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Paisley Underground, Atlas Sound, Steven Malkmus, Joe Henry, Nirvana, Cutout Bin   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, November 04, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE PAISLEY UNDERGROUND!  A two-part (Part 1, Part 2) feature from the Old Grey Whistle Test on L.A.'s psychedelic-flavored, West Coast scene in the mid-80s. Bands featured include the Long Ryders, Prime Movers, Thin White Rope, Pontiac Brothers and the Rain Parade with a 6 minute live version of No Easy Way Down. The Long Ryders get short shrift so I'll add in their later OGWT appearance to play "Looking For Lewis & Clark." The term "Paisley Underground" is believed to have been jokingly coined by Michael Quercio of the band The Three O'Clock, so I'll toss in the clip for "Her Head's Revolving" as a bonus. Other bands associated with the scene not featured include Green On Red -- sometimes likened to The Doors for songs like "Two Lovers" and "Change" -- and The Bangs, a/k/a The Bangles, with an early track, "The Real World." DOUBLE BONUS:  The Guardian Music Blog has a link-rich piece on the Rain Parade and other Paisley Underground bands.

ATLAS SOUND is advance streaming Parallax via the NYT.

STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

JOE HENRY stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

FOOLS GOLD stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

NIRVANA, Live at Man Ray (Cambridge, Massachusetts), April, 18, 1990.

BRIAN WILSON talked to Gothamist about SMiLE and it's about as awkward as you would expect.  But it's a good week to close with hissolo take on "Our Prayer" and "Heroes and Villains."

VAN DYKE PARKS talks to the L.A. Times about surviving decades in the music industry, and returning to vinyl singles.

LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM talked to Gothamist about his solo career, Fleetwood Mac, Tusk, indie bands, and family matters.

WILD FLAG: Janet Weiss talks to the L.A. Times about the band's gestation.

RIOT GRRL: Music critic Everett True posts a lengthy essay on the genre and his relationship to it.

CORY SMOOT, the guitarist who portrayed the character of Flattus Maximus in the theatrical Richmond art-comedy-metal band Gwar, was found dead of unknown causes Thursday morning.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Replacements to Betty Everett, from Game Theory to Marvin Gaye, from Blitzen Trapper to the Beach Boys, plus Teenage Fanclub, the Rascals, Robyn Hitchcock, U2, Liz Phair + Material Issue and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: This weekend's wide releases are: Tower Heist, which is currently scoring 63 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, scoring 71 percent.  Neither have a ton of reviews as I type this, so check links before making a decision.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KRIS HUMPHRIES: The die was cast in their doomed marriage during the prenup negotiations - which were marked by bickering, pettiness, and even contempt.

LINDSAY LOHAN was given a week to check into jail to continue her nude shoot for Playboy magazine, but RadarOnline.com has learned that her first set of photos weren't up to the standards of the men's magazine.

KRISTEN STEWART talks about reshooting the Twilight: Breaking Dawn sex scene.

MICHAEL JACKSON: Closing arguments begin in the Conrad Murray trial.

LEONARDO DiCAPRIO cut his fee 90 percent for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Hoover biopic.

JAMES BOND 23 is now officially titled Skyfall, with a hint about the plot.

NINE FAMOUS MOVIES That Almost Didn't Make It to the Big Screen.

EGYPT: More than eight months after Pres. Mubarak was toppled, the euphoria of Egypt's political spring has surrendered to a season of discontent. There is widespread gloom that Egypt is again stagnating, its economy heading toward a cliff, while the caretaker government refuses or fails to act.

IRAN: The damning nuclear evidence.

AFGHANISTAN: The Obama administration is exploring a shift in the military's mission to an advisory role as soon as next year, senior officials told The Wall Street Journal, a move that would scale back US combat duties well ahead of their scheduled conclusion at the end of 2014.  In a rare insight into the thinking of a Taliban commander, Qari Mahmud Mujahid said the US overtures for peace talks was just trying to save face after battlefield losses.

STOPLIGHT CAT: Let's go to the video.

THE TREE GOATS OF MOROCCO resurface in the media.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Will Jurassic Park's scientists bring back the sabre-toothed squirrel?

A COW halted a soccer match after it wandered on to a pitch in Northamptonshire.

TURTLE SURFING remains controversial.

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St Vincent, Nick Lowe, Dan Mangan, B-52s, Squirrel Threat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 03, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GLEN CAMPBELL drops a video for "Ghost on the Canvas," with a cameo by Paul Westerberg, who wrote the song.

ST. VINCENT played DC's 9:30 Club Tuesday night, and and performs a sesion at 4AD. Annie Clark tells The Guardian why Marilyn Monroe might be responsible for unleashing her dark side.

NICK LOWE stopped by KEXP to play tracks from his albums The Old Magic and At My Age.

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

THE B-52s: Kate Pierson reviews tracks spanning the band's career with The A.V. Club, with embedded videos.

MUMFORD & SONS unveiled a new song, "Ghosts," during a live radio appearance.

AMANDA PALMER, STEPHIN MERRITT, NEIL GAIMAN & MOBY covered the Rocky Horror Picture Show classic "Science Fiction/Double Feature" on Ferguson.

FEIST talks to HitFix about wiping the slate clean for Metals.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid tells The Quietus it's largely only a matter of geography that is preventing the band from new projects.

AUSTRA: Katie Stelmanis talks to the Washington Post about instant success and sexuality in indie rock.

GEORGE ROUNTREE, musical director of the Four Tops for 30 years, died at 61.  Rountree also performed with the Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mary Wilson, Martha Reeves, Frankie Valli, Bill Withers, Freda Payne and David Ruffin.

I WANT MY MTV: Pitchfork excerpts Craig Marks and Rob Tannenbaum's MTV oral history.

LINDSAY LOHAN was sentenced to 30 days in jail, and the judge is holding her on a tight leash to make sure she completes her probation... but really, she won't spend time in a cell... and she was not immediately sent to jail because the judge decided to allow her time to complete her nude photo shoot for Playboy. Head. Desk.

KIM KARDASHIAN claims she made no money from her short-lived wedding and intends to make a donation to charity in lieu of returning the wedding gifts (how taking a 200K charitable deduction on her taxes helps her wedding guests escapes me).  She reportedly considered backing out of the wedding in the first place.

JUSTIN BIEBER's alleged baby.

AMANDA SEYFRIED will star in the Linda Lovelace biopic.

JERRY SEINFELD will guest host "LIVE! with Kelly" after longtime co-host Regis Philbin retires in November.

ALBERT BROOKS was forced to turn down acting roles in Big, Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, and Boogie Nights.

NEXT GEN 2011: Hollywood's Fastest-Rising Stars Under 35.

CAMERON CROWE's TOP 10 (or 36) musical moments in movies.  Crowe talks to the New York Times about breaking out of his post-Elizabethtown funk.

TERROR in FRANCE: Attackers used petrol bombs to destroy the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine, after it published an issue with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed on the cover.

LIBYA: The black flag of al Qaeda was spotted recently flying above a government building in Benghazi.

IRAN: A report by the UN's nuclear watchdog due to be circulated around the world next week will provide fresh evidence of a possible Iranian nuclear weapons program, bringing the Middle East a step closer to a devastating new conflict, say diplomats.  The report will contain an unprecedented level of detail on research and experiments carried out in Iran in recent years, which western officials allege could only be for the design and development of a nuclear warhead.

AFGHANISTAN: Pres Karzai warned a key global conference in Istanbul that there will be no peace for his country without strong regional co-operation on "terror groups". Afghans have lost faith in Pakistan due to the latter's "impulsive" actions, veteran Afghan warlord Gulbudin Hekmatyar said on Tuesday.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Let's go to the video. (Content warning.)

SNAKE in an ATM.

A DACHSHUND was hit by a car and injured Sunday night after it had been fed LSD by its nude owners, Snelville, GA, police said.

WAS IT CRUNCHY? A South Pasadena woman says when she picked up an organic salad from Costco Monday night, she got a tiny surprise - a live tree frog that had hitched a ride among the lettuce leaves.

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Girls, Death Cab, White Denim, Phantogram, Husky sings   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 02, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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GIRLS' Christopher Owens performed an acoustic set at San Francisco's Radio 3 Gallery, including  "Solitude" and "Saying I Love You," covers of the Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" and Skeeter Davis' "End of the World," and four unreleased songs.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE airs a session at Morning Becomes Eclectic.

WHITE DENIM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

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

BLOUSE, mixing early '80s languid post-punk melody and early '90s shoegazer pacing, is advance streaming their self-titled debut.

M83: "Midnight City" was snapped up for the Victoria's Secret holiday commercial.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL & BEN GIBBARD have separated after two years of marriage.

BRIAN WILSON talks to Spinner about the SMiLE Sessions, revisiting some demons in the process. NPR is Deconstructing "Heroes and Villains" from the box set.

MUMFORD & SONS: Ben Lovett talks to PopMatters about his live promotions biz.

PETE TOWNSHEND calls Apple a "digital vampire," and quasi-eulogizes both Steve Jobs and John Peel.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON talks to Vanity Fair about her hacked nude pictures, Woody Allen and more.

JUSTIN BIEBER, slapped with a paternity suit. Bieber's legal team is ready to strike back.

KIM KARDASHIAN was never "in love" with her estranged husband, Kris Humphries, a source close to the former couple tells RadarOnline.

HUGH GRANT became a dad for the first time, welcoming a baby girl in early October.

LINDSAY LOHAN asks for help from the morgue.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & JOHN GOODMAN join the Coen Bros' upcoming "Inside Llewyn Davis," set in the world of 1960s folk music.

HENRY CAVILL talks to Access Hollywood about getting ripped for Immortals and Man of Steel.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: Set pics slightly revealing.

THE TOP EARNING DEAD MUSICIANS, according to Forbes.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS beheaded a Sudanese man for being a sorcerer.

YEMEN: US counterterrorism officials have set their sights on the top bomb maker of al Qaeda's Yemeni branch, whom the officials have identified as a central figure in at least three new potential terror threats involving Americans or American targets.

SYRIA: NATO's chief ruled out intervention, while the Arab League waited for Syria's response to its plan to end the crisis.  UN investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms.

LIBYA: The United Nations Security Council has expressed "concern" over the fate of the massive weapons stockpile built up in Libya under Gaddafi. The UN has expressing concern down to a science.

PAKISTAN: Haqqani leadership - contrary to the American emphasis on drone strikes in the tribal areas - does not have to hide in Pakistan's ungoverned fringes. So close are the Haqqanis' ties to Pakistan's military and intelligence service that one might just as well look for them around the capital, Islamabad, or in the closely guarded military quarters of Rawalpindi.

A HUSKY sings with a baby.

HORSE RESCUED from a Bedford County swimming pool before hypothermia set in.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Militant rodents are trained to play billiards and the piano.

SEA OTTERS know how to chill out.

SHEEP Occupy Madrid.

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New Releases, Cass McCombs, Moogfest, JAMC, Slinky Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 01, 2011 - 08:00 AM
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STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS got Jack Black to be their "Senator." (content warning.)

NEW RELEASES from the Decemberists, Beach Boys, Girl in a Coma, Phantogram and more are streaming this week via Spinner.

CASS McCOMBS is advance streaming Humor Risk, his second LP this year.

MOOGFEST: NPR is streaming sets from Atlas Sound, Moby, Tangerine Dream, CANT, Tim Heckler and The Field.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: A collection of their cover songs.

KAREN O drops a new "Duet."

GUIDED BY VOICES drops "Doughnut For a Snowman."

SUPERCHUNK covers the Misfits' "Where Eagles Dare."

THE FLAMING LIPS are streaming a 24-hour-long song.

THE MAMAS & PAPAS: All the leaves are brown so it's "California Dreamin'" and "Nowhere Man" for Twofer Tuesday.

WILD FLAG's Carrie Brownstein talks to Austinist about the genesis of the band and the current state of music.

DAWES is profiled in USA Today.

TOMMY STINSON answers the inevitable Replacements reunion question.

AMY WINEHOUSE: The Inevitable Posthumous Release is in the works.

KIM KARDASHIAN will divorce Kris Humphries after 72 days of wedded less-than-bliss.  Our short national honeymoon is over.

LINDSAY LOHAN will concede she violated her probation by getting kicked out of her community service program at her next court appearance tomorrow, but is hoping for minimal jail time.

JESSICA SIMSPON kinda sorta admitted she's preganant via Twitter. Couldn't get that big payday she wanted for the story?

TAYLOR SWIFT is prepared to go to war with a gossip website, claiming she was wrongly identified in a "leaked" nude photo.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson returned to the restaurant that triggered an anti-Semiticly fueled DUI arrest that changed his life ... but this time without incident.

BILL MURRAY has joined Charlie Sheen and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the cast of Roman Coppola's A Glimpse Into the Mind of Charles Swan III.

WINONA RYDER turned 40 over the weekend. Get off my lawn.

BEAVIS & BUTTHEAD: Their triumphant return, icymi.

THE SECRET WAR: How the US hunted al Qaeda in Africa.

KENYA INVADES SOMALIA in pursuit of Islamist terrorists, probably bombed a refugee camp instead.

IRAN's  top diplomat bitingly questioned reported US plans to build up American military forces across Mideast countries after withdrawing from Iraq.

AFGHANISTAN: The United States wants Afghanistan's neighbors to pledge to respect its sovereignty at regional talks this week.

SLINKY CAT takes the stairs.

BONE-EATING ZOMBIE WORMS have been found in a three-million-year-old fossil from Italy, say researchers.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent may get the death penalty in Sweden.

DOG EATS BIRD, arson ensues.

THESE MOSQUITOES are genetically engineered to kill - their own children.

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REM, Laura Veirs, David Lynch, Decemberists, Mastiff vs Ducks   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 08:00 AM
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R.E.M. drops two videos for "We All Go Back To Where We Belong" -- one featuring Kirsten Dunst, the other with poet John Giorno.

LAURA VEIRS is advance streaming Tumble Bee.

DAVID LYNCH is advance streaming Crazy Clown Time.

SONGS THAT SCARE, courtesy of All Songs Considered.

THE SCREAM STREAM, courtesy of Folk Alley.

IT CAME FROM CREEPSYLVANIA: Ghoul's Haunted House Soundtrack.

THE DECEMBERISTS drop "I 4 U & U 4 Me," an uptempo cut from their forthcoming EP, Long Live The King.

TOM WAITS drops "Tell Me" --  a bonus cut from Bad As Me.

PEARL JAM: Cameron Crowe pieced together video for "Not For You" to accompany his 20th anniversary documentary.

GQ's music issue has posted inteviews with PJ Harvey, Keith Richards, Jim James, Loutallica, and the Black Keys, with more to come.

THE HORRORS: They're big in Mexico.

CRAIG FINN (The Hold Steady) writes about DC's early 80s hardcore scene for The Guardian.

BRIAN WILSON talks to the L.A. Times about making In The Key of Disney.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Puss In Boots tops the Halloween weekend chart with 34 million, the latest in a line of rather tepid openings for DreamWorks animation (including How to Train Your Dragon, which went on to make 500 million worldwide).  Paranormal Activity 3 slid 65 percent, but still took in 18.5 million, for an 81.3 million total against a 5 million budget.  In Time took the third slot with 12 million, about what gurus expected, against a 40 million budget.  Footloose came in fourth with 5.4 million; this will be profitable, but nowhere near the hit the original was.  The Rum Diary rounds out the Top Five with 5 million against a 50 million budget; this may end up a flop, even accounting for Johnny Depp's worldwide fanbase.

KRISTEN STEWART revealed that the sex scene she filmed with Robert Pattinson in the next Twilight pic was originally so explicit, it was rated R.  Pattinson joked the two may have been married accidentally while shooting the new film.

KAT DENNINGS celebrates her weirdness -- and the success of 2 Broke Girls -- with GQ.

ELISABETTA CANALLIS says she had a father-daughter relationship with George Clooney.

CONAN O'BRIEN will be officiating an on-air gay wedding this week, echoing  the union between Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki on The Tonight Show nearly 42 years ago.

BOND 23 gets another casting surprise, and it's a good one.

YEMEN: Sanaa International Airport has been closed after four blasts destroyed two Yemeni fighter aircraft; the cause of the explosions has not been determined.

PAKISTAN: Prime Minister Gilani categorically said there was no permission given to the US to launch any drone strike against any target inside Pakistan's territory.

AFGHANISTAN: The US military is planning to start withdrawing troops from volatile Kandahar, shifting them to neighboring rural areas even as the Taliban shows it is capable of penetrating the city to attack, according to U.S. and Afghan military officials.

IRAQ's defense chief has said his military will not be fully ready to defend Iraq from external threats until 2020 to 2024, according to a US inspector's report released on Sunday.  The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran.

MASTIFF vs DUCKLINGS: Who you got?

PYTHON vs DEER: Who you got?

GRANNY vs CROCODILE: Who you got?

MOUNTAIN LION prowling DC?

BEAVER: Candaians still love it.

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