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Cloud Nothings, All Songs, Noveller, Mark Lanegan, Califone, Hedgehog Cafe   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 08, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DIRTY PROJECTORS share a video for “Cool Your Heart,” a collaboration with Dawn Richard and Solange Knowles.

CLOUD NOTHINGS, Live at Webster Hall, Feb. 1, 2017.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED shares new tracks from David Bazan, Black Angels, Charly Bilss and more...

NOVELLER advance streams A Pink Sunset For No One.

THE MARK LANEGAN BAND shares "Nocturne" ahead of Gargoyle.

CALIFONE shares "Comedy" from the Our First 100 Days comp.

CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD: "(You've Got Me) Danglin' On a String."

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS' John Darnielle talks to Morning Edition about his new novel, Universal Harvester. The story is set in Navada, IA.

THE DRIVE-BY TRIUCKERS are profiled by the Boston Globe.

THE DEARS: Murray A. Lightburn gave a track-by-track tour to Times Infinity Volume One at Drowned in Sound.

FRAGILE ROCK: Almost Definitely The World's First Puppet Emo Band.

MICHAEL BOLTON dropped a trailer for his Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special.

CHRISTIE BRINKLEY is returning to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, and this time she's brought her daughters.

KATE UPTON may or may not be a SI Swimsuit cover model, amid reports of diva demands.

ALICIA VICANDER has been snapped as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider reboot.

RICHARD HATCH, best known for playing Captain Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica TV series -- and Tom Zarek in the reboot -- has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

MELISSA McCARTHY's spoof of White House spox Sean Spicer may have rattled the President.

KANYE WEST is done with the President.

MADONNA has adopted two more girls from Malawi.

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS' 8-year-old daughter, Maddie, regained consciousness mid-day Tuesday.

A HEDGEHOG CAFE, in Tokyo.

BOXER CRABS can turn one good friend into two... by tearing it in half.

A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN GHOST SHARK with rabbit-like teeth and a bulky head is making waves in record books; it's the 50th ghost shark species known to science, a new study reported.

GORILLAS are being poached for bushmeat by militia groups and miners digging for an ore called coltan used in mobile phones.

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The Menzingers, The Britanys, Hand Habits, Sinkane, Cockroach   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 08:00 AM
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GILLAN WELCH drops a video for the demo of "Dry Town."

THE MENZINGERS stream After The Party.

THE BRITANYS share their lo-fi, punky, melodic Five A Side EP. A bit in that early Arctic Monkeys/Libertines ballpark.

HAND HABITS streams Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void).

SINKANE is advance streaming Life & Livin' It.

JENS LEKMAN shares "Evening Prayer," from his soon-to-be-released fourth album, Life Will See You Know.

AMBER ARCADES shares "It Changes."

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

FLEETWOOD MAC: Rumours turned 40, prompting retrospectives from Bob Boilen, Pitchfork, and Rolling Stone.

DAVE DAVIES: The unpredictable underdog of 60s pop.

ELBOW is profiled by Drowned In Sound.

DAVID AXELROD, the influential composer and producer who helped shape the direction of hip-hop and inspired the likes of Wu-Tang Clan and DJ Shadow, has died at the age of 83.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES has a teaser trailer online.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 aired an extended SuperBowl spot.

LOGAN also dropped a SuperBowl trailer.

STRANGER THINGS: The Season 2 SuperBowl ad got a ton of buzz, as fans scoured it for clues.

JUSTICE LEAGUE: Need a better look at Aquaman and Cyborg?

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS' 8-year-old daughter, Maddie, was badly hurt in an ATV accident Sunday.

ANNETTE BENING has been tapped to star in Katrina: American Crime Story, the next installment of the award-winning limited series from executive producers Murphy, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson.

HOLLYWOOD has a Boston problem.

A LIVE COCKROACH was removed from inside a woman's skull.

A PUPPY survives a 5-story plunge from a New Jersey building.

CHIMPS murder and eat their former leader, in case you thought they won't blow it all up eventually.

A SHARK TANK bursts...but not enough for an escape.

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SuperBowl Hangover Edition   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 06, 2017 - 08:00 AM
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NOT LITERALLY, but there's remarkably little non-football news of any urgency. Here are a few items, anyway:

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Split threepeats atop the chart with 14.6MM on a 43 percent drop that should be considered leggy for the weekend of The Big Game. It's allready approaching 100MM domestic against a 9MM production budget and will almost certainly become M Night Shymalayan's biggest hit since Signs.  It also beat out genre competition from the debut of Rings, which placed with 13MM against a 25MM production buget (which matters a lot given that the prior sequel opened more than 20MM higher).  A Dog's Purpose showed with 10.8MM and 32.9MM domestic against a 22MM production budget.  Hidden Figures takes the fourth slot with 10.1MM on a remarkably leggy 28 percent drop. Hidden Figures now has 119MM domestic against a 25MM budget and is just starting to openwide overseas.  La La Land again rounds out the Top Five with another 7.5MM with 118MM domestic and another 150MM overseas to date.

BLACK SABBATH ostensibly played their final concert, in Birmingham.

THE DIRECTORS GUILD of AMERICA AWARDS went to these folks. Congrats!  La La Land's Damien Chazelle took home the top prize. Friend of the blog Steven Zaillian also took home a prize.

TWIN PEAKS dropped another teaser trailer, featuring clips from the original series.

PATTON OSWALD said Friday that coroner's officials informed him that his wife died last year from a combination of prescription medications and an undiagnosed heart condition.

RYAN REYNOLDS gave a lapdance while receiving the Man of the Year award Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals group.

NICOLAS CAGE crashed a tribute film festival about himself, because he's Nic Cage. He also did an 11-minute reading of Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."

BLACK LIGHTNING is headed to the CW.

MARC SPITZ, longtime New York-based SPIN writer, novelist and playwright has died. He was 47.

PUPPY BOWL: Team Fluff crushed Team Ruff, 93-38.

See y'all Tuesday!

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Winter Dance Party, Chuck Prophet, Jesca Hoop, Teen Daze, Stoned Lemurs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, February 03, 2017 - 08:00 AM
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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...withTHE DAY THE MUSIC DIED.  It's many winters later, but the passing of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in a plane crash outside Clear Lake, IA is still bringing people to the historic Surf Ballroom, as well as the Riverside Ballroom, where the Winter Dance Party made its penultimate stop. So it's worth linking to an MPR audio feature on the Winter Dance Party, plus this comp of rare footage.  There's even less video of Valens, outside this lipsync of "Ooh, My Head!", but there's rare live audio of "La Bamba" and "Donna" on the Tube. And no survey would be complete without the Bopper's signature song, "Chantilly Lace."  The tragedy has echoed through the years in movies like The Buddy Holly Story and La Bamba.  The latter featured Los Lobos, who would make "La Bamba" a hit again almost 30 years later, with Marshall Crenshaw as Holly, who can be seen here covering "Crying, Waiting Hoping", introduced by Wolfman Jack.

CHUCK PROPHET advance streams Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins.  'Member seeing Green On Red at the M-Shop back in the day? I 'member.

JESCA HOOP advance streams Memories Are Now.

TEEN DAZE advance streams Themes For Dying Earth.

TINARIWEN advance streams Elwan.

BLEACHED shared the title track to the upcoming Can You Deal? EP.

WILLIAM SHATNER, BEN FOLDS & JOE JACKSON: Just some "Common People."

STRAND OF OAKS gets the cover story treatment at Stereogum.

OKKERVIL RIVER: Will Scheff talked to amNY about Okkervil River R.I.P., jazz, and the Great American Songbook. (Thx, LHB.)

MICHAEL CHAPMAN: The man who connects Elton, Bowie, Nick Drake and Sonic Youth.

BAD BRAINS frontman HR is facing brain surgery.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releasesare Rings, which was not screened for critics; and The Space Between Us, currently scoring 5 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

JOHNNY DEPP is firing back at his former management team over their claims his financial woes are all his fault.

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY told the BBC we don't have a choice but to give Pres. Trump a break and try to be constructive. The interview was conducted before Trump signed an executive order last Friday that instituted a controversial immigration ban.

ANGELINA JOLIE wrote about refugee policy for the New York Times.

PRESIDENT TRUMP & ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER had a play fight over The Celebrity Apprentice.

AN ANOMYMOUS OSCAR VOTER tells the Daily Beast that La La Land is overrated, Meryl Streep shouldn't have been nominated, and more.

X-MEN: Bryan Singer is bringing mutants to the small screen as a family drama.

THE RATS OF NIMH are returning in hybrid live-action/animation.

ROBIN HOOD: ORIGINS is pitched as the John Wick of bows-and-arrows.

GHOST IN THE SHELL gets a Super Bowl spot.

LEMURS GET HIGH off toxic millipede secretions.

DOGS ON POT: In New York City, veterinarians say, canine marijuana poisoning has become a daily occurrence.

A FERRET is recovering after being fitted with a pacemaker during a rare surgery at Kansas State University.

FERAL BUNNIES overrun Vegas.

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Does Phil feel lucky?   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 02, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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I got flowers...in the Spring...

First D.J.: "Rise and shine, campers and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today." Second D.J.: "It's cold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?" First D.J.: "Not hardly. So the big question o­n everybody's lips..." Second D.J.: "O­n their chapped lips..." First D.J.: "...their chapped lips is, 'Does Phil feel lucky?' Punxsatawney Phil! That's right, woodchuck chuckers it's...

(IN UNISON): GROUNDHOG DAY!!!"

Today, Punxsutawney Phil ---  the Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary will predict whether we will have six more weeks of winter.  According to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, Phil has seen his shadow 97 times, and hasn't seen it (predicting an early spring) only 14 times.  Phil's track record is hotly disputed, though he's has had a pretty good run recently.  Nevertheless, thousands will await the sunrise and the groundhog at Gobbler's Knob in the tiny Pennsylvania hamlet that has become known as the "Weather Capital of the World," due in no small part to the movie that makes every day Groundhog Day.

This is o­ne time where the Internet really fails to capture the true excitement of a movie about a large squirrel predicting the weather. However, you can see the trailer as a refresher (while BuzzFeed compiles trivia).

In 2005, Roger Ebert revisited Groundhog Day, declaring that the film "finds its note and purpose so precisely that its genius may not be immediately noticeable. It unfolds so inevitably, is so entertaining, so apparently effortless, that you have to stand back and slap yourself before you see how good it really is."

At the other end of the political spectrum, Jonah Goldberg's equally effusive movie meditation grabbed the cover of National Review: "When I set out to write this article, I thought it'd be fun to do a quirky homage to an offbeat flick, o­ne I think is brilliant as both comedy and moral philosophy. But while doing what I intended to be cursory research -- how much reporting do you need for a review of a twelve-year-old movie that plays constantly o­n cable? -- I discovered that I wasn't alone in my interest. In the years since its release the film has been taken up by Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, Hindus, Buddhists, Wiccans, and followers of the oppressed Chinese Falun Gong movement."

Indeed, a 2004 article mentioned by Ebert (but not linked) from London's Independent observes that the Harold Ramis comedy has been hailed by some religious leaders as the most spiritual film of all time. More examples can be found at the NYT and the Christian Science Monitor.

As Phil Connors ultimately observed: "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."

ACCORDINGLY, we conclude:

...with Sonny & Cher o­n Hullabaloo and famously o­n Letterman years later, plus UB40 with Chrissie Hynde, not to mention The Cynics (from the Bonograph tribute CD), and David Bowie & Marianne Faithfull.

UPDATE: Phil saw his shadow; his main rival, Staen Island Chuck, disagreed.

RYLEY WALKER, Live at Rough Trade BK, January 26, 2017.

LEE RENALDO, Live at the Church Park Co-op, January 22, 2017.

CATE LeBON, Live at The Bowery Ballroom, January 26, 2017.

ROBIN HITCHCOCK shared "I Want To Tell You About What I Want" ahead of what is unvbelievably his first self-titled LP.

PAUL McCARTNEY & ELVIS COSTELLO: Hear the oft-bootlegged but never-released demo for “Twenty Fine Fingers," ahead of the deluxe reissue of Flowers In The Dirt.

BLONDIE and DAVE SITEK have "Fun" ahead of Pollinator.  Debbie's back in the disco.

BEACH SLANG covered The Jesus & Mary Chain and Hope Sandoval's "Sometimes Always."

FUTURE ISLANDS shared "Ran" ahead of The Far Field.

THE MAGNETIC FIELDS shared “’83 Foxx And I" ahead of 50 Song Memoir.

BOB DYLAN will release a triple album of new recordings of the Great American Songbook. The man knows his ROI.

TIFT MERRITT talks to PopMatters about the joys of motherhood, life on the road, and more...

ALLISON CRUTHCHFIELD talked to Paste abouther breakup record.

REAL ESTATE: Martin Courtney tlaks to Bob Boilen about making music, The Beatles...and a horse.

BEYONCE is pregnant with twins. Should make Coachella interesting.

MEL GIBSON and VINCE VAUGHN will re-team to star in Dragged Across Concrete, a crime thriller about police brutality.

EMMA WATSON & MILES TELLER are reportedly “raising hell” with their agents after missing out on the lead roles in La La Land.

DANIEL-DAY LEWIS & PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON began filming a movie rumored to be about the fashion scene in 1950s London. 

JOE BUCK Knows Why You Hate Him.

FRANK PELLEGRINO, Sopranos star and co-owner of legendary New York restaurant Rao's, has died at 72 after battling lung cancer.

MARY TYLER MOORE's final husband is mourning the loss of his wife of more than 33 years, but he is finding hope in the assurance that her light and legacy will live on forever.

THE BEST TAKEDOWN OF HOLLYWOOD came from James Baldwin.

THE UNITED KINGDOM:The process of Britain leaving the European Union cleared a significant hurdle on Wednesday when members of the UK parliament voted in favor of allowing the government to begin divorce talks.

UKRAINE  began evacuating civilians from the eastern town at the center of the deadliest flare-up in fighting in 1 1/2 months between government forces and Russian-backed insurgents.

IRAN: White House national security adviser Michael Flynn delivered a tough warning to Iran on Wednesday for test-firing a ballistic missile and said it was in violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution.

SEALS and PENGUINS engaging in an extreme form of sexual behavior...mass hysteria!

OLLIE the BOBCAT: Officials at the National Zoo suspended their search for Ollie, who escaped Monday from her enclosure...only to find her on zoo property.

AN OREGON WOMAN managed to get her pet python stuck in her earlobe.

COCKFIGHTING: A NYC teacher is charged with training roosters for the ring.

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