The next Playlist in our ongoing series features A Loss For Words, Koji, and Brian Marquis. All three bands are about to head out on a special acoustic tour together, so we thought it’d be great to match them together. Check out the Playlists and listen to the songs while reading everyone’s thoughts! (Click on image to listen in Spotify) Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars There is nothing to say about this song other than you just have to put your headphones on and close your eyes and listen. This is the intro to my mixtape. Enjoy. Smashing ...

David Fincher’s sensibilities as a director have always been piercing and intuitive, but with this remake of the 2009 Swedish version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Fincher pours every ounce of his modus operandi into Stieg Larsson’s story of a troubled and brilliant girl named Lisbeth (Rooney Mara). As an unwilling ward of [...]

[ If reposting, kindly credit Frank & Earthy: http://www.jessejarnow.com/flotsam/ylt ] Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's 24 December 2011 *(Hanukkah, night 5)* The Glands and Jon Glaser opened. benefit for Tommy Brull Foundation. Mix disc by Mr. Finewine Big Day Coming (slow) (with Tara Key on keyboards)
 Stockholm Syndrome (with TK on guitar for rest of night) 
The Crying of Lot G (with TK)
 Demons (with TK)
 Upside Down (drone version) (with TK)
 Beanbag Chair If It's True I'm On My Way (with TK)
 Double Dare (alt. arrangement) (with TK) 
Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck) (with TK ...

[ If reposting, kindly credit Frank & Earthy: http://www.jessejarnow.com/flotsam/ylt ] Yo La Tengo at Maxwell's 20 December 2011 *(Hanukkah, night 1)* The Sea & Cake and Jon Benjamin & Jon Glaser opened. benefit for Roots & Wings of New Jersey. Mix disc by Bob Odenkirk. (entire set with Mac McCaughan on guitar, keyboards, and vocals.) Night Falls on Hoboken Eight Days A Week (The Beatles)
 Nothing To Hide Stockholm Syndrome Tears Are In Your Eyes Did I Tell You? Upside Down Noisy Night (Portastatic) (Mac vocals) Styles of the Times (with John McEntire on drums)
 Don't Say A Word ...

The entire video for James Blake’s cover of Joni Mitchell’s “A Case Of You” consists of the actress Rebecca Hall, who played Ben Affleck’s Stockholm Syndrome girlfriend in The Town, running through various different emotional states in the same bedroom. The dramatic lighting helps a bit, but the whole thing should probably go on Hall’s [...]

Off the Billboard-acclaimed album Near Infinite Possibility, the video for Everything Becomes Whole is a visual exploration of one of the many forms of modern day slavery as a relationship turns from loving to abusive. It highlights the psychological dynamics and events that transpire between a victim and the procurer. The female character is objectified and treated by the procurer, as nothing more than a cluster of body parts, which leads to the male character's transformation giving him feelings of grandeur and omnipotence. The female character's impulses are dichotomous, both submissive and illuminating. In her momentary submissiveness, she ...

We throw around the “h” word in this scene like doomsayers for bands — and sometimes we’re right. But Gov’t Mule has had a most fruitful hiatus in 2011: a year to let the mighty Mule beast rest and exhale a bit after so many years of intense touring, and also a year to let each of Mule’s four members jump into a new project or two with both feet and have no one else feel the least bit upset about it. While Warren Haynes has kept his namesake soul and R&B; band on the road and Danny ...

This is the sound of Coldplay collaborating with Billboard Hot 100 champion Rihanna. Perhaps more significantly, it's the sound of Chris Martin singing about ending a relationship with Rihanna. "You really hurt me," Martin and RiRi repeat in harmony at the swelling apex of the track. With brash synth squiggles and a lofty, wordless hook, it's catchy and represents another appealing shift in direction for a group that already refuses to keep repeating the same musical formula — though it's still more inoffensive than inspiring. Ask us again after a few months of constant Top 40 radio exposure ...

i have gone through several catsitting scenarios since my beloved Possum passed on. I have been hesitant to commit to another situation that long term and generally committal. When Jamie could no longer handle Doris/aka 14th Amendment, I took her under my wing, assuming that she'd be at least on familiar territory. She took a shit on my favorite sweater on top of my comforter and futon. I later discovered she'd sprayed urine on a bunch of cds. She is the first cat that resented me so much that she ran away, when she could get her ...

American Pie: The Reunion is scheduled for release in 2012. I have no doubts that Stiffler and the gang will return cracking the same raucous gags and proving the old adage ‘growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.’ However, the same cannot be said for Blink-182. Since they announced their reunion in 2009, even a Blink aficionado such as myself acknowledged that the lyrics on any future tracks would be devoid of the toilet humour featured on Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2000) and works which preceded it. Moreover, was a new album really necessary? In the ...

Stockholm Syndrome capped a quick and dirty August national tour at Tipitina’s with a deafening and thunderous 2-hour set heavy on freight train rock and roll (like the setcapper “Road to Damascus”). There were a few lighter moments like the jazzy “Purple Hearts”, a Schools-led “Who Dat” chant and the classic funk nod on “Couldn’t [...] Related posts: @LMBNOLA: PHOTOS – Gillian Welch @ Tipitina’s 8/11/11 @LMBNOLA: Photos – Bootsy Collins & the Funk University @ Tipitina’s – 6/15/11 @LMBNOLA: PHOTOS & VIDEOS: Jack’s Mannequin @ House of Blues

The lovely and talented Gillian Welch passed through Tipitina’s last Thursday, arriving in the Big Easy at the forefront of the of the modern folk/Americana revival, touring in support of her amazing and critically-acclaimed new record The Harrow and the Harvest. Our Julia Pretus was on the scene to snap a few photos of the [...] Related posts: @LMBNOLA: PHOTOS & VIDEOS: Jack’s Mannequin @ House of Blues @LMBNOLA: Photos from Stockholm Syndrome @ Tipitina’s 8/20/11 @LMBNOLA: Videos – Bootsy Collins & the Funk University @ Tipitina’s 6/15/11

Panic at the Wiltern 10 years ago Though Widespread Panic is known as a Southern band, bassist Dave Schools’ Stockholm Syndrome project is truly a West Coast group. With the exception of keyboardist Danny Louis—who lives in Woodstock, NY—all the members of Stockholm are based on the West...

Athens, GA’s Georgia Theatre will reopen this August. The club closed in 2009 after a devastating fire tgutted the entire venue. As of press time, the officially first show at the historic theater—which hosted early shows by R.E.M., Widespread Panic and countles...

We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… For the second year in a row, England’s long running Truck Festival will return to the United States, settling once again at The Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. Set to take place [...] We keep our eyes peeled for new tour dates announcements each week and compile them on Tuesdays for this handy column… For the second year in a row, England’s long running Truck Festival will return to the United States, settling once again at ...