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The Vapors, New Releases, Decemberists, Whale Shark Gold   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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JONESTOWN: The mass cult suicide occurred 30 years ago today, as recalled by Tim Reiterman, who was shot while escaping the People's Temple compound in Guyana. So it seems like the moment for the Vapors' "Jimmie Jones."

NEW RELEASES: Belle & Sebastian, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Tom Jones, The Doors and more have albums streaming in full this week via Spinner.

BRITISH SEA POWER puts Guitar Hero and Wii Music through their paces for the Times of London.

THE DECEMBERISTS: A new song, "Record Year," and a video interview with Colin Meloy are posted at SPIN.

THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION: More than 30 years after punk took the stage, its DIY influence is felt everywhere from indie rock to the blogosphere to Christie's auction house.

HE HIT ME (and it felt like a kiss): Maine Today posts the Crystals original and the Grizzly bear cover of the shoulda-been- a-big-red-flag-about Phil Spector number for a creepy Twofer Tuesday.

THE KILLERS get a fairly meaty profile in the Times of London.

BRIAN WILSON gives a sad and painful interview to the Washington Post. Obviously not one of his good days.

THE ACORN: lead singer Rolf Klausener gives WRAL interesting descriptions of the band's sound and influence.

BLUEGRASS APOCOLYPSE: Bluegrass has been transformed from a mostly played-out festival circuit relic into a viable commercial force. But at what cost?

SCARLETT JOHANSSON tells December's Allure she doesn't know why Lindsay Lohan doesn't like her, and  is flattered that she inspired Katy Perry to pen her hit "I Kissed A Girl."  Sorry gals, she's married!  BONUS: Some behind-the-scenes from her Allure photo shoot.

HEATHER LOCKLEAR has been formally charged with misdemeanor DUI in connection with her September arrest.

ANGELINA JOLIE tears up while talking about her mother who died after a 7 1/2-year battle with cancer.

BRITNEY SPEARS will be taking part in lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

JOHNNY DEPP: First look at Tim Burton's Mad Hatter?

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD -- of "Taxi" and the "Back to the Future" trilogy -- lost an 11 million dollar home in the current Montecito, California wildfires.  Too early for a flux capacitor joke?

STAR TREK: That new trailer is now online in glorious Quicktime.

CLORIS LEACHMAN: The actress and former "Dancing with the Stars" competitor was hospitalized briefly last week with pneumonia, but was treated and released at a Los Angeles-area hospital.

MARK CUBAN: The mogul and former "Dancing with the Stars" competitor has been charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims that Cuban dumped his stake in an Internet company just after he heard confidentially that the company was about to issue low-priced shares. The Smoking Gun has the complaint. Cuban blogs that the "government's claims are false and they will be proven to be so." At the moment, I'm thinkin' that Major League Baseball won't let him buy the Chicago Cubs.

HELEN MIRREN was accused by the UK's Solicitor General of making ignorant, absurd and dangerous comments yesterday after speaking out again about rape prosecutions. Her comments may be wrong viz the British system, but she would sorta have a point in the US, at least in states where the prosecution and defense help select juries (though there are studies to the contrary). Overall, it's probably fair to say that prospective juror attitudes about rape matter more than gender. And that is probably equally true in Britain.

IRAQ: Parliament began debating the security pact that would allow US troops to remain for three more years, while an Iranian official close to that country's leadership praised the Iraqi Cabinet for approving the deal.

WHALE SHARK poops -- and it's like gold to scientists.  Let's go to the video.

COW!  Biplane edition. Video at the link.

COCKROACHES: How they go serpentine.

A PUPPY hit by a car going 70 mph lives -- precisely because it was hit at 70 mph.

A PYGMY HIPPO which started turning up his snout at food has started eating again, with help from a hand puppet.

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Raconteurs, Calexico, Little Joy, Trailers, Dog Talk   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 08:00 AM
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Mitch Mitchell RIP, 100 Greatest Singers, Cutout Bin, Banana Derby   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, November 14, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

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...with THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE! Jazz-influenced drummer Mitch Mitchell passed away late Wednesday at age 61 (or 62, depending where you read).  We remember him here with a threefer of "Stone Free," "Purple Haze" and "Hey Joe" live in Offenbach, Germany, as well as "The Wind Cries Mary" in Stockholm, Sweden, both vids circa 1967 (The barely show Mitch in the Swedish clip, but he makes that song). Or if you prefer, the threefer of "Voodoo Chile," "Hey Joe" and Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" from The Lulu Show.  Mitch also tears it up on "Fire" at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969.  And he kicks off "I Don't Live Today" at the same gig.  Mitchell, a former child actor,  was the last living member of the Experience. That should be some reunion gig.

THE 100 GREATEST SINGERS OF ALL TIME, according to Rolling Stone, with plenty of streaming audio.  Each singer gets a brief essay, some from other notable vocalists, like Elvis Presley by Robert Plant, James Brown by Iggy Pop and George Jones by James Taylor, to name a few.

THE FOO FIGHTERS will guest judge a Thanksgiving episode of Top Chef. Yes, really.

1990s are previewing tracks from their next album.

ELEANOR RIGBY: Was the song's tragic heroine based on a real person? The Independent reveals a new clue to her identity. There's an audio feature at NPR, too.

THE UKULELE ORCHESTRA of GREAT BRITAIN, previously featured here on a Friday, returns with the "Theme From Shaft."

ROBERT CHRISTGAU: With the flood of Internet, I can forget that the Dean's monthly Consumer Guide is still there for you at MSN.

THE CURE tribute album -- featuring tracks from Tanya Donelly, Dean & Britta, The Submarines and more -- is streaming in full again, this time via SPIN.

BEST MUSIC OF 2008: Amazon rolls out Editors' and Customers' Picks, with lists by genre also.

CUTOUT BIN: The late Mitch Mitchell let's his freak flag fly, as do the Psychedelic Furs, plus tracks from Marnie Stern to David Ruffin, Led Zeppelin to Toni Basil, The Clash to Wild Cherry, The MC5, the Hold Steady, Cheap Trick and more  -- this Friday's fortuitous finds can be jukeboxed or streamed separately via the Pate page at the ol' HM.

QUANTUM OF SOLACE, currently scoring 70 percent on the ol' Tomatometer, is this weekend's sole wide release.  Picking up mere moments after we left Bond in Casino Royale, this sequel does not quite equal the 2006 reboot -- in part because we no longer have the shock of the new, in part because director Marc Forster does not have the same experience directing action sequences that Martin Campbell did, though this movie is action-packed enough to keep you guessing as to whether Bond will find the title goal. Indeed, the film so rarely slows down for character (or anything else) that Forster becomes an even stranger choice as director.  The Bond girls here -- played by Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton -- continue to break the mold (and you may have to check Arterton's screen credit to get a hidden Bondian joke.  Ultimately, the movie is a worthy successor, but see Casino Royale before this one.

PAULA ABDUL: The obsessed fan who died of a possible drug overdose/ suicide outside Abdul's home the other night overdosed in the exact same area around one year ago.

JENNIFER ANISTON is yapping again, this time on Oprah. And rumor has it that Brad Pitt called her to complain about her Vogue interview. RELATED: Aniston's on-again, off-again bf John Mayer will host a weekly variety show for CBS.

LINDSAY LOHAN getting formally engaged to Samantha Ronson in France this week?

MADONNA thinks Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez "has the heart of a poet trapped inside an insanely gorgeous body."

JESSICA SIMPSON: Shut out of the Country Music Awards. Shocka.

BEST DVDs OF 2008: Amazon rolls out Editors' and Customers' Picks, with lists by genre also.

KRISTEN BELL talks to The A.V. Club about her many ongoing and upcoming projects. But it's Egotastic that has her bikini pictures from the set of Couple's Retreat. Call it Gratuitous Friday. 

ANNE HATHAWAY's ex-bf Raffaello Follieri discovers that prison is not a nice place.

THE 10 MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE OF 2008:  Seven names from the Dec. 4 Barbara Walters special leak at the link.

THE STANS: Pres. Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan pressed US Secretary of State Rice, to ease up on airstrikes targeting militants linked to the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the lawless Afghan-Pakistani tribal regions.  Complaints that the strikes are alienating the local populations would ring truer, but for the Pakistani Army is coercing the tribes in Bajaur to fight the Taliban, and bombing their villages if they won't. Mullah Baradar, the deputy commander of the Taliban in Afghanistan, said the group has not and will not negotiate with NATO or the Afghan government.

IRAQ: In battle-scarred Mosul, Kurds and Arabs trade accusations rooted in ethnic rivalry and a battle for oil and power that many fear threaten security in Iraq. Meanwhile, security forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and captured 149 suspects during operations in Diyala and Ninewa provinces.

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BANANA DERBY: Best Week Ever has the photo gallery of monkey jockeys, but let's go to the video.

TWEETY CATS: Cats are micro-blogging on Twitter.  The most popular appears to be Sockington, a/k/a Sockamillion.

DR. DOLITTLE, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources needs your help with some frogs.

AN ALLIGATOR was refused service at Johnny's Saloon.

SINGAPORE ZOO CLEANER does not choose life.

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Fleet Foxes, Tom Morello, Tim Fite, Megapuss, Shiba Imus   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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FLEET FOXES play "Sun Giant" and "Blue Ridge Mountain" in an abandoned wing of Paris's Grand Palais for a La Blogotheque TakeAway show.

TOM MORELLO, formerly of Rage Against the Machine, stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

TIM FITE does the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, one perviously unreleased.

BISHOP ALLEN: Justin Rice talks to LAist about the band's giant pigeon costumes, "Click Click Click Click," Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and more. Streaming audio at the link.

THE LAYAWAYS released an album this week to little fanfare, but you can stream "Keep It To Yourself" and "All Around The World" via the ol' HM. (Thx, Sylvia!)

MEGAPUSS: Devendra Banhart, Greg Rogove of Priestbird, and Fabrizio Moretti of the Strokes have fun with this side project and this video for "Adam & Steve."

MINUS THE BEAR talks to San Diego CityBeat about dialing down the wackiness. (Thx, LHB.)

THE BREEDERS: Kim Deal explains to the San Francisco Bay Guardian why she feels a bit depressed.

THE HOLD STEADY: Tak Kubler talks to Boise Weekly about being surveilled by his mother via the Internet.

VASHTI BUNYAN is pofiled at length by Crawdaddy!

PAULA ABDUL: An unidentified woman in her 30s was found dead in her car outside of the American idol judge's L.A. home on Tuesday afternoon, say authorities. The woman was once a featured contestant on Idol, and may have been stalking Abdul.

ANGELINA JOLIE talks about The Changeling and motherhood with the L.A. Times. Meanwhile, her rep denies the latest round of pregnancy rumors.

CHEETAH GIRL Adrienne Bailon's "stolen nude photos" scandal was just a PR stunt. And not very cunning.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Fed-Ex has no plans to ask a family court to investigate his son's weekend health scare while in the pop wreck's care, his lawyer says.

ORLANDO BLOOM is reportedly getting hitched late next year.

SALMA HAYEK is addicted to breastfeeding.

BATMAN vs. BATMAN: The mayor of an oil-producing city in southeastern Turkey, which has the same name as the Caped Crusader, is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. for royalties from mega-grosser "The Dark Knight."

PAKISTAN: Islamabad scrambles to prevent bankruptcy. Seems like that should be getting more coverage.

AFGHANISTAN: The early phases of election registration in Afghanistan went smoothly enough that some defense officials admit to feeling suspicious. Human-rights advocates and some Western officials say the government appears to be increasingly influenced by Islamists, seven years after the Taliban regime was driven from power. Afghanistan's army is growing at record levels and now plans or leads nearly two-thirds of military operations. US troops continue their slog in the deadly contest for Afghanistan's borderlands.

IRAN: The military claims to have successfully tested a ballistic missile that can reach Israel and the European continent. The US denounced the purported test.

IRAQ: The Iraqi cabinet will vote on the pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country on either Saturday or Sunday. The Iraqi army began paying Sunni Sawha fighters at dozens of stations opened this week throughout Baghdad.  The village of Duhaim vows to keep AQI from returning.

THE SHIBA INUS PUPPY-CAM makes Time magazine. But the link in the piece didn't work for me, so you may prefer this adddress.

BUTCH the TORTOISE returns home following a mysterious six-week disappearance.  Butch is 150 years old, so six weeks probably does not seem like a long time.

CANADIAN GEESE attack British soccer team.

A PITBULL is caught trying to drive away from a car wash.

A FEMALE DOG is nursing a litter of kittens which were orphaned when their mother died in China. Awww...some pic at the link.

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Conor Oberst, Eagles of Death Metal, Blitzen Trapper, Ninja Kittens   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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KINGS OF LEON could "Use Somebody" in the latest video from their new album, Only By The Night.

CONOR OBERST and The Mystic Valley Band have a full gig streaming on demand via NPR.

BLITZEN TRAPPER stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

EAGLES of DEATH METAL stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

THE YEAR'S OVERLOOKED GEMS: All Songs Considered is streaming reader-selected candidates.

BOYCE & HART lip-sync their way through "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight," after introducing themselves with live snippets of their other hit songs.

GRIZZLY BEAR: Ed Droste gives Drowned in Sound a progress report on the band's next album.

JOHNNY MARR talks about his role in mastering The Sound of the Smiths, which is streaming this week via Spinner: "Frank  (Arkwright) and I actually took a load of crappy EQ off it and tried to get it to sound like it did in the studio, which we've succeeded in doing..." (Thx, Chromewaves.)

STEREOPHONICS: Richard Jones and Javier Weyler answer the infamous <i aptureproxy="49">PopMatters 20 Questions.

LEMONHEADS: Evan Dando blogs about the delay of the band's covers record, and reviews No Country For Old Men.

JENNIFER ANISTON complains to Vogue about Angelina Jolie's yapper, while maintaining she does not want you to feel sorry for her.  More excerpts about her maybe-on again thing with John Mayer in the NYDN.  And E! Online has advance clips of her cameo on 30 Rock.

BRAD PITT, meanwhile, was restrained by his own bodyguard at the premiere of his movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

MADONNA let Guy Ritchie see his kids... on 12 conditions.

MICHELLE WILLIAMS' father, a prominent stock market trader, agreed Tuesday to return to the US to face tax evasion charges.

THE DARK KNIGHT closes in on one billion dollars in box office receipts.  You can download the script at the link.

LINDSAY LOHAN hailed the election of Barack Obama as America's first "colored president." You would think someone so hip would be a little more current on the lingo. Video at the link.

IRAN: The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, China, France, Russia and the US - plus Germany meet this week to discuss stalled efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: The newest weapon in the US military's fight against the Taliban is the country's first unit of motorcycle-riding Afghan police, trained and mentored by an Army captain with the help of a biker bar owner and Harley devotee from Washington state.

IRAQ decided on Tuesday to await a complete translation of the amended draft of a military pact to govern the presence of US troops in the country after 2008 before making a final decision on it. Sunnis and Shiites reopened a Baghdad bridge between the two communities closed since a 2005 stampede. The battle for Mosul still waxes and wanes. Rebuilding in Samarra continues.

NINJA KITTENS: The folks at Toyota are smoking something.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel attempts flag desecration on Veterans' Day.  ALSO: A red squirrel called Elvis the Pelvis has attacked a children's writer who nursed him back to health.

TOADFISH MATING CALL interests scientists, which may say something about scientists.

HATTIE the TERRIER, banned from her local pub, has been readmitted -- but only if she wears a high-visibility vest. Video at the link.

PYTHON vs. COCKATOO; For the second time in three days, the cockatoo was never in it.

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