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1. Ween, “Pork Roll Egg and Cheese.” If you please, on a kaiser bun. A few years later, it was Chocolate and Cheese, which may or may have not been about something entirely different. 2. David Ford, “State of the Union.” 3. The Brunettes, “Credit Card Mail Order.” 4. Brett Anderson, “Love is... Read More

Video of the Day: Architecture in Helsinki, “That Beep” December 01, 2008 The new single from A in H will once again have you pounding your head against the wall in frustration and asking, “Why the Hell can’t pop radio be more like this?” 1 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post Rob on Dec 03, 2008 @ 4:04 pm It... Read More

Movie Review: “Four Christmases” November 26, 2008 Rating: 40 “Four Christmases” plays like frenetic holiday episodes for four sit-coms, haphazardly stitched together by the hit-and-miss chemistry of its stars, Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. To its credit, Seth Gordon’s narrative debut after his smashing documentary “The King of Kong”... Read More

Random 10 for November 26, 2008 November 26, 2008 Last Shadow Puppets |MTV Music 1. The Last Shadow Puppets, "My Mistakes Were Made For You." A gorgeous album all around, and some good person named Broccoli needs to commission the Puppets to write and record the next James Bond theme. 2. Matthew Alvin Brown, “Take Me Home.” 3. Miles Davis, “Israel.”... Read More

Technical Difficulties — Please Stand By November 26, 2008 They’re upgrading the blogs for the next few days, so you might experience some irregularity. Or it could just be the stuffing. Read More

Watch It! “The Atom Smashers” on “Independent Lens,” 9:30 p.m. on OETA OKLA, 2 a.m. on OETA DT November 26, 2008 This documentary on Fermilabs’ search for the subatomic particle known as the Higgs Boson follows a group of scientists dealing with Bush-era science cutbacks and competition from other countries, and as a bonus, it was co-directed by my cousin-in-law, Clayton Brown, who is known as Jeff to us. It was on last... Read More

Music Review: Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy”

November 25, 2008 Rating: 79 It seemed the moon might smash into Earth and end all life before Axl Rose finished “Chinese Democracy,” yet here it is after 14 years, the most expensive and most labored-over rock album in history — granted, Brian Wilson took 38 years to release “SMiLE,” but he took a 35-year break.... Read More

Random 10 for November 24, 2008 November 24, 2008 1. Passion Pit, “Sleepyhead.” Too many hooks to count in this debut single, and video, which would have been given the designation “Break Through Video” by MTV back when such things mattered, was done without any computer assistance. 2. Weezer, “The Greatest Man That Ever... Read More

Movie review: “Synecdoche, New York”

November 21, 2008 Samantha Morton and Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Synecdoche, New York.” Rating: 77 To say that Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York” is an encapsulation of human frailty, yearning, love, lust, life and death makes the film sound pretentious and overreaching. But Kaufman, the pop... Read More

Movie Review: “Bolt”

November 21, 2008 “Bolt” Rating: 64 Disney’s “Bolt” is the studio’s best non-Pixar computer-generated cartoon to date, a shaggy-dog tale that owes as much to “The Truman Show” as it does to “Lassie Come Home.” Young kids might not get the film’s meta layers, but characters are funny and cuddly enough... Read More

Video of the Day: Eagles of Death Metal, “I Want You So Hard (The Boy’s Bad News)” November 21, 2008 All hail the power of full-tilt riff-o-rama boogietastic sleaze ‘n’ roll. And Dave Grohl in a wig. Read More

Random 10 for November 20, 2008 November 20, 2008 1. Ben Folds, “Jesusland.” Songs for Silverman was far more low-key than the comparatively boisterous Way to Normal, but there’s no denying the pastoral beauty and kick-in-the-eye sentiment of “Jesusland.” 2. Art Brut, “Post Soothing Out.” 3. Antibalas, “War Hero.” 4. Weezer, “Pork and... Read More

Video of the Day: The Uglysuit, “Chicago” November 20, 2008 These local gentlemen are doing exceptionally well with their new self-titled disc. 2 Show / Hide Archive Comments The following comments are archived from the original publication of this post kev on Nov 22, 2008 @ 11:03 pm Uglysuit will be doing a special semi-acoustic show at Red House Studios as part of the... Read More

Random 10 for November 19, 2008 November 19, 2008 Keane |MTV Music 1. Keane, “Spiralling.” A great new single from Perfect Symmetry, a deeply guilty pleasure considering that more than half of the disc sounds almost nothing like the Keane of a few years ago, and everything like, oh, Simple Minds or Icehouse. Icehouse (!) – holy crap, that’s... Read More

Video of the Day: Ladyhawke, “My Delirium” November 19, 2008 Staticblog’s ’80s Redux death march continues, with Pip Brown coming on like the second coming of Kim Wylde. Read More

Guestroom Records Chart, Week of Nov. 7-14

November 19, 2008 1. The Flaming Lips “Christmas on Mars” (Warner Bros.) 2. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals “Cardinalogy” (Lost Highway) 3. Girl Talk “Feed the Animals” (Illegal Art) 4. MGMT “Oracular Spectacular” (Columbia) 5. The Shins “Wincing the Night Away” (Sub Pop) 6. MF Doom... Read More

Music Review: John Legend, “Evolver” (G.O.O.D. Music/Columbia)

November 18, 2008 Rating: 51 Too breezy and disconnected for its own good, “Evolver” is the sound of John Legend betraying the musical promise he showed on “Get Lifted” and the substance he displays when talking politics with Bill Maher. Beginning with the Moog baubles backing him on the featherweight single “Green... Read More

Random 10 for November 18, 2008 November 18, 2008 El Perro del Mar |MTV Music 1. El Perro Del Mar, “Glory To the World.” Sweden’s Sarah Assbring (yes, you’d use a pseudonym, too) uses a magic telescope to peer into her fellow scientists’ psyches while serenading us with child-like rhymes that make Jonathan Richman sound like Slayer. 2. The... Read More

DVD Review: “Encounters at the End of the World”

November 18, 2008 Rating: 88 William Jirsa, a linguist living on a continent without language, aptly describes the people who Werner Herzog follows in his nervy documentary, “Encounters at the End of the World.” He says of his fellow campers at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station, “If you take everybody who’s not tied... Read More

Random 10 for November 17, 2008 November 17, 2008 John Legend |MTV Music 1. John Legend, “Green Light.” The Sound Opinions guys hit the bullseye on this one, and their assessment is an unfortunate one: John Legend seemed poised to be the great hope for modern soul, and yet he seems to be drifting away on his inappropriately titled new disc, Evolver. It’s... Read More

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Delo Creative produced this video for the title track of Skating Polly's new album, "Lost Wonderfuls," which was produced by Exene Cervenka with engineering by Kliph Scurlock.