La Indé Renaissance

A charismatic blend of Wong Kar Wai, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater by upcoming indie sensation Alex Holdridge, In search of a Midnight Kiss exploits anxious souls, like many of us, who trouble through crushed hopes, lost faith, loneliness and inevitable disaster and set backs in our lives trying to clinch onto a wish of a better tomorrow.
Set in the City of Angels, it tells a aspiring writer who dread through a year of failures and misery decided to spend the remaining hours of New Year’s Eve on a internet blind date instead of being alone. At the end of the night, he grasp the bittersweet moment he shared with the girl and restore his faith in life.
Beautifully shot in crisp black and white picture with occational use of photgraphic backdrop, it is vividly moving, brutally honest and suave with a touch of crude humour. This one is ground breaking and has nothing like a cheesy flick yet deserves general liking!

Leslie Feist sang the soundtrack, La Meme Histoire/We’re all in a dance, a beautiful song and together here runs with the trailer

In the stage name of Emmy the Great, Emma Lee Moss strums guitar and sings lovely little songs with her soaring vocals. She delivers a whole summer of love in her anti-folk heartrending poetry. This English darling will be on my playlist for the rest of the many months to come singing me stories every night with her songs. She is to wait for the released of her debut album but there’s no way she will be overlooked. As for now here’s from the Black Cab Sessions, she sings Two Steps Forward, one that I’m really addicted to-

It blows my mind and it was the first class film experience I have demanded. A biopic masterpiece puzzled out by the mischievious visionary in the name of Todd Haynes that illustrates an elusive American icon in true style. It took six individuals to journey through the life and times of a mythical Bob Dylan and his music. Every six of them is a potrait of Bob Dylan in a series of shifting personae as poet, prophet, fake, star of electric, outlaw, rebel, each has different names, diffent professions, and each is Bob Dylan weaved together in the works of Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Ben Wishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin and the late Heath Ledger.

It is cynical, poetic, provotive and unconventional, I’m Not There is a revolution to biographical motion picture. The film is essentially itself, a Bob Dylan song, one of his best.

The Zutons have released two studio albums under producer Ian Broudie with the third one due in June. My choice to share you folks here is ‘Valerie‘ from their second album- Tired of Hanging Around, of which Amy Winehouse also did a cover version as well as James Morrison who sang it live.
While you’re at it, check them out at www.thezutons.com

Dan Auerbach, left (vocals and guitars) and Patrick Carney (drums and percussions)

Gotta get to know The Black Keys, the wickedly magnifincent two-piece band of blues-rock in low fidelity formed by the Akron Ohio duo, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney. Their stylish blues-rock dabble in funk and psychedelia is vintage late 60s to the uttermost and always so much more to my liking. It is absolutely exciting to think that Cream has somehow survived in the music of The Black Keys.

Their stripped-down dirty sound is raw and thrilling in the blend of passionate thrashing drums and gritty, riff heavy guitar and their vocals in Auerbach has got an extraordinary powerful, rusty voice made perfect for blues-rock. The Black Keys is more than just rock n’ roll, the duo is the one singular answer that illustrate the art of blues-rock in sheer brilliance and class with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant all claiming to be the fans of the band.

10 a.m. Automatic from their third studio album Rubbery Factory

The prolific pair who does most of their recording, mixing and producing themselves, has recently released their fifth studio album- Attack & Release.
Official Website: www.theblackkeys.com

All the way from Nebraska, USA, Tilly and the Wall is addictive happy pills formed by three birds and two lads and among them a married couple. Yet another band without a drummer, they got a tap dancer to work out the percussion instead. It might be an unusual feat, but Jamie Williams’ tap dancing has infused such energetic feel to their joyful folk-pop; often marred with the beat of hand claps, shakers and tambourine, it works so fine that I’m so tempted to tap me feet every time I hear them songs. A wide range vocals from Neely Jenkins, Kianna Alarid, and Derek Pressnall which interchange to take lead and back up in different songs gives Tilly and the Wall a multi-dimensional interpretation.