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Yo La Tengo, Cody ChesnuTT, Tom Waits & Keith Richards, Fluffy Kitten   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, January 09, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BEACH HOUSE droppped a homemade video for "New Year" for the new year.

YO LA TENGO is advance streaming Fade.

CODY CHESNUTT stops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

PEOPLE GET READY stop by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

TOM WAITS & KEITH RICHARDS join for a sea shanty featured on All Songs Considered, along with tracks from Villagers, Ra Ra Riot, Foxygen and more.

PRINCE: A track called " Same Page, Different Book" surfaced via Twitter.

TELEKINESIS drops "Ghosts and Creatures" as a single ahead of Domarion. A new level of sophistication in this one.

ICEAGE drops "Coalition" ahead of You're Nothing.

GENERATIONALS drop "Spinoza" ahead of their third album, Heza. Yum.

EDDIE MONEY singing "Baby, Hold On To Me" circa 1977 is proof the dude wasn't 100 percent decades before the current GEICO commercial.

THE ZOMBIES: Colin Brumstone took some time to speak with Prefix about the English band's impressive career, their influence on younger generations and what they may have in store for the near future.

MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER: Parisian chanteuse Melody Prochet talks to Drowned In Sound about her critically acclaimed LP and her influences.

DAVID BOWIE: 66 facts about the returning icon to mark his 66th birthday yesterday.

THE TOP 10 ELVIS COSTELLO LPs, according to Faster Louder. (Thx, LHB.) 

LINDSAY LOHAN's mother Dina claims that her husband Michael abused her during their marriage (which he denies). ET has obtained vintage photos of the mother of four with a black eye, fwiw.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST just bought an 11 million dollah manse.

AL ROKER: Obligatory. Ew.

LARRY MILLER, a familiar face from his appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, The Nutty Professor and several Garry Marshall-directed movies (Princess Diaries, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve), has recovered from a life-threatening brain injury.

RYAN LOCHTE: The Olympic swimming star lands his own reality show.

CHARLIE SHEEN confirms he has a new adult film galpal.

JENNIFER ANISTON pregnancy rumors continue.

AL PACINO talks about playing Phil Spector for HBO.

THE DGA AWARDS nominations went to these folks. Congrats.

THE RAZZIES nominations went to these folks. Congrats?

TUNISIA: A Tunisian court freed Ali Harzi, a key suspect in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. You don't want to know how much foreign aid Tunisia gets from the US.

YEMEN: Ali Hassan al Ahmadi, yemen's national security chief, said that "the use of friendly aircraft" to target al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, would continue.

EGYPT: Security forces foiled a car bombing attempt in northern Sinai. It is suspected the militants were from Gaza and had entered Egypt through underground tunnels.

AFGHANISTAN: The Obama administration hasn't ruled out a full withdrawal from Afghanistan.

FLUFFY KITTEN is confused. A simple idea, well executed.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A crafty rodent attempted to lure passers-by into a watery grave.

A GOAT tried to take it on the lam by train in Switzerland.

A KANGAROO had the jump on authorities at a Melbourne airport car park. 

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New Releases, Free Energy, Alt -J, Bowie, Fat Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, January 08, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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OVER 15 MILLION SERVED. This past month in particular has been very big for the site, with yesterday setting a new traffic record. Thanks for stopping by... and stay tuned for more news on the materializing Pate reunion...

NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS drop a video for "We No Who U R."

NEW RELEASES from Dropkick Murphys, Sunrunners, The Coasts and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

FREE ENERGY is advance streaming the Love Sign album. More Cowbell!

MOUNT EERIE plays a complex acoustic version of "Ocean Roar" to a sea of empty red seats at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

ALT-J: The Mercury Prize-winners stopped by Oregon Public Broadcasting for a soundcheck.

DAVID BOWIE, widely thought to have retired, announced a new album with a new video, “Where Are We Now?”

JOHNNY MARR joins THE CRIBS on "Leather Jacket Love Song."

SUEDE drops "Barriers," which is also a free download (in exchange for your email addy).

DEVO: It's not always easy to find these live takes on "Satisfaction" and "Jocko Homo" online, so up they go for Twofer Tuesday.

DJANGO DJANGO: Dave Maclean talks to PopMatters about the group's past, present, and future.

GINGER BAKER: The former Cream drummer talks to The Guardian about his battle with heroin, how he was the original Rolling Stones drummer and being the subject of a new documentary.

THE REPLACEMENTS' reunion EP deets.

HENRY ROLLINS says he has stopped thinking lyrically.

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK: Weekend Edition Sunday spoke with Bob Dorough, who composed, conducted and even sang much of the music for the classic cartoons.

 

LINDSAY LOHAN was a no-show in a NYC courtroom for her nightclub assault case — but, luckily for her, prosecutors delayed the proceedings.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST reportedly turned down a chance to rake in some serious coin off baby pics.

JUSTIN BIEBER's team is unhappy that pot smoking pics leaked online, which may be the wrong thing to be unhappy about.

TAYLOR SWIFT is reportedly dunzo with One Direction's Harry Styles.

HEIDI KLUM talks about her "wild and crazy" sex life, marriage, divorce and more with Marie Claire.

PAM ANDERSON was voted off Dancing On Ice following a wardrobe malfunction.

WES ANDERSON: On a train ride in Germany where he was prepping his next film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson talked to Deadline about how he learned to be confident in and satisfied with his unique voice.

IRAN targets dissidents with an army of 30000 spies.

LIBYA: One of two assailants died in an assassination attempt on Ahmed Abu Khattala, who is a suspect in the attack on the US Consulate in Benghazi and the murder of rebel commander General Abdelfattah Younes. Mohamed Magarief, the head of Libya's parliament, survived an assassination attempt while on a state visit to the city of Sebha, in an area declared a closed military zone last month; three of his guards were wounded in the attack.

IRAQ: Al Qaeda killed an Awakening leader and his son in Abu Ghraib. Volunteers for the Awakening are growing.

EGYPT: The government swore in 10 new cabinet ministers, strengthening the role of Islamists.

A FAT CAT in a bathtub. Call Lowell George.

ANIMAL HOARDERS busted with 300 pets after reporting their daughter missing.

A BOBCAT attacked a Massachusetts man in his garage.

A TURTLE escapes after 70 years.

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Jack White, The Lone Bellow, Indians, Turtle   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, January 07, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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JACK WHITE, Live on Austin City Limits.

THE LONE BELLOW is advance streaming their self-titled debut.

INDIANS are advance streaming Somewhere Else.

FLUXBLOG has posted a 10-disc, 191-song, 2012 Survey Mix.

LOCAL NATIVES drop the studio version of "Heavy Feet."

FREE ENERGY drops "Girls Want Rock."

PERE UBU unleases "414 Seconds" from Lady From Shanghai.

COMPRESSORHEAD: Robots cover Motorhead's seminal "Ace of Spades." It's like watching General Grievous drum.

JOHNNY MARR talks to Stereogum about The Messenger, The Smiths, and why he can't stop joining bands.

BLOOD ORANGE: Dev Hynes talks to BlackBook abouthis personal, professional, and recreational highlights of 2012.

THE 2012 PITCHFORK READERS' POLL.

10 MUSICAL ACTS TO WATCH in 2013, courtesy of Flavorwire.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Texas Chainsaw 3D tops your chart with a better-than-expected 23 million (the last Chainsaw movie opened with 18 million).  And this one cost 8 million to make, about half the last budget.  Django Unchained places with 20 million; it crosses the 100 million mark and recoups its production budget domestically.  If not for that budget, it would be a much bigger deal that Django is already the third biggest grossing Western evah, behind Dances With Wolves and the True Grit remake.The Hobbit shows with 17.5 million, but the 45 percent drop suggests it may fall behind the total gross for Fellowship of the Ring, released 11 years of inflation ago.  That said, it already has 825 million in the till worldwide.  Les Miserables takes the fourth slot with 16.1 million; it crosses the 100 million mark, but with less legs than Django.  Parental Guidance rounds out the Top 5 with 10.1 million from people who can't find people being hit in the groin on YouTube.

ZERO DARK THIRTY: The long and winding road that led Seal Team Six to Osama bin Laden's door becomes a long and winding movie from director Katherine Bigelow -- but the movie never feels long, which is a tribute to Bigelow's direction and Marc Boal's screenplay.  Mind you, the screenplay mischaracterizes the role enhanced interrogation of detainees played in the story, though they were important.  Otherwise, the politics that cause so much discussion during the making of the film are largely footnotes to the narrative.  Considerable dramatic license is also taken in focusing the effort on the semi-fictional "Maya" to whom Jessica Chastain brings her considerable talent and restraint.  These issues aside, Zero Dark Thirty plays out as a taut police procedural, with just enough touches of comic relief to keep the audience in the picture.

JUSTIN BIEBER & SELENA GOMEZ just ain't workin'.  But he is smokin' something hand-rolled.

JOSH BROLIN was busted for public intoxication on New Year's Day.

CHARLIE SHEEN has taken up with another adult fil actress. Always ends well.

BRADGELINA's kids accidentally pushed the panic button, sommoning a platoon of cops to the manse.

STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS was screened as a very rough cut for a fan with terminal cancer days before his death.

SAUDI ARABIA denied that its Air Force has targeted al Qaeda militants in Yemen.

SYRIA: Government artillery and aircraft bombarded rebel strongholds in the suburbs of Damascus. Fighting also raged south of the capital. The government claims it captured Mohamed al Zawahiri, brother of al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri.

IRAN began developing software to control social media networking sites. Although the specific sites was not disclosed, both Facebook and Twitter are popular in the country.

A TURTLE checks out a commercial diver.

A CAT carrying a saw and a mobile phone was "detained" as it entered a prison gate in northeast Brazil, Brazilian media reported on Saturday.

A BLIND DOG gets a seeing-eye cat.

A COYOTE killed a puppy in Riverside, IL.

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Replacements, Ben Sollee, Cramps Faves, Cutout Bin, Fetching Fox   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, January 04, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE REPLACEMENTS! Well, sort of. Color Me Obsessed doesn't feature any of the influential indie band's members, or a note of their alternately anarchic and aching music.  Rather, the unlikely rise and fall of the band is chronicled by fans and and associates (and funded by Kickstarter).  Although there are obvious limitations to this approach, there is something esssentially replacements about it.  After all, half the time, the 'Mats fans seemed more interested in the band's fate than the band itself.

BEN SOLLEE stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE CRAMPS: Lux and Ivy's Favorites, Vols. 1-11.

HOLIDAY CHEER: WFUV has a stream of the full concert -- and individual sets from Lake Street Dive, Shelby Lynne, Steve Earle, Shawn Colvin and Lucinda Williams.

SOUNDCHECK'S BEST PERFORMANCES of 2012: Part One and Part Two.

THE FIFTH BEATLE:  Most people forget that brief period when David Lee Roth fronted the Fabs. (slight profanity)

THE BEATLES: Henry Grossman releases an expensive book of previously unseen photos from his trove of over 7000 snaps.

ANDY SUMMERS, who just turned 70, walks The A.V. Club through his Police records (and more).

ADAM YAUCH: The NYT Magazine profile of the late Beastie contains a number of sublime sentences.

POTENTIAL 2013 BREAKOUTS, courtesy of PopMatters.

PATTI PAGE, the apple-cheeked, honey-voiced alto whose sentimental, soothing, sometimes silly hits like “Tennessee Waltz,” “Old Cape Cod” and “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?” made her one of the most successful pop singers of the 1950s, has died at 85.

CUTOUT BIN: From Luis Baclov to the Pretenders, from Teenage Fanclub to Fontella Bass, from ABC to XTC, plus Paul Westerberg, The The, Allah-Las and more -- this year's final fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: Texas Chainsaw 3-D is the weekend's sole wide release, which was not screened for critics. Shocka. A good weekend to catch up on holiday releases you missed.

KIM KARDASHIAN is venting to close friends about her estranged husband, Kris Humphries,parhaps in part because the law would presume (probably incorrectly) that he's the father of her child. Jenny Craig is not interested in signing her to a Jessica Simpson type deal.

JUSTIN BIEBER was stalked and harassed by the photographer who was killed while taking pictures of the singer's car on New Year's Day, and he lied about J.B. smoking pot, according to sources connected with Bieber.

ZOE SALDANA & BRADLEY COOPER are reportedly dunzo again.

LINDSAY LOHAN was paid 100K to party with Brunei's Prince Azim on NYE.

BROOXE MULLER obtained a six-figure settlement from a rehab facility she accused of leaking private information to the tabloid press.

JULIANNE HOUGH claims she was abused as a child.

THE BLACK LIST: Sorry this is a .pdf Acrobat file, but these are Hollywood's most-buzzed-about screenplays.

THE UNITED KINGDOM: Abid Naseer, wanted by the US on terror charges relating to an al Qaeda plot to bomb New York subways, was extradited to the US.

SYRIA: Heavy fighting raged around Taftanaz military airport in northwest Syria. Aleppo's international airport remained under siege. Government forces attacked the rebel stronghold of Daraya in Damascus.

LIBYA: Gunmen from a militant Islamist group kidnapped Abdulsalam al Mihdawi, the acting head of criminal investigation in Benghazi. The militants attacked al Mihdawi and two colleagues in his car as it waited at a stoplight in the city.

EGYPT: The Muslim Brotherhood claimed that the recent arrest of some of its members in the United Arab Emirates was unwarranted. Egypt's opposition liberal and secular groups prepared to create a new political party to contest upcoming parliamentary elections. A senior Muslim Brotherhood official said that Israel would cease to exist within a decade.

A FOX plays fetch.

SUITCASE FULL OF LOBSTER: Not a progressive rock album.

COLO the GORILLA -- the first to be born in a zoo -- celebrated her 56th birthday.

FINCHES were tricked into changing their tune.

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Thursday, January 03, 2013 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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J.D. McPHERSON recently blew the roof off the Ed Sullivan Theater with "Fire Bug."

DROPKICK MURPHYS are advance streaming Signed And Sealed In Blood.

MIGUEL played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices at NPR.

SCOTT WALKER: The reclusive former pop singer visits WNYC Soundcheck to discuss his album for this decade.

PAUL McCARTNEY, Live at the Apollo, Dec. 13, 2010.

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

MOUNTAIN GOATS: There's an online petition to have the White House name John Darnielle the US Poet Laureate.

REDD KROSS: Steven and Jeff McDonald talk to the L.A. Times about family, reunions, and more...

BOBBY WOMACK, who released an acclaimed comeback album in June, revealed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

2012: The Year In Comebacks.

JUSTIN BIEBER: A paparazzo was killed chasing Bieber's Ferrari.

SOFIA VERGARA and her fiancé, Nick Loeb, got into a New Year's Eve fight while clubbing in Miami — which ended with her dress ripped down and him being thrown out by security.

KIM KARDASHIAN: Pregnancy has exploded sales of her sex tape.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE talks to Vanity Fair about the stupidity of acting and shooting suspected home invaders with her bow and arrow.

ANNE HATHAWAY bemoans her "very vanilla" image.

QUENTIN TARANTINO has audio commentary for the Django Unchained soundtrack.

THE MAKING OF THE BLUES BROTHERS: A great oral history, courtesy of Vanity Fair.

IRAN warned foreign surveillance ships and aircraft to stay away in the Strait of Hormuz.

SYRIA: Fighting erupted around Aleppo's international airport. Government aircraft attacked rebel positions in Damascus suburbs. Rebels blew up a natural gas pipeline feeding electricity plants and a fertilizer factory.

THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Security services arrested 10 members of a cell linked to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

EGYPT: State prosecutors began investigating an Egyptian satirist, after he was accused of "undermining the status" of President Morsi. Islamists announced the formation of a new political party.

A GOAT imitates a chicken.

THE IKEA MONKEY did not go home for the holidays.

NINETY ELEPHANTS entered a beauty contest in Nepal.

THE DEER EXPLOSION is affecting British woodlands.

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