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Warm Soda, Lord Huron, Todd Rundgren, Elbow, Monkey   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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JASON ISBELL & AMANDA SHIRES covered Warren Zevon’s “Mutineer" for Letterman.

WARM SODA advance streams Symbolic Dream.

LORD HURON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

TODD RUNDGREN, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, and  Emil Nikolaisen are advance streaming Rundanns.

ELBOW drops "What Time Do You Call This?" from the Man Up soundtrack.

MATES OF STATE have a "Staring Contest" ahead of their You're Going To Make It EP.

MIKE VIOLA (Candy Butchers, The Wonders) drops "Stairway to Paradise."

FFS: The Franz Ferdinand/Sparks collab drops “Collaborations Don’t Work”.

THEM: "Baby, Please Don't Go" and a French TV take on "Gloria" for Twofer Tuesday.

DJANGO DJANGO talks to NME about mythology, the occult and their new LP.

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE NICKELBACK? NPR investigates.

MP3 BLOGS are still a Thing...just more niche.

SID TEPPER, the man behind hundreds of popular rock and pop hits sung by artists including Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, died on 24 April, aged 96.

SESAME STREET dropped “Aveggies: Age of Bon Bon."

FULL HOUSE may be headed to Netflix, but an unauthorized tell-all is headed to Lifetime.

VANILLA ICE defends ADAM SANDLER.

NIKKI REED & IAN SOMERHALDER got hitched.

STANA KATIC (Castle) wed her longtime love Kris Brkljac at a private family monastery on the Dalmatian Coast in Croatia.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM are not talking reconciliation, but they don't want to close the door on the marriage either.

JAYNE MEADOWS ALLEN, award winning stage and screen actress, died peacefully of natural causes Sunday night at age 95. Folks will remember her for The Honeymooners, but as a kid, I dug her and Steve Allen on PBS's Meeting of Minds. 

AFGHANISTAN: Thousands of Taliban fighters attacked Afghan forces in the northern province of Kunduz in an effort to seize control of the provincial capital and outlying districts. Afghan officials have said that several areas of Kunduz are now under the jihadist group’s control.

IRAN: The world is "closer than ever" to reaching a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran but the work is far from over, with key issues unresolved, Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday told a global gathering on nuclear disarmament, where he and Iran's foreign minister met on the sidelines.

TOURIST FLIPS OFF A MONKEY, Suffers Consequences.

THE LANGUAGE OF CATS: How they're actually telling humans what to do.

A DOBERMAN who ingested nearly three wrist watches is recovering after undergoing a procedure to remove the pieces at the MSPCA's Angell Animal Medical Center in Boston.

A FOX in Chernobyl has made a large sandwich using cold meats and bread fed to him by a radio crew in the area.

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Mac McCaughan, Tallest Man in the World, Metz, Chris Stapleton, Puppy   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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IRON & WINE oddly features pro wrestling in the video for “Everyone’s Summer Of ’95.”

MAC McCAUGHAN advance streams Non-Believers.

THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD advance streams Dark Bird Is Home.

METZ advance streams II.

CHRIS STAPLETON advance streams Traveller.

SHEER MAG streams their 7" EP.

KING CYST drops “Chinese Wind” ahead of King of New York.

THE SUPREMES: "Come See About Me."

SHARON VAN ETTEN shares the soundtrack of her life at The Guardian.

STEVE EARLE takes on mainstream countery music at the L.A. Times.

CRYSTAL CATLES: Ethan Kath talks to Pitchfork about Alice Glass, "Frail", and the future of the band

THE ROLLING STONES' TOP 10 LPs, ranked by NME.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Furious 7 tops the chart again with 18.3MM, the first movie to top every weekend in April since The Hunger Games. It is also the third film ever to break the bioon-dollar mark.  Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 defies the critics to place with 15.5MM, which means it might actually profit in thearters.  The opening of The Age of Adeleine shows with 13.4MM, which is probably fine against a 25MM budget with an A- Cinemascore.  Home holds onto the fourth slot with 8.3MM, though it's worldwide gross of $299MM is still likely short of profitability as Avengers 2 arrives to invade the family market.  Unfriended rounds out the Top 5 with 6.2MM on a 61 percent drop, but 25.2MM domesticv against a 1MM budget is a fat ROI.

BRUCE JENNER ended months of speculation, revealing that he is transitioning to life as a woman. And a Republican.  The interview got big ratings.

GILLIAN ANDERSON asked CHRIS MARTIN for a date.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON was profiled by Parade.

CHRIS PRATT & JIMMY FALLON sing nonsense karaoke.

GOODFELLAS: The cast reunited for a 25th anniversary gala screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.

TRUE DETECTIVE director  Cary Fukunaga syas moviegoers are as responsible as filmmakers for the death of cinema.

UKRAINE's military mobilization is undermined by draft dodgers.

AF-PAK: It now appears American Warren Weinstein and Italian Giovanni Lo Porto, the hostages the White House announced Thursday were accidentally killed in a drone strike, were being used to safeguard an al Qaeda senior leader.

IRAQ: The Islamic State seized control of a dam and overran a military barracks in the Thar Thar area in western Iraq over the past several days. Over 120 Iraqi soldiers and a senior general were killed during the Islamic State offensive.

A PUPPY plays Phil Collins. Compelling and rich.

BOB THE JOGGER was attacked by bears...again.

AN OPOSSUM lured a wildlife rescuer to her dath on the train tracks.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Three people were arrested after the Lawrence County. IN Drug Task Force served a search warrant, discovering, meth, heroin, and a squirrel.

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The Bangles, Gang of Four, JEFF the Brotherhood, Beach Slang, Mimic Octopus   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE BANGLES!  There's no better way to start than with these live takes on "Hero Takes A Fall"  and Kimberley Rew's "Goin' Down To Liverpool" for Dave in 1984. It was that sort of rawk (and the hotness of Susanna Hoffs) that got Prince to give them "Manic Monday," their first mainstream hit, from the A Different Light album, which included Jules Shear's "If She Knew What She Wants," Alex Chilton's "September Gurls," and -- inevitably -- Liam Sternberg's "Walk Like An Egyptian."  Nevertheless, their fondness for the genres of the mid-60s was still evident in their take on Simon & Garfunkel's "Hazy Shade of Winter" for the Less Than Zero soundtrack, and the psych-garage-bubblegum of "In Your Room" on the Everything album, which yielded their final No.1 hit, "Eternal Flame."  The draw from the 60s is a constant I saw them in a club, on a big stage and in a club again -- the last time was at a House of Blues, where they covered the We Five's "You Were On My Mind."  However, I'll confess that I put off featuring the band for about a bit, until the Susanna Hoffs solo cover of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love" popped back up on the Tube after an absence. That woman knows how to shake her tambourine.

GANG OF FOUR stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD play a mini-set including a cover of Neil Young’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’ and Flower Travel Band’s ‘Satori Part II’ live in the KEXP studio.

BEACH SLANG played a Tiny Desk Concert.

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

TURN TO CRIME advance streams Actions.

BRITT DANIEL (Spoon) joins SWEET SPIRIT on “Have Mercy.”

ALISON CRUTCHFIELD (Swearin') covers “Special To Me,” a Paul Williams-written song that Jessica Harper sang in the 1974 cult-classic horror-musical Phantom Of The Paradise.

MEN WITHOUT HATS: You can dance if you want to.

THE ROLLING STONES: The Grisly Death-And-Drugs Filled Story Of Sticky Fingers.

SLEATER-KINNEY: Carrie Brownstein tells Drowned In Sound why the band originally went on hiatus, what Carrie thinks the impact of Riot Grrrl is over 20 years on, if this will be their last album and why we should never, ever trust a lyric website….ever.

WIRE, ranked by Stereogum.

LEMMY: Ten of the Best.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Age of Adeline, which is currently scoring 54 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Little Boy, which is scoring 8 percent.  Ex Machina expands nationwide at 89 percent.

ADAM SANDLER's newest film production, The Ridiculous Six, had a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, leave the set.  Had they never seen a Sandler movie before?

CHRIS EVANS & JEREMY RENNER apologized for making tastless jokes about the Black Widow during the Avengers 2 press junket. Or Evans apologized, while Renner was sorry if people were offended.

TOM HARDY is interviewed by Details ahead of Mad Max: Fury Road. He talks fatherhood, acting, mystique and more.

BRADLEY COOPER was spotted on a Broadway date with top model Irina Shayk.

SPIDER-MAN will get animated by The Lego Movie team.

BLACK MASS, featuring Johnny Depp as gangster Whitey Bulger, has a trailer online.

AF-PAK: A grim-faced and apologetic President Obama announced Thursday that two CIA drone strikes on al Qaeda compounds had accidentally killed captive American aid worker Warren Weinstein, an Italian hostage, and two terrorists who were U.S. citizens.

EGYPT and Bahrain will conduct joint military exercises aimed at influencing the political process in Yemen.

SYRIA: The US-led coalition conducted seven airstrikes in Syria between Apr. 21-22, one near Hasakah and six near Kobani. SOHR estimates that the US-led air campaign has killed 2,079 people, including 66 civilians, since its inception in September. A report claims that Al Nusrah's Khorasan Group has regenerated after taking significant losses early in the Western air campaign.

THE INDONESIAN MIMIC OCTOPUS is remarkable.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents knocked out power to low income senior citizens for three days.

MASSIVE KILLER HORNETS could invade the UK this Summer.

MUD-WRESTLING PIGS at a Wisconsin church's summer fundraiser has been halted after 81K people signed an online petition pressed by animal rights activists who raised concerns about animal abuse.

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Jose Gonzalez, Laura Marling, Bent Denim, Jacco Gardner, Wolf Spider   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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MAC McCAUGHAN drops a video for "Wet Leaves."

JOSE GONZALEZ stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

BENT DENIM advance streams Romances You.

JACCO GARDNER advance streams the trippy, baroque Hypnophobia.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA drops “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from the album Multi-Love.

EYELIDS: Decemberists and a fmr GbVer drop the Peter Buck-produced "Bound To Let You Down."

STEELY DAN turn in a spirited "Reelin' in the Years" on the Midnight Special. Introduced by...Bill Cosby.

BEST COAST: Death, Defiance, and Bart Simpson.

DAVID BOWIE thinks Lulu, the widely panned Lou Reed/Metallica collab,is a "masterpiece."

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS' Patterson Hood talks to the Monterey Herald about being over the Southern rock label. (Thx, LHB.)

DAVID COVERDALE: He's the classic tight-trousered, big-haired rock lothario. But these days he watches Downton and chases bear cubs round his garden.

ROBERT DOWNEY JR walks out on an Avengers 2 promo interview: "It's just getting a little Diane Sawyer."

SANDRA BULLOCK was named People's "World's Most Beautiful Woman" for 2015.

TOM CRUISE talks about hanging off the side of an airplane.

FULL HOUSE: The Olsen twins just found out about the reboot.

BRUCE JENNER was spotted wearing a floor-length striped dress Tuesday outside his Malibu home.

HILARY DUFF's estranged husband isn't giving up their son without a fight.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL: Not Adorkable.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB: A first-draft script and other mementos were discovered inside Park Ridge's Maine South High School.

THE MUPPETS new TV show is a mockumentary-style series that goes deeper into the Muppets’ personal lives, and promises a “more adult” show than previous incarnations of the franchise.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: The Pentagon’s map assessing the so-called Islamic State’s strength has only two categories: territory held by ISIS currently, and territory lost by ISIS since coalition airstrikes began in August 2014. The category that would illustrate American setbacks—where ISIS has actually gained territory since the coalition effort began—is not included.

IRAQI security forces fought to rout Islamic State militants from the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday, slowly regaining some ground from the militant group, security and local officials said.

YEMEN: The White House is hoping that tensions in the waters off of Yemen, where a flotilla of Iranian ships and U.S. vessels are now located, can “de-escalate,” communications director Jen Psaki said Wednesday.

A BIG WOLF SPIDER is squished, but many babies survive.

A DOG backed up traffic by driving a tractor onto the M74 motorway near Abington in Scotland.

DON'T KISS A COTTONMOUTH: The More You Know.

TWO CHIMPS were granted a writ of habeas corpus by a NY judge, effectively giving them a measure of legal standing that previously only applied to humans. It begins.

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Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes, Blur, Nicki Bluhm, All Songs, Dog Dinner   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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THE BUZZCOCKS played “Keep On Believing” and “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)?” for Seth Myers.

VIOLENT FEMMES stream their Happy New Year EP.

BLUR is advance streaming The Magic Whip via iTunes.

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS stream Loved Wild Lost.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from My Morning Jacket, Matt Pond PA, Heather Woods Broderick, and more highlight the latest edition.

DJANGO DJANGO were "Beginning To Fade" on Record Store Day.

THE MILK CARTON KIDS drop “Secrets of the Stars,” inspired by the novelist Haruki Murakami.

THEE OH SEES drop "Withered Hand" and "The Ceiling" ahead of Mutilator Defeated At Last.

KURT COBAIN covered The Beatles' "And I Love Her."

JULES SHEAR: "If She Knew What She Wants," unplugged on Unplugged, circa 1990. Check how he's holding his guitar.

THE MAN WHO BROKE THE MUSIC BUSINESS is someone you never heard of.

ALVVAYS guitarist Alec O'Hanley pens a love letter to Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix.

SANDY DENNY is remembered by NME.

RYLEY WALKER is profiled by the Chicago Reader.

MILEY CYRUS & PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER have split.

FULL HOUSE is headed to Netflix, but it remains to be seen how full it is.

CHARLIZE THERON talks to W magazine about Mad Max: Fury Road.

STANLEY TUCCI & EWAN MacGREGOR join the cast of Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast.

BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN is off life support, but her family continue to maintain there's no real hope for recovery.

MADONNA drew the ire of many of her fans on Tuesday when she posted an Instagram photo of Margaret Thatcher

GALAXY QUEST may head to the small screen, which is meta.

YEMEN: Anti-Houthi coalition airstrikes in Yemen removed any threat posed to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries, the Kingdom’s ministry of defense said on Tuesday.

LIBYA: The United Nations refugee agency estimated Tuesday that as many as 850 migrants had gone to their deaths in a boat capsizing earlier this week off the coast of Libya, even as the ship’s captain and a crew member were taken into custody on criminal charges.

IRAN is at most three months away from enriching enough nuclear fuel for an atomic bomb, contrary to prior claims of the Obama Administration. Pres. Obama left open the door to "creative negotiations" in response to Iran's demand that punishing sanctions be immediately lifted as part of a nuclear deal, even though the initial agreement calls for the penalties to be removed over time.

BONNIE hates to eat alone.

MILLIONS OF IOWA HENS could need to be euthanized in an Avian Flu outbreak.

A NEWLY DISCOVERED FROG SPECIES looks like Kermit.

COWS checked out the Mall of New Hampshire.

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