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Them Crooked Vultures — the Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones supergroup previously reported on the site — played their first show last night at the small Metro club in Chicago. About 1,100 lucky fans got to see them play their upcoming album, reportedly in its entirety, with rave reviews beginning to flood [...]
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Julian Casablancas has a new solo album coming out this fall, called Phrazes of the Young. Not much has been said of it so far, but a new video has shown up on his YouTube channel — claiming to be his first on-screen interview in three years — wherein he explains a bit about the [...]
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Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew recorded four-track projects as Dump beginning some time around 1991, temporarily pausing to focus on the band’s albums before resuming his alter ego in 1998. The result was That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?, a cassette tape comprised of seven Prince cover songs (its title a reference to [...]
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This is probably the most frightening thing I’ve heard in ages. The Criterion Collection re-released Roman Polanski’s Repulsion on DVD last week, but having just watched it again and then immediately played this song afterward, I can confirm that Repulsion’s got nothin’ on Kidz Bop. When the auto-tuned eight-year-old popped up, I nearly fell out [...]
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It is perhaps unfortunate that John Hughes is most recognized for his teen comedies, because it was his relatively “adult” films, namely Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck, that were his greatest achievements as both writer and director. Of course, this is not to undermine his progression — and revolution — of the teen [...]
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