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Thursday, July 30, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
CRAIG FINN joined TITUS ANDRONICUS at Shea Stadium (not that Shea Stadium) for enocres including the Replacements' "Bast^rds of Young" and Billy Joel's "You may Be Right." LORD HURON played the Newport Folk Festival. ASHLEY MONROE played live at WNYC. DWIGHT YOAKUM stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a sesssion, including his cover of Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." WRECKLESS ERIC palyed the trifecta for KUTX. THE CHILLS drop "America Says Hello" ahead of Silver Bullets, their first in 19 years. COWTOWN drops "Castle Greyscale" as a demo. TOTO: "Hold the Line." Guilty pleasure. JEFF TWEEDY spoke with Pitchfork Editor-in-Chief Mark Richardson at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN: Jim Reid tells The Quietus why the time was right to revisit Psychocandy.(Thx, Frank Yang.) CHRISTOPER PAUL STERLING lists five albums close to his heart for Tidal. US MUSIC SPENDING plummeted 71 percent since 1999. And there's much more at the link. BEN AFFLECK is denying a report that he's begun a romance with Christine Ouzounian, a woman who once nannied for his and Jennifer Garner's three children. GISELE BUNDCHEN: Wearing a burqua to hide cosmetic surgery? Or does she just not want to talk about Tom Brady? MICHELLE WILLIAMS and author Jonathan Safran Foer are dating. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's boyfriend, Nick Gordon, is in the crosshairs of prosecutors who want to charge him with involuntary manslaughter. CHANNING TATUM may be leaving Marvel's Gambit movie. MARRIED WITH CHILDREN may get a spin-off. 13 HOURS: Michael Bay's thriller about...Benghazi has a red band trailer online. THE 100 BEST MOVIES, according to actors selected by TimeOut (the individual Top Tens are also online). The top film is...not usually mentioned as such. FRANCE deployed more than 100 riot police officers to Calais to bolster security as hundreds of migrants have been trying night after night to rush the railway tunnel leading to England — at times with fatal consequences. RUSSIA vetoed an United Nations Security Council resolution that aimed to establish an international tribunal with powers to prosecute those responsible for the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine last year. IRAN intends to construct at least four new nuclear plants in the country within a decade, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Tuesday. The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, during a talk on the Iranian nuclear deal, called the Middle East’s Sunni Arab nations “Israel’s allies.” US Defense Secretary Ash Carter made clear on Wednesday that the nuclear deal with Iran puts no limits on the U.S. military posture in the Middle East and that “no target” in Iran would be “out of reach” of the United States if Iran was aggressive toward its neighbors or cheated on the agreement. AFGHANISTAN said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, the elusive leader of the Taliban movement fighting to topple the government, died more than two years ago. A BABY ELEPHANT cavorts with birds. A BURMESE PYTHON measuring 18 feet and 3 inches and weighing 133 pounds was captured by researchers in the Everglades. CECIL THE LION's death caused hundreds of protesters to descend on a Minnesota dentist. THE SQUIRREL THREAT makes inroads at the White House.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
COMMUNIONS drops a video for “Forget It’s A Dream," and it seems oddly 80s to me. PAUL WELLER played a Tiny Desk Concert. ALL SONGS CONSIDERED is Guest DJed by the soulful Leon Bridges. ADULT MOM advance streams their debut LP, Momentary Lapse Of Happily. BEAK> is streaming their debut EP. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS drop "Used to Haunt" from the Paper Towns soundtrack. DEER TICK drops “Grandfather Song” as an outtake from their last LP. NEW ORDER gets "Restless" ahead of Music Complete. MATTHEW E WHITE covers Caole King for Aquarium Drunkard. ELO: Because I "Can't Get It Out Of My Head." DESTROYER's Dan Bejar reveals his inspirations to the New York Times Magazine. THE POGUES launched their own Irish Whiskey. BEACH HOUSE talks to NME about messages from the ether. KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, tokes up for breakfast, but is unsure whether to leagalize it. TOM CRUISE performed The Weeknd's "Can't Feel My Face" (and some oldies) in a lip-sync battle with Jimmy Fallon. IVANA TRUMP once accused the real estate tycoon of ‘rape,’ although she later clarified: not in the ‘criminal sense.’ BLAKE SHELTON to MIRANDA LAMVERT: Your stuff's on the porch. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN got extremely drunk the night before her mom died, fell asleep in a bathtub at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and flooded the room. GWYENTH PALTROW is hawking expensive hip-hop themed pearly clutches. AUSTRALIA is encouraged by UN Security Council support for an international criminal tribunal into last year's MH17 crash. THE ISLAMIC STATE: An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan's lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like "end of the world." IRAN wants its own officials to take soil samples at a site where it is alleged to have experimented with ways to detonate a nuclear weapon, and the U.N. agency probing the suspicions may agree provided it is allowed to monitor the process, two officials told The Associated Press Tuesday. HOW TO SPEAK CAT: Kitty Communication. AN AMERICAN MAN is being sought in connection with a case that has drawn international attention -- the killing of Cecil the lion -- Zimbabwean officials said Tuesday. KILLER SEAGULLS terrorize the UK, Bodega Bay. A RACOON was chillin' in the Mets clubhouse.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
KEITH RICHARDS, Lord of the Undead, dropped a video for "Trouble." JASON ISBELL played the Newport Folk Festival. Isbell, btw, is topping the charts. COURTNEY BARNETT played the Newport Folk Festival. TITUS ANDRONICUS performed in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. CALEXICO performed ina vineyard for Oregon Public Broadcasting. THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS: "Fall" and "Sleep Comes Down" for Twofer Tuesday. LED ZEPPELIN: Jimmy Page discusses the band's fina years and more with The Guardian. NEIL YOUNG, THE DOORS, JOURNEY, and BONNIE RAITT return to the BBC. FOALS: Yannis Philippakis tells The 405 all the details of how some their latest workcame into being through subconscious imagery, intuition and not over-thinking the process. (Thx, Frank Yang.) PLAYLISTS are curating the future of music. BILL COSBY: New York magazine talked to his 35 accusers. The article was knocked offline by a hacker for much of Monday. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN's death is now a homicide investigation. JOE JACKSON: Miccael Jackson's dad (not the British new wave pianist) suffered 3 heart attacks. SHIA LaBEOUF and girlfriend Mia Goth were involved in a big fight in Europe on Friday evening, and ET has obtained exclusive video of the incident. BUGS BUNNY turned 75 years yesterday. Must be the vegan diet. THE ISLAMIC STATE is winning or losing, depending on whoch Obama Administration official you ask. SAUDI ARABIA has resumed air strikes in Yemen, hours after a humanitarian truce came into effect. Also, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday denounced "aggressive statements" by Iran, intensifying the verbal sparring between the regional rivals after a global deal on Tehran's nuclear program. THE SYRIAN ARMY has been forced to give up some areas in order to retain others in the war against rebels, now in its fifth year, President Bashar al-Assad has acknowledged. A PUG snores in his pool. DOGS get their own staircases in a home in Vietnam. OHIO ZOO OFFICIALS say they are pressing charges against a man who jumped a fence to pet cougars, then posted his video on YouTube. Petting cougars never works out. A BISON attacked a selfie-seeker at Yellowstone.
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Monday, July 27, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
BELLE & SEBASTIAN share an extended version of "Perfect Couples." THE LONE BELLOW played the Newport Folk Festival. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH played the Newport Folk Festival. ALBERT HAMMOND JR advance streams Momentary Masters. SEAPONY advance streams A Vision. THE POLICE: "It's Alright For You." Almost forgot this little gem. THE MEKONS: Sally Timms talks to Noisey about a newly-released documentary, and the band's upcoming albums. THE KILLS: Alison Mosshart talks to Paste about previewing new material live ahead of their next LP. THE TOP 10 PUNK DOCUMENTARIES, according to Paste. UPCOMING: Releases from Tommy Keene, Glenn Mercer (The Feelies), ad newly remastered versions of all four Faces albums as well as a bonus disc of rarities. WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: In the wake of a mass shooting in a Louisiana theater, Ant-Man tops the chart with 24.8MM on a 57 percent drop, roughly in line with the first Captain America and second Hulk film.The impact of the tragedy on the weekend receipts is unknowable and ultimately far from the most important thing on a human level. The debut of Pixels placed with 24MM against an 88MM budget; this will be unlikely to profit in theaters, even with strong overseas receipts.Minions showed with 22.1MM on a 55 percent drop; that's steep, but the flick already has ~760MM worldwide against a 74MM budget. Trainwreck took the fourth slot with 17.3MM on a 42 percent drop and will likely make a tidy profit in theaters. Southpaw rounds out the Top 5 with a surprisingly good 16.5MM against a 30MM budget. Just below the fold, the debut of Paper Towns took in 12.5MM against a 12MM budget, which is good news for the teen-lit flick and its studio. BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN has died at the age of 22. MANDY MOORE, the fmr Mrs Ryan Aadms, is now spending time with Dawes lead singer Taylor Goldsmith. HULK HOGAN was fired by the WWE and scrubbed from its website after a controversial audio clip him angrily using the n-word to describe someone who was dating his daughter surfaced. KRISTEN BELL left an adorable message in the voice of her Frozen character, Anna, for Avery Huffman, a young fan suffering from a brain tumor. AMANDA BYNES looked happy and healthy in a rare public sighting. LEAH & BRANDON JENNER are the proud parents of a baby girl. CHRIS BROWN left the Philippines after being stranded for three days due to a fraud complaint against him for a cancelled concert last New Year’s Eve. SNOOP DOGG was briefly arrested by Swedish police on suspicion of using illegal drugs, police have said. THE 50 GREATEST SCI-FI TV PROGRAMS, according to Popular Mechanics. Their troll game is strong. BELGIUM: Two former detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba were arrested by Belgian police in a counterterrorism operation targeting a recruiting network for al Qaeda in Syria. SYRIA: One year after the West celebrated the removal of Syria’s arsenal as a foreign-policy success, U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the regime didn’t give up all of the chemical weapons it was supposed to. IRAN: As the White House campaign to persuade Congress about the wisdom of its Iran nuclear deal moves into its second week, important components of the complex agreement are emerging that will be shrouded from the public and in some cases from the U.S. government itself. CHIMP vs DRONE: Who you got? ANT-MAN: “It’s a turning point for ants in cinema,” says James Traniello, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of biology. THE BEEPOCALYPSE is over, thanks to beekeepers. AN ALLIGATOR found roaming the streets in Upper Manhattan died unexpectedly.
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Lovin' Spoonful, Mynabirds, Red River Dialect, Benjamin Clementine, CPR Dog |
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Friday, July 24, 2015 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL! The obligatory "Summer in the City" because of course. But let's do the other big hits: "Daydream," "Do You Believe in Magic," and "You Didn't Have To Be So Nice." Also, the band gets some orchestral backing on "Darlin' Be Home Soon," which is lesser-known today, but which reached No. 15 on the Billboard charts in 1967. THE MYNABIRDS advance steam Lovers Know. RED RIVER DIALECT advance streams Tender Gold and Gentle Blue. BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE advance streams At Least For Now. LIANNE LA HAVAS advance streams Blood. LED ZEPPELIN drops an alternate (and decidedly lesser, imho) version of "When The Levee Breaks." WILD CHERRY: "Play That Funky Music." It's what they do.WILCO lists their 17 favorite recent albums, including the reissue of Game Theory's Real Nighttime. FAITH NO MORE ceebrates their contrariness with The Guardian. THE KINKS visit a hair salon, circa 1964. NEGATIVLAND's Don Joyce died Wednesday at 71. NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: Pixels, which is currently scoring 19 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Paper Towns, which is scoring 61 percent; and Southpaw, scoring 52 percent. MIRANDA LAMBERT claims BLAKE SHELTON was way more into The Voice than her, and she felt like an abandoned wife. DANIEL RADCLIFFE, a/k/a Harry Potter and the star of The Dogwalker, just turned 26. Here he is working magic on Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady." KING ARTHUR: Entertainment Weekly looks at Guy Ritchie's upcoming reimagining of the legend. KELLY RUTHERFORD lost her child custody bid. JURASSIC WORLD 2: Director-writer Colin Trevorrow and co-writer Derek Connolly confirmed with ETonline that they will script the next installment. THE REVENANT: Veteran crewmembers who have toiled on director Alejandro G. Inarritu's The Revenant say the director's follow-up to Birdman could turn out to be epic and Oscar-worthy. Some also say that making the film has been by far the worst experience of their careers — "a living hell," as one bluntly puts it. Leonardo DiCaprio seems to have survived okay. IRAQ has for the first time deployed soldiers trained by the U.S.-led coalition in their campaign to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants, the U.S. military said on Thursday. IRAN:The UN's nuke watchdogs will be relying on Iran to take samples at Parchin and other sites for its "possible military dimensions" (PMD) investigation. USA Today discusses four key questions about the nuke deal. A DOG saved by CPR. A FIVE-DAY-OLD SEAL became separated from its mother and stranded in a field of cows. A CAT rescued from a fire now nurses other animals at the pet hospital. ARMADILLOS rae spreading leprosy in Florida.
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