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Every week on late-night round-up, one of our writers watches a week of one late-night talk show. This week, Meredith Blake on Watch What Happens Live. Next week, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.  Given the sheer number of late-night talk shows currently on the air, it’s odd that the format itself is so hidebound, and that comedians with sensibilities as different as David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson all try to work within its fairly rigid parameters. Bravo’s fledgling late-night program, Watch What Happens Live—excuse me, “L!ve”—is that rare exception: a show with a ...

If you're mad that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross didn't get nominated for an Academy Award this time around, ease your pain by revisiting the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack in a new form. Reznor has shared the stems of five different tracks from the score, which are available for download through March 31 over at Tunecore (via The NIN Hotline). 

The first novel in Janet Evanovich’s bestselling Stephanie Plum series has been in development as a film for nearly 20 years, which is apparently how long it took for everything to turn out horribly wrong. The casting of Katherine Heigl, one of the least-gritty actresses on the planet, as rough-and-tumble Stephanie Plum, a laid-off lingerie saleswoman who discovers a surprising aptitude for bounty hunting, isn’t the biggest problem with One For The Money, but it’s a good place to start. As concessions to her blue-collar character, Heigl drops her G’s and throws in the occasional nasal ...

Bering Sea Gold debuts tonight on Discovery Channel at 10 p.m. Eastern. More than one reviewer has already called Bering Sea Gold, the latest vein-popping, sweat-stained nonfiction serial from producer/baritone narrator Thom Beers, a cross between The Deadliest Catch and Gold Rush Alaska (A.K.A. "The Deadliest Reality Show"). But aside from the setting and the shiny nuggets that have drawn people there, the show really betrays the influence of two other shows that Beers has had a hand in: A & E's big hit Storage Wars and last year's mining-operation flop Coal, a weird mismatch ...

In the nearly 19 years since the song’s release, amazingly, no one had figured out exactly which day Ice Cube was talking about in his hit single “Today Was A Good Day.” That mystery, however, is now solved, thanks to some excellent and detail-oriented sleuthing that’s not nearly as complicated as might have been imagined. Using the song’s lyrics and actual historic events—like the debut date of Yo! MTV Raps and results of games between the Lakers and Sonics—Donovan Strain over at Murk Avenue used some Sherlock-like deductions to reach the conclusion that Ice ...

In 2010, Built to Spill leader Doug Martsch and bassist Brett Nelson decided to record seven of their band's songs in the style of 1980s synth-pop, releasing the results as the Electronic Anthology Project.

Here's the dark, night-lit clip for Schoolboy Q's "Nightmare on Figg St.", one of the many highlights from the Black Hippy collective member's great new album, Habits & Contradictions. Like the video for the A$AP Rocky-featuring "Hands on the Wheel", it was directed by JeromeD.com, and the song features production from A$AP Ty Beats.

A live episode of Design Matters with Debbie Millman discussing the launch of Malcolm Gladwell's illustrated collection of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. Guests included artist and illustrator Brian Rea, designer Paul Sahre, Josh Liberson and DeeDee Gordon.

“Farewell My Little Viking Part One” (season 2, episode 10; originally aired 11/13/1994) First off, let me just say that it’s been incredibly, super gratifying to have been party to all this “Pete And Pete is the best” hubbub on the Internet the past few days since we announced the 2/24 reunion show in New York. It’s something I’ve been working on with the cast and crew for a long time now, and, while I don’t in any way want to speak for them—and they’re so, so, so much more important ...

Earlier this year, Fat Possum put together a best-of complilation for one of the late Jay Reatard's old bands, the Lost Sounds. Now Goner has reissued the band's self-titled first cassette on 7" vinyl. Listen to "Plastic Skin" from that release here. In commemoration of Reatard, Yellow Bird Project is also selling a new t-shirt that features a drawing of one of his signature guitars. Sales proceeds will go to St. Jude's Research Hospital.

After the surprising insta-sell-out of The Adventures Of Pete And Pete reunion show we announced earlier this week, two things became clear. One, that people like Pete And Pete as much as The A.V. Club does, and two, that we had to add another show. Thus, we did. In addition to the late show Feb. 24, there will now be an early show that same night at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City. Doors will be at 6 p.m., with the show at 7 p.m.. The previously announced show is getting bumped back a half an ...

Artist: James Blackshaw Album: Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death Release Date: April 24 Label: Important Records

Today in promising experiments dealing with How the Internet Affects the Music Industry: Stones Throw, the label home to acts like Madlib and Dâm-Funk, is launching a monthly subscription service. For $10 per month, the label (in partnership with Drip.fm) will deliver each of its new releases to subscribers' inboxes, sans anti-sharing DRM (Digital Rights Management) restrictions. Upon signing up, members will receive Homeboy Sandman's Subject: Matter EP, The Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2, and M.E.D.'s Classic Instrumentals.

MP3: Wild Nothing: "Nowhere"

On February 21, Virginia indie-pop crew Wild Nothing will follow up 2010's Golden Haze EP with a new single, "Nowhere", via Captured Tracks. The above title track features guest vocals from Twin Sister's Andrea Estella, and is the first time Wild Nothing mastermind Jack Tatum has recorded in a proper studio. The single will be backed by another new song, "Wait"; the band's currently working on their follow-up to 2010's Gemini LP and plans to release it this year.

Cloud Nothings played the Studio at Webster Hall in New York, showing off some material from their latest LP, Attack on Memory, which received Best New Music laurels earlier this week. Our photographer Erez Avissar was on the scene.

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The Lana Del Rey origin story has taken many shapes in recent months, but one of the singer's solid biographical facts is her musical beginnings as Lizzy Grant. BBC now reports (via New York's Vulture) that Del Rey has purchased the rights to her 2010 debut album, Lizzy Grant aka Lana Del Rey, and says she'll release it "maybe in late summer."

Frank Or Francis—Charlie Kaufman’s musical meditation on filmmaking, fame, and that most important facet of modern society, what some asshole said on the Internet—has added Kate Winslet and Catherine Keener to its ensemble, according to Vulture. It’s a Kaufman reunion for both, with each actress scoring an Oscar nomination for her role in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, respectively, meaning they kinda owe him. And yes, that includes submitting to singing, as well as any of the other bizarre tangents Kaufman’s screenplay diverges into (and which you can read about ...

Although CBS recently made it quite clear that it barely has any room for new shows what with the clutter of all these darn hits, the network managed to pick up three new pilots anyway, charitably adding them to the collection since all those nice writers found time to write them. The first of these is the previously reported Ralph Lamb from Goodfellas writer Nicholas Pileggi and director James Mangold, which is based on both the true story of the rodeo cowboy turned sheriff who wrassled Las Vegas, as well as network TV’s equally tenacious determination to make one ...

Announcing the newest season of Design Matters with Debbie Millman, premiering with a video of Design Matters Live filmed by Hillman Curtis. Debbie Millman discusses the launch of Malcolm Gladwell's illustrated collection of The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers. Guests included artist and illustrator Brian Rea, and designers Paul Sahre, Josh Liberson and DeeDee Gordon.

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Bradford Cox has announced a North American tour in support of the most recent Atlas Sound album, Parallax. He'll perform dates in Binghamton, NY and Tokyo before heading out on a North American tour starting in L.A. and ending in Boston.