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An Electrifying NCIS

It was lights out but electricity on for NCIS this week, with a power-outage premise tailor-made to give every member of the ensemble ample opportunity to generate their own voltage. Much like the Halloween episode from a few weeks back, “Power Down” ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Mark Harmon,  Michael Weatherly,  David McCallum,  Pauley Perrette

How Gibbard and Farrar Turned Kerouac Folk on “One Fast Move or I’m Gone” Soundtrack

If you imagine a soundtrack for 1950s-60s beat writer Jack Kerouac, it’s surely bebop, not country-folk. But that didn’t stop Death Cab for Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar from collaborating on One Fast Move or I’m Gone, a rootsy set ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, Rolling Stone,  16 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Son Volt (musician),  Jack Kerouac,  Death Cab for Cutie,  Jay Farrar,  Tom Waits

25 country albums you need to hear

1. JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON Johnny Cash Is there any album in any genre that has ascended to a higher level of myth than Johnny Cash's 1968 comeback LP, immortalized in 2005 biopic Walk the Line? When the Man in Black stood in solidarity with the ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, Entertainment Weekly,  11 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Johnny Cash

A Not-So-Killer NCIS

With “Endgame,” NCIS found itself “Kai-jacked,” as Tony DiNozzo would put it, by a spy-versus-spy episode. The villainess, Lee Wuan Kai (Kelly Hu), was right out of a Bond movie, between her eminently kissable lips (again, as pointed out by the highly ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Kelly Hu,  Rocky Carroll,  LL Cool J,  Pauley Perrette,  Sarah Palin

A Sweeps-tastic NCIS!

We have been to the promised land. We have found the lost ark. We have reached the legendary land of Shangri-la. We refer, of course, to the no-longer-mythical realm of Gibbs’ living room, unveiled, as promised, in "Outlaws and In-Laws," episode 6 of ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Paul Telfer,  Robert Patrick,  Rocky Carroll,  Mark Harmon,  Pauley Perrette

Michael Weatherly Cracks Wise

NCIS fans who’ve been waiting for to get a chance to really show his stuff have been well-rewarded lately. First came a season 7 premiere that seemed almost expressly designed to show off his acting chops. Now, with a song on the NCIS soundtrack ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Weatherly,  TV Guide,  Mark Harmon,  Robert Gates,  Rob Reiner

An NCIS Halloween Treat

For any old-school NCIS fans who’ve been concerned that the show’s gotten caught up in terrorist/espionage plots or too much zigging and zagging with Ziva, the Halloween episode was all trick-less treat. “Code of Conduct” was a reset to NCIS at its ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: David McCallum,  Michael Weatherly,  Mark Harmon,  Pauley Perrette

Exclusive: Michael Weatherly Sings!

The second NCIS soundtrack (available Nov. 3) is mostly made up of exclusive cuts featured in the current seventh season, including Bob Dylan’s “California,” an outtake from the mid-’60s Bringing It All Back Home sessions that was widely bootlegged ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, TV Guide Magazine,  19 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Michael Weatherly,  Bob Dylan,  Sheryl Crow,  John Mellencamp,  Norah Jones

Music Review: Colour Me Free

Joss Stone has been publicly battling her label for some time, and she may not be done, with a first single that ends with her wailing ''Free me, EMI!'' Any tiffs mostly get translated into romantic tension, though, and the first half of her fourth ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, Entertainment Weekly,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Joss Stone,  Al Green

Music Review: Natural Forces

Lyle Lovett's latest is something of a 
 hybrid: is half self-penned material, leaning toward upbeat levity (if not outright comedy), and half an album of dead-serious ballads from his favorite Texas songwriters. The cover tunes written by the likes of ...

From CHRIS WILLMAN, Entertainment Weekly,  14 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Lyle Lovett,  Townes Van Zandt,  David Ball

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