So today sees the release of the new Coldplay album. This from The Sun:

“The collection is Coldplay’s most intricate to date. And the lads’ broad sound is due to the influence of their new unofficial fifth member JON HOPKINS.

The electronic music whizz was introduced to the band by producer BRIAN ENO. They immediately hit it off and demanded Jon stay on to help record the whole album.”

Nice work if you can get it. Congratulations Jon!

As with previous years, we have been inundated with phonecalls over the last few days from desperate filmmakers asking for a little more time to complete their short masterpiece - given that the screening event is not until the end of July, we have decided to allow a short extension of the deadline as a result.
The deadline has been extended from Friday 6th June to Friday 27th June 2008.
So, feel free to check out the tracks on offer www.thinksyncfilms.com and the new but FINAL, Final deadline for this year’s competition is now Friday 27th June - no exceptions!
Thanks very much!
About Thinksync Films
Founded in 2005, the competition brings together independent film makers with independent record labels and publishers, and entrants to the competition submit short films which incorporate one or more tracks downloadable free of charge from www.thinksyncfilms.com.
We launched this year’s contest in conjunction with the broadcast of an exclusive MTV2 120 Minutes show at the end of last year, which featured highlights from some of the competition alongside interviews with the directors and judges of 2007’s short listed films.
The competition rewards the most skilful and appropriate use of the music within the film, the winner receiving a substantial cash prize at a screening event and party aboard the HMS President on July 30th which will run as part of Rushes Soho Shorts 10th Year anniversary.

Last year’s Thinksync Film awards winner bigboy_74 by Tom Marshall swept the top awards at the Milwaukee Short Film Festival recently taking “Best Film”, “Best Director” and “Best Actors” (Joe Hartley and Harry Mett).

Now in it’s 10th year Milwaukee Short Film Festival spanned four days and forty-five films. Congratulations to all involved!

This Monday 9th June sees the release of RESTLESSLISTS debut album “Rise And Fall Of The Curtain Club” available in all good shops and also available online from
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/3513430/-/Product.html?searchstring=restlesslist&searchsource=0
It is the perfect companion for the oncoming Summer and all the good times you want and hope to be having!!
This is what the Independent Newspaper has to say about the band in todays paper.
“Despite being co-founded by a member of Electric Soft Parade, Brighton’s Restlesslist are a long way from the world of indieguitar music, being originally concieved as an off-beat instrumental hip hop duo. Ranks gradually swelling to a full band, they’ve now completed the tricky transition to live act: a recnt performance at The Great Escape Festival proved a festival highlight. Though still an entirely instrumental concern, they’ve notched up airplay from the likes of Radio 1’s Colin Murray. Meanwhile, recent single ‘Butlin Breaks’ was a tune of the week for Nemone on BBC 6 Music. They’ve also shared stages with Battles and Mystery Jets. The album ‘The Rise And Fall Of The Curtain Club’ is released By LIFE IS EASY RECORDS on 9th June.”
The album has also just been made album of the week by Radio 1’s Huw Stephens.
check www.lifeiseasyrecords.com or www.myspace.com/restlesslist for more info..

Rushes Soho Shorts are celebrating their 10th year with their biggest ever programme of screenings, seminars, parties and events. For ten days from 23rd July the festival will showcase the year’s best short format work across a range of Central London venues. Events include live music to film from 80’s legend John Foxx as well as daily seminars (Foyles Bookstore) and industry panel discussions (Apple Store, Regent Street), make up master classes in Hollywood Glamour (Curzon Soho), boat parties (HMS President), a day celebrating all things Australian (The Roxy Bar & Screen) and of course the salubrious awards party held at Cafe De Paris. As ever the majority of events and screenings are free, early arrival is always encouraged to garuantee a seat. The programme is available to download from their website: www.sohoshorts.com from Friday 27th June.

Splitloop have a great buzz building around their new album ‘Pleasure machine’ with ‘Album Of The Month’ in DJ, a full feature and a track on the covermount CD of IDJ. Bookings for their live sets are apparently flying in from Australia and the U.S.A. There’s a sneak preview at www.superchargedmusic.com/splitloop.html