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Wavves, Besnard Lakes, Chelsea Light Moving, Prince, Sea Lion   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - 08:00 AM
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THEE OH SEES unleash the "Minotaur" in a Python-esque clip.

BESNARD LAKES is advance streaming Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO.

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

PALMA VIOLETS play a set of punk-inspired rock tunes from their debut full-length, "180" live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's in Austin, TX during SXSW 2013.

CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING: Thurston Moore's new band display their alternative/experimental hybrid rock style in a live set of songs from their self-titled debut, live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's in Austin, TX.

PRINCE: You sooooo want to hear the crunchy 2013 remake of "Let's Go Crazy," while you can.

THE SMOKING POPES: "Need You Around," for a little Chicago flavor.

RICHARD HELL talks to Pitchfork about his candid new autobiography, what he wants on his tombstone, and more.

TONY VISCONTI talks to the NYT about lying for David Bowie and how rock ’n’ roll is like Dixieland jazz now... plus John Lennon, Morrissey and more.

THE 10 BEST STROKES SONGS, according to Stereogum.

REVEALED: The stories behind 25 Rolling Stones classics

ANGELINA JOLIE opened an all-girls' school in Afghanistan, with more to come.

LINDSAY LOHAN's lawyer gave a list of potential residential treatment facilities to prosecutors last week for their review.

AMY POEHLER was spotted out on a date with actor and comedian Nick Kroll.

HALLE BERRY restrained Olivier Martinez during a dust-up with photogs.

COLIN HANKS is expecting a second child with wife Samantha Bryant.

JENNIFER GARNER talks to The Telegraph about Ben Affleck's gossip-fuelling Oscars speech, why her career has taken a back seat to his (until now) and how she dealt with being stalked for seven years.

EMMA WATSON is the cover of GQ UK.

THE NETHERLANDS: Four Dutch suspects, two men aged 21 and 35 and two women aged 33 and 52, faced charges of "attempting to transfer, possession or use of a toxic substance, possibly sarin." The only suspect named is "Islam A.," a Dutch-Turkish citizen.

MALI: The European Union's Military Training Mission has begun training the country's estimated 6000 soldiers.

LEBANON: State-run media reported that Salafist cleric Sheikh Salem al-Rafehi escaped an assassination attempt as he was leaving al-Taqwa Mosque in Tripoli; an MP is urging his supporters not to be "dragged into strife" by the incident.

AFGHANISTAN: President Karzai said Taliban emir Mullah Omar can run for president.

IRAQ: The government executed four al Qaeda operatives, including Manaf al Rawi, the former emir for Baghdad.

RONAN the SEA LION is the first non-human mammal proven to be able to "keep the beat" with music.

ROCKY THE LABRADOR saves his owner and a young girl from a freezing river.

HUGO THE BULLDOG sleeps and plays with little white lion Igor and white Bengal tiger, Ice, who he has adopted as pups of his own. Mass hysteria!

THE LIVE LIZARD EATER of Kamphaeng Phet.

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New Releases, Wolf Eyes, Milk Music, Robyn Hitchcock, Raccoon & Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 02, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GUARDS get a head start on summer in the video for "Ready To Go."

NEW RELEASES from Cold War Kids, Alkaline Trio, Kopecky Family Band and more stream this week via Spinner.

WOLF EYES is advance streaming No Answer: Lower Floors.

MILK MUSIC is advance streaming Cruise Your Illusion.

ROBYN HITCHCOCK plays a set of songs old and new live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's in Austin, TX during SXSW 2013.

THE MOODY BLUES "Ride My Seesaw" on French TV for Twofer "Tuesday Afternoon."

KURT VILE talks to The Guardian about driving a forklift and recording Wakin On A Pretty Daze.

MARVIN GAYE, remembered by ex-wife Janis, on the 29th anniversary of his shooting.

LOLLAPALOOZA 2013: The almost-certain lineup leaks.

PAUL WILLIAMS, founder of Crawdaddy!, the first American music magazine to take "rock" music seriously, died last week at 64.

LINDSAY LOHAN's lawyer is scoffing at a report the actress agreed to rehab only if the facility allowed her to take Adderall. But will she find a place that allows it?

CORY MONTEITH, who stars as Finn Hudson on the Fox series Glee, has checked into rehab.

RYAN GOSLING flipped out at a photog who called galpal Eva Mendes "Baby."

HEIDI KLUM rescued her son from drowning.

SHAIN GANDEE, one of the stars of MTV's “Buckwild” reality show was discovered dead in a vehicle along with two others in Sissonville, West Virginia. He was 21. Sources close to the death investigation say it's likely Shain died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

ORLANDO BLOOM and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad will be the star-crossed lovers of an interrarcial Broadway revival of Romeo and Juliet.

YEMEN: Protesters gathered outside of the US Embassy in Sana'a to call for the release of more than 90 Yemenis being held at Guantanamo for links to al Qaeda.

LIBYA: A senior assistant to Prime Minister Zeidan was kidnapped at a checkpoint outside Tripoli.

MOROCCO: Some 30000 protesters in Rabat called for the downfall of the government of Islamist prime minister Abdel Ilah bin Kiran. The protest was organized by two of the largest labor unions and focused on unemployment, the economy, and human rights.

IRAQ: An al Qaeda suicide bomber rammed a truck packed with explosives into a police station in Tikrit, killing nine Iraqis.

AFGHANISTAN: Top ISAF commander General Dunford said conditions in Afghanistan are not yet such that "al Qaeda and other international extremist groups will not be able to conduct attacks on the West."

RACCOON & CAT: Not quite mass hysteria.

A COCKATOO skates on noise charges.

RALPH THE RABBIT reclaimed his crown as the world's fattest Easter bunny.

A GERMAN FLEA CIRCUS was wiped out by freezing weather.

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Charles Bradley, Kurt Vile, Villagers, Phil Ramone RIP, Capybara   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 01, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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PHOSPHORESCENT drops a "Song For Zula" video.

CHARLES BRADLEY advance streams Victim of Love.

KURT VILE advance streams Wakin' On A Pretty Daze.

VILLAGERS advance stream {Awayland}.

THE WATERBOYS: Mike Scott and fiddler Steve Wickham tell WNYC Soundcheck about An Appointment With Mister Yeats and play live.

YEAH YEAH YEAHS drop "Under The Earth" ahead of Mosquito, in conjunction with a NYT magazine profile.

IRON & WINE covers Stepen Foster's “Hard Times Come Again No More” for Copper, a BBC America show about a 19th century New York detective.

HUSKER DU covers The Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," circa 1985.

TOMMY STINSON talks to TIME about Songs for Slim, Guns N’ Roses, and whether he and Paul Westerberg are ever getting the old band back together.

FREDDIE MERCURY's lover, Mary Austin, got his millions and kept the whereabouts of his ashes secret, but has been crelly attacked by jealous rivals and abandoned by Mercury's bandmates.

PHIL RAMONE, the innovative producer of music by the likes of Bob Dylan, Gloria Estefan, Billy Joel, Elton John, B.B. King, Madonna, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Luciano Pavarotti, Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart and Liza Minnelli, to name just a few, has died. That Phil Ramone was a musical force in the recording studio is undeniable, and the evidence lies in the range of his accomplishments. For example, within one three-year period in the early 1960s, Ramone mixed Lesley Gore's smash hit "It's My Party," recorded Marilyn Monroe seducing President John F. Kennedy in song on his birthday and engineered essential double-quartet recordings by jazz innovators Ornette Coleman and Eric Dolphy.

ROBERT ZILDJIAN, cymbal mastermind and founder of musical cymbal manufacturer Sabian Inc., has died. He was 89 years old.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:G.I. Joe Retaliation tops the chart with 41 million (and 51 million including Thursday) -- slightly less less than the 54 million debut of the 1st Joe flick, but maybe not terrible for a movie dumped on Easter weekend, depending on overseas receipts.  The Croods place with 26.5 million a 39 percent drop which is not too bad for Easter weekend. Tyler Perry's Temptation showed with 22.3 million -- about how his films tend to open -- so he's presumably going to make a pile of cash by keeping his budget low.  Olympus Has Fallen 54 percent to the fourth slot with 14 million, a victim of G.I. Joe -- but this should still break even domestically and profit overseas.  Oz the Great and Powerful rounds out the Top Five with another 11.6 million; over all, this will be a solid money-maker, but not a smash.  Below the fold, The Host debuts in sixth place with 11 million, which may result in a breakeven... but Stephanie Meyer fails to find a second Twilight.

LINDSAY LOHAN refused to take photos with people at a Brazilian club and instead hid under the table like a 4-year-old petulant child.

JUSTIN BIEBER's MONKEY was seized by customs in Germany. Also, Bieber may face prosecution over that spitting incident with his neighbor.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA: Shaping up.

MATTHEW MacCONAUGHEY  to star inn Christopher Nolan's next film?

RICHARD GRIFFITHS, who starred in the Harry Potter films and Withnail and I, has died at the age of 65 after complications following heart surgery.

PAUL ANKA's Tales of the Rat Pack.

ANT-MAN: If you missed that leaked footage the first time, try again.

THE UNITED STATES: Authorities say cyberattacks against US financial targets are increasingly bent on destruction rather than espionage.

MALI: French and African forces are conducting operations to rid Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal of remaining Islamist fighters.

SYRIA: At least 20 people in the northern town of Hretaan were killed by what opposition activists claimed was a Scud missile. The Syrian Military Council claimed that a number of Iran's Revolutionary Guard commanders were killed yesterday when Free Syrian Army forces attacked a plane allegedly carrying arms from Iran as it landed at Damascus airport. Rebels seized Dael, a key town on the road between Daraa and Damascus. A loyalist MP from Daraa said the al Qaeda-linked Al Nusrah Front has taken over much of Daraa province, which borders Jordan.

EGYPT: Authorities thwarted 10 plots targeting vital sites in the Sinai this week. In a protest near Cairo, Islamists demanded the "purging of biased Egyptian media." Jama'a al-Islamiya called for the creation of Islamist media outlets. At least 30 people were injured in clashes between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and protesters in Alexandria.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda in Iraq killed at least 23 people in a string of five bombings at Shia mosques in Baghdad and Kirkuk.

CHEESECAKE the CAPYBARA adopts abandoned puppies...

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents stole some of the candy-filled plastic eggs from an Easter egg hunt in Richmond, MN.

A MALE MOUNTAIN LION was shot and killed in northwest Nebraska after a man’s attempts to scare off the cat failed.

SECRET SWINE: Illegal pig tales from NYC.

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Cheap Trick, Billy Bragg, Frightened Rabbit, Cutout Bin, Cat and Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with CHEAP TRICK! Live in Providence, 1980. Your setlist includes "Hello There/Clock Strikes Ten," "I'll Be With You Tonight," "Southern Girls," "California Man," "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace," "He's a Wh re," "Oh Candy," "Top of the World," "Can't Hold On," "Downed" and "Auf Wiedersehen." Are you ready to rock?

BILLY BRAGG stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

FRIGHTENED RABBIT stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

ALLAH-LAs play a set of seabreezy 60's garage-pop, live on KEXP from Mellow Johnny's in Austin, TX during SXSW 2013.

COLD WAR KIDS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

NEIL YOUNG & THE SANTA MONICA FLYERS, Live in Manchester, 1973.

THE VOGUES: It's a "Five O'Clock World" on Friday.

THE WATERBOYS: Mike Scott talks to PopMatters about one of the biggest endeavors of his career.

BETH ORTON talks to The Telegraph about Sugaring Season.

KILLING JOKE: A vintage 1980 interview from Rock's Backpages

RARE PICS OF THE BEATLES Larking About.

CUTOUT BIN: From Tommy Tutone to Talking Heads, from Husker Du to Rick James, from Clarence Carter to Gang of Four, plus Brinsley Schwartz, Kim Carnes, Meat Puppets, Mary Wells, 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: G.I. Joe: Retaliation, currently scoring 31 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; The Host, currently scoring 11 percent; and Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which (as usual) was not screened for critics.

LINDSAY LOHAN has found an unlikely ally in her quest to be better understood by the public and the media — Kristen Stewart. She has not found one on the crew of Anger Management.

BRADGELINA: Not married.

JUSTIN BIEBER was spotted visiting Selena Gomez.

KRISTEN BELL & DAX SHEPARD welcome a daughter.

AMANDA BYNES wanders Times Square with a shirt over her face.

JON HAMM's underwear issue could be a marketing opportunity.

BARBARA WALTERS may be finally ready to hang up her microphone.

CHEVY CHASE & BEVERLY D'ANGELO may book another Vacation.

WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS?  Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brenner starts to look good by comparison.  And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it  -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal, originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up o­n The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses.

THE UNITED STATES: A judge sentenced Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, an Eritrean, to nine years in prison followed by deportation, for supporting Shabaab.

NORTH KOREA: The US flew two stealth bombers over South Korea in a show of deterrent force.

SYRIA: Russia on Thursday accused the Arab League of abandoning support for a peaceful solution to the conflict in Syria and said it had cast doubt over the mandate of U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi by giving a summit seat to the Syrian opposition.

LIBYA: A major Sufi shrine, the Al-Andlusi mausoleum in Tajura, was destroyed in a bombing attack by suspected Salafists.

ISRAEL reopened its border crossings with Gaza, which it had closed after last week's rocket fire from Gaza.

THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: A Hamas member died in Gaza when a smuggling tunnel collapsed.

CAT walks DOG. Unhappy dog.

A DOG was accused of a hit-an-run incident in York, PA.

SEA HARES repel enemies by squirting venomous boogers.

PEEPS SHOW VII: The WaPo's annual diorama contest winners.

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Team Spirit, British Sea Power, Bleached, Onafur Arlands, Ostrich   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TEAM SPIRIT drops a video for the raucous "Jesus, He's Alright."

BRITISH SEA POWER advance streams Machineries Of Joy.

BLEACHED is advance streaming Ride Your Heart.

ONAFUR ARNALDS advance streams For Now I Am Winter.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: new tracks from Vampire Weekend, Giant Drag, Savages and more highlight the latest edition.

BLEEDING RAINBOW drops "Oblivion" as an outtake from Yeah Right.

YOUNG GALAXY drops "New Summer" ahead of Ultramarine.

THE CARS played "Touch and Go" on ABC's short-lived Fridays. I remember seeing this when it aired; was a big fan of their Panorama LP.

EDWYN COLLINS talks to Drowned In Sound about the road back from a double brain haemorrhage.

THE KNIFE gets political, according to The Guardian.

VERONICA FALLS: Roxanna Clifford talks to Straight about influences and songwriting.

SPOON, ranked by Stereogum.

LINDSAY LOHAN a homewrecker? Unpossible!

JUSTIN BIEBER allegedly spit in his neighbor's face and threatened to kill him. Bieber pleads youth and stupidity.

ANGELINA JOLIE is sporting a band of gold on her ring finger.

HAYDEN PANETIERRE & WLADIMIR KLITSCHK: Secretly engaged?

JON HAMM is tired of jokes about his impressive anatomy.

SEAN PENN's son inherited a dislike of photographers.

ANDERSON COOPER could replace Matt Lauer on the Today show.

THE WOLVERINE has an international trailer online.

THE UNITED STATES: Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, a Muslim convert formerly named Joseph Anthony Davis, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for plotting with accomplice Walli Mujahidh to attack a south Seattle military processing center on a busy Monday with automatic weapons and grenades.

FRANCE: Police arrested three people in southern France suspected of ties to al Qaeda-linked gunman Mohamed Merah.

BELGIAN police shot and killed wanted Franco-Algerian terrorist Benladghem Hakim as he was resisting arrest for an armed robbery committed on March 21. Police found a "veritable military arsenal" in his home, arrested a woman, and are looking for his brother.

MALI: The UK has begun sending military trainers to Mali as part of an EU mission. France plans to start gradually reducing its troops in Mali from the current 4,000 to possibly 3,000 by July, with a transition to a UN force by September. The UN Secretary General proposed the creation of a 11,200-strong protective force of African troops under a UN mandate, supplemented by a parallel force for counterterrorism operations.

 

AN OSTRICH dances to the tune of a tin whistle.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A two-headed shark.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent found in a bag of mulch is raised by a gullible human.

A BLIND DOG and his seeing-eye dog find a new home.

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