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Turtles, Booker T, Civil Wars, Death, Cutout Bin, Lioness   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, June 17, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE TURTLES!  First cracking the Top Ten in 1965 with their cover of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe."  they made the Top 30 later that year with the similar-sounding "Let Me Be," written by P.F. Sloan.  Their early 1966 hit, "You Baby," was written by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri; you may recognize the voice introducing the sync of the band performing on the streets of L.A.  An album cut from the You Baby album, "Outside Chance," was co--written by Warren Zevon.  "Happy Together," rejected by countless performers, became both their biggest hit and their signature song, knocking the Beatles' "Penny Lane" from the No. 1 slot in the Spring of 1967.  "She'd Rather Be With Me" was of the same vintage.  "Elenore," with its unique use of the term et cetera, was a jab at their label for demanding more hits like "Happy Together," but went on to hit the Top Ten anyway.  Near the end, the band appeared on the Mike Douglas show to play "House on the Hill."  For many years after the band dissolved, Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman went by the name Flo & Edde, because their contract barred from using the Turtles name or their own names.  The duo continued to record their own material, but were heard by most adding their trademark harmonies to hits like T. Rex's "Bang A Gong" and Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart."

BOOKER T. JONES stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

THE CIVIL WARS also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

JAMES VINCENT McMORROW also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

DEATH did a twofer for Daytrotter.

LIAM FINN is advance streaming FOMO.

25 FAVORITE ALBUMS of 2011 (So Far), according to NPR.

16 AWESOME LED ZEPPELIN COVERS, courtesy of Paste.

EDDIE COCHRAN: "Summertime Blues." Ain't no cure for 'em.

THE BEST MUSIC FOR SUMMER, according to PopMatters.

JOHN VANDERSLICE talks to All Shook Down about seeking discomfort, tripping on acid, and making pure art. (Thx, LHB.)

ALINA SIMONE talks to the Wall Street Journal about her new album and book.

SLY STONE pleads not guilty to cocaine charges.

LESTER BANGS tweaks Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground in this rare video from the Creem offices.

CUTOUT BIN: From Alice Cooper to Roy Orbison, from The Coasters to The Jam, from Katrina & the Waves to The Guess Who, plus Iggy Pop, Tom Petty, Little Richard, She & Him, Springsteen and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: THis weekend's wide releases are Green Lantern, which is currently scoring 20 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Mr. Popper's Penguins, which is scoring 41 percent.

RYAN REYNOLDS pens an Entertainment Weekly cover story on... Ryan Reynolds.

HUGH HEFNER made changes to the upcoming "Mrs. Hugh Hefner" cover. Crystal Harris claims they're both relieved.

JENNFER ANISTON's boyfriend, Justin Theroux, moves in.

SELENA GOMEZ blames an overload of junk food for her hospitalization.

EMMA WATSON,who recently complained about guys not approaching her, has reportedly fallen for her ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower' co-star Johnny Simmons.

SEAN PENN has been spotted with Garcelle Beauvais.

JURASSIC PARK 4? Possibly...

SAD SAD CONVERSATION: Comedians, actors and musicians, just talkin' on the Tube.

30 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW about Raiders of the Lost Ark. I knew almost all of them... but I am a tremendous nerd.

AL QAEDA has appointed Ayman al Zawahiri, the longtime deputy of Osama bin Laden, as the official leader of the terror group.

IRAN plans to send a live monkey into space later this summer.

PAKISTAN: On the outskirts of Islamabad lives a militant considered so powerful that Osama bin Laden consulted with him before issuing a fatwa to attack American interests.

A LIONESS tries to eat a toddler at the zoo.

AN ALLIGATOR decided to make use of a community swimming pool Wednesday afternoon. Tampa police moved it to a nearby pond. A pool or a pond... a pond would be good for you.

SNAKES... Why did it have to be snakes? An Idaho family was driven from their home and into bankruptcy by "hundreds and hundreds" of snakes that slithered inside the walls as they slept and left them and their children terrified.

AN AFRICAN PUFF ADER has downsides as a pet.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A deer with four antlers... and growing.

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Bon Iver, Head & the Heart, Gomez, CYHSY, Sleepy Kitty   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BON IVER drops a video for "Calgary," the first single from the new LP.

THE HEAD & THE HEART stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

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

GOMEZ is advance streaming Whatever's On Your Mind.

PALEO is advance streaming The Fruit of the Spirit.

CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH return from a hiatus with "Same Mistake."

DEAN & BRITTA: I was just in the mood for the mellow "Words You Used To Say."

CENTRO-MATIC: Will Johnson talks to Aquarium Drunkard about the band's new direction, the future of South San Gabriel, his thoughts on touring the house show circuit and Woody Guthrie.

PAUL McCARTNEY talks to The Quietus about the resissue of McCartney and McCartney II, Delia Derbyshire, potentially collaborating with Gorillaz, and more. Musicians including Chris Carter, Gruff Rhys, Alexis Taylor, and Ty Bulmer join in the questioning.

THE FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne tells The Quietus about his 13 favourite albums.

JOSS STONE was the target of a murder plot?

HUGH HEFNER's wedding to Crystal Harris was called off after she secretly planned to ditch the Playboy mogul at the altar in return for a 500K media deal, according to Page Six. Harris denies a romance with Dr. Phil's son Jordan McGraw.

ARNOLD & MARIA: Schwarzenegger's baby mama Mildred Baena claims she did not make one single cent for the tell-all interview she gave to Hello! magazine.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA gets a comeback profile in W magazine.

JENNIFER LOPEZ is "on the fence" about returning to American Idol next year. It's a cry for cash, yes?

PRINCE WILLIAM & KATE's Cali itinerary is revealed.

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL is in the middle of a kidnapping, robbery and sex tape case.

ELIZABETH HURLEY is officially divorced from businessman Arun Nayar.

RUSSELL CROWE is in talks to play Jor-El in the Superman reboot.

LIBYA: Rebels have advanced beyond their western stronghold of Misratah towards the capital Tripoli where Nato have resumed their airstrikes. Gaddafi's intelligence chief has sent an emissary who will meet this week with a senior representative of the Obama administration to explore a possible political settlement.

PAKISTAN's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the CIA in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. But they freed Hassan Ghul, a key al-Qaeda operative who gave OBL info, but has since rejoined AQ. Meanwhile, the number of all-female madrassas has boomed over the past decade, fueled by the failures of the state education system and a deepening conservativism among the middle to upper classes. Something to remember next time you hear poverty breeds extremism.

AFGHANISTAN was named the most dangerous country for women in the latest Thompson Reuters foundation survey. The US reportedly has established contacts with elusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar to negotiate an end to the conflict.

SLEEPY KITTY plays an invisible harp.

OFFICER CAGE BYRD saves an injured hawk. Yes, really.

A SHEEP was rescued from a roof by Welsh firefighters. No word on whether it was Harold.

A SWAN held up traffic on the M4 Motorway.

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Friendly Fires, Anna Calvi, Warpaint, Morrissey, Bongos, Surfing Geese   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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PARTS & LABOR sorta play Kanye West's "Runaway" for The A.V. Club Undercover.

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

FRIENDLY FIRES stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

ANNA CALVI also stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

RICHARD BUCKNER: Captain's Dead reposts the box set.

JOHN DOE drops "Never Enough" from the upcoming Keeper.

MORRISSEY played three new songs on BBC2.

THE BONGOS: "Numbers With Wings" was nominated for Best Direction at the first MTV Video Awards.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: John Flansburgh talks to SoundSpike about returning to (somewhat) grown-up music. (Thx, LHB.)

CULTS: Brian Oblivion talks to TimeOutNY about buzz breeding anxiety. The duo is also profiled by the Boston Globe.

DAWES bassist Wylie Gelber tells the DePaulia that making their debut LP mellower than their live show was purely intentional.

RAY DAVIES talks to the Wall Street Journal about songwriting, his singing style, performing the "Village Green Preservation Society" album in full and more...

CLARENCE CLEMONS is showing improvement after his stroke, inlcuding movement on his left side. Springsteen posted a note on his website.

ALAN "MR. FABULOUS" RUBIN, trumpet player for the classic SNL house band and Blues Brothers, died June 8 following a battle with lung cancer.

NATALIE PORTMAN and fiancé Benjamin Millepied welcomed a baby boy into the world. The child was immediately whisked to a remote planet, to prevent George Lucas from discovering it.

ARNOLD & MARIA: Mildred Baena, the housekeeper who had a child with Schwarzenegger, speaks out for the first time.

JENNIFER ANISTON: Homewrecker?

HUGH HEFNER tweets that his wedding is off.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is coming clean about smoking pot in the latest Playboy interview.

JESSICA SIMPSON has signed on to judge NBC's Fashion Star.

CHRIS EVANS, a/k/a Captain America, gets a GQ writer wasted.

SARAH JESSICA PARKER really wanted off jury duty.

SEAN BEAN (Game of Thrones and much more) was stabbed in the arm in a fight over a model.

COMIC-CON is losing its appeal for some movie studios.

YEMEN: The CIA plans to target al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula using unmanned Predator and Reapers aircraft.

SYRIAN forces are continuing the crackdown on anti-regime elements in the north.

IRAN's foreign ministry spokesman warned the US against launching "a military intervention in any country of the region, including Syria." China is encouraginging Iran to continue negotiations over its nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan war is returning to the place it began: the violent eastern borderlands with Pakistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaeda slipped out of American reach a decade ago and have organized their insurgency ever since.

SURFING GEESE catch a wave. Everybody's heard about the birds.

PSYCHIC SHEEP saves shepherd.

A GOLDEN RETRIEVER loves cleaning so much that he sweeps the streets while walking with his owner.

AFRICAN DWARF CROCODILES were uncovered by police in the spare bedroom of a suburban London house.

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New Releases, Jill Scott, Steve Earle & Will Scheff, Steve Miller, Go-Gos, Puppy   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

BELLE & SEBASTIAN drop a video for "Come On Sister" from Write About Love.

NEW RELEASES from Vetiver, Dananananackroyd, Marissa Nadler, Woods and more, plus McCartney reissues and the fifth Neil Young Archives release are streaming via Spinner this week.

JILL SCOTT is advance streaming The Light of The Sun.

STEVE EARLE & WILL SCHEFF (Okkervil River) play unpluggedy on video at SPIN.

STEVE MILLER (Some call him the Space Cowboy) stopped by the World Cafe for a lengthy chat and mini-set.

PATTI SMITH covers "Words of Love" for the upcoming Buddy Holly tribute LP.

THE GO-GOS talk to All Things Considered about the 30th anniversary of Beauty and the Beat, which makes "Our Lips Are Sealed" and "We Got the Beat" a natural for Twofer Tuesday.

A HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC is rolling out from The Guardian and The Observer, including an interactive timeline, a playlist, 50 key events and more.

BON IVER: Justin Vernon gives a meaty interview to Pitchfork about songwriting, relationships, and more...

GLASVEGAS: Glaswegan James Allan talks about living and recording in L.A.

CLARENCE CLEMONS is reportedly in stable condition after two brain surgeries, but may be paralyzed on the left side of his body following a stroke.

CHARLIE SHEEN  is negotiating a "big offer" for a new TV series that could debut as early as January, 2012... according to sources close to Sheen, fwiw.

LINDSAY LOHAN suffered through day 18 of her house arrest by having a bunch of friends over to her kick-ass Venice apartment for a rooftop BBQ. Meanwhile, the photog who sued her clothing line is asking a court to make Li-Lo pay up.

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS: Werner Herzog's documentary of France's Chauvet Cave, which contains the oldest known paleolithic cave drawings, but remains unseen by the public, was not as personally compelling as, say, Grizzly Man, but fascinating in its own way.  Herzog goes beyoind the cave to show how scientists are studying and learning from this unique find, and even looks at how other forms of art emerged from homo sapiens during the same period.  The 3-D presentation, which was undoubtedly dificult given the restrictions on filming in the cave (Herzog was his own lighting man, using special cool lights) decidedly adds to the experience, giving a better idea of how primitive man used the walls as a unique canvas to enhance their efforts, and drawing the viewer in among the stalagtites, many of which have calcified with that sparkling, dripping wax look.

SUPER 8:  JJ Abrams directs an homage to classic Spielberg for Spielberg, and the results are sufficiently Spielbergian, with just a dash of Abrams' own Cloverfield (but without the shakycam).  As such it also tends to have the weakness of some of Spielberg's later blockbusters, i.e., the occasional feeling that it is as constructed as a carnival attraction.  But there's more than enough humanity from the young cast to compensate, and the sci-fi really serves more as a device for their journey, in much the way that E.T. is really a film about the children of divorce.  It's a tribute to Abrams and Co that something this meta remains affecting.

KIM KARDASHIAN's lawyers are drafting a defamation complaint against NFLer Bret Lockett, who already has his backpedal in motion.

ANGELINA JOLIE goes without makeup and shoes for Louis Vuitton's "Core Values" campaign.

EMMA WATSON is a little more fancy for Vogue.

DEMI LOVATO gets more bad news: her mom was admitted to rehab and the star has now split from boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama.

MARK ZUCKERBERG may be updating his Facebook status to married.

NORTH KOREA may have developed a nuclear warhead small enough to be loaded onto a ballistic missile, the South Korean defense minister said, warning that risk of another "surprise provocation" by the Stalinist regime was now rising.

AFGHANISTAN: While women have gained back basic rights in education, voting and work, considered un-Islamic by the Taliban, their plight remains severe and future uncertain as Afghan leaders seek to negotiate with the Taliban as part of their peace talks.

TINY PUPPY, Big Leap.

HUNDREDS OF FLAMINGOS are dying of electrocution daily as they fly into high-voltage electricity cables passing over their habitat on the outskirts of Bhavnagar city.

LION FIGHTING: Well, that's one idea for boosting tourism to Egypt. (Another might be not turning the govt over to extremists.)

ANIMALS Dressed As Other Animals.

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Best Coast, Bon Iver, Emmy the Great, YACHT, Blue Penguin   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 13, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

BEST COAST unveiled a new song, "Gone Again," over at Adult Swim.

BON IVER is advance streaming the semi-self-titled sophomore LP. Justin Vernon also gets a meaty profile at The Guardian and briefer one at the New Zealand Herald.

EMMY THE GREAT is advance streaming Virtue and gives The Guardian a track-bt-track tour.

YACHT is advance streaming Shangri-La.

SONS & DAUGHTERS are advance streaming Mirror Mirror.

SHE & HIM cover "Oh, Boy!" for the upcoming Buddy Holly tribute LP.

KIM & KELLEY DEAL turned 50 on Friday, so I'm going to check out "Cannonball" and feel old.

THE DECEMBERISTS: Colin Meloy clarifies that the band's hiatus is not a breakup.

THE JAYHAWKS talk to Rolling Stone about Mockingbird Time, the first LP recorded with the classic Gary Louris and Mark Olson-led line-up since 1995's Tomorrow The Green Grass.

MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle likes to frighten his listeners.

CLARENCE CLEMONS has suffered a stroke.

JACK WHITE & KAREN ELSON celebrated their sixth anniversary by throwing a divorce party.

SLY STONE has cocaine charges pending. Shocka!

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Super 8 takes the top slot with 37 million, which looks like a potentially big payoff against a 37 million budget. The studio thought this would come in at 20-30 million.  A pause between blockbusters, but a healthy one.  X-Men: First Class drops a notch with 25 million.  The 55 percent drop is not unusual for a blockbuster (and less than the last to X-movies), but the studio likely hoped for better, given the good reviews and word-of-mouth for the 60s-era mutants. The Hangover Part II showed with 18.5 million onl a reasonable 41 percent drop.  Kung Fu Panda 2 was not far behind with 16.6 million on a 30 percent drop -- but there's still a big difference between making 216.5 million on an 80 million budget (Hangover Pt II) and making 127 million on a 150 million budget (Panda).  Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger tides rounds out the Top 5 with another 10.8 million. It's is a long shot to match its 250 million production budget in Norrth America, but the 615 million overseas haul guarantees more Capt. Jack Sparrow.

BRADGELINA contributed 500K to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, to bolster the recovery effort in Joplin, MO.

LILY ALLEN is married... and pregnant.

BRITNEY SPEARS is getting married for the third time, according to the uber-reliable Sun. Gossip Cop notes that The Sun reported the same thing in October 2009.

SELENA GOMEZ has had health issues after appearing on the Tonight Show. Anyone surprised?

TRACY MORGAN apologized for an anti-gay rant during his weekend gig at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

RUSSELL CROWE is now eating crow after ranting on Twitter about his views on circumcision. Director-actor Eli Roth defends Crowe against claims of anti-Semitism.

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF was released 25 years ago this weekend, prompting a look at its 25 contributions to pop culture lore.

THE ARAB SPRING turns into summer's bloody turmoil.

IRAN's air force chief claimed that US-made F-14 fighters are still operational as engineers are "reverse engineering" parts for the warplanes.

SYRIAN troops have begun their assault on Jisr al Shoughour, where an army mutiny last week resulted in the deaths of 120 troops.

AFGHANISTAN: Afghan officials claimed Pakistan will target sanctuaries of Taliban leaders who refuse to engage in peace talks with the Afghan government. CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted Pakistani intelligence officials face to face with what the US believes is evidence of collusion between Pakistani security officials and militants staging attacks in Afghanistan.

A LITTLE BLUE PENGUIN is released back into the wild, to the strains of Dusty Springfield.

KENYAN BABOON adopts a Bush Baby...Mass hysteria!

COW tazed by police in Pelham, NH.

RARE TWIN GIBBONS born at the Omaha Zoo.

50 PHOTOS of Basset Hounds running.

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