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Vetiver, Courtney Barnett, Punch Bros, The National, Geese |
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
KEVIN DREW backed ANDY KIM on "Sister OK" at the Ed Sullivan Theater. VETIVER is advance streaming Complete Strangers. COURTNEY BARNETT advance streams Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit via iTunes radio. THE PUNCH BROS played a Tiny Desk Concert. THE NATIONAL played with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the MusicNOW Festival. DJANGO DJANGO drops “Reflections" ahead of Born Under Saturn. THOSE DARLINS cover The Vibrators' "Sweet Sweet Heart." ELVIS PERKINS gets a hand from Alec Ounsworth on a cover of Ounsworth's "Mexican Ritual." THE MOODY BLUES hit the charts with "Go Now" before going psychedelic. KIM GORDON talks to NME about her memoir, Lana Del Rey, and "extreme noise cleansing." SETH AVETT & JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD talk about Ellito Smith at the NY Observer. (Thx, LHB.) VIET CONG addresses the controversy over the band's name. GEORGE MARTIN, as profiled by The Guardian on March 13, 1969. VIN DIESEL welcomed a third child. Will he name it Groot? BRUCE JENNER got a nose job in advance of his sex change. JIMMY KIMMEL has had two penis surgeries. ELTON JOHN was snapped with a Dolce and Gabbana bag, two days after declaring a boycott of the designers. Maybe he just had the bag left over. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN is headed to the small screen. YEMEN: The Pentagon is unable to account for more than 500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen, amid fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda. THE ISLAMIC STATE: A former U.S. Air Force veteran has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly trying to join ISIS, the brutal terrorist group wreaking havoc in Syria and Iraq, after watching their online propaganda videos. IRAN has deployed advanced rockets and missiles to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State in Tikrit, a significant escalation of firepower and another sign of Iran's growing influence in Iraq. A GOOSE goes too far imitating Steve Martin. THOUSANDS OF SNOW GEESE migrating from Mexico to their Alaskan nesting grounds were found dead in Idaho: “Basically, they just fell out of the sky." A RACCOON was rescued after getting its head stuck in a tree. A DOG, Autotuned.
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The Cribs, Modest Mouse, Marina & the Diamonds, New Strychnines, Cats |
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
COURTNEY BARNETT plays "Depreston" on The Ellen Degeneres Show. THE CRIBS advance stream For All My Sisters. MODEST MOUSE is streaming five tracks from Strangers to Ourselves via Spotify. MARINA & THE DIAMONDS stream Froot via Spotify. THE NEW STRYCHNINES turned out to be most of Mudhoney, YFF Scott McCaughey, and more. THE FEELIES: The Jonathan Demme-directed "Away" and a live take on "Deep Fascination" for Twofer Tuesday. LEONARD COHEN defeated NICKELBACK at the Juno Awards, thereby avoiding world war on the Great White North. GANG OF FOUR's Andy Gill has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the name of the group Viet Cong. GLEN HANSARD talks about the late Jason Molina on Weekend Edition. FROM THE JAMES GANG to THE ALL SAVED FREAK BAND: Dangerous Minds profiles Glenn Schwartz. THE JUSTIN BIEBER ROAST'S 10 Meanest Jokes. NSFW language. SHAILENE WOODLEY talks to The Observer about learning new life-skills, working on a biopic of Edward Snowden - and cleaning her teeth with clay. KATE HUDSON & CHRIS MARTIN: It's all happening? JESSICA LANGE is leaving American Horror Story. PATRICK SCHWARZEEGGER might be taking a wrecking ball to his relationship with Miley Cyrus. COMMUNITY put a Season 6 teaser online. YEMEN's dominant rebel Houthi group has released Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and all his cabinet ministers, after nearly two months under house arrest. SYRIA: Secretary of State John F. Kerry’s remarks suggesting a willingness to negotiate with Bashar al-Assad to end Syria’s civil war ignited a storm of speculation over whether the United States has softened its opposition to the Syrian president. IRAN: Executions in Iran have soared under president Rouhani, according to an Oslo-based Iranian human rights group, with an average of two now being carried out every day. IRAQ: The operation to retake the city of Tikrit has stalled as troops suffer heavy casualties at the hands of Islamic State militants, raising concerns over whether the pro-government fighters are ready for major offensives. AFGHANISTAN: The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan to 5500 by year's end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season, US officials say. CIA cash ended up with al Qaeda. CAT on CAT violence. Break the cycle. LAST MAN STANDING: Naoto Matsumura continues to feed animals left in the Fukushima exclusion zone. A STOLEN GOAT was to be part of a prom pitch. SHELTER DOGS are trained to locate orcas, as well as the rarest gorilla species known to man.
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Laura Marling, The Go! Team, JEFF the Brotherhood, Piranhas |
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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
JEFF TWEEDY & MAVIS STAPLES cover John Gogerty's "Wrote A Song For Everyone" at Newport. LAURA MARLING advance streams Short Movie. THE GO! TEAM advance streams The Scene Between. JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD advance streams Wasted on the Dream. BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB advance streams Lost And Found. BLUE SWEDE: "Hooked on a Feeling," introduced by the late Don Kirshner. Ooga-ChuckaSXSW: The 405 has an A-Z guide, usefule even for those not attending. (Thx, LHB.) THE CRAMPS debut, Songs The Lord Taught Us, revisited by The Quietus. SONNY BONO: Godfather of Punk? DAEVID ALLEN, a founding member of the pioneering progressive and psychedelic rock bands Gong and Soft Machine, has died following a battle with cancer. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Cinderella is the queen of the chart with 70MM, a bit above projections and in the neighbohood of Maleficent (a May release) and Oz the Great and Powerful, but made at considerably less cost than either. Run All Night places with 11MM, far below the usual Liam Leeson protects his family pic; too soon after Tak3n, or is Neeson's set of skills atrophying. This one will need foreign receipts to have a hope of profit before the home market. Kingsman: The Secret Service shows with 6.2MM, dropping 25 percent as it moves up a notch. Still looks like it could be a franchise. Focus drops 42 percent to the fourth slot with 5.8MM; wobbly, but possibly still profitable before the home market. Chappie, last week's champ, plunged 57 percent to round out the Top 5 in a virtual tie with Focus. Below the fold, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel perks along and is likely already in the black. CHRIS EVANS & LILY COLLINS are an item. Apparently, there was something in the air Oscars night. ELTON JOHN has called for a boycott of fashion label Dolce & Gabbana following and interview with Italy's Panorama magazine, in which the designers blasted “gay adoptions” and IVF. PAMELA ANDERSON has been granted a restraining order against her ex, Rick Salomon. HEATHER MILLS thinks her ex, Paul McCartney is working with Kanye West because he's no longer relevant. I'm guessing Apple Corps accounts would beg to differ. EDDIE MURPHY may join the cast of the Richard Pryor biopic. ROBERT CARRADINE, Revenge of the Nerds star Robert Carradine was injured in a frightening car accident last week in Colorado. TONY STARK (a/k/a Robert Downey Jr) meets Alex, a 7-year old born with a partially developed arm, and helps break in his new robotic arm that just so happens to look a lot like a piece of Iron Man’s armor. MICHAEL DOUGLAS, who has reconnected with Judaism, finds anti-Semitism in southern Europe. EGYPTIAN President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi says he’s been fighting to keep the forces of anarchy at bay. IRAQ: While Iraqi government and allied forces were on the defensive Friday in Ramadi, they remained on the offensive in Tirkit -- trying to win over not only the strategic city, but the hearts and minds of its nearby residents. KURDISH authorities in Iraq said Saturday they have evidence that the terror group ISIS used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against peshmerga fighters, the latest alleged atrocity carried out by the extremist organization now under attack in Tikrit. PIRANHAS feed in Brazil. SPECTRE doess not tolerate failure. OLAF the one-pawed cat finds a home. THEM! Researchers have changed the size of a handful of Florida ants by chemically modifying their DNA, rather than by changing its encoded information. THE HELMETED HORNBILL is endangered by the illegal ivory trade.
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St Pat's Day, Guster, Jenny Lewis, Dave & Phil Alvin, Buffalo |
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Friday, March 13, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with JOE STRUMMER and THE POGUES! People will be getting their drink and dance on, so enjoy Joe, Shane and the band putting a Celtic spin on "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law" for St. Patrick's Day, 1988. Follow that up with the Dropkick Murphys' videos for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (which you may have heard in Martin Scorsese's The Departed) and "The Wild Rover." Round it out with an Old Grey Whistle Test of my fave Pogues song, "Sally MacLennane," and a Shamrock Shake. GUSTER, Live in the Greene Space. JENNY LEWIS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. PHIL & DAVE ALVIN (The Blasters) stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. MARSHALL CRENSHAW takes another dive into The Bottomless Pit of his record collection. THE AUSTIN 100: NPR's SXSW preview is now available as a download. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS drop "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" ahead of Beat The Champ. LAURA MARLING drops "Strange" ahead of Short Movie. Not a Wire cover, but very nice. BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH: The friendly stranger in the black sedan.Sunday. KIM GORDON & CARRIE BROWNSTEIN chat for an hour. COURTNEY BARNETT is interviewed by The Guardian: "In interviews I feel like a bit of a doofus.” SLIPKNOT guitarist Mick Thomson was stabbed in the head during a drunken knife fight with his brother in Clive, Iowa early Wednesday morning. I have always advised people to avoid Clive. VAN DYKE PARKS renders his verdict on the "Blurred Lines" case. NOW SHOWING: This week's wide releases are Disney's live-action Cinderella, which is currently scoring 85 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Run All Night, scoring 49 percent. MADONNA claims she secretly dated Tupac Shakur. LINDSAY LOHAN badly photoshopped her rear end. LIAM NEESON plans to quit action movies in two years, so that means only aa couple of dozen. ELIZABETH HURLEY dishes on Hugh Grant. FROZEN 2 is a go, as you would have bet. TOY STORY 4:Josh Cooley, described by Disney Pixar as a "rising star" of its creative team, will co-direct alongside John Lasseter, who helmed the first two Toy Story films. STAR WARS: Rogue One will be the title of the first standalone project, while Rian Johnson (Looper) will helm Episode VIII. RICHARD GLATZER, who wrote and directed Still Alice with his husband Wash Westmoreland, has died at the age of 63 after a courageous battle against ALS. RUSSIA's main opposition leader: “It’s obvious that the only plan the Kremlin has for us is destruction." IRAN: Major world powers have begun talks about a United Nations Security Council resolution to lift U.N. sanctions on Iran if a nuclear agreement is struck with Tehran, a step that could make it harder for the U.S. Congress to undo a deal, Western officials said. IRAQ: U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units are under investigation for human rights violations: "These Shi’a militias are just as barbaric as ISIS." THE ISLAMIC STATE now controls a naval base on the Mediterranean, though local opposition is growing, as tends to happen. IF YOU'RE GOING TO FEED THE BUFFALO, bring some hand wipes. The More You Know. A 12-13-FT GATOR was generally ignored by Florida golfers. A WHALE collided with a tourist boat near Cabo San Lucas, killing one and injring two. AND THERE WERE CHICKENS all over the highway.
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