Previews
Rebirth
Lil Wayne
12th December
Ok, maybe this is a Lil early (geddit?) but as this issue seems to have become a Lil Wayne special, we just had to give this latest slab from Dwayne Michael Carter a few column inches. 'Rebirth' is touted as his rock album, with Wayne claiming that he plays "guitar on 80 percent of the tracks". Urm, we’re not sure if that's such a good idea having seen the footage floating around on YouTube of Carter kicking out the jams. Either way, it's Lil Wayne, so it'll be spectacular whatever happens.
2012
Odeon Cinema
Out Now
John Cusack's agent once told him he should do Con Air because sometimes he should actually try and get paid. One imagines there's a similar logic behind his role in latest disaster film, smash hit to be, 2012, which has all the makings of an absolutely huge blockbuster. That said, who are we to doubt the film's dubious plot line, which seems to have been copped from a mixture of the marvellous Independence Day and the not-so-great The Day After Tomorrow. Anyway, despite Cusack's implausible role as a science fiction writer who works as a limo driver, the CGI looks nice and juicy and it's probably quite a lot of fun in surround sound.
The Thing
Odeon Cinema
21st November 22:45 Showing ONLY
Oh man, this has got us excited. John Carpenter's classic horror thriller is back on the big screen for one night only. Whilst not as terrifying as Ridley Scott's Alien, it marries the thick as treacle tension that characterised Carpenter's revolutionary Assault On Precinct 13 with sci-fi in a manner that hasn't really been bettered since. Add a classic performance from eighties hardman Kurt Russell and one of Carpenter's trademark synth soundtracks and you’re certain that whatever might be lurking under the polar ice certainly isn't friendly. With an eerily late showing and tickets priced at a student friendly £3, this is not to be missed as far as we're concerned
Wavves w/ Zach Hill
Thekla Social
19th November
Attacking your drummer with bottles and your own shoe live on stage at one of the biggest European festivals, with an audience populated almost entirely by the kind of blogging addicts who brought you to fame in the first place, could hardly be described as a 'smart move'. But then again, Nathan Williams probably wasn't with it at Barcelona’s cult Primavera Festival in May. The man who essentially is Wavves is bringing his tape deck scuzz punk lo-fi back around the UK again following that ecstacy and valium related blowout. Whether it's any good or not is half of the fun, although the inclusion of Zach Hill as his drummer points to Williams starting to at least think about getting serious.
Baroness
The Blue Album
Relapse
Out Now
Baroness major in two things: riffs and more riffs. Having exploded out of the burgeoning Georgia metal scene (Mastodon, Harvey Milk, Kylesa, etc) in 2005 with The Red Album, they’ve made a name for themselves as a band who know how to be heavy, but haven’t forgotten how to be smart. Thus, the Blue Record is a pummelling mix of melodic guitar work, southern rock brawn and lead singer John Baisley’s feral howl and holler. Encouragingly this time around they've got grander designs: Blue Record sounds as gigantic as Mastodon's breakthrough Blood Mountain, and arguably Baroness have more firepower to back it up with. But really, the fact that Baisley has yet again designed the gorgeous looking artwork should be enough to encourage you to pick this one up.
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