RIP James Gandolfini

This quite literally brings me to tears. As Tony Soprano I often stated - completely without hyperbole - that I could be entertained simply watching the man eat a sandwich for an hour. But let us not forget some other memorable roles. The Fight (capital F quite intentional) with Patricia Arquette in True Romance, Big Dave in the Cohen Brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There or the one I still haven't seen but experienced a total 'What the FUCK' moment with the trailer when I realized it was him beneath the make-up on Spike Jonze' adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are.

Mr. Gandolfini assuredly has a spot reserved for him in actors' heaven, and in the meantime I will eat a hoagie and ask the next person who curses at me the age old question in his honor, "You blow your father with that mouth?"

New Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know

This band is just really, really good. The new song apparently dropped in the middle of the night last night and Gigwise has a great 'What's to expect from the new record' piece here.

The Postal Service - A Tattered Line of String

New Ministry Record: From Beer to Eternity

From Beer to Eternity drops 9/6/13. Read more about it here on Joup.

Miranda Sex Garden - A Fairytale About Slavery

Title track from another of my favorite records of all time.

Stream Palms' Debut Album

image courtesy of consequenceofsound.net

BIG TIME thank you sirs go out to the always awesome Metal Sucks for cluing me in on this. Spin has the entire debut album by Palms, the band that is Deftones' singer Chino Moreno + most of the band Isis. Go here and listen. The record comes out June 25th on Ipecac.

I've been a Deftones fan since White Pony, and I love Chino's other side project Team Sleep, but after this years Koi No Yokan I'll buy anything Chino touches.

Exclaim! Posts Amazingly Exhaustive History of Dillinger Escape Plan

image courtesy of the band's Last.FM page

Read it here. Wow. A very, very interesting read. Nicely done Natalie Zina Walschots.