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Bleeding Rainbow, Black Prairie, Erin McKeown, Dog vs Horse   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE JOY FORMIDABLE drops "This Ladder Is Ours" on Fallon, and it rocks.

BLEEDING RAINBOW is advance streaming Yeah Right.

EX COPS are advance streaming True Hallucinations.

BLACK PRAIRIE, featuring three members of The Decemberists, plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. 

ERIN McKEOWN talks digital rights, sports, and plays live at WNYC Soundcheck

JAKE BUGG: The charismatic 18-year-old singer-songwriter and his acoustic guitar hits America.

R.E.M.: "Losing My Religion," processed into a major key. (Thx, Sylvia.)

BIG STAR: Jody Stephens, Ardent Studios manager and drummer for Big Star, talks to World Cafe about recording with his now-deceased bandmates Alex Chilton, Chris Bell and Andy Hummel.

FIVE BANDS Who Pioneered Indie Rock. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

CONOR OBERST talks to Drowned In Sound about the the Desaparecidos' reunion and his forthcoming solo dates among a bunch of other things.

TRACEY THORN talks to The Observer about her new memooir, Bedsit Disco Queen.

LINDSAY LOHAN got dumped by her lawyer. And reportedly turned down the DWTS gig because her people fear putting her on live TV.

SHAKIRA and Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué welcome a baby boy.

KELLY OSBOURNE: Secretly engaged?

ARETHA FRANKLIN LOLed at the Beyonce lip-sync story.BTW, Mike Doughty makes the case that Beyonce sang live.

JESSICA SIMPSON's parents fight over 300 million bucks. Because 100 million was not enough for creepy ol' Joe.

GOOD GRIEF: The guy who voiced Charlie Brown in multiple Peanuts specials has been arrested in San Diego after authorities say he stalked someone.

BILL HADER reportedly will star in Paramount’s film reboot of “Baywatch,” the 1990s TV show starring David Hasselhoff as the leader of a team of lifeguards.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: Could Marvel actually be seeking Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler for this?

STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS -- A non-spoilery "What to expect."

NORTH KOREA's top military body warned Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in response to UN punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.

TUNISIA is "turning into a corridor for the passage of Libyan weapons to northern Mali," according to Pres. Marzouki.

FRANCE: A senior counterterrorism judge said the terrorist who masterminded the siege of the Id Amenas gas field "tried to recruit many French citizens in the past to make bomb attacks in France." The government has asked the US to provide refueling tankers as backup to support French warplanes in the Malian intervention. The foreign minister warned the Malian military to avoid human rights abuses.

DOG vs HORSE: Who you got?

SNAKE MASSAGES: No, with an actual snake. Get your mind out of the gutter.

HUNDREDS OF CHIMPS may be laid off by the National Insitutes of Health. Things are tough all over.

A DOLPHIN tangled in fishing line sought help from a diver in the waters of Hawaii.

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Bleeding Rainbow, Black Prairie, Erin McKeown, Dog vs Horse   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE JOY FORMIDABLE drops "This Ladder Is Ours" on Fallon, and it rocks.

BLEEDING RAINBOW is advance streaming Yeah Right.

EX COPS are advance streaming True Hallucinations.

BLACK PRAIRIE, featuring three members of The Decemberists, plays a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR. 

ERIN McKEOWN talks digital rights, sports, and plays live at WNYC Soundcheck

JAKE BUGG: The charismatic 18-year-old singer-songwriter and his acoustic guitar hits America.

R.E.M.: "Losing My Religion," processed into a major key. (Thx, Sylvia.)

BIG STAR: Jody Stephens, Ardent Studios manager and drummer for Big Star, talks to World Cafe about recording with his now-deceased bandmates Alex Chilton, Chris Bell and Andy Hummel.

FIVE BANDS Who Pioneered Indie Rock. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

CONOR OBERST talks to Drowned In Sound about the the Desaparecidos' reunion and his forthcoming solo dates among a bunch of other things.

TRACEY THORN talks to The Observer about her new memooir, Bedsit Disco Queen.

LINDSAY LOHAN got dumped by her lawyer. And reportedly turned down the DWTS gig because her people fear putting her on live TV.

SHAKIRA and Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué welcome a baby boy.

KELLY OSBOURNE: Secretly engaged?

ARETHA FRANKLIN LOLed at the Beyonce lip-sync story.BTW, Mike Doughty makes the case that Beyonce sang live.

JESSICA SIMPSON's parents fight over 300 million bucks. Because 100 million was not enough for creepy ol' Joe.

GOOD GRIEF: The guy who voiced Charlie Brown in multiple Peanuts specials has been arrested in San Diego after authorities say he stalked someone.

BILL HADER reportedly will star in Paramount’s film reboot of “Baywatch,” the 1990s TV show starring David Hasselhoff as the leader of a team of lifeguards.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: Could Marvel actually be seeking Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler for this?

STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS -- A non-spoilery "What to expect."

NORTH KOREA's top military body warned Thursday that the regime is poised to conduct a nuclear test in response to UN punishment, and made clear that its long-range rockets are designed to carry not only satellites but also warheads aimed at striking the United States.

TUNISIA is "turning into a corridor for the passage of Libyan weapons to northern Mali," according to Pres. Marzouki.

FRANCE: A senior counterterrorism judge said the terrorist who masterminded the siege of the Id Amenas gas field "tried to recruit many French citizens in the past to make bomb attacks in France." The government has asked the US to provide refueling tankers as backup to support French warplanes in the Malian intervention. The foreign minister warned the Malian military to avoid human rights abuses.

DOG vs HORSE: Who you got?

SNAKE MASSAGES: No, with an actual snake. Get your mind out of the gutter.

HUNDREDS OF CHIMPS may be laid off by the National Insitutes of Health. Things are tough all over.

A DOLPHIN tangled in fishing line sought help from a diver in the waters of Hawaii.

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Calexico, Local Natives, Adam & Binki, Prince, Chihuahuas   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

MY MORNING JACKET covered Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" on New Year’s Eve on Boston; it surfaces here with a soundboard audio track.

CALEXICO stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

LOCAL NATIVES stopped by Apogee Berkeley St. Studios in front of a live audience for a Morning Becomes Eclectic session.

ADAM & BINKI are streaming their self-titled debut album (he's from Moldy Peaches, she's from Little Joy), which The Current likens to the classic Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra pairing.

GOLD PANDA is advance streaming the Trust EP.

PRINCE introduces a new band and a rocking sound on "Screwdriver."

DAVENDRA BANHART drops "Never Seen Such Good Things" ahead of Mala.

HUSKER DU streams the rare, less-hardcore single version of "Statues" ahead of a Record Store Day pressing.

THE DEL LORDS extend "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?" Circa 1990.

YO LA TENGO: Ira Kaplan talks to Interview about recording in Chicago, Hurricane Sandy, and what he's listenting to these days.

RICHARD THOMPSON talks to Folk Radio UK about his upcoming album and tour, humor, his kids, and more.... (Thx, Jon Hahn.)

DAVID BOWIE: Decade to Decade.

THE 15 ZZ TOP ALBUMS, Ranked in Order of the Band's Total Facial Hair. (Thx, Jon Hahn.)

LINDSAY LOHAN rejected a big payday on “Dancing with the Stars”, because she doesn't want to do reality TV.  However, she has no problem publishing an intimate photo of herself with Max George on the internet.

BEYONCE KNOWLES lip-synced the Star-Spangled Banner at Pres. Obama's inauguration. Le scandale, although they've been doing it for the Super Bowl since Whitney Houston at least. Kelly Clarkson gloats.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is now going to the media in yet another attempt to save his marriage.

CHRIS BROWN was SWATted. Brown may be scuzzy, but one of these "pranks" is going to kill someone.

SHERYL CROW knew about Lance Armstrong's doping cover-up?

DANIEL RADCLIFFE talks to Esquire about his post-Potter project, which involves murder, history, gay sex, and literary royality.

DOMINIC MONAGHAN: The fmr  Lost star (and Hobbit) talks sleeping in brothels and facing down vipers.

ALGERIA: The American Interest has some interesting backstory to the hostage incident there.

MALI: The US began airlifting French troops to Bamako.

EGYPT: A coalition of opposition groups is forging a common electoral platform as it seeks to capitalize on setbacks for Islamists who have dominated the country's politics since an Arab Spring uprising.

PAKISTAN: MIT-educated Pakistani nuclear scientist Pervez Hoodbhoy writes that Pakistani army insiders in collusion with an external Islamic group could be plotting to appropriate nuclear assets, unknown to authorities entrusted with protecting these.

CHIHUAHUA PUPPIES enjoy a snow day.

LEMURS ON THE LOOSE, causing havoc in North Miami Beach.

GETAWAY DONKEY ruins a robbery.

AN ANCIENT SEA ANIMAL that looked like a flower had its anus right next to its mouth, a new fossil study finds.

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New Releases, Beach House, Justin Townes Earle, Horse Escape   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

DIVINE FITS drop a video for "My Love Is Real."

NEW RELEASES from Ra Ra Riot, Bad Religion, Pogues, Parson Redheads and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

BEACH HOUSE sent an exclusive live session to The Current.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE stopped by WTMD for a Sunny Side Up session.

THE LAST BISON stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. 

R.E.M., playing "Radio Free Europe" and "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" for their network TV debut ... and Twofer Tuesday.

AC NEWMAN talks to PopMatters about going his own way and blending in to the band, about wanting to write complex music through using simplicity, and about his good fortune in being an introvert who makes his living on a stage in front of people.

CALEXICO: Joey Burns talks to the L.A. Music Blog about the band's lusher new LP, and bringing the Calexico sound to other artists. (Thx, LHB.)

TEGAN & SARA talk to The Guardian about their "unrecognizable" new direction.

BECK's 10 BEST SONGS, according to Stereogum.

TAYLOR SWIFT, after writing numerous angry breakup songs, is getting chapped over all the public mockery and jokes made about her love life.

MANTI TE'O will do his first post-hoax on-camera interview with the hard-hitting Katie Couric.

DANIEL RADCLIFFE was... wait for it... caught canoodling with his Your Darlings costar Erin Darke at the Sundance Film Festival.

SELENA GOMEZ & JUSTIN BIEBER have both added Justin Timberlake's scorned lover's anthem "Cry Me a River" to their set lists.

BILL MURRAY reads poetry at a construction site. In a hard hat.

VIOLENT HOLLYWOOD and the Death of Creativity.

THE BATMOBILE sold at auction for 4.6 million, tying the 2010 record set by the Aston Martin DB5 driven by Sean Connery in "Goldfinger."

ALGERIA: Two additional Americans were killed in last week's hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in Algeria, bringing the final US death toll to three. The US had rejected an offer to swap hostages for two terrorists held in US prisons, "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and "Lady al Qaeda" Aafia Siddiqui.

MALI: French warplanes bombed Islamist camps around Timbuktu and Gao. French Foreign Minister Le Drian said the French-Malian force is seeking "total reconquest" of Mali.

IRAQ: Recent statements by al Qaeda and its historical enemies in the Sunni tribal Awakening movement reflect each group's attempts to assert its interests amidst the deepening sectarian political crisis between Sunni Arab parties and the Shia-dominated central government headed by Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki.

A HORSE engineers his escape from the stable.

NOBODY KNOWS how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown.

DOG MOUTHS may not be as clean as conventional wisdom has them.

A CONFUSED DEER has joined a flock of sheep.

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MLK Jr Day, Joy Formidable, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Maru   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 21, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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U2: "Pride" and "MLK." Crushingly obvious. Have a dream.

THE JOY FORMIDABLE is advance streaming Wolf's Law.

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA is advance streaming II.

BLAUDZUN is advance streaming Heavy Flowers.

BUKE & GASE are advance streaming General Dome.

SHUGO TOKUMARU is streaming In Focus? (Thx, Chromewaves.)

MENOMENA drops "Toomer" as a bonus from the Moms sessions.

DION: A vintage performance of "Abraham, Martin & John."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to The Quietus about piano tuning, his pro-choice activism and the tensions between fiction and non-fiction in his work.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND: Ezra Koenig and Rostam Batmanglij talk to Rolling Stone about the long road to their third album.

MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER: Melody Prochet talks to TLOBF about her new perspective on music, and more.

THE FLAMING LIPS, ranked by Stereogum.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Mama tops your chart with 28,1 million against a 15 million budget for instaprofit.Zero Dark Thirty places with leggy Oscar buzz, with a 56 million total against a 40 million budget2; Jessica Chastain stars in your top two films this weekend. The platform expansion lifts Silver Linings Playbook to show with 11.4 million and a 55 million total against a 21 million budget.  Gangster Squad drops to the fourth slot with 9.1 million and a 32.2 million total against a 60 million budget.  The debut of Broken City rounds out the Top 5 with 9 million against a 35 million budget.  Below the fold, The Last Stand opened in tenth place with 6.3 million -- a measure of the cumulative damage to the Schwarzenegger brand. Ouch.

MANTI TE'O quietly began dating an actual living, breathing female human being ... shortly after he learned “Lennay Kekua” had died from cancer.

LINDSAY LOHAN doesn't care that the prosecutor in her car crash case is willing to let her skate without spending a day in jail ... because she won't plea bargain a case in which she says she's innocent.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Could Mel Gibson be the biological father of Jodie Foster's two sons?

EMMA STONE talks to W Magazine about Gangster Squad, the Oscars, and more...

KRISTEN STEWART & ROBERT PATTINSON top the Forbes list of Hollywood's Highest-Grossing Romantic Couples.  For now.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO is planning to take a significant break from filming and concentrate on his environmental campaigning.

ALGERIA: The US and British defense ministers on Saturday vowed to hunt down al Qaeda-linked militants in north Africa following a deadly Algerian hostage crisis, but said they would not be sending in any ground troops.

MALI: ECOWAS appealed urgently to the UN for financial backing and logistical support in assembling the planned African-led intervention force in Mali; so far only 100 troops have arrived. French troops advanced north to Nionno and Sevare.

SYRIA: The opposition National Coalition discussed the idea of a government-in-exile in Turkey. Syria's foreign minister said any discussion of President Assad's future was "unacceptable." Government and rebel forces fought in eastern and southern Damascus.

IRAN: With time running out on efforts to monitor Iran's nuclear program, 2013 could well be the year when the United States must decide whether to take military action to block Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

EGYPT: Opposition groups called for anti-Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations for Jan. 25. Protesters clashed with police outside a courthouse in Alexandria where policemen are being tried for allegedly killing protesters. Police seized a truck carrying a ton of explosives that was on its way to Sinai.

MARU the BOX CAT opts for a hoodie and the snow.

TINY THE CAT, formerly obese, lost half his body weight and found a new home.

PYTHON CHALLENGE UPDATE: 21 Burmese pythons whacked as of Thursday.

PLAYING WITH A GATOR: Bound to end well.

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