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YFFs, Ben Watt, Brass Bed, John Carpenter, Dog |
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Friday, April 01, 2016 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with the YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS! Live at Cicero's in St. Louis, On November 23rd,1985, so this is Chuck Carroll-era YFFs. Selections include: "Gus Theme," "White Bird," "If I Had A Hammer," "Power Mowers' Theme," "Where Is Groovy Town?", "Sharing Patrol," "Topsy Turvy," "Young Fresh Fellows Theme," "Hang On Sloopy," "All Messed Up," "Big House/ Love Boat Theme medley" "Mr. Salamander's Review," "Down By The Pharmacy," "Close to You/ Someone I Care About," "Aurora Bridge," "How Much About Last Night Do You Remember?" "This Little Mystery," "Searchin' USA," "Fair Exchange," and "My Friend Ringo." BEN WATT (Everything But the Girl) is advance streaming his new solo album Fever Dream. BRASS BED advance streams In the Yellow Leaf. JOHN CARPENTER (yes, that one) advance streams Lost Themes II. MOONFACE and SIINAI drop “Risto’s Riff" ahead of My Best Human Face. THE SMALL FACES play "Itchycoo Park," their only US charter. CHEAP TRICK's Rick Nielsen talks to Aquarium Drunkard about the band's new record, playing with John Lennon, and recording with the late George Martin. THE BESNARD LAKES deny being witches and warlocks, as you would expect. LAURIE ANDERSON talks to The Guardian about curating the Brighton festival, Lou Reed, her new film and what her pet terrier taught her about growing old. ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: Ten of Their Best. NOW SHOWING:This weekend's wide releases include God's Not Dead 2 and Meet the Blacks, neither of which was widely screened for critics. I Saw the Light expands near-wide, scoring 13 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. Everybody Wants Some!! opens on 19 screens, scoring 98 percent. BEN AFFLECK has written his own Batman script. And I might trrust him more than Zack Snyder now. SUICIDE SQUAD is rumored to be undergoing reshoots to lighten it up so it's not as dark as BvS. ROBIN WRIGHT is in final negotiations to join Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling in Alcon's Blade Runner sequel. CHRIS HEMSWORTH talks women in film, from The Huntsman: Winter's War to the Ghostbusters reboot. WILLIAM SHATNER is being sued for 170MM by a Florida-based radio host who claims that the Star Trek actor is his father. NASCAR driver/owner Derek White turned himself into authorities Wednesday and faces seven charges in connection to the biggest tobacco-smuggling bust in North American history. RONNIE CORBETT, best known for BBC comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies, has died aged 85. Corbett started his TV comedy career on David Frost's satirical comedy the Frost Report in 1960, which meant that his career tended to cross paths with the future members of Monty Python, who wrote (and in the case of John Cleese, performed) on the show. COLD WAR REDUX? As tensions continue to escalate between Russia and the West, the Pentagon has announced plans to deploy U.S. troops, armed with modern equipment and heavy artillery, full time along NATO’s eastern borders. HE'S GOT THIS... or does he? A BABY FOX is being cared for by the Scottish SPCA animal charity after becoming separated from its mother. AN ENDANGERED PANTHER visits a Florida porch. THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Exterminators were mistaken for gunmen, resulting in the locdown of a school, after a clever phone call from militant rodents in Arkansas.
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Teen Suicide, Anthony Hamilton, All Songs, Neko Case, Walrus |
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS drops a video for "Ablaze." TEEN SUICIDE advance streams It’s The Big Joyous Celebration, Let’s Stir The Honeypot. ANTHONY HAMILTON (and the Hamiltones) play a Tiny Desk Concert. ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: New tracks from Wire, Parquet Courts, Explosions in the Sky, and more feature in the latest edition. NEKO CASE, k.d. lang, and LAURA VEIRS reveal their “Best Kept Secret." MARK KOZELEK, with Will Oldham and Mimi parker, covers Waylon Jennings’ “Amanda" ahead of Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites. SNIFF 'N THE TEARS: "Driver's Seat," from the Boogie Nights soundtrack and Craig O'Neill's vaultBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN danced to "Ramrod" with hsi 90-year-old Mom at MSG. Aw. BOB MOULD: An Essential Guide. (Thx, Frank Yang.) THE SOUND makes The Guardian's list of Cult Heroes. PUDDLE OF MUDD abandoned their frontman onstage. PATTY DUKE, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred as two cousins on her own sitcom, died Tuesday. She was 69. BTW, she was also the bomb in Valley of the Dolls. JAMES NOBLE, the actor best known for his role as the absent-minded governor on the hit 1980s sitcom Benson, died on Monday at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut. He was 94. ELTON JOHN denied claims that he sexually harassed his former bodyguard. CHARLIZE THERON talks to WSJ Magazine about motherhood (for the second time), making peace with her past (relationship with Sean Penn and otherwise) and finding personal strength in fear and weakness. DAISEY RIDLEY: Audition footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. BILLY DEE WILLIAMS returns as the Colt .45 spokesman. LOVE & FRIENDSHIP, director Whit Stillman's take on Jane Austen, has a trailer online. ISIS might have pulled off a string of terrorist attacks across Europe in recent months, but on its home turf in Iraq and Syria it has suffered one setback after another. A WALRUS learns to vocalize, including whistling. Goo goo goo joob. A BABY GIRAFFE debuts at the Santa Barbara Zoo. A GOAT hanging by its horns from a power line was rescued in Greece. YELLOWSTONE BISON are not down with the selfies.
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Shearwater, Lucius, The Heavy, Raveonettes, Dog Fence |
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Monday, March 28, 2016 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
OUTER SPACES drops "I Saw You" ahead of their debut LP. SHEARWATER stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. LUCIUS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. THE HEAVY plays a twofer from the SXSW Radio Day Stage. THE RAVEONETTES drop "Excuses" as the latest release from their singles club. PETER BJORN & JOHN drop "Breakin' Point," the title track for their next LP. And there's whisting for the young folks. 999: "Homicide." You better believe it. BOB MOULD talks to the New York Times about the state of punk and learning to keep things straightforward. KEITH RICHARDS once threatened to knife Donald Trump. JASON ISBELL talks to the Adelaide Review. (Thx, LHB.) ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVERS IN THE DARK: Underrated? WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Batman v Superman easily tops the chart with 170MM, the best Warner Bros.opening ever. That suggests it will recoup its 250MM production budget and 150MM marketing costs domestically, let alone with world wide grosses. As I speculated in Friday's review, the average moviegoer seems to be liking this much more than the c ritics. Zootopia places with 23.1MM; it's still outpacing movies like Finding Nemo and Frozen. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 shows with 18.1MM, and may also survive bad reviews against a 18MM budget, though the older crowd for this one pays more attention to reviews. Miracles From Heaven takes the fourth slot with 9.5MM. The Divergent Series: Allegiant is close behind, rounding out the Top Five with 9.5MM on a steep 67 percent drop; this could get painful. HUGH JACKMAN was filmed helping to pull children from a riptide at Sydney's Bondi Beach. GARRY SHANDLING's spokesman says doctors believe the comedian died from a heart attack. MILEY CYRUS & ALICIA KEYS will replace Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams as coaches for season 11 of The Voice. BEVERLY CLEARY, the author who prought us Henry Huggins, Ramona & Beazus, and Ribsy is turning 100 soon. MARIAH CAREY canceled her Easter Sunday show in Brussels in light of the recent terrorist attacks. PAKISTAN: A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians. SYRIAN militias armed by different parts of the U.S. war machine have begun to fight each other on the plains between the besieged city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, highlighting how little control U.S. intelligence officers and military planners have over the groups they have financed and trained in the bitter 5-year-old civil war. HOW ISIS laid out its plans to export chaos to Europe. THIS JUST-COMPLETED DOG FENCE needs to be taller. BIRDS use ALLIGATORS as bodyguards. A SUSPECTED KOMODO DRAGON was captured in NYC. PIZZA SQUIRREL: Chicago's answer to Pizza Rat. But it's not deep-dish.
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