COACHELLA IS HERE!

YouTube is streaming some of the performances of this years Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.  Here are some highlights of the performances being broadcasted by Youtube. There are 3 channels broadcasting, if there is an overlap in set time make sure to check the other channels.  Please leave a comment if you watch any of the performances I would love to read some reviews.  For a full schedule and to watch any these performances click Here.  Keep scrolling to see what we think some of the highlights are.

SATURDAY 4/13/13

3:35 – Dropkick Murphys

4:45 – The Selector

5:15 – Cafe Tacvba

6:05 – Puscifer (Tool frontman Maynard Keenan side project)

6:35 – Violent Femmes

9:00 – Spiritualized

9:30 – Postal Service

9:55 – Moby

10:00 – Descendents

11:35 – Phoenix

11:45 – New Order

SUNDAY 4/14/13

3:30 – Gaslight Anthem

4:30 – Airborne Toxic Event

5:15 – The Lumineers

6:05 – Social Distortion

6:20 – Paul Okenfold

8:00 – Vampire Weekend

8:50 – OMD

9:20 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

9:20 – Wu-Tang Clan

9:45 – The Faint

10:10 – Dinosaur Jr.

10:20 – Red Hot Chili Peppers

11:00 – Dead Can Dance

 

Let It Be…Naked: The Podcast

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Itunes Store has added “Let It Be…Naked”. Now, Rolling Stone Magazine has announced that there will be a series of 5 podcasts that will go into detail on the recording of the album.
The last studio album released by The Beatles was not released in the form they wanted. The original “Let it Be” was released with the orchestral flourishes of record producer (and convicted murderer) extraordinaire Phil Spector.
In 2003 Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr released a stripped down version of the album with the added “…Naked” to the album’s title. The former Beatles released the version of the album they originally wanted. Enjoy this video of The Beatles during the “Let It Be” recording sessions.

RIP Roger Ebert

Photo courtesy of IMDB

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70. Mr.Ebert, along with his late partner Gene Siskel, taught me that movies could be appreciated as much more than simple moving pictures on a screen. In the days before anyone could publish their movie review on-line there were few movie critics who earned the trust of the movie going public.  Roger Ebert ranked at the very top of respected and well known movie critics. In 1975, Mr. Ebert was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for journalism.

In 1986 Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert (they were both film critics for rival Chicago newspapers) began their eponymous television show in which their thumbs became almost as famous as they did.  Those were the days when the phrase “Siskel & Ebert give it two thumbs up!” was enough to drive millions of movie goers to their local cineplex.  After the death of Gene Siskel, Ebert continued the show with Richard Roeper but they never achieved the same chemistry or influence of the great Siskel & Ebert.

Thank you Mr. Ebert. I’m sure that wherever you are Siskel will be saving the seat next to him. Rest in peace.

“The bong in your reggae song…”

Rolling Stone magazine is reporting that The Breeders will re-issue their seminal alt-rock classic Last Splash April 2013. If you’ve only heard “Cannonball” you owe it to yourself to listen to the rest of the album, I recommend “Saints” as an excellent starting point. In many ways The Breeders, and especially Last Splash delivered on the pop music promises that The Pixies strayed away from with Trompe Le Monde and Bossanova.
To mark the 20th anniversary of Last Splash The Breeders will be embarking on a tour (no southern California dates have been announced yet) and reissuing the album as a box set that includes an earlier EP, live tracks, and rarities.
To keep up to date with The Breeders and get information on any upcoming local dates visit their website http://www.thebreederslsxx.com.

Walking Dead

Season 3 of AMC’s #1 rated show aired its third season finale last night and the jury is still out on the effectiveness of this episode. There will be SPOILERS after the jump.

Before Midnight

Here is the trailer for Richard Linklater’s third movie in the “Before…” Trilogy, Before Midnight. This installment will reunite Jessie (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) 9 years after the events of “Before Sunset” and 18 years after the events of “Before Sunrise”. Judging from the first two movies I would be excited to catch up wit these characters every 9 years for the rest of my life.

Itunes!!!!!!

Our little podcast has taken it’s first baby-step, we are now officially on itunes!!! Search for Airspeaker on itunes and hit the subscribe button. Then prepare yourself for some HIGH-larious hijinks, tomfoolery, shenanigans, and all around absurd nonsense that drivels from our pie holes (mmmmmm pie).

“Batman ’66” digital comic coming soon!

Comic Book Resources has an exclusive interview with writer Jeff Parker about his new gig writing Batman ’66.  A digital comic that will tell untold exploits of Batman as featured in the 1966 TV show.  Of course we all know that Adam West famously portrayed the caped crusader along with Burt Ward as his “little chum” Robin for the TV series which lasted form 1966-1968.

I’ve been a fan Parker’s work for some time now and have no doubts that he will be able to do this fabled franchise justice.  Parker’s work on Agents of Atlas (Marvel Comics) shows that he has an understanding of characters emanating from the Silver Age of comic books.  With the incredible Mike Allred providing covers,I wish Allred was penciling the entire book as his pop-art inspired work is a dead-on match for the style of the show.  That is not saying that Jonathan Case will not do a good job I am jus not as familiar with his work as I am with Mike Allred’s. But, Judging form these first images being released Mr. Case seems very capable of giving us an awesome Batman book that looks like a lost Batman episode.

The book will be available only in digital format initially but is expected to collected and released in print form at a later date.  To the Batcave little chums!Photo is courtesy of CBR and DC Comics

Zou Bisou Bisou

Today (March 25th) Netflix added season 5 of Mad Men! If you haven’t seen it, you owe it yourself to watch. This show will be talked about as one of the greatest TV shows of all time. Go catch up! Thank me in the comments section. Season 6 premiers on AMC in two weeks.

Are you “crazy” for you job? Or, does your job make you crazy?

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton list the top 10 professions in which psychopathy is most prevalent and the top 10 professions in which psychopathy is least present.

Are you in any of these professions?  Know any crazy people in these professions?  We’d love to hear your crazy stories of the guy who sold you your iphone that then you saw strangling kittens (not cats, strangling cats is OK, but kittens?!?!?).  Tell us your stories (or the stories about your crazy “friend”, of course we know it’s not you, it’s your “friend”) in the comment section below.

Top 10 Professions with Psychopathy                     Top 10 Professions w/ less Psychopathy

1. CEO                                                                       1. Care Aide

2. Lawyer                                                                   2. Nurse

3. Media (TV/Radio)                                                   3. Therapist

4. Salesperson                                                           4. Craftsperson

5. Surgeon                                                                  5. Beautician/Stylist

6. Journalist                                                                6. Charity Worker

7.Police Officer                                                           7. Teacher

8. Clergyperson                                                           8. Creative Artist

9. Chef                                                                         9. Doctor

10. Civil Servant                                                          10. Accountant

 

Original story can be found here.

Surfer Rosa

It’a been 25 years since The Pixies released the first full LP. Surfer Rosa still stands strong 25 years later. Listen to “Where is my mind” here.

But don’t stop there go listen to the whole album if you haven’t, it is one of the seminal albums of the early alternative music movemement.

Christy Turlington Is Lucky I Didn’t have the internet in 1995

Another prom season is almost upon us which can mean only one thing, another guy has asked out a gorgeous supermodel to be be his date.  This time the guy is Jake Davidson and the lucky?!?! model is KATE UPTON!!! And she is reported to be considering young Davidson’s offer!!!!  People has the story here.

And in case you’re interested here are some pics of Christy Turlington in 1990’s.

Wednesday Comics

Tomorrow is Wednesday, you know what that means…NEW COMICS!

My pull list this week is:

Chew #32 – John Layman and Rob Guillory continue their amazing and hilarious book about an FDA inspector with a special gift

Nova #2 – Jeph Loeb continues the adventures of Sam Alexander the newest member of the Nova Corps. Ed McGuinness provides the artwork.

Build your own pull list from here.

Titanic 2. Not such a bad ideal after all?

If anything is going to make me reconsider my opposition to Titanic 2, it may be the fact that Carnival cruises does not seem to have a boat that can go from point A to point B without malfunctions.

Read the LA Times story from here.

We’re going back to Neptune!

Veronica Mars: The Movie has now been confirmed and will begin filming this summer with expected release in early 2014!

VM creator Rob Thomas kicked off a kickstarter campaign and crowd sourced their goal of $2 million dollars in less than 8 hours!

For those of who have missed the sleuthing styles of Neptune’s fiercest (and cutest, sorry Enrico Colantoni and Ken Marino) check out this awesome trailer that reunites many of the principles in the cast to promote the kickstarter campaign.