Established in San Francisco in 1993, Noise Pop is the leading independent music festival in the Bay Area. Over the last 19 years Noise Pop has provided exposure to some of the top emerging artists, many of whom have gone on to widespread acclaim, including  the White Stripes, Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips,  Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins, Bright Eyes, Fleet Foxes, Magnetic Fields and Wolfmother.  In 2006 Noise Pop began expanding the scope and presence of its established brand into year-round events (including the Treasure Island Music Festival) in the Bay Area and beyond that celebrate all forms of independent culture, music, film, art and merchandise to an ever expanding community.

www.noisepop.com

ABOUT ANOTHER PLANET ENTERTAINMEN

Since its inception in 2003, Another Planet Entertainment has produced and promoted events with artists as diverse as Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, Neil Young, Daft Punk, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Metallica, Paul McCartney and Kanye West. In its first year of operation, Another Planet was selected by a vote of its concert industry peers as “Promoter of the Year” in the United States by Pollstar Magazine. Now a Bay Area staple, Another Planet is the exclusive promoter for the Greek Theatre (Berkeley), the Fox Theater in Oakland, The Independent in San Francisco and Harvey’s Outdoor Amphitheatre in Lake Tahoe. In 2010, APE was honored to be awarded the exclusive contract to operate the historic Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. APE also produces two major yearly festivals in San Francisco – Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival (beginning in 2008) and Treasure Island Music Festival (beginning in 2007).

http://www.apeconcerts.com/

For more information, please contact:

Jen Appel / Joey Primero

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212-246-2640

 jen@pressherepublicity.com / joey@pressherepublicity.com

In Issue No.4 of THE LAB MAGAZINE we got the opportunity to listen in on a conversation between director David Fincher and Stellan Skargsard as they discussed acting, life in Sweden and their latest/greatest project, the newest edition of the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy – Which we are super excited for.

Check out the feature inside THE LAB MAGAZINE ISSUE NO.4, sold around the world. You can check a piece of it here — http://thelabmagazineonline.com/2011/09/stellan-skarsgard/

Trailer for Fincher’s Girl with the dragon tattoo:

Check out their WEBSITE HERE to learn more about the GUMMY SKULLS:

The official Flaming Lips store is excited to announce it has received more of The Flaming Lips 2011 Gummy Song Skull that includes 4 NEW Flaming Lips songs stored on a USB that comes INSIDE of the skull. A small quantity will be released every week until the skulls are completely sold out so be sure to check back often. Eat your way to the new music!!

Tracklisting:
1. Drug Chart
2. In Our Bodies, Out Of Our Heads
3. Walk With Me
4. Hillary’s Time Machine Machine?

Video By: Jeremy Power Regimbal
Song: “Get Some” by Lykke Li
[Winston's Footage shot by Trevor Undi]

WORDS BY DANIELLE SIPPLE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY HILARY WALSH
STYLING BY BRITT BARDO @ MAGNET
MAKE UP BY MICHELLE MUNGCAL @ ATELIER MANAGEMENT
HAIR BY COLEEN CONWAY @ AIM
OUTFIT BY ELKIN

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Danish-born song-writer, producer and performer Oh Land is metaphorically out of this world. Her musical styling is laced with ethereal qualities that are deeply rooted in the classical dance and musical training of her youth – her mother is an opera singer, her father an organist and she went to ballet school. “I think you can only rebel against something if you know it well.” And rebel she has, without forgetting where she’s been. After giving up on ballet after a major dance injury Oh Land suddenly had space in her life for music or as she puts it, “Music found me.”

Movement remains a large part of her performance as well as an integral component of the overall sound of her music. Many of her songs from her discography have a pumping percussion element to them “I do miss using my body for expression,” she admits, “which is why I like being physical on stage. And drums are the most physical instrument – I want [the music] to feel physical.” And the dream stage for such a physical expression? “I think the Taj Mahal, with a lot of elephants wearing ear plugs and the Kirov Ballet dancing with me.”

Despite her roots she admits that most of her career and success as a musician has been since she left Denmark – she now lives in New York. “I started my music career with [Danish label] Fake Diamond Records, but I moved soon after and continued making music in many places, so I just consider myself a musician from Oh Land.” Her artistic inspiration is the year 2050, even though she confides that she has no specific idea around that futuristic reality. “I’m definitely inspired by forward movement, innovation, things industrial and mechanic.”

Moving forward in mind, her latest album is an American self-titled release that came out earlier this year, a full three years after her first album Fauna and she’s learned a lot in the interim, especially working with heavy-hitting producers like Pharrell Williams, Dan Carey and Dave McCracken. “When I went in to this new chapter in my life I met a lot of new people,” she says. “This business has taught me a few lessons and I think that I have become less naive. Things that would have taken me two days to realize myself would take 20 minutes with them.”

With the new album loose in North America, Oh Land is about to take her live stage show on the road with Sia and Ximena Sarinana. “I’m excited to go on the road with Sia, because I think that I can learn so much from watching her perform.” And when she’s not touring, she’s back home in Brooklyn thriving in the big city. “When things are very hectic around me, I find it easier to rest, which is why New York City is probably a good place for me, although I may have a little bit more black in my wardrobe these days.”

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WORDS BY MIKEY LIPKA
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHNATHAN CRAWFORD

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Paul Cary’s musical journey started in his grandparents’ farmhouse in Decorah, Iowa when he was 12. “I was watching Saturday Night Live when Neil Young came on and played Rockin’ in the Free World. It blew my mind. I got an acoustic guitar a couple of months later for Christmas and have been beating on guitars ever since.” Twenty‑something years later Paul has banded together a tight-knit group of like-minded musicians, notably Johnathan Crawford (drums) and Adam Pely (Farfisa) to make up Paul Cary and the Small Scarys. “We decided to drop the bass for a while and try something different,” he explains. “The organ creates a good atmosphere.”

Now living in Chicago working on a new Scarys album, Paul has surrounded himself with the tools to do what truly makes him happy… construction. “My ideal environment is being surrounded by wood, saws and nail guns during the week and hanging out with friends on the weekend. I recently started my own construction company called Cary Carpentry & Construction, in honor of my grandfather’s business Cary’s Machine & Welding. It’s just me so it’s a small operation, but it works.” After the work boots come off, Paul excites ear drums aplenty with his band’s one-of-a-kind sound that seems to tune in to a multitude of musical eras from the last half-century. “I don’t think 2011 suits me,” Cary admits, “but I’m having fun on stage now. These are very interesting times, and there are still songs that need to be written.”

Cary once lent his vocals and guitar skills to the gritty punk band The Horrors while driving a taxi cab in Iowa City. “My early twenties was a very trivial part of my life, of anyone’s life, I think. I am more comfortable in my own skin now. There was a time and place for The Horrors but what we are doing now is exactly what I want to be doing. I guess I’m not a pissed off 18‑year‑old anymore. I’m a bitter 33‑year‑old.” Cary was sitting in that taxi cab when he impulsively made the decision to up sticks and move to Chicago. “I was waiting for a fare in downtown Iowa City when a girlfriend of mine walked by and said, ‘I’m moving to Chicago and I need a roommate.’ I said, ‘I’m in, when are we leaving?’”

Cary’s on-a-whim move to the Windy City saw him develop his music and led to a chance meeting with Scarys drummer Johnathan Crawford. “I was playing a solo set at a festival in Missouri four or five years ago. Halfway through the set John jumped up on stage and started playing the drum kit set up from the previous band. We have been playing together ever since.” Their musical appreciation and understanding of each other is such that Crawford recorded half of the songs on Cary’s solo album Ghost of a Man. “John has a great ear and knows exactly what I’m going for.” Crawford is also behind the website CandyDinner.com, which features a collection of albums by new and successful artists, including Cary, that you can download for free and has helped the band get their music to fans fast.

Paul is a breath of fresh air. He doesn’t conform to popular trends and sticks to what he does best – playing live. His honest, gritty sound can be heard on 2010’s Ghost of a Man. “I guess I try to write songs that I would want to hear,” he says of the album. “If someone else likes it, that’s great. If not, then that’s fine, too.”

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WORDS BY DARYA KOSILOVA
ARTWORK BY GREG EASON

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Within every human there is a world, a place, where the mind is set free to explore its own survival, to ask itself questions, to scratch at the cycles of life and death. This place thrives with strange creativity as it celebrates the joys of its own accomplishments and mourns the battles lost to pain. Many nights are spent in this world by Greg Eason. While people on his side of the world sleep, the 26-year-old, “semi-bearded” artist living in London, England is producing drawings and paintings that are intricate and mysterious yet have a bare visual simplicity and harmony that set the eye, but not the mind, at peace.

Eason, a graduate of the Norwich School of Art, has steadily created an immense body of work that not only showcases his formal craft and attention to detail but haunts the viewer with conceptual narrative and isolated beauty of the subject matter. Eason states, “I guess I’m drawn to things beautiful, sad, and dark all at the same time.” Taking his inspiration from artists such as Alexander McQueen and Damien Hirst, Eason’s drawings depict skulls, spotted eggs, winged creatures, and the odd lonely figure that is isolated by a void of open space. “A lot of my work explores the ideas around life and death. They are the only sure things that we have. We create a story for ourselves in-between… but it’s all rather silly,” he says.

The monumental beauty in Eason’s work lies in the precise architecture of the world his creations live in. Every object hovers in the lonely space of the paper as if to say that there is a purpose in its life; a point to it all. If anybody is wondering what lives inside the eggs Eason draws, he’ll tell you, “It’s up to the individual as to what the egg contains, if anything at all. The egg may be symbolic of life, but that doesn’t mean that life is present. It can simply be a thought,” he explains.

By looking at his work, it’s no surprise that Eason is a self-proclaimed minimalist. “Clean white desks and desktops. I don’t handle mess very well; I can’t think.” Eason’s workspace resides in a warehouse where he chooses to work “at night, with headphones, and cigarettes.” When asked what song would play if his artwork were fed into a device that turned it into music, Eason seamlessly stated Endorphin by Burial.

Eason’s latest projects have secured him a spot with The Contemporary London Gallery where he had recently released prints of his work, as well as transformed his characteristic aesthetic into T-shirt designs. When Eason is in a debate about the balance of commercial success versus fine art acclaim, he strongly keeps to the integrity within his practice. Priority for him lies not in commercial distribution but in the notion of staying true to what fuels his creative process.

A lifetime of nocturnal practice awaits Greg Eason as he continues to draw out his discoveries on life, death, and everything in between.

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WORDS BY BROOKE STONE
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JUSTIN TYLER CLOSE
STYLING BY JILL LINCOLN
HAIR BY JOHN D FOR ALTERNA @ STARWORKSARTISTS.COM
MAKE-UP BY KATE LEE FOR CHANEL @ STARWORKSARTISTS.COM
MANICURE BY BETH FRICKE

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Leslie Bibb will make bitter people angry. Why? Because she’s so darn happy. From Wrist Cutters: A Love Story, the Iron Man films and TV shows like Popular, ER and Crossing Jordan to her latest comedy Zookeeper, her work has been diverse and abundant. “I feel pretty good about where I am in the business,” she says. “I have a lot of gratitude for this life and I am proud of myself, standing where I am today.” She should be.

In a town where most actors traipse from one unsuccessful casting call to another, desperately seeking that breakout roll, Bibb’s path was a little different. Oprah Winfrey found her in a modeling contest when she was just 16. “That turned my life upside down,” she says. “I went to New York City and traveled the world. It afforded me a great life and allowed me to study acting, while still having a beautiful apartment and not struggling financially. I call modeling my bartending job. That time was amazing and crazy and normal and abnormal all at once.” Want to know what kind of crazy teenage models get up to when they’re traveling the world? She’s keeping tight-lipped on that one, “None of your beeswax, but I had fun.”

Bibb is known for her positive outlook and refusal to dish the dirt, which has helped her keep her chin up when she’s missed out on parts she really wanted. She won’t say which ones, but rather sighs knowingly and says, “Ah, yeah, it’s Hollywood.” Rather than dwelling on what she missed out on, the upbeat actress cherishes each project she’s asked to be a part of. “My last job is always my favorite and the one I’m most proud of. So, right now, it’s Zookeeper and Good Christian Belles. I guess because they’re the freshest in my mind and what I am entrenched in that makes them my favorite. However, I love all the stuff I’ve done.”

ABC’s Good Christian Belles stars Bibb as a single mother and former high school mean girl who returns to her Dallas hometown and her mom’s house after her marriage ends in scandal and must then face the girls she terrorized as a teen. “The schedule and the speed at which television operates is a little intimidating,” she says of her new job, “but I am over the moon about working with [Sex and the City creator] Darren Star, [Steel Magnolias writer] Bobby Harling and all these funny, talented women. But, I imagine by December, when we are done, I will be pooped.”

You’d think with a schedule like that, Bibb would have no time for a social life, but you’d be wrong. She’s currently dating Iron Man 2 co-star and Lab Magazine cover alumni Sam Rockwell who knows a thing or two about the life of a hard‑working actor. Does Bibb get all green‑eyed being with someone who might have to make out with other actresses for a role? “I don’t get jealous about love scenes,” she says. “Every guy I have ever dated has been such a shit-show about them and made me feel so guilty about a part of my job I can’t change or help. I won’t do that to Sam.”

Aside from some unusual websites dedicated to her fabulous feet on which she says, “That Web can go squirrelly on you fast. Don’t get me wrong, I have some nice feet, but that’s overkill. Someone is very, very bored!” things are going rather swimmingly for Ms. Bibb. And what does this optimistic lady want for her future? “I think that is a very intimate question,” she says, “And I am keeping the answer between me, my dreams and God!” Of course she is. Just like a good, completely loveable Christian belle.

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WORD BY TILLY STASIUK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JUSTIN TYLER CLOSE
STYLING BY JENNY RICKER
GROOMING BY ROSIE JANE JOHNSTON

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As a comic actor and vocal virtuoso there’s no doubt Hank Azaria has made you laugh. In what he refers to as his “longest relationship” the Queens native has voiced a whole banana‑colored bunch of Groening guises in The Simpsons. So when Sony announced he was their lead baddy in one of this year’s biggest 3D flicks The Love Lab cracked a huge smile. With a set of Emmy and Screen Actors Guild awards and an illustrious film career under his belt, demonstrating his talents once again as an evil balding wizard for The Smurfs was water off a duck’s back.

Based on the original comic strip and the 1980s cartoon TV series, The Smurfs sees an almost unrecognisable Azaria take on the live-action role of devious potion-mixer Gargamel. The film follows a band of the animated miniature do-gooders (voiced by the likes of Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry and Alan Cumming) as they are set upon by Azaria’s nasty Smurf-hunter and chased out of their picturesque village only to wind up in the Big Apple. With a little help from some new human friends (Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays) they must find their way back before the black-caped, bucked-teeth, big-nosed meany, accompanied by a ginger feline sidekick, tracks them down and captures them for his own evil ends.

“He is a man obsessed with little blue people and married to a cat. As a result he’s fairly easily stressed out,” Azaria says of his latest character’s unusual personality. He arrived at Gargamel’s distinctive voice after narrowing it down from two or three different options, resulting in a suitably wicked Eastern-European lilt. Azaria has also said previously how during filming he occasionally reminded himself of his Greek mother chasing after him and his sisters when they were children.

Raised by Sephardic Jewish parents in New York, Azaria grew up admiring the timeless standards of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Mel Blanc, and Willis Reed. And after years in the business, he’s now highly regarded by his own fans and peers – especially in the voice-acting realm. Adding his latest stint as Gargamel to the list, he says his top all-time jobs are as lisping Guatemalan houseboy Agador Spartacus in The Birdcage, his growing stockpile of Simpsons characters and, “a memorable summer behind a cash register at Au Bon Pain.” And the role he feels he bears the closest resemblance to? “Personality-wise… Moe. Look-wise… Moe,” he says affectionately of the Springfield bartender he has been voicing since 1989.

Hank now lives in Los Angeles where he admits the public get to see pretty much everything of his life besides, “my raising of chinchillas.” Soon he might have to find a sitter for those fluffy furballs because his current workload will certainly be keeping him busy. “Happy Feet Two is out in November, 2011. I play a Scandinavian puffin bird. Also, I’m in Free Agents on NBC this fall, which premieres September 14th. It’s really funny, I swear. Amazingly, I also play a Scandinavian puffin bird.”

There’s no doubt Hank Azaria has made you laugh, but what’s been his biggest career giggle? Was it something Apu said? Or maybe one of Moe’s unfortunate prank calls? Nope. “I once had a wardrobe malfunction and accidentally exposed my nipple to the entire Super Bowl audience,” he says. “Oh no wait, that was Janet Jackson.”

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