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Wilson Pickett, Richard Thompson, Bill Callahan, Leonard Cohen, Cutout Bin   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 29, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE...

...with the wicked, wicked WILSON PICKETT, live from Germany, circa 1968. This disappeared from the Tube, but I've managed to find almost all of it reposted there or elsewhere.  His band warms up the crowd with the instrumental "Soulfinger," but Pickett electrifies from the moment he enters for "Everybody Needs Somebody" and doesn't let up through "Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won't Do)," "Mustang Sally" and "Stagger Lee." He takes it down just a half-notch for "I'm In Love" before cranking it back into top gear for "Funky Broadway," during which people dancing in front of the stage start turning up o­nstage.  The tumultuous finale of "Land of 1000 Dances" from amid the crowd remains missing, but this other "Land of 1000 Dances" from 1966 is almost as wild, and in color to boot. Raw and riveting; if this can't put you in a weekend state of mind, probably nothing can.

RICHARD THOMPSON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

BILL CALLAHAN (f/k/a/ Smog) does three free songs for Daytrotter.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

THE 30 BEST WILCO SONGS, according to Paste, with embedded audio.

LEONARD COHEN, Live on the BBC in 1968... and Live from Oslo, Norway in 1993.

DAVID BAZAN drops "Wolves At the Door" in advance of Strange Negotiations.

KUNG FU FIGHTING: A British pub singer held on suspicion of racism for performing the pop classic in front of a Chinese couple was yesterday defended by the song's composer, Carl Douglas.

OKKERVIL RIVER: Will Scheff gives a lengthy interview to Drowned in Sound covering the band's appearance on Fallon, songwriting, other writing, the recording of the new album, and much more...

JASON ISBELL talks about his new album and evolving sound with Prefix.

BUDDY HOLLY is getting a star-studded tribute album stretching from Lou Reed to She & Him to Paul McCartney to Cee-Lo Green to the Black Keys.

BRAIDS chat with Drowned in Sound about lemonade, dog people, comparisons and more...

CUTOUT BIN: From Richard Hell to Carl Douglas, from the Beach Boys to Al Green, from the Flaming Lips to Gloria Jones, plus Teenage Fanclub, the Velvet Underground, the Jam, the Kinks and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: Fast Five, which is currently scoring 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; the dramedy Prom, which is scoring 48 percent; and Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil, scoring 8 percent.  Opening near-wide is horror comedy Dylan Dog - Dead of Night, which was not screened for critics.

ROYAL WEDDING this morning. I think it might be on television. Check your local listings. RELATED: Morrissey has told the BBC he believes the Royal family are benefit scroungers who do not speak for England.

TWO AND A HALF MEN: The plan to relaunch TV's No.1 comedy without Charlie Sheen is beginning to take shape. But it's a fifty-fifty proposition.

JANUARY JONES (Mad Men, X-Men: First Class) is expecting her first child this fall, but hasn't said anything about who Dad might be.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE says Friends With Benefits is a bad idea in real life.

RICHIE SAMBORA (Bon Jovi) is checking into rehab. Again.

THE LONE RANGER: The Social Network's Armie Hammer is in early talks to star opposite Johnny Depp.

HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 2 has a trailer online.

SYRIA: More than 200 Baath Party members announced their resignation in the largest expression of dissent since the party came to power in 1963.

PAKISTAN: Crumbling unity among militants could provide the Pakistan army an opening to conduct a limited offensive against a particularly vicious Taliban group in a strategic tribal region, according to analysts and a senior military official.

AFGHANISTAN: Lt. Gen. John Allen, the White House's choice to lead the war effort in Afghanistan, is best known for his leadership in helping pacify what was once Iraq's most volatile province.

PANDA on a ROLL: Let's go to the video.

FEMALE DOGS smarter than males? Maybe...

ASIAN CARP: Chicago plans to fight them with squirt guns.

ROOSTERS & HENS hooking up will be regulated In Hopewell Township, NJ. Blocked!

ANIMAL LOVERS should stop calling their furry or feathered friends "pets" because the term is insulting, leading academics claim. M'kay.

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Telekinesis, DBTs, Richard Thompson & Loudon Wainright III, Terror Duckie   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TELEKINESIS remakes Belle & Sebastian's "Like Dylan In The Movies" as power-pop for The A.V. Club Undercover.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS performed a video mini-set for Sound Opinions.

ROYAL BANGS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

RICHARD THOMPSON & LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III play a set from World Cafe's Cayamo Cruise.

BUDDY MILLER & PATTI GRIFFITH play a set from World Cafe's Cayamo Cruise.

ELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head."

J MASCIS talks to PopMatters about how he differentiates between Dinosaur and solo materials, his current playlist, and advice for would-be skiers.

BILL CALLAHAN talks to The Rumpus about Austin, Apocalypse and America.

THE WATSON TWINS: Leigh Watson talks to Creative Loafing about their new collection of covers. (Thx, LHB.)

TUNE-YARDS: Merrill Garbus talked to Pitchfork about resisting music as a career, influences, writing in character, and more...

KATE HUDSON & MATT BELLAMY are engaged.

DIANA ROSS will get Michael Jackson's children when their 80-year-old grandmother Katherine Jackson passes away. Someday, they'll be together.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is attached to star in a rights package that CAA is shopping today that will revive The Terminator.

STEVEN TYLER: Here's the teaser to the cover of the Rolling Stone.

KATIE HOLMES gets a big fat apology from Star magazine, after the actress filed a 50 million dollar defamation claim against the tabloid for an apparently trumped-up drug story.

THE AVENGERS assemble in New Mexico.

SUPERMAN: German actress Antje Traue joins the reboot‘s cast as Faora, likely an aide to General Zod.

ZORRO heads to the future? Really?

TERROR in DENMARK: An expanded indictment in the case of Tahawwur Rana, detained with David Headley in the US on charges related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks, reveals that terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri offered Headley a network of Europeans to provide weapons, money, and operatives for an attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen.

TERROR in the UK: A fear of offending Muslims allowed extremists into Britain before the 2005 London Tube and bus bombings, a former Labour minister with close links to the intelligence services has admitted.

YEMEN remains al Qaeda's ultimate breeding ground.

EGYPT: "Masked gunmen" bombed the El Sabil natural gas export terminal on the Sinai Peninsula, shutting down the natural gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan.

LIBYA: A US official said NATO is increasing airstrikes in an effort to pressure Gaddafi into ending the fighting, not kill him.

A DUCKLING terrifies a dog.

FIRE ANTS save themselves in floods by forming giant rafts.

PITBULL turns on its mean owner.

BAHATI THE CHIMP has a wakeup workout.

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Sharon Van Etten, Fleet Foxes, Love Language, RIP Poly Styrene & Phoebe Snow   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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POLY STYRENE, fmr frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, succumbed to cancer at 53. P-Fork has your A/V linkage, including "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"  Her latest LP, Generation Indigo, dropped yesterday and is streaming via Spinner, which also collected remembrances from musicians, while NPR has a piece from Robert Christgau.

SHARON VAN ETTEN, Live at Brighton Music Hall, April 14, 2011.

FLEET FOXES performed a session for Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show live at Maida Vale Studios.

BRIGHT EYES played a mini-set at the World Cafe.

THE LOVE LANGUAGE did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

PHOEBE SNOW, a bluesy singer, guitarist and songwriter who had a defining hit of the 1970s with "Poetry Man" but then largely dropped out of the spotlight to care for her disabled daughter, has died at 60. For whatever reason, I more clearly remember her singing covers with Linda Ronstadt on a Saturday Night in 1979.

JEFF TWEEDY talks to SPIN about Wilco's "obnoxious and irreverent" next album.

BRAIDS are profled at The Guardian.

THE KINKS: A "Kinks Kook" critically revisits the band's re-issued first three albums.

HIT SONG LYRICS show a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility over the last 30 years.

LINDSAY LOHAN taped a surprise appearance on Leno, during which she complained about her jail sentence.

NICOLAS CAGE: A child abuse detective was called in to investigate the actor on the night of his drunken arrest.

CHARLIE SHEEN bailed out his pal, Lenny Dykstra, after the fmr baseball star was busted on federal embezzlement charges.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI & JAY CUTLER (a/k/a Jerkface) got engaged in Mexico.

ROB SCHNEIDER swapped vows with longtime girlfriend Patricia Azarcoya Arce on Saturday.

ROBERT PATTINSON & KRISTEN STEWART strip for their final Twilight scene.

KATIE COURIC announces she's leaving the CBS Evening News. Most of the press makes no mention of her bad ratings.

IRAN warned it would retaliate for Bahrain's expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Manama.

SYRIA: With reports emerging that at least one high-ranking Syrian military commander refused to participate in a bloody, predawn raid that left dozens dead in the southern border city of Daraa -- the heart of Syria's weekslong civil unrest, questions are being raised about possible cracks in President Bashar al-Assad's hold over the military.

LIBYA: Forces loyal to Gaddafi shelled the city of Misrata despite withdrawing from the center of the town just days ago. Children as young as eight are being raped in front of their families by Gaddafi's forces, according to reports made to a leading charity.

AFGHANISTAN: How many al Qaeda leaders are left in-country?

A CALICO CAT gave birth to a puppy in Yangshan, eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Reportedly. (Thx, Lance.)

MAYBE THE DINGOES ATE YOUR BABY: Two dingoes that mauled a 3-year-old girl on an Australian beach have been caught and destroyed, officials said Tuesday.

SOME DOGS aren't much of a threat.

TWIN BOY & GIRL POLAR CUBS are the first to survive in China.  Aww...dorable.

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New Releases, Steve Earle, Iron & Wine, Tiny Stallion   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

FERRABY LIONHEART's latest video is for the tuneful "Pocketknife."

NEW RELEASES from They Might Be Giants, An Horse, Bootsy Collins, Cass McCombs, The Wombats and Vandaveer, plus a Roy Orbison comp and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

STEVE EARLE played a Tiny Desk Concert at the NPR offices.

IRON & WINE played a mini-set at the UBS Forum for The Current.

FLAMING LIPS produced four new songs in gummy skulls, now available via YANP.

MY MORNING JACKET dropped "Holdin On to Black Metal" in advance of Circuital, but you have to Like the band on the Facebook to hear it.

THE 10 BEST SHINS SONGS (So Far), according to Paste, with embedded audio.

THE DUKES OF STRATOSPHEARE, the psychedelic front group for XTC, play "The Mole From the Ministry" and "You're A Good Man, Albert Brown" for Twofer Tuesday.

BEASTIE BOYS get an extensive oral history from New York magazine, while the band posts an alternate stream of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.

PJ HARVEY talked to The Observer about 20 years in music and the emotions behind her latest dark masterpiece.

PHOSPHORESCENT front man/composer Matthew Houck talks to Consequence of Sound about songwriting, moving up to big festival gigs, and more.

HALEY BONAR talks to the Mpls City Pages about recording Golder.

HAZEL DICKENS, a Bluegrass pioneer, has passed at 75.

LINDSAY LOHAN will be picking up trash, emptying trash bins, mopping floors and cleaning windows and restrooms at the L.A. County Department of Coroner's facility.

JAY-Z & BEYONCE playing the Royal Wedding reception? The rumors are so crazy right now.

TONI COLLETTE is a mom again.

KEVIN JAMES is a dad for the first time.

RYAN PHILLIPPE wants to bow out of the harsh glare of Los Angeles, but isn't quitting acting.

JOHNNY DEPP is doing an uncredited cameo in the 21 Jump Street movie.

ELLEN BARKIN gets a lengthy profile in the New York Times Magazine.

THE HOBBIT, which is being shot at 48 frames per second, loses Rob Kazinsky, who was to play Fili.

SYRIA: The Obama administration said Monday it was considering "targeted sanctions" against Syria after government forces sharply escalated their deadly campaign to crush a five-week uprising.

IRAN has been hit by a second computer virus, a senior military official said Monday, suggesting it was part of a concerted campaign to undermine the country's disputed nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: Hundreds of prisoners escaped from a jail in the country's south on Monday through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, officials said, a "disaster" for the Afghan government and a setback for foreign forces planning to start a gradual withdrawal within months.

EINSTEIN: The world's smallest stallion has a ball.

A SIX-FOOT GATOR invites himself into a home in Palmetto, FL.

THE WORLD'S WICKEDEST BUGS are found in Japan.

A SNAKE knocked out power to thousands in Upper Marlboro , MD on Easter. A very crispy snake.

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Fleet Foxes, Antlers, High Llamas, Beastie Boys, Puppy Cam   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 25, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE STROKES played "Games" for Conan, if not with him.

FLEET FOXES are advance streaming Helplessness Blues.

THE ANTLERS are advance streaming Burst Apart.

HIGH LLAMAS are advance streaming Talahomi Way.

BEASTIE BOYS are advance streaming Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 from a boombox half-court at MSG.

ARCADE FIRE: Will Butler & Marika Shaw sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley Field.

VAN DYKE PARKS gives Pitchfork musical picks, along with first-hand insights on Brian Wilson, Harry Nilsson, and Eartha Kitt.

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE: Mick Jones talks about hitting the reunion circuit -- and the unreleased cuts he and Strummer wrote that he would like them to see the light of day.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART are profiled at the Chicago Tribune.

THE THERMALS spoke with PopMatters about their latest release, touring with the Coathangers, smoking weed, and traveling through Europe.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: In a bit of a surprise, Rio remained perched atop the cineplex with 26.8 million.  Madea's Big Happy Family placed with 25.8 million, when tracking numbers projected a 30 million opening.  Either Tyler Perry's franchise is fianlly weakening, or Easter was a curve ball. (Even so, with a reported 20 million budget, it will make tens of millions in profit.) Water For Elephants showed with 17.5 million -- a couple million more than the most optimistic estimates. Hop got an Easter bounce in the fourth slot, as its 12.5 million was 16 percent over last weekend's total.  Scream 4 rounds out the Top Five with 7.2 million, tumbling 62 percent from its debut.  Below the fold, African Cats opened in sixth with 6.4 million, which isn't bad for opening on just 1220 screens.The overall numbers were up a big 34 million year-over-year.

LINDSAY LOHAN had her felony theft charge downgraded to a misdemeanor... but was sentenced to 120 days in jail. Li-Lo is reportedly shocked, but will appeal, and is out on bail.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson gave Deadline his first interview since portions of the taped conversations between the filmmaker and his ex-girlfriend were leaked to the Internet.

CHARLIE SHEEN was dumped by "goddess" Bree Olson, by text message.

LeANN RIMES & EDDIE CIBRIAN got hitched.

RUPERT GRINT, contrary to rumor, was not photographed with a bong.

PAUL REISER: Cancelled after two episodes. Ouch.

LUKE CAGE, Marvel Comics' Hero for Hire, may be played by Isaiah Mustafa of the popular "Old Spice" commercials.

NIGERIA: Muslim rioters have killed more than 100 Christians and burned down more than 40 churches in an attack that began in response to the election of Jonathan Goodluck, a Christian, as president, according to International Christian Concern.

YEMEN: Embattled Pres. Saleh said he accepted a proposal by Arab mediators that would shift power to his deputy 30 days from the signing of a formal agreement and grant him and his family, who occupy key positions in Yemen's security apparatus, immunity from prosecution.

SYRIA: The state-run news agency claimed security forces recovered digital equipment, bottles of fake blood used by a 'criminal group' to falsify photos and videos depicting acts of violence against protesters.

LIBYA: Pro-Gaddafi tribes are threatening to oust rebels holed up in Misrata.

IRAQ: Adm. Mullen said Iraq must decide in the next several weeks if it wants to extend the US military mission in Iraq.

SHIBA INU PUPPY CAM returns with a new litter.

NEW ZEALANDERS celebrated Eatser by shooting teh bunnies.

COMPETITIVE RABBIT JUMPING: Der Spiegel investigates.

WET, SALTY CAT: The mystery surrounds a white, orange and black feline that arrived last weekend on Governors Island in New York.

SCORPION on a plane.

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