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  New Video for Björk’s Song Written for Finnish Children’s Movie

  08.23.10

  Björk and strange just seem to go hand and hand, which is probably why the offbeat video for The Comet Song, her contribution to animated Finnish children’s movie Moomins and the Comet Chase, is so unsurprising. The track itself is very strange, with no apparent melody or pattern and Björk singing about a comet potentially ending the Moomin world over some weird flute and cymbal music. Judging by the video though, the song fits right into the movie, which features weird claymation creatures on two-dimensional surfaces and seems way too eerie and dark to be a children’s flick. The movie is already out in Finland, but you can download the song off of iTunes as of August 24th and all proceeds will be put towards UNICEF children’s charity work in flood-devastated Pakistan.

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  Björk and the Dirty Projectors: A Match Made in… The Ocean?

  06.30.10

  Iceland and Brooklyn are a long ways apart, but thanks to our incredible modern transportation methods (read: planes) Björk and the Dirty Projectors were able to come together and produce a collaborative effort dubbed Mount Wittenberg Orca which was finally released online this week. The album stretches seven songs and judging by the awe-inspiring final track All We Are, it should be filled to the brim with fantastic vocal harmonies courtesy Björk and the Projector’s David Longstreth. The EP is also a benefit of sorts, available for download in exchange for a donation to The National Geographic Society’s ocean initiative, which hopes aims to create more protected marine zones. Do the dolphins and whales a favor and download Mount Wittenberg Orca here.

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  CocoRosie – Grey Oceans

  05.16.10

  

  Sister-duo CocoRosie has cast a fourth spell-binding record, Grey Oceans. Released on Sub Pop Records, the 11-track album takes us back into the fantastical dream world of Bianca and Sierra Casady. (more…)

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  Björk and Michel Gondry to Work Together Again?

  03.16.10

  Holy shit! You know what happens when a certain Icelandic singer and French director get together, right? Some of the best music videos ever, that’s what. So it will come as pretty damned exciting news to fans of the two artists that at this year’s SXSW Film Festival, Michel Gondry revealed that he was planning a new project with Björk. Said Gondry, “We have a very ambitious project, a sort of scientific musical. …[It's a movie], but maybe more for museums. Like a 40 minute IMAX project in 3D.” Nice.

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  Pavement and Massive Attack confirmed headliners as Sasquatch! Music Festival reveals lineup

  02.16.10

  Sasquatch! Music Festival, held annually at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, is once again getting into gear to throw down its unique blend of music and comedy over the weekend of May 29-31. Past headliners have included Beck, Björk, Nine Inch Nails, and R.E.M., but this year it will be the turn of the recently reformed Pavement (for which the number of excuses not to see is happily getting smaller!) to headline one day of the festival, along with Vampire Weekend, My Morning Jacket and Massive Attack. It’s sounding pretty decent already, but becomes an altogether more tantalizing prospect when one looks at some of the other bands slated to play. Some of the highlights (whose quality may actually have you gasping for air) include: MGMT, The National, lcd soundsystem, Band of Horses, Ween, Tegan and Sara, Broken Social Scene, Passion Pit, Public Enemy, She & Him, The New Pornographers, The Hold Steady, The xx, Dirty Projectors, No Age, Drive-By Truckers, Kid Cudi, The Mountain Goats, Quasi, Camera Obscura, Midlake, Caribou, Girls, WHY?, Japandroids, Wale, YACHT, Cymbals Eat Guitars, The Very Best, and Neon Indian. On the comedy front, former The Daily Show correspondent Rob Riggle and Craig Robinson of The Office will keep festival-goers chuckling away. You can find out more, including any other updates in the lineup at the Sasquatch! site, with tickets going on sale via Ticketmaster on Saturday, February 20th.

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  Fashion Genius Alexander McQueen Dies

  02.11.10

  British fashion designer Alexander McQueen passed away at the age of 40. The innovative talent was pronounced dead on arrival by paramedics who found him early morning at his residence in London. Rumors point to a possible suicide and authorities have ruled out foul play, but McQueen’s publicists have yet to confirm the cause of death. McQueen has dressed frontwomen like Björk, Courtney Love and Karen O. You might have noticed Lady Gaga sporting McQueen’s spring 2010 lobster-claw shoes in her Bad Romance music video. “McQueen influenced a whole generation of designers. His brilliant imagination knew no bounds as he conjured up collection after collection of extraordinary designs,” Alexandra Shulman, the editor of British Vogue, once said of the fashion genius. His creativity and spirit will be missed…

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  Björk Contributes New Song To Finnish Flick

  11.16.09

  If you don’t know what a Moomins is, you are way out of the loop in regards to Finnish children’s films. These hippo-esque creatures are the brain spawn of Finnish author Tove Jansson. Icelandic national treasure Björk likes these stop-motion characters so much that she is writing a song for the Moomins’ upcoming movie Moomins and the Comet Chase. The Comet Song, as it is so fittingly called, was penned by Björk and her collaborator buddy Sjón. Although we might not get the chance to be dragged by our offspring to see the Moomins in theaters in the UK or North America, the film premieres in Finland in August or September 2010.

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  Damon Albarn Possible Olympic Ceremony Director

  09.24.09

  After Björk opened the Olympics in Athens in 2004, Beijing threw down with a horde of drummers. Your turn, London. What’s it going to be? What sort of one up-manship can we expect? How about a whole mess of cartoon apes rocking out? Yes, it seems like a far outside chance, but its possible if Damon Albarn is involved in the opening ceremonies in 2012. Reports for UK news source The Independent are saying Blur frontman and Gorillaz co-mastermind is “a leading contender” to become the artistic director of the 2012 Olympics. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has begun preliminary discussions with Albarn. After providing the animation and music for the BBC’s coverage of the games in Beijing, Albarn and co-Gorillaz mate Jamie Hewlett have put together a little international sports coverage experience. Load them up with massive screens, copious amounts of fireworks, and an embarrassingly large operations budget, and sit back and watch the world’s collective jaw drop.

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  Polly Scattergood – Polly Scattergood

  05.24.09

  

  Polly Scattergood’s self titled debut is one filled with the facts of life by way of child like vocals and wispy baroque synth pop reminiscent of a less pretentious Björk. (more…)

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