From Pitchfork

If you're in search of this generation's Brooklyn hipster-pop equivalent of Singles (or at least Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist), there's a promising candidate in the form of Wah Do Dem, a new movie from directors Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace. Singer-songwriter Sean Bones stars as a recently-dumped Brooklyn skateboarder who gets lost in Jamaica after winning a free cruise. Norah Jones and Yeasayer's Ira Wolf Tuton also star in the film, and it features appearances by Suckers (who perform live in the film) and MGMT's Ben Goldwasser, as well as music from Santigold, Yeasayer, MGMT, Suckers, the Congos, and Bones.

The film arrives on DVD October 26, via Factory 25. Watch a trailer below, and click here to hear songs from the soundtrack.

The film screens at BAMcinemaFEST on Tuesday, June 15th and opens in Boston on Friday, June 25th with additional dates to follow
 
NEW YORK – WAH DO DEM, a new reggae-infused film starring Sean Bones and Norah Jones, will open in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, June 18th. The film will screen at the BAMcinemaFEST film festival on Tuesday, June 15th at BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY), and will open theatrically in Boston on Friday, June 25th with additional dates to follow.

maybe, by Brock Enright and Kirsten Deirup is from their album "Torben" and the video is made up of over 1000 hand drawn LP labels for a version of "Torben" that they created for the Limited Edition of the documentary: Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same...Enjoy

mabye by brock enright and kirsten deirup from factory twenty five on Vimeo.

The Album that was previoiusly only available on Vinyl in the limited edition of All The Way From Michigan Not Mars featuring Rosie Thomas sessions with Sufjan Stevens and Denison Witmer is now available on

The "Apartment Sessions" album features acoustic tracks from sessions recorded in Sufjan Stevens' apartment prior to the Friends of Mine release.

Limited Edition LP Tracklist:

1. If This City Never Sleeps
2. Why Waste More Time
3. The One I Love
4. Much Farther to Go
5. Talking Bit
6. Paper Doll
7. Kite Song
8. Songbird
9. Talking Bit
10. All the Way to New York City
11. Say Hello
12. Talking Bit

Braden King's (Director of Dutch Harbor) new film, Here,  has been listed as one of the most anticipated films of 2010 on ioncinema.com

Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Braden King's Here

Posted by Eric Lavallee on Jan 14, 2010
Source: IONCINEMA.com Feature

#55. Here

Director: Braden King
Writer(s): Dani Valent and King
Producers: Parts and Labor's Jay Van Hoy and Lars Knudsen
Distributor: Rights Available.

Photo Exclusive: Featuring Lubna Azabal and Ben Foster. (Photo credit) Lion & Wheel.

The Gist: Will Shepard (Foster) is an American satellite-mapping engineer contracted to create a new, more accurate survey of the country of Armenia. Within the industry, his solitary work - land-surveying satellite images to check for accuracy and resolve anomalies - is called “ground-truthing”. He’s been doing it on his own, for years, all over the world, but on this trip, his measurements are not adding up. Will meets Gadarine Najarian (Lubna Azabal) at a rural hotel. ....(more)
 

Cast: Lubna Azabal and Ben Foster.
 

Why is it on the list?: It's hard enough making an indie film, even more difficult to make an indie film in a country that doesn't have the infrastructure for filmmaking whatsoever. I imagine that the screenplay about a human connection between two people via a landscape that is foreign to them may hold something special since it was workshopped and supported by the folks at Sundance, Rotterdam, Tribeca and Cannes.
 

Release Date/Status?: Was still in post when Sundance made its selections, so this is going to a Cannes sidebar and it might make sense for a U.S. preem at NYFF.

You Weren’t There: A History of Chicago Punk 1977-1984

You Weren’t There is an entertaining history of the Chicago scene, from the opening of the first punk dance club (La Mere Vipere – on which the Mudd Club was modelled) to the beginning of the Ruthless Records era (Naked Raygun, Big Black, ect). It covers most of the key artists and people, and footage and talking head action.

Chicago was a third tier town in the scheme of American punk locales. Things got started a little late there, and the first groups didn’t have much luck getting recorded until the pre-dawn of the hardcore boom, so a lot of this info will be new to most people.

The basic narrative is standard - gay club starts punk night, all weirdos are welcome, everyone freaks out, some groups and zines start, then it becomes a media event and the suburban kids ruin everything – but the interviews are excellent, and the live footage is a gas. I’d forgotten how great the Effigies and End Result were, and the early documentation of Naked Raygun, Silver Abuse and Mentally Ill is revelatory.

Much of the last half is devoted to local turf warfare (Effigies versus Articles Of Faith; Steve Albiini versus Vic Bondi) and it’s pretty fun to realize this battle over nothing still rages 35-plus years down the line.  I have no idea who’s telling the real story in any of this, but I can verify that Bondi lies when he says the first AOF single was self-released. It was on Bon Moore’s Version Sound label. So fuck you Vic.

-Byron Coley