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New Shins, YFF & Minus 5, Grizzly Bear, Bathtub Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE SHINS breakout a new song, "Double Bubble" at the Hollywood Palladium.

CONOR OBERST has an hour-long documentary available to stream or download via Causecast.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Fairport Convention, Dinosaur, Jr., Passion Pit and more are featured in the latest edition of the long-running NPR series.

THE YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS and THE MINUS 5 are advance streaming new albums for your e-mail address. Oterwise it's :30 samples. (Thx, Ken!)

GRIZZLY BEAR is advance streaming "Two Weeks" from their upcoming LP, after months of seeing live versions.

RICK ASTLEY turns up for karaoke night in Athens, GA.

briTUNES: NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams launches a web-only music interview series, starting with a feature on Deer Tick.

THAO NGUYEN yuks it up with Metromix.

ANVIL is the real-tife Spinal Tap -- and their drummer is named Robb Reiner. Yes, really.

CHAN POLING, formerly of The Suburbs, is writing musicals.

LINDSAY LOHAN laughs off pregnancy rumors.

BRITNEY SPEARS: Fmr "magnager" Sam Lufti may have to pay the legal costs of getting a restraining order against him.

MISS CALIFORNIA was given a reprieve by Donald Trump, who generally likes giving reprieves to pageant winners, iirc.

TWILIGHT SEQUEL script found in the trash. The punchline writes itself, but the woman who found it returned it to the studio.

GINNIFER GOODWIN talks to W magazine about her good-girl rep and being asked inane dating questions while promoting He's Just Not That Into You: "I don't know why anyone would want to ask an actor for dating advice. We are not the poster children for healthy relationships."

TERMINATOR: SALVATION has given an exclusive action clip and behind-the-scenes clip to... Pizza Hut. And many things blow up.

STAR TREK: io9 learns about the Shatner scene cut from the reboot, but it has a spoiler for what is in the movie, so caveat clicker.  Also, there's a theory now explaining an unusual musical choice in the reboot.  BTW, the movie made three million more than the Sunday estimates, taking the opening weekend to 79.2 million.

TERROR in the USA: It took three trials, three juries and nearly three years, but federal prosecutors finally succeeded Tuesday in convicting five Miami men of plotting to start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.

IRAN's Revolutionary Guards have begun deploying mobile launchers for surface-to-air and surface-to-sea missiles in the Strait of Hurmuz and other areas in the Gulf, according to an Iranian official, quoted anonymously in the Saudi daily Al-Watan. Shaker of salt.

PAKISTAN: US officials are skeptical of the high Taliban casualty reports as the Interior Minister claimed 700 Taliban fighters have been killed in four days of fighting in Swat.

IRAQ: Michael J. Totten starts a series asking Iraqis and Americans if the worst in Iraq is over or if the dramatic reduction in violence is just a long lull. Anthony Cordesman warns that it is Iraq that now risks becoming the "forgotten war."

KITTEH in a BATHTUB: Let's go to the video. (Thx, Lance!)

GIANT JELLYFISH washes up on the North Devon coast.  Or the UK is being invaded by giant blancmanges.

A FOX CUB survived being trapped in a snare for two weeks after his mother brought him food every day.

A PARROT is about to cost 1000 workers their jobs in New South Wales because the Federal Government has ordered a timber industry to be shut down to protect the bird.

DOG & KITTENS, living together... mass hysteria.

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Sharon Jones, New Releases, Green Day, Meat Puppets, Cats & Dogs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DARK WAS THE NIGHT: Closing out last week's big benefit show, this indie-star cast, featuring Feist, St. Vincent, etc. are about to be blown away by Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' take on "This Land Is Your Land."

NEW RELEASES: Steve Earle, Jarvis Cocker, Bloc Party, Hanne Hukkelberg and more are streaming in full this week at Spinner.

GREEN DAY is advance streaming its 21st Century Breakdown via Drowned In Sound.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE played the 9:30 Club in DC last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand via NPR now.

MEAT PUPPETS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter at SxSW.

BON IVER played "Flume" (w/ My Brightest Diamond) and "Big Red Machine" (w/ Matt Berringer) at the Dark Was The Night benefit show at Radio City Music Hall. Two. Fer.

LUCKY SOUL gets interviewed at Sweeping The Nation and SoundProof. (Thx, Chromewaves.)  Their advance track, "Whoa Billy", was in the Cutout Bin a few weeks ago, icymi.

STEVE EARLE talks to PopMatters about his new LP of Townes Van Zandt tunes.

NOAH & THE WHALE share some firsts with YANP.

MASTADON guitarist Bill Kelliher talks art-metal with Express Night Out. Video at the link.

BROOKE SHIELDS contradicted her own reps by officially saying Jack McCollough - the dude Kiefer Sutherland headbutted - bumped her just before the incident.

LINDSAY LOHAN is seven weeks pregnant, according to an obscure gossip blog.

MICHAEL PHELPS deserves another gold medal - for stamina in the sack, according to a stripper who claims she had a threesome with the swim champ.

SHIRLEY JONES might pose nude for Playboy at the age of 75, if her husband/manager Marty Ingels has his way. I'm thinking saner heads will prevail.

FARRAH FAWCETT talks directly to People magazine about her very public, 2½-year-battle with cancer.

JESSICA BIEL says she was as shocked as everyone else at her boyfriend Justin Timberlake's raunchy new video "Motherlover" with Andy Samberg on Saturday Night Live this past weekend.

STAR TREK: Geeks of Doom explain "10 Gripes People Have About The New ‘Star Trek' Film."  MTV lists "Five Things You May Have Missed While Watching 'Star Trek'."

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence.

IRAN: Roxana Saberi, an American journalist convicted in Iran on spying charges, is to be freed after an appeals court downgraded her sentence.

AFGHANISTAN: The Pentagon is replacing the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, less than a year after he took over.

IRAQ: Ending months of political stalemate, the Iraqi Oil Ministry and the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq reached an accord Sunday that would allow the Kurds to export oil for the first time.  Violence is on the rise in Iraq, as the Iraqi government is neglecting many of the successful counterinsurgency initiatives it is inheriting from the US military.  After a long hiatus, the Syrian pipeline operated by al-Qaeda in Iraq is back in business.

CATS & DOGS, living together... up to a point.

RETURN OF THE MONTAUK MONSTER: Another strange, mutilated animal washes up on a Long Island beach.

MYSTERY WORM INVASION forces 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region.

WHEN KANGAROOS ATTACK, tourists go swimming.

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The 757s, Black Joe Lewis, The National, Hungry Loris   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, May 11, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE shows off their "Summertime Clothes" at the Ed Sullivan Theater.

THE 757s stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set steaming via MPR.  From the Twin Cities, and sound like it, with a touch of Americana.

AMANDA PALMER of Dresden Dolls talks to NPR about adapting Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane Over the Sea as a high school musical.

HORSE FEATHERS performed a Tiny Desk concert for NPR.

BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE HONEYBEARS: Joe talks about his gritty, funky style of old soul with the Houston Chronicle, with embedded audio samples.

THE NATIONAL played "So Far Around the Bend" for Jimmy Fallon.

THE SHINS frontman James Mercer is profiled in the L.A. Times.

JARVIS COCKER talks to The Independent about his upcoming solo LP, advocates revolution, etc.

GRAHAM COXON talks to the Mail On Sunday about how glamorous things were not in the 90s.

FLAMING LIPS give a progress report on their next LP to Stereogum.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Star Trek went boldly to the top of the chart -- as expected -- with 72.5 million (76.5 counting Thursday advance screenings).  This is disappointingly less than Wolverine's opening last weekend, but far above the average for a Star Trek movie (indeed, this reboot outgrossed the total box office of the last Trek movie on Saturday).  Of course, this one also has a 150 million budget, and may need overseas receipts to pay off the total cost (which includes the massive ad campaign).  Paramount will likley be happy with 200 million in the US.  Trek may do well again next weekend, as Angels & Demons may draw a different demographic, but the Termiantor arrives two weeks hence.  Wolverine took second with 27 million, but that's a 70 percent drop inflicted by the Enterprise and bad word-of-mouth.  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, being counter-programming, dropped a modest 32 percent to take in 10.5 million.  Obsessed dropped 45 percent and made another 6.6 million, but has made almost three times its 20 million budget.  17 Again rounds out the Top Five with 4.4 million.

STAR TREK MOVIES PAST, ranked by Armchair Commentary.

RHIANNA is fighting nude pics leaked on the Internet, though they don't clearly show her face, and she is vague about whether they are of her.

SEAN PENN left ROBIN WRIGHT for Natalie Portman, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.

TOBEY MAGUIRE his wife, Jennifer Meyer, welcomed their second child Friday, a baby boy with radioactive blood.

LANCE ARMSTRONG & SHERYL CROW split because she wanted children, according to the cyclist.

TERMINATOR: SALVATION has a four-minute trailer online,

KATE WINSLET is suing the Daily Mail over a story claiming that she had succumbed to Hollywood pressure to slim down.

A SOLDIER'S MIRACLE: Gen. David Petraeus brings a soldier out of a coma.  Here's the video version of the story.

PAKISTAN faces a dual test it has often failed before as soldiers again square off against Taliban militants in the Swat Valley: The country is fighting a counterinsurgency campaign while caring for those displaced by the conflict. The battle to drive insurgents from the Swat Valley has left refugees fearing they may never return home. Gen. Petraeus, who oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said in an interview that Pakistan has become the nerve center of al-Qaeda's global operations.

AFGHANISTAN: In a NYT op-ed, Hassina Sherjan reminds us that the Taliban are not really interested in peace.

IRAQI security forces, despite significant improvements, remain hobbled by shortages of men and equipment, by bureaucracy, corruption, political interference and security breaches.

SONYA the LORIS, who loves being tickled, eats worms in her latest video.

GIANT VENOMOUS SPIDERS have invaded an Outback town in Queensland.

SUCKLING MONKEYS: The women of a tribe in the Amazon jungle breast-feed small primates and other animals.

AN INGENIOUS ORANGUTAN short circuited electrical wires and climbed a fence using a makeshift ladder in an aborted escape attempt from the Adelaide Zoo. Cue King Louie.

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Beat Farmers, John Vanderslice, Cutout Bin, Star Trek, Donkey B-Ball   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, May 08, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE BEAT FARMERS!  Because I was in the mood for an encore of this more sober than usual, professionally-shot, early BF gig recorded at Universal Studios, including "There She Goes Again" (VU); "Road to Ruin," "Bigger Fool," "Reason to Believe" (Springsteen), "Powderfinger" (N. Young), "Happy Boy," "Big Ugly Wheels," "Bigger Stones," "Gun Sale at the Church," "Dallas Blues," "I Wanna Be Free," "Lakeside Trailer Park," "Death Train," and "Seven Year Itch."  If you're new to the band, my picks would be "Bigger Stones," "Happy Boy" and the cover of your choice.  SUPER-SPECIAL BONUS:  Now how much would you pay?  But wait... there's more!  If you really want to see someone put the "bar" in "bar band," watch these NSFW clips from Houston, TX of the late Country Dick Montana leading the band through "Lucille" (K. Rogers) -- complete with his favorite beer bottle stunts -- followed by "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Wino," "Are You Drinkin' With Me, Jesus?" and "Mondo."

JOHN VANDERSLICE is advance streaming his album, Romanian Names, via NPR.

NOMO stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming on demand via MPR. The Current refers to avant garde jazz, funk and Afrobeat, but they sound more accessible than that might suggest.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark talks to the New York Times about rocking out and more... 

SPINAL TAP is streaming a new song, "Back From The Dead," via Billboard.

BOB MOULD talks to The Quietus about Sugar, Husker Du, being a trance DJ and his sexuality.

SIR PAUL McCARTNEY: "Birthday."

BOB DYLAN, btw, would like to work with Sir Paul McCartney

JANE'S ADDICTION: Perry Farrell talks to Billboard about the pros and cons of the band's reunion.

SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS guitarist Benjamin Curtis answers the infamous 20 Questions for PopMatters.

CUTOUT BIN: From Leonard Nimoy to Alice Cooper, from the Vogues to the Tom Tom Club, from The Move to Mazzy Star, plus The Who, The Replacements, The Kinks, Calexico, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and more  -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

STAR TREK, apparently, was a TV show in the 60s, and it's now this movie by JJ Adams, the guy who created Felicity and Lost -- and the creator of Lost turns out to be a good choice for what goes on this movie.  The Onion was right that it is fun and watchable, though I didn't hear too many disappointed Trekkers coming out of the screening.  There are some major violations of Trek canon built in, but there were also plenty of nods to quirks from the original series for the more hardcore fans.  None of this should detract from enjoyment by casual fans or strangers to the original series (though it's good to know what nacelles are). Ebert is correct that there's not a lot of deep thinking or diplomacy in this reboot, but that's okay, as it gives them something to work into the sequel.  It would be unfair to pigeonhole it as another summer action flick -- the dialogue and characterizations are pretty snappy, well-delivered by the cast.  Although this franchise is all about Kirk and Spock, I must say that Karl Urban and Simon Pegg steal scenes as McCoy and Scotty, respectively.  And that Zoe Saldana makes a hawt -- and smart -- Uhuru.  It's not a perfect movie -- Kirk's childhood is a bit ham-handed, there's a slight bit of slack in the second act, etc. -- but given the magintude of the job and the expectations for it, Abrams delivers.

NOW SHOWING: Aside from the Star Trek reboot, whcich is currently scoring a whopping 94 percent on the ol Tomatometer, this weekend's only wide release is the comedy Next Day Air, which has not been screened for critics.

KIEFER SUTHERLAND will surrender to prosecutors in several weeks and face only a minor assault charge for headbutting a fashion designer at a party.

PAULA ABDUL claims he was never addicted to painkillers and never checked into a rehab clinic.

LINDSAY LOHAN has another sleepover at Samantha Ronson's pad.

MY LITTLE PONY: Reign of Buttercup Sprinkles. The surpsise action smash of the Summer.

MARY STEWART MASTERSON is knocked up. Some kind of wonderful.

FARRAH FAWCETT: Ryan O'Neal speaks for the first time about the devastating illness of his longtime partner, Farrah Fawcett, who has battled cancer for the past two and a half years.

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban have momentum that makes any effort to negotiate with them difficult, says US SecDef Gates.

IRAQ: Times are tough for the Iraqis who build concrete security barriers. The AFP managing to see the gey lining to the silver cloud.

WATERSKIING MONKEYS: Let's go to the video.

DONKEY BASKETBALL appears to be thriving in south-central Iowa, but PETA is on the case. The Daily Mail has pics from the dark heart of Moravia.

MAN SAVES DOG Saves Man. From a mountain lion!

WAITER, there's a severed snake head in my soup.

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Grizzly Bear, Dawes, Maximo Park, Wilco, Groundhog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, May 07, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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HAPPY ODD DAY: This only happens six times per century.

GRIZZY BEAR previews "Two Weeks" on Later with Jools Holland.

DAWES did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter. Nicely done.

MAXIMO PARK drops an advance track, "Let's Get Clinical," along with tour dates, at Pitchfork.

THE SHINS have a new lineup.

WILCO is getting sued by former member Jay Bennett; Jeff Tweedy responds by e-mail at Paste.

AMPLIFIED: ABCNews anchor Dan Harris interviews his favorite indie bands, including The Hold Steady, Camera Obscura, Neko Case, Andrew Bird and more...

THE THERMALS frontman Hutch Harris talks to The Badger Herald and The Hartford Advocate.

THE VON BONDIES drummer Donny Blum answers the infamous 20 Questions for PopMatters.

MANIC STREET PREACHERS Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield to discuss their new album at The Quietus.

BROOKLYN is declared "indie music central" by the Times of London.

KEIFER SUTHERLAND "defended" BROOKE SHIELDS by headbutting a man at an after-party for the Met costume gala in NYC. However, Shields does not have Sutherland's back.

KIRSTIE ALLEY: Bigger than ever.

RYAN REYNOLDS may star in a Wolverine spinoff.

RENEE ZELLEWEGER is taking an extended absence from Hollywood and "working on getting bored." Might I suggest she watch her past few films?

SHERLOCK HOLMES: There's an "early look" at the Robert Downey Jr./Jude Law/Guy Ritchie reboot at USA Today.

BETWEEN TWO FERNS welcomes Natalie Portman and her dog, Whiz. Likely NSFW.

STAR TREK:  JJ Abrams talks to Charlie Rose about the reboot.

TREME, the new project from Wire creator David Simon, has been greenlit by HBO.

IRAN: US SecDef Gates tells allies in the Mideast that the prospects for closer ties to Iran are remote: "We'll just have to see how the Iranians respond to the offer from the president. Frankly, some of the first things that have happened as a result of the extension of that open hand have not been encouraging."

AFGHANISTAN: A wandering goatherd held up a lethal attack on Taliban roadside bombers.

PAKISTAN: The information minister for the North-West Frontier province predicted as many as 500K people may flee the Swat Valley. He said the government is preparing temporary camps to house those who have nowhere else to go.  Coordinated attacks - along with other threats  - suggest that the Taliban are bleeding out of their traditional havens in the Northwest Frontier Province into Pakistan's Punjab heartland.

OBNOXIOUS GROUNDHOG: Let's go to the video.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: Montreal is doing its part. Are you?

HAVE BREAKFAST, photograph a python devouring a cockatoo.

AFGHANISTAN'S ONLY KNOWN PIG has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.

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