So it begins.
Entries from November 2009
November 30, 2009
Ted Leo/Rx Announces New Album
Mr. Ted Leo and his band of trained medical professionals will return March 9 with The Brutalist Bricks (artwork above), his first record on the fantastic Merge label. While there’s not yet a track list, there is a single of sorts provided by Matador called “Even Heroes Have to Die” which you can download below. [...]
November 25, 2009
James Murphy to Score Noah Baumbach Movie
We’re a day late to this party, but not only is James Murphy working on a new LCD Soundsystem record for 2010, but he’s also scoring the new Noah Baumbach movie, Greenberg. Murphy promised in an interview with Drowned in Sound that the soundtrack would “sound NOTHING like lcd soundsystem.” He also mentions a possible [...]
November 25, 2009
New Thermals Record In 2010
The Thermals took three years to go from The Body, The Blood, The Machine in 2006 to this year’s awesome Now We Can See, but it seems that the band wants their next record to come out a lot sooner than that. Their label, Kill Rock Stars is saying we’ll get a new Thermals record [...]
November 25, 2009
SXSW Announces First Wave of 2010 Artists
The 2010 SXSW Festival down in Jon’s home base of Austin, TX will take place March 17-21 at various locales throughout the city. Yesterday, the festival announced it’s initial line up of bands. Highlights of the list include Frightened Rabbit, Japandroids, Robyn Hitchcock, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Harlem, Deer Tick, Jookabox, Miniature Tigers, Fanfarlo, and We Are [...]
November 24, 2009
Aziz Ansari and Judd Apatow Make a Deal
Via his Twitter page, Aziz Ansari is reporting that he and Jason Woliner have reached an agreement with Judd Apatow and Universal to make three movies, all starring Ansari and directed by Woliner. Says Aziz: One idea is tentatively titled “Let’s Do This” and is a road movie about two guys that work for a [...]
November 24, 2009
How I Met Your Mother – “Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap”
That’s four! Can you believe it’s really been two full years since Slap #3? I sure couldn’t. There’s only one remaining, and I’m guessing we’ll have to wait a while for that one too. But I’m moving too fast. As with “Slapsgiving” two years ago, the slap was only the comedic payoff in an episode [...]
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