Early Buzz: Bourdain, The Strokes and more news
Good morning, friends! Don't tell me what happened on Bates Motel last night; I couldn't keep my eyes open late enough to see it. Can't wait to catch up!
Headlines:
- The Strokes' new album is streaming on Pitchfork.
- Anthony Bourdain's CNN travel show premieres April 14.
- Watch a trailer for HBO's new Christopher Guest series.
- Kiefer Sutherland directed a music video.
- The Tony Awards — in my opinion, they were 2012's best awards show — have been scheduled for June 9.
- Don't give up hope on a Party Down movie.
- Hear a song from the new Big Fish musical.
- Heart is going on tour.
- Doctor Who's Matt Smith doesn't plan to join Twitter or Facebook anytime soon.
- "The 10 Best Simpsons Songs, Picked By the Show's Writers."
- All of your fave funny people (Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, others) re-enacted Sixteen Candles in 2004.
- Watch a trailer for the new season of MTV's Awkward, which kicks off April 16.
- Stereogum lists the 10 best They Might Be Giants songs. (I agree with the top three.)
- Here's a list of TV shows that have good dream sequences.
- Watch TheNew York Times' chat with Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein.
- The new Depeche Mode record is streaming on iTunes.
- Singer Peter Murphy was arrested last weekend.
- Stephen Colbert will help his sister run for Congress in South Carolina.
- What does Brian K. Vaughan have up his sleeve?
- And OK, I guess if I squint, this cloud sorta looks like the Hulk ...