Celebrity Tropical Fish 7: Hermey the Elf, New Portishead

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News News News:

• Cinematical Tom Waits
• Michael Bay is the worst. ever.
• Stunt Doubled
• Go Morrissey Go
• Rolling Stones' Decade
• White, Nerdy, Thick Rimmed Christmas
  

Local/Campus News:

• Thru 12/15 Photography: The Evolutionary Art" at the Admissions Gallery @ Dugan
• LIBRARY CHILDREN'S BOOK DRIVE ends FRIDAY, 12/11
• UMass Lowell Contemporary Electronic Ensemble Concert TONIGHT 7:30 - This semester’s concert features original student works and arrangements for electronic and electroacoustic instruments. Music Department faculty members, Drs. John Shirley and Alex Ruthman, will also present pieces: one utilizing iPhones as controllers to improvise a mix of video and musical elements, and the other improvising music on the computer by way of live coding procedures.
• 119 Gallery's 5th Annual Juried Exhibit 12/5-12/19 - "Material is Language"
• Work Environment Seminar with Maria Brunette 12/14 - Applications of Macroergonomics in Public Health Time: 12:30-1:30 p.m. Location: Kitson Hall 208
  

New Music:

• NEW PORTSIHEAD!!!
  
• El Guincho - Antillas (XXXchange remix)
• Liars - Scissors
• Harlem - Friendly Ghost

Celebrity Tropical Fish 6: Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker

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News News News:

• Downhill Racer, old Redford newly revisited
• Do video games make good movies?
• Best Pictures of the Decade
• Linklater on Dazed and Confused
• NME Checks in on Their Decade
• It's still all about the experience, Russ
  
• New Dylan Video.....ok...
• Alright Santa
• Welandedonthemoon.
• Connery!
  
• Our (Red) Line

Local/Campus News:

• FREE FOX COMMON SHOW TODAY, 8:00 - Caspian, Oh my the Moon, more
  
• Fall Seminar: "Global Economy - Local Woes" 11/30 ICC
• Common Test Film Series till 12/14 - CADDY SHACK
• Fall Finals Stuff Posted
• 12/4 Rock for Tots - SIC Student Tickets TICKETS HERE for non-students
  

New Music:

• Alvin band - Tijuana
• New Beach House
  

Found Sound:
Scott Walker - Scott 4 - Scott Walker's 4th album was his second after calming famously ""Now the nonsense must stop, and the serious business must begin." What Scott 4 lacked commercially it made up for critically. It is an excellent example of Scott's songwriting prowess, and his flowering from a pop genius to a master songsmith of dark, nightmarish beauty. Sadly, songs like "Seventh Seal", "Boy Child", and "Hero of the War" will be his last gasp before Columbia's bastardization of his work, which he will not let go reissued. Walker's triumphant return in the mid-90s with Tilt reaches backward in time over his 70s and 80s work to pulse Scott 4.

Celebrity Tropical Fish 5: A Candy Colored Clown They Call the Sandman!

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News News News:

• The French Divorce Rate: 50% What They Are Doing!
• RIP Jerry Fuchs
• Bleach Reissued, Live at Reading boot leg remastered/officially released
• Redford on "The Greatest Sports Movie Ever Made"
• Shutthefuckupabouttheapocalypse, especially YOU
• We hope you didn't miss the Lil Wayne Documentary either
• Interesting Top 25, Paste
• Aron Eckhart, "Indie Black Comedy Asshole?"
• Don't Mess With Texassssssssssssss
  

Local/Campus News:

• Zombies
• Fall Seminar: "Global Economy - Local Woes" 11/30 ICC
• Gingerbread?!

New Music:

• Bear in Heaven - Good thing they put out another album because you can't just start sounding like Eno, you have to earn it. Beast Rest Fourth Mouth is a spastic, layered, entrancing quagmire.
• Mary Onettes - Someone's always sounding like Joydivisionneworderfactoryect...but who knew it would come from the Swedes. Droney and driving, the Mary Onettes invoke the shimmery 80s rock ballad and update synth-soaked dance-pop for us all.
  
• Nirvana - Even though the Bleach reissue is fucking insane, Live at Reading may be insaner. If we have to write something more about this...I'm sorry.
  

Found Sound:
The dBs - Stands for Decibels - Power pop jangle. I guess that about sums it up. Until the mid 1990s, when it became clear this commercially unsuccessful band was highly influential on the likes of REM, Yo la Tengo, and probably a little bit Pavement and Nirvana. Stands for Decibels was their debut, and the opening track Black and White was a perfect rock song. Really fast, with the drummer utilizing rims and clicks over straight rock beats, each song seems to build. Headed by not one, but two singer-songwriters in Peter Hopsdale and Chris Stanley who play guitar/synth/vocals across the whole album. Each is a perfect 'alt-rocker' and each brings an idea to the early 80s pop table. Listen as they interpolate the Kinks!

Celebrity Tropical Fish 4: We'll Probably Discuss Barton Fink

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News:

• The Radio London Movie: The Boat that Rocked/Pirate Radio
• The Philip Seymour Hoffman Breakdown
  
• Top Ten Future Sports
• Art of Healing in Lowell
  
• Ghostbusters Part III
• Films: Inconsistency a Virtue?
• Dennis Hopper has Prostate Cancer
• Easier than NYC, but don't call it the fucking T
• 50 Best Films of the Decade
• The Carl Sagan/Steven Hawking 7" split.
• Mickey you're so fine.
  
• SUF[YAH]AN not JAN

New Music:

• Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
  
• LCD SOUNDSYTEM
• JEFF the Brotherhood
• Tigercity
• Yeaseayer
  

Found Sound:

• Male Bonding

Celebrity Tropical Fish 3: Seamonsters, CarlyJarvisWaits, a MEATLOAF Soundalike, and OMV

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News:

• Top Ten Future Sports
• Oh Carly...
• Pulp Reissues
• Lets all go to Singapore!
• Nou Caribou
• Ghostbusters Part III

New Music:

• Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
  
• Kurt Vile
• Rangers
• Frankie Rose and the Outs
• LCD SOUNDSYTEM
  

Found Sound:

• Orchestral Maneovres in the Dark
• Future Islands!
  

Album of the Day: Seamonsters, The Wedding Present 1991 (Redux)

Celebrity Tropical Fish 2: Dr. J Interview

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News:

• Top Ten Future Sports
• The Return of the Jesus Lizard and their albums remastered by ALBINI and WESTON
  
• Woah...Faust?!
• Movie Sound Effects Affects
• New Vampire Weekend
• Boston Spaceships, do me Bob Pollard
• Electro-Sufjan or String-Sufjan
• If only we had the "$"
• Storm Trooper Zombies (Nerd Alert)
• Goooooood GOD
• Pavementing the way
• Wallace and Gromit
• Something Else....
  

Best New Music:

• Yacht - See Mystery Lights
  
• HEALTH - Get Color
• Bobby Previte & The New Bump - Set The Alarm for Monday
• Polvo - In Prism
• No Age - Losing Feeling
• Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
  

Found Sound:

• Our Favorite Echo & the Bunnymen
  

Album of the Day: Seamonsters, The Wedding Present 1991

Celebrity Tropical Fish 1: OUR FIRST SHOW

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News:

• Prestige Box Set Releases
• Jim Jarmusch in the Catskills, PLUS a sick music bill at ATP, PLUS The Sons of Lee Marvin?!
  
• Soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are
• Bob Dylan to voice GPS Navigation tools
  
• Ornette Coleman Interview
  
• Beatles jazz covers!
• Happy 75th Brigitte Bardot
  
• Polanski got caught
• MF Doom's Madvilliany the end of the Golden Era of Hip-Hop?
• Cinematicals 7 On-Screen Geek Chicks
• Scott Walker's 30th Century Man
  

Best New Music:

• HEALTH - Get Color
• Bobby Previte & The new Bump - Set The Alarm for Monday
• Polvo - In Prism
• No Age - Losing Feeling
• Lou Barlow - Goodnight Unknown
  

Found Sounds:

• Scott 4
• The Clean
  
• The Vampires
• Erkin Kroky
  

Album of the Day: Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melodie Nelson