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Trailer Park: Ted

Red band trailer up for Seth McFarlane's foul-mouthed comedy Ted. Mark Walhberg shows his hidden comedy side again. Or should that be "Mark-Lynn"....?

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10th Apr 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Wilco vs Popeye

Animated promo up for WIlco's track "Dawned on Me" .....starring the band and Popeye himself. Directed by Darren Romanelli

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26th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

New Wedding Present Album: Valentina

Chimp heros The Wedding Present are back with a new album in March. Valentina will be released through the band's own Scopitones label in the UK on March 17th. Other labels around teh world in the days after that.

The band will be at SXSW to launch the album and then on tour in America, Europe, The World. Can't wait.

Via Scopitones.

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18th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

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fIREHOSE rEUNION

More info on that fIREHOSE reunion: Consequence of Sound are reporting that as well as playing at Coachella, the band will reunite after 18 years for a US tour. Which makes me 18+ years older than I thought, as me and Cnrth saw them at the Marquee in 1991-ish.

Needless Natas Kaupas plug below.

fIREHOSE 2012 Tour Dates:
04/05 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
04/06 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir
04/07 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos
04/09 – Bellingham, WA @ Wild Buffalo House of Music
04/10 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall
04/11 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
04/12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Historic Coconut Grove Ballroom *
04/13 – Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55
04/14 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival
04/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom *
04/18 – Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theatre *
04/19 – Tucson, AZ @ Plush
04/20 – Indio, CA @ Coachella Music Festival

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13th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

The New Shins

Girlfriend-friendly favourites The Shins are back with a new album in March, and this time they have Richard Swift in the band. Port of Morrow arrives March 20th. Single Simple Song is embedded below - and on iTunes now.

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10th Jan 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet

New / Vintage GBV

Guided By Voices' new LP "Let's Go Eat The Factory" arrives on Jan 16th (Jan 17th in the US via Rockathon or NOW via US iTunes), but you can listen to the whole thing today over at NPR.

The record is the first to feature the 'classic' line-up of the band since 1996. That's the classic line-up pictured in 1995 above. And the vintage version of the classic line-up below.

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22nd Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Black Bananas from RTX

Royal Trux/RTX singer Jennifer Herrema is back with Black Bananas - a new version of the band (yes, it's full of scratchy 70s Stones riffs, distorto-vox and Prince-ish songs called Hot Stupid). Pitchfork have got an MPFree. Album Rad Time Xpress IV is out in Jan with other thoughtful numbers like Acid Song, Killer Weed and Foxy Playground. That party train is not stopping any time soon. Still love Trux's Waterpark:

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5th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Forklift

I just got one step closer to digital nirvana, stumbling accross an album that I still only had on cassette, but which has now been uploaded to Band Camp by creator Mark Nassau.

Good buddy Ducati Sven taped a Forklift 7" for me in the early 90s, which he picked up while visiting Connecticut. My copy moved from tape to tape before settling in the remaining space on Side B of my Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge cassette. Mudhoney made the upgrade to CD quite some time ago, but Forklift had always eluded me. Until now.

"Bathroom Song" stills rocks.

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29th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Fresh, White Denim

White Denim's new EP "Takes Place In Your Workspace" is not available in the UK iTunes store, but a quick Google search points out a free download from White Denim themselves. In other reverse-promotion-record-release news, the band's awesome and previously free album "Last Day of Summer" will be available to buy on CD from December.

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7th Nov 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Jeff Bridges and The Abiders

Fun piece up at AICN documenting Jeff Bridges' musical appearance on legendary TV show Austin City Limits.

UPDATE: Rolling Stone have a live session with the band.

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14th Aug 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Nevermind 20th Anniversary

Nothing makes you feel old like the 20th Anniversary of an album from the 90's ...and September 24th sees the 20th anniversary of Grunge catalyst Nevermind, which took off shortly afterwards and went on to sell over 30 million copies. Pitchfork has details of the re-release.

That's cover star Spencer Elden in the picture, shot a couple of years back in the 17th anniversary era. He's probably even bigger now.

Down below is the band's first TV performance, on legendary show The Word (read more here). I remember the buzz spreading like wildfire from then on.

Where's it all gone eh?

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26th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Trailer Park: Drive

Good looking trailer up for Drive with Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Christina Hendricks and Walt from Breaking Bad. Looks like an updated take on 70's classic The Driver.

The film picked up a best Director award at Cannes for Bronson/Pusher helmer Nicolas Winding Refn - who is now attached to a Logan's Run remake, with Gosling.

Via IGN

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24th Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

RIP Clarence Clemons

E Street Band's saxman died yesterday. January 11, 1942 – June 18, 2011

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19th Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

MPFree: Solo Fox Tracks

Robin Pecknold has dropped three acoustic tracks via @fleetfoxes :

"One is a duet with my friend Ed Droste from the amazing band Grizzly Bear, one is just a new solo jam, and one is a cover."

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9th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Controlled Explosions

With new album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care released on April 18th on Bella Union, Chimpomatic favourites Explosions in the Sky have released their first preview of the album. The track Trembling Hands is more direct than much of the band's previous work ...and provides a taster of what to expect next month. I for one, cannot wait.

Listen here. Download here.

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8th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

New My Morning Jacket: Circuital

"I want it to sound like we're Cuban or Cambodian kids, and we're wearing berets and we're walking through an alley and we stumble upon this band, and it explodes into this crazy sing-along."

My Morning Jacket have a new album - Circuital - out this spring. Make of that what you will. The good news:

"We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."

Via Rolling Stone

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4th Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet