To promote their new flick (500) Days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel (of She & Him) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (of, uh, 3rd Rock from the Sun) filmed a fantastical new video of the She & Him tune Why Do You Let Me Stay Here.
Cutesy, but I like the original better. Flick has been getting good reviews - looking forward to seeing it myself.
And so it goes Sean Lennon's new band shall be deemed The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger.
In the immortal tone of brother Way2Poppy, "ohhhhh kaaay."
Album comes out on Sean and Yoko's new label Chimera later this year. You can hear a tune at the official Chimera site and read more about The GOASTT here. Sounds pleasant enough as Sean often does. Not much meat there, though. Also, The GOASTT is playing LA tomorrow night:
August 13th 2009
Los Angeles, CA. The Largo
Tickets $25
largo-la.com
Dan Wilson is headed home to Minneapolis for a special week of intimate shows in September.
September 22 - Bryant Lake Bowl
http://blb.ciceron.com/calendar.asp?date=9/22/2009
September 23 - 318 Cafe
http://www.three-eighteen.com/music.htm
September 24 - Acadia Cafe
http://www.indietickets.com/events/IT_000028_09242009_AA
September 25 -26 Dakota
http://www.dakotacooks.com/2009/07/dan-wilsons-hometown-tour-2009/
Brendan Benson didn't get deserved exposure much until he teamed up with Jack White in the Raconteurs. Something about the project didn't quite click for me and I was unimpressed with their performance last year at Lollapalooza - I wanted to like them much more than I did. Being a fan of Benson's earlier solo work, I knew there was much more to him than that.
Enter his new solo album My Old, Familiar Friend, officially released August 18. Thanks to online music hotspot NPR, you can stream the whole thing now!
UPDATE: Pre-order the album from newburycomics.com and as always they'll throw in an autographed booklet.
Rumors about a "new" Beatles tune are starting to surface again. Two and a half years ago, we reported on the story of Now and Then, formerly known as I Don't Want to Lose You. It was another Lennon demo considered for release with Free As a Bird and Real Love when the Anthology series came out. The story was that the living Beatles couldn't really get it quite right so they abandoned efforts. Cynical minds may blame the tepid reception of the two other "new" Beatles tunes, which I enjoyed nonetheless. Who knows for sure.
Evidently McCartney won't let this one drop. BeatlesNews.com is suggesting it is quite ready for release. No one can definitively confirm it so my hopes aren't high. Unless they're looking to overshadow each on its own merits, it certainly won't come out in time to compete with the CD reissues and Rockband. Stranger things have happened in the business of the Beatles, though.
Thanks, My hmphs. He also shared this fan-created version of Now and Then to get a sense of what it may sound like. Upon first listen it makes me think someone asked the Flaming Lips to record a fictional Beatles tune. Me likey.
A beautiful band name. A beautiful band. Two beautiful men, in balance with each other. Savage flowers of masculinity.
So goes the Facebook introduction of The Twilight Hours.
They are John Munson and Matt Wilson of Minneapolis.
They are the world’s foremost connoisseurs, students and historians of their own music.
John Munson The Twilight Hours, continuing in their FACEBOOK ONLY publicity campaign, want to announce they are playing The 400 BAR Friday night July 31! That's it til the big record release Sept. 18th at The Cedar.I will leave you to come to your own conclusions.
The Posies were recently featured on NPR about how they make money.
