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Harry Nilsson, Old 97s, Stephen Malkmus, Lake Street Dive, Cutout Bin, Godzilla |
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Friday, May 16, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: 
...with HARRY NILSSON! The BBC aired "The Music of Nilsson" in 1971, including a mashup of "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song" and "One," "Gotta Get Up," a medley of "Walk Right Back," "Cathy's Clown" and "Let The Good Times Roll," followed by a really moving take on "Life Line." Then there are "Joy," "Without Her," "Coconut" and "1941." THE OLD 97s played a set at Hill Country Live for WFUV. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS stopped by KEXP to perform songs from Wig Out at Jagbags. RICHARD BARONE (The Bongos) visited WFUV for a chat and mini-set. LAKE STREET DIVE plays a short set on the Mountain Stage. 
DOBIE GRAY is in with "The In Crowd." BOB DYLAN & FRANK SINATRA: Twin Titans of American Music. BILLY CORGAN writes about opening for Jane's Addiction in 1988 to mark the upcoming 25th anniversary of Nothing's Shocking. NINA PERSSON (The Cardigans) talks to Under The Radar about going solo, and motherhood. ST VINCENT: Annie Clark playlists her dinner party on the moon. CUTOUT BIN: From Eddie & the Hot Rods to Rickie Lee Jones, from Pavement to Steely Dan, from The Crs to Tom Waits, plus Wreckless Eric, Baby Huey, Three Dog Night, Guded By Voices and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM. 
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: Godzilla, which is currently scoring 84 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Million Dollar Arm, currently scoring 58 percent. GODZILLA: Now that's more like it. A much bigger film than the trailers might lead you to believe (surprisingly, I could do actual spoilers), a more satisfying rendition of the beast than the prior, failed reboot of the franchise, and the disaster movie it should be. The humans alright, particularly Ken Watanabe, Bryan Cranston, and David Strathairn...but the real star here is the big lizard. The filmmakers here wisely go the Jaws route of showing you glimpses of the legend before the full reveal, which iseverything it should be, followed by one of the funniest moments in the movie. Godzilla is not perfect. The pacing goes a little off in Act 2. Chances are missed to make you care more about the main human characters (and to give you more Cranston). And for some, the adjustment of the nuclear element in this telling will disappoint some hoping for the familiar morality tale. But overall, a very solid popcorn movie. SOLANGE KNOWLES & JAY Z state they have worked through their differences and moved on since a video emerged this week showing Solange kicking Jay Z as Beyonce looked on. JAY Z's company, btw, may be holding up the Kanye/Kim wedding. ROBIN THICKE will be debuting a new song in his campaign to woo back wife Paula Patton. LILY ALLEN passed on an icky role in Game Of Thrones. KATE MIDDLETON's phones were hacked 155 times in eight months. UKRAINE: Steelworkers employed by Ukraine's biggest tycoon have joined police on patrol in some disputed eastern Ukrainian cities, and the company said Thursday that its officials had struck a deal with police and pro-Russian separatists in one of the cities for the insurgents to leave occupied government buildings. VENEZUELAN security forces arrested scores of people during a sweep of a busy Caracas avenue as protests against the government heated up amid a widening split within the opposition over whether to back possible US sanctions. EGYPT: Presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for US support and equipment to help Egypt fight terrorism. The Army seized 15 tons of bomb-making material from two locations in al Quantara, a town that straddles the Suez Canal. IRAN: Despite apparently reducing illicit purchases that breach UN sanctions, Iran is pursuing development of ballistic missiles, a confidential UN report says, posing an acute challenge to six powers negotiating with Tehran to rein in its nuclear program. 
FEDOR THE CAT catches a bat in mid-air. (NSFW language) TARA, the cat who defended a small boy from a vicious dog, is getting a photoshoot with Cat Fancy. THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents take over a palace built for birds. A SERVICE PIT BULL accepts a diploma for his late owner.
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Black Keys, Conor Oberst, Dan Croll, The Roots, Kittens |
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl


BILLY BRAGG & COURTNEY BARNETT cover the Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning." She doesn't seem used to TV, but warms up to it. THE BLACK KEYS play a set Live on Letterman. CONOR OBERST previews songs off his latest solo album, Upside Down Mountain, live at WNYC's Greene Space. DAN CROLL stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session. THE ROOTS stream …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. MICHAEL JACKSON: The posthumous stream of XSCAPE.  THE CREATION: "Making Time." The same old song (but a good one).
GUIDED BY VOICES: Robert Pollard talks to Brooklyn Vegan about artistic evolution, inspirations, working at a craft, besting the Beastie Boys at basketball, and more... THE FLAMING LIPS' former drummer apologizes and retracts his accusations against Wayne Coyne. EFFED UP: Damian Abraham and Mike Haliechuk talk to Pitchfork about what it means to sustain success in an underground genre like hardcore, the realities of living out your teenage rock'n'roll fantasies, and their raw new album, Glass Boys. THE MEMORABLE CHOREOGRAPHY of Music Videos. 
SOLANGE KNOWLES: Was she provoked before attacking Jay-Z? Was it business, or personal? Has it happened before? Have they patched things up, or is it just PR? ALEC BALDWIN was busted for illegal biking in NYC. MIRANDA KERR's billionaire boyfirend brawls with a pal after splitting from his wife for the supermodel. MICHELLE WILLIAMS has reportedly split up with Dustin Yellin after a year of dating. CASEY KASEM has gone missing, withut so much as a long-distance dedication. BEN AFFLECK appears as Batman. Sigh. CHANNIN TATUM has been cast as Gambit in an X-Men spinoff flick. Oy. H.R. GIGER, the fantastical artist best known for his concepts in Alien, has died at the age of 74 following a fall. UKRAINE: Militants ambushed a convoy of Ukraine soldiers Tuesday, killing six soldiers as both sides had been moving toward possible peace talks in Kiev. The people of Ukraine feel much more loyal to Europe than to Russia, and a clear majority back economic sanctions against Russia, according to a CNN poll of 1000 people across the country conducted in the past week. NIGERIA: US surveillance planes and commercial satellites are being used to help find a large group of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. The Nigerian government indicated it is open to talks with the kidnappers. IRAQ: The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 24 people, including three soldiers, in a series of bombings in Baghdad. 
DANCING KITTENS: An oldie but a goodie. PANDA LOOK-ALIKES are the hot pet in China. A 12-FOOT PYTHON has been returned to its owner after a slithery stop at a Central Texas home where a woman earlier bathed her pet guinea pigs. SMARTER DOGS through technology.
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Conor Oberst, Haley Bonar, Jolie Holland, Neil Finn, Octopus |
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Monday, May 12, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl


GRIZZLY BEAR's Daniel Rossen sings Gene Clark's "Some Misunderstanding." CONOR OBERST is advance streaming Upside Down Mountain HALEY BONAR is advance streaming Last War. JOLIE HOLLAND is advance streaming Wine Dark Sea. NEIL FINN (Split Enz, Crowded House) performs on WNYC Soundcheck. 
SHARON JONES and the DAP-KINGS: The video for "100 Days, 100 Nights" was directed by Adam Elias Buncher, who achieved the old skool look using two vintage TV cameras bought on eBay for 50 dollars each. TORI AMOS talks to Weekend Edition about "standing by the creations" that make up her identity at midlife. WEEZER's Blue Album turned 20 (goml), so Flavorwire recruited indie musicians to write about each track. CAT POWER talked to The Observer about her nomadic spirit, Patti Smith and a near-death experience. TUNE-YARDS: Merrill Garbus talks to SPIN abouther musical influences, from 80s pop to Africa. 
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Neighbors tops the chart with 51 million against an 18 million budget.That's almost instant profit, and a surpise win over the less that Amazing Spider-Man 2, which dropped 59 percent to place with 37.2 million and a 147.9 million domestic total against a considerably larger budget. That said, Spidey already has 550 million worldwide, an likely needs to reach 650 million to profit. The Other Woman shows with 9.1 million; it has roughly 120 million worldwide against a 40 million budget, so the rest from hereon is gravy. In the fourth slot, Heaven Is Real does a leggy 7 million, bringing its domestic total to 75.2 million against a 12 million budget (foreign receipts are negligible). Captain America: The Winter Soldier rounds out the Top 5 with 5.6 million, approaching 250 domestic and 450 billion more overseas. Below the fold, Moms' Night Out and Legends of Oz had less-than-stellar debuts, though Moms at least had a mere 5 million budget. LINDSAY LOHAN has sworn under penalty of perjury she suffered a miscarriage. KIM KARDASHIAN had a Paris-themed bridal shower in Beverly Hills. ZOE SALDANA has crossed planes and trains off the list; no word about automobiles. THE COLBERT REPORT will be succeeded by The Minority Report With Larry Wilmore. SHERRI SHEPHERD is getting divorced; her husband wants their unborn child. TMZ is getting sued for sexual discrimination. UKRAINE: Voters streamed into polling stations Sunday in eastern Ukraine to vote in controversial referendums held by pro-Russian activists eager to declare independence from Kiev. A CNN crew saw several people vote twice at one polling station, where the ballot boxes were decorated with new Donetsk independence flags. With voting still going on, one separatist leader said the region would form its own state bodies and military after the referendum, formalizing a split that began with the armed takeover of state buildings in a dozen eastern towns last month. VENEZUELA said on Sunday it had freed most of the 243 youth activists arrested in raids last week on street camps set up to protest against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government. Maduro has reacted furiously to calls in the United States for punitive measures against his government for alleged rights abuses in response to three months of street protests. NIGERIA: Suspected Boko Haram militants blew up a bridge connecting Adamawa and Borno states, killed a number of people, and abducted a woman and her two children; on May 5, militants blew up a bridge that linked Nigeria to Chad. About 50 of the kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls were reportedly sighted in the Central African Republic last week accompanied by armed Seleka rebels. EGYPT: The chief prosecutor's office accused 200 members of the Sinai-based jihadist group Ansar Bayt al Maqdis (Ansar Jerusalem) of terrorism, conspiracy with al Qaeda and Hamas, fighting and training in Syria, and carrying out 51 attacks including suicide bombings. The group also allegedly cut a deal with former president Mohamed Morsi to refrain from attacks in exchange for the release of some of its members. Sources said 98 of the 200 suspects are at large. SYRIA: Regime forces began sweeping Old Homs city for mines, and civilians returned, as the last 360 rebel fighters were evacuated. IRAQ: The Iraqi military has launched an offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and allied tribes. 
AN OCTOPUS opens a jar from the inside. A PIG on the lam slowed traffic on I-30 in Little Rock. SEVEN BABY SKUNKS that don't stink. OUROBOROS: The snake that eats its own tail.
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