A Cross the Universe

I recently had the opportunity to watch the new Justice documentary.

Holy shit balls man. It's short, but just long enough, packed densely with everything you want out of a banger band doc: electro, booze, bus tour with a crazy bus driver, guns, titties, cops, fights, sex, and a crazy tour manager.

The entire film serves as a snapshot of America through the eyes of French people. It epitomizes every American stereotype you can imagine. Moreover, it gives absolute credence to these stereotypes while blurring the line between fiction and reality.



What I got from this film: electro is the new rock and roll. electro is the new religion. Every girl in the world wants to be in your pants if you are a successful electro band.

It's just like the eighties without all the coke.

The filmmaker simply and subtly sets the movie for all of it's points and contrasts making absolutely clear what Justice means to the world, or on a broader scale what electro is doing to the world. Along the way it captures the reality of live Justice shows and what exactly happened on the North American tour. There is really very little live footage in the film, but what is in there is solid gold.



It's obviously highly recommended to everyone. It was the most inspirational film I've seen all year. If you are planning on seeing it than don't read the SPOILERS I'm about to give to everyone who wasn't going to see it.

**********SPOILERS
Watch this movie if you want to see:
*Justice shooting guns
*Justice getting married in las vegas
*A crazy bus driver who's convinced he has the lowest voice ever
*Justice shopping for giant mansions
*A drunk bitch serenading Justice in possibly the most excruciatingly painful piece of footage I've ever seen.
*titties
*Incredibly moving live footage
*Justice getting arrested.

Watch this movie if you don't want to be proud of your country but you want to be proud of your generation.
*************END SPLOITZ

It's hilarious, it's fucking banger, and badass as hell. DO ET.

The DVD is coming out soon and will include a full length live album - nothing necessarily new, but absolutely fresh.

Justice - Phantom 1.5 (live)

JUSTICE - A CROSS THE UNIVERSE (teaser)
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Marina and the Diamonds

Melodramatic popular song.

It's good to know that Good Weather For Airstrikes didn't die when it died. Our favorite dead blog became Neon Gold Records.

I am officially giving NGR the title of "Cheetah Love's Favorite Zombie Blog." *cheers*

Not only is the man behind the magic still blogging incredible music, he is grabbing the pop genre by the balls and injecting it with awesome. That is to say - he brought delicious Passion Pit to the world. And now,

Marina and the Diamonds will smack the world in the face with their debut single in mid-december, proudly sporting the Neon Gold label. Hopefully before then we will be able to hear the single in all it's poppy goodness. For now, it's stuck in the studio with Mr. Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps, y'all), and will likely emerge in an even more godly form than the hot demo version of the song, which is attached to this post.

Marina, the lovely English girl, reminds me of Regina Spektor just a tad, with obvious heavy pop punches. It is: very lyrical, driven like a fallen angel would drive the "Bitchen Vocals Bus" - if ya know what I mean - in the best way possible. I have been into the type of music lately, the kind of music with vocals that could break your heart alone - but the the words are arranged so perfectly they grind your heart into a fine powder - only to be packaged together in a wonderfully delicious cocktail of a song.

The song is called Obsessions, and your spine might tingle a tad (fair warning). The demo version of the song has been around for a while, but rest assured, when the Sneaker Pimp'd version comes out, you'll hear it.

NEON GOLD is my hero.
Marina and the Diamonds (MS) - Obsessions (Demo)

PS: You might have noticed a lot of dead links. I got slapped in the face with a DMCA notice and my hosting site was shut down. Too bad, but oh well... the cheetah marches on. Cheetah just wants to love music, why won't they let the cheetah love music!?!

Architecture in Helsinki

Good news everybody!

This nice little single just popped out of AIH's studio in Melbourne. The first time in four years the whole band has recorded together in their home town! If this single is a sign of what their new album will sound like, then it looks like we'll be in for another major overhaul in AIH's sound. Do y'all remember falling in love with AIH over Fingers Crossed and In Case We Die? Personally, I loved the new direction the band took with Places Like This but I know I'm certainly not speaking for most of you (who hated it). The new single "That Beep" is neither/nor, so here's to hoping we'll all be starstruck when the new album hits.

"New album???" you ask! Has it not been just over a year since the last one? It seems the band had so much fun recording the single that they didn't mind letting us know about their upcoming release. Vision Revision will be out sometime "in the future," and will hopefully contain just as much Kellie Sutherland as this track does:

Architecture In Helsinki (OS)|(MS)
Architecture in Helsinki - That Beep
Architecture in Helsinki - That Beep (Radioclit Remix)

Funeral Party

Punk music has lost quality aesthetic! That bubble sploded a long time ago. Are you with me on that?

I don't want to justify why I'm posting this band. They are just a good move in the right direction for the general umbrella of punk music.

They were just signed to Fearless Records and are finishing up their tour with Yelle and Passion Pit. I caught them at the Berbati's Pan in Portland, OR and I haven't been so pleased with an opener in a very long time.

Cheetah is all about post-punk dance music.

Funeral Party (MS)