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Of Montreal, New Releases, Burt Bacharach, Hero Dog   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, October 21, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

OF MONTREAL: Kevin Barnes talks to Pitchfork about dance music influences and trying to defy songwriting expectations. You can hear some of that dance influence in the video for "Id Engager."

NEW RELEASES: AC/DC, the Raveonettes, the Dears, the Sea & Cake, Parts & Labor and more are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

THE LONG BLONDES break up because guitarist Dorian Cox is unsure about when he would be well enough to play, after suffering a stroke in June.

DEPT. of EAGLES does the five free songs thing for Daytrotter, two previously unreleased.

R.E.M.: Universal is releasing the double-CD 25th anniversary edition of Murmur on Nov. 25th.  Details at the link.

BURT BACHARACH surveys a variety of topics with the Guardian, from piano lessons to Aretha Franklin's cover of "I Say a Little Prayer," which he prefers to the original by Dionne Warwick, which is part of a medley with "Walk On By" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" from the Bacharach/David concert held at London's Albert Hall in 2000.

DEATH CAB guitarist-production wiz Chris Walla talks to the NYDN about opening for Neil Young, and not being like Neil Young.

U2 now owns a chunk of concert promoter Live Nation Inc. U2 is one of five artists that Live Nation has signed in the last year to expand its business beyond touring, and the only act that didn't hand over recording rights.

CHAD VanGAALEN's journey from busker to basement studio genius is surveyed in SEE magazine.

BEN KWELLER does a video interview with the Examiner on why Evan Dando of the Lemonheads made him drive him around in Ben's own Volvo; his thoughts on the state of the record industry; plus his new EP, How Ya Lookin' Southbound, Come in... and his forthcoming LP, Changing Horses.

MADONNA reportedly plans to raise her kids in NYC, which might explain why Alex Rodriguez is weeks away from buying a NYC penthouse apartment two blocks from Madge's.  Soon-to-be ex-hubby Guy Ritchie reportedly compared making love with her to "cuddling up to a piece of gristle."  The Daily Beast has newly unearthed, 20-year-old Madge music.

MR. BLACKWELL whose annual "worst dressed" list dinged movie stars, music icons and European royalty, has died at 86.  He is survived by a horde of snarky fashion bloggers on the Internet.

JENNIFER ANISTON & JOHN MAYER: Their surprise reunion prompts the inevitable unfounded pregnancy rumor. Or, to quote James Lileks: "I felt good about knowing who Jen and John were, and even better about not caring."

TOM BRADY & GISELE BUNDCHEN: Marriage rumor.

THE FRENCH HOTEL is reportedly relocating to London, which is sure to put a kink in the "special relationship" between the US and the UK.

DAVID DUCHOVNY & TEA LEONI: Duchovny's tennis coach is now denying an affair, after thelling the Daily Mail she would not. Key sentence: Duchovny's lawyer, Stanton "Larry" Stein, tells E! News exclusively  that he spoke with Pakay before and after the Daily Mail's alleged affair story came out, and Pakay told him, "it is all lies and deceit."  Left unanswered is why Duchovny's attorney was speaking to his tennis coach before and after the story was published.

CARRIE FISHER settles a score with ex-hubby and CAA superagent Bryan Lourd.

GREY'S ANATOMY might need a House visit, but not yet.

NORTH KOREA: There was no unusual activity in North Korea yesterday, despite the rumored "important announcement."

AFGHANISTAN: Michael Yon's new photo dispatch features Predator drones and bat caves near Jalalabad.

IRAN busts "spy pigeons" near the nuclear facility in Natanz.  Paranoid much?

IRAQ: Senior officials said that AQI was on the verge of collapse and will soon be eliminated. Iraqi police and border guards have arrested seven members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps since Oct 18. The leader of the Kurdish administration in northern Iraq is ready to cooperate with Turkey, and could even accept a proposal for a buffer zone as a measure against terror attacks from the PKK.

FAMILY DOG grabs the baby by its diaper to rescue it from a house fire. Let's go to the video.

TIGER SNAKE disrupts fashion show.

A WHITE RHINO is expecting a baby after becoming the first rhino to be artificially inseminated in Britain.

GORILLAS use body language in a similar way to humans. As does King Louie.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: A horse with its head stuck in a tree.

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