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The Sweet, Best Coast, UMO, Dr Dog, Courtney Barnett, Killer Whale   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

 

...with THE SWEET!  The bubble-glam rockers are probably best known for the trifecta of "Little Willy," "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox on the Run," though they also charted with the harder-edged "Action" and the more ballad-y "Love is Like Oxygen."  All of those clips also feature the band's rather unique fashion sense, but you have to see the clip for "Wig Wam Bam" -- complete with headdress -- to see the band at its most ridiculous.  BONUS: "All That Glitters" is a BBC documentary originally broadcast in February 1974 charting a day in the life of The Sweet.

BEST COAST stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA plays songs from Multi-Love live on KEXP.

DR. DOG performs at last week's NON-COMMvention in Philadelphia.

COURTNEY BARNETT plays songs from Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit in a live session from WNYC's Greene Space.

DESTROYER  drops "Dream Lover" ahead of Poison Season. This.

SEAPONY "Saw the Light" ahead of A Vision.

T. REX: "20th Century Boy." Aow!

THE DEAD: Bob Weir talks to Rolling Stone about the The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir, the state of the reunion tour rehearsals and why the Dead chose Trey Anastasio for the daunting task of stepping into Jerry's shoes.

RIDE:Andy Bell and Mike Gardener talk to TimeOut about their reuinion, name-dropping a few bands along the way. (Thx, Frank Yang)

JASON ISBELL talks to the Cleveland Scene about his latest LP and a violent Drive-By truckers show in the city. (Thx, LHB.)

LAURIE ANDERSON answers 22 questions at The Guardian.

AUSSIE POLICE warn the public of the dangers of Nickelback. Fair cop.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Tomorrowland, which is currently scoring 53 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and the reboot of Poltergeist, scoring 50 percent.

MATTHEW LEWIS:  Neville Longbottom grew up and excited people on social media.

CHRIS PRATT offers drunk acting tips to GQ ahead of Jurassic World.

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL was told by a Hollywood producer that she was too old, at 37, to play the love interest of a 55-year-old man.

EMMA STONE & ANDREW GARFIELD: Together again?

FLAVOR FLAV was arrested early Thursday morning in Las Vegas for...many, many things.

JOSH DUGGAR (19 Kids and Counting) resigned as Executive Director of the Family Research Council, acknowledging he sexually molested underage girls including some of his sisters.

CARA DELEVINGNE: Hollywood's next "It" Girl?

AL QAEDA tried to establish a recruitment office in Iran but backed off because it was deemed to be too expensive.

THE ISLAMIC STATE is sending the ‘prettiest virgins’ they capture to slave markets in the Syrian city of Raqqa, where they are sold as sexual objects to the highest bidder, the United Nation’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict has said.

IF IRAN launched a ballistic missile at the Middle East, nuclear or not, Arab states would have as little as four minutes to act before impact.

A KILLER WHALE checks out a paddleboarder.

A PYTHON  in Australia got more than he bargained for when he swallowed the tongs his owner was using to feed him a rat.

AND THERE WERE CHICKENS all over the highway.

A SEA LION wanders into a bar...

AN "ELPHIE"? A Vancouver man is making international headlines with an extraordinary selfie photo taken by an elephant in Thailand that grabbed his GoPro.

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TMBG. Sleater Kinney, Hop Along, Brandi Carlile, Fairy Penguins   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

MILEY CYRUS & ARIANA GRANDE cover Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over."

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS played a mini-set for KUTX.

SLEATER-KINNEY stopped by World Cafe to chat and play some live tracks recorded in Paris.

HOP ALONG played a mini-set at World Cafe.

BRANDI CARLILE and band stopped by the KEXP studio.

VERUCA SALT dropped “Laughing In The Sugar Bowl” and “The Gospel According To Saint Me” ahead of Ghost Notes.

WESTKUST drops “Dishwasher" ahead of Last Forever.

RAY MANZAREK died 2 years ago (yesterday) , which put me in mind of "Light My Fire" and his telling of the story behind the Doors classic.  Also, NME collected more of Ray's riffs.

JOY DIVISION: A classic interview first published in Sounds in November 1978.

DAVE LETTERMAN, who signed off last night, brought a lot of great music and musicians into our homes, as noted by Paste and Pitchfork.

JIM O' ROURKE talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his  record’s long gestation, his high school influences, and the “dishonesty of earnest men.”

YES, ranked by Stereogum.

SIMON PEGG, unsurprisingly, "clarified" his seemingly negative comments about sci-fi and comic book movies following an internet kerfuffle.

ANNE HATHAWAY may not be in a Godzilla movie after all.

BILL MURRAY may have had a few before going on MSNBC. But how different is that from Chris Matthews?

GEORGE CLOONEY said starting a family with his wife of eight months isn't a priority for them right now.

KIM KARDASHIAN pursued KANYE WEST. 

BILL COSBY is sued by JANICE DICKINSON, who claims he flat-out lied when his team claimed she made up the story that he drugged and raped her.

NORTH KOREA's sub launched missile looks like a fake.

IRAN's supreme leader on Wednesday ruled out inspections of Iranian military sites and interviews of Iranian nuclear scientists in any potential deal on its nuclear program.

SYRIA: Islamic State militants have taken near complete control of the city of Palmyra, home to some of the world's most magnificent ancient ruins.

IRAQ: Ramadi fell into ISIS hands after the militant group set off 30 suicide car bombs in the city center, 10 of which each were comparable in power to the Oklahoma City truck bomb of 1995.

FAIRY PENGUINS at the Bronx Zoo.

AN ANNOYED ALLIGATOR pees all over Fox News Channel.

A LIVE HAMSTER was eaten by a teacher to demonstrate the value of life.

TWO DEAD WHALES: After some haggling over which jurisdiction was responsible, crews in Pacifica began ripping up mammal flesh and burying the weighty beasts after neighbors complained of their rotting stench.

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Vaccines, Little Wings, Waxahatchee, Tennis, Spoon, Cat vs Bat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

EDDIE VEDDER channeled Pete Townshend and played "Better Man" --possibly my fave Pearl Jam song-- for Letterman, who ends his TV show tonight, iirc.

THE VACCINES advance stream English Graffiti.

LITTLE WINGS advance streams Explains.

WAXAHATCHEE plays a mini-set at KEXP.

TENNIS performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

NAP EYES drop "Dark Creedence" ahead of Whine of the Mystic (is it a reissue if the original run was 200?).  Very Velvetsy.

SPOON covers The Cramps' "TV Set" for the Poltergeist soundtrack.

MATES OF STATE drop "Beautiful Kids" ahead of You’re Going To Make It.

PETE TOWNSHEND, who just turned 70, talks to The Economist. So why not "Rough Boys"?

DAVID CROSBY apologized to NEIL YOUNG & DARYL HANAH for calling the latter "a purely poisonous predator."

JOHN LYDON, a/k/a Johnny Rotten talks with Isaac Fitzgerald (BuzzFeed Books) about his new memoir, Anger is an Energy.

PAUL WELLER: The Ace Face.

MUMFORD & SONS shed their identity...for what?

SIMON PEGG (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek, Mission Impossibles III and IV) is having second thoughts about sci-fi and superheroes.

CANNES banned women in flat shoes from the red carpet.

SOFIA VERGARA has learned something about men.

BRUCE JENNER revealed he has no plans for gender reassignment surgery.

RHIANNA faces a caped crusader.

RUSSIA: Police in Britain thought Alexander Perepilichnyy, a whistleblower who fled Russia in fear of the Kremlin, had died of natural causes. But a killer flower was found in his stomach. ALSO: Russia has closed a transport corridor that had allowed NATO militaries to deliver supplies to Afghanistan through Russian territory.

IRAN  will unveil and test the home-made version of the sophisticated Russian S-300 missile defense system, according to state-run media. ALSO: An artist and political activist has gone on trial in Iran for a cartoon criticising draft laws which would restrict access to birth control.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Anyone telling you the Islamic State is in decline isn't paying attention. The fact that the Baghdad government now is considering moving Shiite militias to Ramadi, a predominantly Sunni city, suggests that Iraq’s central government still lacks adequate support from Iraq’s Sunni Arabs to defeat ISIS, a Sunni revolutionary movement. This spells trouble for Iraqi and American plans to defeat the terrorist group.

A CAT catches a bat. (NSFW language)

EELS ON COCAINE: Not a good thing.

DOGS now have their own special Nikon camera.

GOATS: Busted for trespassing and loaded into a squad car.

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Vaccines, Little Wings, Waxahatchee, Tennis, Spoon, Cat vs Bat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

EDDIE VEDDER channeled Pete Townshend and played "Better Man" --possibly my fave Pearl Jam song-- for Letterman, who ends his TV show tonight, iirc.

THE VACCINES advance stream English Graffiti.

LITTLE WINGS advance streams Explains.

WAXAHATCHEE plays a mini-set at KEXP.

TENNIS performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

NAP EYES drop "Dark Creedence" ahead of Whine of the Mystic (is it a reissue if the original run was 200?).  Very Velvetsy.

SPOON covers The Cramps' "TV Set" for the Poltergeist soundtrack.

MATES OF STATE drop "Beautiful Kids" ahead of You’re Going To Make It.

PETE TOWNSHEND, who just turned 70, talks to The Economist. So why not "Rough Boys"?

DAVID CROSBY apologized to NEIL YOUNG & DARYL HANAH for calling the latter "a purely poisonous predator."

JOHN LYDON, a/k/a Johnny Rotten talks with Isaac Fitzgerald (BuzzFeed Books) about his new memoir, Anger is an Energy.

PAUL WELLER: The Ace Face.

MUMFORD & SONS shed their identity...for what?

SIMON PEGG (Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek, Mission Impossibles III and IV) is having second thoughts about sci-fi and superheroes.

CANNES banned women in flat shoes from the red carpet.

SOFIA VERGARA has learned something about men.

BRUCE JENNER revealed he has no plans for gender reassignment surgery.

RHIANNA faces a caped crusader.

RUSSIA: Police in Britain thought Alexander Perepilichnyy, a whistleblower who fled Russia in fear of the Kremlin, had died of natural causes. But a killer flower was found in his stomach. ALSO: Russia has closed a transport corridor that had allowed NATO militaries to deliver supplies to Afghanistan through Russian territory.

IRAN  will unveil and test the home-made version of the sophisticated Russian S-300 missile defense system, according to state-run media. ALSO: An artist and political activist has gone on trial in Iran for a cartoon criticising draft laws which would restrict access to birth control.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: Anyone telling you the Islamic State is in decline isn't paying attention. The fact that the Baghdad government now is considering moving Shiite militias to Ramadi, a predominantly Sunni city, suggests that Iraq’s central government still lacks adequate support from Iraq’s Sunni Arabs to defeat ISIS, a Sunni revolutionary movement. This spells trouble for Iraqi and American plans to defeat the terrorist group.

A CAT catches a bat. (NSFW language)

EELS ON COCAINE: Not a good thing.

DOGS now have their own special Nikon camera.

GOATS: Busted for trespassing and loaded into a squad car.

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Lord Huron, Will Butler, Rhett Miller, The Wombats, Deer   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

KRIST NOVOSELIC & DUFF McKAGAN play the  Guns N’ Roses classic "Sweet Child O’ Mine” together.

LORD HURON: Live at Electric Lady Studios.

WILL BUTLER stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat and mini-set.

RHETT MILLER performs a stripped-down mini-set on the stage of World Cafe Live in Philadelphia.

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

NOTS drop "Virgin Mary" as a single.

ARETHA FRANKLIN's take on "Respect" and "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman" are timeless.

JOY DIVISION: NME looks at Ian Curtis 35 years after the frontman's suicide.

THE KINKS biopic, You Really Got Me, now has a director (Julian Temple) and its Davies Bros.

JIM O'ROURKE: Indie's Unsung Perpetual Polymath.

THE KILLERS' frontman Brandon Flowers has revealed in a new interview that he keeps his facial hair shavings in a bag.

TAYLOR SWIFT tops Maxim's Hot 100? Haters gonna hate.

LEIGHTON MEESTER & ADAM BRODY are expecting their first child.

JOSH BROLIN is engaged to his assistant Kathryn Boyd.

IGGY AZALEA got moar plastic surgery.

AMANDA SEYFRIED gets a lengthy profile in the new Vogue.

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS is off the wagon again.

THE TRANSFORMATION OF TELEVISION has accelerated to a gallop.

SAUDI ARABIA is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading.

AN IRANIAN cargo ship carrying aid and activists crossed into the Gulf of Aden on Sunday and will reach Yemen's Hodaida port on May 21, Iranian media reported, in a challenge to Saudi-led naval forces controlling Yemeni waters.

IRAQI security forces attempting to retake control of the western city of Ramadi were routed in heavy fighting Sunday, the worst defeat for Iraq’s central government since Islamic State militants stormed across the country last June. How bad? 6000 govt forces were routed by 150 ISIS fighters.  US Officials have said containment might become an option but is not under active discussion now.

A HERD OF DEER heard a szeeze.

A BLACK BEAR broke into a car in Sandpoint, ID, and stole some stew. No pic-i-nic basket.

A PARROT removes his owner's loose tooth.

A DEAD BUFFALO injured a cyclist in Johannesburg.

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