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Elvis, Spoon, CYHSY, Chorus Grant, Cutout Bin, Maymo   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, August 15, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

with ELVIS PRESLEY! The King died on August 16, 1977, but remains a global pop phenomenon, so it's worth a recap of highlights from his legendary career.  For the 30th anniversary, Canada's Star-Phoenix, discussing ten important parts of Elvis history worth reliving, noted: "His was a sequined coat of many colours: '50s Greaser Elvis. Military Elvis. Hollywood Elvis. Aloha from Hawaii Elvis. Vegas Elvis. And, ultimately, Dead Fat Elvis."  The BBC had friend and aide Sonny West recall life with The King. 

ACTION NEWS 5 still has its local coverage from Aug. 16-17, 1977 (here, here, here and here) on the Tube, where you can also see funeral footage from the BBC Archive.  Here's read the obit that ran the next day in the Washington Post. Elvis Presley News recaps the international headlines from the event and links to the eulogy at his funeral. On a happier note, check out what is likely the first footage taken of Elvis, with backstage shots of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly in 1955; shades of Walk The Line!  Let's start with his performance of "Hound Dog" o­n The Milton Berle Show six months later, not o­nly because it's historic, but also because Paul Miller and I often reached for it when we would stumble into our KUSR shift at the last minute -- on the broadcast, Uncle Miltie vamped for awhile, which gave us time to pull records for the show.  He was also iconic in "Jailhouse Rock" that year.  Elvis sang a mashup of "Love Me Tender" and "Witchcraft" with Frank Sinatra when he got back from the Army.  All of his movies -- such as "Viva Las Vegas" --made money, but his musical career stalled in the 1960s until he electrified and charmed the public with his televised '68 Comeback Special.  1970 finds him singing "In The Ghetto" and "Suspicious Minds" in the jumpsuit, though pre-bloated.  I'm going to throw in "Little Sister" just 'cause I like it.  Sadly, in a few short years, bloated jumpuit Elvis would be delivering a wacked-out take on "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" -- though to be fair, this audio-only version from 1969 is even more demented and he knows it.  I would rather remember Jumpsuit Elvis for the signature horns that open "See See Rider."  a tribute to his enduring legacy as the fact that he could hit the charts decades after his death with a remix of "A Little Less Conversation," a video subtly recalling "Jailhouse Rock," and Paul Oakenfold's remix of "Rubberneckin'"The King may be gone, but the brand lives on, making millions and recruiting new fans under the watchful eyes of Elvis Presley Enterprises and CKX, Inc.

GREETINGS FROM GRACELAND:  It must be said, however, that Elvis Presley Enterprises did not have a good handle on the King's affairs in the years immediately following his death.  Chicago radio personalities Steve Dahl and Garry Meier won a local emmy for their 1981 comedic look at what was then a very seedy exploitation of Elvis in Memphis. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.)

MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER: "Elvis Is Everywhere."

ELVIS WEEK 2014: The King Lives on in Memphis.

SPOON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

AROARA is advance streaming In The Pines.

CHORUS GRANT is advance streaming Space.

TWEEDY is "Flowering" ahead of Sukierae.

THE AFGHAN WHIGS cover The Police hit "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic."

WOODSTOCK: On Aug. 15-17, 1969, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in a lovely natural amphitheater in Bethel (not Woodstock), NY for "three days of peace and music," including sets from Crosby, Stills and NashThe Who, Santana, Joe Cocker, Jefferson AirplaneArlo Guthrie, Canned HeatJimi Hendrix, and the proverbial many more.

RICHARD THOMPSON talks to Drowned In Sound about the current folk scene, life as a touring musician, the Guitar Camp he set up in Woodstock 3 years ago, his passion for cricket and Chelsea Football Club, and the Islamic faith he converted to in 1974.

NINE 90s BANDS, from the "Where Are They Now?" file.

WHY DO WE LOVE the music we heard as teenagers?  It's science!

THE GROSSEST BAND MERCH, according to NME.

CUTOUT BIN:From the Clash to Gordon Lightfoot, from Chuck Berry to the Butthole Surfers, from the Faces to the Lemonheads, plus Bob Dylan, the Replacements, the Beta Band, the Shangri-Las and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases are: The Expendables 3, which is currently scoring 32 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Let's Be Cops, which opened Wednesday and is scoring 10 percent; and The Giver, scoring 28 percent.

ROBIN WILLIAMS was battling the early stages of Parkinson's disease, it has been revealed by his widow, Susan Schneider.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE gave birth to a baby girl.

NICKI MANAJ has bettered Michael Jackson's record for the most Billboard Hot 100 hits. This more a comment on internet age charts than artistic quality.

MICHAEL STRAHAN & NICOLE MURPHY may reconcile.

REESE WITHERSPOON, rocking out the way only white girls can during what looks like a wedding-related event.

LINDSAY LOHAN predicts she'll mess up her stage debut.

UKRAINE: A pro-Russian rebel leader in one eastern Ukrainian city resigned and shells reportedly rocked another rebel-held area Thursday as the Ukrainian military kept up its deadly offensive to retake separatist strongholds.

ISRAEL: A new, five-day truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start.

LIBYA:Tripoli University has closed due to continuing insecurity in the capital city. Ansar al Sharia ignored the Parliament's call for an unconditional ceasefire in Benghazi and Tripoli. Operation Dignity forces bombed a boat allegedly carrying fighters and weapons from Syria as it approached the port of Derna on Aug. 11; Islamist fighters in the city tried to hit the Operation Dignity plane with anti-aircraft missiles.

IRAQI Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has stepped aside, ending political deadlock in Baghdad as the government struggles against insurgents. Most of the tens of thousands of Yazidis who scrambled up Mount Sinjar to escape advancing militants have now climbed down, said Pres. Obama while calling off an evacuation plan. Yazidi leaders and emergency relief officials on Thursday strongly disputed American claims that the siege of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq had been broken and that the crisis was effectively over, saying that tens of thousands of Yazidis remained on the mountain in desperate conditions.

MAYMO THE BEAGLE balances fruits and veggies on his head.

THE POCKET GOPHER: Endangered, but well-endowed.

A SALMON CANNON which sucks fish out of water and fires them over barriers such as dams has been developed.

DUKE THE DOG was elected Mayor of Cormorant, MN.

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Michael Cera, New Pronographers, Baseball Project, Mulder   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, August 14, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE MUPPETS lipsync the Beastie Boys' "So What'cha Want".

MICHAEL CERA --yes, that Michael Cera--is streaming True That.

THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

FRENCH STYLE FURS, featuring Nathan Willet and Matt Maust of Cold War Kids as well as Nathan Warkentin of We Barbarians, stopped by WFUV.

LYDIA LOVELESS played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

PATTI SMITH: Aquarium Drunkard is sharing the demos for  “Redondo Beach" and  “Distant Fingers."

THE BUGGLES: "Video Killed the Radio Star," live in 2004. Because they helped launch MTV in August 1981.

SPOON's Britt Daniel talks to Drowned In Sound about REM, The Cure, Miley Cyrus, and more...

ROMEO STODART from The Magic Numbers talks to Drowned In Sound about working with Jimmy Webb, Spirtiualized, and more...

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE: Chris Walla writes about why he's leaving the band.

THE AFGHAN WHIGS, ranked by Stereogum.

JUSTIN BIEBER has struck a plea deal in his Miami Beach DUI case in which he will agree to anger management but dodge a drunk driving bullet.

ROBIN WILLIAMS' grieving daughter Zelda Williams has quit social media after internet trolls and insensitive posters added to her despair.

GWYNETH PALTROW is reportedly dating Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk.

TOM HIDDLESTON is being courted for the lead in a version of Ben-Hur.

THANDIE NEWTON has joined the cast of HBO’s Westworld adaptation.

IDRIS ELBA is profiled by Details.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY tops the Billboard chart.

JOE VISKOCIL, who blew up the Death Star and the White House, melted the Sta-Puft marshmallow man and more, has passed away.

UKRAINE has warned that Russia could use a controversial aid delivery as a pretext for invasion, amid growing tension and uncertainty over the fate of a convoy of almost 300 military trucks dispatched by Moscow.

ISRAEL: Palestinian leaders said early Thursday that in the last moments before the midnight expiration of their cease-fire with Israel in Gaza, the two sides had agreed to hold their fire for an additional five days to continue talks about a more durable truce. But an exchange of rockets and missiles around the end of one cease-fire and the beginning of the next cast immediate doubt about whether it would even last until dawn.

LIBYA: Fighting escalated in Tripoli, and the Islamist Misratan forces shelled the largely Zintani-supporting neighborhood of Ghut Shaal. Suspected Islamist gunmen yesterday assassinated Tripoli security head Colonel Mohamed Al Suwaisi, a supporter of Operation Dignity. In Benghazi, Ansar al Sharia forces have deployed to a new checkpoint within striking distance of the Saiqa Special Forces base at Benina Airport; Operation Dignity claimed that the Saiqa forces have serious internal problems. The Parliament voted to dissolve all armed brigades in the country, and asked the UN to intervene immediately "to protect civilians and state institutions in Libya."

IRAQ: A team of US marines and special forces landed on Mount Sinjar in Iraq on Wednesday to assess options for a potential rescue of of 30,000 Yazidi civilians threatened by Islamic extremists and worn down by hunger and thirst.  A mass evacuation is unlikely following this assessment, as the U.S. State Department and military that found far fewer people trapped than previously feared. European nations moved on Wednesday to intensify their involvement in Iraq, announcing further humanitarian aid and, for the first time, pledging to supply arms to the embattled Kurdish forces fighting the Sunni militants who have overrun much of northern Iraq.

MULDER THE CAT: No house can hold him.

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD? To obstruct traffic in Oregon.

TIGER SELFIES: Banned in New York.

A TRAVELING PETTING ZOO has been identified by Minnesota health officials as the source of an E. coli outbreak that so far has infected 13 people and required seven of them to be admitted to hospitals.

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Bob Mould, Castanets, Baked, Celebration, Lauren Bacall RIP, Lion   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ARCADE FIRE went "Back In Time" Huey Lewis-style in Edmonton, presumably a Michael J. Fox tribute.

BOB MOULD plays a Tiny Desk Concert, finishing with "Makes No Sense At All".

CASTANETS advance stream Decimation Blues.

BAKED advance streams Debt.

CELEBRATION advance streams Albumin.

HAPPY DIVING has a “Weird Dream” ahead of Big World.

THE MONKEES: The TV version of "You Just May Be the One," which differs from the LP version and has more cowbell.

CULTURE CLUB: The original line-up will be touring and recording a new album with producer Youth due in 2015.

GENE SIMMONS & THE BLACK LIPS trade barbs via HuffPost Live.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN are compared to the Sex Pistols and The Clash by a biographer.

ST VINCENT talks to The Guardian about the influence of Nirvana, religion and conservative values on her ‘Texas freak' teen years.

LAUREN BACALL, the actress whose provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood’s golden age and whose lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach, died on Tuesday in New York. She was 89.

ROBIN WILLIAMS  was in such a deep depression when he went to rehab last month ... people around him felt it was simply “too late” for him to recover. Also, Koko the Gorilla mourns.

NEIL PATRICK HARRIS talks parenthood with Glamour.

JESSICA SIMPSON threw sister Ashlee a Bohemian bridal shower.

MICHAEL C. HALL is set to star in Stanley Kubrick's unproduced drama, God Fearing Man.

THE INHUMANS will be headed to the big screen, based on the success of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

UKRAINE: A representative from the International Committee of the Red Cross told Deutsche Welle that his organization has not yet received a list of the contents of the humanitarian convoy which has set off from the Moscow area for Ukraine.

IRAQ's new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from both the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country. The military has sent 130 additional advisers to northern Iraq to plan for the evacuation of refugees under siege by Islamist militants. However, two senior U.S. military leaders had starkly contrasting views on the effectiveness of American air strikes against jihadist targets in northern Iraq.

A LION interrupts a PSA about lions.

COCO THE CAT hacked the neighborhood wi-fi.

A GIANT HORNET on a leash.

MEERKATS, SNAKES, TARANTULAS, AN OWL are among the pets in this home menagerie.

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St Vincent, Allison Crutchfield, Jason Feathers, Robin Williams, RIP, Cat Latos   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TWIN PEAKS drops a video for the catchy-as-Hell “I Found a New Way,” from their new album Wild Onion.

ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD (Swearin') is streaming her Lean In To It EP.

JASON FEATHERS (a non-Bon Ivery Bon Iver side project) is advance streaming De Oro.

ST VINCENT played a full set at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

OLAFUR ARNAULDS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set..

SMASHING PUMPKINS drop an unreleased version of “Let Me Give The World To You”.

STARS go disco on “From The Night” ahead of No One Is Lost.

THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS cover the Moving Sidewalks' "99th Floor" (introed by Martha Quinn) and psych up even more on "Sunrise (Turn On)" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE MUFFS are profiled by Magnet, where bassist Ronnie Barnett also pays tribute to Scott Miller and Game Theory.

DAVID BOWIE: 20 Great Songs Only Hardcore Fans Know.

FUGAZI plans to release their first demo tape.

LEONARD COHEN reportedly will drop a new LP in November for his 80th birthday.

ROBIN WILLIAMS, an Academy Award-winning actor and comedian who imbued his performances with wild inventiveness and a kind of manic energy, died on Monday at his home in Marin County, Calif. He was 63.The county sheriff’s office said in a statement that it “suspects the death to be a suicide due to asphyxia.” His rep noted Williams had been battling severe depression. Here's a bit of his first Tonight Show appearance and a NSFW hunk from the Great American Music Hall. Here's an anecdote from Christopher Reeve. And here's how answered the "Pearly Gates" question on Inside the Actors Studio.

THE TEEN CHOICE AWARDS are rigged. Is nothing sacred?

THE ROCK's mother and cousin were struck in a head-on collision by a drunk driver in a police chase.

KELLY RUTHERFORD claims her children are being illegally deported by a renegade judge who has ordered them to live with their father in France.

COURTNEY LOVE went through 27 million dollars of "Nirvana money."

COURTNEY STODDEN has reconciled with her estranged 54-year-old husband.

PATTI LaBELLE will appear in four episodes of American Horror Story: Freak Show. (Spoiler alert)

JJ MURPHY, a veteran Northern Ireland actor has died just four days after filming his first scenes in the hugely successful TV series Game of Thrones. Beat George RR Martin to it.

JAMES BOND: CBS News actually polled your favorite 007.

UKRAINE: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said it held talks yesterday with Ukrainian and Russian authorities on delivering Russia’s proposed aid to eastern Ukraine, but laid down strict guidelines to uphold its neutral role.

ISRAEL: Monday, as the first day of a three-day humanitarian cease-fire held, the Israelis and Palestinians resumed indirect talks in Cairo aimed at securing a longer truce.

IRAQ's president snubbed incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and picked another politician Monday to form the next government, setting up a fierce political power struggle even as the country battles extremists in the north and west. President Obama has said the nomination of Haider al-Abadi as Iraq's prime minister-designate is a "promising step forward". The phrase that pays here is "regime change." Meanwhile, the United States began directly providing weapons on Monday to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic militants in Iraq. A US strike aircraft destroyed three Islamic State armored personnel carriers and a technical in four airstrikes in the Sinjar Mountains. The Peshmerga is said to have regained control of Gwair, Makhmour, and Zumar.

CAT LATOS dances with MLB pitcher Mat Latos.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A Baby Zonkey.

THE SOFTER SIDE...of pit bulls.

A BEARDED DRAGON was saved by CPR in Salem, OR.

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Bishop Allen, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Benjamin Booker, Imogen Heap, Gorilla   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 11, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TWEEDY and LUCIUS play "High As Hello" in a tunnel.

BISHOP ALLEN advance streams Lights Out.

CYMBALS EAT GUITARS advance streams Lose.

BENJAMIN BOOKER advance streams his self-titled debut.

IMOGEN HEAP advance streams Sparks.

THE DOORS: An official, 3 1/2 minute video for "L.A. Woman."

PHOX is profied by Flavorwire.

SHARON VAN ETTEN talks to the Guardian about learning to play festivals and more.

A BRAZILLIAN BUS MAGNATE is buying up the world's vinyl records.

LEWIS: A mysterious, "lost" artist is identified and issues a statement.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tops the chart with 65 million; that's a whopping 20 million more than projections, which again underestimated the ability of Michael Bay to make mediocre movies people love to see.  Guardians of the Galaxy places with 41.5 million on a 56 percent drop; that's only a few million below projections and maybe surprising in light on the strength of TMNT. Guardians is the only movie this summer to approach 40 million in its second weekend; its 175 million domestic total recoups its production budget and exceeds Captain America 2 in that film's second weekend, which technically opened last spring. With a couple more leggy weekends, Guardians could end up beating Transformers 4 for top grosser this year. The debut of Into The Storm shows with18 million, which may be enough to profit against a 50 million budget.The Hundred-Foot Journey took the fourth slot with a respectable 11.1 million against a 22 million budget.  Lucy rounds out the Top 5 with another 9.3 million; its 112 million worldwide take to date almost certainly means profit in its theatrical run. Below the fold, Step Up All In opens with an anemic 6.6 million here...but 25 million abroad, which is where this fanchise is increasingly making its money.

DAVID DUCHOVNY & TEA LEONI quietly divorced in June.

CHRISTINA RICCI recently welcomed her first child, a baby boy, with husband James Heerdegen.

KIM KARDASHIAN is publishing a book of selfies. Shocka!

KATE UPTON says she hasn't posed nude (yet) because of the internet.

ROSIE O'DONNELL got into a heated showdown over abortion with CNN's S.E. Cupp during a 'View' test show taping with Whoopi Goldberg ... who ended up taking a thinly-veiled shot at Barbara Walters. Rosie, btw, is still a 9/11 truther, so you think she would respect diversity of opinion.

TONY STEWART sat out a NASCAR race Watkins Glen International race track on Sunday, after he hit and killed another driver who was walking on a track during a dirt-track race in upstate New York on Saturday.

IRAQI troops, security forces and tanks surged into Baghdad on Sunday as political turmoil deepened over who should lead the country.

ISRAEL and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas said on Thursday it had executed several Palestinians on suspicion of helping Israeli forces during the month-long Gaza war.

ISLAMIC STATE militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children.In Syria the Islamic State is terrorizing residents with their strict interpretation of Islamic law, including beheadings, stonings and cutting off the hands of thieves.  The Obama administration still has not decided on, much less put into motion, any plan to stem ISIS’s expansion, despite having committed military forces.

A GORILLA and KITTENS... playing together...mass hysteria!

A CAT-EATING PYHON, captured by Florida police.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A two-headed dolphin.

THE WORLD'S OLDEST EEL passes away in a Swedish well. No word on the hovercraft.

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