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At times, Jentzen appeared both a bit bashful and overwhelmed by the contingent of family, firefighters, reporter and photographer at the fire station. He only would nod when asked whether he was having fun.
Jentzen posed for photos while standing on the running board of a pumper truck inside the garage, and accepted a red plastic fire hat as a gift.
Engineer Tom Muffler showed Jentzen a shiny metal circular protrusion on the front of a pumper.
"That is where the siren noise comes out," Muffler said, pointing to the speaker.
The child and his mother then climbed into that pumper.
Not done yet, there was even more fun in store.
Jentzen headed to a wooden house cutout with "flames" in the windows and door used in the AFD's annual open house. The little boy expertly "doused" the fires three times with a thin yellow hose spouting water, each bit of flames flopping behind the cutout and disappearing. At one point, he even sprayed Sebold a bit, eliciting laughter from observers.
It then was time for a surprise visit from friendly, furry Sparky the fire dog.
"What are you supposed to do if your clothing is on fire?" Sebold asked Jentzen as he looked at the educational mascot. "You stop, drop and roll."
Sparky then did just that.
Sparky led the boy to the firehouse's dining area, where Jentzen, his grandparents, mother and firefighters enjoyed hot pizzas that Schiber brought to the station. While riding in the firetruck, Jentzen had told Harris that pepperoni was his favorite pizza.
Both fathers, neither Deputy Chief Mark Harris nor Sebold could remember the department having a special event such as Friday's for a seriously ill child in their cumulative 38 years of service.
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Carol Bolinger said Jentzen is a joy to the family.
"Jentzen is just contagious; you just love everything about him," she said.
Robert Bolinger, pastor at Greater Life Church in Alton, said the outing was good for his grandson.
"I think it lifts him up," he said. "He has points of depression, and the chemo negatively affects him."
Jentzen also is the son of Chuck Felt; he has two sisters, Chesnee, 11, and Ava, 7.
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On this edition of Hero of the Day, Cam shares a story from Chattanooga, Tennessee two men walked into a jewelry store and began firing a semi-automatic rifle. An employee grabbed his own gun from the back and a gun fight ensued. The two suspects fled the scene. Police are still investigating. Originally aired on NRA News Cam & Co. 8/8/13.
The two suspects fled the scene. Police are still investigating.
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Le Mans: Toyota reshuffles its WEC lineup
Toyota has reshuffled its driver lineup for its 2014 World Endurance Championship campaign.
Nicolas Lapierre will move from the #7 entry, which he has shared since 2012 with Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima, to the #8 car to drive alongside Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi.
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A statement from Toyota Motorsport GmbH said that the change around was "designed to maximise the chance of success for each car."
Toyota has re-evaluated its driver line-ups after the first two seasons of its return to top-flight sportscar racing.
Wurz, Lapierre and Nakajima were the first wave of signings and became the drivers of the #7 car, while Davidson, Sarrazin and Buemi were subsequently signed up for the second car, which only contested the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2012. These lineups were kept together when Toyota expanded its programme in 2013.
The height of the drivers is known to be one factor in the reshuffle.
Toyota will launch its 2014 program and the new TS040 at Paul Ricard on March 27 ahead of the mandatory WEC test over the following two days.
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Dubai An Indian receptionist denied stealing $17,650 (Dh64,829) from a private company based in Dubai airport when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
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From WIRED: "War of the Worlds"
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Two teams of astronomers may have found the first earth-like planet in outer space. So who truly discovered Gliese 667C
Artist's impression of Gliese 667 Cb with the Gliese 667 A/B binary in the background
No one knows what the planet Gliese 667Cc looks like. We know that it is about 22 light-years from Earth, a journey of lifetimes upon lifetimes. But no one can say whether it is a world like ours, with oceans and life, cities and single-malt Scotch. Only a hint of a to-and-fro oscillation in the star it orbits, detectable by Earth's most sensitive telescopes and spectrographs, lets astronomers say the planet exists at all. The planet is bigger than our world, perhaps made of rocks instead of gas, and within its star's "habitable zone"—at a Goldilocks distance that ensures enough starlight to make liquid water possible but not so much as to nuke the planet clean.
That's enough to fill the scientists who hunt for worlds outside our own solar system—so-called exoplanets—with wonder. Gliese 667Cc is, if not a sibling to our world, at least a cousin out there amid the stars. No one knows if it is a place we humans could someday live, breathe, and watch triple sunsets. No one knows whether barely imagined natives are right now pointing their most sensitive and far-seeing technology at Earth, wondering the same things. Yet regardless, to be the person who found Gliese 667Cc is to be the person who changes the quest for life beyond our world, to be remembered as long as humans exist to remember—by the light of the sun or a distant, unknown star.
Which is a problem. Because another thing no one knows about Gliese 667Cc is who should get credit for discovering it.
Gliese 667Cc is at the center of an epic controversy in astronomy—a fight over the validity of data, the nature of scientific discovery, and the ever-important question of who got there first.
In late 1995 Swiss astronomer Michel Mayor and his student Didier Queloz found 51 Pegasi b, the first known exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star. It was orbiting far too close to its sun to allow the formation of water, but the discovery made Mayor's European team world famous anyway.
Soon, though, they lost their lead in the planet-hunting race to a pair of American researchers, Geoff Marcy and Paul Butler. The two men had been looking for exoplanets for almost a decade; they bagged their first two worlds a couple of months after Mayor's announcement.
The two teams evolved into fiercely competitive dynasties, fighting to have the most—and most tantalizing—worlds to their names. Their rivalry was good for science; within a decade, each had found on the order of a hundred planets around a wide variety of stars. Soon the hunt narrowed to a bigger prize. The teams went searching for smaller, rocky planets they could crown "Earth-like."
The Spectral fluctuations of a star with an exoplanet create a sine wave.
Most planet hunters aren't looking for exoplanets, per se. Those worlds are too small and dim to easily see. They're looking instead for telltale shifts in the light of a star, "wobbles" in its spectral identity caused by the gravitational pull of an unseen orbiting exoplanet. When that force tugs a star toward Earth, the Doppler effect ever so slightly compresses the waves of light it emits, shifting them toward the blue end of the spectrum. When the star moves away from Earth, its waves of starlight stretch to reach us, shifting toward the red. You can't see those shifts with the naked eye. Only a spectrograph can, and the more stable and precise it is, the smaller the wobbles—and planets—you can find.
By late 2003 the European team had a very precise instrument, the [ESO] High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher, or Harps. Mounted to a 3.6-meter telescope on a mountaintop in Chile, Harps could detect wobbles of less than a meter per second. (Earth moves the sun just a tenth that amount.) The Americans had to make do with an older instrument called the [Keck]High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, or Hires—less precise but paired with a more powerful telescope.
ESO HARPS at the ESO La Silla 3.6m telescope
As the two teams continued to fight for preeminence, trouble was brewing among the Americans. Marcy, a natural showman as well as a brilliant scientist, regularly appeared on magazine covers, newspaper front pages, and even David Letterman's late-night show. His far more taciturn partner, Butler, preferred the gritty tasks of refining data pipelines and calibration techniques. Having devoted years of their lives to the planet-hunting cause, Butler and another member of the team, Marcy's PhD adviser, Steve Vogt (the mastermind behind Hires), began to feel marginalized and diminished by Marcy's growing fame. The relationships hit a low in 2005, when Marcy split a $1 million award with their archrival Mayor. Marcy credited Butler and Vogt in his acceptance speech and donated most of the money to his home institutions, the University of California and San Francisco State University, but the damage was done. Two years later, the relationship disintegrated. Butler and Vogt formed their own splinter group; Butler and Marcy have barely spoken since.
It was a risky move. Harps and Hires remained the best planet-hunting spectrographs available, and Butler and Vogt now lacked easy access to fresh data from either one. The American dynasty was shattered, and Marcy was forced to find new collaborators. Meanwhile, the ever-expanding European team continued to wring planets from Harps even though Mayor had formally retired in 2007. The search for Earth 2.0, long seen as a struggle between two teams, became a more crowded and open contest.
Then a seeming breakthrough: In the spring of 2007, the Europeans announced that they'd spotted a potentially habitable world, Gliese 581d.1 It was a blockbuster—a "super-Earth"—on the outer edge of the habitable zone, eight times more massive than our own world.
Three years later, in 2010, Butler and Vogt scored their own big find around the same star—Gliese 581g. It was smack in the center of the habitable zone and only three or four times the bulk of Earth, so idyllic-seeming that Vogt poetically called it Zarmina's World, after his wife, and said he thought the chances for life there were "100 percent." Butler beamed too, in his own subdued way, saying "the planet is the right distance from the star to have water and the right mass to hold an atmosphere." They had beaten Marcy, laid some claim to the first potentially Earth-like world, and bested their European competitors.
But to a chorus of skeptics, Zarmina's World seemed too good to be true. The European group said the signals the Americans had seen were too weak to be taken seriously. The fight was getting ugly; entire worlds were at stake.
Plotted on a computer screen, a stellar wobble caused by a single planet looks like a sine wave, though real measurements are rarely so clear. A centimeters-per-second wobble in a million-kilometer-wide ball of seething, roiling plasma isn't exactly a bright beacon across light-years. Spotting it takes hundreds to thousands of observations, spanning years, and even then it registers as a fractional offset of a single pixel in a detector. Sometimes a signal in one state-of-the-art spectrograph will fail to manifest in another. Researchers can chase promising blips for years, only to see their planetary dreams evaporate. Finding a stellar wobble caused by a habitable world requires a volatile mix of scientific acumen and slow-simmering personal obsession.
A Spanish astronomer named Guillem Anglada-Escudé certainly meets that description. Now a lecturer at Queen Mary University in London, he began working with the American breakaways Butler (a friend and collaborator) and Vogt not long after they announced Gliese 581g.
Today, Anglada-Escudé's name is on the books next to between 20 and 30 exoplanets, many found by scraping public archives in search of weak, borderline wobbles. The European Southern Observatory, which funds Harps, mandates that the spectrograph's overlords release its data after a proprietary period of a year or two. That gives other researchers access to high-quality observations and potential discoveries that the Harps team might have missed. Scavenging scraps from the European table, it turns out, can be almost as worthwhile as being invited to the meal.
In the summer of 2011, Anglada-Escudé was a 32-year-old postdoc at the end of a fellowship, looking for a steady research position in academia. With Butler's help he had developed alternative analytic techniques that he used to scour public Harps data. In fact, Anglada-Escudé argued that his approach treated planetary data sets more thoroughly and efficiently, harvesting more significant signals from the noise.
One late night that August, he picked a new target: nearly 150 observations of a star called Gliese 667C2 taken by the Harps team between 2004 and 2008. He sat before his laptop in a darkened room, waiting impatiently as his custom software slowly crunched through possible physically stable configurations of planets within the data.
The first wobble to appear suggested a world in a seven-day orbit—the faster the orbit, the closer to the star the planet must be. A weeklong year is about enough time to get roasted to an inhospitable cinder—and anyway the Harps team had announced that one in 2009, as the planet Gliese 667Cb. But Anglada-Escudé spied what looked suspiciously like structure in the residuals of the stellar sine wave snaking across his screen. He ran his software again and another signal emerged, a strong oscillation with a 91-day period—possibly a planet, possibly a pulsation related to the estimated 105-day rotation period of the star itself.
1 Astronomer Wilhelm Gliese cataloged hundreds of stars in the 1950s. The lowercase letter marks the order in which astronomers discovered the planets orbiting a star.
2 The capital C indicates a trinary system, with A and B stars.
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The Body and Thou (finally!) tie the knot on upcoming collaborative full-length, out in January
Ending this generation's greatest will they/won't they debate once and for all, Thou and The Body have finally announced they're going to tie the knot in the form of a full-length collaborative LP called You, Whom I Have Always Hated. I sure do hope that's just an album title and not how the bands talk to one another because if it is, from personal experience, they might be in for a bit of a bumpy ride once the honeymoon is over, especially in light of the fact that during the courtship phase of their relationship they put out an EP together called Released from Love. Released?! Honey, we're trying to lock that shit down, if you know what I mean. Anyhow, the new full-length is out January 27, and in addition to a cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Terrible Lie," it features five brand new songs that the bands wrote together, and then honed over this summer's collaborative tour. The digital and CD versions of the release also include Released by Love, which appears for the very first time in non-vinyl form.
Sure, sure, you might be thinking to yourself, "Hasn't The Body done quite a bit of dating around with the likes of The Haxan Cloak and Sandworm this year? What makes you think this one is the one?" Call it a feeling, I don't know. Maybe it's because of this totally adorable tour documentary I watched over on the Thrill Jockey Facebook page in which, yes, the bands travel around to crush mere humans with waves of sound. But in between, they really bond on a deep level, you know?
Though the bands have got distinctive sounds and backgrounds, You, Whom I Have Always Hated reportedly brings their sounds together, letting the strengths of each shine like the low-hanging sun on a planet darkened by "alienation, melancholy, and despair" winding the whole affair up into something that sounds like, "a twilight dungeon crawl exploring the winding, ruined halls of Mad King Duro's Castle, best friends at your side, enemies crushed beneath your heels, mysteries solved, and treasures found." Sounds an awful lot like Wednesday, if you ask me! Pre-order the album from Thrill Jockey here; if you're quick you might grab one of the 300 limited edition white LPs available exclusively through Thrill Jockey mail order. Call me a romantic, but I can't wait to watch this collaboration flower into something truly beautiful and beset by darkness on all sides!
You, Whom I Have Always Hated tracklist:
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02. The Devils of Trust Steal the Souls of the Free
03. Terrible Lie
04. Beyond the Realms of Dream, That Fleeting Shade Under the Corpus of
05. He Returns to the Place of His Iniquity
06. Lurking Fear
Released from Love tracklist (included in the digital/CD edition):
01. The Wheel Weaves as the Wheel Wills
02. Manifest Alchemy
03. In Meetings Hearts Beat Closer
04. Coward
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Moon B announces new tape Lifeworld on 1080p
Wes Gray, the Atlanta-based producer behind the Moon B moniker, has announced a new album, Lifeworld, his first release on 1080p. The tape, out next month, follows Gray's recent releases on PPU (2013's Moon B and past May's II) and extends his electro-funk experiments, melding together esoteric samples with synth overlays harkening back to the analogue-beatmaking days Moon B's music so adroitly evokes.
Lifeworld is Gray's most ambitious work yet, aiming for a "remapped" take on his music, opening his register to danky jams, chopped samples of Tamil film clips, and boudoir-ready grooves. In order to achieve that, Gray plays with our aural frame of reference by dropping retro-sounding beats he's just programmed in the middle of some steamy funk sampled straight out of a moldy record crate. Also, while the techno tangent present in Gray's earliest work is downplayed for a g-funk mood, Lifeworld does not forgo contemporary signifiers, opening the album with a chopped and vaporous R&B piece, and peppering the tape with cloggy samples galore. The result is not exactly retrofuturistic, but an age-negligent funk. Gray has claimed "subcontinental movies" (which are quite notoriously sampled here) and Delroy Edward's fantastic Slowed Down Funk series as sources of inspiration.
The resulting album not only lives up to Moon B's reputation as an unrepentant gear-head, but has some of the funkiest grooves he's ever played, and will be out on December 16 via 1080p, available on a 200-copies run of c30 Chrome Plus cassettes.
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BMG has acquired Vagrant Records, folks, making 2014 the REAL year that punk broke!
OMG! Say it ain't so! According to this rather lengthy post by FMQB, Vagrant Records — you know: THE GET UP KIDS' LABEL — just got straight-up BOUGHT the fuck OUT by the MAN… er, "the man" in this case being… wait, BMG Records? They still exist??? Wait, let me double-check that… huh. They still exist.
In fact, Vagrant's co-founder Jon Cohen is set to become "EVP Recorded Music at BMG Chrysalis US" and will therefore sorta kinda be responsible "both for Vagrant and for records released in the US through BMG's ground-breaking Artist Services model." Ah. I see. Wait. No, I don't see.
Either way: "It is impossible not to be impressed by what BMG has achieved in the US since it opened in the US just five short years ago," Cohen remarked. "By putting service to artists at the center of its offering, BMG is committed to offering a genuine alternative to traditional label deals. Together with the rest of the Vagrant team, I look forward to further growing BMG's presence in the recordings business." Wait, huh? Seriously. Am I on drugs? Is any of this making any sense to any of you guys??
Meanwhile, Laurent Hubert, the President of Marketing & Creative at BMG Chrysalis North America, called the label's acquisition of Vagrant "another milestone for BMG in the US as we build scale and capabilities in the recordings business just as we have in music publishing. Jon Cohen has built an impressive team at Vagrant, and with the support of BMG and its international infrastructure, we believe they will offer an unbeatable service both to Vagrant artists and to BMG's Artist Services signings." Okay. Well, I guess that makes sense. I mean, I do want to make sure my favorite Get Up Kids records get into as many hands as possible. So… in the end, I'm fine with all this.
• Vagrant: http://www.vagrant.com
• BMG: http://www.bmg.com
David Sylvian releases new composition featuring collaborations with the poet Franz Wright, Fennesz, and others
Not content with just getting biographied all the live long day, David Sylvian has recently released a brand new long-form composition entitled there's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight. Though there's no word on the extent to which this light does or does not never go out, we do have a bit of information about the release, which you can purchase right now (though, unfortunately, at this time the deluxe edition has sold out).
Originally composed largely from sampled sound bites stitched together by Sylvian, there's a light… was conceived as something that "worked in support of and/or complimented" readings from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Franz Wright. Sylvian then took his composition on tour with Christian Fennesz, who helped to refine and contribute to the piece. John Tilbury later contributed to the recording process as well, and a number of clips included came from sessions with Toshimaru Nakamura and Otomo Yoshihide. Sylvian has written a short essay on the impetus for the piece, its composition, and his relationship with Wright's poetry, which is available on his website alongside a handful of audio samples from the album.
there's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight tracklist:
01. there's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight
• David Sylvian: http://www.davidsylvian.com
• Samadhisound: http://www.samadhisound.com
ZS announce new LP Xe for January release via Northern Spy
Hudson, New York's Future-Past Studios is like a sauna for musicians. Brooklyn-based ZS occupied the studio earlier this year, and in addition to the normal perspiration going on, a new album came surfing through their pores — Xe, recorded in a single take and set for release January 27 on Northern Spy.
I'm gleaning pure expressions of creativity from the press release, and in addition to the single take, arguable frontman Sam Hillmer had this to say regarding any production frills: "No effects, no editing, nothing done in post, just a snapshot of three guys in a room who worked really hard on some music for a long time." Something about New Slaves did seem like an evocative catharsis, but I think we're all curious to hear what this different lineup, featuring Patrick Higgins (also a producer on the album) and Greg Fox (Guardian Alien), has in store from an unadulterated LP perspective. An 18-minute title track? Shit yeah, we're getting a sense.
Additional credits include Henry Hirsch, who went for interesting contrast by following up his producer work with Lenny Kravitz, and Tauba Auerbach, who reportedly went to painstaking lengths to design the cover art. No tracks to share, unfortunately, but in due time.
Xe tracklisting:
01. Future of Royalty
02. Wolf Government
03. Weakling
04. Corps
05. Xe
12.20.14 - Ridgewood, NY - Trans-Pecos *
01.15.14 - Philadelphia, PA - TBA
01.16.14 - Boston, MA - TBA
01.17.14 - Hudson, NY - Half Moon ^
01.21.14 - New York, NY - le Poisson Rouge (Xe release party)
* Blazer Sound System
^ ZS solo projects (Sam Hillmer, Patrick Higgins, Greg Fox)
• ZS: http://www.zzzsss.com
• Northern Spy: http://northernspyrecords.com
Chief Keef plans Nobody: The Album to drop on December 2, featuring Kanye West, Tadoe
In light of hisrecent drop from Interscope, Chief "The Grand Sosa" Keef is free to do what he wants, and what he wants, apparently, is to fill every last server on Earth up to the brim with his own mixtapes. In addition to the thoroughly excellent Back from the Dead 2 (which made my own Halloween night a sloppy, terrifying mess), and his recent collaboration with Gucci Mane on Big Gucci Sosa, he's pumped several full mixtapes up on his YouTube channel in the last month or so. And now, as Hot New Hip Hop reports, since with the help of that Nifty Nabber Plus he just ordered from Bed, Bath & Beyond he feels confident he'll be able to hold his liquor after all, Keef has announced Nobody: The Album, featuring contributions from Kanye West and Tadoe.
Nobody: The Album is out on December 2 and will (predictably) be the home for the "Nobody" track that Keef teased via Instagram back in August. In addition to featuring on the album, West contributed production help alongside the executive production from Glo Gang's 12 Million. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head out to the computer store to buy a portable hard drive that I can paint gold and dedicate specifically to the music of Chief Keef. It'll sit on the shelf next to my Mountain Goats live recording hard drive inside my Lil B mixtape data center.
• Chief Keef: http://www.chiefkeef.com
Matador to reissue both Chavez records on vinyl; you slowly realize Matt Sweeney has played on every single album you own
It sneaks up on you. You're going about your business, living your life, slowly amassing a record collection. Then, one day, it hits you. You're perusing vinyl sleeves, scanning through liner notes. "Huh, I didn't realize Matt Sweeney played on this," you say. Then you pull another record. Matt Sweeney played on that one, too. Then another. And another. Until you realize that guitarist Matt Sweeney has played on every single record you have ever owned.
"Well, at least I don't have the Chavez albums," you say. "They've been out of print in vinyl format since 2003," as if to reassure yourself.
On January 20, things change. Matador reissues both Chavez LPs, 1995's Gone Glimmering and 1996's Ride the Fade, and they appear in your collection. They just show up there. You didn't even buy them. You're glad to have them, but you're also scared. You clasp your hand over your mouth. You slowly back away, until you bump into something, feels like someone, behind. You turn around and it's Matt Sweeney.
"Hey," Matt says. "Thanks for your support."
• Chavez: http://www.matadorrecords.com/chavez
• Matador: http://www.matadorrecords.com
[Photo: Jesse Peretz]
Grooms announce Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair on Western Vinyl
What with Vice teaming up with LiveNation to turn Brooklyn (followed by America as a whole, one imagines) into one giant concert stadium where their writers and only their writers, by dint of an exclusive press pass agreement, can afford to take acid and go see Coldplay and/or monster truck rallies and/or the Arcade Fire without having to travel too far from the central office, a lot of other places throughout the borough have felt the very real pain of a spike in rent prices a.k.a. "housing service fees." Since, as scientists have estimated that approximately 60% of all content on the web relates to the goings-on in Brooklyn, you've likely heard already that one of the spaces in Brooklyn already gobbled up a variety of economic realities like so many MDMA-laced candy corns was the long-running and certified very cool space Death By Audio.
All of this relates to the content at hand — namely a new Grooms full-length entitled Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair — by virtue of the fact that Grooms were a group closely associated with Death By Audio, who released albums such as 2009's Rejoicer on the space's label and practiced there for nearly seven years and who are now in search of another Exclusive Joint Physical Content Venture a.k.a. a new practice space. Pair this with the fact that the band's lineup itself was thrown into turmoil by the hiatus of bassist and co-writer Emily Ambruso for personal financial reasons (leaving singer and guitarist Travis Johnson as the only original member) and you've got yourself a musical stew, one that you'd probably guess might end up resulting in a musical shift for the next album.
Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair is described as a "clear aesthetic and thematic departure from the group's previous efforts," on releases such as last year's Infinity Caller and 2011's Prom. The shift brings the rhythm section (which now features Jay Heiselmann on bass and Steve Levine on drums) more to the fore and finds the group working more with detailed electronic and sampled elements. The album is out on February 17 from Western Vinyl, and you can pre-order it from the Western Vinyl shop here, and listen to the album's first single "Doctor M" below.
Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair tracklist:
01. Bed Version
02. Comb the Feelings Through Your Hair
03. Cross Off
04. Something Wild
05. Doctor M
06. Half Cloud
07. Will The Boys?
08. Savage Seminar
09. Grenadine Scene from Inside
10. Foster Sister
11. Later a Dream
• Grooms: http://groomsgrooms.com
• Western Vinyl: http://westernvinyl.com
Stream Thaiboy Digital's Tiger mixtape on your ThaiPad and see him on tour
If you're like me, you came across rapper Thaiboy Digital when Googling "how do I download a digital Thai boy" on Bing. To my surprise Thaiboy beautifully crafts minimal hip-hop as part of the Gravity Boys from Stockholm, Sweden. Thaiboy Digital's new mixtape Tiger was recently released, and it's available to stream on YouTube (or SoundCloud below), download for free on Mediafire, and purchase on iTunes.
I tried to get the album from ThaiTunes on the new ThaiPad I just got. Unfortunately, the ThaiPad has only one app featuring three Pad Thai recipes. That's it! That's the last time I pay $500 at the Crapple Store. Luckily, I can still catch the Thaivoy Digital tunes live when he goes on tour with Gravity Boys starting in December, and, hey, maybe you can try some Pad Thai I'll be making to share with the real fans.
ThaiBoy tour dates:
12.01.14 - New York, NY - Webster Hall *^
12.02.14 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *^
12.03.14 - Washington, DC - Black Cat *^
12.04.14 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade *
12.06.14 - Miami, FL - The Basel Castle
12.08.14 - San Antonio, TX - White Rabbit *
12.09.14 - Dallas, TX - Trees *
12.10.14 - Austin, TX - Empire Control Room *
12.12.14 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom *
12.13.14 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent *
12.14.14 - San Diego, CA - Porters Pub *
12.15.14 - Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory *
12.16.14 – San Francisco, CA - Regency Ballroom *
12.18.14 - Seattle, WA - Neumos *
12.19.14 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre *
12.20.14 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre *
* Gravity Boys (Thaiboy Goon, Ecco2K, Bladee, Whitearmor)
^ Gravity Boys & Goth Money
• Thaiboy Digital: http://www.thaiboydigital.net
• Gravity Boys: http://gtbsg.tumblr.com
Gang of Four announce new album What Happens Next, 2015 tour dates
Remember that band every early-2000s indie act with angular guitars, playing skeletal funk right in the middle of the post-punk revival stole from? Well, the Gang of Four are back! The legendary Leeds quartet, which had reunited in 2004 after several years of inactivity, has announced a new album: What Happens Next. The LP, to come out next February, follows 2011's Content and is the first of the group's records since their original vocalist Jon King's departure. Guitarist Andy Gill, Gang of Four's sole original member, inducted John 'Gaoler' Terry to replace King on vocal duties, but also made sure to invite a few younger, famous singers who happen to be fans of the band: The Kill's Alison Mosshart, Herbert Grönemeyer, and The Big Pink's Robbie Furze appear as guest vocalists. You can hear the album's first cut "Broken Talk," featuring Mosshart, below.
Though Gang of Four's profile is a little less salient than fellow post-punk icons' Joy Division, they easily register among the best-known acts from the era, and never stopped being an influential force in alternative music circles, despite their diminishing creative returns. Their repertoire stretches over half a dozen albums and three decades, but their legacy was cemented very early, thanks to the epochal LP Entertainment!, Gang of Four's 1979 debut album. Through the 90s, the band's traces were audible across a strikingly vast spectrum of heirs, encompassing alt-rock staples like R.E.M., Rage Against the Machine, or The Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as more outré acts like post-rock originators Disco Inferno; not to mention how much bands like Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, Liars, Radio 4, Bloc Party, and many others the NME lumped under the silly post-punk revival tag, borrowed from them.
Gang of Four will support their new album with a world tour; you can check the dates they've confirmed so far below. What Happens Next is out on February 24 via Metropolis Records.
Tour dates:
11.27.14 - Huddersfield, UK - Holmfirth Picturedome
11.28.14 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo
12.17.14 - Lille, France - L'Aeronef
12.18.14 - Fontenay Sous Bois, France - Festival Les Aventuriers
03.03.15 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
03.04.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts
03.06.15 - Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club
03.07.15 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
03.09.15 - Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace
03.10.15 - Cleveland, OH - Grog Shop
03.12.15 - Minneapolis, MN - Varsity Theater
03.13.15 - Chicago, IL - Park West
03.14.15 - Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge
03.15.15 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
03.17.15 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live Studio
03.18.15 - Dallas, TX - Trees
03.23.15 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
03.24.15 - Los Angeles, CA – El Rey Theatre
03.25.15 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern
03.28.15 - Santa Ana, CA - Burgerama
• Gang of Four: http://www.gangoffour.co.uk
• Metropolis: http://www.metropolis-records.com


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People are getting a bit loopy in anticipation of the Red Sox' opener on April 5 in Detroit. So, while the coming days will make most of the murkiness increasingly clearer, we can take a moment to clarify some of the hot-button topics hovering around this 10-10 spring training team.
As polarizing as Bobby Valentine can be, whether it be in the media or within his own organization, do you really think that he would engage in a my-way-or-the-highway-type of maneuver with the front office of a team he has only been managing for a few months? The answer is no chance.
Sure, Valentine likes Jose Iglesias. Most could have told you before the first February ground ball was gloved that the manager would be enamored of the slick-fielding shortstop. And there is no doubt he can see the value of putting the youngster at shortstop behind the Red Sox pitching staff. But just because Valentine likes Iglesias doesn't mean he is going to ignore the other decision-makers, most of whom have been charged with monitoring Iglesias' development since he signed with the Sox.
Understand this: Mike Aviles has played in twice the amount of innings (91) as Iglesias this spring (45). That reflects in part on the fact that Iglesias missed a few days with a groin injury, but there's more to it than that. That playing time allocation reaffirms the notion that this decision has always been less about Iglesias -- who has sparkled with the glove and improved with the bat -- and more about Aviles.
Could the former Royal competently handle the position? That was the biggest factor, not even close. That's why you had Aviles playing nine innings of an early March game. And thus far, he has done everything asked. For example, there has been just one Aviles error (.980 fielding percentage) and he has participated in eight double plays.
Also, remember: Aviles is obviously going to be on the team regardless of Iglesias, and if that is the case then why has he played just the one position? If there was a chance that the righty hitter wouldn't be the starting shortstop, don't you think Valentine would have given him some time at third base, second base or outfield? It's not as if the manager has taken a conservative approach to giving a variety of players at least a taste of multiple positions (see Lars Anderson, David Ortiz and Adrian Gonzalez).
This is how it works: When Valentine sits in the room with general manager Ben Cherington and others to decide on the Opening Day roster, ideas will be exchanged and praise will be given. Much of it will surely include the propping up of Iglesias. But even without living through Iglesias' previous two spring trainings, Valentine must know that having a player the likes of Aviles is exactly what an organization needs when attempting to keep a prospect on the right track.
When the Red Sox were analyzing Jonathan Papelbon's foray into starting during the 2007 spring training, it was determined that his third pitch, the curveball, was never going to be good enough to rely on more than a few times an outing. Bard had to show the Sox his third-best offering, the changeup, wasn't in the same classification. Sunday, the righty went a long way in accomplishing that feat.
Bard only threw 10 changeups in his outing against Toronto, a few of which went horribly awry. But for the most part he was not only able to control the pitch, it actually proved to be of swing-and-miss quality. Add in the fact that he was able to use a two-seamer for pitch count purposes, and, despite the five runs allowed, Bard did exhibit the qualities the team was looking for when evaluating the pitcher's ability to start a game.
He got swings and misses on his slider when facing right-handed hitters, got whiffs from lefties when throwing the changeup and ground balls when using the two-seamer. As Valentine noted, Bard looked like a starter. Case closed.
What should be understood if Bard does end up in the rotation is that there are going to be these types of six-inning, five-run outings along the way. When Texas moved C.J. Wilson to the rotation from the bullpen, one of the things that made it work was the lefty's understanding that there were multiple elements that had to be considered if he was to make the change.
Ask the Rangers folks what made Wilson's switch work and they will point to the pitcher's intelligence. Bard is cut from the same cloth.
While many might think the success Bard has enjoyed since 2009 is strictly a product of his 100 mph arm, the fact is that he has adjusted and grown as a pitcher along the way. When he went through his worst slump as a major leaguer during the latter months of '11, it wasn't because he suddenly didn't know what he was doing. That bump in the road was due to an inability to physically keep his arm slot at a high level due to fatigue, causing a three-quarters delivery that, in turn made the plane of his pitches easier for hitters to identify.
And there will be more adjustments. But, even with Alfredo Aceves' electric stuff and extensive pitch-mix, it is Bard who has the best chance to enter into the world of top-of-the-rotation starter. It might take some time, but whether they believe it or not, it's a wait that should be worthwhile.
All kinds of names are being thrown about regarding the possible 25th man on the roster. Players such as Pedro Ciriaco, Josh Kroeger, Nate Spears and Jason Repko are being mentioned as possibilities to fill the final positional spot until Carl Crawford returns. And all could very well be in the mix.
But what has to be considered is the team's 40-man roster situation. And that's where Anderson comes in.
The Sox are at their 40-man limit, meaning a move would have to made if any player signed to a minor league deal (which is the case with all the aforementioned candidates) were to be added to the roster. And while you might not value the futures of a Clayton Mortensen or Luis Exposito, they certainly show enough potential to not be sacrificed off the 40-man just so a player can be added for a couple of weeks.
That leaves the Red Sox with three viable candidates who are position players and on the 40-man: Anderson, Iglesias and Ryan Lavarnway.
Perhaps the team believes it is more valuable for Iglesias or Lavarnway serve as spare parts for a few weeks to start their seasons than it is to have them jump into their life as an everyday minor leaguer right out of the shoot. Iglesias could pinch-run, and Lavarnway could serve as a right-handed bat off the bench. But, considering the desperate need for Iglesias to get as many at-bats as possible, and Valentine's assertion that he will not carry three catchers, and the general sense that Lavarnway could use more time refining his game-calling, neither move seems likely.
Anderson, on the other hand, has left the kind of impression on Valentine this spring that would suggest the first baseman could serve as a viable left-handed-hitting option off the bench. (The 24-year-old is hitting .344 with a .964 OPS this spring.) And add in the fact he has shown some ability to play left field, a position he had manned until his junior year of high school, and the value is subtly increased. And in terms of losing two weeks or so of at-bats to start the season, Anderson isn't as dependent on repetition in the minors as either Iglesias or Lavarnway at this point in his professional career.
Now, regarding the 40-man dilemma …
It should be noted that at least one move will have to be made, assuming Vicente Padilla makes the team. Other possible pitching additions that would require a 40-man transaction would be Doug Mathis or Justin Thomas. The dynamic is also why Michael Bowden has probably shown enough to make the team, with the 25-year-old on the 40-man and out of options.
One maneuver the Red Sox could implement when searching for room that wouldn't require having to potentially jettison a current member of the 40-man roster involves putting Rich Hill and/or Daisuke Matsuzaka on the 60-day disabled list. If the team was to do that it would prevent either pitcher from returning prior to June 5 (the timetable for the 60-man starts on Opening Day), a date before which both were seemingly hoping to return.
If the DL move, or the removal of players from the 40-man, are executed, Ciriaco might have the upper hand considering his performance this spring and versatility. He is hitting .441 with a 1.134 OPS and five stolen bases, and has played outfield in the major leagues.
Every time the manager says anything about any player following a game, it has been dissected and analyzed by those waiting for the Bobby V clubhouse tornado. Too many times, however, there simply hasn't been as much to the comments as many are leading you to believe.
Examples …
Saying Mark Melancon's outing was highlighted by him backing up the bases. The next day, the reliever clarified that he had planted that joke in Valentine's head, so when the manager was asked about the performance it was on the tip of his tongue. The criticism regarding Valentine's execution should be centered around his inability to identify that it was the reliever's joke, not his.
Calling out Iglesias for missing a sign. As much as the manager has praised his young shortstop, it was baffling that people used this as an example of Valentine being too harsh. This was simply an example of how his mind works after games. He is like a golfer going through his round, verbalizing the instant recall he had regarding the actions of the day.
Wanting Bard to throw more changeups. There was nothing wrong with Valentine explaining that he hoped his pitcher threw more changeups, but where the problem came was him not communicating that with Bard prior to explaining that to the media. The next day, the hurler had a perfectly logical explanation for his approach, one that Valentine could have been able to articulate while offering his analysis if a quick dugout conversation was had.
Besides the inevitable uneasiness that comes with change, the only legitimate concern that has emanated from Valentine's style is the potential need for players to constantly answer questions about the manager's off-the-cuff analysis. It might be tolerable now, but over the course of a season it is a responsibility most players don't want added to their days. It was one of the traits of Terry Francona's managing style that his players enjoyed immensely.
The true judgment in how Valentine's managing style will manifest itself in the clubhouse won't come until the first regular-season streak, not after a 10th-inning walk-off loss in Dunedin.
Fred Smerlas, Steve DeOssie and Butch Stearns break down all aspects of the Patriots win over the Lions, and take your calls as well.
WEEI.com's Mike Petraglia and Chris Price break down the Patriots' 34-9 win over the Lions, the team's seventh win in a row. The defense stepped up again and now gets a crack at Aaron Rodgers next Sunday.
The guys give their final thoughts and predictions leading up to the 1pm matchup with Detroit.
How have the Celtics looked after a couple weeks? Could they be a playoff team? These questions and more...
Sam and Ben talk with Greg Dickerson about how fun this year's Celtics team is to watch as well Jeff Green trade ideas.
Kyle Draper joins Danny Picard to talk about the Celtics chances this season in the Eastern Conference, last Wednesday's home opener blowout against the Nets, and Rajon Rondo's future in Boston
Red Sox beat writer Brian MacPherson joins Danny Picard to talk about the Red Sox going after Jon Lester and other free agents.
The Hot Stove guys are talking about Pablo Sandoval and Jon Lester's contract offers from the Red Sox. They then por one out for the Giancarlo Stanton rumors being put to bed.
The Hot Stove boys are back again, talking about Jon Lester, Pablo Sandoval, Giancarlo Stanton's b
Dale and Michael get Jack Edwards' 'state of the B' report and talk about the win over the Blues at the Garden on Tuesday.
Andy Brickley joined the show and touched on last night's convincing win over a good team, Matt Bartkowski needing a wake up call, and the NHL review process.
Pierre joins the guys to talk about the Bruins struggles, the NHL franchise in Las Vegas, and the return of the glow puck!
Tom Brady discussed the teams latest win and the great play of Revis.
The top stories of the day as recounted by Kirk Minihane.
The guys all disagreed on the Red Sox giving 5 years and 90 million dollars to Hanley Ramirez.
Detective Fauria tells us the infamous gloryhole story from VICE squad and other stories Christian's past.
Just out of practice, Kyle Arrington joins the guys to preview Pats-Lions
Christian in Foxboro returns, this time he's trolling Detroit sports radio station 97.1 The Ticket's Stoney and Bill show . Christian rips Lions fans and asks why his nephew, Joseph, isn't getting the ball more.
We check in with the playmaker Michael Irvin for his weekly update on all things NFL. We talk to Michael about the Raiders first win, the LeGarrette Blount saga, and how the Pats will do against the Lions this weekend.
Michael and Dale discuss Jonas Gray's tardiness, and try and predict how the running-back will respond and make up for his error.
We talk with Tom E Curran and debate whether or not the Patriots current performance is more reminiscent of the 2004 or 2007 Patriots.
Brandon covers the NFL, particularly the Detroit Lions for Bleacher Report. He gives us his thoughts on this Sunday's game and how the Lions stack up against the Patriots.
Mikey, Villani, Lenny and Kerry Byrne are talking Patriots-Lions and how the team this year stacks up to Patriots teams of the past.
Some more Musical Mikey Magic to get ready for Sunday's Patriots-Lions game.
Jerry Thornton's first podcast explores sports stories that would make for interesting 30 for 30 documentaries.
Andy Merritt of the New England Hockey Journal joined WEEI.com's Scott McLaughlin to talk about the play of Vermont and Providence, as well as other happenings around Hockey East. Merrimack coach Mark Dennehy also joined the show to talk about his team's good start, his freshman class and how he uses possession stats.
Joining the show today Mut the all-purpose back of WEEI. We talk about players we have hated over the years as well as Rajon Rondo and what is ailing the Celtics.
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Adam Schefter joins the guys to give his prediction for Pats-Lions, talks about the snow in Buffalo, and the Adrian Peterson saga.More from this show
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