While You Were Sleeping, Michael Cera Made A Short Film With Kelis And Das Racist
Here are some things that happened overnight. Featuring the Splendour lineup, the Thor trailer, and Michael Cera's 20-minute movie.
Frank Ocean Is Coming!
After rudely cancelling his last planned tour of Australia for Future Music Festival 2012, Frank Ocean will be playing at this year’s Splendour In The Grass – and it’s not an exclusive set, which means HELLO SIDESHOWS.
Obviously that is not the only news. The full, huge lineup was announced this morning on triple j, and includes James Blake (again?), Haim (yes!), Klaxons (are still a thing?), The National (only Aus show), Mumford & Sons (only Aus show), Airborne (whut.), Of Monsters & Men, Ms Mr, Laura Marling, Empire Of The Sun, The Presets, Flume, TV On The Radio, Bernard Fanning, Babyshambles, Passion Pit, Birds Of Tokyo, Cold War Kids, Darwin Deez, Sarah Blasko, Boy & Bear, The Rubens, Drapht, You Am I (performing Sound As Ever and Hi-Fi Way), The Drones, Gurrumul, Cloud Control, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Drapht, Hermitude, Daughter, Wavves, Portugal. The Man, Chet Faker, Fidlar, PVT, Dune Rats, Villagers, Jagwar Ma,Vance Joy, Surfer Blood, Violent Soho, The Growl, Songs and loads more.
Splendour In The Grass happens from July 26-28, at its new home in the North Byron Parklands, and tickets go on sale at 9am (AEST) on Thursday May 2.
With Yolanda Be Cool, Flume and Gurrumul on the lineup, our fingers are crossed for a live one of these:
Watch A New Short Film By Michael Cera:
Brazzaville Teen-ager, released overnight via Jash (Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric’s new YouTube channel), was co-written by Michael Cera and Bruce Jay Friedman (Splash, Stir Crazy), who wrote the story on which it was based.
The film, directed by Cera, follows Gunther (Cera) trying to save his father (Charles Grodin)’s life with an outlandish plan involving Kelis and Himansho Suri from Das Racist. It is quite surreal, occasionally experimental (hello, soundscapes), sometimes sad, but mostly funny. And you can watch it all in full RIGHT NOW.
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Here’s Chris Hemsworth And Natalie Portman In The Thor: The Dark World Trailer:
The first Thor movie, which netted $450 million, was directed by Kenneth Branagh; this one comes from Alan Taylor, who’s won an Emmy for The Sopranos and has tried his hand at Mad Men and Game Of Thrones as well.
It looks big and dark and fighty (duh), and has already been compared to the Star Trek Into Darkness trailer by Vulture, who list the similarities: both open with a speech by an older mentor; both destroy London; both capture the villain inside a white-walled glass prison; and both feature blue tint and lots of jumping.
Thor: The Dark World comes out this November.
Janelle Monáe + Erykah Badu, Finally:
Okay, technically this happened yesterday, but we didn’t post about it and you need to hear what it sounds like when two forward-thinking and endlessly creative women twerk work on something together. So here, from two pioneers of neo-soul and funk:
