New album, DODGE & BURN, drops September 25th. PREVIOUSLY: Jack White has a new band! And he’s the drummer! That’s right, he is now recording with THREE different groups, not to mention putting out a solo single, managing a record label, and being in a movie this year. You would think the man would be stretched thin by now between all his commitments, but apparently he thrives on having to do a lot of stuff, judging from the non-existent drop in quality. This album is much darker than anything he has done before, lyrically and musically, with songs like “So […]
SIDEWALKING: Help me!
Winston Loft Building, Chinatown, 4:16 PM yesterday by MEGAN MATUZAK
COURTNEY BARNETT: Nobody Really Cares If…
…you don’t go to the party.
NPR 4 THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When U Can’t
FRESH AIR From Rosie, the Jetsons’ robot maid, to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s cyborg in The Terminator, popular culture has frequently conceived of robots as having a human-like form, complete with “eyes” and mechanical limbs. But New York Times tech reporter John Markoff says that robots don’t always have a physical presence. “I have a very broad definition of what a robot is,” he tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross. “A robot can be … a machine that can walk around, or it can be software that is a personal assistant, something like Siri or Cortana or Google Now.” Markoff, the author […]
ELEVENTH DREAM DAY: Bagdad’s Last Ride
The year was 1989, the place was Chestnut Cabaret, they played this song and for four minutes and four seconds everything was all right in the universe. Didn’t last, of course, nothing does but that doesn’t change the fact that Eleventh Dream Day were always too good for this world. Play this irresponsibly loud while breaking something. And then try to tell me otherwise. Just try. ELEVENTH DREAM DAY PLAY JOHNNY BRENDA’S ON THURSDAY AUGUST 20TH
SPARKS AND RECREATION: This Is What It Sounds Like When Bill Hader Gets High With Seth Rogan
Click on volume icon bottom right. VARIETY: IFC is betting big on “Documentary Now!,” giving a second and third season to Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers’ parody project ahead of its series premiere on Thursday. The “Saturday Night Live” alums created, wrote and and executive produced the seven-part series that offers a different look at some of the world’s best-known documentary films. It’s also co-created and executive produced by Rhys Thomas and exec produced by Broadway Video’s Andrew Singer. It employs familiar “SNL” names: Thomas and Alex Buono serve as the show’s directors, John Mulaney is consulting producer […]
RIP: Yvonne Craig, AKA Batgirl, Dead At 78
CNN: Before Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman, before Joanna Cameron’s Isis, before Scarlett Johannsson’s Black Widow, Yvonne Craig was a pioneer of female superheroes on screen. As an actress, she originated the role of Batgirl in the 1960s “Batman” television series. As a trained dancer, she did her own stunts. Craig died this week after a long two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 78. Craig originated the role of Batgirl in the show’s third and final season in 1967, kapowing and zzonking the bad guys alongside Adam West and Burt Ward’s dynamic duo of Batman and Robin. “I hear […]
SIDEWALKING: Deluxx Fluxx Arcade
FAILE, Brooklyn Museum, Saturday 4:13 PM by MEGAN MATUZAK
Q&A With Benjamin Booker, Blooze Hammerer
EDITOR’S NOTE: This interview originally posted on October 20th 2014 BY JONATHAN VALANIA It’s been quite a year for Benjamin Booker, hand-picked opener for the Jack White’s Lazaretto tour, going electric at Norfolk, going crazy on Letterman — not bad for a 25-year-old community gardener from New Orleans. Booker broke onto the scene earlier this year with his righteous, trance-inducing blooze hammering self-titled debut, shot thru with dizzyingly ecstatic Delta blues demolition and the most shiver-inducing lupine howl heard since the day Tom Waits gargled broken glass and washed it down with gasoline when he was, like, nine. Sounds like […]
Allentown Cop Brutally Body Slams 61-Year-Old Man For The Crime Of Singing Beach Boys’ Songs
THE FREE THOUGHT PROJECT: A 61-year-old Pennsylvania man, Jim Osche likes to go out into public and sing as a means of relieving stress. On Friday, however, Osche’s stress relief would be met with police brutality. As Osche walked down the sidewalk in front of Shula’s Steakhouse in downtown Allentown, the restaurant guests seemed to be pleasantly receptive. Many of them pulled out their phones to record this cheerful man giving his rendition of Beach Boys, Barbara Ann. After wrapping up his song, though, Osche was met with police violence instead of applause. Osche seemed to be agitated by the […]
WORTH REPEATING: Dark Side Of Amazon’s Moon
NEW YORK TIMES: “This is a company that strives to do really big, innovative, groundbreaking things, and those things aren’t easy,” said Susan Harker, Amazon’s top recruiter. “When you’re shooting for the moon, the nature of the work is really challenging. For some people it doesn’t work.” Bo Olson was one of them. He lasted less than two years in a book marketing role and said that his enduring image was watching people weep in the office, a sight other workers described as well. “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his […]
TAME IMPALA: Let It Happen
TAME IMPALA PLAYS THE TOWER THEATER ON OCTOBER 5TH PREVIOUSLY: We pull up on a wooded hill overlooking the sprawling campus of middle/high school that [Tame Impala singer/guitarist/songwriter] Kevin Parker attended. “There’s actually a mental institution right across the road,” says Parker, pointing off in the distance at a warren of grim-looking buildings, some are walled off and have bars on the windows. “It’s called Gray Lands. My stepbrother went there, actually. He’s paranoid schizophrenic from weed and acid and crystal meth. Actually, my stepmother blames the drugs, but I think it would have happened anyway. He started acting more […]
LAST WEEK TONIGHT: The Sins Of Televangelism
Let’s get real for a second. A majority of the people reading this right now, at one point or another, have found themselves in a situation where you have killed half a bottle of whiskey, it’s 1 am and for whatever reason you are watching some overcooked, spray tan of a human being with impossibly perfect teeth aggressively “preaching” and going off about seeds on an obscure channel. You don’t know why on earth you are there (hint: it’s the whiskey) but that Televangelist is really doing it for you. It is so for one specific reason: it turns up […]