2009

Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

Minnesota native Prince appears as Jay Leno’s musical guest on The Tonight Show this evening for the third consecutive night. For his first two performances The Purple One has played

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ABB @ The Beacon: Celebrating 40 Years

The Allman Brothers Band celebrated their 40th Anniversary last night by playing their first two albums in their entirety on the 13th show of their 15 show run at New

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Briefly: Tweedy Namechecks The Phish

Jeff Tweedy’s solo tour brought him to Burlington’s Higher Ground last night and he took the opportunity to show some love for Phish. During Heavy Metal Drummer, the Wilco frontman

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Blender Magazine Folds

Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine today, eliminating about 30 jobs and reducing its portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. The April issue of Blender out now will be its

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Bloggy Goodness: Free NINJA EP

In anticipation of this summer’s Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails joint amphitheater tour, the two powerhouse alternative rock acts have launched a brand new website to get their fans ready for action. The sightly sparse site, which includes links to all the band’s social networking sub-sites, also features a free six song EP that contains the studio debut of two Jane’s tracks that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor produced – Whores and Chip Away – both of which originally appeared on their 1987 self-titled live album.

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Finally, we don’t often talk about movie trailers around these parts, but there have been two very cool ones that have surfaced over the last couple of days that we wanted to share. The first is for the highly anticipated, Spike Jonze directed adaptation of the classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are – which features the music of Arcade Fire and is set to have a soundtrack from YYY’s frontwoman Karen O. The second, is for Ang Lee’s adaptation of Elliot Tibor’s memoir Taking Woodstock – which tells the behind the scenes story of how the festival ended up at Yasgur’s Farm.

READ ON to see the trailers for both of these films…

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