Watch the video for Polly , the new Amanda Palmer single. She recorded this cover of the Nirvana classic with the Grand Theft Orchestra . Polly is a self-released single. Buy it from her website . Amanda Palmer: vocals, celeste, glockenspiel, Taurus bass pedal pedal-stepping Chad Raines: banjo, triangle, tubular bells, Taurus bass pedal knob-fiddling Michael McQuilken: electric bass, bass drum, sample-hunter, aquaphone, random-sample-sound-wizard, and engineer » amandapalmer.net

As ever, Park City is quieting down again, with many journalists heading home after a week of Sundance madness. We've still got plenty of coverage to come, don't get us wrong, but as is so often the case with festivals, things tend to be a little front-loaded. Except, that is, on the business end; now that most films have unspooled, the acquisitions folk are ready to start handing out the checks. We've already seen a few big sales: Fox Searchlight took two of the best-reviewed films of the festival, "The Surrogate" and "Beasts Of The Southern Wild ...

If "(500) Days of Summer" is bound to be considered this generation’s "Annie Hall" (not its equal, mind you, but its closest equivalent), then it’s fair to claim that "Celeste And Jesse Forever" follows in the footsteps of "When Harry Met Sally," picking up where that film ended and proceeding to chronicle similar ups-and-downs in a close friendship verging on – or, rather, retreating from – full-blown romance. Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) remain the best of friends, even in the midst of a divorce; to be specific, they spend nearly every day hanging out together and he ...

If you're an actor, and not getting the kind of roles you want (or indeed, any roles at all), the best way out is to create your own material. From Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to Brit Marling, legions of actors over the years have turned screenwriters, and seen their careers skyrocket as a result. And so it is with Rashida Jones and Will McCormack. Both are successful actors, but while Jones has made her name thanks to TV roles like "The Office" and "Parks and Recreation," she's never quite made the leap to a leading lady on ...

Link: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1677675/andy-samberg-defends-lana-del-ray-snl.jhtml It seems as if this # LDRSNL meme is simply NOT dying. Andy Samberg is a castmember on Saturday Night Live, a show where Lana Del Rey recently tanked. Many insiders rumored that his GF, indie harpist Joanna Newsom would be 'mad jealous' of the indie buzz and sales success of Lana Del Rey . There is no way the people who book SNL would let a harpist on stage, so there's gotta be some jealousy, which has led every1 to think that Andy Samberg avoided appearing on that episode to ...

More From Sundance 2012: • SPIN @ Sundance: Can Sean Penn Actually Play Robert Smith? • SPIN's 20 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2012 Heat, the Sundance buzzword invoked on behalf of any film attracting buyers and bidding wars, didn’t seem appropriate yesterday thanks to the friggin' blizzard in Park City, but there was still no shortage of it. Celeste and Jesse Forever drew a huge crowd, including former SNL cast member and current Enlightened/New Girl costar Michaela Watkins, and it was great to see Rashida Jones promoting a movie that she cowrote and starred in and which she described ...

Starting Friday, SPIN will be getting our feet wet, perhaps literally, for our first-ever Sundance Film Festival blog, delivering daily posts and interviews from Park City, Utah, where there are too many promising premieres to count — though that won't stop us from trying. Even before the screenings get underway, themes are emerging: There will be fictional rappers alongside actual ones; there will be relationships gone sour or else downright rancid; there will be hipster dudes (despite the disavowing title I Am Not a Hipster ) and hip parents; there will be low-fi thrills ( V/H/S ) and low-key performances; there ...

Gli Oscar Cannibali hanno decretato il meglio passato sugli schermi di questo blog nel corso del 2011, ma tutti i cattivoni che pensavano di essere stati semplicemente e bellamente ignorati, adesso devono fare i conti con le loro malefatte. Questi sono infatti i contro-Oscar cannibali, sì una sorta di scopiazzatura dei Razzie Awards, per decretare il peggio dell’annata. Alcuni film sono davvero tremendi, altri sono noiosi ma proprio noiosissimi (cosa che da queste parti è vista come una colpa ancora peggiore dell’essere semplicemente brutti), altri sono odiosi, sopravvalutati, irritanti. Vediamo quindi la Top 10 dei peggio (per varie ...

Monarchs a/k/a Celeste Griffin drops a free hip hop & r&b; mixtape called Ft. Celeste featuring the Austin singer-songwriter vibing over beats by Dilla, Jake One, Clams Casino and this sweet feel good Javelin beat on “Loose in the Knees”. Catch a little 2010 below. Monarchs - Loose in the Knees Monarchs (

Year: 2011 Genre: Post-Hardcore, Post-Metal, Sludge RIYL: Celeste, Young And In The Way Country: UK Link: Facebook Bitrate: 320kbps Tracklist: 01. And Here My Disgust Begins 02. Diamond Crowns Download No Buy Option, Sorry. Requested By The Band.

Year: 2011 Genre: Chaotic Hardcore RIYL: Celeste Country: Denmark Link: Facebook Bitrate: 320kbps Tracklist: 01. Evinco 02. Aspernatio 03. Procella 04. Crux 05. Nex 06. Seputus 07. Fatum Download Buy 1 Buy 2 The Band Allowed Me To Post This On My Blog.

Today I have a guest post from Celeste AKA GalaxCgirl. Celeste performs as GalaxCgirl in Asheville, NC and the surrounding area where she combines her DJ set with live visuals. Celeste was actually sent to my post about booking your own live shows after she made a similar rant on her facebook page. (Thanks J-Mo!) [ More ]

The Zoo - Sun Dec 18 Regurgitator’s idiosyncratically titled SuperHappyFunTimes celebration kicks off with local group Cannons. The punk rock five-piece appear to be playing music that is intended to be a joke that regrettably isn’t very funny. Their songs are short, fast, loud and yet somehow still manage to be dreary and monotonous. Fortunately, second act Ouch My Face manage to lift the standard dramatically from the moment they step on stage. Pint-sized singer-guitarist Celeste Potter pac ...

Best of 2011: (Some of the things on this list might have been created earlier than 2011, but being that I live in my own little shmience bubble, 2011 is when their existence became known to me.) Best websites of 2011: Jukesy.com – Jukesy.com is a website that pubs itself as a mash-up between last.fm [...]

In our latest visit to the archives of Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – we visit John Lennon and Yoko Ono in New York in 1971, just as they're recording a song for Christmas, with the help of Phil Spector. This account of events by Richard Williams was first published in Uncut magazine in 1998 Up on the 17th floor of the St Regis Hotel in New York City, John Lennon is learning to type. P...I...M...P, he types. I AM A PIMP. "It's great," he says, "Yoko's teaching ...