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Link Time! 11/13

BuzzSugar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:30:56 PST

Did you watch Top Chef last night? Time to dish! - YumSugar
Jeffrey Tambor is the latest to confirm that the Arrested Development movie is a go. - RedEye Chicago
Turns out Emma Thompson (and therefore Sybill Trelawney) won't be in the final two Harry Potter movies. - Cinematical
What are the best bath/hot-tub moments in TV and movies? - Popwatch
Dev Patel talks Slumdog Millionaire and Skins. - Vulture
Tilly and the Wall on Sesame Street! - Stereogum
An interview with David Blue, Ugly Betty's adorable Cliff. - The TV Addict
The Twilight DVD will feature a bonus scene from Midnight Sun. - MTV Movies Blog

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Noise Pop Diary, Part 2: Tilly and the Wall, She & Him

BuzzSugar — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:30:09 PST

Last weekend, San Francisco was thoroughly rocked by the 16th installment of the Noise Pop music festival. For six nights, local favorites played alongside national stars at some of the city's greatest music venues. I had the pleasure of attending four of this year's Noise Pop shows, and this week, I've been letting you in on my Noise Pop diary. I've already told you about seeing The Magnetic Fields and The Mountain Goats and coming across Whispertown2000 for the first time. Today, I'll tell you about my final two shows of the weekend: Tilly and the Wall and She & Him.

Tilly and the Wall, 3/2, The Rickshaw Stop - Here's the biggest thing I learned upon seeing Tilly and the Wall live for the first time: No matter how you feel about the band, you've got to have respect for tap dancer/percussionist Jamie Pressnall. That girl works harder than anyone else, dancing for the full 45-minute set and hollering out the lyrics of the songs to boot. Plus, hearing tapping take the place of drumming live is really something - and it's definitely no gimmick.

The rest of the band seemed to feed off Pressnall's energy, loosening up and getting more and more excited with each song. In addition to playing favorites from their full-length albums Wild Like Children and Bottoms of Barrels - even the ones, like "Rainbows in the Dark," that they weren't 100 percent sure they knew how to play - they broke out several songs from their new album, which is expected to be out in June. One new track, the single "Beat Control," was pure, dancey fun - and I think it bodes well for the album that it was my least-favorite of the new songs.

The highlight, for me, was the first encore song, "Lost Girls." With all their peppiness, it's easy to forget that the Tilly girls are actually great singers, and Kianna Alarid's piercing voice almost made me understand the guy behind me who kept yelling for them to have his babies.

Up next: She & Him, so

She & Him, 3/2, Great American Music Hall - I'm maybe just a little excited for the upcoming release of the first album by She & Him, aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, and luckily, their show, which closed out Noise Pop, didn't disappoint. It's clear they (well, specifically Zooey) are still new to the whole live-performance scene, but their music ultimately overwhelmed any awkwardness.

Deschanel took center stage - sometimes seeming tiny and uncomfortable there, often looking at Ward or her hands or her tambourine rather than out at the crowd. But again, all that was forgotten as soon as she opened her mouth. Their songs have a rollicking, old-timey feel to them, reminiscent of '60s girl groups and even The Andrews Sisters. Deschanel is the primary vocalist (and sometimes pianist - yes, she plays the piano too, just in case you weren't already swooning), and her voice can cover the full range of emotions, from happy and in love to down and devastated. That said, she and Ward should harmonize more; their voices are so unusual on their own, but they match perfectly together.

About midway through the show, someone called out "You're dreamy!" Deschanel thanked the woman, then paused: "Did you mean me or Matt?" The caller yelled back, "Matt!" and the resulting laughter helped ease some of the tension in the room. By the time of the encore, they were all out of original songs, but they gamely came back anyway for some covers - including a soaring "I Put a Spell on You" that isn't on the album but certainly deserves to be recorded.

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What's Buzzworthy? Favorite Summer Albums

BuzzSugar — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:04:07 PDT

It's finally starting to feel like summer here in San Francisco, and I love walking down the street wearing sandals and a skirt, listening to some breezy, poppy tunes. Some albums seem like they're just meant to be played in the summer, while you're driving with all the windows down or lounging in the park, so I've decided to make summer albums the topic of this week's Buzzworthy challenge.

To start you off, I've compiled a list of some of the albums I keep on frequent rotation during the warmer months, including Bottoms of Barrels by Tilly and the Wall, Sights and Sounds of Summer by the Beach Boys, and The Best of Blondie.

Use Buzzsugar's cool bookmarking tool to bookmark your own and tag them with the phrase summer albums. I'll post some readers' picks here next week. You can also now make a list of your picks. Here are mine:

To find out how to create a Buzzworthy bookmark,

Don't worry: TeamSugar makes it easy to bookmark and capture anything on the Web that you consider "Buzzworthy." If you already have a "That's Fab" button on your browser's tool bar, you can use that to bookmark your Buzzworthy items. If you don't have the TeamSugar bookmarking button on your toolbar, you can learn how to get it by watching this video.

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