Entries from November 2009

November 24, 2009

Mini Music News Flash

A couple of mini news items for your Tuesday morning: Spoon has moved up the release date of their new record Transference to January 19. They also announced the first single, “Written in Reverse,” which will be released December 1 digitally and January 5 as a 7″ single. The vinyl-only B-side is awesomely titled “Mean [...]

November 23, 2009

Exciting Developments for Tangled Up in Wires

http://tangledupinwires.com; tell your friends!

November 23, 2009

Movie Review: Precious

It doesn’t even matter what I say, this movie’s going to make a lot of money and win a crapload of awards

November 23, 2009

Merge Releases Neutral Milk Hotel Videos

To coincide with the recent reissue of Neutral Milk Hotel’s essential albums On Avery Island and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea on vinyl, Merge Records has posted to YouTube a couple videos of the band playing at the Knitting Factory in 1998. The videos, of tracks “Two Headed Boy” and “April 8″ are pretty [...]

November 20, 2009

Weekly Best Of: Teen Phenomena

From “She Loves You” to Abstinence Vampires, we look at some of our favorite teen sensations

November 20, 2009

Parks and Recreation: “Hunting Trip”

I’ve been singing the praises of Parks and Rec all season so far, and I know that I already declared “Ron and Tammy” was the best episode yet, but that was because we had yet to see “Hunting Trip,” an episode that has set Parks and Rec into a league of it’s own. No longer [...]

November 20, 2009

Community – “Environmental Science”

Despite another mandatory theme set by NBC Green Week, I looked forward to the stellar Thursday Night Comedies to be great last night. It’s November Sweeps after all, and I figured they were due to have the stars align and for all 4 shows to be great. Batting in the lead off spot as always [...]

November 20, 2009

Lost Gets Start Date

World, get your theories in order and get ready for some answers when Lost returns for its final season on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. ABC has packed the lineup that night with the annual “in case you don’t remember every minute detail” clip show at 8, followed by a sure to be insane 2 hour [...]

November 18, 2009

Greatest Hits: Pavement

Pull out their plugs and they snort up the drugs

November 17, 2009

Will Arnett Stopping By Parks and Recreation

I’m a few episodes behind on Parks and Recreation, but even without getting to the much-lauded “Ron & Tammy” I think that its been easily the best of the four shows on NBC’s schedule and one of the best of the year. So its too bad that they’ve decided to throw all that away and [...]