Hard-Fi Pictures

Coachella Day Two: Double The Fun

For this year’s Coachella, we’ve dispatched our very own indie rock star reporter, Ed Droste of Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. April 29th 3:43 am: Well tonight was fun. Really fun. Something about the evening at Coachella felt more alive yet at the same time apocolyptic. People were a bit rowdier, wilder…..insane. Glow sticks were alive and kicking. It’s hard to even keep track of it all. I guess where I left off, Kings of Leon were ending their set and the mighty Arcade Fi

Published: 2007-04-29 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Coachella 2007

"Reality Check" by The Teenagers

The Teenagers have been an internet phenomenon for a while now, but after listening to their first proper release, Reality Check, it's hard to buy into the hype that has them painted as geniuses. Their formula has them taking the fifteen-year-old bedroom poetry aesthetic of emo, then removing any melody, metaphor, and almost anything else that would actually constitute a song. Somehow, though, the skeletal ideas left in their wake are actually sort of endearing (and catchy)—kind of like the way a toddler's finger paintings are cute, even if they aren't necessarily good. Dorian Dumont and Michael Szpiner, both of whom have an extensive background in France's music scene, helm the band's lo-fi, indie-dance rock. Vocals, however, are handled by Quentin Delafon, and it's no surprise that he's the only band member without a musical background, with his spoken word-sung delivery. The band already has a mega-hit with album opener "Homecoming," a re-written Grease,/i> send-up (updated with

Published: 2008-03-26 Provider: Artist Direct

Nicolas Cage Is A National Treasure [Monday Morning Box Office]

On these final few hours before the sugarplum-gorging orgy that begins at dawn, we dutifully tabulate for you, like a trembling Bob Cratchit scratching figures with a quill pen into the margins of the Scrooge & Marley ledger, the weekend's box office numbers: 1. National Treasure: Book of Secrets - $45.5 million Frankly, we don't know what took infallible superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer and supermuse Nicolas Cage this long to bring us another Treasure chapter: With Secrets conquering this weekend's box office (and bringing in $10 mil more than the original), the American-history-corrupting adventure serial has now graduated to official franchise&trade status. We're eagerly anticipating all future installments, including National Treasure: Three Dollar Bill, in which Cage and his ragtag band of bookish fortune-hunters discover that the Lincoln Memorial's head spins to the left when a Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony dollar are placed in its orbital sockets, revealing a secret tunnel to J. Edgar Hoover's fabled lingerie closet. 2. I Am Legend - $34.2 million A 56% drop-off in receipts for the last-Will-on-Earth sci-fi thriller still brings Legend's take to an impressive $137.5 mil, though it might also indicate that the premise needed a little refining. Luckily, producers have already began making the proper adjustments for the sequel, replacing that German Shepherd (talented, but kind of one-note) with a grizzled straight-man for Smith to bounce his trademark one-liners off of, and those cheesy CGI zombies with a vast array of adorable aliens from Rick Baker's creature shop. 3. Alvin and the Chipmunks - $29 million "It's great to be in the singing chipmunk business," Chris Aronson, Fox's senior VP of distribution, told Variety; that's a 180° change of tune from what execs were saying about the Jason Lee family film when the forecast looked less sunny, dismissively referring to it as "the untitled Richard Gere project" and "Ratatouille for retards." 4. Charlie

Published: 2007-12-24 Provider: Defamer Keywords: Box Office, i am legend, monday morning box office, national treasure, Walk Hard