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Sonic Youth, Mike Doughty, David Vandervelde, Clothesline Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SONIC YOUTH: This could be the band's final concert.

MIKE DOUGHTY (ex-Soul Coughing) stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DAVID VANDERVELDE and his band deliver psych-pop live from the KEXP studios.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from the Black Keys, Real Estate, The Antlers and more in the latest edition of the long-running series.

RICHARD BUCKNER, Live at the Kirkland Cafe, Somerville, MA, May 31, 1996.

SHE & HIM drop "Christmas Day" from A Very She & Him Christmas.

DAMIEN JURADO drops  "Nothing Is The News" from the forthcoming Richard Swift-produced Maraqopa.

GLEN CAMPBELL, essayed and interviewed by Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan. (Thx, LHB.)  Among the may great parts of the article, Ira praises "Guess I'm Dumb" (co-written by Brian Wilson and Russ Titelman), which appeared on my Summer Mix this year.

CRAIG FINN (Hold Steady) talks to Slate about his upcoming solo LP, religion, and Friday Night Lights.

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS: Benjamin Curtis opens up to Stereogum about the band's forthcoming spring release, Ghostory.

R.E.M.: Mike Mills talks to Spinner about the band's first rehearsal, what he'll miss after the breakup, Big Star tributes, and Michael Stipe's penis picture.

JOANNA NEWSOM recently shot a fashion spread and video interview for Bullett.

THE TEN HEAVIEST ALBUMS EVER, according to the editors at Kerranng!

KIM KARDASHIAN & KRIS HUMPHRIES: His side of the breakup story. Allegedly.

ASHTON KUTCHER & DEMI MOORE worked on their marriage at Bruce Willis' vacation home in Turks and Caicos. Reportedly.

JUSTIN BEIBER: Contra some reports, the 20-year-old California woman who claims Bieber is the father of her baby is moving forward with her action against the pop star.

MAD MEL UPDATE: The kid is not Gibson's son.

BRADLEY COOPER is People's Sexiest Man Alive.

DIANE KEATON talks to Morning Edition about the memoir she wrote for herself and her mother. BONUS: A list of top Diane Keaton movie moments.

CONNIE BRITTON (Friday Night Lights, American Horror Story) adopted a baby boy.

CAMERON DIAZ & P-DIDDY spotted lunching together.

MICHAEL JACKSON: The late pop icon's estate is in discussions with producer Ivan Reitman to nudge a biopic forward.

RICKY GERVAIS will host the Golden Globes again in January, which was far from a sure thing.

YEMEN: Troops killed seven AQAP fighters, including an Iranian, a Pakistani, and two Somali nationals, during fighting in Zinjibar. AQAP remains in control of the provincial capital.

SYRIA: Iranian officials have held talks with Syrian opposition leaders, in a dramatic sign of the growing isolation of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

IRAN: A massive explosion that killed 17 troops -- including an officer regarded as the architect of Iran's missile defenses -- took place last week during research on weapons that could strike Israel, the Islamic Republic's military chief said on Wednesday.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres. Karzai told a national assembly America must stop night raids and house searches and close its military prisons in return for keeping troops in the country after 2014.

CAT ON A CLOTHESLINE: Let's go to the video.

A BLIND PUPPY rescued from a manhole has been reuinted with a happy young girl.

MONKEY MOMS help their sons find the right mate.

GIRAFFE gives paparazzo a tongue-lashing.

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Chris Cornell, Active Set, Purple Rain, Attack Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

RAVEONETTES drop a clip for "Let Me On Out," the third single from Raven in the Grave.

CHRIS CORNELL is advance streaming his Songbook 2 EP.

THE ACTIVE SET, profiled by the L.A. Times, is streaming 11.

THEE OH SEES are streaming Carrion Crawler/The Dream.

PURPLE RAIN: The full album in covers.

JONSI drops "Gathering Stories" from the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo. More on the project from HitFix. (Thx, TV's Andy levy!)

BRIAN WILSON plays "Sail On Sailor" at the Ed Sullivan Theater, with Matthew Sweet and Darius Rucker.

R.E.M. talks about their breakup at USA Today. Mike Mills talked even more at The Current.

FEIST talks intertia and momentum - but not in those terms - with the Seattle Times.  And she talks to the Irish Times about authors, art, fashion and more.

EARWORMS: Why You Can't Get It Out of Your Head. (Thx, LHB.)

RADIO is still the biggest source for music discovery.

CHEAP TRICK announced Wednesday that it will "curate" a museum and music venue in a former Buick dealership in Chicago's emerging Record Row-Motor Row district.

LAURA KENNEDY, the original bassist and co-founder of seminal no wave band Bush Tetras who has spent the past 12 years living in Minneapolis, passed away on Monday afternoon

KIM KARDASHIAN's marriage was absolutely, positively the real deal ... according to her divorce lawyer.

PAMELA ANDERSON will play the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in her arms on Canadian TV this Christmas.

JUSTIN BIEBER flipped off the paparazzi in London after being photographed with a young blonde who's definitely not Selena Gomez.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON at the Twilight: Breaking Dawn premiere, for you sparkly vampire fans.

ANGELINA JOLIE hired a talent agent to help her find roles in smaller, independently financed films, not studio tentpoles or franchises.

BRITNEY SPEARS could be engaged by the end of the year.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR & JACK WAGNER have called off their plans to wed.

OLIVIA MUNN... and hockey player Brad Richards of the New York Rangers.

CHANNING TATUM: The Man From U.N.C.L.E?

STAR TREK: Don't expect the next movie before 2013.

TERROR in the UK: Four men in Birmingham were arrested on suspicion of traveling to terror camps in Pakistan and fundraising for terror operations. The arrests are part of an ongoing investigation.

TERROR in NORWAY: Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, David Jakobsen, and Mikael Davud pled not guilty to charges of trying to blow up the Jyllands-Posten newspaper and assassinate cartoonist Lars Viks, though Bujak said in court he wished for Viks to die.

AFGHANISTAN: Support for the Taliban among Afghans has steadily decreased in recent years and people strongly back a government peace initiative, according to a survey conducted by Asia Foundation.

CAT in Attack Mode. Freaky.

FERAL RACCOONS like it when you duct tape decomposing food to yourself.

MONKEYS at a Brazilian zoo have attacked and injured a man who swam into their enclosure, saying he wanted to play with them.

A HIPPO named Humphrey has mauled to death a South African man who kept him for a pet, Beeld newspaper has reported.

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New Releases, Makreta Irglova, Tune-Yards, Surfing Goat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LOS CAMPESINOS! drop a clip for the title track of Hello Sadness.

NEW RELEASES from AM and Shawn Lee and the John Lennon 30th anniversary tribute are streaming this week at Spinner.

THE SWELL SEASON's Marketa Irglova played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

TUNE-YARDS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DAVID LYNCH talks to the L.A. Times and Morning Becomes Eclectic about jamming, electric music, working with Karen O, drinking beer and the origin of Crazy Clown Time.

J MASCIS drops "I've Been Thinking," the B-side to his latest single.

THE BIG PINK drops "Hit The Ground (Superman)," which samples Laurie Anderson's "O Superman."

GARY WRIGHT: "Love Is Alive" and the inevitable "Dreamweaver" are your Twofer Tuesday.

DUM DUM GIRLS: Dee Dee talks to Spinner about the new LP, moving to NYC, playing and running in high heels, etc.

LANA DEL REY: A textbook case of internet feeding frenzy?

JIMI HENDRIX writes his Dad, circa October 1966.

THE 25 GREATEST LOVE SONGS of the 1970s, according to Nerve.

BRAD PITT says he'll retire from acting in three years, is open to "having" more kids with Angelina Jolie.

CHARLIZE THERON talks to Vogue about her new movie and new, rowdy, single life.

KAT VON D says Jesse James cheated on her with at least 19 women.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE hosts a message about his night at the Marine Corps ball.

KELLY BROOK knows how to verify a Twitter account.

DOCTOR WHO is coming to the big screen, under the direction of "Harry Potter" helmer David Yates.

THE 22 GREATEST MOVIE EXPLOSIONS, according to TotalFilm.

BAHRAIN: Five members of a terror cell have links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the public prosecutor's office claimed.

EGYPT: Police arrested the head of al Qaeda's branch in the Sinai, believed to have been behind six bombings of a pipeline to Israel and Jordan.

IRAN: Britain does not exclude military action against Iran in the long-term failing progress on its controversial nuclear programme, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday. Iran admitted on Sunday that it had been on the receiving end of a new cyber attack by the Duqu computer virus that allegedly targeted computers of firms in the Islamic Republic.

PAKISTAN: The Taliban campaign against music in northwest Pakistan and the tribal areas is still in full swing.

SURFING GOAT: Everybody's heard about the goat.

BUDDY & PEDRO will be reunited in the spring, Toronto Zoo officials said.

HOO-DUNIT: A great horned owl named Dakota was stolen over the weekend from an Oconomowoc wildlife rehabilitation center.

MALE NURSERY WEB SPIDERS sometimes "pay" for mating using worthless gifts, with a new study finding the gals are not impressed with the empty offerings.

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Kate Bush, Zombies, My Brightest Diamond, Dreaming Hedgehog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE HORRORS cover David Bowie's "Suffragette City," now with less wham bam.

KATE BUSH is advance streaming 50 Words for Snow.

THE ZOMBIES:  Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent visited World Cafe to perform two new songs off Breathe Out, Breathe In, plus the classic "She's Not There."`

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND gave two demo tracks to Drowned In Sound. Shara Worden also gave an interview and tracks to All Things Considered.

DARREN HAYMAN is advance streaming Christmas in Haworth.

CRYSTAL STILTS is advance streaming Radiant Door.

IMPERIAL TEEN dropped "Runaway" in advance of Feel The Sound.

MICHAEL STIPE and BRIAN ENO join STEPHEN COLBERT for an a capella version of Bill Withers' "Lean On Me."

BLACK SABBATH have announced they are reuniting, more than three decades after the release of their last studio album.

THE FEELIES: Glenn Mercer talks to the Albany Times-Union about the music biz and doin' it again. (Thx, LHB.)

THE ROLLING STONES: Jagger, Richards, Wood and Watts talk to The Observer about sex, drugs and survival - and the chance of a celebration tour.

TEN of the BEST LIST SONGS, according to the readers of The Guardian. Very meta.

IS THE COMPACT DISC an endangered species?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Immortals top the chart with 32 million (much better than the tracking prediction of 25 million) against a 75 million budget. It's particularly good considering that Friday laso saw the releases of the final Harry Potter video and the latest Call of Duty videogame.  Jack & Jill, despite awful reviews, brought out the standard Adam Sandler fan club with their usual 26 million.  Puss In Boots continued to show legs with 25.5 million, a mere 23 percent drop after last weekend's tiny 3 percent drop; the animated cat now has made 108.8 million domestic against a 130 million budget.  The cat may even beat Sandler when the final receipts are tallied.  Tower Heist took the fourth slot with 13.2 million, with a 45 percent drop that's awfully steep for a comedy.  J. Edgar rounds out the Top Five with 11.5 (though it's really 11.7 when you count the early, limited release.  I wonder whether a Hoover biopic will do as well internationally as Eastwood's prior pics.

KIM KARDASHIAN's former publicist blasted the reality star for staging much about her life in recent years. Kris Humphries has lawyered up for his divorce.

PIPPA MIDDLETON is said to have split from her long term boyfriend ex-cricketer Alex Loudon after blazing rows.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, a man of his word, attended the Marine Corps ball in Richmond, VA with Cpl. Kelsey De Santis as promised.

ZOE SALDANA and her fiance Keith Britton "have amicably separated after 11 years."

HOLLY MARIE COMBS is divorcing David Donoho after seven years of marriage; the two met on the set of Charmed.

SASHA GREY is reading to first-graders, and won't stop under pressure from parents.

JAY-Z is catching some heat and backlash for his Occupy Wall Street-inspired t-shirt. He's got 99problems, but profit isn't one of them.

JESSICA BIEL & KATE WINSLET both say they would do nude scenes again. I can't be the only one to spot the opportunity here.

SACHA BARON COHEN is in final negotiations to join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

YEMEN: More than 1000 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are reported to have arrived in Shaqra.

SYRIA has been told it will be suspended from the Arab League - and faces the threat of sanctions in the Arab world - if it does not agree to end its bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.

LIBYA: Rival militias clashed on the outskirts of Tripoli for a fourth day Sunday, the most sustained violence since the capture and killing of Gadhafi last month.

AFGHANISTAN: As NATO insists that violence is declining while many Afghans say daily life has grown more perilous, tension has grown over so-called metrics that can be used to chart progress or deterioration.

DREAMING HEDGEHOG: Let's go to the video.

GOAT ON THE HIGHWAY in Gwinnett County, GA.

LIU FEI forces poisonous snakes up his nose and then out his mouth.

A ST. BERNARD foils burglars hours after being adopted.

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Neil Young, Feist, Dawes, John Doe, Cutout Bin, Cat Tank   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, November 11, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with NEIL YOUNG! Live on the Beeb, circa '71. Your setlist includes: "Out on the Weekend," "Old Man," "Journey Thru the Past," "Heart of Gold," "Don't Let It Bring You Down," "A Man Needs A Maid," "Love in Mind," and "Dance, Dance, Dance."

FEIST played a concert at Glenn Gould Studio as part of the CBC's 75th Anniversary celebrations, with cameos from Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Ed Droste (Grizzly Bear), and Bry Webb (Constantines).

DAWES stopped by the UBS Forum  to perform for The Current.

JOHN DOE stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

THESE GO TO 11: Songs Best Heard Extra-Loud.

BEN FOLDS discusses and performs "The Luckiest," from 2001's Rockin' The Suburbs.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN turned 40 this week, so why not end the week with The Beatnix?

R.E.M.: Michael Stipe gives an exit interview at The Quietus. Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills all talk to The Guardian.

LAURA MARLING talks to Spinner about her new LP, experiments in awkwardness, and more...

THE JAM: Paul Weller has said that he hopes he'll never "be skint enough" that he will be forced to reform his old band.

GLEN CAMPBELL got a short, respectable tribute at the CMA Awards.

LOU REED vs LESTER BANGS: A vintage 1973 interview/confrontation.

THE 15 BEST NEW ORDER SONGS, according to PopMatters.

MOVEMBER: The Greatest Living Mustaches In Rock.

CUTOUT BIN: From TMBG to the Association, from the Jam to Steel Panther, from Ike & Tina to Peter Bjorn & John, plus the Ramones, Frank Wilson, Bing Ji Ling, Crooked Fingers, the Black Keys and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  This weekend's wide releases are Jack and Jill, which is currently scoring 03 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Immortals, which is scoring 37 percent; and J. Edgar, which expands wide scoring 41 percent.

KIM KARDASHIAN: There's speculation that the engagement ring from Kris Humphries was actually a ring she already owned.

ASHTON KUTCHER attacked the Penn State Board of Trustees for firing Joe Paterno Wed. night - but there was one little problem, seems he didn't know about Joe's misdeeds.  he's now managing his tweeting.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY are already looking at apartments together.

MAD MEL UPDATE: A pregnant reality TV star, who dated Gibson briefly during the summer, is telling friends that the actor is the father of her unborn baby, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.

JESSICA SIMPSON already wants more kids.

THE OSCARS: Brian Grazer will substitute as producer after Brett Ratner got the boot.  They're still looking for a host.

THE MOVIE SET THAT ATE ITSELF: Five years ago, a relatively unknown (and unhinged) director began one of the wildest experiments in film history.

VETERANS' DAY: Today is the anniversary of the end of WWI; thank a vet today, and read the excellent 2009 piece by the WaPo's David Ignatius that may be more true today.

LIBYA's Islamists are forming a new party that is almost certain to dominate the country's new politics on the "moderate" lines successfully pursued first in Turkey and now in Tunisia.

EGYPT: The question shadowing the upcoming election is whether a robust enough Parliament will emerge to fulfill an elusive goal of the revolution: challenging the military's 60-year grip on power.

IRAN said it will not retreat "one iota" from its nuclear program. France, Britain and Germany called for tougher sanctions. Russia rejected new sanctions. China favored continued negotiations. Israel said it could carry out strikes on Iran with under 500 civilian fatalities. The US was silent.

PAKISTAN: The US believes that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are in safe hands, a State Department spokesman said, rebutting reports that Islamabad's atomic arsenal was vulnerable to theft.

CAT TANK CREW: Let's go to the video.

SHELBY the DOG is the first elected leader of the Occupy movement.

THE KITTEN COVERS: An ideal tumblr for this blog.

A GIANT BUFFALO kept as a pet and taken to bars in Canada.

A FRENCH POLICE DOG credited with sniffing out 1700 drugs suspects was decorated with a medal for bravery and dedication at a ceremony in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.

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