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Shearwater, Frightened Rabbit, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Cats   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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FATHER JOHN MISTY has been busting out a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" on tour. (NSFW, obvsly)

SHEARWATER stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT played a set at Rough Trade NYC.

THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN palyed for World Cafe via San Francisco.

TWIN PEAKS drops the vintage-sounding “Holding Roses" ahead of Down In Heaven.

ISLANDS share “No Milk, No Sugar” and “Fear” as a twofer ahead of two new LPs.

STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK: "Incense and Peppermints" plus "Tomorrow" for Twofer Tuesday.

ANDREW BIRD talks to All Things Considered about the family influence on Are You Serious.

MERLE HAGGARD, remembered by WILLIE NELSON.

RECORD STORE DAY: A victim of its own success? (Thx, Frank Yang.)

IRON VIRGIN: The Scottish glam rock band that time forgot.

AMBER HEARD avoided a conviction for illegally taking her dogs into Australia by recording a creepy or funny (depending how you look at it) apology video with husband Johnny Depp.

OLIVIA WILDE & JASON SUDEKIS are expecting their second child.

EMPIRE co-stars Trai Byers and Grace Gealey tied the knot in a secret island wedding.

THE JUNGLE BOOK cast posed with their animals.

THE 13 MOST STYLISH MEN Right Now, according to GQ.

JURASSIC WORLD: The sequel finds its director.

DORIS ROBERTS, a veteran character actress probably best known for playing the Mom on Everybody Loves Raymond, has died at 90.

ISRAEL: Police now say they are certain that Monday’s explosion on a bus in Jerusalem was a terror attack. Jerusalem’s police commissioner says there’s “no doubt” about it.

LIBYA: Five of the country’s functioning oil fields were shut down in the past few days and their employees were evacuated from fear of ISIS attacks.

SYRIA: The Islamic State group has captured more than a dozen villages and hills during a fresh offensive in northern Syria, opposition activists said Saturday. The IS territorial gains bring the extremist group close to the main highway that links the capital, Damascus, with the country's largest city of Aleppo.

IRAQ: The U.S. has agreed to deploy more than 200 additional troops to Iraq and to send eight Apache helicopters for the first time into the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the first major increase in U.S. forces in nearly a year.

CATS: We All Know That One Couple.

PRAIRIE DOGS may get plague vaccinations via drones.

APES can solve some brain-teasers faster than humans.

THE LOCH NESS MONSTER discovered, sort of.

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Lucinda Williams, Lumineers, Metric, Chimp with AK-47   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES dropped a video for "Crazy Macy," their first single since 1992.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE LUMINEERS played a mini-set for World Cafe. Hey!

METRIC performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

PAUL McCARTNEY played "A Hard Day’s Night" and "Love Me Do" for the first time solo in Fresno, CA.

ANDY SCHAUF shares “The Worst in You” from his forthcoming album The Party.

MARTI JONES & TIM LEE (The Windbreakers) cover The dB's classic, "Neverland." With Beatle Bob cameo.

THE REPLACEMENTS: PopMatters excerpts a chapter from Trouble Boys covering Paul Westerberg's youth.

PRINCE was hospitalized with the flu, but bounced back with a dance party.

ANDREW BIRD talks to Salon about his new album, Chicago's '90s music scene, democracy and guns.

AXL ROSE officially will fill in for ailing AC/DC singer Brian Johnson on the Australian hard-rock group's "Rock or Bust" tour.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Jungle Book tops the chart with 103.6MM, blowing away industry estimates of roughly 70MM. It's the second-largest April debut evah (behind Furious 7). Director Jon Favreau has been hit-and-miss, but there's no mistaking where this one lands. Barbershop: The Next Cut placed with 20MM, matching its reported production budget; it should, with good reviews, make a modest profit. The Boss showed with 10.2MM, falling a hard-for-comedy 56 percent and endangering its profitability before the home market.  Batman v Superman takes the fourth slot with 9MM on an ugly 61 percent drop; that said, the DC epic has grossed 800MM worldwide, which is probably profitable or close to it.  Zootopia rounds out the Top Five with another 8.2MM and is 75MM ahead of BvS worldwide.Below the fold, Criminal flopped with a 5.9MM debut against a 31MM budget; this has been as bad a year for Lionsgate as it has been a great year for Disney.

CHRISSY TEIGEN & JOHN LEGEND welcomed their first child, a daughter named Luna Simone Stephens, on Thursday.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR: Team Iron Man visited Kimmel with another new clip.

BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN discusses his unplanned parenthood with Megan Fox.

THE BIRTH OF A NATION dropped a teaser trailer online.

THE AMERICANS: Vox spent five months watching the making of FX's period spy drama.

TOP GUN IN REVERSE: A U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane was barrel-rolled by a Russian jet over the Baltic Sea during a routine flight in international airspace, U.S. European Command said Saturday, but Russia disputed that account.

NORTH KOREA attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of U.N. sanctions and in an embarrassing setback for leader Kim Jong Un, drawing criticism from major ally China.

THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT finally voted to allow airlines to share passenger information with EU states.

EGYPT: Thousands of people protested Friday against a controversial agreement that saw Egypt cede control of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, despite warnings by authorities that such unrest would be met by force.

SYRIA: The opposition told AFP Friday it was willing to join a transitional government with diplomats and technocrats from Assad's government.

A CHIMP with an AK-47. It's like these dudes never saw Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

A "TIGER WHISPERER" died after she was attacked by a rare species of big cat Friday at the Palm Beach Zoo.

THE MEN WHO STARED AT GOATS: Lawmakers themselves couldn't seem to believe that Friday's House Armed Services hearing on waste in Afghanistan involved discussing a herd of Italian goats.

A HERD OF BISON went on the loose in southern Juneau County, Wisc.

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Yardbirds, Wire, Adam Green, Rufus Wainwright, Impatient Airedales   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE YARDBIRDS! Live circa 1967, featuring someone the announcer calls "Timmy Page."  Your setlist inlcudes "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago," "Over Under Sideways Down," and "I'm a Man."

WIRE advance streams Nocturnal Koreans.

ADAM GREEN advance streams Aladdin. (NSFW).

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT advance streams Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets.

JOSH KELLEY advance streams New Lane Road.

TONY JOE WHITE drops “The Middle of Nowhere" ahead of Rain Crow.

THE UNTOUCHABLES: "I Spy For the FBI."

THE GUITARISTS OF DAVID BOWIE: Guitar Player's tribute includes old and new material from Tony Visconti, Mick Ronson, Carlos Alomar, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Adrian Belew and many more (except Robert Fripp, sadly).

JASON & THE SCORCHERS are the latest of The Guardian's Cult Heroes.

THE PIXIES: Ten of Their Best.

TWELVE GREAT SONGS With Just Three Chords...tho none of these featured in Pate's infamous Three-Chord Medley (which tended to include "Wild Thing," "Hang On Sloopy," "Louie, Louie," "My Best Friend's Girl," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," and "Summer Nights," among others).

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Jungle Book, which is currently scoring 93 percent on the ol'Tomatometer; Barbershop: The Next Cut, currently scoring 88 percent; and Criminal, scoring 14 percent.

BLAKE LIVELY & RYAN REYNOLDS are expecting their second child.

EVA MENDES & RYAN GOSLING are expecting their second child.

KELLY CLARKSON and her husband, music manager Brandon Blackstock, have welcomed their second child.

ELLIE KEMPER is pregnant and expecting her first child with her husband, Michael Koman.

TAYLOR SWIFT nabs Vogue's cover story.

GWEN STEFANI got a big break in her divorce, thanks to Gavin Rossdale, because we've learned he's now on record with the judge walking away from millions of dollars to which he's legally entitled.

KATY PERRY & ORLANDO BLOOM were caught canoodling at a cancer immunoterapy launch event.

MEGAN FOX & BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN, estranged but expectant parents, are renting a house together.

SELENA GOMEZ talks to GQ about David O. Russell, lupus, creepy dudes, and more.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH will voice The Grinch.

JAMES CAMERON now threatens to make four Avatar sequels.

DICK TRACY may get a sequel after more than 25 years.

AMC may allow trexting in some theaters, because civilization isn't declining fast wnough already. UPDATE: AMC retreats.

YEMEN: Witnesses say attack helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition struck al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen, where the group has exploited the conflict between Shiite Houthi rebels and government forces to expand.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Battlefield successes enjoyed by Western-backed forces in Iraq and Syria have done little to stop the expansion of the terrorists to Europe, North Africa and Afghanistan.

IMPATIENT PUPS honk the horn to get their owner's attention.

A TEAM OF SNIFFER DOGS set up at a British airport at a cost of 1.25 million pounds ($1.7 million) have proved adept at discovering small amounts of cheese and sausages but not so good at finding smuggled drugs, a report said on Thursday.

CAN BEAVERS make California wet again? What say you, Det. Drebin?

A LARGE RABBIT named Dolly Parton who disappeared from a Salt Lake County farm has suddenly reappeared.

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Guided By Voices, Edward Sharpe & the Magenetic Zeros, Parquet Courts, Bear   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 14, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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MITSKI drops a video for "Your Best American Girl" ahead of Puberty 2.

GUIDED BY VOICES (to really Robert Pollard) advance streams Please Be Honest.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS advance stream PersonA, their first since the sudden departure of founding member Jade Castrinos.

PARQUET COURTS play a mini-set for the Rough Trade Sessions series.

YOUTH IN BLOOM drop the demo for “Feed My Dreams” before reissuing The Shell EP.

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS covered "Suspicious Minds" beautifully before hitting it big. 

BONO told the US Senate to send Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen to fight ISIS.

THE BLACK KEYS regret inducting Steve Miller into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

YOUR SONG CHANGED MY LIFE is a new book by NPR's Bob Boilen. For example, Michael Stipe talked about Patti Smith's "Birdland."

STEVE EARLE: The Other Side of Merle Haggard.

DOCTOR STRANGE dropped a trailer online.

MEGAN FOX has no plans to drop her divorce, despite her pregnancy by estranged husband Brian Austin Green.

KIRSTEN DUNST & GARRETT HEDLUND have split and ended their four-year romantic relationship.

CHARLIE SHEEN's ex Brooke Mueller is claiming he owes her 89K in back child support.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & CHRIS PRATT pitched Passengers to theater owners.

BILL & TED continue a slow march toward a threequel.

BATMAN: A Ben Affleck standalone moves forward.

RUSSIAN ATTACK PLANES buzzed a US Destroyer. There's video.

IRAQ: As U.S.-led offensives push back the Islamic State in Iraq, concern is growing among U.S. and U.N. officials that efforts to stabilize liberated areas are lagging, creating conditions that could help the militants endure as an underground network.

A BEAR chased an unknowing snowboarder in Japan.

INKY THE OCTOPUS escaped his tank at New Zealand’s National Aquarium, crawled across the floor and escaped via a pipe to the ocean.

A RSPCA inspector was sent to investigate reports of frogs being ‘cruelly' kept at a tourist attraction - but found an amphibian orgy instead.

SALMON caught near Seattle are full of cocaine and anti-depressants.  Can't blame 'em.

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Mayer Hawthorne, Palehound, Field Music, Leapling, Gator   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE DANDY WARHOLS share a video for "You Are Killing Me," ft Factory veteran Joe Dallesandro. (NSFW)

MAYER HAWTHORNE played World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

PALEHOUND plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

FIELD MUSIC stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

LEAPLING drops the languid, yet power-popping "Hey, Sister" ahead of Suspended Animation.

KAREN MEAT, from Iowa, drops “On The Couch,” the title track to their debut EP.

HOT CHOCOLATE: "You Sexy Thing." Believe in miracles?

BOB MOULD was interviewed by DAVID CROSS for Magnet.

LED ZEPPELIN faces trial on the claim they plagiarized "Stairway to Heaven" from Spirit's "Taurus."  It's not the first such case against the band, though The Guardian argues they transformed other blues and folk tunes.

FATHER JOHN MISTY discusses seeing Taylor Swift on acid, Ryan Adams' "grotesque stunt."

CATE LE BON: How Cardiff’s finest found a California state of mind.

MEGAN FOX debuted an unmistakable baby bump at CinemaCon in Las Vegas Monday night. May be postponing that divorce now, eh?

LINDSAY LOHAN may or may not be engaged to her Russian business heir boyfriend.

DAVID GEST, entertainer, producer, reality television star, and the ex-husband of Liza Minnelli, died in a London hotel aged 62, a statement from his friend says.

SARAH CHALKE is expecting her second child with her fiancé.

CHARLIZE THERON is not planning to adopt more kids.

DORA THE EXPLORER: Vaping in the Girl's Room?

JOE PESCI told LOUIS C.K. that he's not funny. Not funny how?

STEPHEN HAWKING and Yuri Milnerplan plan to launch hundreds, possibly thousands of tiny space probes for extraterrestrial life.

NORTH KOREA may be preparing for an unprecedented launch of a mobile ballistic missile which could potentially hit portions of the U.S., CNN has learned.

HOW GERMANY Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS.

SYRIA's truce is on the verge of collapse, as rebels prepare for a regime offensive against Aleppo.

WHEN THAT CATFISH turns out to be a gator

INFERTILE MICE were made fertile again with 3-D printed ovaries.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A massive militant was spotted on a FL golf course. Where's Carl Spackler when you need him?

A DEADLY OCTOPUS was found inside a tennis ball in Australia.

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