Kelly Jackson reminds me so much of a less aggressive Cinder Block, and I love it. The feisty singer for Brooklyn’s post-punk indie quartet seems equally as neurotic in her performance for ‘Impulsive’ as Tilt did on “Viewers Like You” and “Til It Kills”, but, instead of shouting angrily and unapologetically, Kelly seems to have harnessed that energy and angst. She channels it into mature pop songs. It’s almost as if Tilt started all over again, 13 years later as adults — maybe with Karen O consulting? Regardless, I can’t thank Ferns enough for conjuring up the old memories I have of 12-year-old Andrew listening to Fat Wreck compilations on repeat, via that shit-awful single-disc boombox in my mom’s living room.

“Impulsive” comes from the band’s latest EP “Whatever We Plan,” which released over the winter and unfortunately overlooked by most of us. Check out their new video below and watch out for upcoming show dates in Brooklyn here.

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A&E has just announced that it is cancelling “Intervention,” despite the fact that it is probably the greatest show to ever air on television. Which makes me feel a lot like this:

I love the show, even though every time I watch it I get annoyed by the fact that these people always have these fantastic, super-devoted significant others that are like “Cindy is totally the greatest human ever in the history of the world, too bad she does meth and is really mean to me all the time! Still, I give her all of the money and flowers every day and wait on her hand and foot.” And then I get all “UGH. I need to start inhaling keyboard cleaner or something if I’m ever going to find a proper boyfriend.”

It is awesome despite the fact that you know the “addicts” must know they are about to face an intervention after being told they’re “in a documentary” about addicts and asked to spell their names for the camera. How could they not? The show has been on forever!

However, A&E is all “Whatever, y’all, we’ve got ‘Duck Dynasty’ now, so we don’t need Jeff Van Vonderen for anything anymore” or something. I don’t know why. Jeff Van Vonderen is the JAM.

At least we’ll always have the sweet, sweet memories/re-runs:

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In case you needed a 90-minute explanation why, according to one New Jersey realtor, “buses of tourists stop all the time” at the home in which Bruce Springsteen lived for about 18 months, then Ridley Scott’s got your back. The “Prometheus” director’s Scott Free production company has spearheaded “Springsteen and I,” a feature-length documentary that delves into the obsessives who have taught their babies to call him “daddy” and clung to the Garden State native’s husky vocals in times of hardship.

What isn’t clear in the trailer below is whether or not Bruce signed off on this in any way. Something tells me this is just a preach-to-the-choir piece of fanfare that doesn’t offer much in the way of new exciting info about the bar band icon. Then again, if there’s enough unearthed concert footage, who gives a shit? Play on.

“Springsteen and I” is slated for a July release.

h/t Rolling Stone

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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are known for being the only reason Americans question the right to free speech. The disrespectful hicks have made it painfully aware that they hate homosexuality, veterans, most humans, and most recently: metal. It seems a little on the nose seeing as how hard rock has long been associated with the dark side of the religion coin, embracing demonic imagery and throwing devil horns to all tasty guitar licks. But the idiots of WBC feel like they need to make their feelings clear about Slayer.

Jeff Hanneman, a founding member and guitarist of Slayer, passed away due to liver failure earlier this month. His memorial service is being held tonight, May 23, in Hollywood, California at the Palladium. WBC posted the following on their Twitter account:

Which of your idols will God kill next? Yesterday Chris Kelly #kriskross Today Jeff Hanneman #Slayer #PicketFunerals

The tweet is now deleted for some reason, but WBC has followed up with more nonsense to promote the picketing of Hanneman’s memorial. The Slayer Facebook page responded by encouraging fans to “totally ignore them” and instead focus on celebrating Jeff’s life. According to Noisey, however, John Arya, roadie and brother of Slayer singer Tom Arya, plans on pelting the protesters with water balloons filled with red paint. We won’t know how until 7:30 p.m. PT tonight if the memorial service runs peacefully. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for nonviolence. Though “Slayer vs. The Westboro Baptist Church on Hollywood Boulevard” does sound like a pretty metal event.

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Could it be? Could it be that the movie we all watched 47,000 times throughout high school, the movie that launched the careers of Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Ben Affleck, Renee Zellwegger, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason London and tons of others, is finally getting its long-promised sequel?

That’s what Richard Linklater announced in a Reddit AMA on Wednesday. He wants to start production on the sequel, rumored to be titled “That’s What I’m Talking About” this fall.

It might be just a pipe dream, but who knows? I wonder if he plans to use people from the original cast– particularly Adam Goldberg who is kind of the dreamiest ever and should probably be my boyfriend. Although sequels are often super disappointing, Linklater hasn’t done too shabbily with the sequels to “Before Sunrise.” Maybe “That’s What I’m Talking About” will be another classic.

While most of the cast continued in movies ended up being pretty darn famous famous, the two freshman stars of the movie, Wiley Wiggins (Mitch) and Christin Hinojosa, retired from acting soon after.

Wiggins is now a tech and culture writer, and runs a blog called “It’s Not For Everyone“:

Hinojosa quit acting back in the day to become an anti-war activist:

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The release of Boards of Canada’s new album “Tomorrow’s Harvest” cannot come a moment too soon. For now, we’ve been treated to the first single, “Reach for the Dead,” which comes with a music video by Neil Krug. The sound is darker, as it was in my personal favorite BoC record, “Geogaddi,” but also pushes their sound into unheard of trajectories. Krug’s video perfectly captures this tension between past, future, geometry, mysticism, flight, mystery and everything else that Boards of Canada communicates in their music and visuals.

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On Friday, the city of Philadelphia will unveil Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s and Amber Art and Design’s “The Roots Mural Project,” a hand-painted mosaic that has been in the works for more than two years on a wall just around the corner from the band members’ hometown high school. The dedication ceremony is in honor of Philly’s proverbial “underground” band’s 13-album career as well as their work in community outreach and their “Roots101″ youth lecture series.

In case you can’t make Friday’s ceremony, peep the preview image above. But you should try and make it. Everyone’s gonna be there, including every member of The Roots. Punch and pie.

From the City of Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program:

Mural Arts latest mural project honors the homegrown hip hop trailblazers, cultural icons, and GRAMMY® Award winners, The Roots. From founders Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter and Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson’s humble beginnings at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), to their staggering thirteen recorded albums, to an endless overseas touring schedule, and their current position as house band on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on NBC, The Roots have influenced generations of artists locally, nationally, and globally.

As we continue to redefine muralism in the 21st century, this mural project promises to be our most ambitious and far-reaching yet. The mural will be painted at 512 S. Broad Street, on the World Communications Charter School, not far from CAPA, where The Roots were founded.

The dedication is scheduled early, 11:30 a.m. at the World Communications Charter School, likely because the gang has to bus it back to 30 Rock to get ready for Friday’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” guests Paul Walker and Joss Whedon, neither of which have a city-commissioned mural dedicated to their lives or work. Nope, not even Paul Walker.

source: Okayplayer

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One of the most ridiculous moments in “The Amazing Spider-Man,” a film riddled with ridiculousness, is when Peter Parker, played by soft-spoken heartthrob Andrew Garfield, gets in trouble for dunking too hard. Instead of being encouraged to pursue his athletic prowess, the backboard shattering high schooler gets suspended. It may have been something to spur progress in the plot, but, then again, that film had something like five half-baked plots that never resolved. So who knows. Apparently Spider-Man is still into basketball, as he took a break in filming to play around with a couple kids in Chinatown, Manhattan, this week in full costume. Unfortunately, he doesn’t go as hard in the paint as he did with Flash Thompson. But I’m crossing my fingers that the sequel involves twice as many super-power dunks and maybe a Blake Griffin cameo.

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Joel Freimark is a music encyclopedia and proprietor of The Daily Guru, a video series where he discusses all manner of music seven days a week. Every Thursday Joel dissects a few classic music myths in a column that we’ll be syndicating on Death and Taxes. Today’s Music Myths: the genesis of Beck’s “Loser,” the phone companies’ struggle to contain the fallout of Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309/Jenny” and the myth that CDs sound way better if you color the edges with green marker.

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How are we spending the little money we have these days? Not on things like education or starving children, or ladies who would prefer not to be raped by their crazed ex-boyfriends. We are still wasting bajillions of dollars on the drug wars. Despite the fact that only 6% of Americans now think marijuana should be illegal (same percent that believe unicorns are real; coincidence?), cops across the country are still going undercover at high schools to try and bust kids for pot.

Oh, but not even the kids who are already smoking it on their own. In California, a recent sting operation involved an undercover cop befriending a lonely autistic boy and tricking him into buying weed for him as a favor.

Parents Doug and Catherine Snodgrass were really excited when their son, who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome and has trouble making friends, made a new friend, “Daniel,” who started texting him all the time. When “Daniel” bugged him about selling him his prescription medication, the boy refused. So “Daniel” repeatedly asked him to buy $20 worth of pot on his behalf. Not wanting to disappoint his new friend, he complied, and ended up getting arrested, along with 21 other students at his school.

This is hardly the first time this kind of thing has happened. Apparently, tricking lonely kids into buying pot is a common element of these sort of stings. In one case, an undercover cop actually tricked an 18-year-old kid into falling in love with her and got him to buy her some pot. He got charged with a felony (for “selling” her the pot).

I cannot even comprehend what purpose this is supposed to serve, or why taxpayer money is going to fund it. It’s not even just useless. It is absolutely cruel to take advantage of lonely kids and kids with disabilities in order to get a collar for a stupid pot infraction. Is it any surprise to anyone that teenagers will do stupid things just to fit in or make people like them?

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