Youthful passion and teenage melancholia colours the filmmaker's third feature film

Filmmaker Mia Hansen-Love started her career at the age of 18 as an actress in Olivier Assayas’ Fin Aout, Debut Septembre. Now 31, she and 57-year-old Assayas are married and have a child. For her semi-autobiographical third feature, 'Goodbye First Love', Hansen-Love draws on her experience of youthful passion, teenager melancholia, and of meeting her future husband. Here, she tells Dazed why she chose to tell this story now.

Dazed Digital: It’s been said your films move forward by intuition. Is that a fitting description?
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As promised, Azealia Banks has posted the first taste of her upcoming mixtape, Fantastic. It's called "Jumanji" and features tropical production from Hudson Mohawke and Nick Hook.

As of a schedule reported a few days ago, Banks' 1991 EP will be out within the month, Fantastic will arrive this summer and her debut full length Broke With Expensive Taste will be out in September.

And! The rapper will appear alongside Baltimore party-starter Rye Rye and (!) Missy Elliott on a remix of M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls". "Fuck!!!! you all killed it !!!!!! in your own wayzzzzzzzz high in the himalays again!", Maya Tweeted at the group of collaborators.

M.I.A. tells Spin that in addition to working on her fourth studio album, she's got a gig we might not have anticipated: custom-designing labels for bottles of Beck's beer. The German beer company reached out to her during her time in India, and she sent them back some of the art she'd been working on there, to be used on a series of limited-edition labels.

"Before, artists would struggle with the art and commerce thing, but now I think you have to have a certain conviction about your work and the canvas is irrelevant, you can put it on anything these days", she said. "Sitting down and having a drink, and having a little chat is a good thing, and that's what people tend to do, you know."

Spin also reports that M.I.A.'s finishing her new album in London and India right now, working with producers including Switch. They say the album is titled Matangi; M.I.A.'s birth name is Mathangi.

Below, watch her discussing her art for a Beck's promo.

Rapper took to Twitter to unveil two-minute preview to new material

Earlier today, M.I.A. tweeted "mannnnnnn , days like this i wanna jus upload the songs right now and go clime the himalays with ikhyd on my back." Then, she tweeted a two-minute preview video of a song titled "Come Walk With Me", which features a roomful of people dancing. Watch it below.

Rapper's instrumental soundtrack featured on yesterday's show

Today, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange brings us the first episode of his new television show "The World Tomorrow", which features interviews with controversial figures he conducted while he was under house arrest. This episode includes an interview with Hezbollah leader Sayyed Nasrallah.

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In one of the most appropriate collaborations of our young decade, M.I.A. has teamed with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to compose original music for his new television show, "The World Tomorrow".  The show's first episode airs Tuesday, April 17 on the English-language Russian station RT and will be available to watch online.

Tumbling free, and making good use of the things that we find

We're on Tumblr. One doesn't like to boast about these things, but it's a fact. Guardianmusic.tumblr.com is the place where our writers stick up any songs, videos, pictures, and any other music-related odds and ends they come across during their incessent web trawling.

Here's our top five Tumblr posts from the past week.

1. Beautiful Small Machines cover Paper Planes

Paper Planes by MIA is a good song, sure, but didn't you always think it could do with more twangy banjo, syrupy vocals and a twee video where lots of smiling people dress up as clouds? If the John Lewis marketing department is after a soundtrack for their next Christmas advertising campaign, they need look no further.

2. Guided By Voices tribute

Guided By Voices were due to play at ATP's I'll be Your Mirror in a few weeks' time, but disappointed many by cancelling this summer's European dates.

But do not despair, GBV fans. Dan Ormsby, formerly of Brighton band 4 or 5 Magicians, has pulled together a massive tribute night at London's Brixton Windmill, promising more than 100 of the band's songs being played live, as well as the chance to take part in GBV karaoke.

3. Not crying. Give me a minute. Just got something in my eye.

Moving video in which, through listening to music from his youth, an elderly man "recovers his identity" for a brief period.

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