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Chuck Berry RIP, Big Thief, PWR BTTM, HFTRR, Ant-Smoking Monkey   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, March 20, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LITERALLY THE END OF AN ERA:

CHUCK BERRY, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties did as much as anyone to define rock ’n’ roll’s potential and attitude in its early years, died on Saturday. He was 90. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and showman, with a keen understanding of marketing and American youth.  A man with flaws to be sure, but there may be no more single influential man in the genre.  Here's Chuck with John Lennon, playing "Johnny B. Goode," a classic American rags-to-riches story married to music so unforgettable that few rock bands ever live without playing it.  Lennon's old band, The Beatles, had covered Berry tunes like "Roll Over Beethoven,"  which Berry plays here with great drive and twang.  Here's "Sweet Little Sixteen," with a melody and geographical conceit so catchy Brian Wilson would steal it for "Surfin' U.S.A."; Berry won a suit for a co-writing credit. (Note the song also namechecks "Bandstand," which was a good way to get Dick Clark's attention.)   He would tap into the restless  teen id on "School Days," and crusing culture on "No Particular Place to Go." Here he is in 1959, syncing "Back in the USA" with all the verve and joy of the song itself, proudly American at a time when an African-American would have every reason to be a bit less than celebratory.  Here's the essential "Great 28" comp on Spotify.

BIG THIEF played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

PWR BTTM  played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF played a set at Stubb's for NPR at SXSW.

FEIST shares "Pleasure," the title track of he upcoming LP.

METRIC shares "Come On, Angel." 

THE EXCITERS: What's a bear doing in the video for "Tell Him"? I have no idea

THE NEW PRONOGRAPHERS' Carl Newman talks to Stereogum about America’s political climate, depression, Dan Bejar’s absence this time around, songwriting and more.

THE BEST SMITHS SONGS, according tp Paste.

THE KINKS: Video of Ray Davies being knighted (and talking about it).

GRACELAND TURNS 60: How well do you know the history of rock'n'roll's White House?

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:The live-action Beauty and the Beast trounced exen lofty projections with 170-174MM, the biggest March debut and seventh biggest debut ever (before inflation, anyway). It also made 180MM in foreign markets, which means Disney can stop worrying about having to earn 300MM to recoup production and marketing costs.  This could make a billion.  Kong: Skull Island places a distant second with 29.9MM on a 53 percent drop, as expected; this still needs more strength overseas if it's going to profit on big screens.  Logan shows with 17.5MM on a 54 percent drop, withshorter legs the mutants seem to have starting to show. Nevertheless, Jackman breaks the 500MM mark worldwide and thus exits this franchise with good reviews and good receipts.  Get Out slides to the fourth slot with 13.MM on a 36 percent drop, but this si already hge;y profitable and is just now opening overseas.  The Shack rounds out the Top Five with 6.1MM on a 39 percent drop.  Below the fold, The Belko Experiment debuted in seventh with 4MM against a 5MM budget; hardly the makings of a quick horror hit, tho the association with James Gunn may turn it into a cult thing in the home market.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON & CHRIS EVANS? Nah, not really.

MARION COTILLARD and her actor/director beau Guillaume Canet welcome a daughter.

TORI SPELLING: No Money, Mo Problems.

HANS ZIMMER talks film scores and why he's quasi-quitting superhero movies.

JIMMY BRESLIN, the New York City newspaper columnist and best-selling author who leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than 50 years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.

BERNIE WRIGHTSON, legendary horror comics artist and co-creator of Swamp Thing, passed away Saturday night after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 68.

NORTH KOREA conducted a test of a newly developed high-thrust engine at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch station and leader Kim Jong Un said the successful test was "a new birth" of its rocket industry, the country's official media said on Sunday.

SYRIA fired missiles at Israeli warplanes early Friday after a series of Israeli airstrikes inside Syria — a rare military exchange between the two hostile neighbors that was confirmed by both sides.

A MILITANT ANTI-SMOKING MONKEY  at an Indonesian sanctuary stole a tourist's pack of cigarettes and ripped the smokes to shreds while a visitor filmed.

A FEW GOOD DOGS sniff out ivory poachers in return for tennis balls.

MONKEYS & PIRANHAS: Part of your heart-healthy diet?

A GOLDFISH with a wheelchair.

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St. Pat's Day, Mt Eerie, Sera Cahoone, Milk Music, Thistle Radio, Snake   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, March 17, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE ST. PATRICK'S DAY WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE STRUMMER and THE POGUES!  People will be getting their drink and dance on, so enjoy Joe, Shane and the band putting a Celtic spin on "London Calling" and "I Fought The Law" for St. Patrick's Day, 1988. Follow that up with the Dropkick Murphys' videos for "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" (which you may have heard in Martin Scorsese's The Departed) and "The Wild Rover."  Round it out with an Old Grey Whistle Test of my fave Pogues song, "Sally MacLennane," and a Shamrock Shake.

MOUNT EERIE is advance streaming A Crow Looked At Me.

SERA CAHOONE advance streams From Where I Started.

MILK MUSIC streams Mystic 100's.

THISTLE RADIO, streaming Celtic music.

ANGEL OLSEN covers the Connie Francis classic "Who's Sorry Now," for The Man In The High Castle.

WEEZER returns with “Feels Like Summer” ahead of an  as-yet-untitled LP.

JOE COCKER is "Feelin' Alright," with a little help from his friend.

SPOON: Britt Daniel breaks down the band's discography with Consequence of Sound.

REAL ESTATE talks to Stereogum about growing up together, moving away from each other, and superpowers.

SPIRAL STAIRS (Pavement) is profiled at PopMatters.

THE KINKS' Ray Davies was knighted by the Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace.

NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases include the live-action Beauty & the Beast, currently scoring 67 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; and The Belko Experiment, scoring 47 percent.

KENDALL JENNER:  Burglarized, or an inside job?

SEAN PENN's tough love got his son into rehab.

GWYNETH PALTROW plans on marrying her current boyfriend?

COCO, the latest from Pixar, has a trailer online.

A SNAKE vomits an antelope.

A MOSCOW ZOO has filed a lawsuit against an advertising company for having rented a raccoon for a nude photoshoot.

COBRA ON THE LAM in Ocala, FL.

COWS were threatened at gunpoint in eastern Switzerland.

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Valerie June, Los Hancheros, Yacht Rock, Massive Croc   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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SPOON plays  “Can I Sit Next To You” for Kimmel.

VALERIE JUNE stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

LOS HACHEROS, the Dap-Kings of Latin music, visited the World Cafe.

THAT 70s WEEK presents... Yacht Rock.

BLUE SWEDE: "Hooked on a Feeling," live. Ooga-Chucka!

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO: Previously unseen photos from a gig in 1966.

FATHER JOHN MISTY is profiled by the New York Times.

GREGG ALLMAN has canceled shows he was booked to play in June and announced he won’t be touring at all this year. Bad health.

JIMI HENDRIX: Ten of His Best.

CHRIS EVANS skydives for real and is profiled by Esquire.

BEN AFFLECK reunited with Jen Garner and their son Samuel in Brentwood after announcing that he has completed rehab for alcohol addiction.

EMMA WATSON had changing room pics leaked after a hack.

AMANDA SEYFRIED is going after a site that posted her nude photos.

MISCHA BARTON got restraining orders against 2 former boyfriends, one or both of whom she believes is peddling a sex tape.

RICHARD SIMMONS isn’t missing — he is just taking much-needed “time for himself,” his older brother said.

THE MATRIX: The last great original blockbuster? That's just a tweet, but a good question.

SYRIA: The U.S. military has drawn up early plans that would deploy up to 1000 more troops into northern Syria in the coming weeks.

A MASSIVE CROC enjoys a snack.

DUTCH COWS were expelled from Turkey amid a diplomatic crisis.

HUMPBACK WHALES are organizing in huge numbers, and no one knows why.

THIS LITTLE PIG went to market after his house blew down.

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Jens Lekman, Middle Kids, Cherry Glazerr, Olly the Jack Russell   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

OK GO & THE GO-GOs mash up “Here It Goes Again” and “Our Lips Are Sealed” for Kimmel.

JENS LEKMAN stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

MIDDLE KIDS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

CHERRY GLAZERR stopped by Morning Becomes Eclectic for a session.

SPIRAL STAIRS (Pavement) and MATT BERNINGER (The National) team up on "Exiled Tonight."

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH: The friendly stranger in the black sedan.

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN's Jim Reid talks to The Quietus about the band's long-awaited new album and the surprising reality of the band's continued existence.

THE WHO announced a six-show residency at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace. All copies of "My Generation" spontaneously combusted.

THE BEACH BOYS: Aquarium Drunkard essays songs from Holland and Surf's Up.

A MALICIOUS MUSIC FILE can be used to control everything from your phone to your car.

BEN AFFLECK revealed, in a Facebook post on Tuesday, that he recently completed a stint in rehab for alcohol addiction.  It apparently did not alter his involvement with The Batman.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 drops another teaser online with Jay & the Americans.

JORDAN PEELE is the first Black writer-director to break 100MM with his feature debut.

BEAUTY & THE BEAST has been pulled from release in Malaysia, even though the country’s official censors approved the release after cutting a well-publicized “gay moment” from the film.

ANGELINA JOLIE gave her first lecture as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

ALISON BRIE & DAVE FRANCO have officially tied the knot.

THE BIG BANG THEORY spinoff “Young Sheldon” gets a series order.

THE MATRIX Rebooted? C'mon.

OLLY the JACK RUSSELL TERRIER crushes the Crifts agility test. Sort of.

MYSTERY SOLVED: Here's why a goat was behind the wheel at the Ottawa Hospital.

A CAT got a snake up her nose.

MR. TOAD has been given a collection of custom-made miniature hats by his human friend.

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Chris Robinson Brotherhood, All Songs, 70s Week, GbV, Sheep   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

SEAN ROWE covers "Hold On, Hold On" by Neko Case and The Sadies (the latter have a new LP out, you know).  Dang.

THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD stops by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED's 2017 SXSW Preview Show.

IT'S "THAT 70s WEEK" at World Cafe.

GUIDED BY VOICES shares "Dr. Feelgood Falls Off The Ocean."

GOLD CONNECTIONS share "Isabel" ahead of a self-titled EP.

REDD KROSS play "Annie's Gone" and cover The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More" for Twofer Tuesday.

THE SHINS' James Mercer tells All Things Considered that his latest songs reflect how both he he and the culture around music have evolved.

THE ZOMBIES tell Brooklyn Vegan who they listen to now.

STEPHIN MERRITT, ranked by Stereogum.

JOHN LEVER, drummer for Manchester post-punk band the Chameleons and a member of the Sun And The Moon, passed away following a short period of illness.

THANDIE NEWTON prefers acting totally nude than in ‘inviting and provocative’ costumes.

J-LO & A-ROD: How many times do you think she had to post that Instagram and quickly delete it before someone noticed?

CRISS ANGEL was rushed to the ER after a magic stunt went wrong.

GAME OF THRONES with...Ed Sheeran?

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO is getting a sequel with a new cast.

THE TWILIGHT ZONE is full of life lessons that are still valuable decades later.

IRAQ: Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi paramilitaries fighting alongside Baghdad government forces to liberate the city of Mosul from Islamic State extremists say they have found a mass grave at a prison containing the remains of hundreds of people executed by the jihadists in 2014.

SHEEP on the lam in Marsden.

THE WOOLY MAMMOTH saving the world from climate change? it really is becoming a Spielberg movie.

A PARROT-NAPPER was caught in Florida.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: They beat us to Mars.

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