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Yeasayer, Freelance Whales, JD McPherson, Parrot Style   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, December 03, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TEAGAN & SARA finally drop a video for the 80s-ish "Closer."

YEASAYER discusses and performs songs from Fragrant World at World Cafe.

FREELANCE WHALES also stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JD McPHERSON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

ALLEN TOUSSAINT plays live in Studio 1a at KUT.

U2 cover "Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Come Home)," ripped from the premiere, for extra retro goodness.

RECORD EXEC JOE SMITH recorded interviews with many of the popular music figures of the 20th century, including Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Jerry Garcia, Tony Bennett, Bo Diddley, Mick Jagger, Little Richard, Dick Clark, Burt Bacharach, Ruth Brown, and David Bowie, which are now streaming from the Library of Congress.

GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR: Their reunion is profiled in the New York Times, with a cameo from director Judd Apatow.

LED ZEPPELIN will be on Letterman tonight, but may not play.

THE PITCHFORK READERS' POLL: Voting is open.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 threepeats with 17.4 million on a 60 percent drop; that's marginally better than Part 1, but lagging Eclipse in the series.  Skyfall places again  (but could possibly lead when actuals come in) with 17 million on a 52 percent drop, with a 246 million domestic haul against a 200 million budget (and over 600 million elsewhere).  Lincoln shows again with just over 13.5 million on a 47 percent drop, with an 83.6 million total against a 65 million budget.  Rise of the Guardians holds the fourth slot with 13.5 million (and could beat Lincoln ultimately) with 13.5 million, with a ~49 million domestic total against a 145 million budget.  Life of Pi again rounds out the Top 5 with 12 million on a 47 percent drop, with a 48 million total against a 120 million budget.  Below the fold, Killing Them Softly opened in seventh place with 7 million against a 15 million budget, and the Collection opened in tenth with 3.4 million.

GABRIEL AUBRY drops his restraining order against Olivier Martinez.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON: Still on rocky ground.

HUGH HEFNER & CRYSTAL HARRIS are engaged (again).

LINDSAY LOHAN hired a priviate investigator to dig in to the life of the woman who accused her of assault.

DENNIS QUAID has filed for divorce from his wife Kimberly, six weeks after she got the ball rolling by filing for separation.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN and Georgina Chapman are expecting a baby in early spring.

THE UNITED STATES: The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency plans to dispatch hundreds more spies overseas, bringing the total to 1600 over the next five years.

SYRIA: Government forces continued to bombard rebel strongholds in the outskirts of Damascus.

EGYPT's  supreme court suspended work after Islamist demonstrators blocked judges from entering their chambers. Opposition groups called for demonstrations on Tuesday to protest a referendum on a draft constitution.

IRAQI security officials have claimed that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the head of al Qaeda in Iraq and its Islamic State of Iraq, has been captured. The reports of Baghdadi's arrest have not been confirmed.

PARROT, Gangnam Style.

PERLA the CAT repeatedly saves her owner's life when the girl suffers chest pain attacks.

A TINY CHAMELEON is the first of its kind born in a British zoo.

BRITAIN'S SMALLEST DOG embarked on her first walk - despite being too tiny to fit the littlest of leads.

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James Brown, Titus, Andronicus, Lord Huron, Cutout Bin, Baby Hippo   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE GODFATHER OF SOUL, MR. JAMES BROWN!  With a hat tip to Friend of Pate Steve Craven, here's the hardest working man in show business barreling through "I Got The Feeling","Cold Sweat," "Say it Loud I'm Black and I'm Proud," "Give It Up Or Turn It A Loose," "Please,Please,Please" and "There Was A Time" in just about ten minutes flat circa 1969.

TITUS ANDRONICUS does a live session at the KEXP studios.

FUTURE OF THE LEFT run through a quick live set of post-hardcore/synth-punk at KEXP.

LORD HURON stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

MENAHAN STREET BAND also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic to share some funky soul.

TEMPLE OF THE DOG: "Hunger Strike." Brrr.

WILCO frontman Jeff Tweedy discusses critics and aging with Spinner.

JASON ISBELL quits drinking, finds a girl, and learns to write about himself.

MOUNTAIN GOATS bassist Peter Hughes talks to Urban Tulsa Weekly about joining the band and its evolution. (Thx, LHB.)

THE TOP 15 HAIR METAL ALBUMS of 1984, according to Play It Loud.

CUTOUT BIN: From Mickey & Sylvia to Led Zeppelin, from Al Green to ZZ Top, from the Ramones to the Rolling Stones, plus Warren Zevon, Eric Burdon, Madness, Meat Puppets 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: Killing Them Softly, which is currently scoring 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Collection, scoring 52 percent.

LINDSAY LOHAN was arrested after allegedly punching a woman in the face at a NYC nightclub. Li-Lo was reportedly drinking and doing coke at the time. Meanwhile, the Santa Monica City Attorney charged Lindsay with 3 crimes in connection with her car accident last June on Pacific Coast Highway in Santa Monica.

HALLE BERRY & GABRIEL AUBRY have reached a truce in their war over that Thanksgiving Day blowout between Gabriel and Olivier Martinez.

STEVEN TYLER responds to Nicky Minaj's accusaion of racism over a joke he made about Bob Dylan.

GUY RITCHIE and his fiancee Jacqui Ainsley welcomed their second child together, a daughter.

THE KARDASHIANS: Kris Humphries wants Kim to return his engagement ring.

THE WORLD'S HIGHEST-PAID MUSICIANS, according to Forbes.

DIRECTORS' ROUNDTABLE: Gus Van Sant, Ben Affleck, Ang LeeTom Hooper, David O. Russell and Quentin Tarantino have a spirited discussion at THR.

THE UNITED STATES: A judge set a sentencing date of Jan. 17, 2013 for David Coleman Headley, a US national who conducted surveillance for the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

IRAN is increasingly worried about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regime's fate and is distraught that the regime is not taking recommendations from the Islamic republic to keep its power, an Iranian report obtained by a Western diplomatic source said.

EGYPT: Islamist president Mohammed Morsi is not backing down in the showdown over decrees granting him near-absolute powers.

A BABY HIPPO has his first meal.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT is on the menu in Romney, W VA.

THE LITTLE LION went to school one day, school one day...

BIGFOOT is real, says a new genetics study out of the US. And not only that, but the creature known as the Sasquatch is the result of human women mating with an "unknown hominin" species about 15000 years ago. Oh sure.

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Jon Spencer, Jeremy Messersmith, Martha Wainwright, Escaped Beasts   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 29, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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LOCAL NATIVES drop a video for "Breakers" ahead of their sophomore LP.

JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION stopped by World Cafe to play two songs from their new record and discuss their two decades as one of rock's rowdiest bands.

JEREMY MESSERSMITH played the most recent Caravan du Nord.

CAROLINE SMITH & THE GOOD NIGHT SLEEPS also played the Caravan du Nord.

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

FRANZ NICOLAY drops "'Did Your Broken Heart Make You Who You Are?"

CAT POWER: "New York, New York."

GRAHAM PARKER tours his musical career with The A.V. Club.

SHANE MacGOWAN is in a sick bed from "overdoing it," but still talks to The Quietus.

TEN ROCKSTARS' Last Words.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS OF 2012, according to Paste.

JESSICA SIMPSON is reportedly knocked up again already.

CHARLIE SHEEN isn't done blasting "Two and a Half Men" and showrunner Chuck Lorre over the Angus T. Jones brouhaha.

GABRIEL AUBRY will probably not face criminal prosecution for the violent Thanksgiving Day brawl at Halle Berry's home.

DEMI MOORE Demi Moore is back in the arms of another much younger man after splitting with husband Ashton Kutcher, according to Page Six.

JUSTIN BIEBER & SELENA GOMEZ were... wait for it... caught canoodling at Dream Hotel's Marble Lane.

WHITNEY HOUSTON's daughter Bobbi Kristina miraculously emerged unscathed after wrecking her Chevy Camaro in a frightening car crash. She and Nick Gordon recently called off their plans to wed.

PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE MIDDLETON: Trying for a baby... or already pregnant?

STAR WARS: Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg indeed have been hired to work on the Star Wars franchise, but they will likely not be writing episodes 8 and 9.

IRAN: The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said Iran would continue to enrich uranium for its nuclear program. Talks between Iran and six world powers are expected to resume later this year or in January.

SYRIA: Two car bombs exploded in Damascus, killing at least 34 people. Rebels shot down a government jet, the second aircraft shot down in two days. The new opposition coalition held its first meeting to discuss forming a transitional government.

EGYPT: Protests against President Morsi continued. Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist parties called for a "million man" rally to support Morsi for Saturday. The committee writing the new constitution said it could complete a draft soon. A court sentenced seven Egyptian Copts to death in absentia for participating in an anti-Islamic video.

A BABY RED PANDA is surprised.

A RUNAWAY ZEBRA AND PONY were on the lam on Staten Island. Video at the link.

AN ESCAPED EMU was detained by police after it was spotted walking through a town during rush-hour on Wednesday.

KILLING A SPIDER with brass knuckles is not a good idea. Video at the link.

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Prince, Ben Folds 5, Allah-Las, Elvis Costello, Animal Feeding   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE ARTIST CURRENTLY KNOWN AS PRINCE may hate the internet, but he posted a video for "Rock and Roll Love Affair," and it's pretty darned good.

THE BEN FOLDS FIVE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

CALEXICO also stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE ALLAH-LAs stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS: Live at the University of Leicester, Oct. 22, 1977.

OF MONTREAL drops "Dumb Acre" as part of a Kickstarter campaign.

ARTHUR BROWN is the god of hellfire... and he brings you "Fire!" It's a crazy world.

THE KINKS: Ray Davies talks Lola -- including the unreleased sequel -- and songwriting with the BBC.

BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW singer Tobacco tells PopMatters it is not drug music, just its own world.

THE TOP 20 BEST NINE INCH NAILS SONGS, according to PopMatters.

CHRIS STAMP, the former manager for the Who, died Saturday, Nov. 24, at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City after battling cancer. He was 70.

ANGUS T. JONES has blasted Two and a Half Men as "filth" and suggested people should stop watching, in a videotape testimonial for a group linked to the Voice of Prophecy Seventh-Day Adventist church in Los Angeles, where Jones worships.  He has since issued a quasi-apology. The 19-year-old actor coincidentally is not scheduled to appear in the final two episodes scheduled to shoot before the CBS comedy takes a holiday hiatus.  His pastor believes, among other things, that Jay-Z is a Freemason with ties to Satan.

GABRIEL AUBRY took another lump in his war with Halle Berry, after a judge rejected his bid to have the restraining order removed ... which means he still can't visit with his daughter Nahla.

DON'T TOUCH ME ELMO: Kevin Clash - the former voice of Elmo - used alcohol as a precursor to oral sex with an underage boy ... this according to a new lawsuit that has just been filed by a third accuser.

BRADGELINA: Pitt says his wedding to Jolie will happen "soon."

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT is not playing Batman in either Justice League or Man of Steel. Maybe.

DOLLY PARTON is not a lesbian. NTTAWWT.

10 MOVIES Killed by the Internet.

NORTH KOREA: Satellite photos indicated North Korea was readying to launch a long-range ballistic rocket. The assessment came two weeks after North Korean officials said they would expand their space program and "go through with launches of working satellites of all kinds."

IRAN: Scientists have run computer simulations for a nuclear weapon that would produce more than triple the explosive force of the World War II bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, according to a diagram obtained by The Associated Press.

EGYPT: A massive demonstration was staged in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protest President Morsi's assumption of sweeping new powers. By evening, the crowd had grown to 200K. Morsi's supporters canceled a planned rally, citing the need to "defuse tension."

ANIMALS feeding ANIMALS...Mass hysteria!

TWO GATORS, ONE POLE DANCER... and a pot cache.

A 40-YEAR-OLD ORANGUTAN is obsessed with Pride and Prejudice.

YOUR DOG DOOR should not be big enough for a cougar.

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New Releases, Metz, Ted Leo, Two Gallants, Lamb + Retriever   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE BEACH BOYS drop "Little Deuce Coupe" from the 50th anniversary video.

NEW RELEASES from Graham Parker & the Rumour, Big Dipper, Rage Against the Machine and more are streaming via Spinner.

METZ brings their aggressive post-hardcore sound to KEXP for an exclusive live performance.

TED LEO performs the music of South African pioneer Hugh Masekela at the World Financial Center.

TWO GALLANTS played a session at WNYC Soundcheck.

LIARS & YEASAYER drop "The Chain" and "Second Hand News," respectively, from the Fleetwood Mac Rumours tribute.

THE BEATLES: "Come Together," split apart into its tracks.


BOTH SIDES NOW: Joni Mitchell performs her 1968 song in 1970 and in 2000, for a reflective Twofer Tuesday

THE JAM: Paul Weller and Buce Foxton talk to The Guardian about the creation of "A Town Called Malice."

SHARON VAN ETTEN talks to Music OMH about being a goofball and working with The National's Aaron Dressner. 

THE GRATEFUL DEAD  gets a longread at The New Yorker.

JIMI HENDRIX: A dozen previously unreleased (but oft-bootlegged) tracks are coming March 5th on People, Hell and Angels.

CHARLIE SHEEN paid LINDSAY LOHAN's 100K tax bill.

LINDSAY LOHAN, btw, is devastated by widespread criticism of her Liz & Dick Lifetime outing by Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times, to name a few.

HALLE BERRY  is going to court early this week for a restraining order against Gabriel Aubry after the blowout fight Thanksgiving day.

CHRIS BROWN deleted his Twitter account after a vulgar, sexist attack on comedienne Jenny Johnson.

RYAN GOSLING reaches the ostentatiously incongnito phase.

MAN OF STEEL: Zach Snyder and Henry Cavill talk with the NYP about the Superman reboot.

10 TV SHOWS that are better than the books they're based upon.

IRAN: Authorities raided a company in Durango, Spain suspected of sending over a million dollars' worth of dual-use energy machinery to Iran through Turkey in violation of international sanctions.

LIBYA: The "Private Deterrent Force" has kidnapped a dozen men it accuses of being homosexual and has threatened to torture and execute them. The group is thought to be linked to the "extremist Nawasi militia group" that has also desecrated Sufi shrines in Tripoli.

EGYPT: Pres Morsi negotiated with the judiciary over his seizure of extended powers; no agreement was reached. Morsi's justice minister argued for a retreat, and three other senior advisers resigned. The State Council's Administrative Court said it would consider legal challenges next week.

A LAMB befriends a RETRIEVER...Mass hysteria!

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant squirrels contracted rats to chew through Verizon phone cables.

A MANATEE is not for you to joyride.

A SWISS SHEPHERD DOG adops tiger cubs... (see above)

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