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Dinosaur Jr. played on the latest edition of NPR ’s “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” series, performing several tracks off their new album Sweep It Into Space . The band filmed the five-song clip, which was directed by Joe Salinas, in the empty Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. The set included three songs from Sweep It Into Space , “I Ain’t,” “Garden” and “I Ran Away,” as well as “Feel the Pain” from 1994’s Without a Sound and “Freak Scene” from  1988’s Bug . Dinosaur Jr. released Sweep It Into Space in April via Jagjaguwar. Originally scheduled for mid-2020, Sweep It Into Space is the band’s first LP since 2016’s Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not , and was recorded at Amherst’s Biquiteen in late autumn of 2019 following a U.S. tour. Kurt Vile co-produced the album, and performs the lead 12-string guitar on “I Ran Away.” In the midst of the pandemic, the band’s singer J Mascis participated in Third Man Records’ at-home live performance series, appearing …

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EXCLUSIVE: Todd Hoffman , who had a 13-year run as a lit agent before setting up his own shop in 2013, is expanding a tool he developed to cut through the dealmaking clutter. StoryScout is a digital offering first introduced in 2018 by Hoffman’s company, Storied Media Group . The offering is digital but also backed by human curation and manual assessment of thousands of stories and articles reviewed each day by a team of readers and editors. “It’s a combination of new-school and old-school,” Hoffman told Deadline in an interview. The goal is to streamline the process of securing material for film and series adaptations, something with a heightened importance in a world where streaming is exploding across the world and demand for content is skyrocketing. In a seller’s market like the one the industry is now experiencing, Hoffman said, StoryScout delivers “soup to nuts” service. It surfaces eligible material, determines its owner and then clears the rights. “The …

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EXCLUSIVE: The Just For Laughs comedy festival has revealed the participants and gameplan for its 2021 New Faces, its marquee discovery stand-up showcase that over the years has served as a launching pad for up-and-coming talent like Jimmy Fallon, Gabriel Iglesias, Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Ali Wong and Pete Davidson to name a few. It is part of this year’s edition of the festival, which kicks off today and runs through Saturday featuring in-person stand-up shows in its home base of Montreal as well as for the first time shows in Los Angeles and New York City because of travel restrictions due to the pandemic. New Faces is also adjusting. For the first time since 1996, the New Faces and New Faces: Characters series will be taking place in Los Angeles, while New Faces: Canada will take place in Montreal. All four showcases will be streamed online for all ComedyPRO pass holders (more details here ). Los Angeles’ Dynasty Typewriter will host the New Faces of Comedy …

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Young Thug performed a set on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series featuring songs from his upcoming album, Punk , backed by a live band including Travis Barker. Punk is Thug’s second proper studio release and follows 2019’s So Much Fun. Last weekend, Thug premiered a new song, “Tick Tock,” during his performance at Rolling Loud Festival in Miami, teasing the new direction of his upcoming album. In his Tiny Desk performance, he revealed even more songs: “Die Slow,” “Droppin Jewels,” and the very punk-inspired “Hate the Game.” Thug’s look in the clip is, fittingly, very “Punk.” He sports newly dyed hair and an outfit reminiscent of the pop-punk bands of the aughts. Plus, his custom sleeveless T-shirt (from his Spider brand) happens to reveal a bit of information about Punk ‘s arrival: At the end of the performance, Thug turned his back to the camera and flashed the release date for the album, October 15th. Punk arrives as Thug’s influence in hip-hop continues to grow. …

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In the early days of the pandemic, just as it was becoming clear that the Killers ’ 2020 tour wasn’t going to happen, Brandon Flowers found that his mind kept drifting back his formative years in the tiny, remote Utah town of Nephi. “There was a nostalgic longing in the air and a little bit of sadness,” the singer says. “I started thinking about where I was in the Nineties, and these stories just sort of blossomed out.” Those stories form the basis of the upcoming Killers record Pressure Machine , due out August 13th. It’s a concept record about life in Nephi told from the perspective of various townspeople that touches on everything from prescription drug abuse and poverty to crime, homophobia, and depression. Despite the bleak tone of the record, there are touches of hope and joy sprinkled throughout it. “When I was writing these songs, I was thinking of things like Sherwood Anderson’s book Winesburg, Ohio or that book Pastures of Heaven [by John Steinbeck],” Flowers …

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