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The Chills, Foxing, All Songs, Titus Andronicus, Beavers   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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ADELE dropped a video for "Hello" ahead of 25, to mixed reviews. Lionel Richie got in on the act.

THE CHILLS advance stream Silver Bullets a mere 19 years after their last LP.

FOXING advance streams Dealer.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED: Bob Boilen features his picks to click from the CMJ showcases.

TITUS ANDRONICUS played World Cafe Live; Patrick Stickles did a matching interview in-studio.

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS:  Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness turned 20, so how about some "1979."

NEW ORDER drummer and programmer, Stephen Morris, talks to The Guardian about the the day their gear was stolen in NYC.

JOANNA NEWSON talks to the L.A. Times about the mixing of her albums.

TAYLOR SWIFT and the Rise of Robot Music. We have seen versions of this before.

DAVID BOWIE is releasing a new album, Blackstar, in January 2016.

JOE MOSS, who managed The Smiths and Johnny Marr died following a struggle with bone cancer. He was 72.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Martian returned to the top of the chart with 15.9MM, as the weekend's new releases underperformed.  Ridley Scott & Co. dropped a mere 25 perecent, which is a leggy hold indeed for a fourth weekend. The Martian is likely already profitable and does not open in China until Nov. 25.  Goosebumps places with 15.5MM on an alright 34 percent drop; it will likely have to do a bit better overseas than here to profit in theaters.  Bridge of Spies shows again with 11.4MM on a leggy 26 percent drop. The Last Witch Hunter debuted in the fourth slot with 10.8MM against a reported 90MM budget; word is Lionsgate sold off much of their exposure on this seeming flop.  Hotel Transylvania 2 rounds out the Top 5with 9MM on a leggy 29 percent  drop in its fifth weekend. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension opened in sixth with 8.25 million --which would normally be okay for the famously lo-budgeted franchis, but this one reportedly cost 10MM, so it's a good thing it's headed to video-on-demand in two weeks. Steve Jobs was expected to win the weekend but landed in seventh place with 7.3MM; even so, this may not hurt too bad against a 30MM budget.  New releases Rock the Kasbah and Jem and the Holograms opened in 13th and 15th place, respectively.

LAMAR ODOM suffered 12 strokes early on in his medical emergency. Did his management recommend dangerous hookers?

EVANGELINE LILLY has welcomed her second child with her longtime partner, Norman Kali.

ROSE BYRNE & BOBBY CANNIVALE are expecting their first child.

GWEN STEFANI & GAVIN ROSSDALE have struck an agreement on who gets what in their divorce.

BILL COSBY: Another two women have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault.

MAUREEN O'HARA, the Irish beauty whose striking red hair, crystal-green eyes and porcelain skin were so dazzling on the silver screen that she was dubbed “The Queen of Technicolor,” has died. She was 95.

HARRY POTTER & THE CURSED CHILD is the eighth story in the series...and it's a stage production.

STAR WARS: THE BINKS AWAKENS.

SYRIAN government and Russian jets have been heavily bombarding towns in Idlib province, as fighting rages between pro-Assad forces and opposition fighters in several other provinces. CIA-armed rebels have made some advances.

AFGHANISTAN, battered by worsening security, is reaching out to an old ally and patron—Russia.

IRAQ: The first U.S. servicemember killed in the fight against the Islamic State was Master Sgt. Joshua Wheeler. His awards and decorations for his service were numerous and include four Bronze Star Medals with Valor Device, seven Bronze Star Medals, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal with Valor Device, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, seven Army Commendation Medals, the Joint Service Achievement Medal, eight Army Achievement Medals, the Good Conduct Medal (6th award).

FUR FOR THE FUTURE: Vintage video of beavers being dropped from an airplane.

A PUPPY-SIZED SPIDER was discovered in Guyana's rainforest.

PACO the DOG waited patiently in the road after his owner was killed by a truck.

KLONDIKE, the oldest polar bear in the U.S., was euthanized at the Philadelphia Zoo early Friday due to what staff said was a “recent and substantial decline in her medical condition.”

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Joe Jackson, Beach Slang, Sports, Trey Anastasio, Love, Ratcopter   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, October 23, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with JOE JACKSON! Live in Tokyo on1986, for the Big World tour. Your set list: One More Time, Wild West, Right & Wrong, You Can't Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want), (It's a) Big World, Hometown, On Your Radio, Shanghai Sky, Fifty Dollar Love Affair, Cancer/Be My Number Two/Breaking Us in Two, Steppin' Out, Survival, Soul Kiss, It's Different for Girls, The Jet Set, Monday Papers, Tonight and Forever, Jumpin' Jive Medley: Jack You're Dead/What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again)/Jumpin' Jive, I'm the Man, and Man in the Street.

BEACH SLANG advance streams The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us.

SPORTS advance streams All Of Something, a 20-minute album.

TREY ANASTASIO advance streams Paper Wheels.

GUN OUTFIT streams Dream All Over: "Like if the Meat Puppets were channeling On the Beach more than Crazy Horse."

WOLF EYES advance streams I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces.

MODERN BASEBALL streams their new six-song EP, MOBO Presents: The Perfect Cast featuring Modern Baseball.

GRUPO FANTASMAS advance streams Problemas.

HALLOWEEN MIXTAPES, courtesy of Aquarium Drunkard and AltLatino.

LOVE: The Halloween pastiche "Graveyard Hop" surfaces ahead of the reissue of Reel to Real.

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART covers James' "Laid" ahead of their Hell EP.

SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE (ft Stephen Malkmus) drops “Campus Swagger" ahead of Early Risers.

CLOUD CULT drops "No Hell" ahead of The Seeker.

ARCTIC MONKEYS' explosive debut single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," which turns 10, revolutionized the way music was sold in the UK forever. I remember hearing it and thinking that someone finally built on The Jam and Buzzcocks properly.

RICHARD HAWLEY talks to The Guardian about hitting the big time, reindeer taking magic mushrooms and eating soup in a sloped shed.

MERCURY REV's Jonathan Donahue listed his favorite albums at The Quietus, including Hugo Largo's drum, which I think I still own on vinyl.

JOANNA NEWSOM received an in-depth profile from the dying Grantland.

THE 50 BEST NEW BANDS of 2015, according to Stereogum.

NOW SHOWING: Steve Jobs expands wide, scoring 85 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.  This weekend's wide releases include: The Last Witch Hunter, currently scoring 17 percent on the Tomatometer; Jem and the Holograms,currently scoring 19 percent; Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, scoring 20 percent; and Rock the Kasbah, scoring 8 percent.

LAMAR ODOM won KHLOE KARDASIAN back by convincing her he would never do drugs again after hitting rock bottom. Odom reportefly was snorting cocaine and popping mystery pills at Love Ranch before he fell into unconsciousness.

BILL MURRAY & JENNY LEWIS are reportedly not dating.

SIMON COWELL replaces HOWARD STERN on America's Got Talent.

BRALEY COOPER talks Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer. "All that stuff of her getting called and me saying no, no, no – that really happened."

TOM HARDY and his wife, Charlotte Riley, have welcomed their first child together.

QUENTIN TARANTINO, JOHNNY CASH, and the White Fantasy of the Black Outlaw

SYRIA: A Russian Defence Ministry official, Igor Konashenkov, on Thursday denied U.S. allegations that the Russian military had used cluster bombs in populated areas in Syria.

IRAN: The United States, Britain, France and Germany called for the UN Security Council's Iran sanctions committee to take action over a missile test by Tehran that they said violated a U.N. ban. The shocka, followed by the strongly worded note.

IRAQ: An American soldier was fatally wounded on Thursday as American and Kurdish commandos raided an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq after learning that the prisoners faced imminent mass execution, the Pentagon said. The commando became the first American soldier killed in action in Iraq since the withdrawal in 2011.

THE MAIDEN FLIGHT OF THE RATCOPTER: Let's go to the video.

BEAVERS may save the world from industrial farming by changing the chemistry of the water.

A HUMPBACK WHALE visited the Jesrey Shore.

AN ENGLISH BULLDOG's first rain.

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Joanna Newsom, Petal, The Great Tyrant, Bob Dylan, RT, Kitten Rescue   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

DAWES: "All Your Favorite Bands."

JOANNA NEWSOM is advance streaming Divers until Friday morning.

PETAL advance streams Shame.

THE GREAT TYRANT streams their "lost" sophomore LP, The Trouble With Being Born.

BOB DYLAN drops versions of “It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry,” “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” and “Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence" ahead of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12.

SHEARWATER drops "Quiet Americans" ahead of Jet Plane and Oxbow.

YOUTH LAGOON covers The Sundays' "Here's Where the Story Ends."

RICHARD THOMPSON played “All Buttoned Up” and “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” for Conan.

TITUS ANDRONICUS: Patrick Stickles discusses The Most Lamentable Tragedy with Magnet.

MOGWAI's Stuart Braithwaite ranks the band's LPs at Noisey.

IRIS DeMENT talks to Fresh Air about the role of music in her life, particularly church music.

CORY WELLS, of the three lead singers of the enormously popular ’70s classic rock group Three Dog Night, has died. Wells passed away unexpectedly last night in Dunkirk, New York. He was 74.

KHLOE KARDASHIAN & LAMAR ODOM have jointly gone to court to dismiss their divorce case, because they want to stay husband and wife. My friend Rebecca remarked: "And who says hookers and blow can't save a marriage?"

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD talked about the Back to the Future films' legacy and about one thing the movies didn't predict—reboot culture and who'd play him if Back to the Future ever gets remade. The cast reunited for BTTF Day.

BILL MURRAY and... Jenny Lewis?

ZOOEY DESCHANEL named her daughter. I can't even.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS star Daisy Ridley freaked out in bed watching that trailer.

CRUEL INTENTIONS may be headed to NBC.

GILMORE GIRLS is returning...to Netflix.

IRAN's supreme leader has endorsed a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers, but has warned the government to be vigilant, saying the United States “cannot be trusted,” in a letter published on his website.

SYRIA: Almost 80 percent of Russia's declared targets have been in areas not held by Islamic State, a Reuters analysis of Russian Defence Ministry data shows, undermining Moscow's assertions that its aim is to defeat the group.

A KITTEN, rescued in traffic by a female motorcyclist.

A COBRA has been cleared of killing Cleopatra.

AN ASSOCIATED PRESS Twitter account with more than 55K followers, inadvertently linked to a video of a cat in a pirate costume in lieu of a story about CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account.

TWO MOOSE were shot in the Polar Park Arctic Wildlife Center in northern Norway.

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Taking a personal day...   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, October 21, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl...I should be back Thursday with the usual.

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Yo La Tengo, Blitzen Trapper, Albert Hammond Jr, Oh Pep!, Hamster   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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BEST COAST drops a video for "In My Eyes" from atop Capitol Records.

YO LA TENGO, Live at King's Theater in Flatbush, October 10, 2015. Featuring originals and covers ranging from the Lovin' Spoonful to Devo to Antietam to Nick Lowe to the Left Banke (with Nick Lowe!) to Cat Stevens to the Minutemen to Gene Clark.

BLITZEN TRAPPER stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set.

ALBERT HAMMOND JR stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

OH PEP! palyed a Tiny Desk Concert.

RANK AND FILE: The seminal country-punk band formed by brothers Chip and Tony Kinman -- and including Alejandro Escovedo -- checks in with "Amanda Ruth" and their title song for Twofer Tuesday.

JOHN LYDON, a/k/a Johnny Rotten talks to The Guardian about childhood food memories, squatting with Sid vicious, and boating in California.

ELVIS COSTELLO talks to The Guardian about his autobiography: "The only reason to write about a life in showbusiness is to point out the absurdity of it all, because very little is consequential."

BLUR: damon Albarn talks to Fader about how the band's first US tour affected them.

JOANNA NEWSOM: Not a fan of Spotify, to put it mildly.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS has its trailer online, after premiering on Monday Night Football.

EDDIE MURPHY, accepting the  Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, did his first onstage comedy in 28 years. And Bill Cosby was the subject.

LAMAR ODOM has had a large improvement in his prognosis, but likely faces months of physical and speech therapy.

JENNI "JWOWW" FARLEY's marriage seems to have coincided with her second pregnancy.

BEN AFFLECK's mom is helping him get thru his divorce from Jennifer Garner.

BLAKE SHELTON is suing In Touch magazine over a cover insinuating he checked into rehab after his split from Miranda Lambert.

TAYLOR SWIFT is on pace to make more than Jay Z, Diddy, and Drake combined this year.

SYRIA: Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government offensive last week.

AFGHANISTAN: U.S. military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group's hospital last week to enter the grounds of the building hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.

A HAMSTER enjoys a donut.

A VULTURE's head got lodged in a pig's behind.

A TROUBLED COCKATOO is on the lam in Brookline, Mass. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

A MAASIVE SNAKE in a....gas pump?

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