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Best Releases, Black Keys, Springsteen, Lioness and Cubs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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OVER 11 MILLION SERVED: Thanks to everyone for stopping by! 

PAUL McCARTNEY cranked out some Wings staples, Beatles classics, including a tribute to John Lennon, on late night TV Saturday. A more-than-Twofer Tuesday.

NEW RELEASES? No, but top 2010 albums from The National, Titus Andronicus, Superchunk, Broken Social Scene, MGMT, Beach House, Caribou, Deerhunter, the Budos Band and more are streaming via Spinner.

THE BLACK KEYS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE 50 BEST SONGS of 2010, according to Spinner, with embedded audio. BONUS: 100 Favorite Songs of 2010 from Said the Gramophone.

ROYAL THUNDER is advance streaming their self-titled debut. Again, not necessarily my bag, but maybe yours.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN brings "Merry Christmas Baby" and a vintage take on "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" for Twofer Tuesday.

JENNY & JOHNNY talk about their collaboration with BBC 6 Music. (Thx, LHB.)

MARC BOLAN & T.REX: A Prefix primer on T.Rex's best work and why Marc Bolan was one of the best rock stars who never made it.

THE BEST ALBUMS of 2010, according to Prefix.

RICHARD HELL reviews Jim Carroll's final book.

LINDSAY LOHAN is deeply hurt by Gwyneth Paltrow mocking her on national TV, and mad at CNN for calling her... provocative.

MILEY CYRUS: Ever since that video of her smoking a bong full of it came out -- despite an effort to suppress it -- sales of the herbal drug are sky high. Also, a childhood pal claims Miley was a real-life Mean Girl in school.

JENNIFER GREY underwent surgery last week to repair a ruptured disc in her back, suffered on the first night of the Dancing With the Stars finale. Nobody puts Baby in a corner, but she can put herself in a hospital.

NICOLE RICHIE did not invite the French Hotel to her wedding.

CAMERON DIAZ & A-ROD take their relationship public.

ZAK EFRON & VANESSA HUDGENS are dunzo. I blame Glee!

CHELSEA HANDLER: Dating 50 Cent... or just messing with people?

KELSEY GRAMMER sex tape? It's in the ever-reliable Star, so...

THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE announced its Top 10 Films and TV Shows for 2010.

CRITIC'S CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS: Black Swan received an unprecedented 12 nominations. True Grit, The King's Speech, Inception and The Social Network also did well.

TRUE GRIT, btw, has clips online.

PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN:ON STRANGER TIDES has an official trailer online.

YOGI BEAR opens on Friday -- here's the alternate ending, in which Boo Boo kills Yogi.

TERROR in SWEDEN: The Stockholm bomber was thrown out of a mosque in Luton three years ago following a row over his extremist beliefs, it has emerged. The suicide bomber ,who targeted Christmas shoppers, carried three sets of bombs and is believed to have had accomplices as the attack was "well planned".

IRAN: Ahmadinejad routinely ignores parliament's laws and undercuts its authority, leading some politicians and analysts to fear the country is slipping toward dictatorship.

IRAQI security forces are enabling progress in the country, a senior US military officer in Iraq said Monday.

A LIONESS trusts a man with her newborn cubs.

10 WEIRDEST NEW ANIMALS of 2010, courtesy of National Geographic.

CHICKEN MANURE ends a crash landing Down Under.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Yet another toilet infiltration.

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She & Him, Menomena, Dawn Landes, Beatles, Tippy Camel   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SHE & HIM played their take on Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" on Conan, and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with Conan. Both clips at P-Fork.

R.E.M.: Stream "Merry Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and three instrumental tracks from their upcoming LP.

MENOMENA stopped by the World cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAWN LANDES did three free songs for Daytrotter. Recommended.

THE VEILS debut three advance tracks via Drowned In Sound.

THE BEATLES: Aquarium Drunkard has the Fab Four's Christmas fan-club singles.

JOHNNY CASH, with June Carter Cash, family and friends, on "The 12 Days Of Christmas." Fish, meet barrel... Bang!

JOHN LYDON (a/k/a Johnny Rotten) talks about his Scrapbook, airport security and more with the San Francisco Chronicle.

WARPAINT is profiled by the L.A. Times. Fun fact: Shannyn Sossamon was first on the list of Warpaint's revolving door of drummers.

THE TOP 40 METAL ALBUMS of 2010, according to Decibel. Not my bag, but it may appeal to Pate bassist Mike Kelly.

VINYL: Don't call it a comeback.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader tops the chart with 24.5 million -- but that's a lot less than either The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or Prince Caspian.  Overseas sales will likely ensure a decent profit on this Narnias 150 million production budget, but the franchise may be over.  The Tourist debuted in second with 17 million, but with Depp and Jolie starring, this has to be considered a big ouch against a 100 million budget.  Again, international sales will save this from being a big loss, but it's a giant waste of star power. Tangled - which crossed the 100 million mark before the weekend - had a decent hold in the third slot with 14.6 million; it should continue to hold well through the end of the year, unless Yogi Bear turns out better than I suspect. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes in at No. 4 with 8.5 million, suffering a 50 drop, but still marginally ahead of Goblet of Fire, as the franchise goes.  No tears, as Harry has pulled in 778 million worldwide so far on a reported 200 million budget.  Unstoppable hangs on to round out the Top Five with 3.8 million; its 74.2 million domestic total to date is not as strong as The Book of Eli, but still one of Denzel's stronger showings.  Below the fold, Black Swan comes in sixth with 3.3 million on a tiny 94 screens.

MILEY CYRUS celebrated her 18th birthday by smoking the legal hallucinogen salvia with a bong. Billy Ray Cyrus is "so sad." It may end up in a Salvia ban.

NICOLE RICHIE: There was frantic negotiating to land a 100K exclusive magazine deal for her wedding pics ahead of the big ceremony with Joel Madden Saturday.

LIZ HURLEY's three-year marriage to Arun Nayar is on the rocks.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON are making no secret of their real-life romance while shooting the latest Twilight installment.

NEVE CAMPBELL dating the Old Spice guy?

WINONA RYDER, back on screens in Black Swan (and soon The Dilemma) talks to Elle about acting and not using the Internet.

THE HASSELHOFFS get cancelled after two episodes. Ouch.

THOR has a trailer online.

THE 10 WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIES, according to Film School Rejects.

THE TOP FILMS of 2010, according to the BFI poll and The Observer's Philip French.

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS was Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating Person of 2010.

TERROR in SWEDEN: Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm Saturday night in what Sweden's foreign minister called "a terrorist attack" that killed one person and wounding two.

IRAN is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt.

A CAMEL falls onto audience members in the pews of a sanctuary Christmas performance.

RUDY the REINDEER is safe and sound after escaping from a live nativity scene at a central Florida church.  Was Santa bringing the frankinsense? Or was Rudy feeling upstaged by the camel?

CAT rescued from a tree. A hearty perennial.

MUTANT MAN-MONSTER... or a hoax?

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She & Him, Menomena, Dawn Landes, Beatles, Tippy Camel   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl 

SHE & HIM played their take on Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" on Conan, and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with Conan. Both clips at P-Fork.

R.E.M.: Stream "Merry Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)" and three instrumental tracks from their upcoming LP.

MENOMENA stopped by the World cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DAWN LANDES did three free songs for Daytrotter. Recommended.

THE VEILS debut three advance tracks via Drowned In Sound.

THE BEATLES: Aquarium Drunkard has the Fab Four's Christmas fan-club singles.

JOHNNY CASH, with June Carter Cash, family and friends, on "The 12 Days Of Christmas." Fish, meet barrel... Bang!

JOHN LYDON (a/k/a Johnny Rotten) talks about his Scrapbook, airport security and more with the San Francisco Chronicle.

WARPAINT is profiled by the L.A. Times. Fun fact: Shannyn Sossamon was first on the list of Warpaint's revolving door of drummers.

THE TOP 40 METAL ALBUMS of 2010, according to Decibel. Not my bag, but it may appeal to Pate bassist Mike Kelly.

VINYL: Don't call it a comeback.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader tops the chart with 24.5 million -- but that's a lot less than either The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe or Prince Caspian.  Overseas sales will likely ensure a decent profit on this Narnias 150 million production budget, but the franchise may be over.  The Tourist debuted in second with 17 million, but with Depp and Jolie starring, this has to be considered a big ouch against a 100 million budget.  Again, international sales will save this from being a big loss, but it's a giant waste of star power. Tangled - which crossed the 100 million mark before the weekend - had a decent hold in the third slot with 14.6 million; it should continue to hold well through the end of the year, unless Yogi Bear turns out better than I suspect. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 comes in at No. 4 with 8.5 million, suffering a 50 drop, but still marginally ahead of Goblet of Fire, as the franchise goes.  No tears, as Harry has pulled in 778 million worldwide so far on a reported 200 million budget.  Unstoppable hangs on to round out the Top Five with 3.8 million; its 74.2 million domestic total to date is not as strong as The Book of Eli, but still one of Denzel's stronger showings.  Below the fold, Black Swan comes in sixth with 3.3 million on a tiny 94 screens.

MILEY CYRUS celebrated her 18th birthday by smoking the legal hallucinogen salvia with a bong. Billy Ray Cyrus is "so sad." It may end up in a Salvia ban.

NICOLE RICHIE: There was frantic negotiating to land a 100K exclusive magazine deal for her wedding pics ahead of the big ceremony with Joel Madden Saturday.

LIZ HURLEY's three-year marriage to Arun Nayar is on the rocks.

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON are making no secret of their real-life romance while shooting the latest Twilight installment.

NEVE CAMPBELL dating the Old Spice guy?

WINONA RYDER, back on screens in Black Swan (and soon The Dilemma) talks to Elle about acting and not using the Internet.

THE HASSELHOFFS get cancelled after two episodes. Ouch.

THOR has a trailer online.

THE 10 WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIES, according to Film School Rejects.

THE TOP FILMS of 2010, according to the BFI poll and The Observer's Philip French.

GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS was Barbara Walters's Most Fascinating Person of 2010.

TERROR in SWEDEN: Two blasts rocked the center of Stockholm Saturday night in what Sweden's foreign minister called "a terrorist attack" that killed one person and wounding two.

IRAN is planning to place medium-range missiles on Venezuelan soil, based on western information sources, according to an article in the German daily, Die Welt.

A CAMEL falls onto audience members in the pews of a sanctuary Christmas performance.

RUDY the REINDEER is safe and sound after escaping from a live nativity scene at a central Florida church.  Was Santa bringing the frankinsense? Or was Rudy feeling upstaged by the camel?

CAT rescued from a tree. A hearty perennial.

MUTANT MAN-MONSTER... or a hoax?

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Shindig Xmas, Dirty Beaches, Bowie, Rudolph, Cutout Bin, Penguin Dilemma   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with SHINDIG CHRISTMAS '64! Part One includes The Beach Boys' "Dance, Dance, Dance," Bobby Sherman and Donna Loren singing "Keep on Searching," the Righteous Brothers doing "The Jerk" and an awesome milk commercial. Part Two includes Marvin Gaye with "How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You" and Adam Faith with "Watch Your Step," plus Bobby Sherman singing "Sleigh Ride" and Adam Faith returning with "Santa Claus Is Back In Town."  In Part Three, Donna Loren returns with a Spector-esque, but rougher "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," and The Beach Boys deliver a set including "Little Saint Nick," "Monster Mash" (yes, really) "Papa Oom Mow Mow," and "Johnny B. Goode." Part Four brings Marvin Gaye with "Hitch Hike" and concludes with The Beach Boys on "We Three Kings."

DIRTY BEACHES did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at Pop Montreal. Recommended for fans of the Jesus & Mary Chain, Jack Nitzsche, etc.

ADMIRAL RADLEY (ft members of Grandaddy and Earlimart) stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE BLACK LILLIES played a short set on the Mountain Stage.

DAVID BOWIE: Strange Fascination, circa '74.

RUDOLPH: (You Don't Have To Put On The Red Light).

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy is working on a Broadway musical?

WIRE takes The Quietus on a track-by-track tour of their upcoming Red Barked Tree.

JOY DIVISION drummer Stephen Morris talks to The Quietus about the new box set and more...

LOS CAMPESINOS! launches a zine.

NICK CAVE and the Deathly Hallows.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Who to the Feelies, from James Brown to Joe Jackson, from the Kingsmen to Prefab Sprout, from CCR to Ariel Pink, plus the Cars, John Lennon, Elvis Presley, GbV and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is currently scoring 49 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Tourist, which is scoring 15 percent.

LINDSAY LOHAN is secretly in talks to be a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.

JESSICA SIMPSON will definitely have a prenup with fiance Will Johnson.

WESLEY SNIPES is finally in federal custody to begin his 3 year prison sentence for tax evasion.

BLAKE LIVELY & RYAN GOSLING: More than friendly?

REESE WITHERSPOON, returning to the big screen after a two-year hiatus, is profiled by Entertainment Weekly.

NATALIE PORTMAN takes off her dress -- and a wig -- for the NYT Magazine.

THE HOBBIT: Orlando Bloom is near a deal to return as Elven archer Legolas.

JAMES FRANCO is headed back to General Hospital and to a Sal Mineo biopic.

THE WACHOWSKIS are returning to the Warner Bros. fold with a modern, urban take on the Robin Hood myth.

ALIEN PREQUEL(s): Deets from director Ridley Scott.

TERROR in the USA: Antonio Martinez, who is also known as Muhammad Hussain, attempted to detonate a car bomb outside an Armed Services recruitment center in Maryland.

NORTH KOREA: China has hit back at US criticism over North Korea saying military threats are not the answer.

IRAN's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the US and Europe say.

AFGHANISTAN: Coalition and Afghan special operations teams have hit hard at the Taliban and allied groups' leadership and rank and file during more than 7000 raids throughout Afghanistan over the past six months. More than 600 insurgent leaders were killed or captured. In addition, more than 2000 enemy fighters have been killed, and over 4100 fighters have been captured.

PENGUIN DILEMMA: Let's go to the video.

GIANT STORKS may have fed on real-life Hobbits.

A CHEETAH delayed Qantas flight QF675 from Melbourne.

A NEW SPECIES OF SNUB-NOSED MONKEY is discovered, then eaten.

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Greenhornes, Oberhoffer, John Lennon, Parrots in Bowls   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, December 09, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JENS LEKMAN sings about stalking Kirsten Dunst.

THE GREENHORNES brought their garagey goodness to Morning Becomes Eclectic.

OBERHOFER did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at Pop Montreal.

FLUXBLOG 2010 SURVEY MIX: 8 Discs or a torrent.

REMINDER: Amazon MP3 is offering a free song daily.

ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE, the late Hawaiian musician best-known for his ukulele-backed cover of "Over the Rainbow," is one of NPR's 50 Great Voices.

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

JOHN LENNON's final interview. Plus, Newsweek notes that Lennon was also "a pioneer of fame - a man who courted, commented on, used, retreated from, and was finally consumed by his own gargantuan renown..."

ARETHA FRANKLIN has cancer.

SONIC YOUTH: Lee Renaldo essays why he loves Sandy Denny.

SEASON of the LIST: Stereogum's Top 50 Albums (and Top 15 EPs) of the year. Also, All Songs Considered's Bob Boilen lists his Top Nine.

KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND co-founder and fmr member Richard Finch -- who co-wrote the band's 1970s smash 'That's the Way (I Like It)' -- has been sentenced to seven years in prison after entering a plea of no contest to charges he had unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.

JUDAS PRIEST are to take on the world with one final tour.

JIM MORRISON will be getting a pardon from outgoing FL Gov. Charlie Crist.

BRITNEY SPEARS: The scandal-denying tour continues with her bestest birthday ever.

NICOLE RICHIE & JOEL MADDEN wedding details.

JENNIFER ANISTON is telling pal Chelsea Handler to cool it viz her profane attacks on Angelina Jolie.

OPRAH WINFREY says she is not a lesbian. NTTAWWT.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA is hitting back after some semi-nude photos of her hit the Internet.

TIGER WOODS: The adult movie actress selling a purported sex tape of herself with Woods claims the golf superstar paid her off not to release it, and so she's closing a Web site that has been accepting orders for weeks. Oh, sure.

KATY PERRY is in the process of taking new husband Russell Brand's last name.

KIRSTEN DUNST's return from a hiatus is covered by BlackBook.

IRAN: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is growing its fleet of "suicide ships" to attack shipping in the Gulf; a defector claimed 9000 such ships exist. The United Arab Emirates' foreign minister called on Iran to end the occupation of three islands claimed by the emirate.

AFGHANISTAN: Coalition commanders are rebalancing their strategy, with less counterinsurgency and more counterterrorism strategy.

 

PARROTS IN BOWLS: Your moment of Zen.

PET BUFFALO rides in a car. Animal Planet has filmed the bison and its caretaker driving around and playing together for a documentary which will be shown sometime in the spring.

SHARK vs MAN... at tennis. Gonna need a bigger racket.

THE "TERRIBLE, HAIRY FLY," one of the world's rarest and oddest-looking flies, has been located in Kenya.

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