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Friday, January 27, 2017 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: 
...with XTC! Look Look is a long-out-of-print collection of music videos from the art-pop combo, Your tracklist includes: "This Is Pop," "Statue of Liberty," "Are You Receiving Me?," "Life Begins at the Hop," "Making Plans for Nigel," "Towers of London," "Respectable Street," "Generals and Majors," "All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)," "Ball and Chain," and "Senses Working Overtime." STEF CHURA streams Messes. BEACHHEADS are streaming five tracks from their self-titled debut. CUDDLE MAGIC streams Ashes/Axis. TY SEGALL advance streams a self-titled LP, icymi. PORCELAIN RAFT advance streams Microclimate. JD McPHERSON covers Erasure's "A Little Respect" like its' a vintage soul track, and it totally works. LAMBCHOP covers Prince’s “When You Were Mine”. 
MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND, "Blinded by the Light," Live in '75. THE VILLAGE VOICE PAZZ & JOP POLL results are online. JAPANDROIDS talk about their favorite garage punk records. FROM JONI MITCHELL TO LAURA MARLING: How female troubadours changed music . BRIAN ENO: Ten of His Best. 
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: A Dog's Purpose, currently scoring 31 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, currently scoring 40 percent; and Gold, scoring 32 percent. VANITY FAIR's Hollywood Issue cover is here. ZOOEY DESCHANEL is pregnant and expecting her second child with her husband, Jacob Pechenik. PAULA PATTON alleges ROBIN THICKE physically abused her during their marriage. The allegations have resurfaced during a custody battle between Patton and Thicke for their son, Julian. BRANGELEXIT: Intimate details of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's explosive marriage breakdown to be revealed in a big budget movie by bestselling author Ian Halperin? ELTON JOHN is writing the musical version of The Devil Wears Prada. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA wants to turn Apocalypse Now into a video game. The horror...the horror... SHIA LeBEOUF Shia LaBeouf was hauled off in handcuffs from his marathon protest site in NYC ... after he got into it with a neo-Nazi. MIKE CONNORS, who took a punch as well as anyone while playing the good-guy private detective on the long-running Saturday night action series Mannix for CBS, has died. He was 91. 
WILD HOGS are invading homes in Florida. DOGS enjoy listening to reggae and soft rock more than other genres of music, according to new research. SCIENTISTS have created a part-human, part-pig embryo. FAMED INDIAN SNAKE TRACKERS have been brought in to find Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades.
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Mary Tyler Moore RIP, King Gizzard, Ty Segall, GbV, Old 97s, Turtles |
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl


FOXYGEN dropped a video for “On Lankershim." KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD played for World Cafe. TY SEGALL stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic. RICHARD THOMPSON, LENNY KAYE, LEE RENALDO & WILL SCHEFF were among those who played a Leonard Cohen tribute at the Music Hall Of Williamsburg. GUIDED BY VOICES shares “Hiking Skin,”ahead of the band's first double album, August by Cake. THE OLD 97s share “All Who Wander” from upcoming album Graveyard Whistling. THUNDERCAT brings KENNY LOGGINS and MICHAEL McDONALD on for "Show You The Way" from Drunk. 
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN breaks out a 12-string to cover Jackie DeShannon's "When You Walk in the Room," which was also a hit for The Searchers. CLOUD NOTHINGS get profiled at Paste. AEROSMITH: Is it the end? BUTCH TRUCKS, one of the Allman Brothers Band's founding drummers, died Tuesday evening in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 69. Page Stallings, Trucks' booking agent, confirmed the veteran musician's death to Rolling Stone, but said a cause of death is currently unknown. HOWARD KAUFMAN, who guided the careers of the Eagles, Aerosmith and Stevie Nicks and helped pull off some of the mightiest rock ’n’ roll world tours of his day, has died at 79. 
MARY TYLER MOORE, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and ’70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn. She was 80. She could sing and dance, give you one of the best sticom episdoes of all time, play against type in movies like Ordinary People and Flirting With Disaster. And that's even before you get to career as a producer of shows like Hill Street Blues and St Elsewhere. But most of all, she could turn the world on with her smile, putting Minneapolis on the pop culture map, boosted by a Sonny Curtis classic, "Love Is All Around," notably covered by the Twin Cities' own Husker Du, as well as Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. DICK VAN DYKE paid tribute to Mary Tyler Moore. SCARLETT JOHANSSON and her husband, Romain Dauriac, have split after two years of marriage. ROGUE ONE editor Colin Goudie shares how he made a full-length story reel for director Gareth Edwards from similar scenes from hundreds of other movies so that Edwards could work out the pacing for the action and dialog. DAISY RIDLEY is ambushed and grilled abour Star Wars: Episode VIII by her Murder on the Orient Express co-star Josh Gad. THE FLASH movie is getting a total rewrite. BRENT MUSBURGER one of the most famous sports announcers of all time, announced Wednesday that he will retire from play-by-play work after he calls the Georgia-Kentucky college basketball game on ESPN on Jan. 31. He was my local sports guy when I was a kid; the anchor was Bill Kurtis. Musberger's rival at the time was Greg Gumbel. 
TURTLES hitch a ride on a lizard. 103 PUPPIES were rescued after a delivery van crashed in NY. No comment from Cruella DeVil. ANDREW JACKSON had a wicked parrot. SLED DOG RACERS return to the Scottish Highlands.
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Foxygen, Pinegrove, Don't Stop Now, Arcade Fire, Orangutan |
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Monday, January 23, 2017 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl


CASS McCOMBS shared a video for "I'm a Shoe." FOXYGEN stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. PINEGROVE is streaming a live LP, Elsewhere. DON'T STOP NOW: A covers copilation that benefits the ACLU is streaming via Bandcamp. ARCADE FIRE & MAVIS STAPLES share "I Give You Power." ANGEL OLSEN shares "Fly On Your Wall."  LIZ PHAIR: "Jealousy." It sneers like she does.SONIC YOUTH's seminal Daydream Nation, reconsidered by Drowned In Sound. Saw the original tour, saw the ATP full performance decades later, get off my lawn. CRAIG FINN talks to Columbus Alive about the difference between living rooms and rock clubs, and whether all of us really do want the same things. PETER OVEREND WATTS, original bassist for Mott the Hoople, has died of throat cancer. He was 69. MAGGIE ROCHE, a member of family vocal group the Roches, has died at age 65. JAKI LIEBEZEIT, drummer and founding member of the seminal krautrock band Can, has died from pneumonia at the age of 78. 
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: M Night Shyamalan's Split is a surprise hit, topping the chart with 40.2MM, about double of predictions. It's the director's first No.1 since 2004 (tho 2015's The Visiit debuted at No. 2 and had very solid ROI). xXx: The Return of Xander Cage placed with 20MM, which has to be disappointing given Vin Diesel returning to the franchise, an 85MM budget and likely big marketing costs. Hidden Figures, last weekend's topper, showed with 16.3MM on leggy 22 percent drop; it's likey profitable now, even before opening abroad. Sing took the fourth slotwith 8MM on a 37 percent drop that's not bad after a long weekend. La La Land rounded out the Top Five with 6.4MM and is proving quite profitable worldwide against a 30MM budget. Below th fold, Rogue One lands in sixth place at breaks the billion-dollar barrier worldwide. M NIGHT SHYAMALAN wants to make an Unbreakable sequel next. VIN DIESEL urges Marvel not to abandon The Inhumans movie (this weekend's box office for xXx may explain why). HARRY POTTER & THE CURSED CHILD: Coming as a film trilogy? GREEN LANTERN CORPS is looking to recruit an A-lister to play Hal Jordan. THE TERMINATOR: James Cameron is in early talks with Deadpool director and VFX wiz Tim Miller to direct a reboot and conclusion of one of cinema’s great science fiction tales. GAVIN ROSSDALE opens up about his ‘worst days’ following his split from Gwen Stefani and the pressure he's under from his kids to find love again. KRISTEN STEWART is speaking up about Donald Trump, recalling when he took an interest in her with a series of tweets in which he voiced his opinion about the actress' personal life. ROMAN POLANSKI's selection as the head of the jury for France's César Awards - the country's equivalent of the Oscars - has sparked outrage. IRAQ: Most Islamic State commanders in Mosul have been killed in battles with Iraqi government forces that raged over the past three months in the eastern side of the city, an Iraqi general said on Thursday. 
AN ORANGUTAN learned to cut branches after observing humans. He wants to be like you. SAVING THE ENDANGERED ONE-HORNED RHINO, one drone at a time. A TERRIFYING WORM lurking at the bottom of the sea is named after Lorena Bobbit. GIRAFFE MILK: The new superfood?
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