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Nick Lowe, Harry Shearer & Judith Owen, Pink Martini, Bionic Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, December 10, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LEIF ERIKSON dropped a video for their debut single, “Looking For Signs.” 

NICK LOWE & LOS STRAITJACKETS dropped by The Current in 2014 for a chat and holiday-tinged mini-set.

HARRY SHEARER & JUDITH OWEN play WNYC Soundcheck and talk about Christmas in L.A.

PINK MARTINI plays a holiday spectacular.

HEARTLESS BAST^RDS played a mini-set at KUTX.

FLORIST drops "White Light Doorway" ahead of The Birds Sang Outside.

THE RAMONES: "Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)."

RUSH is not done yet, according to Geddy Lee.

NPR's 50 Favorite Albums of 2015.

JARVIS COCKER's Letter to Santa.

HOLLY WOODLAWN, the transgender actress who helped to inspire Lou Reed's 'Walk On The Wild Side', has died at the age of 69.

THE BFG: Steven Spielberg's film of the Roald Dahl book has a teaser trailer online.

MANDY MOORE & RYAN ADAMS are havibg disputes over spousal support and pet custody.

MICK FLEETWOOD's divorce has been finalized, ending his marriage of nearly 20 years. He can go his own way.

THE SAG AWARDS nominations went to these folks.

THE LEGEND OF TARZAN: USA Today has your first look at Alexander Skarsgård and Margot Robbie, along with a teaser of the plot.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS drops another TV spot.Also, you can get a look at Carrie Fisher's daughter and an interesting droid.

FRANCE: Since the Nov. 13 attacks some 2235 homes and buildings have been raidedby police; 232 people taken into custody, and 334 weapons (including war-grade weapons) ahve been confiscated.

SAN BERNARDINO terror couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their terror attack. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Malik may have given false information on her visa application. The FBI is investigating whether Syed Rizwan Farook and a neighbor intended to commit an act of terror in about 2012 and then got spooked, a senior law enforcement official said Wednesday. The two men may have been disrupted when the FBI arrested several men in late 2012 in a separate plot to kill Americans in Afghanistan.

SYRIA: Russia still doesn't seem to be targeting ISIS with its airstrikes.

IRAQ: US SecDef Carter Ash raised the prospect that U.S. military advisers could accompany Iraqi forces on the ground in the effort to take back Ramadi.

VINCENT THE CAT gets prosthetic legs from Iowa State University.

A RACCOON hitched a ride on a Toronto commuter train.

AN ORANGUTAN enjoys a magic trick.

A LAMB rode in a makeshift pen on top of a car on a highway in Chile.

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Spoon, El VY, The Oh Hellos, Cave Singers, Golden Retriever   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, December 09, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

PRINCE's version of Radiohead's "Creep" is finally available online.

SPOON: Britt Daniel takes NPR of a track-by track tour of the Gimme Fiction demos.

EL VY stopped by the KEXP studio.

THE OH HELLOS played a Tiny Desk Concert.

LIT UP LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE: A vintage holiday mixtape from Aquarium Drunkard.

CIAN NUGENT drops "Lost Your Way" ahead of Night Fiction.

THE CAVE SINGERS are getting in the holiday spirit with “Christmas Night."

MOUNT MORIAH drops "Calvander" and "Cardinal Cross" ahead of How to Dance.

PATSY CLINE & FERLIN HUSKY: "Let It Snow!"

JOHN LENNON died 35 years ago yesterday. NME shared 20 of his most underrated tracks.

JIM MORRISON would have turned 72 yesterday. Billboard compiled 10 classic Doors tracks.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL: Jesse Hughes and Julian Dorio returned to the site of the Bataclan, the concert venue where they were performing when the Paris attacks occurred.

SCOTT WEILAND's ex-wife and children wrote a powerful obituary and essay about fame.

RONNIE WOOD and his theater producer wife Sally are expecting twins.

BURT REYNOLDS caused outrage after he appeared to claim Charlie Sheen ‘deserves’ to have HIV because he ‘misbehaved very badly’.

AMBER HEARD plans to plead not guilty to charges of allegedly sneaking her and husband Johnny Depp's dogs into Australia illegally in May.

MELANIE GRIFFITH & ANTONIO BANDERAS are officially single, after dividing a huge chunk of movie change.

THE HUNGER GAMES may get prequels.

MARTIN E. BROOKS, best known for his portrayal of the scientist Dr. Rudy Wells on the 1970s ABC series The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff, The Bionic Woman, has died. He was 90.

TURKEY has said it will not withdraw hundreds of soldiers who arrived last week at a base in northern Iraq, despite being ordered by Baghdad to do so.

IRAN: The United States is reviewing and seeking to confirm reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.

SYRIA: The U.S. military alleged Monday that Russian warplanes were responsible for an attack on a Syrian army position in eastern Syria, an airstrike that Syria blamed on the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State militant group in the country.

SAN BERNARDINO: Syed Rizwan Farook recently took out a 28,500 loan from an online lender, a source said on Tuesday, before he and his wife killed 14 of his co-workers at a holiday party. Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, two U.S. officials said.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER on a merry-go-round.

AN ALLIGATOR killed a burglary suspect in Brevard County, FL.

SPIDER HOLES: Don't stick your hand in.

A BETTER MOUSETRAP: Ruthlessly efficient.

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Ben Folds, Zanders, Bright Light Social Hour, Wonderground, Puppies   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, December 08, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS tighten up for "8 Days of Hanukkah."

ZANDERS streams Buried Men.

BEN FOLDS played the Turf Club in St. Paul.

THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

WONDERGROUND RADIO is offering its traditional eclectic holiday stream.

BOB GELDOF, by his own admission, is responsible for two of the worst songs in history: "'Do They Know It's Christmas?" and "We Are The World."

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL joined U2 in Paris for Patti Smith’s “People Have The Power” and remained to play their own “I Love You All The Time”.

THOM YORKE of Radiohead wrote a letter to Santa.

NEIL PEART of rush seems to have confirmed his retirement.

THE 100 BEST SONGS of 2015, according to Said The Gramaphone.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST named their newborn son Saint West.

GRAMMY nominations went to these folks. Alabama Shakes, Björk, My Morning Jacket, Tame Impala, and Wilco are nominated for Best Alternative Album.

NORMAN REEDUS of the Walking Dead was bitten by a female fan.

GWYNETH PALTROW's pop-up Goop store in NYC was robbed of 173K in merch.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI's older brother Michael has been missing since the day after Thanksgiving.

KRISTY GARRETT: Playboy's last nude Playmate.

ALEC GUINNESS was not a big Star Wars fan.

UKRAINE & THE EUROPEAN UNION say they will introduce a free trade pact next month as planned despite Russia's threat to take retaliatory trade action if its concerns aren't addressed.

THE NATIONAL COUNTER-TERRORISM CENTER has identified “individuals with ties to terrorist groups in Syria attempting to gain entry to the U.S. through the U.S. refugee program."

THE ISLAMIC STATE: A leaked internal manual shows how the terrorist group has set about building a state in Iraq and Syria complete with government departments, a treasury and an economic program for self-sufficiency.

PUPPIES Eat Peanut Butter.

SQUIRREL ATTACKS continue in Novato, California.

HEROIC CATS saved an elderly Italian woman from a fire.

AN ALERT DOG saved a young couple from a fire that gutted the top floor of their home in northern Sweden.

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Superchunk, Protomartyr, Wood Bros, All Songs, Man vs Monkey   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, December 07, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

WE HAD RECORD TRAFFIC SATURDAY. Thanks for visiting!

SPOON, BRANDON FLOWERS & CHRIS STAPLETON were among those playing a John Lennon tribute concert.

SUPERCHUNK, Live in NYC, Dec. 3, 2015.

PROTOMARTYR played a Tiny Desk Concert.

THE WOOD BROTHERS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE YEAR IN MUSIC 2015, according to All Songs Considered.

BILL MURRAY & PHOENIX are "Alone on Christmas Day," a cover of a Beach Boys holiday song from 1979 that was never formally released.

SPARKS drops the multi-faceted "Christmas Without a Prayer."

THE RAVEONETTES' 2011 video for 2001's "The Christmas Song."

THE BEACH BOYS' CHRISTMAS ALBUM: Behind The Music.

JOINI MITCHELL: The Hissing of Summer Lawns turns 40.

THE TOP 100 LPs of 2015, according to The Quietus.

THE 10 BEST STONE TEMPLE PILOTS SONGS, according to Stereogum.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 remains atop the chart with with 18.6MM, likely its last week in the top spot. That 64 percent drop is steep, though the post-Thanksgiving frame is usually not good in general.  Krampus placed with 16MM, not bad for a relatively low-budget horror film in this weekend (though that number was heavily loaded into Friday).  Creed showed with 15.5MM on a 48 percent drop, which seems leggy for this weekend.  The Good Dinosaur is in an estimated photo finish with 15.5MM on a 60 percent drop.  This may be the first Pixar in a while that may not see a profit on the big screen (tho it will ceratinly rake in bucks in home video).  Spectre rounds out the Top Five with 5.4MM on a 58 percent drop, but is probably in the black now with 792MM worldwide.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST welcomed the arrival of their son; no name yet.

BILL MURRAY'S unscripted life creates a mystique unlike any of his Hollywood peers.

MORGAN FREEMAN had a big scare Saturday night when the private jet he commissioned careened off a runway during an emergency landing.

JUSTIN THEROUX almost died on his honeymoon with Jennifer Aniston.

GEORGE LUCAS reportedly "really liked" Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I'm hoping Kathleen Kennedy made that up.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! this weekend. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc. War is strange.

VENEZUELA's opposition party has claimed the majority of seats in the National Assembly in elections held Sunday, the first major shift in power in the legislative branch since the late President Hugo Chavez took office in 1999.

FRANCE's far-right National Front won more support than any other party in the first round of regional elections Sunday, according to polling agency projections, in a boost for Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigration strategy and a blow to President François Hollande’s Socialists.

BRITISH counter-terror police have charged a 29-year-old man with attempted murder after a stabbing attack in a London Underground train station that is being treated as a "terrorist incident".

THE ISLAMIC STATE: A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House, predicts that the self-proclaimed Islamic State will spread worldwide and grow in numbers, unless it suffers a significant loss of territory on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, U.S. officials told The Daily Beast.

YEMEN: The governor of Aden was killed by a car bomb on Sunday in Yemen's southern port city, in an attack that Islamic State claimed responsibility for.

MAN vs MONKEY: Who You Got?

CHERNOBYL: The site of the worst nuclear disaster in history might be turning into an accidental wildlife sanctuary.

GIANT GOANNA in Thugoona. Now you too can understand more than two words in that headline.

A GIANT RAT was captured at Wenzhou Medical University.

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Elton John, Southside Johnny, Glenn Tilbrook, John Grant, Hamster   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, December 04, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ELTON JOHN! Half of a live show captured by the OGWT on Christmas Eve, 1974.  Your setlist includes: "Grimsby" (incompete), "Rocket Man," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," "Daniel," Grey Seal,"  "Bennie And The Jets," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me," "Honky Cat," "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting," "Crocodile Rock," "The B^tch Is Back," "Your Song," and "White Christmas."

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES play a set at The Cutting Room that includes my fave of theirs, "Love on the Wrong Side of Town."

GLENN TILBROOK of Squeeze stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

JOHN GRANT stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MARTIN COURTNEY of Real Estate stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE KINKS, with the evergreen "Father Christmas."

RUBBER SOUL TURNED 50: Ultimate Classic Rock surveys one of the Beatles' best albums, while the Wall Street Journal argues the US version was better than the UK lineup.

KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, has never listened to Mick Jagger's solo albums.

THE TOP 50 LPs of 2015, according to Rolling Stone.

IN MEMORIAM: Bands We Lost In 2015.

SCOTT WEILAND, singer for  Stone Temple Pilots has passed away at the age of 48.

KRAMPUS is this weekend's sole new wide release in theaters...and it wasn't widely screened in advance for critics.

COLDPLAY will be headlining the  2016 Super Bowl halftime show. The NFL apparently still needs more women to watch.

PAMELA ANDERSON will be featured on the cover of Playboy's final nude issue.

CHARLIE SHEEN's ex-fiancee Brett Rossi has sued the actor, claiming he bullied her into getting an abortion after allegedly ranting she'd give birth to a “retarded child” given his HIV status.

MARIAH CAREY is doing well after a reported hospitalization for the flu.

CARRIE FISHER talks to the Wall Street Journal about Princess Leia, her fans and why she's glad Harrison Ford is getting most of the marketing attention for The Force Awakens.

IRAN: The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog found no credible evidence that Tehran has recently engaged in atomic-weapons activity. But the agency reported that the country had pursued a program in secret until 2009, longer than previously believed. Also, Iran provided little information on some points and offered some misleading responses.

SYRIA: Is a political solution to the civil war in sight?

A HAMSTER EATING A CARROT is your moment of Zen.

A DONKEY ON THE LAM was rounded up and transported in a Norman, OK, police car.

A RASH OF SQUIRREL ATTACKS prompts a warning in Marin County, CA.

MAN vs DOLPHIN: Who you got?

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