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I lucked out this morning and ended up 4th in the lottery line at the Xcel Center to buy my Arcade Fire tickets for their September 22 show. Score! There were only 60 of us in line, but I guess by the 20th person in line all the floor tickets were gone. Also, big thank you to the staff at the Xcel this morning. They were all really friendly and made what could have been a chaotic morning go smoothly.

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Merge Records made this new video official and posted it yesterday to YouTube. Directed by Charlie Lightening. Recorded at the Hackney Empire in London on July 7, 2010.

From The Suburbs, out now.

The makers of Persona 3 & 4 are teaming with Studio 4C for something that looks kinda sorta really fucked up? This makes me want to finally jump to the new video game consoles.

Catherine is scheduled for Winter 2010 on the PS3 and X-Box 360.

Off of Love Remains, out September 21.

DVD release of the year? DVD release of the year.

Like the rest of America, Hollywood was ripe for revolution in the late sixties. Cinema attendance was down; what had once worked seemed broken. Enter Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, and Steve Blauner, who knew that what Hollywood needed was new audiences—namely, young people—and that meant cultivating new talent and new ideas. Fueled by money made from their invention of the superstar TV pop group the Monkees, they set off on a film-industry journey that would lead them to form BBS Productions, a company that was also a community.

The innovative films produced by this team between 1968 and 1972 are collected in this box set—works created within the studio system but lifted right out of the countercultural id, and that now range from the iconic (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Picture Show) to the acclaimed (The King of Marvin Gardens) to the obscure (Head; Drive, He Said; A Safe Place).

The America Lost & Found box set will be released November 23 on Blu-Ray and December 14 on DVD.

Muja Messiah will be celebrating the release of his new mixtape, M-16′s on September 9 at the 7th St Entry. The party starts at 8 PM and is 18+. A meager $6 gets you inside the door.

Not as catchy as “Crazy,” but close. The official video comes out next week.

From The Lady Killer, due date to be determined.

Friday, October 15
Triple Rock Social Club
8 PM | $16 | 18+

And if you haven’t seen Kenny Powers kick a dude’s head off in this K-Swiss parody ad click HERE.

Thursday, October 28
Varsity Theater
8 PM | $15 | 18+

Thursday, October 21
7th St Entry
8 PM | $12 | 18+

(Kinda NSFW)

Directed and edited by our friend Allen Keating-Moore.

Food Pyramid have a tape, Food Pyramid I, coming out soon on Moon Glyph Records.

Well damn, I certainly feel like a jerk for not posting about this year’s Feminist Film Festival in St. Paul, but I didn’t hear a word of press until tonight when more than half of the fest is done and gone. But hey look! Hayao Miyazaki’s modern classic anime Princess Mononoke is on the bill today, so hopefully you read this in the next 8 hours and don’t have to work. Because seriously, this film is cinematic brilliance.

Thursday, August 19
Minnesota Women’s Building
550 Rice St., St. Paul
11:30 AM l FREE

On a related note: Whip It, a film not nearly as exciting as Princess Mononoke, will screen at the same time in the same place on Friday.

For more info, check HERE.

Trailer