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Nick Lowe, Chuck Prophet, Quasi, SXSW, Koala   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, March 05, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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NICK LOWE released a funny and cameo-studded video for "Sensitive Man," his first clip in 18 years.

CHUCK PROPHET (formerly of Green On Red) brought his band to the KEXP studio for a live, hi-octane rock-a-thon.

QUASI also stopped by the KEXP studio for a live performance.

TANLINES is advance streaming Mixed Emotions.

SXSW: NPR has a 100 song mix of artists attending the big fest, 2/3 of which are downloadable.

ARCADE FIRE drops "Abraham's Daughter" ahead of The Hunger Games soundtrack.

LOVE: "Your Mind and We Belong Together." Rare promo.

THE CIVIL WARS are profiled by The Observer.

fIREHOSE is releasing a 45-track compilation with 15 previously unheard tracks in April.

RONNIE MONTROSE, best known for his fiery guitar work as a member of the band Montrose, died Saturday. It is believed that the cause of death was prostate cancer, which he had been battling for the past few years.  He was 64.

IN SEARCH OF: Pop's Biggest Sellout.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Dr. Seuss' The Lorax rules the cineplex with 70 million dollars, blowing away predictions in the mid-40s (which were beased on the receipts for Horton Hears a Who).  Indeed, this blows away the 55.1 million opening of The Grinch, a holiday release.  Project X placed with 20.8 million against a 12 million budget, which should put into pure profit next weekend.  Act of Valor shows with 13.7 million; that's a 44 percent drop, but the Navy SEALS have raked in 45.2 million against a 12 million budget.  Safe House holds the fourth spot with 7.2 million, having made 108.2 million domestic so far against an 85 million budget.  It looks to be the second biggest movie of Denzel Washington's career.  Tyler Perry's Good Deeds rounds out the Top 5 with 7 million, dropping 55 percent in entirely predictable fashion for a Tyler Perry movie.

LINDSAY LOHAN was mostly pushed to the background on SNL, usually appearing in unchallenging supporting roles in sketches. Don't call it a comeback.

ASHTON KUCHER has visited DEMI MOORE since her hospital stay, but they are not getting back together.

MADONNA is considering a proposal from her toyboy lover, according to the Daily Mail.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON has signed on to play actress Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.

MICHAEL FASSBENDER was left ''bemused'' when a fan vomited on him.

UGGIE the DOG (The Artist) has landed an endorsement deal with Nintendo.

RALPH McQUARRIE, the legendary conceptual artist behind the original Star Wars trilogy, has died. He was 82.

LIBYA: A mob of Islamic extremists desecrated graves at the Commonwealth WWII Cemetery in Benghazi.

IRAN: Conservative rivals of Ahmadinejad appear on course to gain firm control of the Iranian parliament, according to early election results. Reformists were virtually absent from the ballot, showing the crushing force of crackdowns on the opposition.  Meanwhile, US officials say they see Iran's hand in the increasingly brutal crackdown on opposition strongholds in Syria, including evidence of Iranian military and intelligence support for government troops accused of mass executions and other atrocities in the past week.

AFGHANISTAN: If international aid is cut, seventy five percent of health centers in Afghanistan will have to be closed, Acting Minister of Public Health Suraya Dalil said on Sunday.

YABBRA the KOALA roams the halls of the Edinburgh Zoo.

HANK the CAT is running for the US Senate in Virginia as an Independent.

WHAT DO YOU GET when you cross a rhino with a peacock? Prison time.

A GINOROMOUS MOTH was photographed in the Himilayas, just as those two tiny Japanese women sang about.

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Rolling Stones, Hospitality, Cass McCombs, Cutout Bin, Hummingbird   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, March 02, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE ROLLING STONES!  Here's a selection of live, semi-live, and undead clips of less-obvious tracks from the band's heyday: "Mercy, Mercy"; "Heart of Stone," "The Last Time"; "Ruby Tuesday," "Paint It Black"; "Honky Tonk Women"; and "Dead Flowers."  I always tend to think of this period of the Stones at this time of year for biographical reasons, as these songs (and last friday's Talking Heads) tended to soundtrack the preparations for my high school's Russian banquet.

HOSPITALITY dropped by the Cutting Room Studios in NYC to play an upbeat live set for KEXP. The band gets a profile at Blurt.

VERONICA FALLS bring their underwater vintage sounds to the KEXP studio for an energetic live set.

CASS McCOMBS plays a threefer for World Cafe.

KEVIN KINNEY & ANTON FIER: Leaders of Drivin N' Cryin and The Golden Palominos go country at World Cafe.

THE BANGLES: It's getting almost impossible to find this version of their cover of "Hazy Shade of Winter," but worth it.

SLEIGH BELLS are the March/April SPIN cover story.

CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS singer and fiddler Rhiannon Giddens talks to PopMatters about string music and storytelling.

BETH JEANS HOUGHTON talks to The Independent about leaving her past and excitable pride at releasing an album.

THE TOP 25 INDIE LOVE SONGS, according to IGN.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Monkees to Earth Wind & Fire, from Billy Bragg to the Partridge Family, from Nina Simone to Big Country, plus the Beatles, ELO, Modern Lovers, Edison Lighthouse 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 Lorax, currently scoring 62 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Project X, scoring 23 percent.

JUSTIN BIEBER turned 18 in style with a Fisker Karma – the highly coveted, ultra-exclusive plug-in hybrid luxury sports sedan. He's reportedly buying mega-mansions for himself and his mother.

DEMI MOORE has checked out of rehab at Utah's Cirque Lodge.

BRITNEY SPEARS settled a lawsuit filed by a former bodyguard who claimed Britney was a sex-crazed maniac who came on to him and flashed him.

KATE BECKINSALE talked to Parade about her Hunger Games obsession, working with her husband on the set of Total Recall, and relating to her daughter’s difficult teen years.

JOHNNY DEPP has started work on The Lone Ranger.

CHRISTINA HENDRICKS, in leather, brandishing a weapon. Call it Gratuitous Friday.

NORTH KOREA agreed to suspend its nuclear weapons program in exchange for food aid from the US. In the past, North Korea has made similar promises.

TERROR in TURKEY: A remote-controlled bomb mounted on a motorbike exploded as it passed close to the Istanbul headquarters of Turkey's ruling AK Party, injuring 10 people. Kurdish separatist groups as well as Islamist militants have carried out similar bomb attacks in Turkey in the past.

SYRIA: The Free Syrian Army retreated from the Bab Amr neighborhood in Homs. The civilian Syrian National Council and the military Free Syrian Army set up a joint command center. A Free Syrian Army commander said Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah brigades were fighting alongside the Syrian army.

AfPAK: The US military's top transport commander says overland cargo routes through Pakistan must be reopened to NATO for the United States to complete its pullout from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

SLEEPING HUMMINGBIRD snores in Peru.

GIANT "TREE LOBSTER" BUGS rediscovered on the remote island of Bell's Pyramid.

FEMALE BONOBOS "advertise" their homosexual activity to important audiences, say scientists.

SNAKE in a rental car.

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Davy Jones RIP, Real Estate, Del Fuegos, Bow Wow Wow   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, March 01, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DAVY JONES, the former child actor who became a star with the 60s pop group the Monkees, has died after a heart attack, aged 66. His former bandmates react. His highlight may be the John Stewart-penned "Daydream Believer," but I liked him on Boyce & Hart's "Valleri," as well as "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" and "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You," both written by Neil Diamond. TIME collects still more video, including from his Brady Bunch cameo.

REAL ESTATE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

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

THE DEL FUEGOS stopped by WFUV's Studio A for a chat (including Replacements war stories) and some songs.

CEREMONY is advance streaming Zoo.

TITUS ANDRONICUS frontman Patrick Stickles unveiled new band and solo songs on WFMU.

BOW WOW WOW are reforming for 12 UK shows this spring. I think you know what I want.

DIE KREUZEN is also reuniting for a one-off event.

ST. VINCENT: Annie Clark talks to Drowned In Sound about technology, Tom Waits, and Strange Mercy.

FANFARLO: Simon Balthazar and Cathy Lewis talk to DIY about branching out on their new LP. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

BOB MOULD talks to Billboard about the endurance of "Copper Blue," the '90s revival and the return of his "loud" guitars.

THE TOP 10 INDIE BUZZ BANDS you may have forgotten. (Thx, LHB.)

THE AVENGERS has a new trailer online that's much better than the one I saw at the theater last weekend.

JENNIFER GARNER & BEN AFFLECK welcomed their third child, a baby boy.

SNOOKI is indeed pregnant and has plans to bankroll her mommy-to-be status into becoming "the next Kourtney Kardashian"?

WHITNEY HOUSTON's sudden death on Feb. 11 is expected to be officially ruled an accident.

TIM TEBOW and... Taylor Swift

EDDIE MURPHY and... Toni Braxton?

LINDSAY LOHAN tells Matt Lauer that she is "clean and sober" and she wants "to continue to move forward and in the right direction."  Apparently, that direction includes facial fillers.

TATUM O'NEAL, otoh, has voluntarily checked back into rehab after having a full-fledged cocaine relapse last month, reports RadarOnline.

BRADGELINA had an imaginary fight that stopped their imaginary wedding.

GEORGE CLOONEY talks about Brad Pitt, gay rumors and more.

IRAN's underground nuclear sites are not immune to US bunker-busters, experts say.

IRAQ: A senior Iraqi security official on Wednesday hailed improving security ties with neighbouring Saudi Arabia amid a tentative rapprochement between the two countries in recent weeks.

AFGHANISTAN must act quickly to tackle infiltration of its security forces or another fatal attack on Western forces could undermine ties with NATO, a senior Afghan defense ministry official said on Wednesday, in a rare admission of the threat within.

BABY SLOTHS take a bath.

AN ORLANDO MAN was arrested for allegedly punching and injuring a police horse during the All-Star weekend. The man is not named Mongo.

GRAVE-DISTURBING BADGERS: Swindon is powerless to stop them.

DOGS may be allowed in outdoor dining areas of L.A. eateries.

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Springsteen, Tennis, Islands, Pond, Radiohead, Dylan, Bulldog Pups   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND palyed "We Take Care of Our Own" and "Wrecking Ball" for Fallon.

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

ISLANDS played World Cafe Live; you can stream the whole gig on demand.

POND, an Aussie psych-rock power-trio Pond sharing two members with Tame Impala, are streaming Beard, Wives, Denim.

RADIOHEAD debut "Identikit" and "Cut A Hole" on tour.

BOB DYLAN & THE BAND, Live in Oakland circa 1974.

THE POLICE: "It's Alright For You." Almost forgot this little gem.

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS: Alejandra Deheza talks tarot cards at SPIN.

GREG DULLI  talks to The Quietus and SPIN about the Afghan Whigs reunion.

MARK LANEGAN: Somehow, I missed this list of his favorite albums.

POP STARS who get the internet.

NATALIE PORTMAN and Benjamin Millepied were indeed sporting wedding bands when they attended Sunday's Academy Awards in Hollywood, according to a jeweler.

UMA THURMAN is indeed pregnant again.

SEAN YOUNG wants the Academy to apologize for her post-Oscars arrest.

BRADLEY COOPER & ZOE SALDANA made out madly at the Weinstein Company's star-studded annual pre-Oscars bash.

ROBERT PATTINSON & KRISTEN STEWART also canoodled, albeit at WME's pre-Oscars party.

JULIA ROBERTS talks Young Hollywood at Vanity Fair.

FREIDA PINTO is the Esquire UK cover girl.

ANNASOPHIA ROBB has been cast as the lead in the pilot "The Carrie Diaries," the prequel to the wildly successful HBO comedy "Sex and the City."

JAMES SPADER is leaving The Office early.

YEMEN: The Yemeni military reportedly gave al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula one week to leave the cities of Zinjibar and Jaar or face an assault.

SYRIA: Tunisia said it was ready to grant asylum to Assad. The political leadership for the Palestinian group Hamas left Syria for Egypt and Qatar.

IRAN: Amnesty International said Iran had escalated a crackdown on dissent in the run-up to this week's election for parliament.

ENGLISH BULLDOG PUPPIES learn to walk.

DOG-HEADED PIG MONSTER terrorizes northern Namibia.

FLATWORMS are forever.

A DEER rescues a woman from an attacker in Oxford, OH.

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New Releases, Bowerbirds, Shearwater, Now Now, Dog vs Police Car   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

GIRLS' latest video is for "My Ma."

NEW RELEASES from School of Seven Bells, Memoryhouse, Little Barrie, Wooden Sky, Beth Jeans Houghton, New Multitudes, Plants & Animals, Tiny Victories and more are streaming this week at Spinner.

BOWERBIRDS are advance streaming The Clearing.

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

NOW, NOW also stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

REAL ESTATE drops "In My Car" for Record Store Day flexi-disc.

REGINA SPEKTOR drops "All The Rowboats" ahead of What We Saw From The Cheap Seats.

THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: "Fall" and "Sleep Comes Down" for Twofer Tuesday.

KATHLEEN EDWARDS talks to the Scotsman about Voyageur, perhaps her most personal album.

ANDREW BIRD talks to Drowned In Sound about the shift towards a communicativeness and vulnerability in his songwriting.

THE SEX PISTOLS have made arrangements with Universal Music Catalogue UK to issue a special 35th anniversary edition of Never Mind The Bollocks. Do you feel cheated?

THE WORST SONGS of the NINETIES, according to NME.

THE RAZZIE AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats?

SEAN YOUNG was placed under citizen's arrest for battery at the official Oscars afterparty.

WHITNEY HOUSTON's mother Cissy is seeking closure by revisiting the late singer's final hotel room.

NATALIE PORTMAN: Secretly married?

JENNIFER ANISTON headed toward the altar?

UMA THURMAN: Pregnant again?

STAR TREK: Set pics from the sequel, possibly spoilery.

YEMEN: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters whipped five people in Jaar for drinking alcohol. President Saleh reportedly will go in exile in Ethiopia. The youth activists who spearheaded the uprising that ended Saleh's 33-year rule are now grappling with internal divisions, as politics and competing visions weaken one of the Arab world's most dynamic revolts of the past year.

SYRIA: A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Syrian government forces began a massive assault on the city of Homs.

EGYPT: In the final tally, Islamists won 80 percent of the seats in the country's upper house of parliament, and 65 percent of the seats in the lower house.

IRAN: How Israel might attack Iran's nuclear program... and why it might not.  Also, Iran is still relying on old technology to expand its nuclear program, in what may be a sign it is having difficulties developing modern machines that could speed up production of potential bomb material.

DOG vs POLICE CAR: Who you got?

ARMED MAN vs CAGED RACCOON: Who you got?

A DRUNKEN ELK hides a family's swing set in the woods.

MONKEYS taught about money quickly invent monkey prostitution.

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