Daily Digest
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Daily Digest Today on Twitter: premakes, biopics, Jimmy Gooch
* New album from The Go!Team is wildin' out in its entirety on Hype Machine.
* Audacious "Top 10 Composers" list proves again why NYT classical coverage is essential, even/especially for blockheads like us.
* A Jeff Buckley biopic starring Robert Pattinson — it could happen. [via @Spinner]
* Wow. RT @brainpicker: A live-action “premake” of Pixar’s "Up," envisioned in 1965 [via @brainpicker]
* David Byrne and Will Oldham are writing music for a Sean Penn movie about a singer hunting a Nazi. [via @Spinner]
* A legendary Stone Roses gig has inspired a new film. [via @Spinner]
* "Twilight: Eclipse" sweeps 2011 Razzie nominations. We loved hating it, too.
* 1st leak from Oh No's mixtape trib. to Rudy Ray Moore kills. "Ohnomite" has been 3 yrs in/making. So far, oh so dope.
* Johnny Cash arrested in NY sting. Ditto, Hootie and Jimmy Gooch.
* mp3s of the Rolling Stones' "2120 Michigan Avenue (The Unreleased 1964 Blues Album)" [via @largeheartedboy]
* Shakespeare's Globe Theater to present the Bard's Canon in 38 languages [via @nytimesarts]
* Former Paul's Boutique location burns down. [via @thedailyswarm]
* Nas makes everyone ache for the old days. When was the last time you held a hot cassette up to your nose?
* Somehow, this is eerier than every last one of our dead birds. Inexplicable dead spot on Australian Open court. #ao10
* Chris Denny and the Natives make Daytrotter's "Best of 2010" list.
* Sen. Jimmy Jeffress drops headphone ban proposal. [via @APNewsBreak]
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Daily Digest Today on Twitter: Jazzfest 2011, jazz 'Donuts', Pazz and Jop
* Raphael Saadiq (right) brings 'aggressive' rock n' roll on new album, previews upcoming single "Radio." [RT @rayraysaadiq, via @AOL]
* No racing at Oaklawn Park due to winter weather [via @KATVNews]
* Mubi gets it right—again, as always—with their list of 2010's greatest movie posters.
* 2011 New Orleans Jazz Festival lineup has been announced! [RT @jazzfest]
* Check out this live video of The Clean (below, left) doing “Drawing To A Whole” at Scion Garage Fest. [RT @mergerecords]
* Stream the entire Band of Horses/The National episode of Austin City Limits here.
* Times New Viking takes 1. a cue from Johnny Cash Project crowdsourcing, 2. your eyeballs to crayon heaven. New video here.
* Oh, this is nearly perfect: re-captioning New Yorker cartoons with super-literal captions. [RT @ on_the_media]
* How about that Coachella lineup, huh?
* Pazz and Jop polls released. No surprises to be found, but Kanye tops the albums poll for his third year.
* How about this Coachella lineup? If OFWGKTA manages to pull of their Earl Sweatshirt coup, I'm already as good as there.
* Jazz trio recreates J Dilla's "Donuts" in its entirety, live.
* Aquarium Drunkard has a great interview with Dan Bejar of Destroyer, who comes to Stickyz on March 27.
* Sacha Baron Cohen IS Saddam Hussein. Coming in May 2012. Probably not opening Cannes. Unbelievable. [RT @ebertchicago]
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Friday, January 14, 2011
Daily Digest Today on Twitter: 'True Grit' snubs, James Blake live, R.I.P. Trish Keenan
The re-issue of Rwake's classic 'Hell Is A Door To The Sun' is up for preorder on iTunes
Guild award snubs don't bode well for 'True Grit's' Oscar chances.
It's not the tennis player. But this guy's incredible, too @thefaderhosts a live video of James Blake playing "Wilhelms Scream" at the legendary Maida Vale Studios for the BBC.
Thank you, Based God. Lil B tells @pitchforkmediahis two new records are "going to be historical works of art." Swag.
The internet has been lit up all day long with terribly sad news from the music world. Trish Keenan, vocalist for Broadcast, died after complications from H1N1. Our buddy @redchuck pointed us towards this astute comment on her death.
Get John Darnielle and @mountain_goats on Law and Order: SVU. Why? Why not?
New website for White Water Tavern. Dig the header. It's lookin' good. After all, Myspace is getting more and more hoopty by the hour.
Against Me! plays Juanita's in 9 short days. Added Jay ("son of Max") Weinberg on drums. If this practice footage from @spinmagazine is any indicator, we're calling it now: gonna be great.
@ARKRiverfest confirms Charlie Daniels on Saturday at the Amphitheater and Papa Roach on Saturday at the Bud Stage.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Daily Digest Today on Twitter: Beth Ditto, Ben Nichols, 'James Brown!'
* Took the new Beth Ditto/Simian Mobile Disco EP for a couple spins today. Now we can't stop sweating glitter—strangely, we're beginning to kinda like it. It's streaming at Harder Blogger Faster.
* @gerardmatthews with some great footage of last night's Ben Nichols acoustic show at AR CD & Record Exchange. http://bit.ly/eJilm9
* "Whatcha gonna do when you get out of jail?" Tom Tom Club celebrates the 30th anniversary of "Genius of Love" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Check it out here.
* Watch 36 minutes of Quentin Tarantino's first movie, circa 1987, most of which was destroyed in a fire. (via @kottke)
* We've never seen a Czech/Polish movie poster we didn't love. Ogle at few gorgeous vintage Czech and Polish posters for Japanese "kaiju" films at Pink Tentacle. (via @brainpicker.)
* Much-anticipated Johnny Cash "Bootleg Vol. 2, From Memphis to Hollywood" artwork is unbelievable.
* Ditto on the tracklist. Wow/drool.
* BBC4 to air original doc about Arkansas native and rock n' roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe this week.
* Warped Tour just got a lot cooler, raspier. Lucero shakes up the annual summer festival's bill.
* Paste Magazine quantifies Levon, Robbie & Co. in a well-thought out list with "The 10 Best Songs by The Band."
* Because tacky sunglasses don't pay for themselves, y'know. : Bono made $750 million by investing in Facebook. http://aol.it/gkF2it (via @SpinnerTweet)
* A taste of what's coming to the Rev Room on 1/26: Watch No Age perform on "David Letterman" here. (via @pitchforkmedia)
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Thursday, January 6, 2011
Music / Daily Digest Today on Twitter: T.I., Beefheart, Al Gree-mix
* T.I. got in trouble over the weekend in prison in Forrest City for getting "frisky" with his wife.
* Listened to the new Goines mixtape yet? Try out the Black Keys-sampling "That's Me" for a dose of Vitamin Swag.
* "Alert: Dead Birds Now Showing Up on Prime-Time-TV Shows" [via Vulture]
* Discovery just posted months worth live recordings from DJ Kramer. Streaming podcasts for your rolling pleasure.
* Al Green swerve anthem "Simply Beautiful" gets a dub remix courtesy of Brit producer George Lenton.
* Speaking of remixes, Al Lover shook up "Safe as Milk," the Captain Beefheart masterpiece, with a little beat-juggling, hip-hop swagger to make "Safe as Milk Replica." Dilla fans, don't miss it.
And as always, you can distract yourself further from work, family, friends, exercise, housework and sunshine by following Rock Candy at @rockcandies.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Daily Digest Clinton cameos, Girl Talk reloads, Tina Fey quips
*Bill Clinton will appear in "The Hangover 2" as himself. He appears in Bangkok, where the film's set.
*If the undoubtedly way-overloaded server ever comes back online, Girl Talk is giving away his new album "All Day" here.
*"I want to thank everyone involved with the Kennedy Center or, as it will soon be known, the Tea Party Bowling Alley and Rifle Range." Watch clips from Tina Fey's acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize.
*Watch Velvet Kente do its thing at White Water in a video from Osyrus. Unlike most hand-held live video, it actually sounds pretty good.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Daily Digest Shaggs, Muppets, "Sex Sax" and Eels
- "lobotomized Trapp Family Singers," The Shaggs
The band that Frank Zappa famously tauted as "better than The Beatles" is heading to the stage. Cult act and outsider music foremothers, The Shaggs, are the basis for an upcoming musical, "Philosophy of the World," named after their first and only studio album. Noobs, behold!
Drop the Lime. "Sex Sax." It's going to be inescapable at every summer dance party this year. And inescapable from your head for the next few hours.
Mark Everett Smith, or Mr. E, of Eels was detained in London on suspicion of being a terrorist. [via Spinner]
Muppet. Staring. Contest. Right here.
Also...
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Daily Digest Sookie forever
*Little Big Town (one-quarter Arkansan) has announced Aug. 24 for the release of its new album, "The Reason Why."
*Rough House Pictures, the production imprint LR native David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride started last year, has announced development of a new film, "Bullies," based on an idea by McBride.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Daily Digest Besser talks Hogs, Jurado does "Arkansas," WATF tackles U2
Upright Citizen, Arkansan and rabid Hogs fan, Matt Besser (above), talks—optimistically—to Arkansas Expats about Bobby "BMFP" Petrino, our gang of wide receivers and that hilarious Ryan Mallett mug shot.
Seattle singer-songwriter Damien Jurado premieres the video for his new single, "Arkansas," on Pitchfork TV. It's a pretty morbid affair that hits no fewer than three high points of state cliche: Pabst tall boys, check; a rifle, check; a slack-jawed yokel with eyes glazed like a Shipley donut, supa check.
We Are the Fallen do an acoustic take of U2's "With or Without You" for Billboard.
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Daily Digest John Waters wants to take Beth Ditto on a USO tour
*“I want to do a USO tour. I want Beth Ditto to be my Marilyn Monroe, and have Iggy Pop wrestle with Bin Laden look-alikes. I want to do the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell, we’re going to hell’ tour. It would be great.” John Waters via Out.
*Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason are back on TV after getting close with "12 Miles of Bad Road." This time with a half-hour comedy for USA. Scripted by Linda and exec-produced by the couple, "Driven" follows an out-of-work man in Austin, Texas who starts a limo business, according to Variety. Comedian Ron "Tater" White stars. No word yet on when it'll debut.
*One quarter-Arkansas-based country band Little Big Town has a new video. As CMT points out, it's pretty much the country version of "Single Ladies," which means lines like this: "No more lovin' like crazy and no more chicken and gravy."
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