New Release Tuesday: March 9, 2010
- Final Fantasy XIII (Playstation 3, Xbox 360)
One of the most celebrated video game franchises makes its next gen console debut. Expect an epic RPG sure to lay waste to your social life.
- Gorillaz – Plastic Beach (CD)
Your favorite band consisting of animated primates returns with their 3rd studio album. You’ve got ample time to take it in before their upcoming appearance at this year’s Coachella music festival.
- Capitalism: A Love Story (DVD, Blu-Ray)
Michael Moore’s latest doc examines America’s fascination with making rich people richer and taking a fat shit on everyone else.
Metal heads High on Fire score a 90 Metacritic [Woah]
Mad props for our long-time favorite Oakland metal band High on Fire, who just netted a 90 Metacritic for their new album Snakes for the Divine. Even the New York Times likes it, which can’t be good for local metal credibility.
Bonobo's 'Black Sands': Like suicidal Na'vi nerd Prozac
Bonobo
Black Sands
Tax season. Tea Party season. Jersey Shore’s second season. There’s a lot to freak the fuck out about these days.
UK producer Bonobo’s like, “Chill, motherfucker. I GOT THIS.”
The Ninja Tune all-star returns more assured than ever on his fourth album Black Sands out March 10. Opening track “Kiara Prelude” is on some Elvish wedding ceremony tip so hard, Legolas would cry. Track “Kong” takes a DMT stroll through the jungle, ears full of heartbeat as luminous willows weap. It’s Prozac for all those fools suicidal since they can’t be Na’vi.
So what if you can sell high-end shoes and man-purses to this music? Bonobo is the chill master, four albums in and giving DJ Krush a run for his yen. Black Sands is not all live instruments and samples, either. Andreya Triana handles the requisite soulful date night coos on “Eyesdown” and “Wonder When”. “The Keeper” sound-checks the best of Erykah Badu.
Title track “Black Sands” ends the excursion on a big note – going from a lone acoustic guitar progression, to chamber suite, to full-on cinematic score like Simon Green jacked Peter Jackson’s entire posse.
We all got 99 problems. Black Sands takes care of one. All Black everything this March on Ninja Tune. -David Downs
BioShock 2, Massive Attack, A Serious Man: New Release Tuesday February 9, 2010
- BioShock 2 (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PC)
Return to the underwater city of Rapture to eviscerate splicers with a big-ass drill for an arm while taking in creepy Art Deco design and story elements inspired by Rand and Orwell.
- A Serious Man (DVD, Blu-Ray)
The latest from the Coen brothers. Do you really need more information than that?
- Massive Attack – Heligoland (CD)
The band that bred the “trip-hop” genre is back from a seven-year hiatus to regale us with all kinds of electronic goodness.
- Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here (CD)
One of the most powerful voices in black music has a new album 40 years after his solo debut. It’s released by XL Recordings, so yah, it’s going to be awesome.
- Dante’s Inferno (Playstation 3, Xbox 360, PSP)
The game developers who brought us Dead Space now brings us to Hell with this action-fest loosely based on Dante’s The Divine Comedy. We’re talking loose like Kardashian loose, though. Sure it’s a blatant God of War rip-off, but it’s got gore and titties. We’re in.
Flying Lotus' 'Cosmogramma' transmits May 4 on Warp
The BBC’s Mary Anne Hobbes calls him the Hendrix of his generation. Indeed. Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus has a self-described space opera featuring collaborations with Ravi Coltrane, bass virtuoso Thundercat and harp prodigy Rebekah Raff, Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke and Laura Darlington. Out in May on Warp. Tracklist after the jump. [Warp, Free FlyLo Download]
Zombieland, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lil Wayne: New Release Tuesday February 2, 2010
- Zombieland (DVD, Blu-Ray)
The perfect blend of zombie gore and hilarity. Not only is Zombieland fun as shit, but it also features one of the best cameo appearances ever. No, I’m not going to spoil it for you.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Blu-Ray)
Raoul Duke’s drug-fueled galivant through the Nevada desert now presented in HD. Depravity has never looked sharper.
- Lil Wayne – Rebirth (CD)
America’s favorite rapper returns with what he calls a rock album. Um…we’ll just wait for Tha Carter IV, thanks.
Diplo presents 'Free Gucci' - the Gucci Mane Mixtape
This is the sick shit. A free Diplo mixtape of Gucci Mane’s Cold War Mixtapes. The whole thing’s ‘nanas, but we especially love “Break Yourself” feat Lil B, “Photo Shoot (Flying Lotus Remix)”, “Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix)”. Big ups to Mad Decent.
