Outside of the amazing but already well hyped (at least on the blogs) Charles Bradley and Michael Kiwanuka, Rollo & Grady’s post about the Top 21 New Artists of 2011 highlights an amazing band from Atlanta worth giving a listen called Turf War. They have been compared to the Black Lips in their straight up rock and roll sound and from their fun and raucous shows. From their twitter account, they seem like a good time.
Not sure how I stumbled upon this, but you should definitely start watching these:
I don’t know if this idea was stolen from Wilco and Billy Bragg in their Mermaid Avenue movie about the lost notebook of Woody Guthrie, but this promises to be more entertaining. Hank Williams, dying at 29, left a series of songs that he never recorded. A bunch of famous artists recorded them, including Jack White, which you can hear over at Rolling Stone.
I tried giving Whitney Cumming’s show, Whitney, a watch based off of the recommendations of other comedians I listen to. Then realize they weren’t recommendations as much as they were “hey, that other comedian has a show…” Though her time on the recent Comedy Central Roasts were funny, both her latest standup special and new show are not what I find funny. So I was nervous about watching Bill Burr’s comedy special on Netflix based off of the same recommendations. You might remember him from Chapelle show. Then I ended up watching it because I ran out of other things to watch and gave it a chance. I loved it. It is a good mix of the self deprecating humor that most comics have plus the boston tough guy shit that some other comics have. Here is a bit of it:
Thang is slang for thing, FYI. It really seems that Hollywood wants to make easy money off of recreating movies that people already love in it’s exact form. The Thing was an amazing movie that, even though I had first watched the movie just 1 year ago, both in visual effects and just as a story. And while I didn’t care about 1980’s The Fog and even less about it’s remake, I am very angry about it’s remake version. Just as the “urbanization” of thing changes it for thang, Kurt Russel’s character is traded for a hot woman. Why change/update something that didn’t need to be changed/updated: