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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
NADA SURF plays New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle" for the A.V. Club Undercover. GARBAGE is advance streaming Not Your Kind of People. NIKI & THE DOVE advance stream Instinct. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. PAVEMENT, live on Space Ghost Coast to Coast. MARISSA NADLER drops "The Wrecking Ball Company" as a freebie from The Sister. BOBBY WOMACK drops a funk version of "Please Forgive My Heart." WE FIVE: Because "You Were On My Mind," natch. MY BLOODY VALENTINE: Kevin Shields updates The Quietus on the reunited band's forthcoming LP. GRAM PARSONS is profiled by American Songwriter. (Thx, LHB.) AGAINST ME! singer Tom Gabel tells Rolling Stone she is transgender, and plans to begin living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace. Gabel stressed that she was not attracted to men, and intended to remain married to her wife, Heather. FIFTEEN OVERLOOKED and UNDERRATED albums of the 1990s. JOHN TRAVOLTA: The lawyer representing the two men suing John Travolta for sexual battery and assault and sexual harassment tells RadarOnline exclusively that he has been contacted by other potential accusers making similar claims and he's investigating their allegations before deciding to take further legal action. Meanwhile, a photo and a bill suggest Travolta was in NYC on the date of one incident, but the accuser's lawyer disagrees, of course. BRITNEY SPEARS signs as an X Factor judge for a reported 15 million. SOFIA VERGARA is single again after splitting with boyfriend Nick Loeb after more than two years together. BRAD PITT is the new spokesmodel for Chanel No. 5. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE & JESSICA BIEL start wedding preparations. KICK-ASS may finally spawn a sequel. THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: New Spidey Andrew Garfield and classic Spidey Tobey Maguire interview each other, more or less. REBECCA HALL is in talks to join Iron Man 3, which starts production this month. BOB STEWART, TV producer who created The Price is Right, Password, the Pyramid, To Tell the Truth and more, died on Friday in Los Angeles of respiratory failure. He was 91. VIDAL SASSOON: Also dead. UNITED KINGDOM: The European Court of Human Rights denied the appeal of radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada against the UK's deportation order. INDONESIA: A hardline Islamic group warned Wednesday it would not let Lady Gaga set foot in Indonesia, challenging an army of fans awaiting a concert in the nation with the world's largest Muslim population. IRAN: A US security institute says commercial satellite imagery shows new activity at an Iranian military site which raises concern that the Islamic state may be "washing" a building the UN nuclear agency wants to inspect. KITTY sings the blues. A GOAT hijacks a car in Austria. A YELLOW RAT SNAKE has surgery to remove a ceramic Easter egg. PIG HOARDING: A New jersey judge ruled that Florence Gruber must find new homes for the estimated 29 small breed pigs she keeps.
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Patterson Hood, Fun, Hospitality, Bonnie Raitt, Bear |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS drop a quick video for "Quick!" PATTERSON HOOD of Drive-By Truckers played solo material old and new on the Mountain Stage. FUN played DC's 9:30 Club; you can stream the whole gig on demand. HOSPITALITY played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR. BONNIE RAITT stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set. THE WALKMEN drop "We Can't Be Beat" from the upcoming Heaven LP. FOUR TET drops "Jupiters" and "Ocoras" as a single. LP sings and whistles the hell out of "Into the Wild." ANDREW BIRD talks to Redeye Chicago about Shakira, letting his rules go, playing Chicago, whistling, etc. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS: Ben Curtis talks to the Detroit Free Press about evolving musically and lyrically. THE BEASTIE BOYS were slapped with a copyright infringement suit the day before Adam Yauch died. Ill timing. CBGB is making a comeback... first as a music fest, then as a venue. MAURICE SENDAK, widely considered the most important children's book artist of the 20th century, died on Tuesday in Danbury, CT, due to complications from a recent stroke. He was 83. As someone who played Max in a play as a child, I got my roar on. JOHN TRAVOLTA has been sued by a masseur, who claims the actor tried to have sex with him during a session. Travolta says he was 2475 miles from the place it supposedly happened. Then the second masseur appears, followed by the second denial. DUSTIN HOFFMAN helped save a jogger who suffered cardiac arrest in London's Hyde Park. MILA KUNIS may have saved a man's life after the 50-year-old man suffered a violent seizure and collapsed in her home. ALESSANDRO AMBROSIO and her fiance Jamie Mazur are the proud parents to a newborn son. RUSSELL BRAND is said to be "seething with jealousy" after his ex-wife Katy Perry was pictured at the Coachella Festival last month with Robert Ackroyd of Florence And The Machine. MILEY CYRUS bombs at the box office. JUSTIN BIEBER just finished high school. MALEFICIENT: Imelda Staunton and Miranda Richardson are joining the Disney live-action retelling of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that stars Angelina Jolie. YEMEN is angry that the US did not inform the government of an airline plot hatched in the country. That plot was foiled from the inside. The US is sending military trainers back into Yemen. EGYPT: Islamists aim to install a global Islamic caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem, a radical Muslim preacher told thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters as the movement's presidential candidate and other Brotherhood officials nodded in agreement. IRAQ: An Iraqi court ordered the release of Hezbollah commander Musa Ali Daqduq, but he will remain in prison as his case is appealed. INTERPOL issued a Red Notice warrant for Vice President Tariq al Hashemi. A BEAR smashed into an elementary school and ran through the halls tearing up math books before being chased out by a janitor. A BLACK CAT was rescued from a Gothic horror death at the weekend - but only after its German owners realized that the eerie meows giving them nightmares were coming from the bathroom wall, not a phantom feline. DOLPHINS died of a heroin overdose after a zoo rave. Yes, really. DINOSAURS may have been partly to blame for climate change in their time because their diets meant they, er, emitted vast clouds of methane, a powerful global warming gas, scientists say.
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New Releases, Walkmen, Exitmusic, Ben Folds Five, Ostrich |
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
COLDPLAY pays tribute to the late Adam Yauch. NEW RELEASES from Damon Albarn, Kindness, Silversun Pickups, Rotal Headache and more are streaming this week via Spinner. THE WALKMEN played World Cafe Live; you can stream the gig on demand. EXITMUSIC is advance streaming Passage. SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO is advance streaming Unpatterns and talks about their sounds with The Guardian. BEN FOLDS FIVE posted a demo for "Do It Anyway" on the Facebook. COCOROSIE drop "We Are On Fire" as a single. MANFRED MANN covers Bob Dylan's "The Mighty Quinn" and "Just Like a Woman" for Twofer Tuesday. REDD KROSS has announced their first new LP in 15 years. THE PUNCH BROTHERS: Chris Thile talks to PopMatters about the band's breathrough album, famous fans and more... LOWER DENS: Jana Hunter spoke with Paste about Nootropics, the concept of transhumanism and what she hopes people take away from their album. BRAIDS talk to SPIN about their sophomore LP. MATTHEW FOX was busted for DUI Friday in Oregon. JACK OSBOURNE and his fiancee welcome a baby girl, named Pearl. MILA KUNIS has a stalker problem. Again. LINDSAY LOHAN settles a battery lawsuit brought by a former Betty Ford Clinic worker. LINDA EVANGELISTA and her billionaire French baby-daddy this morning settled their bitterly contentious child support battle. MEGAN FOX pregnancy rumors get the non-denial denial from Brian Austin Green. THE AVENGERS: Actual receipts were 207.4 million, beating the record-breaking estimate. The wordwide take is 654.8 million in 12 days. FRANCE: The finance ministry froze the assets of a radical Tunisian cleric whom France seeks to deport for making "violently anti-Semitic remarks" and advocating that women who commit adultery be flogged to death. YEMEN: The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Sunday's drone strike against Fahd Mohammad Ahmed Al-Quso was not a coincidence. AFGHANISTAN: The US has been freeing detainees from its military prison in Afghanistan to promote good governance and contain violence in the country, outside the formal NATO-sponsored reintegration program, which forces militants to sever ties with the insurgency. A SPEEDING OSTRICH sprinting down a busy main road in Saudi Arabia causes traffic chaos as it overtakes and dodges cars. A CHIHUAHUA COSTUME PARTY fell short of a world record Saturday morning in Kansas City, but still looked very silly. FUGITIVE MONKEY spotted in Winter Springs, FL. MEOW, a 39-lb cat in a race against time to lose weight, died over the weekend after developing unexpected respiratory difficulties.
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Adam Yauch RIP, Best Coast, Beach House, Cat vs Fish |
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Monday, May 07, 2012 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
ADAM YAUCH, a/k/a MCA, a rapper and founder of the pioneering and multimillion-selling hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on Friday in Manhattan after a battle with salivary gland cancer. He was 47. The Beasties brand expanded well beyond music: with their own magazine and record label, Grand Royal; with the social activism of Mr. Yauch's Milarepa Foundation, which produced an international series of Tibetan Freedom Concerts; and with work in film, as Mr. Yauch (calling himself Nathanial Hörnblowér) directed Beastie Boys videos and went on to start Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film production and distribution company. New York Magazine ran a meaty oral history of the Beasties to mark the 25th anniversary of License to Ill. Pitchfork rounds up video highlights...or maybe you want to listen to Paul's Boutique. BEST COAST is advance streaming The Only Place. BEACH HOUSE is advance streaming Bloom. THE CRIBS are advance streaming In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull. THE GOSSIP are advance streaming A Joyful Noise. DR. DOG drops a new video for "Lonesome." BIG STAR'S THIRD: How do you perform an album so shrouded in mystery it doesn't have an official title or running order? Mitch Easter and friends are going to try. (The LP and demos are embedded at trhe link.) JAPANDROIDS talk to Rolling Stone about surviving a breakup and a perforated ulcer, and covering the Gun Club. FRIENDLY FIRES drummer Jack Savidge and lead guitarist Ed Gibson talk to State about their experience during this extensive tour, college prom memories, and their upcoming festival headliner gigs. (Thx, Chromewaves.) THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to The Age about globe-trotting and more... WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Marvel's The Avengers opens with 200.3 million -- shattering the all-time opening record like Thor's hammer or a giant, green Hulk. How smashing a smash, you ask? The final Harry Potter's prior record was 169.2 million. How smashing? Until Spider-man appeared a decade or so ago, no film had grossed 100 million in three days. Moreover, The Avengers opened overseas before this bonanza, giving it a 641 million worldwide total in 12 days of release. How did the puny humans do? Think Like A Man drops to the second slot with 8 million and a 73 million total against a 12 million budget. The Hunger Games shows with 5.7 million and $380 million domestic against a 78 million budget. The Lucky One holds in fourth with 5.5 million (48 million total). The Pirates! Band of Misfits rounds out the Top 5 with 5.4 million and a 18.6 million domestic total against a 55 million budget (though this one raked in big bucks overseas). LINDSAY LOHAN will not be prosecuted for allegedly committing a hit-and-run in Hollywood in March.And she's not back with Samantha Ronson. But she was spotted with... Woody Allen. AMANDA BYNES was involved in another hit and run in Hollywood. KIM KARDASHIAN's lawyer blames Kris Humphries for dragging out his own divorce. HALLE BERRY's ex, Gabriel Aubry, is asking a judge for a half a million bucks in attorney fees and 20K in monthly child support, a substantial increase in what he is getting currently. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE has admitted he cannot live down looking like a ‘moron’ during his time as a member of 'N Sync. MIRA SORVINO and husband Christopher Backus welcomed their fourth child, a baby girl named Lucia, on Thursday in L.A. DENNIS QUAID's wife has officially withdrawn her divorce papers. GEORGE LINDSEY, who made a TV career as a grinning service station attendant named Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died after a brief illness. He was 83. TERROR in the USA: Maryland resident Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 18, a Pakistani citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, in the "Jihad Jane" case. FRANCE: An Algerian-born particle physicist at the Cern laboratory, has been sentenced to five years in prison for plotting al Qaeda attacks in France. GERMANY: Terrorism charges were brought against a Moroccan who headed an al Qaeda cell in Dusseldorf that planned Mumbai-type attacks in Europe. IRAN said on Friday it will never suspend its uranium enrichment program and sees no reason to close the Fordow underground site. Iranians voted on Friday in a run-off parliamentary election in which allies of hardline Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hoped to complete victory over Pres. Ahmadinejad, a conservative increasingly criticized by the clerical elite. And Tran isn't even bothering to do their own Photoshoped missile tests anymore. EGYPTIAN security forces and plainclothed men clashed with thousands of protestors in downtown Cairo on Friday, killing at least one person and leaving hundreds wounded. AfPAK: As the Taliban kicks off its spring fighting season in Afghanistan, an agreement with Pakistan that would help NATO supply its troops there could be weeks or months away, forcing military leaders to spend two-and-a-half times as much to ship some supplies through Central Asia. CAT vs FISH: Who you got? THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent tested positive for the plague near San Diego. A MAN AND HIS MONKEY were busted in a DUI incident. No word on whether the monkey was also drunk. A LION tried hard to eat a small boy at the Portland Zoo.
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Quarto de Mayo, Cutout Bin, The Avengers, Dog vs Baby Goat |
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Friday, May 04, 2012 - 08:00 AM Posted by: Karl
CINCO DE MAYO STARTS HERE: ...with LOS LOBOS: "I Got Loaded" (with an added snippet of "Turn On Your Lovelight") from their fabulous first full-lengther, How Will the Wolf Survive? "Don't Worry Baby," "Evangeline," "Our Last Night," and "A Matter of Time" were on that album, too. PEE WEE HERMAN: "Tequila." Obvs. HERB ALPERT & THE TIJUANA BRASS: Rare video of "A Taste of Honey" from 1967. CHEAP TRICK brings you the Mariachi mash-up of "Surrender." JIMMY BUFFETT: Margaritaville. Obvs. LIZ PHAIR: "Cinco de Mayo." Obvs. JACK WHITE talks to The A.V. Club about about Blunderbuss, the prevalence of troublesome women in his new songs, and what the oft-unpredictable star is going to do next. JONSI talks to Drowned In Sound about the Sigur Ros hiatus, the new album, the press and more... RICHARD HELL talks about a documentary titled The Devil, Probably. HERE WE GO MAGIC's Luke Temple talks to PopMatters about the human element in art and more... CUTOUT BIN: From Squeeze to Dolly Parton, from the Cure to the Chi-Lites, from the Beach Boys to the Jesus & Mary Chain, plus the dB's, the J. Geils Band, the Hombres, Of Montreal, Dusty Springfield and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM. THE AVENGERS is this weekend's sole wide release, currently scoring 92 percent on the ol' Tomatometer. I went to the midnight showing, purely as a public service to Pate readers. I suppose I could say that this movie lacks the depth of character development you get in the best Marvel films (Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Iron Man), but we presumably got character development in the movies which intoduced these characters (and we do get a bit even in this one). I could comment on whether CGI action scenes ever truly satisfy in the way that traditional stunt work does. I could even suggest that The Avengers lacks the deeper thematic elements Christopher Nolan has brought to the Batman franchise. But instead, what I will say is that Joss Whedon & Co. have delivered a phenomenal popcorn/action movie, filled with scene after scene of pure awesome, punctuated by moments of pure hilarity. Of the movie's 2 hr, 22 minute running time, there are probably fewer than 10 minutes that are not awesome, comic-book goodness. And as with almost all Marvel films, be sure to stay all the way to the very end of the credits for perhaps my favorite moment of the entire movie. COURTNEY LOVE loses Kurt Cobain's publicity rights to daughter Frances Bean Cobain. ASHTON KUTCHER's Popchips ad has been swiftly pulled - and an apology issued - following a grim reaction from Indian Americans. LINDSAY LOHAN: Cops are sending the case involving an alleged hit-and-run by the actress to prosecutors. KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN will marry Scott Disick in Mexico. The wedding will be televised, natch. KATE UPTON will be gracing next week's highly anticipated Costume Institute gala - but she's going on her own dime. JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT is developing a remake of Little Shop of Horrors. DENMARK: An axe-wielding Somali citizen who broke into the home of a Danish cartoonist and tried to kill him has been given a 10-year sentence followed by deportation. GERMANY: A group of Salafists used stones and poles to attack police in Solingen, injuring three policemen and a bystander; approximately 30 of the attackers were arrested. YEMEN: In the latest release of Inspire magazine, slain al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader Anwar al Awlaki called for chemical and biological attacks against the US. Fmr Pres Saleh's son stepped down from commanding the 3rd Brigade of the Republican Guard. EGYPT: A bill to allow girls as young as 14 to marry should not be rejected out of hand, as girls in some areas of the country mature earlier, according to a Salafite member of Egypt's parliament. DOG vs BABY GOAT: Who you got? A 50-LB TURTLE run over by a car is going to be alright, Little Tommy. DOLPHINS aid fishermen in Laguna, Braxil. A PET PARAKEET was returned to its owner Wednesday after the brainy bird told police its home address near Tokyo.
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