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Cracker, Drug Rug, The National, Neil Young, Pooch Pool Party   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CRACKER frontman David Lowery has posted a new solo track on his blog, titled "Baby, All Those Girls Meant Nothing To Me."  The full band has video and free downloads available via the "Basement Tapes" ConcertLiveWire is capturing of bands passing through the Chicagoland area.

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED is currently streaming tracks from the New Pornographers, Bishop Allen, Josh Ritter, The Go! Team, Manu Chao and Kenyan dance music from Extra Golden.

BLUR are to set to record together as a four-piece for the first time since 2002, when guitarist Graham Coxon left the band.

VAN HALEN:  Blabbermouth has a report from a rehearsal for the 3/4ths reunion, complete with set list.  I may have to see this.

DRUG RUG was SPIN magazine's "Band of the Day" yesterday, so I thought I would mention their album is streaming this week via Spinner.  It opens with old radio sounds; my friends know how much I love that.

THE NATIONAL tell an "Apartment Story" in the latest video from The Boxer album.

MP3s and the iPod are killing music quality, according to folks in the biz.  I would add that just as they have shifted the biz back towards singles, the loss in fidelity also takes us back to the days when records were produced with AM radio play in mind.  But a lot of great records were made in that era.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB has a gig from the the "secret stage" of the Bumbershoot Music Lounge streaming via NPR.  I'm still a sucker for the slide-guitar blues of "Ain't No Easy Way."

NEIL YOUNG:  Stylus has a honkin' list of Young covers.  An Aquarium Drunkard has Built to Spill's cover of "Cortez the Killer," plus video of the original, not to mention MP3 rips from the super-slick vinyl transfer of Time Fades Away, long out-of-print and never released as a CD.  You can jukebox those via the ol' HM.  Young has also announced tour dates; ticket purchasers will receive an advance copy of his new album.

AMY WINEHOUSE's mother is restricting her to a £300 a week budget to prevent her spending more on drugs.

JOE ZAWINUL, who shook up jazz with Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, and Weather Report, has died at 75.  He had been hospitalized since last month and suffered from a rare form of skin cancer.

BRITNEY SPEARS showed up for her big comeback late, unprepared and with a drink in her hand, according to Page Six.  "The dance number was spectacular - without her," said their spy at rehearsal.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, otoh, skipped the MTV VMA after-parties and opted for dinner with his two favorite ladies - his mom and his girlfriend Jessica Biel.  If Britney Spears wasn't a train wreck from the get-go, you could almost understand how having herr ex-boyfriend show up to the same party with Jessica Biel would drive her to drink.

MADONNA and director hubby Guy Ritchie were spotted leaving Claridges Hotel in London on Monday.  Madge was seen carrying a "Purple Penetrator" strap-on sex toy in a clear plastic bag.

OWEN WILSON is reportedly saying no, no, no to rehab, instead opting to hire a a 750-dollar-a-day sober companion to stay by his side 24/7.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL:  The general consensus in Hollywood seems to think, if anything, the nude and risque photos floating around the Internet will give Vanessa Hudgens' career a boost... according to ABCNews, which, iirc, is owned by Disney, which also owns High School Musical.  That's iirc, because ABCNews doesn't remind anyone of it in the story.

LINDSAY LOHAN and her ex-con dad's reunion went really well, or they just milked it the best they could for a good photo op.

JESSICA SIMPSON is "talking about doing a country record and going back to her roots," according to creepy dad-manager Joe.  This seems inevitable.  Then, after a few more flops, appearances on The 300 Club and a gig in Branson.

CHARLIZE THERON is terrified her breasts are sagging at the ripe old age of 32.  Excuse me, I'll be the judge of that.  Or maybe Portsmouth University will be.

ROSIE O'DONNELL is trying to flog her upcoming book with passages about how Barbara Walters is old and ought to retire.  It is hard to have sympathy for Walters; if you lie down with a dog, you can wake up with fleas.

HARRY POTTER is now the top-grossing film franchise worldwide. Ever.  Who's your daddy now, Luke Skywalker?

INDIANA JONES IV now has an official title.

MANDY MOORE swears and works a stripper pole for gossip-blogger Perez Hilton.  Video at the link.

PHIL COLLINS:  The Genesis drummer speaks out on the phenomenon of Cadbury Dairy Milk's drumming monkey.

TERROR in GERMANY: The Islamic Jihad Union claimed responsibility for planning bombings that were foiled by the arrests of three suspects last week and confirmed that the US air base at Ramstein was among the targets. The attacks were aimed at pressing Germany to close its air base in Termez, Uzbekistan.  The plotters were secretly monitored under a new law that temporarily allows the National Security Agency to intercept e-mails overseas that pass through US switches.

IRAN:  Haleh Esfandiari, the Iranian-American academic held for four months in solitary confinement in the political wing of Iran's infamous Evin prison, speaks about the ordeal.  And fwiw, FNC claims that Germany will not support any further UN sanctions against Iran, due to concern about the effects they would have on the German economy.  But according to diplomats from other countries, Germany also gave the distinct impression that they would privately welcome, while publicly protesting, an US bombing campaign against Iran's nuclear facilities.  I dunno if any of that is true, but someone wanted it published...

ISLAMISM in the UK:  The widely-read children's section of the BBC's website basically blames the US for the 9/11 attacks.  In the Times of London, Martin Amis looks at the psychology of the Islamist death cult.

AMSTERDAM: A US citizen has confessed to using an axe to kill a Dutch student after failing to find a soldier to attack, his lawyer said Tuesday.  The suspect wanted to punish the Netherlands for its support of the war in Iraq.  And nothing says "peace" like an axe to the back of the head.

IRAQ:  The NYT finds Iraqis of different sects and ethnicities viewed the report from Gen. Petraeus and Amb. Crocker favorably because it - or at least the parts shown on television there - portrayed the situation accurately and because it signaled that there would be little change in the status quo.  In contrast to interviews with Iraqis three months ago, when when people refused to give a time frame for how long US troops should stay, now some say they want them for a minimum of three years and maybe even five years or more.  The AQI-affiliated "Islamic State of Iraq" announced it has created a "brigade" of women suicide bombers, a London-based Arab news agency reported Tuesday.  Blogger Bill Ardolino of InDC interviews "Leo," an interpreter for the US in Fallujah about past failure and current success there.

POOCH POOL PARTY:  Dogs take over the City Park pool at the 4th annual Pooch Plunge held in Fort Collins, CO.  It's like caddy day at the Bushwood Country Club, but with dogs.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  Fire investigators are pinning several recent spot fires near Seeley Lake, MT, on an unlikely group of arsonists.  Incident Commander Scott Meyer responded to the wildland fire with several engines in tow, and later ruled that the squirrels belonged to a paramilitary squirrel organization that has abounded for years in Seeley Lake, called the Pine Cone Liberation Organization (PCLO).

AN EGYPTIAN COBRA is guarding a 120000-dollar pair of ruby- sapphire- and diamond-encrusted designer shoes at Harrod's in London.  It's like Raiders of the Lost Ark meets the Wizard of Oz.

NAMING RIGHTS for ten newly-discovered species -- including the world's first walking shark -- are being auctioned by US-based Conservation International, who discovered them during a survey of Indonesian wildlife.

ALEX, perhaps the world's most famous talking bird, apparently died of natural causes at 31.  African grey -- beautiful plumage.

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