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George Lang stopped by the OPUBCO Studios for his take on Sunday’s Academy Awards.

Join me live at 7 p.m. CST tonight as I endure 3 1/2 hours of this year’s Grammy Awards on StaticBlog. I’ll be offering up-to-the-minute blather on winners, presenters and performers, and hoping that the Ramones get a sterling tribute tonight when the band is honored with a Lifetime...

7:04 p.m. Welcome to the StaticBlog live coverage of the Grammys, in which LL Cool J kicks things off with a tribute to Aretha Franklin featuring five singers who, despite undeniable talent, are in no way capable of carrying out her reign if the Queen of Soul were no longer able to fulfill her...

Rating: 90 A beautiful summer album arriving in the dead of winter, Cut Copy’s “Zonoscope” shows the Australian trio largely shelving the arresting midnight electro-rock of 2008′s “In Ghost Colours” in favor of bright, top-shelf pop. A deep romantic current flows through these 11...

The new video from “Underneath the Pine” features an entire community being teargassed in winter, apparently for ecstatic sleep dancing and pantomiming alcohol intake. Fans of Roisin Murphy’s discotastic “Let Me Know” will recognize that this is not exactly a “New Beat,” but it’s...

“Angles,” the first Strokes album since 2006′s “First Impressions of Earth,” comes out March 22 on RCA, but the band will making its first single, “Under Cover of Darkness,” available for streaming and free download on Wednesday at www.thestrokes.com. Stereogum has a 30-second...

In which StaticBlog’s trusty iPod Classic gets a workout and spits out the first 10 songs that present themselves. 1. Kanye West, “Celebration.” 2. Mayer Hawthorne, “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out.” 3. The Sugarplastic, “Sheep.” 4. Blondie, “I Know But I Don’t Know.”...

Gang of Four’s classic 1979 politico-post-punk album “Entertainment” should be in every self-respecting StaticBlog reader’s collection: not only does the album hold up better than 95 percent of 32-year-old albums — or people, for that matter — but it provided the template for much of...

In which StaticBlog’s trusty iPod Classic gets a workout and spits out the first 10 songs that present themselves. 1. Colin Munroe, “Piano Lessons.” 2. Deerhunter, Game of Diamonds.” 3. The Beatles, “Paperback Writer.” 4. Paul Westerberg, “Love You in the Fall.” 5. Mos...

Manfred the Yeti should be able to navigate the great outdoors — that is, after all, what yetis do — but Manfred’s got issues with campgrounds and the implements of roughing it. Poor guy, but let’s face it — most scouting programs aren’t cool with yeti membership. – Lang Happy...

Apparently, James Murphy is making good on his plans to unplug LCD Soundsystem, and will do so with “LCD Soundsystem: The Long Goodbye” on April 2 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. According to their Nasty Little Man representation, LCD will play music spanning its career,...

I caught wind of this idea last Monday, an email from PR ace Rob Crissinger to entertainment guru George Lang: What would you think of coordinating a small “Static Christmas Concert” at Blackwatch Studios in Norman.

By early September 1965, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is being forced into a wartime mindset, and while Don Draper is a supreme commander when he’s not hitting the Jamesons too hard, he makes two crucial mistakes late in this episode and it’s hard to imagine any of this working out on the...

Just a thought, but if I were ever in the same room with Alice Glass, I’d be damn sure that my carotid artery was obscured from view.

This land shark is not bringing a “candygram.

Your mother always told you, “Don’t play with your food!” All that time, she was worried that this would happen.

Surprise — The Corin Tucker Band sounds like a more straightforward, less frenetic Sleater-Kinney. Nice, but I miss the fireworks, damn it.

JT and JF do a pretty amazing job condensing 31 years of rap into four minutes on the Sept. 29 edition — which, by the way, featured Belle and Sebastian doing the title track for their upcoming album, “Write About Love.” StaticBlog will post as soon as it’s available.

With the various unravelings taking place in  “Hands and Knees,” nearly every major character in “Mad Men” is facing just how tenuous success, happiness, relationships or simply the fragile balance of day-to-day life can be. The episode was a kind of chamber of horrors —...