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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CHRIS BELL was profiled by the Memphis Commercial Appeal on the 30th anniversary of his death. In 2009, Rhino Records is releasing a Big Star box set and an expanded edition of Bell's lone solo work, I Am The Cosmos.

AULD LANG SYNE: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, there's always El Perro del Mar, Wooden Shjips, Vanderveer and Jimi Hendrix.

MARNIE STERN: In the Village Voice, Rob Trucks chronicles their songwriting experiment.

THE ACORN is offering two unusual downloads at its website.

THE AVETT BROTHERS, on the cusp of a breakout year, get a timeline of ascent, courtesy of the Charlotte Observer.

THE MUSIC THEY MADE: An audio slideshow of musicians who died this year, including a "Wimoweh" trifecta.  And don't I feel like a complete moron for missing Bo Diddley on my own year-end mix!

INDIE ROCK IN MEMORIAM, 2008: These are bands that died, died. With an Oscar-worthy soundtrack.

FLAMING LIPS: Wayne Coyne talks to SPIN about his band's confetti budget, working at Long John Silver's, and his new film, Christmas on Mars.

BOB MOULD: Magnet claims his next album (due in April) is "almost certainly Mould's best since Sugar's sophomore album, 1994's File Under: Easy Listening."

PAUL WELLER has reportedly been questioned by police in Prague after apparently being found drunk in the street.

NEIL DIAMOND has been named 2008's MusiCares Person of the Year, and will be honored at a ceremony featuring performances by the Foo Fighters, Coldplay, John Mayer, Jennifer Hudson and the honoree himself. Diamond joins past honorees including Brian Wilson, Bono, Paul Simon, Sting, and Aretha Franklin.

CATE BLANCHETT garners the latest Vanity Fair cover story.

KEVIN BACON & KYRA SEDGWICK are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by disgraced New York money manager Bernard Madoff.

WOODY HARRELSON and his longtime galpal Laura Louie were officially married on Sunday on the island of Maui.

BRITNEY SPEARS has been been swept off her feet by a Bollywood dance instructor, according to the ever-reliable Daily Mirror. Sources close to the pop wreck deny the report -- and it seems implausible that no one else would have noticed.

BRADGELINA: OK! Magazine claims that Jolie's last two pregnancies were so fraught with complications, she has been advised to wait a long time before getting pregnant again - or not to get pregnant at all.

JENNIFER LOPEZ & MARC ANTHONY are not on the verge of separating, according to J-Lo's rep.

POPEYE becomes semi-public property shortly.

JIBJAB: The 2008 Year In Review.

USA TODAY'S CELEB HEAT INDEX: Britney Spears is tops for the year; the full list can be viewed here (and why the first story didn't link it is just dumb).

CELEBS & SCIENTIFIC ILLITERACY 2008, courtesy of the Indepenedent.

ISLAMISM in the NETHERLANDS: The country's biggest left-wing political grouping, the Labor Party, has issued a position paper calling for the end of the failed model of Dutch "tolerance."

IRAQ: When the calendar flips to 2009 on Thursday, Iraq's government will gain control over the Green Zone and its own airspace and some jurisdiction over security contractors under the terms of the US-Iraqi Status of Forces Agreement.

PITBULL & KITTEN, living together... you know it's a disaster of Biblical proportions.

THE UNDOG & NONCAT: New Yorkers finding themselves stymied by their apartment buildings' restrictions on cats and dogs have turned to parrots, rabbits and chinchillas.

FOUR RARE RHINO CALVES have been found in remote jungle on Indonesia's Java island, giving hope to efforts to save them from extinction.

LONE WOLF ROMEO returns to Juneau, looking for his lost Juliet.

SIX KITTEHS were revived by firefighters in Buckinghamshire with breathing apparatus adaptors usually reserved for babies.  Pic at the link.

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