Entries from March 2010

March 31, 2010

Lollapalooza Engages In Massive Game of Wheel of Fortune

Which is appropriate, since both Wheel of Fortune and rumored headliner Soundgarden haven’t mattered since the 1990s. Either way, Lolla’s website has a teaser of their line-up with all the letters removed except for O. Still, the Spoonmen seem to fit well in that first blank, while other rumored artists Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire and [...]

March 30, 2010

Lost – “The Package”

Good thing I can still write in English, even if I’ve forgotten how to speak it!

March 30, 2010

Baby E-Trade Commercials to Become Films

A Nation Mourns

March 30, 2010

Bubble Watch: ABC Renews Castle

Though Castle isn’t a show we usually cover here at TUIW, we’re big fans of Nathan Fillion, thus making it great news to hear Michael Ausiello report that ABC has renewed the show for a 22-episode third season. A bubble show not a year ago, Castle found its audience, and last night, grabbed 14.5 million [...]

March 30, 2010

LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening

LCD Soundsystem have named their album (due May 18), and it’s awesomely titled This Is Happening. We don’t always devote full posts to album names, but this was too good to pass up. The cover is above. In case you missed it, the first taste of This Is Happening is here.

March 30, 2010

New Roky Erickson & Okkervil River

The good folks at Stereogum is sharing a small taste of the new album by Roky Erikson, which features backup band Okkervil River. The Will Sheff-produced album, True Love Cast Out All Evil, comes out 4/20 on Anti- , and Stereogum has two tracks, “Be and Bring Me Home,” and “Goodbye Sweet Dreams.” We won’t [...]

March 29, 2010

Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine

Time travel is hot again within science fiction circles, most notably with last year’s mindbending season of a certain show we already write about too much around here (although I think its 2000s renaissance can all be traced back to Primer, one of my favorite movies ever). But so far, no film has had the [...]

March 29, 2010

Oh No! It’s (Another) Godzilla!

Godzilla used to be awesome. The original films set the standard for monster disaster movies. Then they started sucking. Then Roland Emmerich made one. Needless to say, Godzilla has been absent for the last 12 years. But he’s back! Legendary Pictures (The Dark Knight, 300) has acquired the rights to make a new American Godzilla [...]

March 29, 2010

Still Dead Orson Welles to Narrate Film

Though he’s been dead for 25 years, Orson Welles will be narrating an upcoming live-action/CGI holiday movie, Christmas Tails, which of course needs to be in 3D as well. Now, before you start worrying about Ouija boards and seances, the narration will come from a tape recorded in 1985, shortly before Welles’ death. Apparently, Welles [...]

March 29, 2010

New Hold Steady – “Rock and Roll Problems”

Vulture has another new song from the Hold Steady’s highly anticipated new album, Heaven is Whenever (May 4) called “Rock and Roll Problems.” Vulture describes it as thus: Over fat power chords, Craig Finn sketches out a story full of weary bad girls, drugs, burnouts, dancing, and conversations that take place in kitchens during house [...]