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Beachwood Sparks, Beach Boys, Peter Buck, Baby Racoons   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 18, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GLEN CAMPBELL drops a video for his final single, "A Better Place," which includes a Josh Homme cameo.

BEACHWOOD SPARKS are advance streaming The Tarnished Gold.

THE BEACH BOYS: Highlights from several recent concerts are streaming via NPR.

ALISON MILLER'S BOOM TIC BOOM played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

RAMONA FALLS stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set.

PETER BUCK: "10 Million BC" is the first track from the fmr REM axeman's solo LP -- debuted on radio by the Dream Syndicate's Steve Wynn.

CEREMONY covers The Ramones "I Don't Wanna Be Learned/I Don't Wanna Be Tamed."

DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT drop "Who" from their upcoming album, Love This Giant.

POP MUSIC: Are you ever too old for it? Let's talk about it.

RADIOHEAD'S drum tech died in a stage collapse.

THE BEST of 2012 (So Far), according to The Guardian.

THE POGUES get a memoir from accordionist James Fearnley.

THE POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE Long List is out.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted tops the chart with another 35 million on a mere 41 percent drop. This will be one of the sleeper hits of the summer, but will face stiff competition from Pixar's Brave next weekend.  Prometheus places again with 20.2 million on a steep 60 percent drop; it will still turn a tidy profit globally... but what might have been, eh?  Rock of Ages debuts at No.3 with 15.1 million, which seems problematic against a 75 million budget.  Snow White and the Huntsman checks into the fourth slot with 13.8 million on a likely relieving 40 percent drop; thereimagining has made 242.2 million worldwide against a reported 170 million production budget (and a larger rumored budget).  The debut of That's My Boy rounds out the Top 5 with 13 million, in which Adam Sandler begins to show he cannot turn out a 20 million opening for every awful project he does.  And against a 70 million budget, too.

LINDSAY LOHAN: Paramedics were called after she was "unresponsive" at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey -- but she was not hospitalized.

DRAKE is or is not facing arrest in the Chris Brown bar fight.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY are nesting.

JONAH HILL is set to play a role in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: From silent film director to the inventor of modern horror.

ADAM SANDLER: That's My Boy is just the latest in a long string of excruciating comedies. Why is he still a box-office star?

RODNEY KING, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday at 47.

PRES. OBAMA publicly acknowledged for the first time on Friday that United States military forces had taken "direct action" against groups affiliated with Al Qaeda in Somalia and Yemen.

SYRIA: Syrian rebels have held meetings with senior US government officials in Washington as pressure mounts on the US to authorize a shipment of heavy weapons, including surface-to-air missiles to combat the Assad regime. Russia's chief arms exporter said Friday that his company was shipping advanced defensive missile systems to Syria that could be used to shoot down airplanes or sink ships if the United States or other nations try to intervene to halt the country's spiral of violence. The US government has enlisted Britain's help in a bid to stop a ship suspected of carrying Russian attack helicopters and missiles.

EGYPT: Turnout over two days of voting that ended on Sunday night will help delineate the legitimacy of the country's first post-uprising president, but the people's mandate may matter little with the military controlling crucial executive and legislative powers.

IRAQ: Thirty-two people were killed in a pair of car bombings that again targeted Shia pilgrims in Baghdad.

BABY RACOONS: On the deck. In the house. Sampling the nuts.

WILDLIFE EXPERTS trying to reunite a pair of giant tortoises who split up after a 115 year romance have shelled out 4,500 GBP - on a life-sized replica 'other woman.' It's not going as planned.

A MOOSE abruptly ends a 100 mph car chase.

IT'S A CROC EAT CROC world out there.

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Rascals, Best Coast, Mayer Hawthorne, Cutout Bin, Mooching Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

... with THE RASCALS!  I was delighted to find one of my fave clips, their cover of "Mickey's Monkey" in a medley with "Turn On Your Love Light."  A second live medley includes a pair of Rascals originals, "I've Been Lonely Too Long" and "Come On Up." Plus, a copy of "A Girl Like You" has returned to the Tube.  Round it out with the live-instudio version of the obligatory "Good Lovin'."

BEST COAST stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

MAYER HAWTHORNE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD is streaming their Hypnotic Knights EP.

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT sings your favorite gum jingles.

LaBELLE: "Lady Marmalade." I coulda used a little more cowbell.

DAVID BOWIE: The A.V. Club considers The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 40 years later. The Guardian reprints a vintage 1972 interview.

NPR's favorite songs and albums of 2012 (so far). Plenty of embeded audio.

THE BEST OF 2012 (so Far), according to SPIN.

THE BEATLES' ALBUMS, ranked by NME. They are wrong, of course. USA Today rates the 20 Best Beatles songs. They are wrong, of course.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Jam to Merle Haggard, from Bobby Hebb to the Meat Purveyors, from Joe Jackson to Billy Swan, plus The Who, Ted Leo, Booker T & the MGs, Guided by Voices and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: the film version of Rock of Ages, currently scoring 45 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and That's My Boy, which is scoring 17 percent.

CHRIS BROWN sustained a nasty gash on his chin - apparently a wound from a bottle attack - after his entourage allegedly clashed with Drake's crew in a NYC nightclub brawl?

COURTNEY COX filed legal docs responding to David Arquette's divorce petition, and just like David ... she did it without a lawyer.

CHARLIE SHEEN talks to the NYT about Anger Management and and anger management.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL recently had some dates with his crush Minka Kelly, who had turned him down cold when he first asked her out last fall.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON does not like being labelled as 'the sexiest woman alive'.

ITALIAN police arrested ten people with alleged links to Greek anarchists, who are suspected of involvement in a series of attempted terrorist acts in Italy, Germany and France in recent years.

GITMO: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has asked to wear military-style clothing at his upcoming war crimes trial.

EGYPT's Supreme Constitutional Court, made up of judges appointed by Hosni Mubarak before his ouster last year, ordered the dissolving of the Islamist-dominated parliament and upheld the right of Mubarak's former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq to run for president. The rulings came only two days before the start of this weekend's runoff election between Shafiq and the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood.

AFGHANISTAN: Fourteen schoolgirls were poisoned in Kabul. One day after ISAF said it would not conduct airstrikes on homes, the US Department of Defense said strikes on homes could occur.

A DOG steals food off the counter.

CAT & MOUSE game ends with a potentially fatal case of the Black Plague.

BULL FIGHT linked to pig threat.

BABY CHEETAHS at the National Zoo.

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Metric, Smashing Pumpkins, Daniel Johnston, Dog + Tiger Cubs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BOWERBIRDS are "Overcome With Light" in their newest video.

METRIC played a 6-song set at the UBS Forum.

SMASHING PUMPKINS is advance streaming Oceana via iTunes.

JONATHAN BOULET is streaming We Keep The Beat, Found The Sound, See The Need, Start The Heart.

DANIEL JOHNSTON played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

SUPERCHUNK is streaming their cover of "Cruel Summer" via Spotify.

ELVIS COSTELLO: "The Other Side of Summer."

OF MONTREAL: Kevin Barnes talks to Spinner about returning to a more collaborative mode.

GILLIAN WELCH talks to the Austin Chronicle about how songs change, her fallow songwriting period and more... (Thx, LHB.)

PAUL WILLIAMS talks about his songs, both famous and obscure, with The A.V. Club.

JIMI HENDRIX & JIM MORRISON are headed toward the hologram treatment.

WORLD WAR Z: Brad Pitt's 170 million dollar zombie project is a nightmare.

THE LONE RANGER budget is back up to 250 million...and possibly over schedule.

THE KARDASHIANS: Khloe is undergoing fertility treatment. Kanye West wants to get Kim pregnant.

CHRISTINA APPLEGATE is not in Anchorman 2 yet.

PORTIA de ROSSI is set to play Lily Munster in the NBC reboot.

HUGH LAURIE is in negotiations to play the villain in the Robocop reboot.

THE 25 BEST SUMMER VACATION MOVIES, according to Complex.

TERROR in the USA: A federal court sentenced Haji Bagcho, an Afghan drug kingpin, to life in prison for conspiring to sell heroin in the US and use the proceeds to fund the Taliban.

SYRIAN government forces appeared to be preparing another massacre, in the town of Haffa. UN observers attempting to reach the town were fired upon. Rebel forces tried to smuggle civilians out of the town.

EGYPT's  parliament has for the second time approved an assembly to draft a new constitution after the first attempt was criticized for including too many Islamists... but the list of 100 names immediately triggered similar objections from liberals and Christians, raising the prospect of fresh legal challenges to the new assembly in the courts.

IRAN: The wide gap that remains between Iran and world powers over Iran's nuclear program is being filled by a diplomatic blame game, a week before talks are due to resume in Moscow.

A DOG nurses SIBERIAN TIGER CUBS... Mass hysteria!

50 CENT the GOOSE survives being shot seven times.

DOES A BEAR GO IN THE WOODS? Will he stop you from doing the same?

WOOFSTOCK: They are stardust; they are golden retrievers.

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Deer Tick, Imaginary Cities, Byrne + Eno, Superchunk, Spider-Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GASLIGHT ANTHEM dropped "45" ahead of their next LP. Stone Pony FTW.

DEER TICK stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set including a cover of The Replacements "Kiss Me On The Bus."

IMAGINARY CITIES also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO's My Life In the Bush of Ghosts demos surface.

CAN is advance streaming selections from The Lost Tapes collection.

SUPERCHUNK drops "This Summer" as a single. The flip side will be a cover of Bananarama's "Cruel Summer."

THURSTON MOORE covers Michael Chapman's "It Didn't Work Out."

SEALS & CROFT: "Summer Breeze." Because it's that time of year in this hemisphere.

JENS LEKMAN talks to Pitchfork about his forthcoming album (and how he failed making it, sort of).

RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON are essayed at Oxford American, with embedded audio and video; if you're on teh Facebook, you'll be able to stream their classic Shoot Out The Lights. (via Friend of Pate Sylvia Hauser.)

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his latest album, Big Station, which again finds him working with Chuck Prophet and Tony Visconti.

THE 10 BEST MIKE WATT SONGS, according to PopMatters.

LINDSAY LOHAN was driving with an open container of alcohol when she crashed into a truck Friday on the Pacific Coast Highway... but according to cops she had no alcohol in her system.

CHARLIZE THERON has shaved her head for her role as Furiosa in Mad Max 4: Fury Road.

ALYSON HANNIGAN and husband Alexis Denisof welcomed their second daughter.

COURTNEY COX & DAVID ARQUETTE are officially headed for divorce.

KOBE & VANESSA BRYANT are working on a full reconciliation.

ZHYANG ZIYI: The "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" star has filed suit against two media outlets for defamation over stories alleging she received millions of yuan to have sex with suspended Politburo member Bo Xilai and other Chinese leaders.

ANN RUTHERFORD, who achieved immortality as Scarlett O'Hara's sister Carreen in Gone with the Wind, has died at 94.

HENRY HILL, the former mobster whose life story became the basis for the movie "Goodfellas," died Tuesday at the age of 69.

YEMEN: Al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate has posted several messages on jihadist forums in a recruitment campaign directed at supporters already living in the West.

SYRIAN troops are using children as young as nine-years-old as human shields, forcing them to ride on top of government tanks to deter opposition attacks, a UN report has stated.

IRAN: European Union officials said on Monday that Iran has agreed to discuss a proposal from six world powers to curb its production of high-grade uranium at a meeting in Moscow next week in an apparent deescalation of tensions ahead of the talks. Uh-huh.

SPIDER-CAT walks down a fridge.

A WEIRD DOG is mistaken for an escaped genetically modified pig or a strangely colored mini-horse.

A TREED BEAR closes a Winter Park, FL museum.

TEN BIZARRE BATS, courtesy of the Pets Lady.

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New Releases, Blood Orange, Willie Nelson, Kathleen Edwards, Rescue Kittens   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE VACCINES have "No Hope" ahead of their sophomore LP. Pretty peppy for hopeless.

NEW RELEASES from Metric, Hot Chip, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Skinny Puppy, Black Box Revelation and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

BLOOD ORANGE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

WILLIE NELSON played World Cafe Live; you can stream the gig on demand.

KATHLEEN EDWARDS stopped by World Cafe Live for a mini-set.

 

JAPANDROIDS played "Fire's Highway" and "The House That Heaven Built" for Fallon in time for Twofer Tuesday.

NEIL YOUNG talked to the BBC about Americana and original materialrecorded with Crazy Horse.He talks to the L.A. Times about his latest concert movie with Jonathan Demme.

THE dB's: Peter Holsapple talks to Spinner about embracing cult band status.

LEE RANALDO talks to Drowned in Sound about the making of his solo record, the draw of the creative process, the Occupy movement and what the future holds for Sonic Youth.

CRAIG FINN talks to Creatve Loafing about beer.

LINDSAY LOHAN lied to cops Friday by telling them she was not driving the Porsche that slammed into a truck on the Pacific Coast Highway; as a result, she could be prosecuted and her probation could be revoked.

ROBIN ROBERTS been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome and will undergo chemotherapy in advance of a bone marrow transplant later this year.

TOMMY CHONG is fighting prostate cancer.

MARIA MEMUNOUS told Howard Stern she was sexually abused not once, but twice, by two separate doctors.

ZAC EFRON and Lily Collins' spring fling is over.

FRANK CADY, a character actor who played Hooterville general-store proprietor Sam Drucker on the TV sitcoms "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction," died Friday at 96.

BLUE VELVET: Nearly an hour of of deleted footage from David Lynch's 1986 cult classic has been rediscovered in a Seattle warehouse.

THE TOP 50 SCI-FI MOVIES, according to Film.com.

SYRIA: The opposition finds a leader in... Sweden.

IRAN's state finances have come under unprecedented pressure and the resilience of ordinary people is being tested by soaring inflation as oil income plummets due to tightening Western sanctions and sharply falling oil prices.

PAKISTAN: The US is withdrawing its team of negotiators without securing a long-sought agreement to allow trucks to supply NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan again.

RESCUE KITTENS not thrilled with their bath.

THE SWARM: Fifty thousand bees have set up shop in an Orlando neighborhood.

TWO GIANT TURTLES, together for 115 years, refuse to share a cage anymore.

A DINGO caused the death of a baby more than 30 years ago, a coroner ruled Tuesday. Obligatory.

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