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Sharon Van Etten, Sun Kil Moon, Citizen Fish, Eternal Summers, Opossums   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, June 02, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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TAME IMPALA drops a video for "'Cause I'm a Man."

SHARON VAN ETTEN advance streams her new EP, I Don't Want To Let You Down, andgives NPR a track-by-track tour.

SUN KIL MOON streams Universal Themes.

CITIZEN FISH streams their new ska-punk Manmade EP.

ETERNAL SUMMERS streams Gold and Stone.

BEIRUT drops "No No No," the title track to their first LP in four years.

LEON BRIDGES drops "Smooth Sailin'" ahead of Coming Home. For classic R&B fans.

THE VELVET TEEN drops "Eclipses" ahead of All Is Illusory, their first album in nearly ten years.

OFF BROADWAY: "Stay In Time" and "Full Moon Turn My Head Around," for Twofer Tuesday. More power pop for the summer.

DESTROYER: Dan Bejar talks to DIY about taking a more live approach to recording Poison Season.

CALEXICO talks to the Chicago Sun-Times about traveling to Mexico City for inspiration.

ROISIN MURPHY is profiled at Drowned In Sound.

STEREOLAB's TOP 10, according to Stereogum.

BRUCE JENNER is now Caitlin Jenner. But not Kaitlin, because Kardashians.  And Jessica Lange responded to folks thinking they look alike.

TINA FEY & AMY SCHUMER shared an awkward kiss at the Peabody Awards.

TRACY MORGAN broke his silence Monday on TODAY over the car crash that nearly claimed his life, and paid emotional tribute to his late friend and mentor, comic James McNair.

MILA KUNIS's stalker Stuart Lynn Dunn escaped Saturday night from a mental health facility in Pomona, California.

VINCE VAUGHN did a plain-speaking interview with British GQ ahead of True Detective Season 2.

WILLIAM SHATNER will boldly travel across the U.S. on a three-wheeled motorcycle.

DWAYNE JOHNSON is starring in a remake of John Carpenter‘s cult classic Big Trouble in Little China.

MICHAEL ENRIGHT (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest) has reportedly left the glitter of Hollywood to join the Kurdish People's Protection Units in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria.

UKRAINE: Donetsk,a once-booming industrial city of 1 million is now largely a lawless and lifeless center of eastern Ukraine's separatist movement, where residents live under constant threat from marauding militias.

THE ISLAMIC STATE was not merely exaggerating when it boasted of potentially acquiring nuclear weapons from Pakistan, India's defense minister has warned. Of course, India and Pakistan aren't buddies, either.

LIBYA: Government forces are facing an ammunition shortage as they continue to battle Islamist militias in Benghazi, according to a spokesman. As oil output plummets and its currency devalues, ""Libya is on the verge of economic and financial collapse," according to a UN envoy. The Islamic State has "effectively taken over" Sirte.

IRAN: With only one month left before a deadline to complete a nuclear deal with Iran, international inspectors have reported that Tehran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations, partially undercutting the Obama administration’s contention that the Iranian program had been “frozen” during that period.

A FAMILY OF OPOSSUMS was evicted from a woman's closet.

72000 LADYBUGS were released as part of a MD high school senior prank.

THE SWARM: A motorist was pulled over on Interstate 90 near Missoula, Montana, recently with thousands of bees in his car.

A PIG ON THE LAM caused havoc in the sleepy West Australian town of Denmark, disrupting traffic during a two-kilometre romp through the main streets.

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FFS, Arthur Russell, The Deslondes, Damaged Bug, Jellyfish Lake   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 01, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN joined THE WHO on "My Generation" at the MusiCares MAP Fund benefit.

FFS: The Franz Ferdinand/Sparks fusion advance streams their self-titled debut.

ARTHUR RUSSELL: first Listen streams the posthumous collection of unreleased recordings, Corn.

THE DESLONDES advance stream their self-titled debut.

DAMAGED BUG, a side project of Thee Oh Sees' John Dwyer, advance streams Cold Hot Plumbs.

DJANGO DJANGO drops the theme for Slow West, an indie Western with Michael Fassbender.

GIRLPOOL goes "Cherry Picking" ahead of Before The World Was Big.

THE FIVE STAIRSTEPS:  “O-o-h Child." Time for a dance-off?

THE REPLACEMENTS: Paul Westerberg sends a secret message.

JONI MITCHELL's  weeks-long hospitalization is coming into view as sources reveal to Billboard that the singer suffered a brain aneurysm. 

FAITH NO MORE: Mike Patton talked to The Record about reuniting in a different era of the music biz.

SHIRLEY COLLINS, British folk legend, is profiled by The Guardian.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: San Andreas tops the chart with 53MM, better than expected, andd an A- Cinemascore that may give the disaster flick legs enough to profit in theaters.  Pitch Perfect 2 places with 14.4 MM on a non-leggy 53 percent drop, but it has grossed about 200MM worldwide against a 29MM budget.  Tomorrowland shows with 13.8MM on a 58 percent plunge that suggests the flop label.  Mad Max: Fury Road takes the fourth slot with 13.6MM and risks not making a profit in theaters, despite being one of the top films so far this summer.  Avengers: Age of Ultron rounds out the Top 5 with another 10.9MM.  Below the fold, Cameron Crowe's Aloha opened in the sixth slot with 10MM, and despite awful reviews, opened up about where Crowe's last two films did.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST are expecting their second child.

BRUCE JENNER has landed an upcoming cover of Vanity Fair.

FULLER HOUSE: Bob Saget and Lori Loughlin have signed up for Netflix's sequel to the 90s sitcom.

CRUEL INTENTIONS stars Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair reunited to watch a musical parody of their classic teen movie.

KELLY RUTHERFORD's victory in her child custody battle with her ex has proven to be short-lived.

TRON 3 won't be coming to a theater near you.

THE END OF THE TOUR, ft. Jason Segel as author David Foster Wallace, has a trailer online.

NORTH KOREA: The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea's nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.

JELLYFISH LAKE: All of the beauty, none of the sting.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Flesh-craving rodents attack NYC transit workers.

A PIGEON was arrested as a spy near the Pakistani border.

YOU CAN ARREST A PIG, but expect retaliation.

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Power Pop, Best Coast, Mac McCaughan, Kopecky, Trails & Ways,   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with POWER POP! A few of these may be well-known generally, like Cheap Trick's  "Way of the World" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind"... and some well-known to fans of the genre, like Dwight Twilley's "I'm On Fire," Shoes "Too Late," The Records' "Starry Eyes," the Flamin' Groovies' "Shake Some Action" and the Plimsouls'  "A Million Miles Away" (seen here in a rare live slot).  Others are well-known to longtime Pate fans, like the Three O'Clock's "Her Head's Revolving" or Let's Active's "Waters Part."

BEST COAST plays WFUV Live.

MAC McCAUGHAN performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio.

KOPECKY: The Family Band stops by World Cafe.

TRAILS & WAYS advance streams Pathology.

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE drop the previously unreleased "Color Me True" ahead of Live at the Fillmore East.

FFS: The Franz Ferdinand/Sparks collab drops "Call Girl" ahead of a self-titled debut.

BRAM TCHAIKOVSKY: "Girl Of My Dreams" and "Lady From the USA", live. Because it's Power Pop Friday, of course.

JOAN JETT:  "Everything rocks: Food rocks, clothes rock, everything rocks except rock."

FRANK BLACK talks songwriting with Paste.

THE RISE AND FALL of the Compact Disc.

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: 15 True Crime Songs, compiled by Paste.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include San Andreas, which is currently scoring 52 percent on the ol' Tomatometyer; and Cameron Crowe's Aloha, which is scoring a tragic 11 percent.

LINDSAY LOHAN is off prbation, after a mere eight years.

GEORGE CLOONEY vs DWAYNE "THE ROCK" JOHNSON: Who you got?

JESSICA ALBA: One of America's Richest Self-Made Women.

JUSTIN BIEBER & SELENA GOMEX, together again...on Snapchat.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS boasts Andy Serkis as the man in charge of... something.

NETFLIX now uses more bandwidth than X-rated sites.

SYRIA: The leader of al-Nusra Front — the al Qaeda-affiliate group in Syria — insisted that he is under orders from the organization's central leadership not to attack Western interests in Syria, but rather focus on toppling President Bashar al-Assad.

IRAN: France announced it would not sign any nuclear deal which did not give inspectors access to military sites.

IRAQ:  With new waves of civilians fleeing ISIS violence in Anbar there are now more internally displaced Iraqis than there were at the height of the bloody sectarian fighting that followed the American invasion.

A BADGER raids a fridge in Midhurst, West Sussex.

PIP THE PUG, 4 inches tall, may be Britain's smallest dog.

THE SWARM: A Chinese man was covered in a million bees in an attempt to set a new record.

A COW that made a daring bid for freedom when it escaped from a slaughterhouse was tracked down and shot near a McDonald's.

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Christopher Owens, Milk Carton Kids, Matt Pond PA, The Darkness, Shark   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, May 28, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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JENNY LEWIS drops a self-deprecating, cameo-laden video for "She's Not Me."

CHRISTOPHER OWENS advance streams a surprise release, Chrissybaby Forever.

THE MILK CARTON KIDS stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MATT POND PA perform a mini-set from their upcoming record State Of Gold live on KEXP.

THE DARKNESS advance streams Last of Our Kind.

THE ROLLING STONES drop an alternate version of "Dead Flowers" ahead of the deluxe Sticky Fingers.

RICKIE LEE JONES talks to Ann Powers about her spiritual quest, her love of the Crescent City, and more.

THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL plans to pay a 50th anniversary tribute to Bob Dylan's going electric with a secret lineup of musicians billed as ’65 Revisited.

INDIE ROAD TRIP SONGS, compiled by the Phoenix New Times. (Thx, LHB.)

U2’s longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, died at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Hollywood. He appeared to die of natural causes.

KIM KARDASHIAN & KANYE WEST are reportedly exploring surrogacy.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN went on a date with Rick Fox.  But Lamar Odom thinks he still has a shot.

TATUM O 'NEAL is dating women now.

ALEC BALDWIN talks to THR about fatherhood, Mission Imposssible: Rogue Nation, and Glengarry Glen Ross.

LINDSAY LOHAN may complete all of her community service by today's deadline.

TILDA SWINTON  is negotiations to portray the Ancient One in Marvel's Doctor Strange.

CHRIS PINE  is in negotiations to play Steve Trevor in Warner Bros.' Wonder Woman.

THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN may get a second chance.

VENEZUELA's largest bill of 100 bolivars is now worth less than a U.S. quarter to money-changers after a plunge in the currency's black-market value.

RUSSIA's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. But is Ukraine the price of heading off nuclear jihadis?

IRAQ: Hundreds of civilians who escaped the Iraqi city of Ramadi after it was seized by ISIS in last week's bloody insurgency have been rounded up and arrested by Iraqi militia - because they were suspected of being terrorists in disguise.

A SHARK gets a belly rub.

A 100-YEAR-OLD-TORTOISE --one of four remaining of her species--gets a last chance to breed.

THE DEMENTOR WASP turns prey into a zombie, then eats it alive. Sucks all the joy out of the world.

CHICKENOSAURUS is halfway here. They've spared no expense.

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Torero, Vows, Communions, Algiers, Richard Thompson, Dog commute   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE RAGTIME GALS cover The Police's "Roxanne."

TORERO advance streams their self-titled debut.

COMMUNIONS advance stream their self-titled debut EP.

ALGIERS advance streams their gospel-punk debut.

VOWS advance stream Soon Enough Love.

RICHARD THOMPSON drops "All Buttoned Up" ahead of Still.

DAVID BOWIE: "Modern Love." from the Summer of 1983.

MAC McCAUGHAN shared the soundtrack of his life at Pitchfork.

HOLLY HERNDON talks to Weekend Edition about her intimate relationship with technology and how that reflects her art.

B.B. KING The Clark County coroner’s office in Nevada is investigating claims that blues legend was poisoned, but coroner John Fudenberg said there was no immediate evidence to support the allegations.

LYNN RIPLEY, a/k/a Twinkle, who scoried a Top Ten hit just after she left school in 1964 with "Terry," a mawkish ballad about a dead bike, has died of cancer aged 66.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY and her musician husband James Righton (Klaxons) have welcomed their first child together.

JOHNNY DEPP could face 10 years in jail for smuggling his dogs into Australia. Oh sure.

TAYLOR SWIFT told  BBC Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw that her hit albums, sold-out tours, and many awards do not take quite as much work as many people think.

DAVID DUCHOVNY said the first page of The X-Files revivial script made him cry.

RACHEL McADAMS teared up at her sister's nuptuals. Life does not imitate Wedding Crashers.

POINT BREAK: The remake has a trrailer online, but why remake a perfect movie?

JONNY QUEST: Robert Rodriguez has come onboard to co-write and direct a live-action feature adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY refuses to resume negotiations with Israel without Israeli recognition of the pre-1967 borders as the basis for talks and of East Jerusalem as the future Palestinian capital, a PA spokesman said on Tuesday.

LIBYA: Gunmen tried to assassinate Libya's internationally recognized prime minister on his way to the airport in the eastern city of Tobruk on Tuesday, a spokesman for his government said.

IRAN's deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has denied committing to military site inspections under the nuclear agreement with P5+1 world leaders.

AFGHANISTAN: Heavily armed insurgents stormed a guesthouse in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul late on Tuesday night and were still battling Afghan security forces more than two hours after the assault began.

IRAQ: US Defense Secretary Ash Carter's blunt assessment that Iraqi forces lack the "will to fight" undermines a central premise of President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating the Islamic State: that Iraq's military can effectively handle ground operations so Americans don't have to.

A DOG tailed his owner to the morning train in Scotland. He used a trampoline.

FISH BRAIN SIZE matters to fish...but only the females.

SUPER-RATS could multiply to 150 million this year in the UK.

SPIDERS use music to woo partners, much like college students.

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