If you’ve ever said to yourself or even aloud, ‘When, Lord, will the kids finally combine the chrome, smoke and BBQ’d hot licks of early ZZ Top, the Plutonian noodling of Dead Moon, and the half-breed hully-gully hullabaloo of Link Wray, with the raw-spleen-on-a-Ritz cracker of Lungfish’s best work?’ your prayers have finally been answered. Their Matador debut, Chrome Cactuse is out 8/25, and they play Boot & Saddle on 9/10. Further proof that Kurt Cobain did not die in vain.

Ferguson, MO, yesterday, photographer unknown, via TWITTER

  WASHINGTON POST: The events these last few days in Ferguson, Missouri ought to be of grave concern to anyone who believes in the First Amendment, and specifically the rights to free speech, protest, and assembly. As you may have read, last night was particularly ugly, as police arrested a St. Louis alderman, Huffington Post reporter Ryan J. Reilly, and our own Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery. Police also tear-gassed a news crew from Al-Jazeera. There are also reports, video, and images of police teargassing, arresting, and otherwise intimidating peaceful protests all over the town. MORE NEW YORKER: Nothing that […]

Weight of Love from Theo Wenner on Vimeo. ROLLING STONE: In the Black Keys’ extremely clever video for “Fever” (off their latest album, Turn Blue) Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney play sweaty televangelists slowly whipping an audience into a flat-out frenzy. The clip, directed by Theo Wenner, precisely captures the look and feel of classic late-night religious informercials, down to the rapturous crowd in Eighties hairdos catching the spirit as the song reaches its bluesy peak. Now Wenner is debuting a short film for another Turn Blue track — psychedelic opener “Weight of Love” — here, as a follow-up to […]

Photo by JAMES WHITE for ESQUIRE Before there was “Second City,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Mean Girls” and “30 Rock,” there was Upper Darby Summer Stage where writer, producer, and Emmy-award winning actress Tina Fey first honed her acting and directing chops. Upper Darby Summer Stage was established in 1976 and welcomes over 700 young participants each summer and over 30,000 ticket-holders to then series of family-friendly musicals. Fey returns to Summer Stage this Saturday (August 16th) to host a fundraiser to underwrite the purchase of a new $300,000 sound system. The event will feature the 10th anniversary screening of “Mean […]

Let us now remember the early genius of Spike Jonze, back when he was just a skate punk who made super-creative, low-budget music videos for the likes of Weezer and Ween, the Beastie Boys, Beck and the Breeders. Like this one.

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Kids, that white-haired man behind Jimmy Fallon’s desk is J-O-H-N-N-Y C-A-R-S-O-N, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of Late Night Talk Show Hosts. The year is 1981. The man in black has been struck by lightning. It will take 34 years for the voltage to dissipate. PREVIOUSLY: The Rest Is Silence: Robin Williams 1951-2014

Photograph by ROBERT HAPAK NEW YORK TIMES: The privileged son of a Detroit auto executive who grew up chubby and lonesome, playing by himself with 2,000 toy soldiers in an empty room of a suburban mansion, Mr. Williams, as a boy, hardly fit the stereotype of someone who would grow to become a brainy comedian, or a goofy one, but he was both. Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an […]

From Goodwill Hunting. Wow.

Let us now recall the early genius of Spike Jonze, and for that matter the early genius of Weezer, who have a new Ric Ocasek-produced album called Everything Will Be Alright In The End. They play Musikfest up in Bethlehem on Saturday.