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Preview New Weeknd Song “John Carpenter”

- Source: Stereogum

Abel Tesfaye's new Weeknd album will be the first set of songs he's created specifically for that format — remember him in his mysterioso mixtape maestro guise, leading to his mixtape-compiling debut LP Trilogy — and he's been fairly forthcoming by telling us it's called Kiss Land. And now, back to the mysterioso vibes: Tesfaye tweeted a link (no text, of course) to a twenty-second snipped of a new song called "John Carpenter," named most likely after the prolific horror/sci-fi/everything-else filmmaker behind everything from the Halloween series to Big Trouble In Little China , though it would be special if the track was named for the John Carpenter who was the first millionaire on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

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College - Secret Diary

- Source: The Four Oh Five

Mark E Smith most memorably extolled the virtues of repetition; "All you daughters and sons who are sick of fancy music / we dig repetition / Repetition on the drums and we're never going to lose it / This is the three R's; Repetition, Repetition, Repetition."

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Joel Silver Is Now Going To Try And Make That 'Escape From New York' Reboot Into A Trilogy

- Source: The Playlist

As long as there is a property to exploit, Hollywood will keeping trying, and one they've been trying to crack the nut on for years is John Carpenter 's " Escape From New York." Len Wiseman , Brett Ratner , Jonathan Mostow , Gerard Butler and Josh Brolin have all been rumored as potential directors and stars, and in 2010 some traction seemed to build around an iteration supposedly approved by Carpenter, with Breck Eisner (" Sahara ," " The Crazies ") signed on to the flick that Allan Loeb (" The Switch ," " The Dilemma ") and Jamie Moss (" X-Men: First Class ") would write.

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Halloween Soundtracks Get Re-Released

- Source: The Quietus

The nights are starting to draw in, and it won't be long before the shops begin to stock a variety of cheap rubber masks and giving sweets to small children won't put you on any sort of register.

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Alice Cooper to get down for horror night at the BFI

- Source: Music-News.com

In the midst of his Halloween Night of Fear UK Tour, rock icon Alice Cooper will walk the 'black carpet' to the BFI Southbank where he will divulge his passion for the horror movie genre and discuss how film has inspired and informed his career, his songs and his life.

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John Carpenter Wants Amy Adams To Star In His "Gothic Western" (In His Dreams)

- Source: The Playlist

It's been well documented how much John Carpenter loves and is influenced by classic westerns – his breakthrough feature " Assault on Precinct 13 " was an updated, urbanized version of Howard Hawks ' " Rio Bravo ;" his iconic Snake Plissken character is modeled after the western heroes John Wayne embodied; and his films often share a kind of compositional identity with early westerns with an emphasis on the kind of luxurious widescreen framing that Sergio Leone and John Ford employed.

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Moving Pictures - Videos of the Year: 2nd Quarter 2011

- Source: Drowned In Sound

I think what annoys me most about everybody annoying is that their general annoyance about everything is deeply annoying and especially when they take real fun and joy in sucking the fun and joy out of everything fun and joyful and then using the most annoying things as examples to demonstrate how bad everything is.

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Hyetal, Broadcast

- Source: LITTLE WHITE EARBUDS

Even though Hyetal (David Corney) is typically associated with Bristolian dubstep alongside artists like Peverelist and Baobinga and releasing on Punch Drunk, his music has always been slightly shifted away from 140bpm bass music. 2010′s "Phoenix" is an instantly recognizable tune to any one who spends time listening to bass mixes, with a shimmering, contemplative quality not unlike fellow Bristol producer Guido's Anidea album.

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