|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jose Gonzalez, Laura Marling, Bent Denim, Jacco Gardner, Wolf Spider |
|
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
MAC McCAUGHAN drops a video for "Wet Leaves." JOSE GONZALEZ stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. LAURA MARLING stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. BENT DENIM advance streams Romances You. JACCO GARDNER advance streams the trippy, baroque Hypnophobia. UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA drops “Can’t Keep Checking My Phone” from the album Multi-Love. EYELIDS: Decemberists and a fmr GbVer drop the Peter Buck-produced "Bound To Let You Down." STEELY DAN turn in a spirited "Reelin' in the Years" on the Midnight Special. Introduced by...Bill Cosby. BEST COAST: Death, Defiance, and Bart Simpson. DAVID BOWIE thinks Lulu, the widely panned Lou Reed/Metallica collab,is a "masterpiece." DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS' Patterson Hood talks to the Monterey Herald about being over the Southern rock label. (Thx, LHB.) DAVID COVERDALE: He's the classic tight-trousered, big-haired rock lothario. But these days he watches Downton and chases bear cubs round his garden. ROBERT DOWNEY JR walks out on an Avengers 2 promo interview: "It's just getting a little Diane Sawyer." SANDRA BULLOCK was named People's "World's Most Beautiful Woman" for 2015. TOM CRUISE talks about hanging off the side of an airplane. FULL HOUSE: The Olsen twins just found out about the reboot. BRUCE JENNER was spotted wearing a floor-length striped dress Tuesday outside his Malibu home. HILARY DUFF's estranged husband isn't giving up their son without a fight. ZOOEY DESCHANEL: Not Adorkable. THE BREAKFAST CLUB: A first-draft script and other mementos were discovered inside Park Ridge's Maine South High School. THE MUPPETS new TV show is a mockumentary-style series that goes deeper into the Muppets’ personal lives, and promises a “more adult” show than previous incarnations of the franchise. THE ISLAMIC STATE: The Pentagon’s map assessing the so-called Islamic State’s strength has only two categories: territory held by ISIS currently, and territory lost by ISIS since coalition airstrikes began in August 2014. The category that would illustrate American setbacks—where ISIS has actually gained territory since the coalition effort began—is not included. IRAQI security forces fought to rout Islamic State militants from the western city of Ramadi on Wednesday, slowly regaining some ground from the militant group, security and local officials said. YEMEN: The White House is hoping that tensions in the waters off of Yemen, where a flotilla of Iranian ships and U.S. vessels are now located, can “de-escalate,” communications director Jen Psaki said Wednesday. A BIG WOLF SPIDER is squished, but many babies survive. A DOG backed up traffic by driving a tractor onto the M74 motorway near Abington in Scotland. DON'T KISS A COTTONMOUTH: The More You Know. TWO CHIMPS were granted a writ of habeas corpus by a NY judge, effectively giving them a measure of legal standing that previously only applied to humans. It begins.
|
|
|
2108 Reads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes, Blur, Nicki Bluhm, All Songs, Dog Dinner |
|
Wednesday, April 22, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE BUZZCOCKS played “Keep On Believing” and “Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)?” for Seth Myers. VIOLENT FEMMES stream their Happy New Year EP. BLUR is advance streaming The Magic Whip via iTunes. NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS stream Loved Wild Lost. ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from My Morning Jacket, Matt Pond PA, Heather Woods Broderick, and more highlight the latest edition. DJANGO DJANGO were "Beginning To Fade" on Record Store Day. THE MILK CARTON KIDS drop “Secrets of the Stars,” inspired by the novelist Haruki Murakami. THEE OH SEES drop "Withered Hand" and "The Ceiling" ahead of Mutilator Defeated At Last. KURT COBAIN covered The Beatles' "And I Love Her." JULES SHEAR: "If She Knew What She Wants," unplugged on Unplugged, circa 1990. Check how he's holding his guitar.THE MAN WHO BROKE THE MUSIC BUSINESS is someone you never heard of. ALVVAYS guitarist Alec O'Hanley pens a love letter to Teenage Fanclub's Grand Prix. SANDY DENNY is remembered by NME. RYLEY WALKER is profiled by the Chicago Reader. MILEY CYRUS & PATRICK SCHWARZENEGGER have split. FULL HOUSE is headed to Netflix, but it remains to be seen how full it is. CHARLIZE THERON talks to W magazine about Mad Max: Fury Road. STANLEY TUCCI & EWAN MacGREGOR join the cast of Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN is off life support, but her family continue to maintain there's no real hope for recovery. MADONNA drew the ire of many of her fans on Tuesday when she posted an Instagram photo of Margaret Thatcher. GALAXY QUEST may head to the small screen, which is meta. YEMEN: Anti-Houthi coalition airstrikes in Yemen removed any threat posed to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries, the Kingdom’s ministry of defense said on Tuesday. LIBYA: The United Nations refugee agency estimated Tuesday that as many as 850 migrants had gone to their deaths in a boat capsizing earlier this week off the coast of Libya, even as the ship’s captain and a crew member were taken into custody on criminal charges. IRAN is at most three months away from enriching enough nuclear fuel for an atomic bomb, contrary to prior claims of the Obama Administration. Pres. Obama left open the door to "creative negotiations" in response to Iran's demand that punishing sanctions be immediately lifted as part of a nuclear deal, even though the initial agreement calls for the penalties to be removed over time. BONNIE hates to eat alone. MILLIONS OF IOWA HENS could need to be euthanized in an Avian Flu outbreak. A NEWLY DISCOVERED FROG SPECIES looks like Kermit. COWS checked out the Mall of New Hampshire.
|
|
|
2317 Reads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jackson Scott, Brown Bird, The B-52s, Robotic Empire, Gorilla |
|
Monday, April 20, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
ARIEL PINK serves up a video for "Jell-O". JACKSON SCOTT advance streams Sunshine Redux. BROWN BIRD advance streams Axis Mundi. THE B-52S stream a 1979 concert getting an official release this week. ROBOTIC EMPIRE streams a tribute LP, Whatever Nevermind. SPOON released the demo for "Inside Out." FATHER JOHN MISTY dropped "I Love You Honeybee" and "Never Been A Woman" for Record Store Day. THE TEMPTATIONS: "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone." And when he died, all he left us was alone. DAMON ALBARN says Pop music no longer challenges the establishment or discusses politics because performers are part of the “selfie generation”. ALVVAYS: Molly Rankin talks to Pitchfork about her love of Celine Dion, scary motels, and more. PATTI SMITH & LAURIE ANDERSON inducted Lou Reed into the Rock & Rall Hall of Fame. CHIC: Nile Rodgers talks about addictions, to food and otherise. BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE posted a teaser trailer after it leaked online. WEEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Furious 7 threpeats atop the chart with 29MM; it broke the billion-dollar mark worldwide on Friday, jumping into the top 20 grossers of all time.But now it is in a race against the coming of Avengers 2 on May 1. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 placed with 24MM, a bit above expectations and below the origina's 31.8MM...and thus a movie that scored 0 on the Tomatometer may end up making money in cinemas. Unfriended showed with 16MM against a budget of roughly 1MM. Home dropped to th fourth slot with nother 10MM, andiss till well short of what it needs to profit on the big screen (roughly 400MM). The Longest Ride rounds out the Top Five with 6.9MM and 23.5MM total against a budget of roughly 34MM. GWYNETH PALTROW:Days after admitting defeat in a widely publicized challenge to subsist on a food stamp budget, the actress was spotted at an expensive barbeque restaurant in Los Angeles with her celebrity friends, according to the National Monitor. SOFIA VERGARA will not destroy her embryo. ZACHARY LEVI and Missy Peregrym got secretly divorced, less that a year after getting secretly married. JOHN RIDLEY (12 Years a Slave) is teaming up with Marvel to develop a mysterious new TV series. AN ORAL HISTORY OF AIRPLANE: Surely you can't be serious. YEMEN: American citizens escaping Yemen, including small children and some frail elderly, are arriving exhausted in Djibouti after harrowing journeys from the besieged country, where a U.S.-supported Saudi Arabian bombing campaign is entering its fourth week. The Obama administration so far has declined to organize a rescue mission for the estimated 3,000 to 4,000 U.S. citizens in Yemen. LIBYA: A new round of peace talks backed by the UN began in Morocco. Russia has pledged to supply weapons to the Libyan government if a UN embargo is lifted. IRAQ: Why the rise of ISIS and the fall of Iraq weren't inevitable. DON'T BEAT YOUR CHEST AT A SILVERBACK GORILLA, even if you're a little girl. THE SWARM: Some early commuters in the American northwest have been confronted by an unusual road hazard – 20 million angry bees. ZEBRAS ON THE LAM through the streets of Brussels. BUFFALOS ON THE LAM in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
|
|
|
2804 Reads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blind Faith, Jon Pratt, Bob Dylan, Cloud Nothings, Twin Shadow, Cat |
|
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with BLIND FAITH! Live at London's Hyde Park in June 1969. After an introduction and brief segments about supergroup members Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Ginger Baker, and Eric Clapton, your set list includes:"Well All Right", "Sea of Joy","Sleeping in the Ground", "Under My Thumb", "Can't Find My Way Home", "Do What You Like", "In the Presence of the Lord", "Means to an End", and "Had to Cry Today". BOB DYLAN: Aquarium Drunkard has some Blood on the Tracks alternates from New York. CLOUD NOTHINGS remixed Here and Nowhere Else (in Wingdings) for Record Store Day. TWIN SHADOW stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. PETER BJORN & JOHN return with the rhythm-heavy “High Up (Take Me To The Top)”. THE GO! TEAM drops “Ye Ye Yamaha" for Record Store Day. JON PRATT: Pate's frontman plays "Watts Up Doc?" and "Watt the Funk?", two instumrntals he wrote for an upcoming video promoting NIST's LEGO watt balance. Jon also talks about his axe, in this case a 1938 Vega Archtop. LOU REED's sister sets the record straight about his electroshock therapy. BEST COAST talks to Stereogum about their friendship, haters, and California Nights. GRIZZLY BEAR: Ed Droste talks to The Standard about moving to LA, getting divorced, and coming back together with his band. (Thx, LHB.) STEVE ALBINI: Not a fan of Jay Z's new streaming service. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS dropped a second teaser trailer online. NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases include Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, which is currently scoring 0 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Unfriended, which is currently scoing 71 percent; and Monkey Kingdom, scorng 92 percent. True Story opens near-wide with 49 percent. RYAN GOSLING is in negotiations to star in the Blade Runner sequel opposite Harrison Ford. NICKI MINAJ is engaged to Meek Hill. JERRY SEINFELD says TV is over. WONDER WOMAN finds a new director--Patty Jenkins, who at one point was to direct Thor 2 for rival Marvel Studios. FLASH GORDON may be directed by Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: First Class, Kick-Ass). TURKEY held a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of parts of its first nuclear reactor, sparking an angry protest by activists. SAUDI ARABIA & SOUTH KOREA have signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on the development of nuclear energy, Saudi state news agency SPA said, building on a deal signed in 2011.These nuke stories are surely coincidental to Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. IRAN has greatly increased the frequency and skill of its cyberattacks, even while negotiating with world powers over limits on its nuclear capabilities. IRAQ: Islamic State militants launched a fierce attack Wednesday to capture the city of Ramadi, dealing a setback to a newly launched Iraqi military offensive in the Sunni-dominated region. YEMEN: Military officials and residents said al-Qaeda has taken control of a major airport, a sea port and an oil terminal in southern Yemen after brief clashes with troops. The UN peace envoy to Yemen has resigned, a UN official said, after losing support from Gulf countries for his mission in the conflict-riven nation. GOALKEEPING CAT: Almost hypnotic. A RACCOON clung to the ladder of a crane in Toronto – more than 200 meters up. A WOLVERINE was tranquilized at Newark International Airport in New Jersey. MINI-GODZILLAS have been discovered in the Andes.
|
|
|
2583 Reads |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|