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A Light Post-Holiday Posting. But I have Things.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

 

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

CHICANO BATMAN stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

DEAR VALLY stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

FLEETWOOD MAC's Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie share "In My World" ahead of their duets album.

IT'S INTERNATIONAL GUITAR MONTH: NPR has a playlist.

 

RAY DAVIES talks to the New Statesman about hipsters, Pete Townshend, and fleeing Britain.

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER talks to Drowned In Sound about health issues, working solo, and more...

JENN GRANT talks to PopMatters about staying connected to inspiration.

NINA SIMONE's home is the subject of a preservation effort.

 

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Fate of the Furious easily topped the holiday chart with 100.2MM dollahs; that's considerably less than the prior installment, but that one was also the late Paul Walker's swan song.  It's higher than F6 and worldwide, F8 is already over half a billion.  The Boss Baby placed with 15.6MM; that's a distant second but a leggy 41 percent drop.  Beauty and the Beast showed with 13.6MM on an almost-as-leggy 42 percent drop as the film runs thru the billion-dollar milestone globally.  Smurfs: The Lost Village takes the fourth slot with 6.5MM on a 50 percent drop, but with a worldwide total over 95MM to date.  The remake of Going In Style rounds out the Top Five with 6.4MM on a surprisingly steep (for a senior-targeted comedy) 47 percent drop.

STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI dropped a teaser trailer in conjuntion with the Celebration convention.

CARRIE FISHER, contra prior reports, will not appear in Star Wars: Episode IX.

BEN AFFLECK continues to live in the guest house of the family home in L.A.

MIKE JUDGE: The Bard of Suck.

SYRIA: A suicide car bomber has killed and injured at least 100 people and fractured a complex deal to evacuate four besieged towns in Syria, leaving thousands of people trapped in limbo.

SOUTH SUDAN's civil war is now genocide, with violence perpetrated along tribal lines, a senior British official said, urging African leaders to do more to end the conflict in which tens of thousands of people have been killed.

THE UNITED NATIONS: From 2004 to 2007, nine Haitian children were exploited by a child sex ring involving at least 134 Sri Lankan peacekeepers, according to a U.N. report obtained by The Associated Press.

 

APRIL THE GIRAFFE gave birth, then kicked a vet in the crotch to protect her calf.

A BEAR plays peek-a-boo with a small girl, as a thick window pevents the cute bear from attacking.

A MASSIVE, CAVE-DWELLING SPIDER has been discovered in Mexico.

A BADGER crashed a BBQ, decided to sample a human.

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YFFs, Black Angels, Charly Bliss, Overcoats, Charlie Worsham, Baseball Cat   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 14, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with the YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS! Live at Cicero's in St. Louis, On November 23rd,1985, so this is Chuck Carroll-era YFFs.  Selections include: "Gus Theme," "White Bird," "If I Had A Hammer," "Power Mowers' Theme," "Where Is Groovy Town?", "Sharing Patrol," "Topsy Turvy," "Young Fresh Fellows Theme," "Hang On Sloopy," "All Messed Up," "Big House/ Love Boat Theme medley" "Mr. Salamander's Review," "Down By The Pharmacy," "Close to You/ Someone I Care About," "Aurora Bridge," "How Much About Last Night Do You Remember?" "This Little Mystery," "Searchin' USA," "Fair Exchange," and "My Friend Ringo."

THE BLACK ANGELS advance stream Death Song.

CHARLY BLISS advance streams Guppy.

OVERCOATS advance stream Young.

CHARLIE WORSHAM advance streams Beginning Of Things.

JEFF TWEEDY shares "Laminated Cat" ahead of Together At Last.

TOMMY JAMES & THE SHONDELLS: "I Think We're Alone Now," at the Village Square. No, really.

RICHARD THOMPSON talks to The ARTery about the fabric of his life. (Spoiler: It's not cotton.) (Thx LHB)

TODD RUNDGREN talks to All Songs Considered about making "Deaf Ears" with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

FUTURE ISLANDS is profiled in Rolling Stone.

SGT PEPPER's Outtakes.

THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS is this weekend's wide release, currently scoring 64 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

A TRIBUTE TO CARRIE FISHER: Is it dusty in here?

JENNIFER GARNER has just filed for divorce from Ben Affleck.

SIENNA MILLER dismissed rumors that she's been flirting with divorcing Brad Pitt.

KATIE HOLMES & JAMIE FOXX  are finally ready to “go public” with their romance.

WHY IS THIS SATURDAY DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHER DAYS?  Because ABC has its annual showing of The Ten Commandments, a grand spectacle featuring acting from Edward G. Robinson and Anne Baxter that is so over-the-top that Yul Brynner starts to look good by comparison.  And while Robinson's Dathan never actually spoke the line "Where's your Messiah now?" in the movie, it  -- like "Play It Again, Sam" (not spoken in Casablanca) -- has become part of a part of our culture. The line actually comes from Billy Crystal, originally a bit from the Oscars, iirc. It later turned up o­n The Simpsons, with Chief Wiggum playing Dathan to Ned Flanders' Moses.

BAYWATCH is hosting a SlowMo Marathon, which will take place in Downtown Los Angeles.

SEX IN THE CITY: The Beginnings.

SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday denied that his government has ever launched chemical-weapon attacks, and said last week’s attack on civilians—which was deemed to be carried out using deadly sarin gas—was a “play.”

BASEBALL CAT: The hero we need right now.

EELS can sense magnetic fields and may use this ability to navigate thousands of miles through the Atlantic Ocean.

A 5-FT SNAKE was found in a hotel drawer, checking out Gideon's Bible. Much like Rocky Raccoon.

HUMANS can now control turtles with their minds.

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Another Light Day, but with Things. And Stuff.   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

 

FEIST dropped a video for "Pleasure."

FATHER JOHN MISTY stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

BEN FOLDS plays a micro-show at the Turf Club for The Current.

CRAIG FINN stopped by WFUV for a chat and mini-set.

CAR SEAT HEADREST unpluggedy covers The Smiths' "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore."

WAVVES shares a “Million Enemies” ahead of You’re Welcome.

HARMONY WOODS drops a second single, "Renovations."

 

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS' Carl Newman talks to Rolling Stone about depression, Pres. Trump, and Whiteout Conditions.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark talks to MusicRadar about her signature Music Man guitar, avoiding playing cliches, and performance art. (Thx, Frank Yang)

TIFT MERRITT talks to Paste about her babies, as well as the important of place in her creative process.

KAREN ELSON is profiled by the Tennessean.

 

TRANSFORMERS: THE LAST NIGHT has a trailer online.

DETROIT has a trailer online.

CHRIS EVANS talks about his breakups, and more.

ORLANDO BLOOM talks about Miranda Kerr, Katy Perry, and more.

DAVE LETTERMAN's Mom passed away at 95.

FRIENDS is becoming a musical. [handclaps]

JOSH BROLIN has been cast as Cable in Deadpool 2.

JUDE LAW will play young Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel.

IRAN: Ex-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad submitted his name on Wednesday for registration as a candidate in Iran's presidential election in May, state media reported.

 

QUEEN ELIZABETH feeds an elephant, who wise assumes the Queen can access more bananas.

A SHRIMP That Can Kill With Sound Is Named After Pink Floyd.

AUSSIE SCIENTISTS plan to kill feral cats with toxic pellet implants injected into native wildlife.

LIVING WITH ALLIGATORS: Tips from the State of Florida.

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Light Day (Blame the Tax Code), but I have Things. Including J. Geils RIP   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

 

KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD play a full set at Webster Hall for Pitchfork Live.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from Sam Fermin, ALA. NI, Andrew Combs and more highlight the latest edition.

FOXYGEN's Jonathan Rado has covered Springsteen's entire Born To Run LP; here's "Thunder Road."

THE DECEMBERISTS roll out a new song, "Traveling On,” on the road.

DEATH shares a new single, "Cease Fire."

 

J. GEILS, the guitarist who founded the eponymously named The J. Geils Band, was found dead at his home in Groton.  Here's the NYT obit.  Beyond the big hits -- "Centerfold," "Love Stinks," and "Freeze-Frame" -- I tended to go for older material like "Musta Got Lost," "Give It to Me," "Looking For a Love," and their cover of "I Do."

RAY DAVIES talks to Morning Edition about his experiences in the U.S. and the evolution of his songwriting.

STEVE EARLE and David Simon (The Wire) are talking about making a Baltimore musical.

JENS LEKMAN: Postcards From The Edge.

MICK ROCK is a great name for a young Englishman with a camera, especially one who photographed Syd Barrett and David Bowie in the late 1960s and early ’70s.

 

ATOMIC BLONDE drops a second trailer online.

ZOE SALDANA says her film credits, rooted in the world of science fiction, allows her to artistically transcend race and gender politics.

CAITLYN JENNER reportedly has undergone sex-reassignment surgery.

50 CENT retaliated hard against a fan who pulled him off stage during a rap concert Saturday ... punching the woman square in the chest.

NETFLIX, AMAZON, and the End of Independent Film As We Know It.

JOE HARRIS, a commercial illustrator who envisioned and drew enduring cartoon characters like Underdog and the Trix cereal rabbit in the 1950s and ’60s, died on March 26 at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 89.

 

A TALENTED PUFFERFISH creates an underwater crop circle.

OCTOPUSES edit their own RNA.

A ROGUE DEER attacked a man in a parking lot in BC.

A TOURIST posing for a photo with a cobra gets bitten and dies an hour later. The More You Know. Swoosh.

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Jens Lekman, Cold War Kids, Futuro, Dramarama, Dog Rescue   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SPOON shares a retro video for "Hot Thoughts."

JENS LEKMAN plays a mini-set for a World Cafe free concert.

COLD WAR KIDS stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

FUTURO is streaming A Torre Da Derrota.

DRAMARAMA give you "Anything, Anything" and a "Last Cigarette" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE FEELIES: Stan Demeski and Dave Weckerman talk to The Rumpus about their crazy rhythms.

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS: A.C. Newman (or do you call him Carl) talks to PopMatters about songwriting.

BOB MOULD talks to Chris Shiflett for a Rolling Stone Walking the Floor podcast.

DIET CIG is profiled by the New York Times.

THOR: RAGNAROK has a new trailer online.  Some will note that parts of this seem out-of-character for a Thor movie. It does seem like an attempt to make a Thor movie more marketable to people who like Guardians of the Galaxy.

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN explains his casting of Harry Styles in Dunkirk without saying it's like casting DiCaprio in Titanic, a canny way to get teen girls to a historical drama.

RON HOWARD plans a big screen adaptation of Hillbilly Elegy.

DUNE has picked up a veteran screenwriter

BRAD PITT and... Sienna Miller?

MARIAH CAREY is done with Bryan Tanaka and vice versa, and TMZ says it was his insane jealousy and her shutting the cash register drawer on his fingers.

LIBYA: West African migrants are being bought and sold openly in modern-day slave markets in Libya, survivors have told a UN agency helping them return home.

A DOG is rescued from a frozen pond in Alberta, Canada.

A NEW PRIMATE has been discovered in Angola -- and it's already in danger.

SCIENTISTS "accidentally" grew a chicken with the face of a dinosaur.

BUFFALOES & HUMANS alike make it tough to clean up the holy city of Varanasi, one of India’s most sacred sites.

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