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First Aid Kit, Jeff Tweedy, New Pronographers, Tom Petty, Lions in Love |
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
BLOOD ORANGE: Dev Hynes and director Gia Coppola go a bit 80s in the video for "You're Not Good Enough." WE HAD A TECH GLITCH TUESDAY MORNING, but we had stuff yesterday, icymi. FIRST AID KIT stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. JEFF TWEEDY played a full set at Mountain Jam fest in Hunter Mountain, N.Y., featuring a dozen new songs and some old faves. THE NEW PR0NOGRAPHERS drop "Brill Bruisers" as the title track to their next LP, which includes Dan Bejar and Neko Case. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS drop “U Get Me High” and “Red River” on Spotify ahead of Hypnotic Eye. THE DOOZIES and FLOWER GIRL both share tracks from a split LP. THE RAMONES: "California Sun." BILLY BRAGG has compared Glastonbury headliners Kasabian to fictional comedy rock group Spinal Tap, declaring that the Leicester band's role in music is primarily to "to remind us how true" the famous parody was. ST VINCENT: Annie Clark is profiled by the Winnipeg Free Press. (Thx, LHB.) LANA DEL REY talks to Fader about instant buzz, feminism, indecisiveness, submissiveness, reverence for American icons and self-destructiveness, and more... RUSH albums, ranked by Stereogum. SANDRA BULLOCK's alleged stalker had a machine gun (but not when he broke in) and was interested in her, not her property. JERRY SEINFELD talks to Esquire about celebrity stand-up, his full head of hair, the new season of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and why our dads wouldn't have considered turning down a job. JASON SCHWARTZMAN and wife Brady Cunningham have welcomed their second child. KELLY ROWLAND and her new husband Tim Witherspoon seem to be expecting their first child. JAMES FRANCO wrote a short story about Lindsay Lohan. JAKE GYLLENHAAL & RACHEL McADAMS: Dating...or just prepping a movie? AMAZON is putting the screws to Warner Bros. UKRAINE: Check out the liveblog at Radio Free Europe for new developments. VENEZUELA: Prostitutes run afoul of the government in an unsual way. AFGHANISTAN: The Afghan economy, which had been expanding by as much as 14 percent a year, has slumped. Growth this year is expected to be just 3.2 percent, according to the World Bank. That slowdown reflects the declining American spending as well as apprehension about security. IRAQ's prime minister has asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Islamist militants effectively took control of Mosul and much of its province of Nineveh. The loss of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), U.S. officials and experts acknowledged, is a powerful demonstration of the extremists’ growing effectiveness and reach. THE LIONS steal the show. Loudly. Passionately. A GUINEA PIG managed to escape his enclosure and infiltrate the female-only enclosure. A BOA is hanging around Boca. Does not seem to have retired. WHEN CROCS ATTACK: The remains of a man taken by a crocodile in front of his family in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park have been recovered.
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Klaxons, Lily Allen Death Grips & Bjork, Spoon, Baby Goats |
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SPOON debuts "Rent I Pay," the lead-off cut to They Want My Soul. THE KLAXONS are streaming Love Frequency. LOWER is advance streaming Seek Warmer Climes. LILY ALLEN posted demos of unreleased songs, just for laughs. DEATH GRIPS... and BJORK. Yes, really. JEFF TWEEDY plays the new “Low Key” at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival. FATHER JOHN MISTY covers Cat Stevens’ “Trouble." THE ROSEBUDS drop "In My Teeth" ahead of Sand + Silence. THE UNDERTONES: "Teenage Kicks" and "Here Comes the Summer" are your Twofer TuesdayTHE OLD 97s bassist Murry Hammond talks to PopMatters about a quarter century leading to Most Messed Up. MINOR ALPS: Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws talk to Drowned In Sound about their record’s genesis, the nature of songwriting, and the future of their individual careers. THE PIXIES leave the door open for Kim Deal. YOU TUBE: Dictating terms to Indie labels. Remember when Google's motto was, "Don't Be Evil"? Good times. TRACY MORGAN underwent surgery for numerous broken bones as he recovers from injuries sustained during a fatal traffic accident. He's responsive, which encourages the docs. A truck driver charged in the weekend crash that killed a man and injured Morgan and others in New Jersey was awake for more than 24 consecutive hours before the incident, a criminal complaint filed in the case says. SANDRA BULLOCK may have been in harm's way when someone broke into her house over the weekend. HALLE BERRY was ordered to pay baby daddy Gabriel Aubry 16 grand monthly in child support. JESSICA SIMPSON: Drunk enough to have Jack In The Box brought to her in a nightclub. RIK MAYALL of The Young Ones and Drop Dead Fred has died at age 56. The Metropolitan Police said the death was not believed to be suspicious. TAYE DIGGS talks to Redbook about his divorce from Idina Menzel. or, as she is known to John Travolta, Adele Dazeem. LIL' KIM gave birth to her first child, a baby girl, on Monday. HOW TO TRAIN YOU DRAGON 2: Here's the first five minutes. UKRAINE, separatists battle to control the border with Russia. Numerous Russians, most of them war veterans, Cossacks or ultranationalists, have signed up to fight in Ukraine in recent weeks, either with recruiters or through one of several websites established expressly for enrolling them. THE UNITED KINGDOM: Administrators of several majority-Muslim state schools exposed students to extremist ideas and endangered their welfare by fostering a culture of fear and intimidation, Education Secretary Michael Gove told Parliament on Monday. THE PAKISTANI TALIBAN threatened more violence after a five-hour assault on the nation's busiest airport killed 29 people - including all 10 attackers - raising a new challenge for a US ally trying to end years of fighting that has claimed thousands of lives. LIBYA's Supreme Court yesterday ruled against the acting prime minister, Ahmed Meteeg, in effect placing his predecessor back in power in a case that has become a battle between the two main political camps. SYRIA: Assad announced a wide-ranging amnesty on Monday, less than a week after he was re-elected to another seven-year term in the midst of civil war. EGYPT: Mob sex assaults overshadow the inauguration of Egypt's new president. BABY GOATS Stampede. URBAN FROGS seem to be using city drains to amplify its serenades to attract females. It's the froggy version of Mr. Microphone. A FOX is stealing dozens of shoes in a Leeds suburb and dumping them outside a woman's house. RATS are capable of feeling regret about their own actions, an emotion that has never previously been found in any other mammals apart from humans.
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Antlers, TV Girl, Willie Nelson, The Rentals, Squirrel CPR |
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Monday, June 09, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
SIR MIX-A-LOT performs "Baby Got Back" with the Seattle Symphony and a cast of dozens. THE ANTLERS advance stream Familiars. TV GIRL is streaming TV Girl's French Exit. WILLIE NELSON is advance streaming Band of Brothers. MERIDIAN BROTHERS advance stream Salvadora Robot. THE RENTALS return with the catchy "Thought of Sound" ahead of Lost In Alphaville. IAN McCULLOCH joined ARCADE FIRE on a cover of Echo & The Bunnymen's 1983 single, "The Cutter". BOB MOULD talks about the making of Beauty and Ruin at Rolling Stone. THE KINKS: Ray and Dave Davies...together again? JENNY LEWIS: The former Rilo Kiley frontwoman sat down with Billboard at the Governors Ball to discuss The Voyager, her first album in six years. WEEZER's drummer, Patrick Wilson, catches a Frisbee and doesn't miss a beat of "Beverly Hills." WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:The Fault In Our Stars beat even high predictions to top the chart with 48 million. Most of this was front-loaded, raising questions about next weekend, but for now note that this film is almost certainly already profitable, recouping four times its 12 million production budget. Maleficent places with 33 million on a 55 percent drop that's not bad, given last week's big debut. Even with over 300 million worldwide, it likely has to clear 500 million to profit. Edge of Tomorrow shows with 29.1 million, a shade below projections of 30 mill. It's also a little below the opening of Oblivion, and with a budget of 178 million, this one also needs to break 500 million, which means Cruise's worldwide fanbase will need to come out in force. X-Men: Days of Future Past takes the fouth slot with14.7 million; with 600 million in worldwide receipts so far, this looks to be in the black. A Million Ways to Die in the West rounds out the Top 5 with 7.2 million; Seth MacFarlane has a flop on his hands here, albeit a small one given its 40 million budget. EDGE OF TOMORROW may sound like the title of a soap opera, but it it actually has more invention and wit than anything Tom Cruise has starred in for years. From the trailers, you may have surmised this is Groundhog Day meets Independence Day (with The Longest Day taking on additional meaning here also). But there's actually a nice little twist in the beginning of the movie that has Cruise playing against the type that made him a megastar in the Eighties and Nineties. There's also a great scene in an English pub that punctures one of the cliches of the alien invasion genre. A further twist at the end is fairly obvious, but overall, it's just the right mix of action, drama and comic relief (some supplied by the ubiqiuous Bill Paxton, but mostly situational) that makes for a nifty summer popcorn movie. Recommended, even though (as longtime readers know) I've been known to mock Cruise offscreen. TRACY MORGAN: A Georgia truck driver has been charged in connection with the wreck on the New Jersey Turnpike that left comedian-actor Tracy Morgan in critical condition and another man dead, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement released Saturday. JUSTIN BIEBER: turned to the Lord while being shaken down over his racist videos — and washed away his sins with a baptism performed in a bathroom. MELANIE GRIFFITHhas filed for divorce from Antonio Banderas. JENNIFER LOPEZ and CASPER SMART have split. CASEY CASEM is in critical condition at a hospital in western Washington. IAN ZIERING weighs in on Tori Spelling's reality show. UKRAINE's new leader, Petro Poroshenko, said the violence that’s rocked the former Soviet republic’s easternmost regions must end this week as peace talks began involving an envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. EGYPT: Ex-army chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has vowed to to tackle "terrorism" and bring security, after being sworn in as Egypt's new president. LIBYA: The mainly Tebu 25th Brigade, a.k.a. Ahmed Al-Shareef Brigade, which guards the Sarir and Messla oilfields as well as at the Shula oil compound, announced it is joining Khalid Haftar's forces. AFGHANISTAN: Security officials said that the Taliban killed three soldiers in IED attacks, and 13 Taliban fighters died in premature detonations in Sar-i-Pul and Helmand. Security officials also accused the Lashkar-e-Taiba of launching the suicide attack that targeted presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah. THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A pool man gave a drowning ground squirrel CPR and nursed it back life. MYSTERY SEA MONSTER swallowed a Great White Shark whole. Gonna need a much bigger boat. A MOMMA DOG saved her puppies from a drainage canal after rescue teams asked for her help in the southwestern Turkish province of Muğla on June 7. A PET TIGER? This will end well.
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Otis Redding Review, Conor Oberst & Dawes, Tom Petty, Cutout Bin, Kitten Attack |
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Friday, June 06, 2014 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE: ...with OTIS REDDING & FRIENDS! Circa 1967, this review includes Booker T & The MGs ("Green Onions"), The Mar-Keys ("Philly Dog"), Arthur Conley ("Sweet Soul Music"), Eddie Floyd ("Raise Your Hand"), Sam and Dave ("You Don't Know Like I Know," "Soothe Me," and "Hold On, I'm Coming"), the Mar-Keys ("Philly Dog" and "Last Night") and a barnstorming, five-song set by Otis Redding that includes "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song)," "My Girl," "Shake," "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," and "Try A Little Tenderness." And yeah, that's Donald "Duck" Dunn on bass behind Otis. CONOR OBERST & DAWES played a mini-set together on The Current. JOHN GRANT played a set at Rockwood Music Hall for WFUV. ST. LUCIA stopped by WFUV's Studio A to perform a couple of songs from When the Night. JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS return with “American Dream Plan B” ahead of Hypnotic Eye. LOS CAMPESINOS! drop "Little Mouth" for the movie Benny And Jolene. FREE: "All Right Now." Wouldn't be Summer without it. SPOON: Britt Daniel and Jim Eno talk to All Songs Considered about their upcoming LP. THE KLAXONS: Jamie Reynolds talks to The Guardian about New Rave and a new album. THE BEASTIE BOYS take a 1.7 million dollar Monster Energy drink. GARY GLITTER has been charged with eight more sexual offenses, all of which involve girls who were between 12 and 14 years of age, and all of which were allegedly committed between 1977 and 1980. CUTOUT BIN: From the Doors to the Old 97s, from the Georgia Satelittes to Bananarama, from REM to Jimi Hendrix,plus the Clash, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Page, the Beatles and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM. NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are: The Fault In Our Stars, which is currently scoring 79 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and Edge of Tomorrow, which is scoring 89 percent. Chef expands wide at 88 percent. JUSTIN BIEBER apologized yet again for another racist video. Did TMZ blackmail Bieber with it? LEONARDO DiCAPRIO refused to be filmed for Keeping Up With the Kardashians. ROSAMUND PIKE is expecting her second child with Robie Uniacke. D-DAY: The anniversary of the invasion ofNormandy is here, now with color footage. UKRAINE: Conflicting accounts emerged Wednesday from heightened fighting in eastern Ukraine, with a Ukrainian government official claiming forces loyal to Kiev had inflicted heavy losses on separatists and a pro-Russia official boasting that militants had downed government jets and helicopters. VENEZUELA: A Venezuelan judge has ordered opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to stand trial on charges of instigating violence at an anti-government protest in February. NIGERIA: Hundreds of people were killed in raids by Boko Haram Islamic militants in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, on the border with Cameroon, with some sources putting the death toll at 400 to 500. LIBYAN National Army forces leader Khalid Haftar survived a suicide bombing at his headquarters yesterday that slightly injured him; he said he is well and that "there will be a strong response" to the attack. IRAN: Speaking from a stage decorated with a banner proclaiming “America cannot do a damn thing,” Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday asserted that the Obama administration had taken the option of military intervention to resolve conflicts off the table. WHEN KITTEN ATTACKS: Let's go to the Vine. IRANIAN GOAT on a motorbike. BAO BAO the PANDA turned down a wedding invitation. CAPYBARAS, TURTLES & DUCKS, sleeping together.... mass hysteria!
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