We hope you had a great new year’s eve, get ready for some great things to come from FAN THE FIRE in 2012!
Don’t eat too much, we hope you get all the presents you want, don’t get too drunk, and have fun with the family!
Taken by me outside Selfridges, London. Lots of love and good cheer. I’m definitely hitting the sales tomorrow.
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Dawes has confirmed a long string of tour dates, including four weeks with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. Besides these dates, they will be on the road through August playing shows with Josh Ritter, supporting Band of Horses as well as She & Him, and performing at several of the summer’s biggest festivals, including Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza.
We debuted their new video for When My Time Comes yesterday, the second single and perhaps most heart-stopping song on their debut record, North Hills. The record, which was released last fall, hailed immediate love from critics. Rolling Stone praised the band, claiming “Taylor Goldsmith sings like a less-tortured Richard Manuel while the band backs him up with goose-bump-y CSN-style harmonies.” Dawes have been touring nonstop since the release of North Hills, perfecting their live show and developing a rabid fanbase across the country as a result.
Tour dates after the jump. More
Pixar can do no wrong, right? Just look at their track record; but now the cracks in their armour are beginning to show. Their latest orignal IP, Newt has been cancelled, and a big majority of their production releases for the next couple of years are now largely focussed on sequels. Is this pressure from Disney? Animation, specifically CG animation, is always years in development from concept to release, so a lot of thought is put into each piece of work. Has Pixar gotten too big? This news, coupled with their first real-life feature film (allegedly), John Carpenter of Mars, to be released in 2012, means Pixar is repeating Disney’s history, or they will once again prove they’re leaps and bounds ahead of anyone else in the industry. You know what? It’ll probably be the latter.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will be celebrating Halloween with a very special giveaway for Scribblenauts owners daring to meet at London Dungeon and seek out its scariest representative. More
This afternoon, Field Day returns to Victoria Park, east London. Last year’s one-day festival was one of the highlights of the summer, so with Mystery Jets, Delphic, Erol Alkan, Little Boots, Rusko and many more all performing, it’s sure to be a fantastic afternoon, and we’ll be live blogging from the event on our Twitter page, so keep up to date here: twitter.com/fanthefire.
When Fox, alongside Comedy Central, greenlit 26 new episodes to form a sixth season of the much celebrated cartoon Futurama, for once, the heavily criticised company appeared to be making some good decisions for their creative future. How quickly everything can change. More
After a bit of delay, our iPhone app is here at last. Available for free download from the iTunes app store, the app allows you to download our issues with the tap of a single button to read whenever you want, on the go or in the comfort of your own home, all on your iPhone or iPod touch.
You can find the Fan the Fire Magazine app in the app store here.
