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Father John Misty, OK GO, Andy Kim, Moon King, Cat in a Fishbowl   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, April 09, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ST VINCENT: Annie Clark busts out "Teenage Talk" for Fallon, and explains how she wrote it.

FATHER JOHN MISTY stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

OK GO goes acoustic at The Current.

ANDY KIM stopped by World Cafe to play songs old and new.

MOON KING advance streams their forthcoming debut Secret Life.

WHITE REAPER drops “Make Me Wanna Die,” from their forthcoming full-length debut White Reaper Does It Again.

SMOKEY & THE MIRACLES: "Going to a Go-Go."

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN: Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant talk about "The Killing Moon" at The Guardian.

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE's Ben Gibbard talks to Drowned In Sound about not putting the band back together (entirely).

FRANCES BEAN COBAIN prefers Oasis to Nirvana.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle shares favorite wrestling videos with Vulture.

TWIN PEAKS cast members make a video titled, "Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like...??"

EMMA STONE & ANDREW GARFIELD are "taking a break" after three years. It totally wasn't my fault.

SOFIA VERGARA tells Vanity Fair how she turned her biggest liability into gold, and how she thought fiancé Joe Manganiello was “too handsome” for her.  Also, pics.

CRISTOPH WALTZ denied he is set to play Blofeld in Spectre, calling the claims "absolutely untrue."

MISCHA BARTON calls her Mom a financial vampire.

BARRY MANILOW and his longtime manager Garry Kief tied the knot last year in a private ceremony. Shocka!

LOGAN'S RUN: Could it return with a star actress?

GEOFFREY LEWIS, longtime character actor and father of Juliette, died Tuesday in Woodland Hills, Calif., of natural causes, according to a family friend. He was 79.

BOSTON: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed or shown mercy for what his lawyer says was a crime masterminded by his big brother.

RUSSIA: The commander in charge of defending North America from attacks said Tuesday that Russia has a "far more capable military than the quantitative, very large military that the Soviet Union had." 

YEMEN: The new American defense secretary acknowledged Wednesday that Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen had exploited the tumult partly created by the Saudi-led airstrikes there to capture territory, in what has become a broad expansion by the Sunni extremist group.

IRAN's Defense Minister categorically rejected as a "lie" a Guardian report alleging that Tehran has granted access to its military facilities under the recent framework agreement with the world powers.  Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister said that Pakistan and Iran should cooperate to solve the crisis in Yemen.

CAT STUCK IN A FISHBOWL: I know it's serious.

FOUR TINY MONKEYS are caught in a diplomatic spat between Sweden and Saudi Arabia.

A FLORIDA BOBCAT fishes a shark from the ocean.

THE BRONTOSAURUS is back, Baby!

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Kathryn Calder, Neon Waltz, The Leisure Society, The Sonics, Giant Bunnies   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 08, 2015 - 08:00 AM
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ANDREW BIRD covers the New Pronographers' "Fake Headlines."

KATHRYN CALDER (the youngest member of New Pronographers) advance streams her self-titled solo LP.

THE LEISURE SOCIETY advance streams The Fine Art of Hanging On.

NEON WALTZ advance streams First Light, a collection of demos and live recordings.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Tracks from The Sonics, FFS, and Passion Pit highlight the latest edition.

DEL PAXTON & GULFER stream a split 7".

VAN HUNT drops "Old Hat" ahead of The Fun Rises, The Fun Sets.

THE ONLY ONES: "Another Girl, Another Planet," live in '79.

TEENAGE FANCLUB talks to SPIN about their unlikely breakout LP, Bandwagonesque.

TODD RUNDGREN talks to Magnet about his 25th solo LP, an upcoming collaboration with Norway’s Lindstrøm, and time playing and writing with Ringo Starr.

DON McLEAN's  famously enigmatic "American Pie" original manuscript sold for 1.2MM at Christie’s in New York on Tuesday.

GWAR denies stealing the ashes of their late frontman, Save Brockie, a/k/a Oderus Urungus.

TOM CRUISE has not seen his 8-year-old daughter in almost a year, according to sources connected to Katie Holmes.

JOHN TRAVOLTA hasn't viewed the HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, currently shining an accusatory light on his church.

NBC NEWS: Inside the Civil Wars.

B.B. KING remians hospitalized, but his daughter later said he "is much better."

JON CRYER is coming out with a new tell-all, spilling lurid details on the Charlie Sheen meltdown and his own love life. 

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Executive Producer Brian Grazer says the beloved sitcom has 17 more episodes in the works.

THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON -- What you won't see in the upcoming Summer tentpole.

TRON 3: Olivia Wilde, Garrett Hedlund, and director Joseph Kosinski will return to helm the threequel.

STAN FREBERG, whose freewheeling comic career in advertising garnered him worldwide acclaim and whose satirical entertainments abounded on TV, the radio and on records, has died. He was 88.

JAMES BEST, who famously played bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, died Monday night at age 88.

RUSSIAN hackers behind the damaging cyber intrusion of the State Department in recent months used that perch to penetrate sensitive parts of the White House computer system, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigation.

THE UNITED STATES is speeding up arms supplies to the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi fighters opposed to U.S.-allied Yemeni President Abed Rabbou Mansour Hadi, Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday.

IRAN could have the capabilities to build a nuclear bomb almost immediately after the first 13 years of the emerging nuclear deal, President Barack Obama acknowledged on Tuesday.

THE WORLD'S BIGGEST BUNNY may be eclipsed by his son.

THE SWARM menaced the White House Easter egg roll.

THE SNAKE That's Eating Florida.

GATOR in your son's bedroom? Was that wrong?

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Chris Farren, Telepathic Powers, Avid Dancer, Lowland Hum, Grizzly   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, April 07, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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DAWES drops a video for "Things Happen" ahead of All Your Favorite Bands.

CHRIS FARREN advance streams the Where U Are EP.

TELEPATHIC POWERS advance streams heir debut EP, Powers Of Ten.

AVID DANCER advance streams 1st Bath.

LOWLAND HUM advance streams their self-titled second album.

MAC McCAUGHAN dropped the catchy, lo-fi "Box Batteries" ahead of Non Believers.

ST VINCENT: Annie Clark's "Teenage Talk," from the Girls soundtrack, is on Spotify.

DESAPARECIDOS drop "City on the Hill" ahead of Payola.

FRANK BLACK turned 50 yesterday, so let's have a "Headache" and his cover of "Duke of Earl" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talked to PopMatters about Beat the Champ.

COURTNEY BARNETT talks songwriting and shyness on Weekend Edition.

BRYCE DESSNER & RICHARD REED PARRY, from The National and Arcade Fire, respectively, talk composition and collaboration at The Current.

ALVVAYS talks to the Big Takeover, over a vegan platter.

TWIN PEAKS: Showtime continues to hope it can work things out with David Lynch.

JENNIFER LAWRENCE & CHRIS MARTIN were spotted on another date in NYC.

KRISTEN STEWART won the French equivalent of an Oscar.

B.B. KING was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital this past weekend and remains hospitalized at a medical center close to his Vegas home.

DANIEL CRAIG had surgery to repair a knee injury sustained while filming scenes for the new James Bond film.

THE UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT did not drive Dr. Fredric Brandt to suicide.

KENYA's military has carried out airstrikes on Al-Shabaab targets in Somalia.

THE ISLAMIC STATE is almost entirely led by members of Sadaam Hussein’s former Baathist army. Islamic State extremists at Iraq's ancient city of Hatra destroyed the archaeological site by smashing sledgehammers into its walls and shooting Kalashnikov assault rifles at priceless statues.

A GRIZZLY BEAR stops by for biscuits.

THE BASKING SHARK was spotted in Scotland for the first time this season. They could put the jaws in Jaws.

WHEN SEA LIONS ATTACK: A man was injured on Sunday after he was pulled into the water by a sea lion that jumped from the water at a San Diego marina and grabbed a fish he was holding, authorities said.

THE BIG CAT CROSSING: I'll look, but I'm not visiting.

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Calexico, Wire, Villagers, Dwight Yoakam, Elephants   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, April 06, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BECK played "Country Down" -- and hide-and-seek --  at a fan's house on The Late Late Show.

CALEXICO advance streams Edge Of The Sun.

WIRE advance streams Wire.

VILLAGERS advance streams Darling Arithmetic.

DWIGHT YOAKAM advance streams Second Hand Heart.

TAME IMPALA drops "'Cause I'm a Man" ahead of Currents.

JOY WILLIAMS drops her first post-Civil Wars track, "Woman (Oh Mama)."

KURT COBAIN died 21 years ago yesterday. Here's Variety's original report, and something "About a Girl."

TRUE MYTH: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens.

KURT VILE rediscovers the sound of his couch.

THE YARDBIRDS: Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty talk to Forbes about their historic guitarists, The Beatles, and more.

ROBERT BURNS JR, founding drummer of Lynyrd Skynrd, has died in a car crash in Georgia.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Furious 7 shattered April box office records with 143MM.  The prior champ, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, debuted at 95MM; the prior Easter champ was the Clash of the Titans reboot at 61MM.  Estimates had been in the range of; Fast 6, which debuted at 97MM.Overseas, Furious 7 pulled in another 240MM, and little competition until The Avengers 2 arrives at the end of the month.  Home placed with 27.4MM, on a decent 47 percent drop.  Get Hard showed with 13MM, but plummeted 62 percent; it could still profit on its 40MM budget, even after presumably large marketing costs.  Cinderella takes the fourth slot with 10.3MM on a 40 percent decline; the Disney live-actioner has also picked up 230MM overseas.  Insurgent rounds out the Top Five with 10MM; it looks to fall short of Divergent domestically, but exceed it overseas.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN  assured an Italian model that his uninvited groping of her body was a one-time mistake, the Daily News learned Friday.

GWYNETH PALTROW has bought Hustler Hollywood...and plans to bulldoze it.

WILL FARRELL & KRISTEN WIIG say they are scrapping plans for their secret Lifetime movie after news of the project leaked online Wednesday night.

DAVID LYNCH has left the Twin Peaks reboot, which could be fatal.

MICHAEL JACKSON's estate could face child molestation claims, if plaintiffs can overcome the statute of limitations.

JAY CUTLER:  The Chicago Bears quarterback offered up an autographed football for the good cause, but it unfortunately didn't receive a single bid.

LUCILLE BALL fans are not happy with a public statue that was erected to honor the actress' legacy, complaining that it's “frightening” and looks nothing like her, and are now looking into fundraising options to fix it.

YEMEN's Shia Houthi rebels have made more gains in the city of Aden, despite air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition.

IRAN and the US don't agree on the outline of a future agreement, especially on the question of how quickly sanctions are to be removed.

ELEPHANTS: A mother and child reunion.

BUFFALO ON THE LAM in Round Rock, TX.

PIG ON THE LAM in Ferrellton, PA.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A lamb with a human-like face.

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The B-52s, Laura Marling, Houndmouth, The National, Dog Wedding   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 03, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE EASTER WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

... with THE B-52s!  Live at the Capitol Theater, circa 1980.  Your setlist includes: Lava, Give Me Back My Man, 6060-842, Devil In My Car, 52 Girls, Quiche Lorraine, Dirty Back Road, Private Idaho, Strobe Light, Runnin' Around, Rock Lobster, Dance This Mess Around, Planet Claire, Party Out Of Bounds, Downtown, and 53 Miles West Of Venus.

LAURA MARLING does an Aquarium Drunkard Session.

HOUNDMOUTH played Hill Country Live.

WALK THE MOON stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

SHANA FALANA advance streams Set Your Lightning Fire Free.

THE NATIONAL drops a surprise single, “Sunshine On My Back”, ft. Sharon Van Etten.

THE ROLLING STONES share an acoustic version of "Wild Horses" from the Sticky Fingers reissue.

MURRAY HEAD: "One Night In Bangkok." Mostly for the sheer 80s cheesiness, but also because today this is a blog with everything, including Yul Brynner.

JARVIS COCKER & IGGY POP talk music, Miami and Marxism. There are footnotes.

WAXAHATCHEE: Katie Crutchfield gets a lengthy profile from Pitchfork.

JOLIE HOLLAND talks to Nylon about the past ten years of musical growth, feminism, and that time St. Vincent gave her a shout out at the Grammys.

DAVID BOWIE is working on a stage show based on The Man Who Fell to Earth. With new songs.

STEVEN TYLER announced he's making a country album.

FURIOUS 7 is this weekend's sole wide release, scoring 81 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.

ROBERT PATTINSON & FKA TWIGS are engaged.

WILL FARRELL & KRISTEN WIIG have teamed for a top secret Lifetime movie called A Deadly Adoption.

GWYNETH PALTROW & CHRIS MARTIN  are spending a family vacation together with their kids, almost a year to the day of their “conscious uncoupling."

JEREMY RENNER was finally able to put an end to the weirdest custody/support battle in recent memory.

FULL HOUSE: A reunion/reboot may be headed to Netflix.

THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON now lists Linda Cardellini and Julie Delpy in mystery roles.

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.

IRAN and and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding that would open the path to a final phase of nuclear negotiations but are in a dispute over how much to make public, officials told The Associated Press Thursday.  The one-year breakout time under discussion may not be sufficient to detect and reverse Iranian violations.  And any enforcement depends on Vladmir Putin.

IRAQ: The US military continues to launch airstrikes in Tikrit against the Islamic State despite the presence of Iranian-backed Shiite militias.

JOHN LEGEND officiated and sang at a dog wedding.

MICHAEL JACKSON's ALLIGATORS and CROCODILE boiled to death in Oaklahoma.

THE WASHINGTON POST's annual Peeps dioramas.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: 20 percent cannot be killed.

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