Video of the Day: "Salute Your Solution" by The Raconteurs

This is the video for the first single from the Raconteurs brand new album Consolers of the Lonely which dropped last Tuesday. It's called "Salute Your Solution" and it is very, very good.

Late Night This Week: Week of 3/30/08

Late Night This Week Installment IV

GUESTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

3/31/08
Kimmel: actress Naomi Watts, tennis pro James Blake, Cobra Starship perform (REPEAT)
Letterman: actress Helen Mirren, author Jose Canseco
Ferguson: actor Neil Patrick Harris, entrepreneur Richard Branson
Leno: actress Jodie Foster
Conan: sports anchor Bob Costas, comedian Marc Maron, Moby performs
Daly: comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay, Shooter Jennings performs (REPEAT)

4/1/08
Kimmel: actor Ryan Phillippe, two contestants from Dancing with the Stars, Carole King performs
Letterman: Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Cat Power performs
Ferguson: actor Forest Whithaker, environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau
Leno: soccer player David Beckham, actress Sherri Shepherd, B-52s perform
Conan: actress Helen Mirren, yodeler Wylie Gustafson, Carbon/Silicon perform
Daly: TBA

4/2/08
Kimmel: American Idol judge Randy Jackson, actress Julie Bowen, Back Door Slam perform
Letterman: actor George Clooney, Norah Jones performs
Ferguson: actress Marg Helgenberger, Kylie Minogue performs
Leno: Ani DiFranco performs
Conan: The Bravery perform
Daly: TBA

4/3/08
Kimmel: 1000th episode special, fitness instructor Richard Simmons, Mighty Mighty Bosstones perform
Letterman: actress Renee Zellwegger, writer Gayle King, Paddy Casey performs
Ferguson: actress Jennifer Love-Hewitt, actor Greg Grunberg
Leno: actor Steve Carell, Colbie Calliat performs
Conan: skier Bode Miller, Cobra Starship perform
Daly: TBA

4/4/08
Kimmel: comedian Artie Lange, Paramore perform
Letterman: rapper Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige performs
Ferguson: actress Jena Malone, actor Jonny Lee Miller, Bell X1 perform
Leno: comedian David Spade, Ben Lee performs
Conan: actress Christina Applegate, comedian Lewis Black
Daly: TBA

4/5/08
SNL: Host: actor Christopher Walken, musical guest: Panic at the Disco

Video of the Day: "Heart of Chambers" by Beach House

This is the video from the first single from the dream pop duo's second album Devotion, released earlier this year. It's among my top picks of the year so far.

Launch of the New Indie Point Unlimited Supply

We've modified our name for the last time and we've changed a few fonts and colors around, but it's basically the same site that attracts 2,000 regular readers a day. I took out "Stereotypical Hipster Blog" to weed out people search for "hipster blog" on blog search sites. So the only people here'll be for our content.

Ramblings: Coming Up

Sorry for the lack of posts yesterday as I had the flu. But here's what you missed:

• Jarvis Cocker, Dinosaur Jr., Mission of Burma and The Apples in Stereo among others will join the already announced Vampire Weekend, Dizzee Rascal, !!! and Public Enemy to play this year's Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this July.
• My local alternative rock station WBRU has gotten even more cool in the past few days: first with playing the entirety of the new Raconteurs album on Wednesday, but also they had Biffy Clyro in for an acoustic performance/interview yesterday which you can hear here and Monday they're going commercial free (brought to you by Dunkin' Donuts. Dunkin Donuts: If your in Rhode Island, throw a rock. 65% of the time you'll hit a Dunkin' Donuts).

Ramblings: Continued Insulation

• My mp3 player has tragically stopped working. I'll still keep posting of course, but it's really inconvenient not having anything to listen to right now
• my local alt rock radio station, WBRU, played the entirety of the new Raconteurs album Consolers of the Lonely last night. Was it awesome? Damn straight it was.
• I just had one of those No Fear drinks. Didn't give me the caffiene and/or gaurana i needed. It tasted like watered down Mountain Dew actually

Video of the Day: "Breaking Standing" by ¡Forward, Russia!

The band has finally released the first video from their upcoming second album Life Processes. the video was directed by Poison Pen Films.

I Just had to bring this to your attention

As a few of you know, Drive-By Truckers played at the Paradise this Sunday in Boston, and as several of you know, my buddy Ben Keefe has an internet radio show on WRIU. He's just informed the members of the show's Facebook group that he was able to interview DBT and the interview will appear on this Saturday's show!

His show is on from 6PM-8PM every Saturday on WRIU's Studio B.

Around 5:45-ish on Saturday, Just follow this link and click on "Stubio B" (yes, really. it's a typo) download the .pls file and drag it to either WinAMP or iTunes (there's better instructions on the link above). If you hear reggae in your WinAMP or iTunes, you're halfway there (Studio B, when not playing its exclusive broadcasts, simulcasts WRIU), you'll hear Ben's show around 6. Don't miss it.

Universal cut three tracks from new Be Your Own Pet album

According to Pitchfork Media, three songs were removed from Get Awkward, the sophomore album by indie punk act Be Your Own Pet by Universal Media, who distrubutes the band's albums through a deal with the indie label they're signed to - Ecstatic Peace, which is owned by Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore. The three songs - "Becky", "Blow Yr Mind" and "Black Hole" are available on international releases of the album, but not on American copies. Of course the funny thing is that Universal is the record label of Marylin Manson. Yeah, remember him? And the other funny thing is that BYOP's lead singer Jemina Pearl Abegg is the daughter of a prominent Christian photographer.

Late Night This Week: Week of 3/24/08

This is the third weekly installment of Late Night This Week. So by now our loyal reader(s) should know the drill

PLEASE NOTE TO ANYONE WHO CAME HERE VIA A SEARCH ENGINE: THIS IS ONLY A REPORT OF WHAT'S ON LATE NIGHT TELEVISION IN THE UNITED STATES THIS WEEK. WE MAY NOT REGULARLY POST ABOUT THE ACTORS, COMEDIANS OR MUSICIANS WHO APPEARED THIS WEEK. I MUST TYPE THIS AFTER PEOPLE CAME LOOKING FOR INFO ON A MUSICAL ACT WE DO NOT POST ON BUT APPEARED ON LENO OR SOMETHING, AND E-MAILED ME PROCLAIMING THAT THEY THOUGHT THAT WE REGULARLY TALKED ABOUT SAID ARTIST.

3/25/08
Kimmel: model Heidi Klum, financial anyalst Jim Kramer, Bullet For My Valentine performs (REPEAT)
Letterman: actress Demi Moore, chef Anthony Bourdain, Counting Crows perform
Ferguson: actor Laurence Fishburne, actress Rashida Jones, comedian Joe DeVito
Leno: actor Peter O'Toole, comedian Katt Williams, Leona Lewis performs
Conan: NFL player Michael Strahan, actress Sarah Bolger, Sheryl Crow performs (REPEAT)
Daly: actress Summer Glau, Sean Kingston performs (REPEAT)

3/26/08
Kimmel: actress Roseanne Barr, two contestants from Dancing with the Stars, Panic at the Disco performs
Letterman: actress Kate Bosworth, actor John Witherspoon,.The Ravonettes perform
Ferguson: actress Thandie Newton, comedian Dom Irrera, Bell X1 perform
Leno: actress Abigail Breslin, comedian Seth Meyer, Steve Earle performs
Conan: professor Peter Fisher, author Bob Arnot, Eric Lindell performs (REPEAT)
Daly: actress Ivana Milicevic, John Popper, Shooter Jennings and Justin Spencer perform (REPEAT)

3/27/08
Kimmel: actress Sofia Vergara, Jonas Brothers perform
Letterman: news anchor Brian Williams, actress Judy Greer
Ferguson: actress Pamela Anderson, fashion designer Christian Siriano, author Judith Smith-Levin
Leno: actor John Krasinski, former Yankees manager Joe Torre, Jose Gonzales performs
Conan: actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, comedian Ed Helms, Bjork performs (REPEAT)
Daly: actor Zachary Levi, Hellogoodbye performs (REPEAT)

3/28/08
Kimmel: comedian Don Rickles, actor Jim Sturgess, Black Tide perform
Letterman (MAY BE PRE-EMPTED BY NCAA BASKETBALL): actress Eva Longoria Parker, Colbie Cailalt performs (REPEAT?)
Ferguson: actress Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Somerville performs
Leno: late night host Conan O'Brien, news anchor Anderson Cooper, Alison Moorer performs
Conan: actor Jake Gyllenhaal, actress Christina Hendricks, Ghostland Observatory perform (REPEAT)
Daly: actor Rex Lee, Fat Joe performs (REPEAT)

3/29/08
Kimmel: actress Kate Bosworth, actor Spencer Grammar, Serj Tankian perfroms
Letterman (MAY BE PRE-EMPTED BY NCAA BASKETBALL): former Basketball player Charles Barkley, comedian Bill Burr (REPEAT?)
Ferguson: actor Tom Selleck, race car driver Dario Franchitti, Ziggy Marley performs
Leno: k.d. lang performs
Conan: comedian Jerry Seinfeld, baseball player David Ortiz, Sondre Lerche performs
Daly: actress Brooke Burns, Shiny Toy Guns perform

3/30/08
SNL: Host: actress Ellen Page, Musical Guest: Wilco (REPEAT)

Mozilla Firefox 3 is almost here!

According to Reuters, Mozilla Firefox 3 will be ready for download come a few weeks and the latest beta (the fourth revision) is available for download now. Of course it's a beta and I don't recommend its download by anyone who isn't a computer expert (I won't because I'd rather wait). More news as it comes

Elvis Costello's new album will not be issued on CD

Elvis Costello has announced that his 22nd album, Momofuku will be issued on vinyl and digital download only, which means there will be no CD for the album (Costello confirms this, but I don't expect it'll stay that way for long) The album - named after the Chinese inventor of instant noodle - will feature his backing band of the past eight years, The Imposters, and will be issued on Lost Highway Records.

Video of the Day Bonus Video: Public Image Ltd. on American Bandstand 5/17/80. No, seriously

No really. This is legendary. Dick Clark considers this one of his ten favorite American Bandstand performances. For some reason, Public Image Ltd. - who have never, ever charted in America were asked to perform (well, lip-synch - which John Lydon never comes remotely close to doing) "Poptones" and "Careering" on American Bandstand on May 17, 1980 and never let anyone forget. The video of these performances has been notoriously hard to find, but a very generous YouTube user named ElixerOfThought has posted a (low quality) video of it. The video might be low quality, but the performances preserved are priceless and is the only known version on the web. Consider this a bonus video of the day. Of course PIL weren't the only alternative rock band to somehow randomly stumble onto AB. Others include The Beastie Boys, The Boomtown Rats, Devo, R.E.M., Wall of Voodoo, Madness, Psychedelic Furs and Squeeze along with classic rock legends The Doors and the Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd. Don't you worry, we will continue this series of awkward and totally out of place performances as we dig them up.





UPDATE (7/13/08): Oh, fuck. It's gone. God dammit.

Video of the Day: Hüsker Dü live on the Joan Rivers show in 1987

I don't quite know who decided that 80's alternative legends Hüsker Dü were the perfect musical guest for the forgotten Late Show with Joan Rivers. Here they are back in 1987 performing "Could You Be the One?" and "She's a Woman (And Now He is a Man)" from there Warehouse: Songs and Stories album, with an interview somewhere in there. Just another awkward TV moment brought to you by YouTube (i'll try to find the time Public Image Ltd. were on American Bandstand for another post)

Video of the Day: "Machine Gun" by Portishead

It's been nine years since British alternative legends Portishead released their second self-titled album. This April, the band will release Third. This is the video for the first single off the album, "Machine Gun"




UPDATE (7/13/08): So, Universal Music and Sony BMG have suddenly decieded to disable embedding of their artists' videos fearing that somehow that is "pirating". However, lucky for you, I was able to dig up a video of this song being performed live earlier this year on Later... With Jools Holland. It's at least a consolation.

Ramblings: The First Day of Spring (Already?)

• That was fast wasn't it? Spring already. And still no Chinese Democracy (so it's just like every spring since 1994).
• Anthony Minghella, the British film director who won an Oscar for directing 1996's The English Patient and also directed Cold Mountain and The Talented Mr. Ripley died on March 18 of a hemorrhage. He was 54.
• The BAFTA Television Awards nominees (The British equivalent to the Emmy and the sister award to the BAFTA [the British equivalent of the Oscar]) were announced last night. Life on Mars picked up a nomination for Best Drama Series, with Family Guy, Heroes, My Name Is Earl and Californication nominated for Best International Series.

Arthur C. Clarke dead at 90

British science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, CBE died yesterday (well, actually he died today, given the time difference) in his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke is best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey, the 1968 film that he wrote with director Stanley Kubrick and based on his book of the same name that was written concurrently with the film and was partially based on his 1948 short story "The Sentinel". Other works Clarke wrote include Earthlight, Tales from the White Heart, 2010: Odyssey Two (the basis for the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact), The Songs of Distant Earth and Against the Fall of Night. Clarke had suffered from breathing problems the night before. The writer was 90.

Gnarls Barkley move album date up

Possibly in response to The Raconteurs surprise announcement yesterday, Gnarls Barkley announced they were also moving up their release date. To right now. The album was released yesterday digitally on iTunes and similar sites along with limited physical release. Next week will be the full physical release.

Raconteurs announce album to be released next week

Yesterday, Detroit rockers the Raconteurs announced the release date for their second record: Next Tuesday.

Seemingly out of nowhere, the band will release Consolers of the Lonely - the follow-up to 2006's Broken Boy Soldiers on March 25, 2008. The first single from the album, "Salute Your Solution" will also be released the same day.

Video of the Day: "Ready for the Floor" by Hot Chip

This is from their performance earlier this year on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Late Night This Week: Week of 3/16/08

INFORMATION SUBJECTED TO CHANGE
info from TV Guide.com
New episode except where noted

Monday 3/17
Kimmel - comedian Martin Lawrence, actress Judy Greer (REPEAT)
Letterman - actor Rainn Wilson, sports radio show hosts Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic, Bell X1 perform
Ferguson - actor Ray Romano, actress Kate Flannery, Jeff Caldwell performs
Leno - comedian Carlos Mencia, actress Kate Beckinsale, The Bravery perform
O'Brien - media mogul Martha Stewart, comedian Lance Krall, Billy Bragg performs
Daly - comedian Harland Williams, Sheryl Crow performs
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Tuesday 3/18
Kimmel - actress Anne Heche, comedian Joel McHale, Coheed & Cambria perform (REPEAT)
Letterman: comedian/politician Al Franken, reality show star Lauren Conrad, The Cribs perform
Ferguson - actress Kate Beckinsale, columnist Ken Tucker, comedian Joe DeVito
Leno - Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw, political consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin, Erykah Badu performs
O'Brien - actor Ice-T, comedian Brian Posehn, Stars perform
Daly - actress Cheryl Hines, Rick Ross performs
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Wednesday 3/19
Kimmel - musician Sheryl Crow, comedian Adam Corolla (REPEAT)
Letterman - actress Brooke Sheilds, the cast of Battlestar Galactica, Gutter Twins perform
Ferguson - actress Parker Posey, actor Joshua Jackson, Graham Colton performs
Leno - actor Ryan Phillippe, comedienne Lisa Lampenelli, Jim Lauderdale performs
O'Brien - journalist Chris Hansen, Paul Thorn performs
Daly - comedians Kenny Hotz and Spencer "Spenny" Rice, Fat Joe performs
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA
Lewis Black - comedian Andy Kimler, comedian Greg Giraldo

Thursday 3/20
Kimmel - comedian Jackie Mason, chef Todd English, Janet Jackson performs (REPEAT)
Letterman - football player Eli Manning, comedian Vince Vaughan, A Fine Frenzy performs (REPEAT)
Ferguson - Ringo Starr perfroms (REPEAT)
Leno - former US senator John Edwards (D-NC), actress Leslie Mann, Nada Surf performs
O'Brien - actor Drake Bell
Daly - football player Chad Johnson, Tristan Prettyman performs
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Friday - 3/21
Kimmel - interior designer Nick Berkus, singer Mary J. Blige, Missy Higgins performs (REPEAT)
Letterman - rapper Diddy, comedian Al Lubel (REPEAT)
Ferguson - actor Ben Kingsley, actress Laura Prepon, Lupe Fiasco performs (REPEAT)
Leno - comedian Adam Carolla, reporter Geraldo Rivera, The Black Crowes perform
O'Brien - actor Ryan Phillippe, wrestler The Big Show
Daly - writter Gavin McInnis, model Marisa Miller, Shiny Toy Guns perform

Saturday - 3/08
SNL - Guest Host: actress Tina Fey, musical guest Carrie Underwood (REPEAT)

Ramblings: Ramblings Ride Again

• Radiohead have announced that the second physical single from their In Rainbows album will be "Nude". The song - which despite have been performed live since 1997, but hadn't appeared on an album until In Rainbows - will feature the b-sides "Down is the New Up" (on the CD Single) and "4 Minute Warning" (on the vinyl) according to NME. The band's first physical single off the record - "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" hit #30 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite not being issued as a single, "Bodysnatchers", an album track from In Rainbows has peaked at #8 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, their first venture into the Top 10 of that chart since "Creep" hit #3 back in 1993 (its still their biggest hit on the chart).
• I had high hopes for the American version of beloved British automotive show Top Gear (how universal is its appeal over there? people who aren't even car nuts watch it), but its been announced that NBC has picked Adam Carolla (aka the less funny, more unibrowed one on The Man Show) as its host. It'll last under eight episodes.
• Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Activision announced it will release a free pack of Dropkick Murphys songs for Guitar Hero III for the PS3 and XBox 360. The pack will feature "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya", "(F)lannigan's Ball" and "Famous for Nothing" all of which originate from their 2007 release The Meanest of Times.
  

Video of the Day: "Get Smashed Gate Crash" by Hadouken!

Leeds, England's Hadouken! are a sizable cult band in their home country, with the video for their first single "That Boy That Girl" becoming a viral hit and their second single "Liquid Lives" hitting the UK Top 40. The band's debut EP Not Here to Please You was issued last year exclusively on USB stick. Sadly in America, they're unheard of. Hopefully the fact that their major label debut drops this year should change all that. This is the official video for the first single from the grindie five pieces' Atlantic Records debut Music for An Accelerated Future.

BattleBots Set to Return to TV

BattleBots Inc, the owners of the popular BattleBots robot competition announced on their website that the show will return to the TV airwaves as soon as June 2008 on ESPN. The widly popular show ran on Comedy Central (of all places) for five seasons from 2000 to 2002, and had two non-televised competitions in 1999. It has not been announced if hosts Bill Dwyer, Sean Salisbury, Tim Green and Bill Nye would return, and nothing has been announced on the pages of alot of notable bot builders. Hopefully such fan favorites as Biohazard, Vlad the Impaler, Toro, Ziggo, Tazbot, Diesector, Dr. Inferno Jr., Deadblow and Pressure Drop will return.

Former Battlebots competitors Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman (who built Blendo) currently host the Discovery Channel show Mythbusters which Deadblow builder Grant Imahara appears as apart of their build team.

Video of the Day: "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem

Hi, folks.
I still have nothing to talk about for the fifth day running (slow news week). It reminds me that my blog has basically become the Hipster version of The Soup which is what no one wants. And I'm one of only six bloggers on the planet not at South By Southwest this week. Anyway, here's a video from LCD Soundsystem. It's "All My Friends", which we here at Indie Point named Song of the Year for 2007.

Video of the Day: Drive-By Truckers on Conan O'Brien

Some other things you can do with Hulu is that you can take a select part of a show and put 'em on your blog. So mostly here that'll be performances on the various late night shows. I have a buddy of mine who loves the Drive-By Truckers, so he'll really like this. This is them performing "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" on Conan O'Brien on Tuesday.

THIS VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. YEAH, LIFE SUCKS LIKE THAT.

Hulu Goes Public. Also, Lazy Sunday.

Hulu has gone public after several months in invite-only beta (I got my invite in October after a few months of trying). What's on Hulu you ask? All your favorite NBC and/or FOX shows (you do have some?) along with many from cable stations.

Your first question is "is 'Lazy Sunday' on there?"
Answer: You're damn sure it is.
In fact, here it is:

2008 Pitchfork Music Festival lineup announced

Music website Pitchfork Media will hold their third annual Pitchfork Music Festival at Union Park in Chicago, IL from June 18-20. The lineup will include:

June 18 Public Enemy will perform the entirety of their 1988 landmark album It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
June 19 will include Dizzee Rascal and Vampire Weekend
June 20 will feature M. Ward and Boris.

More will be announced when the festival nears.

Video of the Day: "Little Lover's So Polite" by Silversun Pickups

At the time I type this, the band and/or its label Dangerbird hasn't even uploaded this to Youtube. I wrote about this video some time ago and provided a link to the video on Dangerbird's website before its TV premiere. They've since taken that link down, but they have a new link to it. This video - for "Little Lover's So Polite" - was directed by actor Joaquin Pheonix. And he does a pretty good job. "Little Lover's" is one of my favorite songs on Carnavas and it was only time before the band chose it as a single.

I Now Have 10,000 Tracks Scrobbled To Last.FM

Yup, i finally hit the big landmark of 10,000 songs scrobbled from my last.fm account since i created the account on June 16, 2007. On March 9, 2008 at 7:02 EDT, I scrobbled track #10,000, "All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem.

These we the last ten tracks up to and including #10,000. I personally picked them out of the 845 songs I have on my computer after a long and arduous process of only including my favorite songs/favorite songs of the moment:
9,990: Beach House - Gila
9,991: The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
9,992: Pulp - Common People
9,993: She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
9.994: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
9,995: Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
9,996: Kate Nash - Merry Happy
9,997: Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
9,998: Joy Division - Love will Tear Us Apart
9,999: Blur - For Tomorrow
10,000: LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

Late Night This Week: Week of 3/9/08

The response to last week's inaugural Late Night This Week was positive (as it increased traffic for the site) and i've decided to continue it this week too.

INFORMATION SUBJECTED TO CHANGE
info from TV Guide.com
New episode except where noted

Monday 3/10
Kimmel - mogul Richard Branson, wildlife expert Jarrod Miller, comedian Anthony Jeselnik (REPEAT)
Letterman - comedian Jim Carrey, Paula Abul performs
Ferguson - comedian Don Rickles, actor Joe Mantega (REPEAT)
Leno - Sheryl Crow performs
O'Brien - actor Paul Giamatti, naturalist Mark Moffett, JayMay performs
Daly - actress Brooke Burns
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Tuesday 3/11
Kimmel - actress Naomi Watts, tennis player James Blake, Cobra Starship perform
Letterman - Snoop Dogg performs
Ferguson - actress Jessica Alba, comedian Mo'Nique, Dierks Bentley perform (REPEAT)
Leno - The Blind Boys of Alabama perform
O'Brien - musician John Tesh, Drive-By Truckers perform
Daly - comedian Andrew "Dice" Clay
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Wednesday 3/12
Kimmel - musician Sheryl Crow, comedian Adam Corolla
Letterman - actress Charlize Theron, comedian Lewis Black, British Sea Power perform
Ferguson - comedian Denis Leary, Deana Carter performs (REPEAT)
Leno - actor Dominic Monaghan, tennis pro Novak Djokovic, Gavin DeGraw performs
O'Brien - Snoop Dogg performs
Daly - comedian Kerri Kinney-Silver
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA
Lewis Black - comedian Paul F. Tompkins, comedian Greg Giraldo (PREMIERE)

Thursday 3/13
Kimmel - actress Tori Spelling, Rick Ross performs
Letterman - actress Kate Beckinsale
Ferguson - actress Kristen Bell, The Wicked Tinkers perform (REPEAT)
Leno - comedian Howie Mandel, actress Minnie Driver
O'Brien - morning show host Meredith Viera, comedian Harland Williams
Daly - comedian Wayne Brady, Kate Voegele performs
Daily Show - TBA
Colbert Report - TBA

Friday - 3/14
Kimmel - actor Djimon Hounsou, comedians Kenny Hotz and Spencer "Spenny" Rice, Fat Joe performs
Letterman - actress Jaime Pressly, comedian Brian Regan
Ferguson - actress Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, comedian Sebastian Maniscalco
Leno - TBA
O'Brien - actress Cheryl Hines
Daly - TBA

Saturday - 3/15
SNL - Guest Host: actor Jonah Hill, Musical Guest: Janet Jackson

Bauhaus Just Released A Record. Yes, *That* Bauhaus

How in the hell did this slip under my radar? Goth rock legends Bauhaus released their first album since 1983, Go Away White on March 4. It, however, will be their last album as they disbanded for good after it's release (they reunited in 2005). This means no singles, no promotion, nada.

But from what i've heard of it, it's top form. As many of you know, 3/4 of Bauhaus also record and tour under the name Love and Rockets (who reunited in 2007) and who are best known for 1989's "So Alive", a killer song that fluked it's way into the US Top 10. There's a bit of a linger from L&A on the record (I mean the only member of the band not in L&A, Peter Murphy - who also has a top notch solo career - does put in his two cents). Go Away White is available on iTunes and on CD at some stores through Redeye Distribution.


Love and Rockets will play at the Coachella festival this year.

Video of the Day: "The Age of the Understatement" by The Last Shadow Puppets

This is the official video for the debut single by British indie duo The Last Shadow Puppets. This band consists of Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys and Miles Kane, formerly of The Rascals. Their label, Domino (also the home to the Arctics) released the video for "The Age of the Understatement" two days ago. Here it is. Enjoy the hell out of it.

Ramblings: Untitled Indiepoint Rambling Project (2008)

Hi, folks. Blogger was down for several hours today, and this was my first chance to post. Because apparently, Blogger is like that.

• A fan-made video for "Music is My Hot, Hot Sex" by Brazilian electro band CSS (Cansei De Ser Sexy) has become the most viewed video in the history of YouTube, but it took only a few days to do so, raising suspicions. I'm one of the very few people who heard of CSS before "Music..." was used in an iPod ad last year, and they are a pretty good band. But I myself am very suspicious of its sudden surge of popularity. It has been since removed from the most viewed page. I can tell you from viewing it, it is a very good video.
• Also, has anyone heard this new song by the now exclamation-point-less Panic(!) at the Disco? I'd hate to say it but, it's a good song. It's a very good song. Who knew they had it in them huh?
• British newspaper The Sun reports that music site musicmagpie.co.uk has named the cover for Unknown Pleasures - the 1979 debut album by Joy Division - to be the greatest of all time. It's a killer cover, but really? best of all time? Anywho, the site named the cover for the self-titled 1989 album by The Stone Roses to be #2, with perrenial winner Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd at #7, tied with the cover for David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
  

Hey, You Know That Gnarls Barkley Video I Talked About Yesterday? See It Here!

Yes, I am one terrible person, but here it is, the video for "Run" by Gnarls Barkley. Now, like I said, this is original version and it may cause seizures in people diagnosed with epilepsy.

But here it is.

Gnarls Barkley Video Banned from UK TV

The video for "Run", the first single from alternative rock/soul duo Gnarls Barkley has been banned from British TV for failing the Harding Test, which is something that measures if images on a televised program/commercial/video/whatever would give people seizures. The band was requested to make edits to the video so it can air on MTVUK and it's alternative/indie rock-only partner MTV2UK (yes, MTV2UK is only for alternative rock. Yes, I wish MTV2 in America played videos at all.)

Previously, the clip for "Sheena Is A Parasite" by The Horrors was banned for the same effects.

E. Gary Gygax fails fortitude save, Dies at 69.

This just in: D&D co-creator E. Gary Gygax died in home in Lake Geneva, WI, yesterday morning. He was 69. I've been playing D&D for some 10 odd years now and this was a total shock. The news was only announced today. No announcement of what he died from, but he'd been suffering from poor health for quite some time.

Hey, at least I heard about it from Fark instead of say, CNN.

I mean, just wow.

Video of the Day: "Atlas" by Battles

This is the third Video of the Day, and its by math rockers Battles. This is the single from their album Mirrored issued last year. The song's called "Atlas", enjoy

Insert Unfunny Pun Involving Arcade Fire lyrics, Barack Obama and Nouns Involving Voting Here

Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire played a free show last night in support of Barack Obama in Nelsonville, OH, with another set for tonight in Cleveland, OH. These are to drum up support for Obama in time for the Ohio primaries tomorrow. Despite the band being from Montreal, singer William Butler and his brother, bassist William are American citizens by birth (from Texas, who also have their primary the same day as Ohio).

Of course I live nowhere near Ohio, but said primary is the same day as my home state of Rhode Island.

Late Night This Week: Week of 3/2/08

Y'know i'd thought i'd initiate another new feature on the site.
Every Sunday, i'm gonna post who'll be on every Late Night talk show this week.
My unimaginative name for this? Late Night This Week.

INFORMATION SUBJECTED TO CHANGE
info from TV Guide.com
New episode except where noted

Monday 3/03
Kimmel - musician Bobby Brown. Maroon5 perform (REPEAT)
Letterman - actress Kate Hudson, wildlife expert Jack Hanna (REPEAT)
Ferguson - actress Brooke Shields, chef Ming Tsai
Leno - musician Garth Brooks, actress Christina Ricci
O'Brien - comedian Howie Mandell, Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader Leigh Killian, Kate Nash performs
Daly - comedian Tom Green, Chuck Prophet performs
Daily Show - presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Colbert Report - author Shasi Tharoor

Tuesday 3/04
Kimmel - comedian Jackie Mason
Letterman - actor Colin Farrell, actress Blake Lively, Lenny Kravitz performs (REPEAT)
Ferguson - actress Christina Ricci, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, Collective Soul performs
Leno - actor James McAvoy, personality Heidi Klum, John Forgerty performs
O'Brien - political commentator Lou Dobbs, singer Pink, Bettye LaVette performs
Daly - comedian Kevin Hart, A Fine Frenzy performs (REPEAT)
Daily Show - presidential candidate Ralph Nader
Colbert Report - journalist Jennifer 8. Lee (ed note: no, really her middle name's the number 8)

Wednesday 3/05
Kimmel - actress Anne Heche, singer Donny Osmond, progressive rock act Coheed & Cambria perform
Letterman - "king of all media" Howard Stern, Ayo performs (REPEAT)
Ferguson - actor Dennis Hopper, actress Yunjim Kim, Nicole Adkins performs
Leno - actor Russel Crowe, comedian Larry the Cable Guy, Willie Nelson performs (REPEAT)
O'Brien - actor Chazz Palminteri, CNBC anchor Erin Burnett, Louis XVI perform
Daly - actor Adam Sevani, Louis XIV perform
Daily Show - reporter Mitch Fletcher
Colbert Report - columnist Greg Rodriguez

Thursday 3/06
Kimmel - cast of History Channel's The Ax Men, A Simple Plan perform
Letterman - actor Denzel Washington, comedian Don Rickles (REPEAT)
Ferguson - comedian Wanda Sykes, actress Saffron Buffows, Grizzly Bear perform
Leno - actor Colin Ferrell, political commentator Bill O'Reilly, Herbie Hancock performs (REPEAT)
O'Brien - wildlife expert Jeff Hanna, actor Colin Hanks, Matt Nathanson performs
Daly - actress Christine Lakin, Ingrid Michaelson and Joshua Rabin perform
Daily Show - former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle
Colbert Report - musician John Legend

Friday - 3/07
Kimmel - comedian Will Arnett, actress Camilla Belle
Letterman - actor Tom Hanks, presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (REPEAT)
Ferguson - comedian Amy Sedaris, Blake Shelton performs
Leno - comedian Will Ferrell, actor Hayden Christiansen, The Hives perform (REPEAT)
O'Brien - TV personally Dr. Phil McGraw, author David Borgenicht, Les Savy Fav perform
Daly - boxer Lennox Lewis, Seether perform

Saturday - 3/08
SNL - Guest Host: actress Amy Adams, Musical Guest: Vampire Weekend

Mumble Mumble Mumble "Chinese Democracy" Mumble Mumble Mumble

the finished masters of Guns 'n' Roses infinitely-long-awaited-to-the-point-of-madness Chinese Democracy were apparently handed over to Geffen Records last month (no, really. Like Chuck Klosterman suspected, Axl spent most of the time mixing and remixing and remixing and remixing and remixing and remixing and cutting songs and remixing and remixing and writing new songs and remixing and remixing and failing to find a guitarist as awesome as either Buckethead or Slash and remixing and remixing) and...nothing's been heard of the record since. According to Rose's mananger they're apparenlty negotiating for release of something. Expect the album, like promised for the past thirteen years to be released on either a cold day in Hell or on Axl's suggestion "sometime in 2012". (I was kindergarten when the album began recording. I'm a college freshman now. I shit you not.).

M.I.A, Vampire Weekend, Lupe Fiasco among those to play Brown Spring Weekend April 11-12

M.I.A. and Vampire Weekend are among those to play the Brown University Spring Weekend around Providence on the weekend of April 11-12.

On April 11, Vampire Weekend and Lupe Fiasco will play on the Brown University Green, $12 for Brown and RISD students and $15 for everyone else

On April 12, M.I.A., Girl Talk and Umphey's McGee will play, $15 for Brown and RISD Students and $20 for everyone else.

Live Dates RI/MA: March and April 2008

Please view official websites of venues for pricing

March 1: Henry Rollins - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
March 8: Zox/Hello Mahalo - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
March 15: Justice - Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
March 15: Dropkick Murphys - Tsongas Arena SOLD OUT
March 16-17: Dropkick Murphys - Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
March 22: Drive By Truckers - Paradise Rock Club
March 27: Presidents of the United States of America - Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
March 28: Biffy Clyro/Say Anything/Manchester Orchestra - The Palladium
March 28: They Might Be Giants - Somerville Theater
March 29: Nile - The Palladium
April 3: Minus the Bear - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
April 4: Disco Biscuits - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
April 5: Explosions in the Sky - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
April 10: Nada Surf - Paradise Rock Club
April 11: The Used/Straylight Run - The Palladium
April 11: Rogue Wave - Paradise Rock Club
April 14: Hot Chip - Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
April 17: Tapes 'n Tapes - Paradise Rock Club
April 21: Kate Nash - Paradise Rock Club SOLD OUT
April 24: Tokyo Police Club - Paradise Rock Club
April 25-27: New England Metal and Hardcore Fesitval (featuring: Megadeth, Children of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Dillenger Escape Plan, Ministry and more) - The Palladium

Listed Venues:
Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel - 97 Washington St., Providence, RI
The Palladium - 261 Main St., Worcester, MA
Paradise Rock Club - 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Somerville Theater - 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Tsongas Arena - 300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Lowell, MA

Vampire Weekend drummer hit by car

Chris Tomson, drummer for Brooklyn-based indie rockers Vampire Weekend was hit by a car in London on Thursday Night after leaving the NME Awards around 12:30 AM local time. The car that hit Thompson sped off, but i'm pretty sure the driver has heard by now as it's all over British news and over every single internet website. Thompson is doing ok, and was discharged yesterday.

There is good news in the band's future, as they will play Saturday Night Live next Saturday according to a post on their MySpace blog with a guest host to be announced during tonight's show.

Ramblings: Yeah, Like That

• Mike Conley, lead singer of California punk legends MIA was found dead in a Chicago hotel room on February 26 of a massive head wound. The singer was 48.
• Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher is selling his home in Ibiza because of neighbor James Blunt, apparently, Gallagher is selling the house because according to NME, "he can’t stand living there in the knowledge that Blunt is nearby making terrible music".
• Warner has pushed the Spike Jonze-helmed adaption of Maurice Sendak's children's book Where the Wild Things Are to October 2009. And they want him to reshoot the entire film because it was "too dark" and "it made children cry during test screenings". With news like this, I hope Jonze doesn't leave the project like he's threatened to (hey, children crying is always a great sign that the films gonna kick ass