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This years Sunset Junction Festival in L.A. will take place August 23rd and 24th. The full line-up has yet to be released, but Saturdays headliners will include Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Cold War Kids, and Broken Social Scene. Sundays headliners include Kinky and The Black Keys.

Visit the official Sunset Junction site for more info.

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Indie-pop duo Mates of State add to their signature sound for their forthcoming album titled Re-Arrange Us. Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have long been kicking out tunes with their organ and drum combo, but for their fifth full-length album they add guitar, strings, horns, and piano! Re-Arrange Us officially releases next tuesday (May 20th).

Stream the album in it's entirety from Mates of State's MySpace

The vinyl LP version (with single-use code to download the entire album as high-quality MP3 files) will be available June 17th through Barsuk Records

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Nope, we couldn't make it to this years Cannes Film Festival either, but that doesn't stop us from getting psyched about some of the films (premiering at the festival), which will make their debuts nationwide later this year.

First let's mention the official poster, which is a photograph by David Lynch, adapted by French cinema poster artist Pierre Collier. It pays tribute to the talent and works of the renowned American filmmaker. The event organizer said the poster's design conveys the same tone as director Lynch's films. David Lynch's films have been nominated four times at the Cannes Film Festival. He also won the Golden Palm award for Best Picture in 1990 (for Wild at Heart) and an award for best Director for the film Mulholland Drive in 2001.

There are just too many films to mention making their debut at the festival. Amongst those I'm looking forward to hearing about are Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, Steven Soderbergh's Che, and Clint Eastwood's Changeling. Couldn't find any trailers for those films, but here's a couple that I did find trailers for.

Fernando Meirelles' (director of City of God, The Constant Gardener) Blindness...



Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona...



Visit the official Cannes Film Festival site for more info.

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Apocalypse How is a comprehensive cataclysmic guide that walks you through the Nine Most Likely World-Ending Scenarios, and provides useful and hilarious advice on every aspect of surviving in the new world to come. The book is from Daily Show writer Rob Kutner and covers everything from food, shelter, and relocation to social life, dating, recreation and careers.

Stephen Colbert says, “If you buy only one book to accompany you through horrific worldwide catastrophe, make it this one.”

Read book excerpts from Chapters 3, 7, and 8 Right Here

Watch an animated promo titled Apocalyptic Exercises...

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I've been enjoying the new album from The Heavy titled Great Vengeance and Furious Five, whose sound is both a bit retro contemporary. On the track "Coleen" the band sound like they can rival Gnarls Barkley's best, on "That Kind of Man" they sound like Curtis Mayfield with electric guitars, and the trip-hop tune "Brukpockets Lament" finds them at their best.

The Heavy hail from Noid, a small town in South West England and their debut album Great Vengeance and Furious Fire was released on Counter Records/NinjaTune in the U.K. in October 07 and has just released in the U.S.

Have a listen...

"Coleen"

"That Kind of Man"

Hear more from The Heavy's MySpace

Order the album here

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