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The Kills, Adele, Phish, Deerhunter, CocoRosie, Dude the Heron   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 05, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE KILLS fight in the video for "Last Day of Magic."

ADELE stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

GO PHISH? All signs point to "yes." 

YES? No!

DEERHUNTER is streaming new tracks from their forthcoming record Microcastle at TheirSpace.

COCOROSIE is inviting a fatwa with the video for their new single, "God Has A Voice, She Speaks Through Me."

MY MORNING JACKET: The band's ascent is assessed at Louisville's Velocity Weekly.

BILLY BRAGG talks to Canada's Globe & Mail about his fave topics -- pop and politics.

BO DIDDLEY: PopMatters lists 10 reasons he is the forgotten heavyweight champion of rock. Ex-Blaster Dave Alvin remembers backing him up at a benefit show for the Southern California Blues Society. Diddley's command to members of the Blasters and X: "Whatever you do, do not play 'the Beat!'"

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS frontman Patterson Hood is inteviewed by Crawdaddy.

ALTON KELLEY, the creator (with his artistic partner, Stanley Mouse) of hundreds of classic psychedelic rock posters, such as the famed "skull and roses" poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom, died Sunday at his home in Petaluma after a long illness. He was 67.

JESSICA SIMPSON: Creepy dad-manager Joe has brought her relationship with Tony Romo to the brink and was the main source behind their split in May. He even offered to broker a deal to sell his engagement and wedding to a magazine should Romo and Jessica get engaged. On a brighter -- or scarier -- note, "Come On Over," which was released to country radio last week and debuted at no. 41 on Billboard's country singles charts, makes Simpson the highest charting debut solo artist in the history of Billboard's country singles chart.

CHARLIE SHEEN & BROOKE MUELLER had an intimate wedding -- just large enough for OK! magazine to photograph.

GILLIAN ANDERSON of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, is expecting her second child with boyfriend Mark Griffiths.  The truth is in her uterus.

SIENNA MILLER has dumped actor boyfriend Rhys Ifans because he was jealous about her seeing her ex-love - Matthew Rhys.

LILY ALLEN had to be carried out of London's exclusive Berkeley Square in the early hours of Wednesday morning after partying up a storm at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Pics at the link.

GEORGE CLOONEY reportedly broke things off with model-waitress Sara Larson last month because he worried she was exploiting her arm candy status to advance her career.

BILL MURRAY is being sued for divorce; Slate has his prenup.

ETHAN HAWKE and his fiancée, Ryan Shawhughes, are getting ready to walk down the aisle. Shawhughes, the former nanny of Hawke's children with Uma Thurman, is said to be "very pregnant."

ED McMAHON, who for decades appeared as Johnny Carson's sidekick on "The Tonight Show," is fighting to avoid foreclosure on his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills home, according to published reports.

JENNA FISCHER: If you're missing The Office, you'll want to hear her tell Fresh Air's Terry Gross about her early jobs in a sex ed movie and an international call girl ring.

WALL-E: The latest trailer for the upcoming Pixar flick features some live actors and a character guide.

CARTOON JIHAD: Al Qaeda said on Wednesday it was behind a suicide attack on Denmark's embassy in Pakistan which it mounted in revenge for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad.

PAKISTAN: Militants blew up two dozen video and music stalls on Wednesday in a Pakistani region on the Afghan border where supporters of Al Qaeda and the Taliban have tried to enforce strict Muslim rule, witnesses said.

IRAN: Developing nations joined the West on Wednesday in throwing their weight behind the UN nuclear watchdog's attempt to get Iran to clarify intelligence alleging that it secretly researched ways of making atom bombs. It was a rare sign of convergence on the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation board of governors after an inspector report on Iran that was tougher than previous ones and a call by the IAEA chief for "full disclosure" by Tehran.

IRAQ: Iraqi police announced the arrest of five senior leaders of the Mahdi Army in the city of Karbala as assassination attempts were made on three police commanders in Baghdad and southern Iraq. US soldiers killed four Mahdi Army fighters during two separate engagements in the New Baghdad district. In Al Kut, Coalition special forces teams captured a Mahdi Army Special Groups leader who is "suspected of being one of the top criminal leaders in Al Kut," Multinational Forces Iraq reported. US troops grabbed two AQI bombing suspects and a Shia militia leader Tuesday in separate raids north and south of Baghdad. Iraqi authorities announced Tuesday that they have released 81397 detainees this week under a new amnesty, while the US military said it had uncovered a massive weapons cache in a desert area in north-west Iraq.

POODLES will someday kill hairdresser Sandra Hartness. More pics at the link.

DUDE the HERON, orphaned by a storm, was taught to fly by wildlife expert Gary Zammit by running along beside him, flapping his arms wildly and squawking. Video at the link.

FUGITIVE BOA CONSTRICTOR on the loose in Stonetown, Canada.

MONSTER BEETLE UPDATE:  The giant beetle from Costa Rico, stopped at customs in Britain appears to made the journey to find a mate.  It has been known to happen.

A GIANT CATFISH is suspected of terrorizing German bathers in Berlin's Schlachtensee lake.

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