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Wilco, Matador Sampler, Okkervil River, Glamour Goats   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 03, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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WILCO performs an exclusive, "Wilco: The Song" on the Colbert Report.

MATADOR has released a downloadable Fall sampler, including tracks from Belle & Sebastian, Lou Reed, A.C. Newman, Shearwater and more...

OKKERVIL RIVER: Frontman Will Scheff reveals the real characters that populate The Satnd-Ins album during a chat and mini-set at the World Cafe. 

NOAH & THE WHALE: Charlie Fink talks to the Independent about the unliklely UK success of the single from the band's debut, and more.  Three embedded videos at the link.

THE BREEDERS: Kim Deal talks about atheism -- political and otherwise -- with SF Station. (Thx, LHB.)

CARBON/SILICON invite Lauren Jones (daughter of Mick) onstage for a rendition of "Hitsville UK," introduced by Mick's reading of a 30-year-old review of the original single. No consumer trials. No AOR. But it shuffled up on my iPod over the weekend.

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

DeVotchKa talks to Aquarium Drunkard about their history, unique sound, and the ever-evolving world of music licensing and placement. Streamable MP3s at the link.

DEERHOOF drummer Greg Saunier talks to the Philly City Paper about the band's current tour and their brand-new record Offend Maggie.

THE DECEMBERISTS' bassist Nate Query spoke to the Austin American-Statesman about the band's politics, the singles series and next year's album, "Hazards of Love."

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: High School Musical 3 repeats atop the box office with 15 million -- a 64.2 percent drop that likely reflects the fact that Halloweeen fell on a Friday, depressing attendance across the board.  Zack and Miri came in second with 10.6 million, and it's hard to evaluate this result.  On top of the Halloween factor, this could be seen as a typical Kevin Smith opening -- or a bad Seth Rogen opening... and the subject itself likely limits the potential audience.  Moreover, the subject might also suggest that people might prefer to see it on home video than go to a theater to see it.  Saw V dropped 66 percent to third place, but has made almost 46 million on an 11 million production budget.  The expansion of The Changeling lifted the Eastwood/Jolie movie to fourth place, making 9.4 million; it also had a high per-screen average.  The Haunting of Molly Hartley rounded out the Top Five with six million.

ZACK & MIRI: Director Kevin Smith was a pioneer of the raunchy-and-sweet comedy combo that has made gazillions for Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen, so Rogen is a natural match for this picture.  Rogen apparently suggested the lovely Elizabeth Banks for Miri, and she gets a chance to stretch her comedy chops, which were already evident her all-too-brief turns as J. Jonah Jameson's secretary Betty Brant in the Spider-Man movies.  Their performances are key, as the plot -- outside of its controversial subject-matter -- is a slacker growing-up tale of the sort we have already seen in Knocked Up or even Smith's Clerks II.  Fortunately, they have the necessary chemisty, along with good support from Craig Robinson and memorable cameos from people including Justin Long and Barndon Routh.

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, Jonathan Demme's latest movie is a different kind of Demme movie -- more like a Robert Altman slice-of-life than the warped comedy of Something Wild and Married to the Mob or more serious efforts like Silence of the Lambs or The Manchurian Candidate remake. And quite a bit different from his rockumentaries, though Robyn Hitchcock does play a bit.  On its own terms, it works quite well, primarily of strong performances from Anne Hathaway as Rachel's sister Kim and Rosemarie DeWitt (a/k/a "Midge" from Mad Men) as Rachel.  Demme creates a world that is certainly interesting enough to visit, though I'm not sure I would want to live there.

TOM CRUISE and the Church of Scientology reportedly are the targets of an amended Florida lawsuit that seeks more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

JESSICA SIMSPON watched in shock as her BFF/hair stylist Ken Paves had his face busted open during a crazy paparazzi crush on their way out of Madeo late Saturday night.

MADONNA & A-ROD reportedly had a secret meetup at Jerry Seinfeld's place in the Hamptons.

SIENNA MILLER has moved back to London amid reports that her relationship with married US actor Balthazar Getty is on the rocks.

JIMMY KIMMEL & SARAH SILVERMAN played their "are they reunited" status for laughs on his show.

HEIDI KLUM impressed as Kali for Halloween.

NORTH KOREA: More pictures of 66-year-old Kim Jong II were issued by the Stalinist regime to put to rest claims that he is dying - but they have only given rise to added speculation about his health.

IRAN stepped up its rhetoric against the US by threatening to use suicide-bomber attacks against America

IRAQ: Officials in Mosul have warned that the US must launch a widespread offensive against Syria to have any hope of taking control of al-Qaeda's last bastion in Iraq. US deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, while Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the year. Iraq's prime minister is pushing the idea that the US drawdown is in sight to sell the security deal with Washington to Iran.

THE MOST GLAMOROUS GOAT in all Arabia -- and the most expensive. But now, for a mere £16,500, plus shipping, one of these beauties can now be yours. Most of the goats in the competition were bred from one star goat, Burgan, who was not on display at the show as the owners fear he could be afflicted by the "evil eye."

GIANT FRUIT BATS with a wingspan of more than five feet have made a spectacular return from the brink of extinction on Pemba island off Tanzania.

WHEN A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY ran to his mother shouting that there was a cheetah in the garden, she dismissed his claims as childhood excitement. She was mistaken. BONUS: Cheetahs on a Plane.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel caused a massive power outage in Richmond, VA Halloween, morning.

OTTO the OCTOPUS has caused havoc in his aquarium by performing juggling tricks using his fellow occupants, smashing rocks against the glass and turning off the power by shortcircuiting a lamp.

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