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• Tom Scharpling, Ted Leo To Host Hurricane Sandy Benefit Show With Chris ...

  Tom Scharpling, host of WFMU's "The Best Show", and Ted Leo of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists are hosting "A Very Special Hurricane Benefit Show" on December 7th at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY.

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• Ted Leo, Tom Scharpling, Andrew WK, Chris Elliott, John Hodgman and more ...

  WFMU's Tom Scharpling, friend to comedians and indie rock royalty both, has gone through his rolodex to put together a pretty killer benefit that will go down at The Bell House on December 7 and features Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Chris Elliott, John ...

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• Ben Gibbard 'Teardrop Windows': Death Cab Front Man Turns Solo Bad Boy ...

  Check him out above in his latest video "Teardrop Windows", directed by the equally mischievous Tom Scharpling. And see the slideshow below for some behind-the-scenes photos of the making of the video by photographer Mindy Tucker.

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• Watch Nude Beach Levitate a Goat in 'Some Kinda Love' Video

  In the new video for Nude Beach's rip-roaring "Some Kinda Love," the Long Island-bred boys do their thing on a small stage while an off-camera bro narrates via on-screen text.

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• Stop The Presses! Marky Ramone to participate in first ever 'online autograph ...

  The great comedy duo of Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster have derived a lot of hilarity and enjoyment over the years out of the sad-sack existence of Ramones drummer Marky, who Wurster has indelibly played over the decades as a long-suffering, ...

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• Watch Aimee Mann & James Mercer on Kimmel

  ... already know that the Shins frontman is featured on Charmer track "Living a Lie", the tune they performed yesterday.

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• A Chat With Ted Leo About "The Weird Small Business" Of Indie Music

  Leo has appeared on Tom Scharpling's "The Best Show on WFMU" and Julie Klausner's "How Was Your Week?

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• Songs of the Week: Nude Beach, Girls, Drugs, and Claymation Violence

  WFMU The Best Show's Tom Scharpling directs, and provides a perfectly bare-bones pop-up video kind of vibe - until the narrator's spiraling personal life gets in the way.

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• A Collection Of The Worst Band Shirts You'll Ever Have The Misfortune Of Seeing

  After finding inspiration from an ad they saw during a commercial break for Good Will Hunting, which is where all good ideas come from (like my "it's not your fault" ringtone), the fine folks behind the Low Times podcast, Tom Scharpling, Maggie Serota ...

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• Welcome back, Aimee Mann

  A: That was the (idea) of director Tom Scharpling. He's hilarious. He's a comedy writer, and we're really good friends.

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• WFMU, Hit Hard by Sandy, Needs Your Help

  Tom Scharpling, who hosts one of the most popular shows on the station, "The Best Show on WFMU," was back on the air last night, taking calls via a $9 cell-phone because the station's phone lines are still down.

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• Watch: Benjamin Gibbard new video for 'Teardrop Windows'

  ... Former Lives out next week, November 12th, through City Slang, Death Cab for Cutie front man Benjamin Gibbard has unveiled his new video for single 'Teardrop Windows'.

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• Mann up: Singer-songwriter Aimee Mann has led a charmed life

  She regularly trades ribbing with comedian friends like Patton Oswalt and Paul F. Tompkins on Twitter, she had a hilarious cameo as herself on IFC's "Portlandia," and she's collaborated with writer/radio host Tom Scharpling and comedian Tim Heidecker ...

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• The 5 Best Videos Of The Week

  2. Nude Beach - "Some Kinda Love" (Dir. Tom Scharpling). Tom Scharpling is just a funny motherfucker. Anything else I could write would give away too much.

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• Nude Beach played Bell House and Maxwell's, add Mercury Lounge & Brooklyn ...

  Tickets go on sale on Friday (11/16). All tour dates are listed below, plus live video (including covers of Alex Chilton and Foo Fighters) and a recent Tom Scharpling-directed video are below. Nude Beach covering "Big Me" by Foo Fighters at Mohawk ...

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• Aimee Mann turns Barry Manilow's 'Mandy' into hurricane parody song, 'Sandy'

  According to the Los Angeles Times, the video is directed by comedian-radio show host-DJ Tom Scharpling, and stars Superchunk drummer-comedian Jon Wurster and "Mad Men" actor Jon Hamm.

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• Aimee Mann takes on ups and downs of love on 'Charmer'

  A. The director Tom Scharpling. He's a comedy writer and a really good friend of mine. We did those two videos - the one for "Charmer" [starring Laura Linney as a robot Mann] and "Labrador" - in three days, which nearly killed everybody.

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• Beloved indie radio station WFMU is back on the air, but running on fumes

  ... its audience clamoring by delivering a diverse and esoteric programming mix that you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else on the dial, from Terre T's indie-centric "Cherry Blossom Clinic" to Tom Scharpling's three-hour comedy call-in, "The Best ...

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• The Anti-Hit List for Nov. 3: Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Adele all get ...

  That's the concept behind Tom Scharpling's latest video. It isn't long before innocuous comments such as "This is Nude Beach.

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• Get Involved, Internet: Help WFMU recover from Hurricane Sandy with its ...

  And as with all WFMU pledge drives, there are many rewards for donating, including various Dee-Jay premiums and a Best Show Hurricane Recovery T-shirt, for fans of Tom Scharpling's indispensible Tuesday-night broadcast. So do the right thing: Open up ...

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