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Weird Al wrote today's cheese-pun-filled 'New York Times' Crossword

“Weird Al” Yankovic has written today’s edition of The New York Times Crossword Puzzle (4/4). As you might expect the theme is cheese puns. That’s a picture of it above and, as Al notes, “If you’re REALLY good, you don’t NEED the clues!” Specifically it is cheese puns on movies (“A Few Gouda Men,” “Feta Attraction’).

watch Jim Jarmusch & Iggy Pop talk for two hours (at last night's NY "TimesTalk")

Iggy also lists off an impressive list of new bands he’s been listening to. “Gimme Danger” is in theaters now.

Fugazi releasing 'First Demo', are on the cover of The New York Times Magazine (sort of)

Though Fugazi will probably never get back together, they continue to release an exhaustive amount of material from their heyday. The latest nugget to come out via Ian MacKaye’s Dischord records is a release of their first ever demo, which was recorded in 1988 and is simply being termed First Demo…

Daft Puck Get Funky

We realize we’re throwing rocks from inside a glass house here, but we couldn’t help chuckling at these two corrections that ran in the NY Times in the past 6 months…

NY Times issues (small) M.I.A. story correction

Editors’ Note: June 3, 2010 The cover article in The Times Magazine on Sunday profiled the singer and political activist M.I.A. While discussing her efforts to draw attention to the civil war in her home country, Sri Lanka, she was quoted as saying: “I wasn’t trying to be like Bono…

the whole annoying M.I.A./NY Times thing + new cover art

DOWNLOAD: M.I.A. – Haters (MP3) The most combustive song on M.I.A.’s third album isn’t loud or chaotic. Built on a mildly ominous, off-kilter beat — plus an incessant shoosh like a bag of coins being shaken — it bloops along with the grace of a janky PopCap game…

The National 'High Violet' is streaming @ the NY Times now

“Over the years, Matt has accumulated a flock of snide nicknames from his band mates, including the Dark Lord, the Naysayer, Mumbleberry Pie, Mr…

NY Times Arts & Leisure Weekend (Jan 7-10) - Rosanne Cash, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman & more)

“Join New York Times journalists and some of today’s most celebrated talents and thinkers from film, television, music, theater, dance and books, including Cirque du Soleil, Jimmy Fallon, Natalie Portman, Jeff Bridges, Carrie Fisher, Pulitzer playwrights and much more…

NY Times talking to Iggy Pop - tix on sale

Iggy Pop @ 2008 Baltimore Virgin Fest (more by Bao Nguyen) The NY Times is having “A Conversation with Iggy Pop” on June 24th. The godfather of punk takes on the language of romance and gets “dangerously near jazz” on his new album, Préliminaires, inspired by French author Michel Houellebecq’s 2005 novel “The Possibility of an Island…

Tinariwen videos & 2009 Tour Dates (NYC, Coachella, etc..)

(Tinmariwen photo…are Tuaregs, a nomadic people spread across the Sahara who staged fierce, unsuccessful rebellions during the 1990’s in Mali and Niger…
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