WILD BEASTS take some sort of trip to "Mecca." BROKEN BELLS play a full set Live On Letterman. BOB MOULD stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set. OWEN PALLETT performs in the WNYC Soundcheck studio. CENTRO-MATIC plays a mini-set at KUTX. GASLIGHT ANTHEM goes "Rollin' and Tumblin'" ahead of Get Hurt. CONNECTIONS "Beat The Sky" ahead of Into Sixes. THE PIPETTES: "Your Kisses are Wasted On Me." Before it all went wrong. Sigh. PRINCE: Purple Rain turns 30 this week; Stereogum ranks his albums. RICHARD REED PARRY of Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre talks to Drowned In Sound about Music for Heart and Breath, the irritations of playing wearing a stethoscope, and why nobody should care about Metallica playing Glastonbury. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS announces a postumous album. THE 50 BEST LPs of 2014 (So Far), according to Pretty Much Amazing. GARY OLDMAN 's apology was not accepted by the Anti-Defamation League. GEORGE CLOONEY wants to be Governor or Senator or something. ADAM LEVINE insists he never had sex with Lindsay Lohan. CHRIS BROWN rejected a plea bargain in his Washington assault case. MADONNA was wearing Islamic garb on Instagram. THE GEORGE LUCAS MUSEUM will be built in Chicago. Yay? MAD MAX: FURY ROAD gives a first look to Entertainment Weekly. NORTH KOREA has threatened a "resolute and merciless" response against the US unless it bans a film about an attempt to assassinate the country's leader, Kim Jong-un. UKRAINE: Russia's upper house of parliament voted Wednesday to revoke the right of President Vladimir Putin to use troops in Ukraine as efforts continue to calm a separatist uprising in Ukraine's east. VENEZUELA: University students and government opponents protested in Caracas on Tuesday, demanding the release of people who have been arrested in street demonstrations in recent months. IRAQ: Sunni militants in Iraq took control of several small oil fields and targeted one of the country’s largest air bases Wednesday, while a suicide bomb blast rocked an outdoor market just south of the capital of Baghdad. A GREAT WHITE SHARK was spotted off of Cape Cod, right at the height of tourist season. REGINA THE OCTOPUS predicts US-Germany tie, meaning Americans will advance to 2nd round of World Cup. That's just science. A PUPPY got his head stuck in a car wheel. A CAT supervises a polices earch of its home.
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