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Byrds, Bob Dylan, Aimee Mann, Rodney Crowell, Jason Isbell, Shamrock   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, March 24, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE BYRDS!  Pretty much because I dig them as we turn into Spring (or Fall).  Let's start with a rare 1965 clip of their breakthrough smash cover of "Mr. Tambourine Man."  There are screaming girls, plus go-go dancers when they hit Shivaree for "All I Really Want to Do" and "Feel A Whole Lot Better."  Next up is a rare sync of "I Knew I'd Want You." There are even more dancers when they cover Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" for Shindig! on June 23, 1965, while I'm pretty sure that's Ed Wynn introducing "Chimes of Freedom."  You might recognize the voice introducing "Bells Of Rhymney" from poolside in August 1965 and "It Won't Be Wrong" from a corral in January 1966 on Where The Action Is.  BONUS:  Want a couple in color?  Here's "Turn, Turn, Turn!" and "Mr. Spaceman." DOUBLE BONUS: A rare 1967 sync of "Eight Miles High."

BOB DYLAN advance streams songs from Triplicate.BONUs: Here's the music Bob is digging now.

AIMEE MANN advance streams Mental Illness.

RODNEY CROWELL advance streams Close Ties.

JASON ISBELL shares a new single "Hope The High Road," ahead of The Nashville Sound.

SOUL ASYLUM's near-breakthru, "Someone to Shove."

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN talk to The Guardian about being trapped in the desert, playing the Haçienda and the horrors of Heart FM.

FATHER JOHN MISTY talks to Rolling Stone about the president, his daily LSD habit, why social media is "self-harm" and more.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: John Lydon really means it, man.

SIB HASHIAN, former Boston drummer, has died. Hashian was performing on stage at the Legends of Rock Cruise when he collapsed and died. He was 67 years old.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Power Rangers, which is currently scoring 43 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Life, which is scoring 69 percent; and CHiPs, scoring 33 percent.

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt is becoming more at peace with his newfound single life, but he's in no rush to enter the dating world.

TOM CRUISE intervened in a divorce when Scientology was raised as an issue.

WHY BELLE SHOULD HAVE CHOSEN GASTON: A PowerPoint Presentation.

YOUNG HAN SOLO tidbits, including a really lame one.

KATE WINSLET got candid about being bullied as a child during a talk at the fourth annual WE Day U.K. event.

BAYWATCH has a new trailer online. (NSFW language)

BRETT RATNER: The director and producing mogul Brett Ratner says film critic aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes is a destructive force in Hollywood. His Tomatometer is better than I thought.

SHAMROCK, a retired racehorse, still has some game. Unexpectedly!

A TURKEY flew through a truck driver's windshield in New Hampshire.

FIVE BABY GATORS take a taxi, start trouble.

THE TOP 10 DOG BREEDS, according to the American Kennel Club.

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The Road to Recovery, Day 2   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

FEELING MARGINALLY BETTER, thank you.  Let's get to it.

STRAND OF OAKS goes electric at World Cafe Live.

DANIEL BACHMAN plays a Lagniappe Session at Aquarium Drunkard.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: A Best of SXSW 2017 edition.

CHUCK BERRY's first posthumous single, "Big Boys."

WAVVES shared a new single, "Animal."

BLACK LIPS share a new single, "Can't Hold On."

BIG WALNUTS YONDER (ft members of Minutemen, Tera Melos, Wilco and Deerhoof) share “Sponge Bath.”

TIGER'S JAW shares a new song, "Guardian."

 

MARTIN HANNETT: Everything you need to know about the obsessive record producer behind era-defining records by Buzzcocks, Joy Division and Happy Mondays. (Thx, Frank Yang.)

SOFT CELL: How they covered "Tainted Love."

RIDE: Andy Bell talks DIY through his musical obsessions.

AMY WINEHOUSE: Ten of Her Best.

 

BRANGELEXIT: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are making peace — and have talked to each other directly.

ASHLEY OLSEN and her boyfriend, financier Richard Sachs, have called it quits on their relationship after five months of dating.

GHOST IN THE SHELL shares  five minutes of the film.

DEADPOOL 2: Michael Shannon has emerged as the frontrunner for the much-buzzed about role of Cable.

THE SPIDER-VERSE may be getting a little bigger. Sony, already in deep development on villain offshoot Venom, is now developing a feature project centered on the female characters Silver Sable and the Black Cat.

ROGUE ONE, edited into A NEW HOPE.

GREAT BRITAIN:  Four people were killed and scores injured when an attacker plowed a car through crowds in central London before attempting to storm the Houses of Parliament in what police believe was an act of Islamist-inspired terrorism.

A NORTH KOREAN MISSILE appeared to have exploded just after it was launched on Wednesday, the U.S. and South Korean militaries said after detecting the latest in a series of weapons tests by the nuclear-armed state that have alarmed the region.

 

PARROTS raid poppy fields to feed their opiate addictions.

SNAKE ON A PLANE: Paging Capitol one spokesmen...

A DOGWALKER stumbles upon a boa constrictor.

THE 2017 BUDWEISER CLYDESDALE FOALS.

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The Road to Recovery   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

AFTER YESTERDAY's SICK DAY, I am trying to get back to full speed. Let's get to it:

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

STRAND OF OAKS plays a solo piano mini-set at The Current.

THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE advance streams Pleasure Suck.

POND shares "The Weather."

 

THE FEELIES: Keep Calm and Carry On.

FEIST talks to Pitchfork about the return of Broken Social Scene, the structure of Pleasure, collaborators, and more.

CHUCK BERRY Taught Me How To Be An American.

THE BEST AND WORST Actor Music Video Cameos.

 

BRANGELEXIT:  Brad Pitt hides out in an art studio sculpting and listening to break-up ballads while Angelina Jolie travels the world with the kids.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & DARREN ARONOFSKY are going strong.

MEL GIBSON, who made headlines back in 2006 for going on a drunken anti-semitic rant, has been quietly working with a charity that helps Holocaust survivors.

WONDER WOMAN: Gal Gadot gave birth to her second child, a daughter named Maya, this week.

THANDIE NEWTON is addressing the lack of roles for people of color in the UK.

ROMAN POLANSKI: Los Angeles prosecutors said in a court filing ahead of a hearing on Monday that the fugitive movie maker could not dictate the terms of his return to the United States from afar.

JENNY SLATE is profiled at Vulture.

CHUCK BARRIS, the goofball host of The Gong Show who also was the manic mastermind behind two other spontaneous game-show classics, The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, has died. He was 87. 

FRENCH police are seeking clues why an airport attacker who shouted he wanted to "die for Allah" attacked. Ooh, that's a puzzler.

RUSSIA is writing the book on cyberwar.

NORTH KOREA has doubled the size of its facility for enriching uranium in recent years, according to the United Nations’ top nuclear inspector, who voiced doubt that a diplomatic agreement can end leader Kim Jong Un’s weapons programs.

 

A GREAT WHITE SHARK circled a Hawaii fisherman's kayak for over an hour. 

FEMALE COCKROACHES can breed for years and multiply their numbers dozens of times alone, without ever mating with a male.

THE DINGO: Pest or endangered species? Villain or environmental savior? Maybe it ate your baby!

THE GREAT EAVERS LAUGHTER OF 2017 at Birmingham's historic Roebuck Golf Course began one January morning. It didn't stop until 17 beavers were dead.

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An actual sick day   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CHUCK BERRY was the main reaon I did't take one yesterday, though in hindsight, I should have.  Andhe only "news" of the sort found here is this:

WOODY HARRELSON has quit smoking pot, in case you had convinced yourself this isn't the End Times.

The regular bit tomorrow, I hope.

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Chuck Berry RIP, Big Thief, PWR BTTM, HFTRR, Ant-Smoking Monkey   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, March 20, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LITERALLY THE END OF AN ERA:

CHUCK BERRY, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties did as much as anyone to define rock ’n’ roll’s potential and attitude in its early years, died on Saturday. He was 90. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and showman, with a keen understanding of marketing and American youth.  A man with flaws to be sure, but there may be no more single influential man in the genre.  Here's Chuck with John Lennon, playing "Johnny B. Goode," a classic American rags-to-riches story married to music so unforgettable that few rock bands ever live without playing it.  Lennon's old band, The Beatles, had covered Berry tunes like "Roll Over Beethoven,"  which Berry plays here with great drive and twang.  Here's "Sweet Little Sixteen," with a melody and geographical conceit so catchy Brian Wilson would steal it for "Surfin' U.S.A."; Berry won a suit for a co-writing credit. (Note the song also namechecks "Bandstand," which was a good way to get Dick Clark's attention.)   He would tap into the restless  teen id on "School Days," and crusing culture on "No Particular Place to Go." Here he is in 1959, syncing "Back in the USA" with all the verve and joy of the song itself, proudly American at a time when an African-American would have every reason to be a bit less than celebratory.  Here's the essential "Great 28" comp on Spotify.

BIG THIEF played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

PWR BTTM  played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

FEIST shares "Pleasure," the title track of he upcoming LP.

METRIC shares "Come On, Angel." 

THE EXCITERS: What's a bear doing in the video for "Tell Him"? I have no idea

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS' Carl Newman talks to Stereogum about America’s political climate, depression, Dan Bejar’s absence this time around, songwriting and more.

THE BEST SMITHS SONGS, according tp Paste.

THE KINKS: Video of Ray Davies being knighted (and talking about it).

GRACELAND TURNS 60: How well do you know the history of rock'n'roll's White House?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:The live-action Beauty and the Beast trounced exen lofty projections with 170-174MM, the biggest March debut and seventh biggest debut ever (before inflation, anyway). It also made 180MM in foreign markets, which means Disney can stop worrying about having to earn 300MM to recoup production and marketing costs.  This could make a billion.  Kong: Skull Island places a distant second with 29.9MM on a 53 percent drop, as expected; this still needs more strength overseas if it's going to profit on big screens.  Logan shows with 17.5MM on a 54 percent drop, withshorter legs the mutants seem to have starting to show. Nevertheless, Jackman breaks the 500MM mark worldwide and thus exits this franchise with good reviews and good receipts.  Get Out slides to the fourth slot with 13.MM on a 36 percent drop, but this si already hge;y profitable and is just now opening overseas.  The Shack rounds out the Top Five with 6.1MM on a 39 percent drop.  Below the fold, The Belko Experiment debuted in seventh with 4MM against a 5MM budget; hardly the makings of a quick horror hit, tho the association with James Gunn may turn it into a cult thing in the home market.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & CHRIS EVANS? Nah, not really.

MARION COTILLARD and her actor/director beau Guillaume Canet welcome a daughter.

TORI SPELLING: No Money, Mo Problems.

HANS ZIMMER talks film scores and why he's quasi-quitting superhero movies.

JIMMY BRESLIN, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.

BERNIE WRIGHTSON, legendary horror comics artist and co-creator of Swamp Thing, passed away Saturday night after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 68.

NORTH KOREA conducted a test of a newly developed high-thrust engine at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch station and leader Kim Jong Un said the successful test was "a new birth" of its rocket industry, the country's official media said on Sunday.

SYRIA fired missiles at Israeli warplanes early Friday after a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria — a rare military exchange between the two hostile neighbors that was confirmed by both sides.

A MILITANT ANTI-SMOKING MONKEY  at an Indonesian sanctuary stole a tourist's pack of cigarettes and ripped the smokes to shreds while a visitor filmed.

A FEW GOOD DOGS sniff out ivory poachers in return for tennis balls.

MONKEYS & PIRANHAS: Part of your heart-healthy diet?

A GOLDFISH with a wheelchair.

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