Astronaut

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has formed a brand new, hip hop inspired band. Vernon has joined forces with rapper Astronautilis and the pair recorded an entire album last weekend, ahead of Bon Iver's sets at this weekend (April 13-15) and next's (April 20-22) Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. City Pages, via Stereogum, reports that the record also features Bon Iver drummer S. Carey and has been produced by Ryan Olson, with the new band working at Vernon's own April Base studio in Wisconsin.

Major Tom returns with an additional disc of alternate mixes and session takes

Award-winning indie sci-fi values ideas over effects, by Bowie's son

In an era where science fiction movies are, perhaps aptly, about pushing forward the boundaries of digital technology, it’s refreshing to find a movie like Moon, which seemingly makes a virtue of its analog approach to film making. This is, I think, the first film to rely almost completely on model work, as opposed to CGI, since Blade Runner in 1982. In fact, on almost every level, Moon is retrofitted sci-fi, most conspicuously indebted to movies like Silent Running, Solaris, 2001 and Alien. It’s almost as if Star Wars never happened.

Part 4 of Uncut's Tell Tale Signs special

Excellent doc concerning Apollo 13 space programme

Trashy celebration of cars, chicks and slasher flicks

Kevin Rowland, Paul Speare, Clive Langer talk to Uncut about the reissue of classic LP 'Too Rye Ay'

Sci-fi for ravers! Danny Boyle's psychedelic Space Odyssey

Last night, I went to see the first 25 minutes of 28 Weeks Later – the follow-up to Danny Boyle’s British zombie film, 28 Days Later.