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MADONNA’S SUPER COMEBACK BOWL

Listen to story, from today's HERE AND NOW, WBUR-FM Boston. mp3 download Related articles Madonna's Pre-Super Bowl Style (stylelist.com) Madonna will welcome LMFAO to Super Bowl halftime stage (latimesblogs.latimes.com) Madonna! Madonna! Madonna! Madonna!!!! (perezhilton.com) Madonna Drops Cheesy Gift on Super Bowl Staff -- You Wanna Pizza Me?!?! (tmz.com) Madonna - 'Give Me All Your Luvin' teaser (longnightsshortdays.com) … [Read more...]

TOP CENSORED STORY OF 2011

First heard about this on Media Matters podcast, which featured Project Censored last week: ...But look at it we must, for in its own way it illustrates the problem faced by our returning war veterans writ large—a point emphasized by the fact that the hand itself is disembodied; it could belong to Ostrom (as it does) but it could belong to any of the thousands of returning veterans (or for that matter to those who might be inducted to fight in future wars):  Bred to kill and marked by death, our warriors are assimilated into a … [Read more...]

BOB GRUEN’S ROCK SEEN (ABRAMS)

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CEE LO, IMAGINE, AND POP DNA

OR: LEGLESS STORY INHALES THE COSMOS For Cee Lo, this ranks right up there with Gloria Estafan's bus crash as a career move. No more lines at rehab. Related articles Cee Lo Green Changes 'Imagine' Lyrics, Stokes Religious Controversy (huffingtonpost.com) Cee Lo Causes Controversy By Changing Lyrics To John Lennon's Imagine! (perezhilton.com) Cee Lo Green Changes Words to 'Imagine,' Draws Criticism From Fans [Video] (inquisitr.com) … [Read more...]

Press “1″ for English!

Antiquated technology for a loser act shilling phony nostalgia: Calling Oats emergency hotline: 719-266-2837 Related articles [VIDEO] We Got Married - Christmas Special 2011 (English Sub) (koreanchingu.wordpress.com) Pocohontas Needs English Lessons (adroedgirls.com) Great article, very thought provoking and well worth the reblog. (englishwarrior.wordpress.com) … [Read more...]

Velvet Godfather II Underground: Festa sequence

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BEST OF 2011 LIST

pj harvey: Let England Shake (Vagrant) St. Vincent: Strange Mercy (4AD) Eleventh Dream Day: Riot Now (Thrill Jockey) Nick Lowe: The Old Magic (Yep Roc) Paul Simon: So Beautiful or So What (Hear) Black Keys: El Camino (Nonesuch) Chris Thile and Michael Daves: Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch) Ma, Duncan, Meyer, Thile: Goat Rodeo (Sony) Rob Wassermann, Various: Note of Hope, A Celebration of Woody Guthrie (429) Steve Cropper, Various: Dedicated, a Tribute to the Five Royales (429) also: Roots with John Legend … [Read more...]

MORE SNAKE-THE-GRASS ACTING TURNS

Ever since Viola Davis stole Doubt from Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman, there have been several looming instances where character actors ingest whole scripts. When moments like this hit, when it's hard to distinguish acting from writing, the effects can dazzle (even if Clive James dismisses). Tim Pigott-Smith has had one of those British careers lost on most Americans, who know him best from The Jewel in The Crown, the lauded Masterpiece Theatre serial from 1984. (Smith also wrote an obscure yet memorable book, Out of … [Read more...]

BAT CHAIN PULLER: BEEFHEART RISING

Obscurantists, shrug with elation: Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet)'s lost moosterpiece, Bat Chain Puller, will finally come out in early 2012 according to the Wire. Related articles An Official Release for Captain Beefheart's 'Bat Chain Puller' (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com) Lost Captain Beefheart album Bat Chain Puller finally due out (guardian.co.uk) Long-Shelved Captain Beefheart Album Set for January Release (rollingstone.com) Bat Chain Puller (greylining.com) … [Read more...]

INFOGRAPHIC SWALLOWS ONLINE MUSIC

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