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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

GNARLS BARKLEY + THEREMIN = "Crazy" delicious!

THE WHITE STRIPES:  Icky Thump hits the stores next week, but you can stream it all now via MTV.

CRUISIN':  Why settle for Capt. Stubing's Magic Band when you can cruise to Cozumel and the Caymans with Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Shawn Colvin, John Hiatt, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller and Brandi Carlile?  I'd even take that Ben Folds trip if Ted Lange was pouring the drinks.

THE PIPETTES stopped by The Current, so you can stream a mini-set on demand via MPR.

SON VOLT frontman Jay Farrar talks about his influences (musical and otherwise) and living in the Midwest at Richmond.com

IRON & WINE:  Sam Beam's next album, The Sheperd's Dog, isn't due until September, and the single isn't due until July, but Dodge is streaming "Boy With a Coin" from My Old Kentucky Blog.

NICK DRAKE:  The tragic story of the late British singer-songwriter is told through family members and musicians in A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five).  There's a chunk missing in Part Two, but some of it is here.

BONO'S anti-poverty campaign investing $30 million to pressure the presidential candidates to focus on the issue -- and has enlisted former Senate majority Leaders Frist and Daschle to co-chair the effort.

CAT POWER:  Chan Marshall is now the first woman to have won the Shortlist Prize (for her album The Greatest),  which this year was judged by a panel including Franz Ferdinand, Sufjan Stevens, the Flaming Lips, and, Panic! at the Disco.  The prize site has a nifty juke box, too.  BONUS:  Pitchfork is streaming tracks from Cat Power and Bright Eyes from the soundtrack to Ethan Hawke's upcoming movie, The Hottest State.

GAME THEORY and THE LOUD FAMILY:  Some Velvet Blog is streaming tunes from both of Scott Miller's prog-pop bands, including covers of songs by America and The Hollies.

PHIL SPECTOR TRIAL:  Los Angeles County sheriff's criminalist Steve Renteria is on the stand, with defense lawyers eliciting testimony that Spector's DNA was not recovered from under Lana Clarkson's nails and that Clarkson's DNA, not Spector's, was found on the gun that was fired into her mouth -- which they will argue shows a lack of struggle.

THE DISNEY SONGBOOK:  Pete Doherty will join Shane Macgowan, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Baaba Maal, Ralph Steadman and Bryan Ferry to pay tribute to classic Disney songs at a concer organized by Saturday Night Live producer Hal Willner -- a follow-up of sorts to Stay Awake, an album celebrating Disney hits that Willner produced in 1987.  Reclusive legend Van Dyke Parks, famed for producing Brian Wilson and more recently Joanna Newson, will arrange the score.  Click through for Cocker's  Dumbo story.

THE FRENCH HOTEL in the GREYBAR HOTEL:  Wile the heirhead has been telling Barbara Walters about God giving her a second chance, Page Six claims that her doting daddy, Rick Hilton, has been shopping a "Get Out of Jail" bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs.  Rick and mom Kathy turned up at the jail, surrounded by armed guards and swamped by paparazzi.  PETA would like the former Carl's Jr. burger shill to become a spokesperson for chickens' rights.  But they might have to contact her directly, as she's been dropped by her agent.  BONUS:  Meanwhile, George Clooney is demanding an immediate retraction and an apology from KP International for disseminating stories quoting Clooney -- who has sympathetic to Yong Hollywood -- as saying the celebutante cannot complain about the harsh media spotlight:  "You can only get so far without any discernible talent. Then you either work or use cheap publicity tricks to keep the public's attention. Then you are in no position to complain if, like Paris, you are on the receiving end of bad publicity."

NAOMI WATTS and LIEV SCHREIBER are denying reports that they secretly married with a private ceremony in New York last week.  Their baby is due in August.

CATHERINE KEENER and DERMOT MULRONEY have filed for divorce; the papers indicate the two separated in May of 2005.  The couple have been married for 17 years and have one son,

ANNE HECHE must give primary custody of her son and child support to her estranged husband.  OTOH, Heche will now have more time to start dating women again.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE talked to the Daily Mail about a bunch of topics, including doing sex scenes on film and diagnosing his ex-gf, Britney Spears: "I think this goes for anyone: It all starts with the songs. The truth of it is, she had catchy songs. If she had catchy songs again, I don't think anybody would be chastising her as much as they are."

LINDSAY LOHAN reportedly has a new pal in rehab -- disgraced New York socialite Dori Cooperman, who entered Promises for help with prescription pills and booze two weeks ago after she checked out of the Meadows rehab clinic in Arizona because it wasn't "cool" enough.  Li-Lo's rehab threatened to derail a major deal with the fashion label Jill Stuart.  And it's a good time to sue Lohan for hitting your van with her car.

SIENNA MILLER has split from singer Jamie Burke and seems keen on Scottish singer Paulo Nutini, whose current relationship is going through a rough patch already.  BTW, Nutini sounds older and wiser than 20-years-old, so you may want to stream a few from HisSpace.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Sir Paul has invited Heather Mills to his 65th birthday bash next Monday, marking an astonishing turnaround in their bitter divorce battle.

RYAN REYNOLDS has a lovely essay at the Huffington Post about the joys of blowing up mailboxes and piles of dog crap with firecrackers.

INDIANA JONES IV:  Sean Connery will not un-retire to reprise his role as Henry Jones, but the blog post at London's Guardian notes that the film's working title is Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods.

THE SOPRANOS finale brought HBO to the edge of an historic feat: a show on a pay cable network available in about 30 million homes was more popular last week than all but one show on the far larger world of broadcast television, and definitely putting the whack on the Tony Awards and the NBA Finals.  In a fitting touch, creator David Chase gave his exclusive exit interview to the New Jersey Star-Ledger -- the newspaper Tony used to fetch from his driveway.  In a much less classy move, people upset with the series finale vandalized Chase's Wikipedia entry.  BONUS:  The singer of the final song demanded to know how the show ended.

THE COUNCIL on AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS, recently named as an "unindicted co-conspirator" in connection with a Texas terror-financing trial, has seen its membership decline more than 90 percent since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to tax documents.  And its current donor drive is lagging as well.

IRAN:  The UN's nuke agency thinks Iran could have 8000 centrifuges enriching uranium by December, a significant rise in nuclear capability likely to fuel fears that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons.  IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told an IAEA meeting in Vienna that the "brewing confrontation" with Iran over its atomic ambitions "must be defused."  ElBaradei could do his part by not letting Iran believe he was going to downplay the Iranian nuke program, which tends to embolden Iran and cause distrust in the West.  A senior US diplomat accused Iran of transferring weapons to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan -- the most direct comments yet on the issue by a ranking US official.  Fifty-seven Iranian economists attacked Pres. Ahmadinejad, accusing his gov't of ignoring the basics of economics.

IRAQ:  Bill Roggio looks at the current state of the Baghdad Security Plan, noting in part that while sectarian killings were reported to have increased during May, after falling significantly the first four months of the year, the number is still half of what it was in December 2006.  Moreover, murders are down significantly in May for the Karkh district (home to once-volatile Haifa Street) and the Adhamiyah neighborhood.  Despite heavy pressure from Congress, the White House and top military commanders, the deadlock in Iraqi politics has reached a point where many Iraqi and US officials now question whether any substantive laws will pass before the end of the year.  Militants bombed a bridge over a major highway for the third consecutive day, suggesting a new campaign against key transport routes may have begun.  An anonymous tribal leader accused the Anbar Salvation Council of conducting secret operations to assassinate Iraqi resistance leaders from outside Al-Qaeda and other well-known figures and former army officers, according to Quds Press.  May be true, may be propaganda intended to increase tribal frictions noted here yesterday.  Al-Hayat reported that the two main Kurdish parties are attempting to unite their semi-regular Peshmerga forces in preparation for a possible military confrontation with Turkey.  US and Iraqi forces raided a lollipop factory being used to make bombs, finding boxes full of explosives and two tons of fertilizer in the basement of the facility in northern Iraq.

THE GREAT GORILLA RUN through Golden Gate Park benefitted The Gorilla Organization, which was established nearly 30 years ago to save endangered gorillas in Africa.

PET HOARDING:  Today we have a classic catlady, fretting over what will happen to the estimated 70 cats she has rescued and cared for over the years, now that she is being foreclosed on.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Firefighters suspect a squirrel is the culprit behind a blaze that claimed a house in Blue Island, IL last weekend.  Judging from an arched power line abutting the two-story home, the fire was likely sparked by electricity -- which is the classic squirrel modus operandi.

GOAT-KILLING BEASTIE TERRIFIES TAIWAN:  A 23-man posse was mounted after a goat-farmer in the mountainous Linkou district of the island reported eight deaths amongst his 100-strong herd.  A woman who witnessed the attack said the beast "looked like a tiger".

JUMPING STURGEON, Injured Floridian.

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