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Film Music David Lynch Embraces Analog, Makes Music with Underworld and Others

March 1, 2011 - 10:58 am

Guess it was only a matter of time before the brain behind oxygen-sniffing sociopath Frank Booth, painting with ants, and professional furniture crafting made some (more) music. David Lynch has released a deluxe vinyl edition of both Good Day Today and I Know, new albums which feature both original tracks as well as remixes by Underworld, Sasha, Jon Hopkins, and others. And the video is one of the strangest and most haunting you’ll ever see.

Straying from the subwoofers and flickering halogen bulbs of his soundtracks, Lynch seems to have taken a cue from longtime accomplice/composer Angelo Badalamenti and actually gone melodic on us. The video is as trippy as the song, and Lynch fans wouldn’t expect anything less.

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Music The Best of 2010…according to Rich Thomas

by Rich Thomas

December 20, 2010 - 9:26 am

When you’ve got Kanye West and Tron blowing up the spot. it’s tough to remember how much good stuff came down the pike this year. Thankfully our esteemed ChinaShop contributors have been making some lists (and checking ‘em twice), and are here to jog your memory. Every weekday from now until the New Year we’ll be turning out our Best Of 2010 accolades, as seen through the hungry eyes and ears of our esteemed legion of contributors. Peruse these lists, take notes, click links, download our MP3s, write us back, tell us we’re completely full of it or applaud us on our sagely advice. Just promise you’ll love us in the morning. So now without further ado, our first Best Of list after the jump.

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Music Prepare to be Amazed: The 2010 Grammy Nominations

by Rich Thomas

December 6, 2010 - 1:01 pm

After having the weekend to marinate on both this year’s Grammy nominations and the college football bowl selections, I’m having a hard time figuring out which entity frustrates me more, the BCS or the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. For both, a lot of money is riding on who gets anointed with top honors, but every year both groups seem to get more wrong than they do right. (Except for the year NARAS picked 60% right on the Album of the Year nomination with Radiohead’s OK Computer, Paul McCartney’s Flaming Pie and Bob Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind.) But the sad fact is, both entities aren’t going away anytime soon, so we must make due with what we’ve got. I’ve highlighted a few categories below and picked some crowd favorites and dark horses. (You can see the entire list of nominations here.) Sit back, crack open a juice box, and prepare to shake your fist at the screen. And don’t forget to check out some of our very own nominations at the end. We think they deserve a little shine, too!

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Music Underworld LIVE: Through the Looking Glass

by Neil Feineman

August 12, 2009 - 12:29 pm

That Underworld was triumphant at the Fox Theater in Oakland August 7 wasn’t really a surprise. After two decades of touring, they are self-assured, charismatic performers with a substantial army of tricks. But because they almost play in 20,000 seat venues or festivals, seeing them up close, indoors, in a beautiful venue had “event” written all over it.

So it’s also not surprising that the show was as beautiful as the venue. Underworld has long been known for their impeccable visual taste and everything, from Karl Hyde’s shiny jacket, which could have been equally at home on the shoulders of Judy Garland or Michael Jackson, to brilliant backdrops, floating balls and those moving pillars from the 2007 tour, worked in tandem to prove the point.

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