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What’s New In Music This Week
This week: The Horrors bring an expansive third album with Skying; Arrange explores tragedy; Little Dragon is getting bigger; Fair Ohs soundtrack your August BBQs; Inc. excite and disappoint.
New On Netflix: B. Monkey
Asia Argento burns up the screen as a Euro bad girl in this smart, sexy little thriller co-starring Jared Harris, Rupert Everett and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
Best Of Netflix: The Big House
Lock down and lights out! Spend some solitary time with a few of the best prison films on Netflix Instant -- and be really, really happy that you're not an inmate in one of these hellholes.
Captain America Movie Review
The final stand-alone character adventure before next summer's Marvel mash-up, The Avengers, is a highly enjoyable, often rousing and deeply satisfying comic book fable.
New On Netflix: Navy SEALs
Charlie Sheen and Michael Biehn lead a team of highly trained super-soldiers in this extremely far-fetched, shamelessly patriotic and terrifically entertaining action flick.
New On Netflix: The Omega Man
The last man on Earth is one of the hammiest actors on the planet as Charlton Heston battles pale nocturnal hippies in this adaptation of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend.
Music For: Getting Physical
Get physical. And not like Olivia Newtown John. Here's a collection of potent albums, mixtapes, and tracks for you to run to, rep to, or you know, mentally move with, however you choose.
New On Netflix: The Dream Team
Michael Keaton leads a quartet of crazies on the loose in the Big Apple in this strange and seemingly slapped-together late '80s comedy.
Tyler, The Creator “Summer Camp Mix 2011″
Odd Future's most outspoken member Tyler, The Creator's mixtape of his favorites for Summer 2011. Thankfully he has great taste in music and the mix is fun: downtempo hip-hop, a nice sampling of R+B, and a couple of indie tracks. SWAG.
New On Netflix: Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
This witless and pointlessly crass crime caper starring Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken and a bunch of other actors who should know better might be the most wretched of the nihilistic '90s Tarantino-wannabes.
What’s New In Games This Week
The two standouts this week include the wild west in modern day L.A., and a whole new world that's ready to be rebuilt from the ground up, literally.
What’s New In Music This Week
This week: Pictureplane gets physical; Crystal Antlers take it up a notch; Autre Ne Veut...you love it or you hate it; Future Islands most potent expression to date; Brooklyn MC Theophilus London has something for everyone.
New On Netflix: I Saw the Devil
Ji-woon Kim's fascinating and deeply disturbing revenge film should please fans of Oldboy and connoisseurs of extreme cinema.
Best of Netflix: The Art of Time Travel
You don't need a DeLorean to enjoy all of the time-traveling adventures available on Netflix Instant. Get ready for some wild rides to the past, present, future and all of the mind-boggling alternate realities in-between.
All Tomorrow’s Parties / I’ll Be Your Mirror Lineup
Portishead curates this year's three day event, featuring Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel, Battles, Swans, Ultramagnetic MCs, Mogwai, The Horrors and more.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Movie Review
The final adventure of The Boy Who Lived is a grand, operatic and richly satisfying curtain call filled with astonishing spectacle, rich emotion and, above all, powerful performances.
New On Netflix: Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Cary Elwes makes for a fine Robin of Loxley (complete with real British accent) in Mel Brooks' not-bad spoof of the Merry Men legend.
eMusic’s Free Pitchfork Fest Sampler
eMusic has put together a free, 29-song sampler with artists playing at this weekend's Pitchfork Festival in Chicago. Fleet Foxes, Battles, Toro Y Moi, Neko Case, Deerhunter, OFF!, Yuck, Shabazz Palaces and more show up.
New On Netflix: Vision Quest
Matthew Modine is a high school wrestler who falls for the older Linda Fiorentino in this hokey yet earnest coming-of-age '80s drama.
Capitol Hill Block Party Music Festival Lineup
Seattle's next big music weekend: TV On the Radio, Explosions In The Sky, Ghostland Observatory, Thurston Moore, Yuck, Austra, The Cave Singers, Best Coast, Handsome Furs, Kurt Vile, Cold Cave, F*cked Up, Les Savy Fav, Battles, Ra Ra Riot, My Goodness and a whole lot more.
Music For: Dreaming
This week's edition is for the daydreamers, those with imaginations turned on, seeking aural dream-aids (not sleep-aids), or at least, something to compliment those moments of serene focus.
New On Netflix: Let Me In
Director Matt Reeves' American remake of the Swedish horror drama is a harrowing and touching tale of friendship and vampirism.
American Meth Documentary
I don't know if you've ever seen the effects of Meth first-hand, but it's not exactly the Fountain of Youth. More like the Fountain of Fug. Watch the entire American Meth documentary, a true classic narrated by Val Kilmer.
What’s New In Games This Week
It's a great week if you're into the college life: football, illicit substances, and science experiments gone wrong!
What’s New In Music This Week
This week: Washed Out's much anticipated second release, How To Dress Well makes a dedication, Eleanor Friedberger leaves Fiery Furnaces, Zomby brings beats and Panda Bear, and a freebie from Yung Life.
Virgin Mobile Free Fest Lineup Announced
Richard Branson's annual free music festival returns to the DC area. This year: The Black Keys, Deadmau5, Cee Lo Green, Cut Copy, TV On the Radio, Empire of the Sun, LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, Ghostland Observatory, !!!, Empire of the Sun and more. Find out how to get tickets here.
New On Netflix: Dragnet
Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks investigate the City of Crime in this loving spoof / homage to the '50s cop show.
Meat Katie: Vibrate
Meat Katie brings you this 60 + minute, main room, 3am, hard breaks set that is sure to get your blood pumping.
Best of Netflix: Hit Men (and Women)
The targets have been identified and the contracts have been signed. Set your sniper scope sights on these dark and dangerous tales of professional killers, now available for immediate engagement on Netflix Instant.
New On Netflix: Crank: High Voltage
Jason Statham is back -- somehow -- for more full-speed, full-adrenaline cartoon mayhem as he races against time to get his heart back. Literally.
