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Echo & the Bunnymen, Jon Pratt, Nils Lofgren, Il Sogno Del Marinaio, Dolphins   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, January 09, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ECHO and the BUNNYMEN!  Live at the Royal Albert Hall, circa July 1983.  Your setlist includes: "Going Up," "With A Hip" and "All That Jazz"; "All My Colours (Zimbo)" and "Silver"; "The Cutter" and "The Killing Moon"; "Rescue" and "Never Stop"; and "Over the Wall." Your encores are "Crocodiles" and "Do It Clean."

NILS LOFGREN stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and unplugged mini-set, including my favorite Nils track, "No Mercy."

IL SOGNO DEL MARINAIO, featuring Mike Watt, drops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

IRON & WINE drops “Everyone’s Summer of ’95,” part of an archival record.

SCREAMING FEMALES drop “Criminal Image” ahead of Rose Mountain.

YO LA TENGO drops  “Suspirica” as part of an album of 50 songs that are 50 seconds long.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA unveils "SB-02," a 17-minute instrumental, ahead of their next LP.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: The debut episode is back online.

LEWIS: Another "lost" album surfaces online.

JON PRATT: The Claude Pate frontman plays "The Living" for an entry in NPR's Tiny Desk Contest.

PANDA BEAR talks to SPIN about his upcoming LP and middle age.

SILVER JEWS: Don't call it a comeback?

NICK CAVE now brands a new...skateboard.

LED ZEPPELIN is reissuing Physical Graffiti, with bonus tracks. Shocka. It comes out 40 years to the day of its original release. Get Off My Lawn.

ICYMI: Yesterday would have been the birthday of Elvis Presley, and was the birthday of David Bowie.

NOW SHOWING: Taken 3 opens wide, scoring 21 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.  Selma expands wide at 100 percent. Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice expands to 645 screens at 71 percent.

BILL COSBY's TV wife, Phylicia Rashad, "clarified" her comments about the controversies swirling around the comic. Shocka.

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT is pregnant and expecting her second child with her husband Brian Hallisay.

GIADA DE LAURENTIS is hitting back at a despicable new tabloid cover story that alleges she may have betrayed her husband Todd Thompson with a number of celebrities, including John Mayer, Matt Lauer and Bobby Flay.

ANGELINA JOLIE hosted a special screening of her movie Unbroken at the Vatican.

CHRIS EVANS assisted BETTY WHITE at the People's Choice Awards.

ROD TAYLOR, the suave Australian native who came to Hollywood and starred in such films as The Birds and The Time Machine, has died. He was two days shy of turning 85.

FRANCE: A writer for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo says ‘stupidity will not win’ as Google pledges to donate €250,000 to support the publication following this week's Islamic terror attack.

SYRIA: An estimated 670,000 children in Syria are being deprived of education after the Islamic State extremist group ordered the closure of schools until the curriculum is made to conform with its medieval reading of the Islamic Sharia, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday.

IRAQ: Suspected Islamic State fighters launched a major assault on pro-government tribal forces in Anbar just one day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi called for a “tribal revolution” against the extremist group.

DOLPHINS play peek-a-boo.

RHESUS MONKEYS were trained to recognize themselves in a mirror...so they immediately checked out heir butts.

LIZARD PENISES Evolve at Super Speed. Click.

SNAKE in a TOILET:  Two women in San Diego discovered quite a surprise in their downtown office building Tuesday: a 5 1/2-foot long Columbian Rainbow Boa in the toilet.

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Little Brutes, Brandi Carlile, Fly Golden Eagle, Belle & Sebastian, Fox   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, January 08, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WAR ON DRUGS played “An Ocean In Between The Waves" for Fallon.

LITTLE BRUTES stream their Desire EP.

BRANDI CARLILE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

FLY GOLDEN EAGLE stpped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN drops “The Cat With The Cream” ahead of Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance.

OF MONTEAL drops “Empyrean Abattoir,” ahead of Aureate Gloom.

SWERVEDRIVER drops “Setting Sun” ahead of I Wasn’t Born To Lose You, the band's first studio recording since 1998.

THE DODOS drop “Retriever” ahead of Individ.

THE FIVE AMERICANS: "I See The Light."

ROBIN GUTHRIE talks to PopMatters about the Cocteau Twins and the future.

JOHN LURIE talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his internet radio show.

THE MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES of 2015, according to Pitchfork.

30 ESSENTIAL POST-ROCK SONGS, compiled by Stereogum.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH  and his fiancée Sophie Hunter are expecting their first child together.

BLAKE LIVELY talks motherhood at People.

BILL COSBY's TV wife, Phylicia Rashad, defends the comic against serial accusations of misconduct.

MERYL STREEP & JESSICA CHASTAIN respond to  Russell Crowe's commentsin an Australian magazine interview about not believing that there is ageism in Hollywood, particularly for actresses.

BRADGELINA are off to meet the Pope.

JOHN TRAVOLTA is returning to television in FX's highly anticipated American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.

STEVE KROFT gets his own expose.

FRANCE: The police organized an enormous manhunt across the Paris region on Wednesday for three suspects they said were involved in a brazen and methodical midday slaughter at a satirical newspaper that had lampooned Islam. The terrorist attack by masked gunmen on the newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead — including the top editor, prominent cartoonists and police officers — and was among the deadliest in postwar France. Officials said late Wednesday that the suspects had been identified and that two were brothers. One of the police officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network, and Cedric Le Bechec, a witness who encountered the escaping gunmen, quoted the attackers as saying: "You can tell the media that it's al-Qaida in Yemen."Other sources report both returned from Syria this summer.  Many news outlets shied away from publishing the controversial images of the paper's satirical cartoons of Mohammed.

A FOX pinpoints field mice buried deep beneath the snow.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Whale With One-Tone Testicles.

RUSSIA's MEDICINAL LEECHES: Grown on the world's largest leech farm, slimy parasites treat a host of ailments, taking a bite out of health problems.

DOZENS OF PUPPIES have been snatched from the jaws of death in a grim South Korean farm where dogs were crammed into tiny cages and killed for their meat aged just one year old.

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Mike Pace, Fairport Convention, The Go! Team, King Khan, Bao Bao   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, January 07, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SPOON debuted a new song, "Satellite," in Houston.

MIKE PACE & THE CHILD ACTORS advance stream Best Boy.

FAIRPORT CONVENTION, at the 1970 Philadelphia Folk Festival.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features new tracks from The Go! Team, Panda Bear, Chadwick Stokes and more.

RESERVOIR advance streams Cicurina Vol. 1.

KING KHAN & THE BBQ SHOW drop "Alone Again" ahead of Invisible Girl.

THE CYRKLE: "Red Rubber Ball," co-written by Paul Simon (of Simon and Garfunkel) and Bruce Woodley (of The Seekers).

SLEATER-KINNEY talks about their reunion at The New York Times.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN talks to The 405 about Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance (Part 1) (Thx, Frank Yang).

BLONDIE's NEW YORK: A Place That Can't Exist Again.

COURTNEY LOVE Sings Opera.

CHARLIE SHEEN: Not a fan of Kim Kardashian.

BILL COSBY now faces three defamation claims from some of his accusers.

NICK LACHEY & VANESSA MINILLO welcomed their second child.

KATY PERRY & JOHN MAYER: Together again?

MARIAH CAREY is about to sign a deal for a residency at Caesars Palace.

NICHOLAS SPARKS and his wife have separated.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN talks to THR about his inspirations, thoughts on working with actors, his take on criticisms that his films are “cold,” his objectives for Interstellar, and his hopes for the future and much more.

ANT-MAN has a teaser trailer online.

KUWAIT: A legislator has come under fire by Islamists for his appeal to lift bans on dancing and alcohol consumption, calling the oil-rich Persian Gulf state "a country with no joy."

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Pentagon leaders agree to a person that the U.S. war against ISIS is succeeding. The problem is, no one can actually prove it.

SYRIA: Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State in Kobane, northern Syria, have seized a key district and now control 80 percent of the town, activists say.

HEZBOLLAH  has lifted the veil on “major infiltrations” by foreign intelligence agencies, implicitly confirming that the commander in charge of striking Israeli targets was himself recruited by Israel.

BAO BAO's first snow day at the National Zoo.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: What makes them go Ninja?

MYSTERIOUS BEASTS were spotted by Arizona highway patrol camera.

DUMPLING SQUID  spend hours making love and ignoring predators.

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Tuesday, January 06, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE CLASH: NEW YEAR'S DAY '77--a new BBC Documentary--is streaming on the Tube.

DR DOG is streaming Live at a Flamingo Hotel.

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

TREY ANASTASIO played a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR.

VIET CONG casts “Silhouettes" ahead of their self titled debut.A twist on the early Factory sound, methinks.

POP ETC goes full 80s-synthy while "Running In Circles."

THE WHO: "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (with some great Moon moments) and Pate fave "The Kids Are Alright" are your first Twofer 2015.

THOM YORKE may have made 20 million dollars from his Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes.

FUNKY DRUMMERS: Morning Edition profiles Clyde Stubblefield and John "Jabo" Starks, who created the grooves on many of James Brown's biggest hits, to kick off "Beat Week."

MADONNA, once the queen of controversial publicity, may not understand the age of social media.

THE DALAI LAMA may be opening for Lionel Richie at Glastonbury?

CAMERON DIAZ & BENJI MADDEN were reportedly getting married last night.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY welcomed their first child over the holidays.

KEISHA KNIGHT PULLIAM was fired by Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice for not talking to Bill Cosby.

ROB LOWE hopped on a jet ski to help search for survivors after a 74-foot sailboat ran into trouble off the Kona coast.

OLIVIER MARTINEZ is the named suspect in a battery investigation after things got out of control at LAX.

KATE HUDSON was spotted grocery shopping with her baby daddy, Matt Bellamy.

LIBYA: A ground invasion of the capital is imminent.

SAUDI ARABIA: Four heavily armed men from Iraq attacked a Saudi border patrol early Monday, firing automatic weapons and detonating suicide belts in a confrontation that left three guards and all the assailants dead, Saudi officials said.

IRAQ: U.S. troops have started training Iraqi military forces at two bases in Iraq as they work to build a force that can take the offensive against Islamic State militants who overran part of the country last year, the Pentagon said on Monday.

A TIGER leaps to catch meat, in slow motion.

MAN HUNTS DEER: Deer Gets Revenge.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: British landowners are to be paid millions of pounds of public money to cull grey squirrels under the first national plan for managing their numbers.

A SPRINGER SPANIEL found an 18000-dollar diamond under a hedgerow.

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Dan Mangan, Kat Dahlia, Anonymous 4, Death Grips, Excited Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 05, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE drops a disturbing video for "Golden Facelift."

DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH is advance streaming Club Meds.

KAT DAHLIA is advance streaming My Garden.

ANONYMOUS 4 is advance streaming 1865.

DEATH GRIPS is supposedly defunct, but streaming an instrumental album called Fashion Week.

JENS LEKMAN drops “Postcard #1," because it's his new year's resolution for 2015 to share his thoughts weekly.

NANCY SINATRA: "These Boots Are Made For Walking." Are you ready?

BILLY JOEL, defended by NPR's Linda Holmes.

BOSTON CALLING: The Guardian calls the city the heart of America's DIY renaissance.

BONO may never play guitar again, following a cycling accident that left him with a titanium elbow.

60 BIG ALBUM  ANNIVERSARIES compiled by NME.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies topped the chart with 21.9 million.  This final installment has topped the chart for every day of its release, except for Christmas.  It is tracking about where the prior Hobbit flicks have been, but lower than the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  Into The Woods places with 19 million, again edging out Unbroken, which shows with 18.4 million. Both of these had budgets in the 50-65 million range and should turn a tidy profit once they run overseas.  The Woman in Black 2: The Angel of Death takes the fourth slot with a much-stronger-than-expected 15.1 million debut (gurus projected 9-11 million).  As such it's likely to profit on a presumably low budget (the original cost only 15 million and included Daniel radcliffe in the cast).  Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb rounds out the Top Five with 14.5 million, which means the film may not reach profitability in theaters, but probably not too big a loss before heading to the home market.

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT quietly married girlfriend Tasha McCauley on Dec. 20.

EDWARD HERRMANN, the towering, melodious-voiced actor who brought Franklin D. Roosevelt to life in films and documentaries, won a Tony Award and charmed audiences as the stuffy dad on TV's Gilmore Girls, died Wednesday. He was 71.

STUART SCOTT, a longtime anchor at ESPN, died Sunday morning at the age of 49, following a long battle with cancer.

MILA KUNIS & ASHTON KUTCHER: Secretly married?

CHARLIZE THERON & SEAN PENN are reportedly secretly engaged.

TAYE DIGGS & IDINA MENZEL finalized their divorce.

SLASH has filed for divorce.

GIADA DE LAURENTIS...and John Mayer?

JAMIE-LYNN SPEARS pulled a knife to break up a fight.

PRINCE ANDREW denied any contact with a woman who claims he abused her as an underaged sex slave during an orgy.

SAM RAIMI hated Spider-Man 3 as much as you did.

DONNA DOUGLAS, best known as Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies, died at the age of 81. She also had some small roles in films and bigger ones on TV series, including a memorable Twilight Zone episode, "Eye of the Beholder." Max Baer (Jethro) remembers.

NIGERIA: Boko Haram fighters took over a Nigerian military base in the Borno state town of Baga, killing a number of people and sending others fleeing into neighboring Chad.

SYRIA: Representatives of a Syrian rebel group claim the US ignored a an early plan to stop the Islamic State.

KIBO is excited about dinner.

A CHINESE real estate developer who bought and ate three endangered tigers to entertain friends has been sentenced to 13 years in jail and 1.55 million yuan ($329,500).

A BRAZILLIAN MAN puts three live tarantulas in his mouth.

A GOLDFISH underwent surgery for constipation.

 

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