For nearly 2 years now, Manchester band
WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) has been experimenting with music and the presentation of their image. The group's
official website *autoplay on front page* is an assaulting mix of manifesto,
art project, and
promotion. What started as the intention to have a
faceless band quickly gave way to the huge appeal of interesting music, and the band started
taking a new approach and taking off the masks. A weird blend of
atmospheric indie rock,
blues-informed vocals,
vaguely political messages, and
British soul music, all strangely
influenced by American hip hop, makes WU LYF
easy pickings for best of the (music) web.
posted by broadway bill
on Jul 10, 2011 -
26 comments
It was bound to happen eventually. After
a quarter-century,
26 Academy Awards, and an unparalleled streak of
eleven artistic and commercial triumphs, Pixar's latest project,
Cars 2, is
Certified Rotten. Critics have
assailed the film as a slick but hollow vehicle for Disney's
$10 billion-dollar Cars merchandising industry "lifestyle brand," replacing the original's serviceable tale of small-town redemption with
zany spy games,
hyperactive chase sequences, and even more
lowbrow aww-shucks potty humor from
Larry the Cable Guy. But it's not all bad news! Along with
a fun new Toy Story 3 short, preceding today's (3-D) premiere showings is a first look at next year's
Brave --
a darkly magical original story set in ancient Scotland featuring the studio's first female lead (and
director).
Evocative high-res concept art [mirror] is available at the official website, and
character sketches have leaked to the web, with the apparently striking teaser trailer sure to follow. Also, be sure not to miss the sneak peak of
Brave's associated short,
"La Luna"!
posted by Rhaomi
on Jun 24, 2011 -
263 comments
