Entries from November 2009

November 30, 2009

Best of the 2000s: Honorable Mentions

So it begins.

November 30, 2009

Mini Music News Update

Sometimes there’s a bunch of little bits of music news to report, but not in one post. That’s where Mini Music News Update comes in! In today’s update: It looks like the Paste-loving juggernaut of M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel will dominate yet another year in 2010. In 2008, it was their debut as duo [...]

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

Happy Thanksgiving!

We aren’t thankful for Arthur Mitchell either…

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

Curb Your Enthusiasm – “Seinfeld”

Icon. Icon. Icon. Icon. Nocon.

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 [...]