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Link Time! 7/23
- Is the "post-Seinfeld slump" finally ending? — TV.com
- Atlas Shrugged getting a screen adaptation: shrug? — Popwatch
- An interview with Mad Men's Harry Crane (Rich Sommer).
What to Download: New Music on iTunes
Tuesdays are big in entertainmentville: Not only do all the new DVD releases hit Netflix, but new music also pours into stores, including iTunes. So I take a spin through each week's iTunes music releases and pick out some albums and tracks worthy of a download. Here's what's on my list this week:
When the album cover looks as good as the band sounds: Rolling Stone called Of Montreal's new album Skeletal Lamping, "A soulful romp through psychedelic melodies and sprawling noise-scapes" which sounds very cool to me.
Link Time! 1/31
- Cinematical compares the two new Leatherheads posters: romance or sports?
- Popwatch proudly talks about applauding along with the rest of the audience at the end of Rambo.
- SFist has a photo of Sean Penn as Harvey Milk and other photos from the set.
- TV Squad ranks TV judges — think Wapner and Judy, not Simon and Paula — through the ages.
- Stereogum has a video of KT Tunstall covering The Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian."
- United Hollywood has a story of a fifth-grader launching a readathon to support the strike.
- This Slate reviewer calls Meet the Spartans a "massive consumer fraud" for charging $10.50 for a movie that's barely one hour long.
- TV Filter wonders if anyone else hated the Pop Up Video-style Lost rerun.
- YouAintNoPicasso is hosting a large collection of Of Montreal covering everyone from Blondie to The Shins to Gnarls Barkley.
- Bridezilla hilariously suggests some great ideas for having a sob-free Valentine's Day as a single gal, including more Romy and Michelle, less Meg Ryan.
Indie Rock for Kids
I don't usually have children's music on my radar, seeing as how I don't have kids. But with LilSugar launching this week, I just had to share my recent discovery of a kids' CD that's so awesome, I might buy it and stash it away until I've got little ones of my own.
Released by the cutting-edge Nettwerk Records label, For the Kids III is the third in a series of compilation CDs featuring indie-rock bands singing songs for their tiniest fans.
Song of the Day: Of Montreal Covers Neil Young's "Harvest Moon"
At first glance, Of Montreal doesn't look like the kind of band that would cover Neil Young. (As Exhibit A, I present the above photo of Kevin Barnes and company performing at the 2007 Pitchfork Music Festival.) But I've just found a recording of the psychedelic pop-rockers performing "Harvest Moon," off of Young's album of the same name, and it's really quite lovely.
Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Music Video: Paul Rudd and David Wain Do Karaoke
I've been crushing on Paul Rudd ever since Clueless. I mean, he's cute, he's funny, he can act, and — as I learned today — he can also rock some serious karaoke. On Friday night, Of Montreal played a show at Studio B in Brooklyn, and the band took a break for a bit of hipster karaoke.
Rewind: This Week's Buzz
- The Cure's Robert Smith collaborating with Ashlee Simpson? Weird.
- Do you like "Dog the Bounty Hunter"? If so, tell me why, and while you're at it, vote for your favorite FX show.
- If you love good movies, go see The Hoax or Grindhouse this weekend.
Music Video: Of Montreal, "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"
In the flurry of new album releases this year, I really haven't had ample time to express my love for Of Montreal's latest, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? It came out back in January, but the Athens, GA, psych-pop outfit is holding steady atop my list of 2007's best albums.
Don't let the bizarre album title or the even weirder song titles scare you: Hissing Fauna is first and foremost a pop album.
Song of the Day: Of Montreal Do the Shins' "Know Your Onion"
Last week was a big week for indie rock, ushering in two highly anticipated new releases: the Shins' Wincing the Night Away and Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? How fitting, then, to discover that Of Montreal have actually covered the Shins, and the result is this more psychedelic version of the neat little pop song "Know Your Onion," off the Shins' 2001 album Oh, Inverted World. To listen to the track, read more
Early Listen: Of Montreal's New Album
Of Montreal may not be a household name, but the versatile band has been writing great psychedelic pop songs since 1997. Better yet, Of Montreal's music just gets catchier and more cohesive with each new release. Its upcoming album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, follows in the frenzied footsteps of 2004's stellar Satanic Panic in the Attic, and although the album doesn't go on sale until Jan.
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