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Monday, May 05, 2014 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

ARCADE FIRE covers R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe" in Atlanta.

FUTURE ISLANDS played a full set at DC's 9:30 Club.

SWANS advance stream To Be Kind.

STURGILL SIMPSON advance streams Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.

PAPERCUTS streams Life Among the Savages.

LIAM FINN streams The Nihilist.

THE CLASH perform "Police On My Back" at the US Festival in 1983.

SHARON VAN ETTEN talks to Drowned in Sound about having her own band, catharsis, etc.

THE FLAMING LIPS have an acrimonious split with their drummer.

ROCK's WOMEN OF THE 70S: Don't call it a comeback.

TWEE: The A.V. Club suggests entry points for the genre.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 dominated the chart with 92 million. Given the mediocre-to-poor reviews and tepid word of mouth (B+ CinemaScore), the fact that this opened as well as Captain America: The Winter Soldier is atestament to how much people (and kids in particular) love Spidey.  Speaking of kids, unless this plays more like a family film, the sequel will slikely to struggle to break 200 million domestic, well behind the next-poorest performing Spidey (256 million).  Of course, overseas revenues are increasingly important, and the Amazing 2 has already raked in another 277 million abroad, which means likely profit here, even with a reported 200-255 million production budget, plus marketing, etc.  The Other Woman places with 14.2 million on 43 percent drop that's kinda steep for a comedy, but with 47 million domestic and another 30 million to date overseas, this should remind Hollywood there's amarket for female-focused films (even if the three in this pic are obsessed with one man). Heaven Is Real shows with 8.7 million on a 39 percent drop; 65.6 million domestic against a 12 million budget will keep faith-based films coming to the market for the foreseeable future (Moms' Night Out arrives next week).  Captain America: The Winter Soldier slips to the fourth slot in its fifth weekendwith 7.8 million.  Cap's 52 percent drop is a function of both time and Spidey, methinks -- but with 680 million in worldwide grosses, no one is crying for the fate of Steve Rogers.  Rio 2 rounds out the Top 5 with 7.6 million; it's lagging the original in the US, but doing boffo biz overseas and may yet outgross the original overall.

BEN AFFLECK was banned from the Hard Rock Cafe in Vegas after he was reportedly caught counting cards during a game of blackjack.

KERRY WASHINGTON secretly gave birth to a baby girl almost two weeks ago.

LINDSAY LOHAN cited her miscarriage as the reason for defaulting in a lawsuit regarding her clothing line.

BRADGELINA: Angelina Jolie is in early talks to star with Brad Pitt in an original script that she has written.

ADRIANA LIMA and former NBA star Marko Jaric have split after five years of marriage.

HILARY DUFF: Is her separation in limbo?

LIAM SMITH of One Direction has split from his girlfriend Sophia Smith.

UKRAINE: the release of seven international observers and five Ukrainians from the defense ministry who'd been seized together was a bright spot amid deepening unrest.  The Odessa Massacre, as some are already calling it, was the greatest single loss of life in Ukraine's unrest since the revolution in February. It has brought the country closer to civil war than ever before.

VENEZUELA said 58 foreigners had been arrested on suspicion of inciting anti-government protests and violence that have rocked the South American for the last three months.

LIBYA: The death toll rose in the clash between special forces and Ansar al Sharia in Benghazi, as eight special forces troops are said to have been captured and killed, in addition to the nine already reported dead.

SYRIA: Ryan Crocker, who has served as US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, and Lebanon, warned the US against making the "grave mistake" of a military intervention in Syria and said that forcible regime change would probably result in a Syria dominated by "the worst of the worst" extremists. The emir of al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, told the Al Nusrah Front to stop fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and urged ISIS to concentrate its efforts in Iraq.

LEON the PIG is so tiny he needs these wheels to get around until his legs are big enough for surgery to fix his injuries.

AN ANGRY BEAVER caused traffic delays and panic in Miramichi, New Brunswick.

THE NATIONAL GOAT FAIR has 'em excited in Phuket.

AN ESCAPED PYTHON ended classes at a school in DeLand, Florida.

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