Presque Citron Competition

French cartoon artist Jean-Paul Rufelin wins political cartoon festival "Presque Citron 2007" in Paris, with his strip of "Animaux Rebeles" published weekly in the La Vogue Politique newspaper. (more details here)

New Album "Hotel" by Hermitage Collective

New album from Hermitage Collective out on the retailers by April 1st.
This time the 5 element group was isolated in the Salt Lake City's Trumman Hotel for one month.
No TV, no telephone, no room service. The only contact with the exterior was through the 14th floor window over the hustle-and-bustle of Lincoln Square. A hard, introspective, sometimes even melancolic approach on danceable music. The Zeitgeist on urban decadence hymns! (Hear the pre-released single below)

"If These Walls Talked" - Hermitage + Ghuna X

My Paper Friend in a Windy Day

The australian Roy Rumble is back with a new hard-cover, fine-print, guaranteed-amusement book!
"My Paper Friend in a Windy Day" is a collection of short stories about the lonely and anonimous urban lifestyle. An amazingly well achieved comedy-disguised drama.
Click on the image above to see the advertizement animation.

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Kidnapp Ballad - Leonard Rag

Portsmouth Crooner's Revival

The year: 2007. The place: England's east coastal city of Portsmouth.
Triggered by fashion's unceasable revision of the past, a group of young male artists decide to take upon themselves the epithet once refused by popular music symbols like Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby: "Crooners".
"...passing from the Italian Opera to the american Jazz scene, "crooning" bears the attributes of the long-out-of-production-gentleman, the balladeer, the obsessively-romantic-guy...", "...from Portsmouth, specially Leonard Rag, whose Film Noir ambiance is taken as a sequence of a meeting between David Lynch and Tom Waits...". (Read the rest of the enterview with Joe Kardinal in this months issue of NoMatchFound)