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Wednesday, December 08, 2010 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
JEFF TWEEDY joins YO LA TENGO on Wilco's "Jesus, Etc," and a Gary U.S. Bonds cover, "Eight Day Weekend" during YLT's traditional Hanukkah stand at Maxwell's in Hoboken, No Jokin'. THE NAKED and the FAMOUS made their US radio debut on Morning Becomes Eclectic just before Thanksgiving. ELTON JOHN & LEON RUSSELL played NYC's Beacon Theatre, featuring their collaboration on The Union plus, their separate hits. You can stream the gig on demand. TWIN SHADOW gets the twofer treatment on World Cafe: Next. TWILIGHT SINGERS, Live in Amsterdam, Nov. 28, 2006. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: "Santa's Beard." Their cover of "New York City" is pretty seasonal, too. ARCADE FIRE's Win Butler lists his 14 favorite Springsteen songs. SPOON: Britt Daniel and Eric Harvey have a bit of a career retrospective with Drowned In Sound. THE PIXIES continue to innovate by building an online gigography. FAVES 2010, courtesy of a fave blogger, Frank Yang, at Chromewaves. JESSICA SIMPSON has a a new fiance, a holiday album and... news that she is on her way to becoming a billion-dollar mover and shaker in the fashion world? LINDSAY LOHAN finally has permission to get back behind the wheel of a car. BRETT FAVRE's accuser might go public with an "overabundance of evidence" if the NFL doesn't come down on the veteran QB for his alleged sexting scandal. PORTIA de ROSSI will not be dancing with a woman on Dancing With the Stars. JULIANNA MARGUILES tells her Good Wife costar Alan Cumming why sometimes it's good to be bad. FRUSTRATED CELEBS returned to Twitter after a billionaire donated 500K to an AIDS charity. Our short national nightmare is over; our long one resumes. RANDY & EVI QUAID are writing a tell-all book, apparently detailing their bizarre conspiracy theory that they are the victims of Hollywood "star whackers." KEVIN SMITH takes on another airline. GEORGE LUCAS has been buying the film rights to dead movie legends to put them together on screen. AL QAEDA may be planning a horrific 'Frankenbomber' suicide attack by implanting explosives into a human body. AFGHANISTAN: Al-Qaeda's leaders have allocated 23.25 million and launched a new training program for 400 militants in Khyber Agency to start a full-blown insurgency in the Swat area of Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province and Malakand Division next summer. IRAQ: Police stepped up security at Shia mosques in in volatile northern Diyala province for the Muslim New Year on Tuesday after Al-Qaeda issued a series of threats. Al Sumaria has released photographs of al Qaeda in Iraq's top two leaders. RUDOLPH the RED-NOSED REINDEER explodes after becoming impaled on traffic lights. Video at the link. The humanity! SNAKE in a wreath. SNAKES on a PLANE, with parrots and a squirrel. There's always a squirrel. WHEN TERRIERS ATTACK: Where was the air marshall?
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Not-So-New Releases, Jeff Mangum, Glam Xmas, Capybara |
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS dropped a video for "I L U," directed by Toby Halbrooks and David Lowery. NOT-SO-NEW RELEASES from Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, Les Savy Fav, Springsteen, Local Natives, Four Tet, Mumford and Sons, the Budos band and more are streaming via Spinner. JEFF MANGUM (Neutral Milk Hotel) played a surprise show at the Schoolhouse in Brooklyn to an audience of 75 or so people. THE BEST WORLD CAFE of 2010, according to host David Dye. GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL, home to bands like Gold Panda, Matthew Dear and School of Seven Bells, is streaming a compilation LP featuring unreleased tracks. DIAMOND RINGS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at Pop Montreal. GLAM XMAS: Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday. LESLIE FEIST talks to The Guardian about making a documentary, swapping schools without telling her mom and her debt to the Muppets. GORILLAZ have started their own online advent calendar. THE WORST ALBUM COVERS of 2010, according to Pitchfork. COLLEGE RADIO: An endangered species? BRITNEY SPEARS is on a romantic trip with Jason Trawick in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The allegations she has vehemently denied about their relationship are purely coincidental. JOHNNY DEPP would like George Clooney or Brad Pitt to star opposite him as the Lone Ranger. CHELSEA HANDLER wants you to know she really, really, really is not a fan of Angelina Jolie. KIM KARDASHIAN denies being pregnant by Kanye West. JOSH DUHAMEL says he learned his lesson after being booted from an airplane for refusing to stop texting. KELSEY GRAMMER is engaged to his new girlfriend Kayte Walsh. CHARLIE SHEEN's estranged wife, Brooke Mueller, has checked into a sober living facility. EVA LONGORIA put on a brave face at Hollywood hot spot Chateau Marmont with dozens of pals. KEIRA KNIGHTLEY almost retired at the age of 22 when she realized she was not enjoying her work, she has disclosed. "DANDY" DON MEREDITH, the Dallas Cowboys and SMU quarterback and Monday Night Football icon, died Sunday evening in Santa Fe, NM. He was 72. DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! on tonight. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. AFGHANS are more pessimistic about the direction of their country, less confident in the ability of the United States and its allies to provide security and more willing to negotiate with the Taliban than they were a year ago, according to a new poll conducted in all of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. But residents of two key southern provinces that have been the focus of US military operations over the past year say aspects of their security and living conditions have improved significantly since last December. A CAPYBARA, sucking on a bunny's ears...Mass hysteria! THE SQUIRREL THREAT is stealing Christmas in Braintree, Mass. AN ALLIGATOR was busted after using the drive-through at McDonald's in Kansas City. MINNIE the SECOND is a harmless-looking kitteh accused of attacking a patron at the 156-year-old McSorley's Old Ale House in NYC. RESEARCHERS dress as panda bears as an essential part of China's ambitious strategy to reintroduce captive-bred Giant Pandas back into the wild.
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Superchunk, Mason Jennings, Guster, Kitteh |
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Monday, December 06, 2010 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
DEERHUNTER made their TV debut playing "Helicopter" on Conan. SUPERCHUNK stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. MASON JENNINGS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. GUSTER stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. AMOS LEE played the World Cafe Live on Friday; you can stream the whole gig on demand now. DAVID BOWIE: Roio has The Lost Beeb Tapes. GLAM CHOPS: Art Brut's Eddie Argos has a "Countdown to Christmas." GARAGE ROCK: An essay at PopMatters notes: "The garage is not only an outside place but also a place for outsiders..." SLEIGH BELLS jingle a bit for The Line of Best Fit. THE BEST of 2010, according to Paste magazine. PETE DOHERTY escaped a contempt of court charge. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Tangled passes Harry Potter to top the chart with 21.5 million in the traditionally brutal post-Thanksgiving weekend. If it can show legs against the Narnia flick this weekend, Tangled has the chance to make a profit on its reported 260 million budget before the DVD market, which would be a remarkable turnaround story for the troubled Disney production. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1 places with 16.7 million on a 66 percent drop reminiscent of Goblet of Fire -- the last Potter flick to open in November. Harry has pulled in ~244 million here and another ~469 million overseas so far. Burlesque and Unstoppable virtually tie for the third / fourth slot with an estimated 6.1 million apiece. Overall, Unstoppable will be in better financial shape than Burlesque. Love and Other Drugs held slightly better than expected to round out the Top Five with 5.7 million; it's 22 million against a 30 million budget ensures this won't be a big loss for the studio. Below the fold, the weekend's sole wide debut, The Warrior's Way, opened with about 3 million against a 42 million budget. Ouch. BRITNEY SPEARS gote even more aggressive in denying stories printed by Star and RadarOnline, but they are now circulating audio purporting to be Spears confessing to smoking pot. MAD MEL UPDATE: The Beaver has a trailer online. JAKE GYLLENHAAL & TAYLOR SWIFT: Us Weekly gets comments from Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, thoroughly taxing my vowel supply. JOSH DUHAMEL was escorted off of a plane Thursday after he refused to turn off his BlackBerry. SUGE KNIGHT was arrested and released in connection with minor traffic charges late Friday night. THE SPIDER-MAN REBOOT adds to its cast. IRAN's foreign minister dampened the possibility for a breakthrough in next week's scheduled international talks over Tehran's nuclear program. Shocka. AFGHANISTAN: Winning Marjah, one cow at a time. IRAQ: Intell officials say foreign fighters have been slipping back into the country in larger numbers recently and may have been behind some of the most devastating attacks this year, reviving a threat the US military believed had been almost entirely eradicated. KITTEH with a teddy bear. Snuggly. THE ILLEGAL TARANTULA TRADE suffers a blow from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. BIRDS are turning gay from mercury poisoning? A WHOOPING CRANE is rescued by a veterinarian dressed as a marshmallow.
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Bowie, Mr. Heavenly, Budos Band, Cutout Bin, Dancing Dog |
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Friday, December 03, 2010 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ... with DAVID BOWIE, CRACKED ACTOR! In the mid 1970s, as part of BBC's long-running Omnibus series, Alan Yentob interviewed David Bowie during the American leg of his Diamond Dogs Tour. MISTER HEAVENLY are a band featuring Nick Thorburn (Islands), Honus Honus (Man Man) and... Michael Cera (live, anyway). Here's a mess of video from their second gig. THE BUDOS BAND (a staple of the Daptone label) stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a chat and mini-set in audio and video. POP MONTREAL: Daytrotter has tracks it recorded during the confab from bands like BRAIDS and The Sheepdogs. VIA AUDIO did the standard four free songs thing for Daytrotter. 25 DAYS OF FREE SONGS, one a day, via Amazon MP3. THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas." THE END OF INDIE? The blurring lines are discussed at In These Times. SYL JOHNSON: An underappreciated soul great gets another chance -- and a lengthy profile from the Chicago Reader. THE WEDDING PRESENT frontman David Gedge talks to the Yorkshire Post about the band's silver anniversary. (Thx, LHB.) DAVID LOWERY, of Camper van Beethoven and Cracker, writes about Groupon and venture capitalism. CUTOUT BIN: From Dean & Britta to Jimi Hendrix, from Harry Nilsson to Led Zeppelin, from John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers to the Housemartins, plus Thunderclap Newman, Blondie, the Beatles, the Soft Boys, The Band and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM. NOW SHOWING: This weekend's sole wide release in the traditionally dead post-Thanksgiving weekend is The Warrior's Way, which was largely not screened for critics. Notably, Black Swan, which opens in limited release, is currently scoring 85 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. BRITNEY SPEARS: An expert says purported audio of the pop wreck has been manipulated, but RadarOnline has doubled down with more audio which purports to be Britney Spears admitting not reporting agent-turned-bf Jason Trawick's alleged violent assault on her to cops because she didn't want the controversy. Again, camp Spears vehemently denies the story, claims the audio has been faked, and has threatened suit. MILEY CYRUS: Her purse was stolen last week. Some new pictures have *allegedly* leaked from phone and/or camera. There is a provocative, slightly NSFW picture included in these leaked images. THE GRAMMY AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Roots, Cee-Lo (who cold make the night interesting) are among the multiple noms. EVA LONGORIA & TONY PARKER reunited... for a lunch date. KIRSTEN DUNST talks to Vanity Fair about nude scenes, bad boys and beatnik boot camp. Just don't ask her about Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift. NATALIE PORTMAN shares a music playlist with the L.A. Times. QUENTIN TARANTINO was roasted at the Friar's Club; THR has the raunchiest material. HEATH LEDGER will not appear in The Dark Knight Rises, thankfully. THE 50 BEST DOCUMENTARIES, according to TimeOut New York. THE TOP FILMS of 2010, according to Sight and Sound. I saw the top and the bottom. IRAN: According to a leaked State Department cable, Saudi Prince Nayif bin Abdulaziz told John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, that Iran is harboring al Qaeda members who are targeting the kingdom. The IAEA complained about a lack of Iranian cooperation in the lead-up to Dec. 5 negotiations. Tehran will take further security precautions for nuclear scientists in country. PAKISTAN has gone from being the "most sanctioned ally" to the "most bullied ally" of the United States, according to a top Pakistani military official, who added that the "real aim of US strategy is to de-nuclearize Pakistan." AFGHANISTAN: The complete election results have thrust Afghans into a new period of uncertainty, deepened skepticism of the government and stirred Afghanistan's always volatile ethnic fault lines. DANCING DOG: Let's go to the (Russian) video. A DOG survives the night under the rubble after the owners' home was flattened by a tornado. HONEY the LABRADOR was married to her very strange owner in Toowoomba, Australia. MAYBE THE HORSE ate your hat. CHOKING THE CHICKEN is illegal, when done literally.
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PJ Harvey, TPOBPAH, Junip, LCD Soundsystem, Ostrich-Giraffe tag |
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
WARPAINT explains and plays the the song that bears their name for The Guardian. PJ HARVEY drops "Written On the Forehead" as an advance track to Let England Shake. THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART drop "The One," a B-side taken from their upcoming record. JUNIP stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session. NPR"s 50 FAVE ALBUMS, alphabetically, with streaming selections. THE BEACH BOYS: It's the "Little Saint Nick," natch. BEN KWELLER lists his favorite Hanukkah songs. SUPERCHUNK: Mac McCaughan reflects on the re-emergence of his seminal '90s band with the Mpls City Pages, while Creative Loafing talks to Jon Wurster. HUSKER DU biographer Andrew Earles talks to Chunklet about his book debut. THE CLASH: Mick Jones and Paul Simonon are working on a new biopic based on the recording of London Calling. THE JAYHAWKS are putting the band back together and talk about their first full lineup LP since 1995. BRITNEY SPEARS: Ex-bf Jason Alexander tells the ever-relaible Star that the pop wreck confided to him that her agent-turned-bf JasonTrawick beat her - on multiple occasions. RadarOnline posted audio. However, Britney's co-conservator says every aspect of the story -- including the audio -- is completely fabricated and that legal action will be taken. JENNIFER LOPEZ is caught on hours of new video "exposing her genital area in public" and displaying other "deviant behavior", according to documents just filed in the singer's high-stakes legal fight to keep the tapes secret. JAKE GYLLENHAAL & TAYLOR SWIFT: Spotted getting cozy again. NEVE CAMPBELL super secretly filed for divorce from her husband John Light - 5 months ago. TONY PARKER just lost his lawyer in his divorce case with Eva Longoria - because Tony's lawyer also reps the man who's married to the woman Tony was allegedly sexting. MAD MEL UPDATE: Oksana Grigorieva's lawyers are trying to muzzle the lawyer who negotiated her multi-million dollar settlement with Mel Gibson from saying too much to the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. HEATHER LOCKLEAR is currently hospitalized in California after coming down with a bacterial infection. CHRISTINA AGUILERA has given her first interview about her new boyfriend Matthew Rutler. KATY PERRY & RUSSELL BRAND, almost derailed by John Mayer? RANDY QUAID and his wife are spending nights in their car, on the run from the same shadowy cabal-"the Hollywood Star Whackers"-who may have killed Heath Ledger, possibly sabotaged Jeremy Piven, and could now be targeting Lindsay Lohan. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN talks to Entertainment Weekly about The Dark Knight Rises, an Inception videogame, and more... IRAN: The attack on two of Iran's leading nuclear physicists is likely the work of a joint American and Israeli covert program to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, argues Reza Aslan. AFGHANISTAN: The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its first-ever programmable "smart" grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses microchipped ammunition to target and kill the enemy, even when the enemy is hidden behind walls or other cover. IRAQI security forces captured al Qaeda in Iraq's security minister and the terror group's military commander for the capital during separate raids in Ramadi and Baghdad over the past two weeks. Elite counterterrorism units in Iraq are running half as many operations this year as they have annually since 2008, in part because of a nationwide drop in violence. Leaked diplomatic cables provide new details on the US assessment of how Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has promoted Tehran's influence in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion. AN OSTRICH and a BABY GIRAFFE, playing tag...Mass hysteria! NEEDY CHICKENS are getting sweaters knit for the holidays. SNAKE at a computer terminal. Fatal. KIBURI, a 10-day-old cheetah cub, meets the public for the first time at the San Diego Zoo.
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