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Wednesday, June 22 2011

Sydney Film Festival 2011: ‘Hanna’

This premise of wild girl unleashed on the world is not exactly original, but Hanna has an intriguing angle to it – it’s not often it’s a female in the lead role for this genre,


Tuesday, April 19 2011

The Chemical Brothers: Hanna (Soundtrack)

Based on the themes presented, you'd think that an elementary-school-aged kid was at the center of the narrative, rather than a junior-in-high-school-aged one.


Thursday, February 3 2011

The Year In Music: June 2010

June 2010, the subject of our latest look at the year’s biggest events in music, was a month of successful releases and summer concerts.


Monday, January 24 2011

Various Artists: Tensnake in the House

Tensnake takes up the mantle of Defected's In the House series for an ass-shaking, head-bobbing two hours.


Wednesday, September 22 2010

Electric Zoo Festival: 4 September 2010 - Randall’s Island, NY

Some words and some pictures from the Electric Zoo festival, an event pulling together major electronic artists to New York City over Labor Day weekend. An event that should be on the radar for all dance music fans.


Thursday, June 24 2010

The Chemical Brothers: Further

Shedding the excesses that hindered them in the past (see: guest vocalists, overt pop concessions), the Big Beat men take it back to the basics and produce... yet another Chemical Brothers album.


Tuesday, March 16 2010

Strictly Global: A Source for Music Videos on Broadcast TV

The kind of show you wished MTV would make.


Friday, October 10 2008

Breakdancing Demons Make My Day

The Chemical Brothers come back with their best music video and song in years ... so why is it hard to care?


Thursday, September 11 2008

The Chemical Brothers: Brotherhood

Brotherhood does a passable job of attempting to reconcile the two increasingly disparate sides of the Chemical Brothers’ split personality.


Monday, July 16 2007

The Chemical Brothers: We Are the Night

It's not merely that the Chems were beginning to seem outdated, they seemed -- in James Murphy's immortal words -- to be losing their edge.


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