenge is on.

OTHER NOTABLE RELEASES:

- The so-so 2001 Godzilla feature All Monsters Attack
- The strange, sleazy, sci-fi alien bestiality film Beast In Space
- Criterion’s children’s classics releases of Paddle to the Sea, The Red Balloon, and White Mane
- 2007’s acclaimed The Diving Bell & the Butterfly
- The Guatemalan Handshake featuring Will Oldham
- Lucio Fulci’s giallo classic The New York Ripper
- Katsuhito Ishii’s hilariously zany Party 7

Karaoke Terror - Teaser

Unfortunately, Fall Out Boy has posted a rather decent video for their cover of the Michael Jackson classic “Beat It”. This is mostly due to the fact that it features cameos from the creepy guy in Grandma’s Boy, Hal Sparks, and the always hilarious Buster Bluth. Those three save the video from Patrick Stump’s awful dancing. Hey Patrick, this guy is a way better dancer than you.

Also, fuck you for making me post a Fall Out Boy video.

Edit: I almost forgot to mention this. Although he does not appear in the video, John Mayer plays the bad ass guitar solo at the end of the song.