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JEFF the Brotherhood, Luther Dickinson, Mitski, Catpipes   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BELLE & SEBASTIAN  released an unofficial theme song for the 2016 Rio Olympics, titled “Olympic Village, 6am."

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD advance streams Zone.

LUTHER DICKINSON stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MITSKI also stopped by the World Cafe.

PSYCHIC TV advance streams "Alienist," the title track to their next album.

TOY shares "Silver" ahead of Clear Shot.

INXS: "Don't Change." Because it's the time of year for Adventureland.

JEFF BECK, after 50 years, gets political. And cruises to Mel's Drive-In.

THE BEATLES' Revolver is considered a classic at 50...but The Kinks' Ray Davies wasn't a fan at the time. (Thx, Jay!)

ED SHEERAN has been accused of copying elements of Marvin Gaye’s "Let’s Get It On" for his hit single "Thinking Out Loud."

WARPAINT talks to DIY about getting fired up for their third LP.

GHOSTBUSTERS: The reboot is headed for a 70MM+ loss, with a sequel moving offstage in favor of cheaper animated spinoffs.

OCEAN'S 8 adds Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Awkwafina, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mindy Kaling to its cast.

BAD SANTA 2 has a very NSFW red-band teaser trailer online.

AQUAMAN's villain is revealed.

JUSTIN BIEBER held hands with Sofia Richie, 17, on the beach after wild skinny-dipping romp in Hawaii with gaggle of girls.

KENDALL JENNER is “full-on dating” rapper A$AP Rocky.

THE ISLAMIC STATE: A leading U.S. general pressured his intelligence analysts into playing down the ISIS and al Qaeda threats, according to a congressional task force.

MAN USES CAT as bagpipes.

CAPYBARAS have decided to take control over the Olympic golf course in Rio.

A FARMER SHOOTS A DOG for mauling his mini-pigs.

AN OSTRICH on the lam in Wales.

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Jayhawks, Edward Sharpe, All Songs, Matt Valentine, Dolphin   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, August 10, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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EL VY shares the video for "Careless," thus completing a video version of the entirety of Return to the Moon.

THE JAYHAWKS played a Tiny Desk Concert.

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Blood Orange, Joyce Manor, and Femme highlight the latest episode.

MATT "MV" VALENTINE covers Big Star's "Thirteen."

THE TEMPTATIONS: "I Can't Get Next To You."

THE DESCENDENTS critiqued Rolling Stone's list of the greatest Punk albums.

CASE/LANG/VEIRS talk collaboration on the PBS NewsHour.

FIELD MUSIC list some of their musical inspirations.

NEW ORDER launches a beer.

MEGAN FOX & BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN welcomed a baby boy named Journey River.

THE FAST & FURIOUS 8 cast had it out after The Rock ranted about unprofessional male co-stars.

AMBER HEARD refused to go under oath Saturday for her deposition ... so claim Johnny Depp's lawyers, who want the judge to call BS on her and dismiss the domestic violence case. But if not dismissed, Depp has a lengthy witness list.

ADELE at the SuperBowl halftime show?

KIM KARDASHIAN doesn't think she's a feminist. Do feminists want to claim her?

IRAQ: The fight against ISIS — which continues to be largely waged from the air — has also leveled entire neighborhoods, displaced millions and redrawn the Iraqi map.

A DOLPHIN seized an iPad at SeaWorld Orlando.

A DOG discovered something NSFW during an afternoon walk.

PAINTING TURTLE SHELLS is illegal in Florida.

A RESCUE PUPPY & A COW, living together... mass hysteria!

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Dr Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, Wild Belle, Rio, Lydia Loveless, Tiger   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, August 09, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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LOCAL NATIVES play "Past Lives" for Corden.

DR TEETH & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM played the Outside Lands festival, including a joyous rendition of the Beatles’ “With A Little Help From My Friends.”

WILD BELLE stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN: A Playlist For Rio.

LYDIA LOVELESS shares "Same To You" ahead of Real.

BADFINGER: "Baby Blue" and "No Matter What," for Twofer Tuesday.

LACY DACUS talks to Pitchfork about what it’s like to have 20 labels fighting to sign you.

ANDY SCHAUF talks to Aquarium Drunkard about the albums behing The Party.

PRINCE's estate has denied reports that they plan to sell the singer’s famous Paisley Park studio.

THE 50 BEST ALT-COUNTRY ALBUMS, according to Paste. Not a bad list.

ANGELINA JOLIE, contra prior reports, will not be teaching at Georgetown.

MARTHA STEWART & SNOOP DOGG are doing a reality TV show together.

ROB KARDASHIAN has been skipping filming his reality show over the last month, complaining that it is compromising his relationship with fiancee Blac Chyna.

PRINCESS BEATRICE and her boyfriend of 10 years, Dave Clark, have split.

THE POTTERVERSE is headed to NBCUniversal in a big way.

MAN OF STEEL is getting a sequel (tho arguably BvS was one).

RUSSIAN jets dropped incendiary thermite bombs on a civilian area of Idlib city in Syria on Sunday night, according to local emergency workers.

A TIGER tears the bumper off a woman's car.

DISNEY WORLD continues to work on keeping alligators away from guests after a two-year-old boy was snatched from the beach line at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in June.

A 10-FT CROC was apprehended in Cheshire.

THIS BELUGA WHALE is pretty buff.

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Beach House, Violent Femmes, Lauryn Hill, Cat Sanctuary   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, August 08, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BEACH SLANG shares a video for "Punks In a Disco Bar."

BEACH HOUSE talks with and performed for Charlie Rose.

VIOLENT FEMMES stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

MS. LAURYN HILL plays Austin City Limits.

SAM BEAM & JESCA HOOP share an acoustic cover of Eurythmics’ “Love Is A Stranger."

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD shares "Roachin" ahead of Zone.

RICHARD HELL & THE VOIDOIDS: Vintage video of "Blank Generation," with a little "Love Comes in Spurts."

 

SO LONG, MARIANNE: Leonard Cohen penned a poignant final letter to his dying muse Marianne Ihlen.

THE BEATLES: Revolver, which many consider their best LP, turned 50 over the weekend. NME brings the trivia, while Stereogum examines the album's place in the pivotal year of 1966.

IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE: Eight "best" debut LPs.

DR TEETH & THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM drummer Animal talks to Pitchfork about playing the Outside Lands festival.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Suicide Squad tops the chart with 135.1MM. Given the excellent marketing campaign and advance sales, the real question is whether it mostly sustains this biz next weekend or slides like Batman v Superman. Given the terrible reviews and B+ Cinemascore (BvS got a 'B'), that question remains wide open. The difference between the 3:1 multiplier from the opening of of a true blockbuster and the 2:1 multiplier of BvS is the difference between success and failure, and that may be true even if you consider ancillary merch sales.  Word is Suicide Squad needs to make 700-800MM worldwide to profit as a movie; so far it has 267MM worldwide. Jason Bourne places with 22.7MM on a 62 percent drop, raising the question of why this was released right before Suicide Squad. Bad Moms shows with 14.2MM; with 56MM worldwide, this modestly-budgeted comedy has probably reached the breakeven point. The Secret Life of Pets takes the fourth slot with another 11.6MM added to its very successful run, which crossed 500MM this weekend.  Star Trek Beyond rounds out the Top Five with10.2MM on a 59 percent drop in only its third weekend, another victim of the Suicide Squad, yet to cross the 200MM mark worldwide when it needs 500MM (give or take merch sales). Below the fold, Nine Lives, the weekend’s second wide entry, is road kill in sixth with 6.5M against a 30MM budget.

LINDSAY LOHAN had a violent scuffle with her playboy ex on a Mykonos beach.

AMBER HEARD showed up 1.5 hours late for a deposition in her divorce/domestic violence case against Johnny Depp.

BRITNEY SPEARS rejected the music video commissioned for her new song, and there's a dispute over why it was 86'd.

HUGH HEFNER voided the deal to sell the Playboy Mansion.

STAR WARS: Rey is a Palpatine?

THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA on Aug. 6, 1945. The act that ushered in the nuclear age, but also helped end World War II, still stokes controversy. Three men involved in the attack o­n Hiroshima share their memories with the BBC. Film showing the effects of the attack was classified for decades, as were the complete (unredacted) "Magic" military intercepts, which tend to show Japan was not about to surrender. Those interested in a relatively neutral view of the events leading to the bombing could do worse than 1995's Hiroshima, a joint Canadian-Japanese production for Showtime.  Out-of-print, possibly costly.

LANAI, where you can hang out with almost 500 cats.

A CROCODILE attacked a kayaker off the Queensland coast.

A TINY STRAY DOG ran 77 miles of a marathon in the Gobi desert, and may be reunited with the runner she paced.

THE SWARM: Exterminators trying to remove bees probably should wear protective gear. The More You Know.

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John Hughes, Of Montreal, Blind Pilot, Hockey Dad, Kelsey Waldon, Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, August 05, 2016 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOHN HUGHES! The sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, buds, wasteoids, dweebies and dickheads, they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude. The writer/director behind Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, National Lampoon's Vacation movies, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles and many more died Aug 6, 2009.  Hughes masterfully married music to movies, so I pay video tribute to him today, starting (of course) with "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (the drumming o­n this song is impeccable), and Karla DeVito's "We Are Not Alone," along with the Ramones playing "Blitzkrieg Bop" (from National Lampoon's Vacation), David Bowie's "Young Americans" and The Vapors o­ne-hit wonder, "Turning Japanese" and Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell" (all from Sixteen Candles, which opens to a clip of veteran WLS DJs Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards), Van Halen's cover of "(Oh) Pretty Woman" and General Public's "Tenderness" (both from Weird Science), the Psychedelic Furs re-recorded title track from Pretty In Pink, which also featured Jon Cryer lip-synching to Otis Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness" (that last clip is a blistering live take from the 1967 Stax tour -- and excellent, btw), The Smiths' "Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want" (a Hughes perennial; here, the Dream Academy cover from FBDO), and OMD's "If You Leave," plus two more from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "Danke Schoen" and "Twist and Shout" (which was shot o­n Dearborn and Randolph Streets in Chicago, with International Polka Queen Vlasta atop the float, though Cameron and Sloane were in front of the Post Office down the street), plus Yello's unforgettable-no-matter-how-you-try "Oh, Yeah." Videos are scarce for Some Kind of Wonderful, but I found Flesh for Lulu's "I Go Crazy" and the March Violets' take on the Stones' "Miss Amanda Jones."

OF MONTREAL advance streams Innocence Reaches.

BLIND PILOT advance streams And Then Like Lions.

HOCKEY DAD advance streams Boronia.

KELSEY WALDON  advance streams I've Got A Way.

CREAM syncs "I Feel Free" at the Beat Club.

RADIOHEAD's Johnny Greenwood talks to Bob Boilen about A Moon Shaped Pool, his lifelong affair with the recorder, and Deep Purple.

THE ENGLISH BEAT: Ranking Roger picks the punk, ska and reggae tracks that influenced him and the sound of his band.

THE 2016 MERCURY PRIZE shortlist nominations are out.

THE SHAGGS' Philosophy of the World is getting a deluxe reissue.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases are Suicide Squad, which is currently scoring 27 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; amd Nine Lives, which was not screened for critics.

STAR WARS: Several insiders say Tony Gilroy, an uncredited writer on Disney's upcoming spinoff Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has been empowered to take the lead on postproduction for the Dec. 16 release, even as director Gareth Edwards remains involved in the project.

ORLANDO BLOOM, naked on a paddleboard with a non-naked Katy Perry.

DREW BARRYMORE and Will Kopelman are officially divorced

THE BIG LEBOWSKI's David Huddleston (the "real" Lebowski) died Tuesday at 85.

SEINFELD: The 9/11 Spec Script.

DUNKIRK, the next movie from Christopher Nolan, has a teaser trailer.

TURKEY: A court in Istanbul has issued an arrest warrant for US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen over Turkey's recent failed coup, media reports say.

THIS CAT needs a naptime talk.

A GOOSE attacked an Ottawa cyclist.

SEA OTTERS were wrongly accused of causing a 41000-acre wildfire to flare out of control.

AN OWL defied police with an act of civil disobedience in the Thames Valley.

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