Hopefully the masses survived the trauma of a week without Built For Speed but fear not we’re back this Friday with a packed show. It’s classic album time once again and with Lee Renaldo and Thurston Moore soon to be in town for the Melbourne festival, our August album is Sonic Youth’s 1990 breakthrough masterpiece Goo. There’s also plenty of new
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 17TH AUGUST 2012 1. REGURGITATOR – Crush the losers.(Aus) 2. THE MEN – Turn it around. 3. COURTNEY LOVE – Mono. 4. TY STEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – I am not a game. 5. MIKAL CRONIN – Is it alright? 6. POND – Elegant design. (Aus) 7. BADFINGER- No matter what. 8. BEE GEES –You should
Read moreThe Campaign tries to fit a political comedy into the Will Ferrell movie template which means we have the joy of seeing Ferrell go nuts but also a plot so predictable that you will feel like Nostradamus as you watch the film. Just imagine Talladega Nights nascar driver Ricky Bobby as a politician and you’ll have a pretty good idea
Read moreAfter last week’s 80’s special Built For Speed is back to more contemporary fare this week with new music from Redd Kross and Jack White. We don’t completely ignore the classic rock as we commemorate the 35th anniversary of Elvis’ death. We also review the latest Will Ferrell/ Zach Galifianakis film The Campaign and look over some of the Melbourne International Film Festival
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 10TH AUGUST 2012 – 80’s SPECIAL 1. ADAM AND THE ANTS – Stand and deliver. 2. DEAD KENNEDYS – Holiday in Cambodia. 3. THE DESCENDENTS – Silly girl. 4. HUSKER DU – Don’t want to know if you’re lonely. 5. SMITHS – This charming man 6. STONE ROSES – I am the resurrection. 7. BILLY BRAGG –
Read moreSorry to go all Jerry Seinfeld but what is the deal with these weird films set in the back of limo’s. First, there was nightmarish French freak-fest Holy Motors and now David Cronenberg’s bizarre dystopian limo odyssey Cosmopolis. Set in a surreal, Kafkaesque New York, Cosmopolis sees Wall Street titan, Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) creeping through grid-locked traffic in his
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