Dead Weather Listening Party in 10mins updated

Starting at 1pm EST The Dead Weather will be streaming a live performance of their new album (that’s 10 minutes away 😦 – oh, well. If you miss this performance they will also be streaming another performance on May 3 on their myspace page. Here’s the details

Update: NPR is streaming Sea of Cowards this week

Watch Gorillaz Live in Concert TONIGHT

Even though MTV doesn’t include ‘music television’ in their logo anymore that doesn’t mean from time to time their website is going to play some music. Tonight (4/30) watch Gorillaz live on Gorillaz.com or MTV.com live from London, starting at 5pm. Here’s the details

TV Tonight: Sunset Daze

I miss watching the Golden Girls. TV doesn’t always give our elders a lot of screen time. Tonight a reality show, Sunset Daze,about senior citizens lives in am Arizona retirement community and apparently there’s a lot more sex going on then we thought. Hmmm…a little gross, no?

Premieres tonight on the WE channel, a double episode starting at 10pm…

News Roundup 4.28.10

Hey! How about a news post? Yay!!!

• Conan O’Brien will appear on 60 minutes on Sunday

• Comic Book author Alan Moore’s various music projects

• A Wrinkle in Time graphic novel is in the works

• Stream the new Flying Lotus album

• The New York Times profiled the band The National

• What are the 80 best workout songs?

• Penguin Books asks tattoo artists give book covers tattoos‘

• And finally, NPR wonders does Marmite have a bad name?

This is really cool: Running to remember the troops

I was never a fan of the war in Irq, but that doesn’t mean I value what the troops over there have done any less. Starting May 1, 2010 this man will run over 4500 miles to honor each troop that has died.

Cool Book: Nancy Drew reissue

Out today is the 80th – yes 80th – anniversary reissue of the first Nancy Drew book The Secret of the Old Clock: 80th Anniversary Limited Edition (Nancy Drew). The original came out in 1930! USA Today has an article about it.

I will be updating the Amazon Links page with other items released this week.

Listen to Hole’s new album

Here we go. Hear Courtney Love’s new version of Hole. It’s streaming on Hole’s Facebook page

So many album streams, so little time to stream them

I don’t know how I’m going find time to stream all the albums streaming this week. There’s some good ones:

• The new Gogol Bordello is streaming over at Myspace. It comes out next week

• And NPR has The Hold Steady and Broken Social Scene

Music Films Screening in Miami in April

Two ultra-cool music fims will be screening next week:

• The Vagabond Miami will host a screening of ‘When Your Strange,’ The Doors documentary, Tuesday, April 20, 8:30pm

• Miami’s Grand Central will host a screening of indie band Animal Collective’s “virtual album” ‘Oddsac,’ Sunday, April 25, 8:30pm, TIX are $15 and guaranteed to sell-out…details here

To do this weekend, Miami/NYC

If I were cool and (in some cases) in NYC, this is what I would do this weekend

April 16-18:

AVP Nivea Gatorade Fort Lauderdale Open

April 17-18:

• Sweatstock, to celebrate Miami’s Sweat Records 5-bday and National Record Store Day

• Let’s Retake Our Plates Film Series at Cinema Paradiso, Ft. Lauderdale

In NYC:

• Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon’s The Noise Paintings

For more info on these and other events, check out the live music/local events page