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Soul Asylum, Gillian Welch, Jason Isbell, Wilco, Yoda   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SOUL ASYLUM played Taste of Chicago Saurday night, opening with "Marionette" (one of my faves) and closing with "Stand Up and Be Strong," working in the joke where "Misery" morphs into McCartney's "Silly Love Songs" in between. Playing for folks mostly there for free music, the set lacked the urgency or edge of set for fans, or a set from the period where the band was ascending to major labels and radio hits.  But Dave Pirner and Dan Murphy still have great chemistry and their songs have a poignancy and laconic humor that works well even on the family-oriented festival circuit.  When Pirner joked between songs, "It's great to be here... great to be anywhere, really," he sounded half-sarcastic and half-postmodern, equal parts self-aware, sad and amused.  They still seemed to be having a certain type of fun and it played well with the audience, too.

GILLIAN WELCH is advance streaming The Harrow and the Harvest.

JOLIE HOLLAND is advance streaming he Pint of Blood.

JASON ISBELL & THE 400 UNIT stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

WILCO: Hear "I Might" and "I Love My Label" (Nick Lowe), both sides of the band's new single. The B-side is presumably a play on the fact that band has started its own label.

NEKO CASE & NICK CAVE cover The Zombies' "She's Not There" for the season four premiere of True Blood.

BJORK: Hear "Crystalline," the first single from Biophilia.

ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS cover "Purple Rain."  Speaking of which...

THE ARTIST CURRENTLY KNOWN AS PRINCE talks to The Guardian about the evil of ringtones, the Internet and cover songs (sorry, Elvis)... and the fun of ...Islamic countries. Dude.

FLEET FOXES: Robin Pecknold talks to the Irish Times about reviews, songwriting, influences and more...

THE ROSEBUDS talk to San Diego CityBeat about their divorce-inspired(?) album, Loud Planes Fly Low. (Thx, LHB.)

PETER FRAMPTON has filed for divorce from his wife of 15 years.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Cars 2 meets the chequered flag with 68 million, well above the 55 million tracking number, above the original and comparable to most Pixar openings (excluding the mammoth Toy Story 3 opening). Critics weren't thrilled, but all the toys that will be sold help pay for the Pixar movies they do like, so there's that. Bad Teacher debuts in second place with 31 million on a reported 19 million budget, a strong opening for Cameron Diaz and a career boost for Justin Timberlake and Jason Segel.  Green Lantern drops 66 percent to the third slot with 18.4 million, with an 118.7 million worldwide total against a 200 million production budget. Hafta think the Cars and bad word of mouth did damage here. Super 8 fell 44 percent with 12.1 million, but is well in the black, having taken in 95 million to date on a 50 million budget.  Mr. Popper's Penguins rounds out the Top 5 with 10.3 million, which ain't bad, considering the Cars debut was the major draw for kids this weekend. 

DANIEL CRAIG & RACHEL WEISZ secretly wed last Wednesday.

OWEN WILSON is said to have split from the mother of his only child.

JENNIFER ANISTON brought new beau Justin Theroux to her interview with James Lipton for Inside the Actors Studio. The couple was also soptted on a double date with Jason Bateman and his wife.

HUGH HEFNER: Crystal Harris is trying to cash in on her engagement ring.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Goth model Stella Mouzi denies she's Gibson's new galpal.

DONALD SUTHERLAND collided with a bicyclist in the People's Republic of Santa Monica.

FLORENCE HENDERSON  reveals in her upcoming memoir that she got crabs from fmr NYC Mayor John Lindsay.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD, and the US Supreme Court upheld a ruling denying her descendants the 89 million-plus judgment previously awarded to her from late oil baron husband J. Howard Marshall's estate.

WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER 2? Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, and David Hyde Pierce have all told Entertainment Weekly they would appear in a sequel to the camp movie spoof.

PETER FALK, beloved as TV's Columbo, but also great in movies such as "The In-Laws," "The Princess Bride" and "Made," died on Thursday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 83.

PAKISTAN: A husband and wife carried out a suicide attack on a police station in Dera Ismail Khan that killed 10 policemen.

AFGHANISTAN: The Taliban used an eight year old girl as a suicide bomber in Uruzgan.

IRAQ: A court sentenced Hasna Ali Yahya, the Yemeni wife of Abu Ayyub al Masri, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for facilitating communications between terrorists and assembling suicide vests. Al Masri was the head of al Qaeda in Iraq before he was killed by US and Iraqi troops last year.

YODA: Her short tufts of hair, protruding tongue, and long, seemingly hairless legs were enough to earn her the World's Ugliest Dog title in northern California.

A MACAQUE skips exams at Emory University.

THOU SHALT NOT abuse thy neighbor's goat. In lingerie.

LIONFISH: Killing bait fish from Brazil all the way to Maine.

LUNA, a six-year-old Husky, alerted her owner, Jenny Conarroe and her family to a gas leak at their home.

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