EARLY WORD: Horse Latitudes

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE will release a very special album titled AMERICANA on June 5, 2012. AMERICANA is the first album from Neil Young & Crazy Horsein nearly nine years. Crazy Horse is: Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, Poncho Sampedro, and Neil Young. As you’ll see from the track-listing, AMERICANA is collection of classic, American folk songs. In their day, some of these may have been referred to as “protest songs,” “murder ballads,” or campfire-type songs passed down with universal, relatable tales for everyman. Some of these compositions which, like “Tom Dooley” and “Oh Susannah,” were written in the 1800s, […]

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EARLY WORD: Inmates To Run Asylum

Odd Future Philadelphia Sweatshop March 23rd 11am-6pm @ Exit Skateshop Odd Future will be rocking Philly hard Friday March 23rd with TWO HUGE events. Exit Skateshop will be handing over the keys to Tyler the Creator and the rest of the Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All crew for their “Philadelphia Sweatshop”. The shop will feature exclusive O.F. gear that won’t be found anywhere else and supplies are extremely limited. The entire Golf Wang collective is expected to be in attendance, signing autographs and hanging out with fans before their SOLD OUT show at The Electric Factory. MORE STEVE ALBINI: I spent […]

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EARLY WORD: Beach Boy

The Dirty Beaches play First Unitarian May 3rd with Xiu Xiu! *** THE DIRTY BEACHES Badlands The debut full-length by Taiwanese-born Canadian lo-fi minimalist/one man band Alex Zhang Hungtai, slightly better known by his stage name Dirty Beaches, sounds like a speakers-blown transistor radio tuned to The Geator stuffed into the back pocket of some poor fucker whacked-and-hacked by Joe Pesci, tossed overboard and currently resting in pieces at the bottom of the sea. No wait, it sounds like prom night 1958 on angel dust right before the flying saucers land and worlds collide. Scratch that. It sounds like there’s […]

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Google Is Bigger Than All Newspapers Combined

DAVID CARR: Reflections of a Newsosaur did the math in a post on Thursday and concluded that advertising sales at United States newspapers, some $24 billion last year, were less than half of what they were in 2005. It went on to point out: The combined ad sales for all the newspapers in the United States last year were equal to only two-thirds of the sales of a single digital competitor, Google, whose annual revenues were $37.9 billion. MORE< REFLECTIONS OF A NEWSOSAUR: Though publishers say they are focused on building digital revenues to offset the steady decline that has […]

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Why You Can’t Use Your Smartphone Or Tablet Or E-Reader On A Plane And Why That Might Change

NEW YORK TIMES: The F.A.A. said that the agency has decided to take a “fresh look” at the use of personal electronics on planes. That’s going to be welcome news to the people in the United States who, according to Forrester Research, by the end of 2012 will have bought more than 40 million e-readers and 60 million iPads and other tablets. Yes, you read that correctly. The F.A.A., which in the past has essentially said, “No, because I said so,” is going to explore testing e-readers, tablets and certain other gadgets on planes. The last time this testing was […]

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SANTORUM: ‘I Will Ban Hardcore Pornography’

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS: The Republican presidential candidate and staunch social conservative wants to ban hard-core pornography. He calls it “toxic to marriages and relationships” in a new statement posted on his official website. “America is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography,” the former Pennsylvania senator writes. “It contributes to misogyny and violence against women. It is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.” He demands a crackdown on the distribution of hardcore pornography on the Internet, in addition to material on cable/satellite TV, hotel/motel TV, retail shops and through the mail. What qualifies as “hardcore” remains unclear. […]

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NPR FOR THE DEAF: Rabbit Revisited

FRESH AIR John Updike would have turned 80 on March 18, 2012. To celebrate the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Random House is re-releasing some of his most recognizable works, including the Rabbit series. The publisher is also releasing e-book editions of Updike’s entire back catalog, along with a posthumous essay collection, “Higher Gossip,” which will appear in paperback for the first time. Updike appeared on Fresh Air several times over the years. On Friday’s show, excerpts from several of those interviews will be played. Over his decades-long career, Updike authored more than 25 novels and over a dozen short story collections, […]

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CINEMA: House Of Pain

2011, directed by Lynne Ramsay, 112 minutes, U.K.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC The opening image in director Lynne Ramsay’s suburban nightmare, We Need To Talk About Kevin, is of household curtains blowing in the dark, accompanied to the sound of a sprinkler’s rhythmic spraying, with the image ultimately burning out into white light. The natural elements, water, air, and light should all be comforting but something foreboding is behind that curtain, something that we won’t see until the final act of this grim domestic horror story. Similarly, the bond between mother and child is sacred part of life, yet […]

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DO RIGHT WOMAN: How Not 2 Become Your Father

[Artwork by JON LANGFORD] VARIETY: The Gram Parsons Foundation, the non-profit organization devoted to funding and education for substance abuse recovery in the music community, will relaunch with a pair of events set for Wednesday as part of the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas. The org takes its name from the influential country-rock pioneer, who died in Joshua Tree, Calif., in 1973 from a morphine overdose. It is headed by Parsons’ daughter Polly [pictured, below right], who has faced her own struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. “Recovery is the only way I survived my bloodline,” she […]

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