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Metric, Little Joy, Moby, Ventures, Cats and Dogs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SONIC YOUTH's latest video is for "Sacred Trickster."

METRIC played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand via NPR. Emily Haines recently spoke to Decider about her seclusion in Argentina, the death of the music industry, and why she loves butts on car hoods.

LITTLE JOY did just two free songs for Daytrotter, but they're both little joys.

MOBY is advance streaming his Wait For Me album via NPR.

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy talked to Decider about The Hazards of Love, the expectations and stereotypes facing his no-longer-indie "indie" band, and why the press just didn't get Morrissey back in his salad days.

THE VENTURES lead guitarist and co-founder, Bob Bogle, known for 1960s instrumental hits like "Walk, Don't Run,"  and the theme from "Hawaii Five-O," died Sunday. He was 75.

THE NEW YORK DOLLS: The glammy godfathers of punk are profiled by CNN.

A.A. BONDY, who traded grunge for Americana, talked to Decider about contemporary music, his forthcoming record, and getting hit over the head.

PHOENIX singer Thomas Mars talks to The A.V. Club about Phoenix's status as France's only "un-French" band, and how making records can really affect someone's joie de vivre.

CHRIS ISSAK is interviewed by Oxford American, which makes him their Featured Artist of the Month.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Another late night, more nightclub strageness. Li-lo also turned up topless on Twitter.

ALEC BALDWIN says he was suicidal after the disclosure of that voicemail accusing his then-11-year-old daughter of being a "rude little pig."

JADA PINKETT SMITH laughs about rumors about her marriage to Will Smith: "I've heard all the things -- their marriage is not real, he's gay, she's gay, they swing," she said. "But at the end of the day, people have to believe what they have to believe." Technically not a denial of any of that.

JENNIFER ANISTON or BRUNO: Who is hotter?

JACK BLACK inadvertently dropped an F-bomb on the Letterman show. The look on Paul Shaffer's face is priceless.

TRANSFORMERS 2 dealt another exclusive clip, this time to Yahoo! Movies.

INDIANA JONES 5? Be very afraid.

THOR & IRON MAN 2 are discussed by Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada.  Who doesn't want a three-hour command performance from director Kenneth Branagh? 

NORTH KOREA are making progress on their nuclear weapons program.

INDIA & PAKISTAN: That may sound boring, but lower tensions would likely help Pakistan in its fight against the Taliban.

IRAN: The Lede at the NYT is turning into a handy blow-by-blow of the Islamic theocracy's election crisis. Twitter, a key method of communication for dissidents, underwent an hour of maintenance, which was delayed until 1:30 a.m. Tehran time at the urging of the US State Dept.

MAYBE THE DOG ate your stash.

CATS outsmarted by dogs in a psychologist's test.

IT'S STILL RAINING TADPOLES, to the delight of gay tadpoles in Japan.

OCTUPUSES & SQUID can hear sounds underwater... but not as well as fish.

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New Releases, P B &J, Steve Earle, Twilight Singers, Wolf   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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CAMERA OBSCURA has a new video out for the delish "Honey In The Sun."

NEW RELEASES: Big Star, the Beach Boys, George Harrison, Gossip and Spinal Tap have albums streaming this week at Spinner.  Rock Creek Plaza releases At the Momen of Our Most Needing.  Tiny Masters of Today release Skeletons.

PETER BJORN & JOHN did the three free songs thing for Daytrotter at SxSW.

STEVE EARLE played live in the latest edition of Sound Opinions.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Neil Young, the Phenominal Handclap Band and Moby are among those in the latest edition of the long-running NPR series.

THE UNDERTONES: "Teenage Kicks" and "Here Comes the Summer" are your Twofer Tuesday.

THE TWILIGHT SINGERS & APOLLONIA cover "When Doves Cry," an advance track from SPIN's upcoming Purple Rain 25th anniversary tribute.

REGINA SPEKTOR talks to the Times of London about her evolution from concert pianist to singer-songwriter.

DIRTY PROJECTORS: Dave Longstreth talks to PopMatters about the Bitte Orca LP, his recent collaborations with Björk and David Byrne and the art of discharging firearms in Canadian shopping malls.

CHEAP TRICK will be teaming with an orchestra to perform "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in Vegas, baby.

MEGAN FOX is "currently what you would call single." And has a movie to promote! What were the odds?

LINDSAY LOHAN is to be questioned by police in connection with the disappearance of 500K in jewels from a magazine shoot.

BRUCE WILLIS talks about his new marriage with W magazine.

KATIE HOLMES taped a guest appearance for So You Think You Can Dance.

JESSICA ALBA will not face charges for defacing Oklahoma City with shark posters earlier this month.<br mwkcw="0" />

TRANSFORMERS 2 has an exclusive clip posted at Moviefone.

MADONNA is "ecstatic" a judge approved her appeal to adopt three-year-old Chifundo "Mercy" James from Malawi.

THE UNITED NATIONS: One of the UN's largest international relief efforts is under investigation after it emerged that thousands of sacks of food aid were being diverted from starving refugees in Somalia and openly sold for profit.

AFGHANISTAN: The US is on schedule to cease operations at a disputed airbase in Kyrgyzstan, a US military commander said on Monday, despite pleas to Bishkek to reconsider its eviction notice.

PAKISTAN: A provincial governor said the military will launch a "comprehensive and decisive operation" in South Waziristan that is designed to root out Pakistani Taliban commander Baituallah Mehsud.

IRAN: Shots were fired during a massive rally in Iran against last week's presidential election results, with reports saying one person was killed.  (Unconfirmed reports on Twitter ranged from 4-7 dead in the aftermath.) Witnesses told the AP that protests and some violence had broken out in several cities across Iran, including some traditionally seen as more conservative. The Boston Globe has Big Pictures.

A BABY WOLF HOWLS: Let's go to the video.

16 COWS stared unamazed as they were electrocuted by lightning while standing in a puddle.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel was captured trying to infiltrate a British home via the fan duct.

CHIHUAHUAS confronted a cougar in a SoCal garage. By which I mean a mountain lion.

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Animal Collective, Meat Puppets, Diane Birch, Baboon   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE has released an official video for "Summertime Clothes."

MEAT PUPPETS played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

ELVIS COSTELLO has an interview+tracks with NPR's Weekend Edition.

DIANE BIRCH also has an interview+tracks with NPR's Weekend Edition.

SOLID GOLD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming on demand via MPR.

THE POSIES do a little bit of "Black Night" before covering Chris Bell's "I Am the Cosmos."

THE MONSTERS OF FOLK: Conor Oberst, Jim James and M Ward are making an album.

SONIC YOUTH is profiled in Newsweek.

BLUR: The story of their supposed re-formation is ultimately about Graham Coxon's exit and reconnection after battling the bottle.

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan talks to Drowned in Sound about playing a gig curated by Ornette Coleman.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Hangover occupied the No 1. slot with 33.4 million, actually repeating, as it snuck past UP for No. 1 last weekend, once the actual receipts were all counted.  Indeed, The Hangover has also had boffo weekday receipts; with over 105 million so far, it could end up being the biggest R-rated comedy evah. PIxar's Up came in second (again) with 30.5 million on a modest 31 percent drop and has already outgrossed its large 175 million production budget.  It's on track to make 250 million domestically.  The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 debuted at No. 3, with 25 million, which is right in the range of a Denzel Washington movie (Travolta is less predictable).  Night at the Museum 2 is No.4 with 9.6 million; it has now grossed 143.4 million - still less than its production budget, but it has earned close to 300 million worldwide.  Land of the Lost rounds out the Top Five making only 9.2 million on a steep drop. That's a bomb you here, but an even bigger bomb may be the No.6 debut for Eddie Murphy's Imagine that, which opened with 5.7 million against a 55 million budget.

DAVID CARRADINE: Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Lucy Liu, and hundreds of other friends and family members turned out for the late actor's funeral in Los Angeles Saturday evening.

BRADGELINA gave a million bucks to St. John's Hospital in Pitt's hometown of Springfield Saturday.

JENNIFER ANISTON made light of her love life at the Women in Film Awards.

CHRISTOPER LEE is among those knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. Dude was a spy before he was an actor.

THE TIME-TRAVELER'S WIFE, starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana, has a trailer online.

IRAN, as you may have heard, had an election naming Pres. Ahmadinejad the winner, which most believe was  either the mullahs flipping the bird at the rest of the world (at best) or Ahmadinejad staging a coup with the aid of his base supporters in the Revolutionary Guard.  I write "may have heard" because so many news outlets covered it so badly.  The Guardian did a nice backgrounder, and the NYT and HuffPo did alright trying to keep up with breaking news, while CNN blew it.  Many people turned to Twitter, one of the few outlets still accessible to Iranian disssidents.  Services like Twazzup became handy for aggregating news (and rumors and speculation) from inside the crackdown in real-time.  Bloggers like Michael J. Totten have also been excellent. Although all of the candidates were ultimately approved by the mullahs, the result here should be a wake-up call to those who have been pretending that Iran is capable of even allowing a so-called "reformer" to put a happier face on nature of the regime.

NORTH KOREA said it was enriching uranium and would weaponize all plutonium, in a defiant protest against the UN Security Council's move to tighten sanctions against it.

PAKISTAN: Progress in Pakistan's two-month-old military campaign against insurgents in the Swat Valley has provoked Pentagon optimism that government forces will soon move decisively into the more rugged frontier region where al-Qaeda's leaders are based. The leader of Taliban tribesmen who has turned on al-Qaeda's most ruthless ally in Pakistan has vowed to help rescue his country from a reign of terror that has pushed it close to collapse.

A BABOON carjacks French tourists in South Africa.

TWO TORTOISES have been fitted with pink plaster casts to help repair their shells after they were attacked by a dog.

A VIXEN FOX has stolen more than 120 shoes from doorsteps in the German town of Föhren over the last year. Little bite marks on the laces suggest they're intended as toys for her cubs.

RADIOACTIVE WASPS NESTS at the Hanford nuclear reservation. No word on how big the wasps are.

SNAKES in a police station.

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Storefront Hitchcock, Petra Haden, Wye Oak, Cutout Bin, Slinky Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with STOREFRONT HITCHCOCK! The Jonathan Demme concert documentary, in its entirety.  Songs include: "Devil's Radio," "1974," "A Filthy Bird," "Let's Go Thundering," "I'm Only You," "Glass Hotel," "I Something You," "The Yip Song" "I Am Not Me," "You and Oblivion," "Airscape," "Freeze," "Alright, Yeah" and "No, I Don't Remember Guildford."

PETRA HADEN's cover of the Bellamy Bros' "Let Your Love Flow" is available for download from Toyota.

THE RAVEONETTES posted a demo of a new song, "Last Dance," via Twitter.

WYE OAK is streaming their new album, The Knot, via Merge Records.

BLACK LIPS did the three free songs thing for Daytrotter at SxSW.

SILVERSUN PICKUPS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set streaming now via NPR.

TRENT REZNOR & STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB "Kick Out the Jams," with four-syllable profanity. Yep, that's Tom Morello on guitar, too.

BUILT TO SPILL: Doug Martsch does a Q&A with Westword about his son, touring vs. recording, and the NBA.

SON VOLT: Jay Farrar answers five questions at Muzzle of Bees. (Thx, LHB.)

WILCO: Jeff Tweedy talks to Metromix, while Nels Cline talks to CityBeat. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

JAY REATARD is profiled by Straight as he moves to Matador Records.

PRINCE could use a couple of spare hips.

CUTOUT BIN: From Ciccone Youth to Sonic Youth (covering the Kinks), from CSN&Y to Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings (covering Kenny Rogers), from Marvin Gaye to the Stooges, plus Eddie and the Hot Rods, the Beatles, the Clique, the Decemberists w/Peter Buck, the Lemonheads covering Gram Parsons and more  -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, currently scoring 41 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, and Eddie Murphy's family comedy, Imagine That, currently scoring xx percent.

CHASTITY BONO is becoming a man, man.

DAVID CARRADINE: An independent autopsy requested by the late actor's family revealed he did not commit suicide.

BRET MICHAELS of Poison is showing off his Tony Awards injury.

MEGAN FOX talks to Entertainment Weekly about fame, creepy men, jealous women, and refusing to be a "publicity android."

SHUTTER ISLAND: Here's the first trailer for Martin Scorsese's next movie.

G.I. JOE: Director Stephen Sommers was reportedly removed from the movie after a disastrous test screening.  Producer Leonardo di Bonaventura denies it.

JESSICA ALBA is still under investigation for possible vandalism charges in Oklahoma City.

WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? As people become disillusioned from financial woes and a downtrodden economy and look to put new purpose in their lives, everyday folks are becoming masked crimefighters. (Thx, Ken.)

PAKISTAN: The Pakistani military said more than 130 Taliban fighters were killed during a three-day-old offensive in Bannu, while a Taliban assault on two forts in the neighboring tribal agency of South Waziristan has been repelled.

AFGHANISTAN: A Taliban commander thought to have been killed in a US airstrike in western Afghanistan has survived the attack, while fighting in northern and western Afghanistan intensifies.

IRAQ and Turkey have signed a preliminary accord on military cooperation, according to the Turkish army.

SLINKY CAT: It comes down stairs, alone or in pairs.

ROTTWEILER & WOLF CUB, living together... mass hysteria.

BABY CHEETAH attacks a safari Jeep. Awww...some pic.

A WHALE sinks a British yacht in the Caribbean.  Obligatory Moby Dick or Kraken joke goes here.

MASS GEESOCIDE plotted by NYC.

IT'S RAINING TADPOLES: Now will you let the people go?

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John Vanderslice, Harlem Shakes, FoW, Waving Goat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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JOHN VANDERSLICE does an orchestral version of "Too Much Time" at ABCNews's Amplified blog.

PASSION PIT & HARLEM SHAKES played DC the other night; you can stream either set or both via NPR.

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE played Mountain Stage; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

COWBOY JUNKIES also played Mountain Stage; you can stream the gig on demand via NPR.

RICHARD HELL is interviewed by The Virgins' Donald Cumming at ClashMusic. (Thx, LHB.)

MAYER HAWTHORNE goes full-on doo-wop for "When I Said Goodbye."

BAT FOR LASHES: Natasha Khan talks to Pitchfork about the new LP, touring, etc.

JARVIS COCKER is interviewed by director Wes Anderson for Interview magazine.

GOMEZ: Olly Peacock talks to the Dallas Morning News about trying to invade America and placing songs on House and Grey's Anatomy.

THE LEMONHEADS: Evan Dando is suing General Motors for re-recording "It's a Shame About Ray" using it in an ad.

BRITNEY SPEARS is dating her agent.

HUGH GRANT kicked a paparazzo in the groin.  Video at the link.

DAVID CARRADINE: More photos, more bizzare.

PHIL SPECTOR mugshot, sans funky toupee.

BRAD PITT spent almost a million bucks on a painting.

HARRY POTTER & THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE has a new clip online.

JESSICA ALBA apologizes for some alleged vandalism.

JESSICA BIEL & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE are being pressured to procreate by Timberlake's mother.

IRON MAN 2: USA Today has your first look at Mickey Rourke as Whiplash.

IRAN: Powerful cleric Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, issued an open letter on Tuesday complaining that the country's supreme leader has remained silent in the face of "insults, lies and false allegations" by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  But keep in mind this election is maybe a notch above WWE wrestling.

AFGHANISTAN: US strike kills Iranian-backed Taliban commander in western Afghanistan.  Meanwhile, the new American commander in Afghanistan has been given carte blanche to handpick a dream team of subordinates, including many Special Operations veterans, as he moves to carry out an ambitious new strategy that envisions stepped-up attacks on Taliban fighters and narcotics networks.

DARREN the WAVING GOAT: Let's go to the video.

A DOZEN DUCKLINGS, rescued by police officer Eileen Emiddio.  Awww...some pics at the link.

JIMMY the MONKEY is working on re-creating the works of Shakespeare.

MOONLIT MANATEE BEACH ORGY attracts peeping toms to Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

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