I was just perusing Mr. West’s blog, and happened to find a pretty cool cover of “Heartless” by none other than The Fray! The “talk and talk and talk and talk” part is excellent. Listen to it below:
http://prettymuchamazing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/thefrayheartlesscover.mp3
This is a very good cover, but it doesn’t reach greatness for me. Let me know what you think in the comments, and then head over to Kanye’s blog and let him know, too!
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/index.php?em3106=224119_-1__0_~0_-1_2_2009_0_0&em3298=&em3282=&em3281=&em3161=
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Members of Hanson, Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, and Cheap Trick Form A Band.
Members of Hanson, Fountains of Wayne, Smashing Pumpkins, and Cheap Trick Form A Band. Wow. What the f..... wow.
As Pitchfork said earlier today, this doesn’t seem to be a joke. The band is called Tinted Windows and features the Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Taylor from Hanson, and Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne’s bassist and lyrical mastermind.
Cool, right? I think so. The band apparently plans to make their debut at Billboard’s SXSW showcase in Austin on March 20th.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/149251
As Pitchfork said earlier today, this doesn’t seem to be a joke. The band is called Tinted Windows and features the Smashing Pumpkins’ James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos, Taylor from Hanson, and Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne’s bassist and lyrical mastermind.
Cool, right? I think so. The band apparently plans to make their debut at Billboard’s SXSW showcase in Austin on March 20th.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/node/149251
Listen To U2s Album Today!
That’s right: No Line On The Horizon is live on U2’s Myspace as you read this. Two tracks in, it sounds like vintage U2 to me- I’m thinking this will be a pretty well-received album, if that wasn’t already evidenced by Rolling Stones’ five-star review. Check out the album below (make sure to click on No Line’s album cover) and let PMA know what you think!
http://www.myspace.com/u2
Heres the Review
http://www.myspace.com/u2
http://www.myspace.com/u2
Heres the Review
http://www.myspace.com/u2
New Decemberists
The Decemberists have been one of my favorite bands for as long as I can remember and I’m very happy to say that their new album, The Hazards of Love is due to hit stores on March 24th via Capitol. The album’s tracklisting preview’s the album’s play-like flow, similar to the Decemberists’ previous releases.
We won’t be listening to the new album for at least another 33 days, but we can take a listen to “The Rake Song” here.
http://www.savefile.com/files/1972893
I’m completely stoked for this new Decemberists album. If “The Rake Song” didn’t do it for you, take a listen again. If you’re still doubting the magic that is a full, brand new Decemberists LP, then take a listen to the new album’s title track “Hazards of Love.” This track is probably the best album opener since “In The Flowers” on MPP. Listen to it below
http://www.mediafire.com/?4b2i9f0lwb6
Tracklisting:
1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen’s Approach
7. Isn’t it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Decemberists - The Rake’s Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
We won’t be listening to the new album for at least another 33 days, but we can take a listen to “The Rake Song” here.
http://www.savefile.com/files/1972893
I’m completely stoked for this new Decemberists album. If “The Rake Song” didn’t do it for you, take a listen again. If you’re still doubting the magic that is a full, brand new Decemberists LP, then take a listen to the new album’s title track “Hazards of Love.” This track is probably the best album opener since “In The Flowers” on MPP. Listen to it below
http://www.mediafire.com/?4b2i9f0lwb6
Tracklisting:
1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen’s Approach
7. Isn’t it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Decemberists - The Rake’s Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
Dr. Dre/ Nas/ T.I. Topless- Radio Rip
Wait… is this for real? A new Dr. Dre song on the radio? I know how you feel. It’s that awkward feeling that is somewhere in between excited and afraid. Is “Topless” the first single off Dr. Dre’s mythical Detox? I’m not really sure, at all, but this does give me hope that our wait for Detox (eight years and counting) will be a lot shorter than the wait for GNR’s Chinese Democracy. My only worry is that it will disappoint as much as Chinese Democracy (I tried really hard to use the word “suck”).
Or maybe I’m getting ahead of myself.. when he introduced the track, DJ Envy from Hot97 mentioned Nas first. Could this be off one of his new projects? Or what about T.I.? It is my understanding that he is planning to release one of those deluxe edition things for his latest album Paper Trail. I guess he needs the cash flowing while he’s in the big house. Also, did anyone actually hear Dr. Dre rapping? I must have missed it… Let the speculation begin
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzm1qmjixym
Or maybe I’m getting ahead of myself.. when he introduced the track, DJ Envy from Hot97 mentioned Nas first. Could this be off one of his new projects? Or what about T.I.? It is my understanding that he is planning to release one of those deluxe edition things for his latest album Paper Trail. I guess he needs the cash flowing while he’s in the big house. Also, did anyone actually hear Dr. Dre rapping? I must have missed it… Let the speculation begin
http://www.mediafire.com/?fzm1qmjixym
LOST Recap: “316″
SPOILERS AHEAD!
“We’re not going to Guam, are we.”
Good call, Frank- we’re not going anywhere near Guam. We’re going back to the island with Ben and the Oceanic 6, and it seems like that’s where we’ll stay for a while now.
It’s a good thing, too. While tonight’s episode answered a couple of overarching questions, for the most part it lagged due to the fact that the island is more interesting than the real world. So it’s nice to know that all of our favorites (save for Desmond and Penny) are back on mystery island, LOST once more. Click on for a review/recap of this week’s ep.The opening was fantastic. Deja-vu: Jack’s eye opens in the jungle. He gets up and sprints around as he hears the call for help. But this is not the pilot all over again- a quick little smile comes over Jack’s face as he realizes that he’s back. He quickly takes an impressive dive into the water to grab Hurley, then wakes up Kate and lets her know what we’ve already assumed: “We’re back.” Awesome.
The rest of the episode simply filled in the blanks. This was one of the few episodes where the sole purpose is to tell a single story over the course of the hour, joining “The Constant,” “Expose,” and “Meet Kevin Johnson.” Sometimes these work brilliantly (”Constant”), other times just OK (”Johnson”). “316″ was somewhere in between.
We went deep into Mrs. Hawking’s fortress and “listened carefully” to a lot of exposition. Basically, the island was found by the Dharma Initiative when they realized it would be easier to predict where the island was going to be than where it already was- in time, of course. To get back to the island, the O6 need to enter through one of the “windows” that open every once in a while. The particular “window” they need to go through conveniently shuts in just over a day, meaning that as many of the O6 as possible NEED to get onto Ajira Airways, flight 316 to Guam.
Following? You don’t really need to be. As much as we would like to believe that this is one of LOST’s biggest mysteries being solved, it really isn’t. This is simply the producers’ general explanation about how the island can be found. Don’t think too much into it.
The rest of the episode was a lot of intrigue. Mrs. Hawking explained why “all of them” needed to go back- they needed to to try and replicate the initial crash. Unfortunately for Jack, this requires replacing Locke’s shoes with his dad’s. A lot of the episode dealt with Jack’s boring connection to the shoes. Meh.
Episode Highlights and Intrigue:
-Mrs. Hawking tells Desmond that the “Island is not done with” him. Then he storms off, making him the only series regular not on the island by the episode’s end.
-Kate crashed Jack’s pod and decided to go back with him the next day. But before passionately making out with him, she warned him NEVER to ask about where Aaron is again. But wait- where IS Aaron?
-Ben’s mysterious phone call. Bloodied up, he called Jack and told him that he needed to retrieve Locke’s body himself. What was Ben doing? Could it be related to the “promise he made to an old friend” that he told Jack about the night before? My guess- he tried to fulfill his promise to Widmore and kill Penny, but ended up VERY unsuccessful.
-The big payoff. Sun, Jack and Kate are all at the airport. But wait- there’s Hurley! He bought all of the plane’s remaining seats! And there’s Sayid being escorted by a federal marshall! Good surprise, they’re all back together.
-Locke’s suicide note: “I wish you believed me.”
-Then Ben shows up, still bloodied and crippled. Finally, our pilot’s voice comes over the PA and it’s none other than our good friend Frank Lapidus! A great twist in an episode that didn’t have many.
-The plane does not crash (also intriguing), but instead falls into our familiar white light. Jack, Hurley, and Kate end up together, as the opening scene is replayed. Ben, Sun, Sayid, and the other passengers are nowhere to be found. And here comes the twist: they’re approached by a Dharma van, an armed Dharma worker, none other than…time-traveling Jin! BOOM.
For me, “316″ was a good one, but never reached the greatness that it could’ve. By regular TV standards, excellent, but by LOST standards, just very good. I’m giving “316″ a B+. What’s your grade?
Next week’s episode likely won’t deal with this one’s twist. Called “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” it will be another self-contained episode following Locke’s mysterious off-island journey. Can’t wait.
“We’re not going to Guam, are we.”
Good call, Frank- we’re not going anywhere near Guam. We’re going back to the island with Ben and the Oceanic 6, and it seems like that’s where we’ll stay for a while now.
It’s a good thing, too. While tonight’s episode answered a couple of overarching questions, for the most part it lagged due to the fact that the island is more interesting than the real world. So it’s nice to know that all of our favorites (save for Desmond and Penny) are back on mystery island, LOST once more. Click on for a review/recap of this week’s ep.The opening was fantastic. Deja-vu: Jack’s eye opens in the jungle. He gets up and sprints around as he hears the call for help. But this is not the pilot all over again- a quick little smile comes over Jack’s face as he realizes that he’s back. He quickly takes an impressive dive into the water to grab Hurley, then wakes up Kate and lets her know what we’ve already assumed: “We’re back.” Awesome.
The rest of the episode simply filled in the blanks. This was one of the few episodes where the sole purpose is to tell a single story over the course of the hour, joining “The Constant,” “Expose,” and “Meet Kevin Johnson.” Sometimes these work brilliantly (”Constant”), other times just OK (”Johnson”). “316″ was somewhere in between.
We went deep into Mrs. Hawking’s fortress and “listened carefully” to a lot of exposition. Basically, the island was found by the Dharma Initiative when they realized it would be easier to predict where the island was going to be than where it already was- in time, of course. To get back to the island, the O6 need to enter through one of the “windows” that open every once in a while. The particular “window” they need to go through conveniently shuts in just over a day, meaning that as many of the O6 as possible NEED to get onto Ajira Airways, flight 316 to Guam.
Following? You don’t really need to be. As much as we would like to believe that this is one of LOST’s biggest mysteries being solved, it really isn’t. This is simply the producers’ general explanation about how the island can be found. Don’t think too much into it.
The rest of the episode was a lot of intrigue. Mrs. Hawking explained why “all of them” needed to go back- they needed to to try and replicate the initial crash. Unfortunately for Jack, this requires replacing Locke’s shoes with his dad’s. A lot of the episode dealt with Jack’s boring connection to the shoes. Meh.
Episode Highlights and Intrigue:
-Mrs. Hawking tells Desmond that the “Island is not done with” him. Then he storms off, making him the only series regular not on the island by the episode’s end.
-Kate crashed Jack’s pod and decided to go back with him the next day. But before passionately making out with him, she warned him NEVER to ask about where Aaron is again. But wait- where IS Aaron?
-Ben’s mysterious phone call. Bloodied up, he called Jack and told him that he needed to retrieve Locke’s body himself. What was Ben doing? Could it be related to the “promise he made to an old friend” that he told Jack about the night before? My guess- he tried to fulfill his promise to Widmore and kill Penny, but ended up VERY unsuccessful.
-The big payoff. Sun, Jack and Kate are all at the airport. But wait- there’s Hurley! He bought all of the plane’s remaining seats! And there’s Sayid being escorted by a federal marshall! Good surprise, they’re all back together.
-Locke’s suicide note: “I wish you believed me.”
-Then Ben shows up, still bloodied and crippled. Finally, our pilot’s voice comes over the PA and it’s none other than our good friend Frank Lapidus! A great twist in an episode that didn’t have many.
-The plane does not crash (also intriguing), but instead falls into our familiar white light. Jack, Hurley, and Kate end up together, as the opening scene is replayed. Ben, Sun, Sayid, and the other passengers are nowhere to be found. And here comes the twist: they’re approached by a Dharma van, an armed Dharma worker, none other than…time-traveling Jin! BOOM.
For me, “316″ was a good one, but never reached the greatness that it could’ve. By regular TV standards, excellent, but by LOST standards, just very good. I’m giving “316″ a B+. What’s your grade?
Next week’s episode likely won’t deal with this one’s twist. Called “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” it will be another self-contained episode following Locke’s mysterious off-island journey. Can’t wait.
Oscar Winners Leaked???
Probably not. But many sites have shared their opinion on the controversial list released by http://oscars2009leaked.blogspot.com/:
Actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke
Actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger
Actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet
Actress in a supporting role: Amy Adams
Animated Feature Film: Wall-E
Art Direction: The Dark Knight
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Directing: Slumdog Millionaire
Documentary feature: Man on Wire
Documentary short: The Conscience of Nhem En
Film editing: Milk
Foreign language film: Departures
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Music (Score): Defiance
Music (Song): Down to Earth (Wall-E)
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Short film (animated): Presto
Short film (live action): Auf Der Strecke (On The Line)
Sound editing: Wall-E
Sound mixing: The Dark Knight
Visual effects: Iron Man
Writing (Adapted screenplay): The Reader
Writing (Original screenplay): In Bruges
Almost everyone seems to believe that this is a fake, but very accurate prediction of what’s to come for Oscar Sunday. Aside from Amy Adams’ supposed victory, the list really does seem dead-on. The only thing it doesn’t predict well, in my opinion, is Hugh Jackman’s inevitable mediocre job as host. I like the guy, but Jon Stewart is much funnier- he should be the new yearly lock. Whatever. Comment on the list, and share YOUR predictions below.
I think that if this is real, a shitload of people were robbed and this would be increadibly unfair and retarded.
Actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke
Actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger
Actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet
Actress in a supporting role: Amy Adams
Animated Feature Film: Wall-E
Art Direction: The Dark Knight
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Directing: Slumdog Millionaire
Documentary feature: Man on Wire
Documentary short: The Conscience of Nhem En
Film editing: Milk
Foreign language film: Departures
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Music (Score): Defiance
Music (Song): Down to Earth (Wall-E)
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Short film (animated): Presto
Short film (live action): Auf Der Strecke (On The Line)
Sound editing: Wall-E
Sound mixing: The Dark Knight
Visual effects: Iron Man
Writing (Adapted screenplay): The Reader
Writing (Original screenplay): In Bruges
Almost everyone seems to believe that this is a fake, but very accurate prediction of what’s to come for Oscar Sunday. Aside from Amy Adams’ supposed victory, the list really does seem dead-on. The only thing it doesn’t predict well, in my opinion, is Hugh Jackman’s inevitable mediocre job as host. I like the guy, but Jon Stewart is much funnier- he should be the new yearly lock. Whatever. Comment on the list, and share YOUR predictions below.
I think that if this is real, a shitload of people were robbed and this would be increadibly unfair and retarded.
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