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Box Tops, Thurston Moore, Elliot Smith, Wilco, Cutout Bin, Harry Potter   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE BOX TOPS!  Before tackling the power pop of Big Star and becoming an icon of proto-indie rock, Alex Chilton cut his musical chops as the singer for this blue-eyed soul group out of Memphis.  Best known for their take on Wayne Carson Thompson's "The Letter," which ruled the charts in 1967, the follow-up, "Neon Rainbow," would get as high as No. 24 later that year. "Cry Like a Baby" was a major hit in 1968.  They hit the Mike Douglas Show for a twofer of "Turn On a Dream" and "Soul Deep," the latter being their final Top 40 hit.  The group became increasingly disenchanted with the managers, lawyers, and promoters that exploited them; the band would dissolve by February 1970.

THURSTON MOORE, live at The Queen in Wilmington, Del.

ELLIOTT SMITH, Live at the Steamboat, May 3, 2003.

WILCO, Live at the Solid Sound Festival (Night 2), June 25, 2011.

BOB MOULD compiles an eclectic playlist for SPIN.

MY MORNING JACKET covers "Our World," from the 1977 Muppets Christmas special Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas.

DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS is making their first new album since 1985. And I have no self control. None. Cringe.

PETE TOWNSHEND writes a letter about the Kinks from the Holiday Inn in Columbus, OH, circa 1969.

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY are profiled at the Salt Lake Tribune.

JIMI HENDRIX: Archival sets from Winterland and The Isle of Wight are coming this September, in audio and video, respectively.

WITCHES, WARLOCKS ETC.: PopMatters springs a list in time for the final Harry Potter opening.

THE BEST OF 2011 (So Far), according to Metacritic.

CUTOUT BIN: From the Beach Boys to the Sex Pistols, from Sugar to Harry Nilsson, from Led Zeppelin to Steve Martin, plus Roy Orbison, the Generationals, T. Rex, Herb Albert, R.E.M. and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are now streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide rleases are: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, currently scoring 97 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and the Winnie the Pooh movie, scoring 88 percent.

HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS (Pt 2): A review will appear here following my return from the cineplex. And so here it is.  One need not have read the books to have a pretty good idea of the (main) ending to this epic tale, and I had heard enough from the readers to know some of the backstory revealed, but was still amused at just how trippy it got at points.  Having re-watched the series recently, I was struck again at how the main cast of young actors has matured and risen to the material as I have lost hair and gained weight.  As the 97 percent Tomatometer score suggests, the big finale does not disappoint in terms of action or in its deepening of the themes of the entire series.  I could quibble about certain plot points that are probably explained in the book, but it would be quite beside the point, which is that a very big thing has been done very well.  We are unlikely to see this level of quality sustained over so long a franchise any time in the foreseeable future. Ten points for Gryffindor.

LINDSAY LOHAN is indignant that she was not considered for the movie Black Swan.

CHARLIE SHEEN: Brooke Mueller is telling friends she's been "hanging out" with Sheen again, and there's even a possibility of a reconciliation. Can we question her sobriety now?

RENEE ZELLWEGER & JOHN STAMOS? At Disneyland?

GLEE regulars Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chris Colfer will not be back for the fourth season of the Fox musical hit.

THE EMMYS: Nominations went to these folks.

ALISON BRIE & GILLIAN JACOBS talked with GQ about Community... and posed in lingerie, with video, just in time for Gratuitous Friday.

TERROR in TURKEY: Police arrested 15 al Qaeda operatives during raids in Ankara, Yalova, and Bursa, and seized 1,500 lbs of explosives as well as weapons. The al Qaeda cell was plotting to attack the US Embassy in Ankara and other foreign targets.

YEMEN: Pres Saleh, who is being treated in a Riyadh hospital for wounds sustained from an attack last month, will return within a few weeks and will resume his duty as the president of the country, Saleh's top aide said.

IRAN has stepped up online censorship by upgrading the filtering system that enables the Islamic regime to block access to thousands of websites it deems inappropriate for Iranian users.

AFGHANISTAN: In high heels and head scarves, a small band of Afghan women took to the streets of the country's capital, Kabul, on Thursday to protest harassment by men in public places.

HOW TO DEACTIVATE A CAT: Let's go to the video.

SNAILS migrate by getting eaten by birds and pooped out somewhere else. News you can use.

14 MILLION BEES... all over the highway.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A snake with two heads.

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