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Arthur Buck, The War & Treaty, Bob Mould, Michael Chapman, Homecoming Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 29, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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IKE & TINA TURNER: "River Deep, Mountain High," live and de-Spectorized.

ARTHUR BUCK: Joseph Arthur and Peter Buck visit World Cafe.

THE WAR and TREATY  stop by The Current.

THE INNOCENCE MISSION plays a Tiny Desk Concert.

BOB MOULD rips it on a new track, "What Do You Want Me To Do."

MICHAEL CHAPMAN: The Brit folk legend shares "It's Too Late."

 

SHARON VAN ETTEN shares a video for "Jupiter 4."

JEFF TWEEDY on addicition, anxiety, and a lifetime of art.

ELVIS COSTELLO Explains His Songwriting Secrets.

JASON MOLINA gets an in-depth appreciation at The Believer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Zager & Evans novelty sci-fi folk-rock curiosity "In The Year 2525"

 

HOW LES MOONVES tried to bury a sexual assault allegation.

THE GAME OF THRONES reunion special is definitely happening. But not on HBO.

BRADGELINA asked the court to give them more time with the private judge so they can reach a settlement on the custody of their children.

VOX LUX drops a trailer featuring Natalie Portman singing Sia and Greg Kurstin's "Wrapped Up."

STAN LEE officially died from heart and respiratory failure.

INFINITY WAR: A new book reveals new survivors of Thanos.

INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE is getting fantastic early buzz.

 

A DOG Cannot Control Her Excitement When a Solider Comes Home.

A CAT, on a skateboard.

THE MANDARIN DUCK is back and feisty in Central Park.

THE FIRST CHEETAH COTUPLETS born in North America have turned one.

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Kacey Musgraves, boygenius, Jenny & the Mexicats, Giant Steer   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WHO: "I'm A Boy."

KACEY MUSGRAVES stops by World Cafe.

BOYGENIUS plays a live KEXP session.

JENNY & THE MEXICATS play a Tiny Desk Concert.

 

SPEEDY ORTIZ features claymation coyotes in "I'm Blessed."

TRIBUTE ACTS: Harmless Fun or Musical Scourge?

RICHARD LLOYD looks back on 40 years of nerve-tingling axe work.

SIMPLY RED: How we made "Holding Back the Years."

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Henry Mancini's romantic film-score adaptation "Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet."

 

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS creator Stephen Hillenburg has died of ALS at 57.

GAME OF THRONES: Lena Headey shares new behind-the-scenes photo and videos.

VENOM: Sony put out a "rom com" trailer for the movie's home release.

GIGI HADID finally overcame her fear of facials.

LAINEY GOSSIP's Elaine Lui on blind items, the Oscars, and more.

ROCKY MOVIES, ranked by Uproxx.

 

KNICKERS: The steer too big to kill.

WOMEN sleep better next to dogs than humans.

A CHIPMUNK sits and eats.

MAGGIE & ORA perfected the duo snoozle.

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Elton John, Maggie Rogers, Hatchie, Art Brut, Iceage, Mandarin Duck   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 08:00 AM
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JASON and the SCORCHERS cover "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and play "Harvest Moon" for Twofer Tuesday.

ELTON JOHN, Live at the Music Hall in Cleveland, Nov. 26, 1970.

MAGGIE ROGERS stops by The Current.

HATCHIE stops by World Cafe.

ART BRUT shares “She Kissed Me (And It Felt Like a Hit).

ICEAGE shares "Broken Hours."

 

BOYGENIUS covers the Dixie Chicks' "Cowboy Take Me Away."

JEFF TWEEDY: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview.

BOB DYLAN, selling whiskey at the circus.

THE 50 BEST ALBUMS of 2018, according to Paste.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at the Beatles' back-to-basics attempt "Get Back."

 

LENA DUNHAM is mostly done making herself the subject of the story.

AMANDA BYNES reenters the spotlight after four years sober.

KIM KARDASHIAN claims she was on ecstacy when she made her infamous sex tape.

JOE SCARBOROUGH & MIKA BRZEZINSKI got hitched in the National Archives.

DAKOTA JACKSON joined CHRIS MARTIN & GWYNETH PALTROW for Thanksgiving.

HELLBOY: The rebbot will be more bloody and violent than the original.

CHRISTOMPHER McQUARRIE talks Mission: Impossible, Maverick, and more.

 

THE MANDARIN DUCK was spotted in northern New Jersey.

A BEAR, captured on camera standing on hind legs, turning a door handle to open the door and walking into California Highway Patrol facility.

A CAT LIES IN WAIT: She is elusive and cunning.

A WHALE, blowing a rainbow.

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Jon Pratt, Janelle Monae, Soccer Mommy, Tom Morello, Cat vs Ostriches   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 26, 2018 - 08:00 AM
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JON PRATT: When not redefining the kilogram, he's reinventing the Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love?"

JANELLE MONAE plays Austin City Limits.

SOCCER MOMMY plays a mini-set at Iceland Airways.

TOM MORELLO stops by World Cafe.

BONO & PHARRELL sing the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive."

AIMEE MANN talks to Stereogum about her early LPs and music videos, collaborating with Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Jon Brion, and PT Anderson, and battling the biz.

THE BEATLES' "White Album" songs, ranked by Stereogum.

LFO singer Devin Lima died at age 41 on Wednesday morning following a yearlong battle with stage 4 cancer.

THE NUMBER ONES looks at Tommy Roe's spun-around bubblegum smash "Dizzy" and the 5th Dimension's flower-child show tune "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Ralph Breaks the Internet tops the holiday chart with 84.5MM over the five-day frame, a Thanksgiving debut second only to Frozen Creed II places with 55.8MM the best-ever live-action debut in this frame, and could outeran the original by a substantial amount. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald showed with 42.9MM, edging out The Grinch, which took in 42MM for fourth place over the long weekend. Of course, the difference in budgets means the former has to continue more strongly abroad to get into the black on the big screen. Bohemian Rhapsody rounds out the Top Five with another 19.3MM as aprt of the weekend's record haul of 314MM. Of course the remake of Robin Hood was part of that too, but a seventh-place, 14.2MM debutagainst a nerly-100MM budget can't be making the folks at Lionsgate merrie men.

THE LION KING remake has a teaser trailer online.

STAN & OLLIE has a trailer online.

JULIE ANDREWS has a secret role in Aquaman.

BRADGELINA are settling their child custody dispute.

GAME OF THRONES: Kit Harington's rep denies allegations of infidelity to Rose Leslie.

NATALIE DORMER: Not a fan of journalism, social media, or sex scenes.

THE TOP 10 EPISODES OF THE SOPRANOS, according to Vulture.

NICOLAS ROEG, the British cinematographer turned director who employed his visual flair on such films as David Bowie’s The Man Who Fell to Earth and the horror masterpiece Don’t Look Now, has died. He was 90.

RICKY JAY, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as Boogie Nights, House of Games and Deadwood, died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72. The New Yorker profiled him in 1994.

CAT vs OSTRICHES: Who You Got?

A DOG, trying to steal another smaller dog.

WANT TO VISIT a cave full of glowworms?

DOG kills owner with forklift truck.

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Faves 2018   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 21, 2018 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE... with FAVES 2018!  I occasionally hear from folks who want to know what music -- from among all of the posts I do here -- I recommend.  To some degree, I recommend all of it, unless I expressly write otherwise (e.g., it's not my thing, but it might be yours).  With the holiday shopping season upon us, I have tried to make a list of reasonable size.  It's an unordered list. I likely will have overlooked something that I really dig.  And note these are my faves; I'm not purporting to list the "Best" albums of the year.

U.S. GIRLS: Meg Remy's In a Poem Unlimited has the indie DNA and biting lyrics, but with soul, funk and disco influences running throughout that may recall Blondie, if you fed Blondie through a flanger to make it a little more mellow and groovy.

BOYGENIUS: This self-titled EP brings together Julian Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus together for a collaboration that may not be a supergroup in the trad sense, but still superb. All three bring to the table different flavors of a sensibility that might be described as Laurel Canyon filtered through the Carolinas, and spiced by the perspective of a younger generation of female songwriting. They seem to edit the collective pretty well, with the sum occasionally being greater than the sum of its parts. Dacus put out a fine LP of her own this year, Historian. And I was probably remiss in not at least mentioning mentioning Bridger's Stranger in the Alps or Baker's Turn Out the Lights in 2017.

COURTNEY BARNETT: Like many, I name-checked Liz Phair as a refernce the last time she made the Faves. That influence remains on Tell Me What You Really Feel, though it's perhaps more in the sound and general non-glossy production. I might say there's a bit more Chrissy Hynde there now, especially on the more muscially aggressive numbers.

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS: May Your Kindness Remain takes the occasional nod to modernity in its instrumentation, but the confidence of this album is evident in the degree to which it is also very much an old school country album, with well-observed lyrics rooted in a sense of place and a kindness for its people. And it doesn't hurt Andrews has a gorgeous voice that lends the entire album a sense of grace.

NEKO CASE: The coverage of Hell-On emphasized Case's triumph over various travails, and certainly she makes good use of it as grist for her mill. But the fact is that I could listen to Case sing the phone book, if phone books still existed.

RICHARD SWIFT: It may be reductive as it is unavoidable to listen to Swift's final album, The Hex, as wrestling with the demons that finally killed him. But the saddest parts are those flashes where you think he may have subdued them. There is perhaps as much beauty to be found there as there is in the music, with its jazzy arrangements recalling Rundgren, Nilsson, and Lee Hazlewood at times, albeit swaddled in a cozy reverb that allows you to sink into it like an overstuffed sofa.

FATHER JOHN MISTY: God's Favorite Customer is ever-so-slightly less lush than its predecessors, slightly less arch than Pure Comedy, and less unsparing than I Love You, Honeybear. Yet I don't get the feeling that he was deliberately looking to annoy fewer people, even if he was (and weirdly recalling early Elton John in certain melodic moments). Indie kids of this generation will lord it over their offspring that they were around for a fairly remarkable string of albums, if they have offspring.

TY SEGALL was a busy, busy man in 2018. Freedom's Goblin may get my vote for fave rawk album this year, a double LP that has enough variety to sustain itself, though generally stamped with Segall's mix of "heavy" guitar with its psych, garage, and occasional funk influences. He also released a covers collection called Fudge Sandwich, which is good though slighly less interesting, and Joy, a second collaboration with White Fence, that is alright, biut the least of a big year.

CHARLES BRADLEY: Obviously, you weren't going to get through Faves list of mine without some retro-soul if it all possible.  The posthumous Black Velvet is largely a collection of outtakes, but the steady involvement of the Menhan Street Band and Bradley's own musical compass make for a coherent album. And really, I wouldn't care so much about the coherence anyway; I just want to luxuriate in Bradley's passionate grooves.

SHANNON & THE CLAMS: Onion nicely captures the sort of pop America got from the time Elvis entered the Army through perhaps the first year or so of the British invasion. It doesn't come off as overly studied, even when the homage to someone like Del Shannon stays a notch to close to the source. After all, I like that thin, mercurial, desperate organ sound.

CAR SEAT HEADREST: Remaking 2011's Twin Fantasy is a bit self-indulgent, but he retains its wit and verve while bringing greater definition to the sound. I'm still a bit of two minds about it, insofar as I'm fine with a lo-fi production, but as I get older, I have less of a problem with this sort of move if it expands his audience. He certainly pulls this off better than George Luca did with the Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy, anyway.

THE LEMON TWIGS proved this year that a disappointment can still make my Faves. Go To School doesn't really hold up as a concept album, but then again, most concept albums don't withstand a great deal of scrutiny. In any event, those '60s and '70s influences I like in Richard Swift's LP get a brighter and jauntier take here and I'm a sucker for that, even if it occasionally gets a little pompous. When it works, as on "Queen of My School," it really works.

ST VINCENT: MassEducation is the stripped-down version of MASSEDUCATION, which probably should have made last year's Faves for it's less arty, more new wavey vibe. So at least Annie Clark gave me the chance for this make-up, and to focus on the quality songwriting as well. I may miss her earliest, twee Disney incarnation, but Clark has become a vital force and pop is better off for it.

RICHARD THOMPSON: I suppose I have come to terms with the fact that someone with this much talent -- whether it's ths the guitar, the songwriting or the singing -- may never get the recognition of a Clapton, Beck or Page, even though he's also remarkably consisent. 13 Rivers winds up being one of the longer single LPs on this list, perhaps reflecting my "don't bore us, get to the chorus" pop bias.  But when it's Thompson, you just want to hang out longer as he unreels a solo (even when you know it's probably going to be better live).

ELVIS COSTELLO: Like Thompson, EC is usually so consistent that it would be unfair to view his latest, Look Now, as a "return to form." But it has some of the snap of Get Happy and, pop of Punch the Clock, combined with some of the sophisticated flourishes of Imperial Bedroom or his collaborations with Burt Bacharach. And the lyrics remind us he is a master craftsman. He may have mellowed a bit with age, but so do fine wines.

THE KINKS: Fifty years on from the creative destruction of 1968, we're getting a lot of top-flight reissues: The Beatles, Music From Big Pink, and Electric Ladyland among them. But The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society really leapt out at me this year. Conflict with US labor unions kept the band out of America for years, and as a result this collection is the start of a particularly British phase for Ray Davies. It's a collection that also deepens his suspicion of modernity. Aside from being a fave of mine on a purely musical level, its nationalistic and communitarian streaks are worth comparing and contrasting with the current political moment, both here in the US and in the UK.

Anyway, that's a fairly representative sample. On another day, maybe it would be Yo La Tengo, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Go-Kart Mozart, Phosphoresent, or Bob Dylan's More Blood, More Tracks edition of the Bootleg series making the big list.

A CHARLIE BROWN THANKSGIVING:  It's always somewhere on the net.

WKRP: "Turkeys Away," in its entirety. And here's the turkey giveaway by itself.

THANKSGIVING:  George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation (1789).  It was controversial at the time.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include Ralph Breaks the Internet, which is currently scoring 91 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Creed 2, which is currently scoring 81 percent; and another version of Robin Hood, scoring 16 percent. Green Book expands wide scoring 81 percent, while The Front Runner expands to 500 screens scoring 58 percent.

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