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“We are thrilled for Braden. It’s a beautiful film and really speaks to his storytelling skills and his talent working with actors”
Strand Releasing has announced its acquisition of all North American rights to Braden King’s The Evening Hour’, which had its World Premiere in Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and its International Premiere in Competition at the 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival. The deal was negotiated by Eric Sloss of Cinetic and Jon Gerrans, co-president of Strand Releasing.
Braden is represented for commercials by
Washington Square Films. He has helmed spots for such top brands as Microsoft, Samsung, American Airlines, Spectrum, ESPN, Johnson & Johnson and Coca-Cola. In addition to his film and commercial work, he has also directed music videos for top artists including Sonic Youth, Glen Hansard, Laurie Anderson, Yo La Tengo, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (Will Oldham), Dirty Three, Cat Power, Sparkl
ATOM & HIS PACKAGE - BOAT OF A CAR (THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PODCAST)
Atom & His Package guested on a new episode of Punknews contributor Greg Simpson s They Might Be Giants podcast This Might Be A Podcast, and in doing so, he also covered their song Boat of Car. Atom and TMBG are both masters of quirk, so it s no surprise that Atom was a good fit for this.
Orange county ska-pop-punks Bite Me Bambi released their debut EP
Hurry Up and Wait today (and we included it on our ska year-end list). The EP includes all of the band s previous singles, and the just-released This Love Is Dead, which finds Bite Me Bambi exploring their darker minor-key side (with a bridge that seems to nod at House of the Rising Sun ). It comes with a
Bonnie Prince Billy & Bill Callahan cover Robert Wyatt s Sea Song w/ Mick Turner (listen) brooklynvegan.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brooklynvegan.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
WILLIE NELSON - COTTAGE FOR SALE (FRANK SINATRA COVER)
Bob Dylan is not the only classic artist to release multiple albums of Frank Sinatra covers.
That s Life is Willie Nelson s second album covering songs that had been recorded by The Chairman of the Board and it s out February 26. (His first was 2018 s My Way.) The first single is Cottage for Sale that appeared on Frank s 1959 album
No One Cares. While the orchestral backing could ve been Ol Blue Eyes, the voice could only be Willie s.
WESTSIDE BOOGIE - OUTSIDE (ft. JOEY BADA$$)
Westside Boogie (fka Boogie) nods at his Shady Records boss with an interpolation of The Way I Am on this soulful new Joey Bada$$ collab.
THOUGHT CONTROL -
SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM EP
NJ s Thought Control formed this year (with members of Sunstroke, The Dividing Line, and Electric Flesh), and their debut EP
Shock To The System is the kind of classic, no-frills hardcore that never goes out of style, and it fucking rips.
Greek metal vets Nightfall have announced their first album in seven years,
At Night We Prey, due March 5 via Season of Mist. Lead single Darkness Forever is a whiplash-inducing dose of pure evil that picks right up where the last album left off.
PURGATORY - STACK EM UP
Midwest hardcore bruisers Purgatory have announced that their sophomore album will arrive in spring 2021 via Unbeaten Records, but first they ve got a bone-crushing new standalone single, Stack Em Up. The band says, This is a very anti-police, anti-politician, anti-justice system song dealing with the corrupt, greedy, evil, vile, racist, hate-fueled things ingrained in the whole system that runs our world.