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Har Mar Superstar, SULK, Suuns, Two-Headed Snake   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SONNY & THE SUNSETS drop a video for “Well But Strangely Hung Man”.

HAR MAR SUPERSTAR advance streams Best Summer Ever, which alternately mines 80's synth-tinged pop and 90s lo-fi.

SULK advance streams No Illusions.

SUUNS advance streams Hold/Still.

CAR SEAT HEADREST drops “Fill In The Blank” ahead of Teens Of Denial.

THE WALKER BOTHERS: let's have early hits like "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" and "Make It Easy On Yourself" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE BEACH BOYS: The 50th anniversary of Pet Sounds, discussed by Ronnie Spector,

SLOAN looks back on the 20th anniversary of One Chord to Another.

BOB MOULD talks to Louder Than War about what drives him and keeps him going. (Thx, Frank Yang)

THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE's Anton Newcombe talks to Aquarium Drunkard about recording, the music industry and…war.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR revealed a minute of new, action-packed footage (plus a foreshadowed baddie) at the MTV Movie Awards.The early buzz -- mostly from nerd media -- is very good.

STAR WARS: Daisy Ridley says she doesn't know whether Rey is a Jedi, but she struck a Skywalkerish pose on Twitter.

FANTASTIC BEASTS and WHERE TO FIND THEM: The Potterverse drops a teaser trailer online.

PHYLICIA RASHAD is not talking about Bill Cosby, m'kay?

JAKE LLOYD, who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, has been moved from a jail cell to a psychiatric facility.

BELGIUM: The terror cell behind bombings in Brussels had been plotting to hit France again after carrying out the Paris attacks in November, but was forced to strike closer to home as police closed in, Belgian prosecutors said on Sunday.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: The former head of Britain's Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Trevor Phillips, has admitted he "got almost everything wrong" regarding immigration in a new report, claiming Muslims are creating "nations within nations" in the West.

IRAQI forces are struggling to hold on to the little territory they’ve taken back from ISIS.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Two-Headed Snake.

A DEAD HORSE was dumped in front of a Sylmar, Cali., home Saturday. He did n't know who they were with.

THE TIGER POPULATION roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century.

A 120-LB GREAT DANE was rescued from a tree in Plattsmouth, FL.

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Animal Collective, Space Raft, Ashley Shadow, Shark   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 11, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE drops a video for “Good Help (Is So Hard To Find)."

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

SPACE RAFT advance streams Rubicon.

ASHLEY SHADOW advance streams her self-titled debut.

TEGAN & SARA drop "Boyfriend" and  "U-Turn" ahead of Love You to Death.

THE LEES OF MEMORY (a Superdrag offshoot) drops “Squared Up" ahead of Unnecessary Evil.

THE CONNELLS: " '74-'45. " Read more about this Raleigh, North Carolina quintet at Trouser Press.

STEVE MILLER criticized the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame almost immediately after his induction.

PATTERSON HOOD remembers MERLE HAGGARD.

THE RAMONES: A new exhibition in Queens celebrates the history of a band that left an indelible mark on modern rock and New York City.

WOODS: How staying DIY gave them an indie ecosystem.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Boss tops the chart with 23.5MM, at the low end of Melissa McCarthy comedies. It will make money against its 29MM budget, but you do enough of these and you become Adam Sandler.  Batman v Superman places with 23.4MM, but that's an ugly 54 percent drop for a tentpole on its third weekend. And yet Justice League is set to go into production today, when the WB should have taken that rumored delay instead.  Zootopia shows with another 14.4MM, which is leggy, but The Jungle Book arrives on Friday. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 takes the fourth slot with 6.4MM; it's not as leggy as the orginal, but will still profit nicely.  The debut of Hardcore Henry rounds out the Top Five with 5.1MM. This flick was purchased by STX Entertainment for 10MM, but they sold the overseas rights for probably clsoe to that amount, so the cost here is limited to the marketing.

VINCE NEIL fights NIC CAGE after allegedly attacking a woman in Vegas.

ROB KARDASHIAN & BLAC CHYNA plan a quickie wedding.

LEO DiCAPRIO: Another day, another model?

EDGE OF TOMORROW may spawn a sequel, based on its strength in home video.

BRIAN BLESSED does a Q & A with The Guardian.

SUPERMAN: Director Richard Donner reveals how Marlon Brando wanted to play Jor-El as a "bagel," fights with his producer and how he discovered Christopher Reeve for the first-ever big-budget superhero movie.

SPIDER-MAN will get some super-cameos in 2017.

GERMANY is as underequipped, overwhelmed and vulnerable to attack from ISIS as Brussels.

SWEDEN: A 20-year-old teaching student in Stockholm is accused of planning to blow himself up.

YEMEN: One unintended consequence of the war in Yemen: Al Qaeda now runs its own mini-state, flush with funds from raiding the local central bank and levying taxes at the local port.

A SHARK skips off a surfboard.

a DOG got into his owner's ink supply. And it was a large supply.

OTHER DOGS were taught to fly a plane.

SPEEDY SPIDERS FROM HELL: They bite faster than any other arachnids.

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Nuggets, Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop, Sturgill Simpson, Santana, Monkey+Goat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 08, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with GARAGE ROCK! It's the time of year when I bring out The Standells - "Dirty Water/ Why Pick On Me", but I couldn't stop there. Let's have a baker's dozen of Nuggets, like Music Machine - "Talk Talk"; Blues Magoos - "We Ain't Got Nothin' Yet"; The Knickerbockers - "Lies"; The Outsiders - "Time Won't Let Me"; Count Five - "Psychotic Reaction"; The Seeds - "Pushin' Too Hard"; 13th Floor Elevators - "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Love - "My Little Red Book"; The Leaves - "Hey Joe"; Electric Prunes - "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," the Crazy World of Arthur Brown - "Fire" and The Nazz- "Open My Eyes."

SAM BEAM & JESCA HOOP advance stream Love Letter For Hire.

STURGILL SIMPSON advance streams A Sailor's Guide to Earth.

SANTANA advance streams Santana IV, which reunites the mid-70s combo.

GRAHAM NASH advance streams This Path Tonight.

PAUL SIMON drops his "Wristband" ahead of Stranger to Stranger.

BRITTA PHILLIPS shares a "Daydream" ahead of Luck Or Magic. (Not a Lovin' Spoonful cover)

WUSSY covered New Order's "Ceremony" for Record Store Day.

THE LA's: "There She Goes." Again.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to...People magazine?

THE GREATEST PUNK ALBUMS, according to...Rolling Stone?

OUTLAW COUNTRY: The revival of two lost films - 'Heartworn Highways' and 'A Poem Is a Naked Person' - documents the nascent scene.

SOUL ASYLUM: The A.V. Club recommends deep cuts, as do I, heartily.

THE SMITHS launched a Twitter account...but for what?

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include The Boss, which is currently scoring 16 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Hardcore Henry, which is scoring 59 percent. Everybody Wants Some!! expands, scoring 90 percent.

STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE, a prequel about the theft of the plans for the Death Star, has a trailer online. And when joking, make sure you know the Bothans stole the plans for the second Death Star.

ANNE HATHAWAY has given birth to her first child with husband Adam Shulman.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE is profiled by Harper's Bazaar.

BEN AFFLECK put Simon & Garfunkel back on the charts.

MADONNA has returned to London as she and ex-husband Guy Ritchie continue to battle over the custody of their 15-year-old son, Rocco.

NAGORNO KARABAKH: A seemingly obscure, long-simmering conflict could drag in major powers.

CHINA: The U.S. military’s top commander in the Pacific is arguing behind closed doors for a more confrontational approach to counter and reverse China’s strategic gains in the South China Sea, appeals that have met resistance from the White House at nearly every turn.

BANGLADESH: Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Dhaka to demand the capture and punishment of those responsible for the murder of a law student who criticised Islamism on his Facebook page.

AN IRAQI army offensive touted as the first phase of a campaign to recapture the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State has been paused until more forces arrive to hold ground.

A MONKEY bundles up to check in on his goat friend.

A DALLAS POLICE DOG is being hailed as a hero after finding a 12-year-old girl who ran away from home after leaving a suicide note.

A MARINE DOG who lost her leg when an IED detonated underneath her, received a medal for courage on Tuesday.

A RARE SHARK was caught in the Sea of Cortez by a teenager from Oak Brook, IL.

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Merle Haggard RIP, Deakin, Joy Formidable, Sunflower Bean, Reindeer   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 07, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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MERLE HAGGARD, one of the most successful singers in the history of country music, a contrarian populist whose songs about his scuffling early life and his time in prison made him the closest thing that the genre had to a real-life outlaw hero, died at his home in California, on Wednesday, his 79th birthday. He's best known for songs like “Mama Tried,” and “Okie From Muskogee,” (with many more at Rolling Stone) but I love his impressions of other country legends.

DEAKIN, a  part-time Animal Collective member, advance streams Sleep Cycle.

THE JOY FORMIDABLE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

SUNFLOWER BEAN also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

FIR, with the songwriting skills of Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks and Matt Piucci of Rain Parade, the vocals of the Allah-Las, and the instrumental backings of Rob Campanella of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and Nelson Bragg from Brian Wilson’s band, drops the power-popping and Byrdsy “Summer Wasn’t There.”

THE POSIES drop “Unlikely Places" ahead of Solid States; this track adds a slight 80s vibe to the pop classicism.

MARGARET GLASPY drops the title track from Emotions And Math.

THE LEFT BANKE: "Walk Away Renee."

ROBBIE FULKS: Another of country music's true 'outsiders' comes back around.

VETIVER's Andy Cabic talks to the L.A. Music Blog about the upcoming tour, the new album, his influences, and songwriting itself. (Thx, LHB.)

FRIGHTENED RABBIT is profiled by Consequence of Sound.

SHOEGAZE: Call it a comeback?

CHARLIE SHEEN  is the subject of a felony threat investigation triggered by his ex-fiancée.

THE BFG has a UK trailer online. 

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM aren't reconciling.

TOM HIDDLESTON wants the James Bond rumors to stop.

WONDER WOMAN's release date moves up, while the WB's Jungle Book moves forward a year and out of competition with the Disney version due on April 15.

JOEL McHALE will play Chevy Chase in a Netflix movie about the origins of the National Lampoon. It's a small Community.

KEIFER SUTHERLAND may return as Jack Bauer someday, so establish a perimeter.

SWITZERLAND is shocked by Muslim teens who refused to shake hands with female teachers.

GERMANS appear to be losing faith in the idea of a borderless Europe, as the results of a poll published on Tuesday showed that two-thirds would prefer the government to end the Schengen free-movement zone. 

THE ISLAMIC STATE used mustard gas to attack Syrian troops during an offensive against a military airport in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, state media reported.

THE ANNUAL REINDEER CROSSING in Arctic Canada is a thing.

A GANGSTER TURKEY crashes into a NJ kitchen, terrorizing a family.

A MYSTERY CREATURE was observed swimming in the Thames River.

SOME CATERPILLARS, like some frat boys, drum their rears to attract friends.

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Ray LaMontagne, Tenement, All Songs, Puppy vs Lemon   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ROB CROWE's GLOOMY PLACE drops a video for "Oh, the Sadmakers."

RAY LaMONTAGNE plays his latest LP in full on World Cafe, backed by members of My Morning Jacket.

TENEMENT advance streams their rarities collection, Bruised Music, Vol. 2.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from the Jayhawks, Weezer, Oh Pep! and more highlight  the latest edition.

MINOR VICTORIES drops "Folk Arp" ahead of the "supergroup''s self-titled debut.

MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND, "Blinded by the Light," Live in '75.

THE ROLLING STONES plan to release a new album, according to Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards, Lord of the Undead.

NIRVANA bassist Krist Novoselic revisits Nevermind 25 years later for Rolling Stone.

NATHANIEL RATELIFF talks to Drowned In Sound about the near-viral "S.O.B.," and more.

DR TEETH & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM are set for their first-ever live festival performance.

CHARLIZE THERON, who won an Oscar playing an ugly person, tells British GQ it's hard out there for a gorgeous woman. 

MISCHA BARTON is blogging her Dancing With the Stars experience.

ROB KARDASHIAN & BLAC CHYNA are engaged.

MICHELLE RODRIGUEZ was jealous Paul Walker died first.

SCOOBY-DOO: One of TV's Greatest Tributes to the Open Road?

NORTH KOREA can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday.

ICELAND's Prime Minister  resigned - the first major casualty of the leaked Panama Papers that have shone a spotlight on offshore finance.

FRANCE: Police in Paris arrested 130 people on Tuesday amid country-wide protests by students and unions opposed to controversial labor reforms being championed by the Socialist government, the same day the bill was due to go before parliament.

PUPPY vs LEMON: Who you got?

BOARZILLAS: Communities in northern Japan are being overwhelmed by radioactive wild boars which are rampaging across the countryside after being contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

DIVE-BOMBING HAWKS terrorize seniors at the Spring Hill retirement community in Florida.

A 9-FT GATOR was camped out on a Florida front porch, propped up against the front door. Is this really news at this point?

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