Andy Barker, D.V.D.

More than a year ago, I asked if there was going to be a DVD release of the great Andy Barker, P.I. show.  Well, today I got an email and… yay, it’s up for a November 17th release…
(pre-order on the Amazons)
~Dan – np: Floratone – Floratone

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Nuno & Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother)

Nuno Bettencourt (of rock band Extreme) is starring in a music video with Jason Segel for the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. Known for their love affair with “songs that are awesome,” HIMYM have re-created the famous Extreme video “More Than Words.” Other cast members including Neil Patrick Harris, Cobie Smulders, Alyson Hannigan [...]

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PES – Western Spaghetti

Brilliance defined…

~Dan – np: Explosions in the Sky – How Strange, Innocence

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Porcupine Tree / Larry David & Woody Allen

UK progrockers Porcupine Tree have a new album coming out in September, and it now has a name: The Incident.  It’s out September 21st on Roadrunner Records in the United States.  It’ll be a double-album: first CD being the (cough) 55-minute title track.  The 2nd CD being an EP-lengthed featuring these four songs: “Flicker,” “Bonnie [...]

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tons of news

Nine Stories!
In this episode: The new Masada Quintet with special guest Joe Lovano, the Jenny Owen Youngs‘ video that I somehow missed, Nellie McKay’s Election musical, Fanfarlo for $1, the deaths of JazzTimes & Jeff Hanson, the resurrection of Futurama, a new Wussy video, and Asthmatic Kitty’s most excellent Library Catalog Music Series…
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The new Masada Quintet [...]

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Another Mike Patton Soundtrack

Mike Patton [Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Ipecac, etc] & Justin Broadrick [Godflesh] will contribute to the soundtrack for an upcoming Alan Moore photographic novel on Lex.  This comes hot off the heals of Patton’s Crank 2 soundtrack…
Lex founder Tom Brown says that the deluxe release will include the book – which Brown describes as [...]

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REVIEW: Flight of the Conchords @ the Schnitzer (Portland, OR – 5/14/09)

Well, let’s just say… this show was mutha’uckin’ AWESOME!!!
Before the show, there was a spot-on Murray look-a-like in the crowd.  A little bit younger looking, but definitely pretty damn close.  At around 7:45pm, the lights dimmed and what sounded like Jemaine (from FOTC) announced the opener.  Arj Barker, who plays Dave on HBO’s Flight of the [...]

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Sufjan’s Sofia’s Song / Strong Bad Game

Unrelated…

Sufjan Stevens has posted a new essay and song, “Sofia’s Song,” to the sidebar blog on Asthmatic Kitty.  Read it HERE.  The song can be downloaded from HERE.
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And Telltale Games has just announced pre-order for the DVD of their previously download-only game Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People.  You can read more about the pre-order [...]

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REVIEW: Spinal Tap / The Folksmen @ Paramount Theatre (Seattle, WA – - 4/20/09)

FYI… PHOTOS of the SHOW at the BOTTOM
(only a couple this time)

Spinal Tap Unwigged/Unplugged (photo: Shannon Cottrell, LA Weekly)

As mentioned above, I only took a few pictures.  I was in the upper mezzanine, aka nosebleeds.  I tried out my new 60x zoom digital camera; alas, it wasn’t 600x.
The show was great.  [...]

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Michel Gondry 2 DVD

SO… this is awesome…

MICHEL GONDRY 2: MORE VIDEOS contains the following videos:
MUSIC VIDEOS:
1.    Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules “Mad World”
2.    Paul McCartney “Dance Tonight”
3.    Thomas Dolby “Close But No Cigar”
4.    Bjork “Declare Independence”
5.    Steriogram “Walkie Talkie Man”
6.    The Willowz “I Wonder”
7.    Beck “Cellphone’s Dead”
8.    The White Stripes [...]

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Mike Patton as a Decepticon

Thanks to Stubbadub for rescooping the MovieWeb scoop, because otherwise I wouldn’t have heard about it…
Apparently Mike Patton is confirmed as being the voice of a Decepticon in the upcoming sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.  He will be one of the seven pieces that form Devastator, likely Mixmaster.  For more info, check out [...]

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Crank 2: High Voltage

The Crank 2: High Voltage Soundtrack comes out April 7th… Mike Patton is all over it like stink on a monkey…
(clicky for pre-order info)
Listen to some snippets over on the MySpaces.
Yeah, I’ll probably buy the CD and never see the movie.
~Dan

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Seinfeld + Curb / Reptet Tour / OTC Tour / Jurassic 5 spin-off

Entertainment Weekly reported recently that Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards will have appearances in multiple episodes of (co-Seinfeld creator) Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm this season.  Yay!
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One of my favorite jazz bands from Seattle, Reptet (part of the Monktail Creative Music Concern) is hitting the road again this spring.
March 12th – [...]

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oh, sweet… Futurama’s on…

“Good news everyone…”

OK… so, Futurama might come back to TV.  As was reported on Paste’s blog…
After being treated like a red-headed stepchild and mismanaged by the bumbling Fox network, Futurama, the sometimes uneven sci-fi comedy developed by Matt Groening, may return to the station’s line-up after all. The announcement comes by way of Billy West, [...]

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fright of the conchords

There’s no reason to be afraid of New Zealand’s 4th most popular comedy folk duo.  They’re mostly harmless, and they’re back for both a 2nd season on HBO (or eventually on DVD for those non-HBO subscribers like me) and a second album as well. 
The Flight of the Conchords… looking… longingly and forlorn…?
As reported in SPIN, [...]

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A Musical Commentary to a Musical ?!

Wait, why didn’t I know this before?  There are two commentaries to Joss Whedon’s brilliant Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog DVD… and one of the commentaries is a musical, in and of itself.  Hell yeah!

RAD! We just got it in the mail today (thank you, Amazon wishlist feature), and we are sooooo watching it this weekend…
~Dan [...]

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Flight of the Conchords – 2nd season premiere (online)

 The first episode of the second season of the New Zealand comedy Flight of the Conchords has premiered a month early on Funny or Die.
From Paste:
In the second season opener, Bret and Jemaine are quick to fire their affable manager, Murray. After the addition and swift subtraction of a new band member last season, Murray [...]

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Prop 8: The Musical

All the buzz today on my RSS feeder… then I finally watched it and saw why there was such a buzz…
Written (by Marc Shaiman) in one day, recorded the music the next day, and shot in a day… here is Prop 8: The Musical featuring Jack Black (as Jesus) with Neil Patrick Harris, John C. [...]

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Get out and not vote…

wait?  what?!

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Ron Howard as Opie & Richie Cunningham

Brilliant stuff… check out a new video of Ron Howard (as Opie with Andy Griffith & Richie with Henry Winkler) over on my friend J.Marie’s blog:

(click the pic)
I’d post it here, but WordPress(.com) doesn’t like many of the standard video embedding links.
~Dan

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