Blade Runner Blade Runner's Designer on Creating the FutureGarage Magazine - Michael Polsinelli,Syd MeadDesigner Syd Mead on the cult of Blade Runner and the Michael Jackson theme park that never came true. Syd Mead is an iconic name in "future design‚" so celebrated that he has transcended designer status
Star Wars Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a galactically stupid titleCNET - by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper Commentary: "A New Order" was just sitting there waiting to be used.
The Five Stages of Watching a Star Wars Movielaughingsquid.com - Justin Page Leigh Lahav created a new animated short for How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) that humorously illustrates the five stages of watching a Star Wars …
Do Androids Dream Of Electronic Beats? How Blade Runner impacted electronic musicfactmag.com Blade Runner 2049 arrives this week. Gary Numan, Ikonika and more explain why electronic music is still obsessed with the original in our new …
KLF Welcome to the Dark Ages review – what time is chaos?The Guardian - Barbara EllenTwenty-three years ago, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty topped off a bizarre, brilliant pop career by burning £1m. Now they’re back to commemorate it with a three-day ‘art happening’. We join the 400 volunteers
Christmas Seasonably Rich: How much are musicians making from our favourite Christmas songs?NME - Sam Moore Remember Hugh Grant’s character in the 2002 film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel About A Boy? A wealthy and shallow bachelor in his late 30s whose …
Millennium Falcon So That's How the Inside of the Millennium Falcon Is Laid Outio9 - Germain Lussier I’m probably not alone in saying I was always curious what else was in the Millennium Falcon. We saw the cockpit, the large hangout area, some …
Francis Ford Coppola Bad Films By Great DirectorsNME - NME Picture Desk Sometimes we all have a bad day in the office. But if you happen to be a world-famous film director, your off-days seem to be noticed a tad more. …
“David exceeded his father’s dreams”: Bowie’s cousin writes letter about their childhooduncut.co.uk - Michael Bonner David Bowie‘s cousin has written a letter to The Economist, detailing their childhood together. Kristina Amadeus wrote to the Economist in response to …
George Harrison to appear on Eric Clapton’s new albumuncut.co.uk - Michael Bonner Eric Clapton is to release his new studio album, I Still Do, in the spring. The the album has been produced by Glyn Johns, who previously worked on …
Vince Clarke of Erasure's playlist: Grimes, Arca and moreThe GuardianInfectious and uplifting; as exuberant as Teenage Kicks. A fantastically detailed pop song in which every sound and beat is precisely placed, allowing Claire Boucher’s vocal to ring like a bell. A futuristic
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You can finally play Douglas Adams’ Starship Titanic on a modern PCThe Verge - Andrew WebsterDouglas Adams is best known for his five-part trilogy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but the late author also dabbled in video games. There was the frustratingly hilarious text-adventure take on
Virtual Reality Virtual Reality Gets RealThe Atlantic - Maria KonnikovaIn 1965, Ivan Sutherland, a computer-graphics pioneer, addressed an international meeting of techies on the subject of virtual reality. The ultimate virtual-reality display, he told the audience, would
Play button The end is nigh: Robots are learning how to build better clones of themselvesQuartz - Mike MurphyIn just about every dystopian film where robots have taken over, they’ve gotten to their dominance over humanity by being able to self-replicate and get better with each new model. Once they’ve become
Lollapalooza Confirms It: EDM Is Overchicagomag.com - By Britt Julious Sure, it might take a couple of years to officially, totally dissipate in the mainstream, but its hold on Top 40 artists and fans alike has begun to …
Play button Live and directThe VergeThe definitive oral history of 1980s digital icon Max Headroom On Thursday, April 4th, 1985, a blast of dystopian satire hit the UK airwaves. Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future was a snarky take
Whitechapel Jack the Ripper identity: mystery ‘solved’ in new bookThe Telegraph - By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent, video by Ju ZhangExclusive: New book introduces a brand new suspect, Francis Craig, after identifying the real name of the Ripper’s final victim - his own wife The body of Jack the Ripper’s final victim is set to be exhumed
Daft Punk Documentary To Air in Junegear4music.com The first ever documentary on French electronic masters Daft Punk, featuring the likes of Pharrell Williams and Kanye West, will air on French …
Royal Albert Hall Johnny Marr and Paul Weller say they’ll ‘definitely release a single at some point’NME - Luke Morgan Britton Weller and Marr performed together live at London's Royal Albert Hall in March Johnny Marr and Paul Weller have discussed the possibility of working …
Prince review – a regal jaunt through the purple one's greatest hitsThe Guardian - Ashley ZlatopolskyFox Theatre, Detroit Prince’s surprise show in his second home of Detroit saw him play another marathon set that left no hit untouched It’s a drizzly Thursday night in Detroit and the forecast calls for
Music History Bands At War: The Most Explosive Splits In Music HistoryNME - picture_freelance Blink-182 have spoken about their split with former guitarist Tom DeLonge, calling the break-up "a friendly divorce", but some inter-band tiffs …
The Specials – Specials, More Specials, In The Studiouncut.co.uk - John Lewis In ’70s Britain, a mixed-race band from the Midlands emerged in an era of industrial strife and social disorder. They revived music and fashions that …
Bands 30 Mighty Bands We’ve Lost This MillenniumNME - Emily Barker Since the year 2000, rock ‘n’ roll has lost a hell of a lot of bands, with some totally legendary acts taking a one-way ticket to Splitsville. Our top …
Why Audiophiles Are Paying $1,000 for This Man's VinylWIRED - Rene Chun How much would you pay for an original copy of The Beatles' Abbey Road? If you shop at Better Records, the answer is plenty: $650. Other staples from …
