GRAMMY-Award winning rap icon Nas and DJ Premier —two of the most influential and revered figures in hip-hop history have announced their highly anticipated collaborative album Light-Years is set to release on December 12th via Mass Appeal. After decades of anticipation, Light-Years is a 30-year working legacy reborn. Nas and DJ Premier’s partnership is embedded in the DNA of Hip-Hop. Their origin story began […]
FORGED BY A GOD. FORETOLD BY A WIZARD. FOUND BY A KING. From John Boorman, the director of Point Blank, Deliverance and Zardoz comes the definitive cinematic telling of the life and enduring legend of King Arthur, from birth to death and beyond. Behold, the Sword of Power! Excalibur! Forged when the world was young, […]
Having already proven himself a master of kinetic action with Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, legendary director Tsui Hark would add lashings of comedy and frenzied expressionism to spectacular effect with 1986’s Peking Opera Blues. Beijing, 1913. In a time of violent turmoil when local tyrants vie for supremacy, three women’s lives converge in […]
IN AMERICA, THEY CALL IT THE MAFIA… IN JAPAN, THEY CALL IT YAKUZA… WHEN THEY MEET, THEY CALL IT WAR! When Japanese filmmaking powerhouse Toei Pictures decided to expand their iconic V-Cinema line to North America, the first result was the explosively violent American Yakuza, featuring an early lead performance from Viggo Mortensen in the […]
ONE MAP. THREE VILLAINS. WINNER TAKES ALL. Genre maestro Kim Jee-woon (A Tale of Two Sisters) set his sights on new frontiers and spiced them up with his rollicking kimchi western The Good, the Bad, the Weird. Wrangling three of Korea’s biggest stars, he orchestrated an audacious action epic sweeping across the dusty Manchurian plains. […]
Over two decades after terrifying the world with the ghosts of Toshio and Kayako with Ju-On: The Grudge, legendary filmmaker Takashi Shimizu returns to his J-Horror roots with the thrilling diptych Sana and Sana: Let Me Hear. Starring J-Pop supergroup ‘Generations from Exile Tribe’ playing fictionalised versions of themselves, Sana sees the band members discover […]
Girl on the Edge of the World, the third full-length album from Anglo-Irish dreamrock trio KEELEY, is the most eclectic and most expansive “sonic odyssey” yet from Dublin-born singer-guitarist-composer Keeley Moss and her cast of collaborators – producer Alan Maguire, bassist Lukey Foxtrot and former Morrissey drummer Andrew Paresi. Also featured are two very special […]
CD With Tyranny (2014), The Voidz – Julian Casablancas’s radical project – deliver a raw and abrasive debut where dissonant guitars, chaotic rhythms, and eclectic influences (punk, metal, world music, retro synths) collide to create a dystopian soundscape. Breaking away from classic pop formats, the band channels both political critique and artistic experimentation, confirming Casablancas […]
‘Workaround’ is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythmobsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for PAN.It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro- Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to […]
Mr. Wonderful, the second album of Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green in its ranks, followed up on their massive same-titled debut album. Delivering hard edged, psychedelic and raw blues, the album counts as a staple from the late sixties. Adding to the rowdy energy of the album is the fact that the band recorded these […]
