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Sigur Rós: Kveikur
Published at 12:27 PM on June 18, 2013 By Mack Hayden Sigur Rós has long provided a sort of hymnal template for the secular masses.
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The Pile of $h*! That Was '$h*! My Dad Says'
Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in vain. Other times, the powers that be get things right. That’s where Brilliantly Canceled comes in, looking at the shows that didn’t make it past their first season and saved us all a ton of grief.
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Urata Naoya feat. Ayumi Hamasaki – Dream ON
We featured Urata Naoya back in September 2010. Here’s another video from the Japanese singer entitled Dream ON.
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Ed Sheeran Says New Album Will Have More Hip-Hop Influence
Ed Sheeran doesn’t look much like a hip-hop artist with his wild red hair or tattoo sleeves, but the British singer said his upcoming studio effort will sound a lot more like some classic 1990s rap albums.
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'Man of Steel' clobbers box office
"Man of Steel." (HO)Man of Steel, the big-budget reboot of the Superman franchise, leaped over the apocalyptic buddy comedy This is the End, collecting a muscular $113.1 million US to lead the domestic box office with the year’s second-largest opening weekend and the biggest June opening ever.This is the End, written by star Seth Rogen and...
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Ed Sheeran Covers Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters Of War’ For ONE [VIDEO]
Ed Sheeran has joined Bono in The ONE Campaign’s fight to eliminate poverty around the world. The organization, which takes up social causes all over the world is hitting the G-8 Summit that will take place in Northern Ireland next week.
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How to Beat a German Speeding Ticket
Getty Images There was a roadblock, in a little German town. A black police van was parked across the road, and three polezei stood in front of it, waving me into a little parking lot. I smiled. True, I had an apprehension of disaster—I figured the road was closed because of an accident up ahead.
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Soko playing NY album release shows, streaming debut LP
by Andrew Sacher French singer/actress Soko (aka Stephanie Sokolinski), who you might also know from Jherek Bischoff's 2012 album Composed (she appeared with Parenthetical Girls singer Zac Pennington on a track), released her debut album, I Thought I Was An Alien, last year, and it just officially came out in the US this week (6/11).
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THEIR MOST ENDURING TRACK - HEAVEN 17
Not sure if this will become a series or not, but it's designed for lazy days such as this when the UK and the USA are basking in a bank or public holiday and loads of regular readers won't clock in as they're not at their work stations.
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Weekend Rock Question: What Is the Best Billy Joel Album?
May 24, 2013 3:00 PM ET Billy Joel's, 'Glass...
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'Monsters University' Clip: Roommate Bunk Bed Battle
A new clip from next month's Monsters University shows that having your first roommate in college can be difficult. Particularly when the inhabitant of the bunk above your sheds pounds of blue fur every night. Twelve years ago, Pixar introduced us to best friends and top-scaring team in Monstropolis James P.
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Ed Sheeran to Bring Down the 'House' at Billboard Music Awards: Rehearsal Q&A
"Don't expect much from the performance -- I don't have any dancers, or a backing band. But I do have some Christmas lights around my feet, so that's exciting." Ed Sheeran is kidding. You should get excited about his performance of "Lego House" at the Billboard Music Awards tomorrow (May 19), airing live on ABC from Las Vegas.
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SpinMedia “!!! – “”One Girl/One Boy”" Video
Longtime seedy disco/funk outfit !!! have their uniquely titled new album THR!!!ER out now on Warp, and a new video for its latest single “One Girl/Bone Boy.” What this means for you at home is another opportunity to see Nic Offer’s short-shorts in motion, inside a florally psychedelic and energetic visual treatment.
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Add New Fall Shows to Your Watchlist Now!
Add New Fall Shows to Your Watchlist Now!Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2013 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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FLYING COLORS Announces Tour Documentary 'First Flight'
FLYING COLORS — the spectacular new virtuoso prog/pop/metal rock band formed by drummer Mike Portnoy (ex-DREAM THEATER) and guitarist Steve Morse (DEEP PURPLE) — is working a concert Blu-ray and DVD from its 2012 tour, to be released later in the year.
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DREAM THEATER Keyboardist Joins RECOMBINANT As Senior Artist In Residence
Jordan Rudess, the keyboardist/Continuum-player/multi-instrumentalist for Grammy-nominated prog rock/metal icons DREAM THEATER, has joined the music technology company Recombinant as senior artist in residence. The company recently released a new interactive music application, JamBandit.
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ELLEN POMPEO WANTS TO BE IN A SNOOP DOGG HOOK
Ellen Pompeo was spotted heading to a doctor’s appointment in Beverly Hills on Wednesday (May 8). The Grey’s Anatomy actress kept it casual for the outing, wearing a striped oxford shirt, jeans and simple canvas slip-on shoes. She accessorized her look with a pair of chic sunglasses and an oversized white bag.
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'Grey's Anatomy': Will Meredith and the Baby Survive? (Exclusive Video)
A massive storm is on its way to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and Owen is readying the troops with news that doesn't go over well with everyone.
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Your band name's stupid. I won't be listening.
Last updated 08:24 02/05/2013 This week I discovered Opposites - an album in a pile of CDs sent to me for potential review. Good lord it's awful. Really, really bad. The worst thing about it? The clue that it probably wasn't going to work out okay between me and them? The band's name. This group is called Biffy Clyro.
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Justice Live Album ‘Access All Arenas’ Set For May Release
The month of the May is shaping as a big one for fans of French electronic dance music. Justice will drop a live album “Access All Arenas” from May 6, a date that puts it just ahead of Daft Punk’s hugely anticipated “Random Access Memories”, which is due on a staggered international release through Columbia from mid-to-late May.
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Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' $200 Million Production Nightmare Exposed
Brad Pitt's 'World War Z' $200 Million Production Nightmare Exposed April 30, 2013, 4:31 PM ESTTheWrapDamon Lindelof and Paramount have spilled the rotten tomatoes on Brad Pitt's "World War Z." Incomplete script, an incoherent ending, massive re-shoots, millions of dollars in budget overages, and even a Hungarian SWAT team raid are...
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Review: !!! – THR!!!ER
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!!! – Thr!!!er
‘Thr!!!er’, in all its heart to drumbeat matching glory, is a dextrous, foot stomping meta-tussle with the notion of the career defining album.
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New: Owen “Bad Blood”
On July 2nd, Owen will release their new album, L’Ami du Peuple on Polyvinyl Records. The album’s lead single is “Bad Blood,” a track in which Mike Kinsella reflects on his family and their own bad blood. read more at survivingthegoldenage.com
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Ed Sheeran: Rumors He's Dating Taylor Swift Make Him 'Feel Like a Stud'
By Jessica Herndon 04/05/2013 at 04:00 PM EDT Taylor Swift and Ed SheeranLarry Busacca/TAS/Getty From a Grammy nomination to performing toe-to-toe with Elton John – singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran has had a lot of pinch-me moments lately. But the weirdest yet? Rumors he's dating pal Taylor Swift.
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'Screamer,' 'Slammer,' 'Bang' ... and 15 Other Ways to Say 'Exclamation Point'
Eva the Weaver via Flickr The exclamation, for all its ubiquity, is neither the most useful nor the most delightful of punctuation marks. In practicality it is trumped by the comma and the apostrophe, and the em-dash, and even, I would venture to say, the semicolon. In delightfulness it is trumped, like every other mark, by the interrobang.
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'Screamer,' 'Slammer,' 'Bang' ... and 15 Other Ways to Say 'Exclamation Point'
Eva the Weaver via Flickr The exclamation, for all its ubiquity, is neither the most useful nor the most delightful of punctuation marks. In practicality it is trumped by the comma and the apostrophe, and the em-dash, and even, I would venture to say, the semicolon. In delightfulness it is trumped, like every other mark, by the interrobang.
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HEAR THIS: Ed Sheeran
From time to time you can download free mp3s from artists and bands that we love listening to. We scour the web for these links, occasionally hosting our own, in the hopes of influencing you to go out and buy/support these artists and bands.
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Nicholas Hoult Heads to Dark Places
Source: Deadline April 3, 2013 Nicholas Hoult is the latest name to join the cast of the upcoming Dark Places, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn. Deadline reports that the Jack the Giant Slayer star will join the previously-announced Charlize Theron and Chloe Moretz in the Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah's Key) film.
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Chloe Moretz Looks to Dark Places
Source: Deadline April 1, 2013 Chloe Moretz appears nearly set to join Charlize Theron in the upcoming big screen adaptation of the Gillian Flynn's Dark Places. Deadline reports that the young star in currently in talks.
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In Case You Missed It: See Eighth-Grade Riot Grrrls in Dirty Girls
What’s better than nineties nostalgia? Dirty Girls, the short documentary about a real-life clique of aspirant riot grrrls shot by a Los Angeles high-school senior in 1996, now available on YouTube.
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FEATURE: The Lead - 100 Bands You Needed To Know in 2001: Where Are They Now?
100 Bands You Needed To Know in 2001: Where Are They Now? AP 297 marked our 13th annual "100 Bands You Need To Know" special, where we profile a hundred of our favorite up-and-coming acts from all walks of musical life.
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Guerrilla Movements in Grammar
People are doing crazy things with grammar! Did you hear about the "capostrophe" in Britain last week? (Sorry, my portmanteau.) A district council said they were going to "abolish the apostrophe" from signs designating places in the area.
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Alfa Matrix releases 35 minute trailer new ‘Absolute Grrrls Manifesto [chapter 1]‘ 4CD box set
The Belgian label Alfa Matrix has released a 35 minute (!) trailer for the “Absolute Grrrls Manifesto ” 4CD box set which is official out on April 12 (but which you can pre-order and receive already when ordering from Alfa Matrix) The box set features 111 different female fronted bands and dives into different sub genres from the...
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‘Vampire Diaries’: Ian Somerhalder plays dress-up with Paul Wesley — VIDEO
Image Credit: Annette Brown/The CW Well, a Paul Wesley cut-out that is. In preparation for the ’70s flashback on tonight’s episode of The Vampire Diaries, we asked Ian Somerhalder to dress his on-screen brother in decade-appropriate (and, at least in one case, not-so-appropriate) attire.
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SpinMedia Golden Grrrls – “Take Your Time” Video (Stereogum Premiere)
Glasgow’s Golden Grrrls go dank nightclub in the video for “Take Your Time.” If darkness doesn’t feel in line with their glowing output, not to fret! Here they prove that light shows aren’t relegated to the Grateful Dead, as the live set video comes replete with Christmas tree lazer projections, flipping it from...
