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So Neutral Milk Hotel are touring again...

Slint's 'Spiderland'. Jesus christ what a bleak album.

https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/319894506931617793

Sun-Times Obituary

Roger Ebert loved movies.

Except for those he hated.

For a film with a daring director, a talented cast, a captivating plot or, ideally, all three, there could be no better advocate than Roger Ebert, who passionately celebrated and promoted excellence in film while deflating the awful, the derivative, or the merely mediocre with an observant eye, a sharp wit and a depth of knowledge that delighted his millions of readers and viewers.

“No good film is too long,” he once wrote, a sentiment he felt strongly enough about to have engraved on pens. “No bad movie is short enough.”

Ebert, 70, who reviewed movies for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years and on TV for 31 years, and who was without question the nation’s most prominent and influential film critic, died Thursday in Chicago. He had been in poor health over the past decade, battling cancers of the thyroid and salivary gland.

Oh My God. The new Flaming Lips album is so fucking good.

And Deerhunter have a new track as well! It just won't stop!

Well, they've just revealed the cover

The only one I've watched out of that bunch is moonrise kingdom, which was pretty decent.

I do want to see Dredd though. Heard great things about it.

I think White Light/White Heat is the best Velvet Underground record, so underrated.

Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots is a good Flaming Lips album, but The Soft Bulletin is a masterpiece.

I agree with metalman that Angles is the best strokes album.

Likewise, I always thought that Humbug was the best Arctic Monkeys album, never was a fan of the first two.

When you mention Talk Talk, people always talk about their new wave stuff (It's My Life etc.), but overlook their fantastic Post Rock records (Spirit of Eden/ Laughing Stock)

I'm a massive QOTSA fan, but I feel like not enough people appropriated stuff like their debut self-titled album at all.

Things Fall Apart is one of the greatest novels of all time. And Achebe was one of the great Nigerian icons. RIP

I'll just add in my thoughts and say that this new bowie album is fantastic.

Also, the new flaming lips song is fantastic, cannot wait for 'The Terror'

So the debut trailer for AC4 has already been leaked. Good Job Ubisoft.

I think that was confirmed somewhere.

Also, you can preorder this at ShopTo?

It's fucking brilliant though isn't it?

I am a bit miffed that they didn't show the console. I can understand why they haven't done it.

Also, here's a quick recap for people you didn't see it last night.

The social stuff is pretty cool, and the only real innovation that I liked from it. The "Spectator Mode" is genuinely great, though has potential to just dissolve into nothing but awful videos of adolescents swearing over an FPS, so it'll be interesting to see if Sony give any kind of incentive for gamers to provide something of quality.

Nintendo doing social gaming works, because they have a very friendly, hands-on image, whereas Sony are very cold and impersonal, so I can imagine it just being left up to the users to produce whatever they like, whereas I'd prefer the odd contest or suggestions being thrown out there as to what gamers should be sharing, to get the ball rolling, and to move it into a more interesting area.

The idea that load times won't exist just seems unbelievable to me. Will believe it when I see it.

The fact that they did a "reveal" press conference without even showing us the console rings alarm bells. I don't really know how to feel about that, but it leaves a bad taste in my mouth if nothing else. The fact that there's no release date or price given is disappointing too, though I expect that's more a case of playing their cards close to their chest so they can undermine any announcements Microsoft might make, and that makes sense. But from a consumer perspective, and from a "major announcement press conference" perspective, it absolutely sucks.

Lack of backwards compatibility is awful, particularly if PS4 continues to use Blu-Ray. Hopefully they come up with some form of "registration" system, where you can register your PS3 games to get a free - or at the very least, discounted - download of them to play on the "Cloud". I fully expect that won't be the case, though.

Even the game reveals were nothing too special. A lot of "oooh, pretty" footage of games we already knew existed, or else were dead certs to be coming to PS4 anyway. And all very Playstation. The only surprise was Diablo 3, a game that was released last year and was largely underwhelming. Yes, it's nice that they're bringing it to a console, but it's not a game changer. There was a complete lack of innovation, or really anything more than a glorified tech demo.

Like I said earlier, HD graphics and existing franchises just are not enough to sell a new console any more. Sorry to keep banging on about the WiiU, but it's my frame of reference, and the only available "next-gen" comparison I can draw; if you look at the trailers for WiiU games, the reveal of the console, the launch titles, and pretty much everything around it, every little thing was about how the games used the hardware, what the hardware was capable of, and what you could potentially do with this hardware.

In comparison, the PS4 "reveal" was little more than shaking a shiny ball in front of you. Only they didn't even do that, they just described the shiny ball.

Nintendo did this with the Wii U in E3 2011 and no one batted an eyelid. Microsoft did this with their Xbox 2000 reveal as well. They are saving the big guns for this years E3.

What does it look like?

Fuck Diablo 3.

Oh shit.

Is that watch dogs I hear in the distance?

First rule of Drive Club?

Graphics look nice. Not Crysis 3 levels though.

Game streaming sounds neat.

Damn that UI looks nice.

YES SHARE BUTTON!

Absolutely epic intro.

Enough about price drops. The PS4 is coming!