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Richard Hawley, Radiohead, Sharon Jones, Giant Spider   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

RICHARD HAWLEY:  "Imagine a song recorded by Morrissey, written by The Everly Brothers and produced by Roy Orbison, and that should provide some idea of what to expect from 'Tonight the Streets Are Ours,'" writes Chantal de la Rionda, who makes it NPR's Song of the Day.  But why stop there when you can stream the entire Lady's Bridge album this week via Spinner?  Be warned, however, that the not-so-serious new video for "Serious" contains a brief glimpse of mannequin nudity.

RADIOHEAD: The band's website crashed under the weight of traffic pre-ordering the new release, In Rainbows, at any price they wanted.  At The Atlantic, blogger Megan McArdle (whose work I have enjoyed since she was Jane Galt) surveyes reax from economics bloggers to the band literally charging what the market will bear.

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO.:  Jason Molina corresponds with the Boston Globe, setting up a discusssion of the importance of the album or box set in the Internet era.

NICK DRAKE's sister Gabrielle talks about the late singer-songwriter, their family, the posthumous Family Tree album and more with the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS maestro A.C. Newman talks to the Vancouver Sun about some of the songs on the Challengers LP, and about the importance of making your own kind of music: "I think the minute we start chasing any kind of success, we would just be screwed."  He also talked to Georgia's Straight about pop as art and much more.

SHARON JONES sounds a little miffed that it took Amy Winehouse for folks to notice the Dap-Kings.  Ms. Jones smoked through "Keep On Lookin" at the release party for the new album -- 100 Days, 100 Nights -- which you can stream in full this week via Spinner.  (Thanks, Brooklyn Vegan.)

SIOUXSIE SIOUX got a World Cafe audio feature marking her solo debut you can stream on demand via NPR.

AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES:  Reason magazine's Brian Doherty asks, "Can punk rock and alternative comics make peace with entrepreneurial capitalism?"

AKRON/FAMILY:  The genre-spanning band did an audio and video session for the Basement Tapes series recorded in Spring Grove, IL.

THE MAGIC NUMBERS singer Romeo Stodart tells Harp magazine, "We're not just a happy-go-lucky band into West Coast '60s pop" -- apoint underscored by his choice of favorite love songs.

PETE DOHERTY is engaged to Canadian-born model Irina Lazareanu?  I would have a lot more trust in that story if it had not identified the troubled singer as the "former drummer for the Babyshambles."

BRITNEY SPEARS was "optimistic" she would get her kids back Wednesday when she planned to tell the court she missed her mandatory drug test because of a scheduling snafu.  The pop tart was also issued an interim CA driver's license Tuesday -- a requirement of the court.  But Fed-Ex will retain custody of the children and Britney will get monitored visitation.  Her biggest defender, her assistant Alli Sims, packed her bags and abruptly moved out of Brit's Malibu home this morning - and possibly out of her life.  Her aunt last night admitted her family fear they will "turn on the TV and find out she is dead."  OK! magazine claims Spears may re-enter rehab in an attempt to earn back custody of her children.  But at least her single hit No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

EX-EAGLE DON FELDER's sex-and-drugs-drenched memoir was killed by publisher Hyperion after his ex-bandmates cried foul last month, but Orion Publishing Group plans to bring it out next month in the UK, which means the good parts would turn up on the Internet shortly thereafter.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD, but her fmr lawyer and companion, Howard K. Stern, filed a 60-million-dollar libel lawsuit Tuesday against Rita Cosby and her publisher over a book she wrote that claims Stern and Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, had a sexual encounter.

NICOLAS CAGE woke up Tuesday and found a guy wandering inside his digs and wearing his coat.

BEYONCE KNOWLES is dropping a concert in Kuala Lumpur rather than tone down her act.  She will instead perform in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on November 1. Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country.

DENISE RICHARDS & CHARLIE SHEEN:  Roger Friedman has more from their increasingly nasty child custody dispute, including allegations that Sheen refuses to let the girls have common vaccinations because he thinks they will be harmed.  And Sheen calls Richards a "sad, jobless pig" in e-mail.

MARILYN MANSON got to meet gf Evan Rachel Wood's parents, and the talk around the dinner table was as strange as you might expect.

BRADGELINA:  Pitt talks to Parade magazine  about faith, family and fighting for the the founding principles of America.

TV's BIGGEST EARNERS made a collective 723 million dollars from June 2006 to June 2007, according to the Forbes TV 20.

ECO-TRENDY HOLLYWOOD remains one of the biggest polluters in southern California, with many of its eco-friendly gestures simply showy stunts that make little difference.  To his credit, longtime green actor Ed Begley Jr joins in the indictment: "If you're going to drive around in a big ol' Hummer and then buy carbon offsets to mitigate that, that's like getting drunk on the weekends and throwing some money through the window of an AA meeting and thinking you're doing something."

THE DARJEELING LIMITED:  Wes Anderson's latest movie opens outside NYC and LA tomorrow, so I'm gearing up with some behind-the-scenes videos, including walking tours of the train's exterior and interior.  Jason Schwartzman, who co-wrote the screenplay as well as co-starring with Owen Wilson and Adrien Brody, was interviewed by NPR.  The NYT has posted video of a scene with mixable commentary from Anderson.  At Slate, Jonah Winer -- who makes it clear he's no fan on a number of levels -- argues that The Darjeeling Limited evidences the unbearable whiteness of Wes Anderson.  It strikes me that Winer overstates his case, particularly in misreading The Royal Tenenbaums.

PAKISTAN:  As a widening political crisis distracts Pres. Musharraf, Pakistan's army appears to be folding in the face of a mushrooming Taliban insurgency sweeping down from the Afghan border, diplomats and Western military officials say.

IRAN:  A groundswell of opposition to Iran is pushing US states to divest their pension funds from companies that do business in Iran, and behind-the-scenes political efforts by the Bush Admin. are paying off with increased European support of government sanctions.  In London's Telegraph, Simon Heffer writes that two (unnamed) American security experts contend that a US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is not a question of if but when, regardless of whether it is done by Pres. Bush or his successor -- Democrat or Republican.

IRAQ:  Pres. Talabani spent about an hour in the Oval Office with Pres. Bush, discussing the importance for Iraq to move forward on national reconciliation.  The US military sees the Mahdi Army's current cease-fire as a possible opening; Army Lt. Gen. Odierno, the day-to-day military commander in Iraq, says that Coalition officials have met with Shiite sheikhs and tribal leaders in Sadr City.  He also outlined how ops may change throughout Iraq when the "surge" troops are drawn down next year.  Bartle Bull argues that reconciliation, which will never be complete, is happening -- even with Moqtada al-Sadr.

IRAQ II:  The US military discovered a list of some 500 al Qaeda terrorists recruited to fight in Iraq when a senior AQI member, called Muthanna, was killed in a September 11 raid.  A number of insurgent groups have formed a new coalition under Saddam's ex-No. 2, according to the Al-Arabiya news channel.  During the last two weeks of September, 205 terrorists were killed and arrested, while 77 displaced families returned to their homes in Baghdad, said an Iraqi military official.  Embedded blogger Bill Ardolino reports on the former Republican Guard Commando and insurgent who has become Fallujah's police chief.

A GIANT BOURGEOIS SPIDER took up residence on the banks of the River Thames on Wednesday.

CHICO the CAT has written an authorized biography of Pope Benedict XVI.

DAISY the DOG tried to dig up a bone... a two million years old fossilized bone from a wooly mammoth.  Pic at the link.

A LUNGING ROTTWEILER dodges a hailstorm of police bullets in New Zealand.

THE CIRCLE OF LIFE:  A prize-winning fisherman has asked for his remains to be used as bait when he dies.

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