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Friday, August 24, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with URGH! A MUSIC WAR.  The increasingly rare 1982 British rock doc surfaces, with performances from The Police, The Go-Go's, The Fleshtones, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, XTC, Devo, The Cramps, Oingo Boingo, Dead Kennedys, Gary Numan, Klaus Nomi, Wall of Voodoo, Pere Ubu, X, Steel Pulse, Gang of Four, 999, UB40, Echo & the Bunnymen, and many more.

BLOC PARTY stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a rocking session. 

JD McPHERSON and his band recently performed a shredding WFUV Live set at Rockwood Music Hall.

LANGHORNE SLIM & THE LAW play a rousing set of alternative country tunes from their album The Way We Move at KEXP.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS drop into KEXP's studios to perform an energetic set of garage-influenced pop songs from the band's third album, Longtime Companion.

DAN DEACON guest DJs the latest edition of All Songs Considered.

GRAHAM PARKER & THE RUMOUR drop "Coathangers," from Three Chords Good, their first LP together in 30 years.

ELLIOT SMITH: Kill Rock Stars drops an alternate take on the "Ballad Of Big Nothing."

THE WHO: The Guardian readership picks 10 essential tracks, with video. "The Kids Are Alright" was a Pate staple.  But since Keith Moon would have celebrated a birthday this week, I give you the Cow Palace incident.

THE PEOPLE'S LIST: Speaking of which, Pitchfork readers pick the best 200 LPs of the past 15 years.  The demo that participated was only 12 percent female, which is raising eyebrows in various spots on the internet.

LUCINDA WILLIAMS talks to The Believer about her voice, childhood, Flannery O'Connor, and more...

PROG SPRING: Slate has posted a series on the history of prog music.

LESTER BANGS: What made the Creem scribe a seminal rock writer is essayed at The New Yorker. It's a thinkpiece.

CUTOUT BIN: From Husker Du to Wayne Newton, from the Young Fresh Fellows to Aretha Franklin, from World Party to Bob Deger, plus XTC, the Faces, the Neats, the Beatles and more -- this Friday's fortuitous finds are streaming from the Pate page at the ol' HM.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include: Hit and Run, which opened Wednesday with 49 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Premium Rush, which is scoring 72 percent; and The Apparition, which was not screened for critics.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is actually on pace to sell 10 million fewer tickets than Tim Burton's 1989 Batman.

REESE WITHERSPOON is in the hospital or not in the hospital with Schroedinger's pregnancy.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE has listed his NYC bachelor pad in favor of a more suitable marital home.

BRITNEY SPEARS and Jason Trawick are still planning to say, "I do." Sometime.

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, the sequel to last year's David Fincher-directed The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, will not be in theaters late next year as had originally been hoped.

THE US NAVY is cutting short home leave for the crew of one of its aircraft carriers and sending them back to the Middle East next week to counter any threat from Iran.

EGYPT's Islamist president will visit the United States next month, an aide said Wednesday.

PAKISTAN: Every weekend, fashion designers, photographers, medical students and businessmen gather at dozens of underground parties in Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore to push social boundaries in discreet surroundings that would horrify, and enrage, advocates of the stricter brand of Islam.

AFGHANISTAN: Mullah Omar's Eid message was read in many mosques in Nangarhar.

A DEER bathes A LEMUR...

THE OUTLAW MONKEY OF TAMPA: Will the Republican convention have a macaque moment?

A 14-FOOT GATOR was captured by a trapper around Lake Talquin, FL.  That's almost a record.

FARMER vs COBRA: Who you got?

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