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Lightspeed Champion, American Music Club, Adele, Rats   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION starts with a kitty, but switches to aguitar for most of the genre-bending "Galaxy of the Lost."  Remember, you can stream the full album this week via Spinner.

AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB:  Merge Records is already advance streaming The Golden Age album, due in stores on February 19. (Thx, Chromewaves.)

THE RAVEONETTES:  Sune Rose Wagner talks to Pitchfork about "switching record labels, boycotting remakes of classic films, writing songs in bed, and, of course, lust lust lust."

THE THERMALS did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter, including one previously unreleased.

RICHARD HAWLEY gets an excellent profile/interview in the Times of London: "His songbook, which is fast-tracking him towards national treasure status, celebrates the ordinary and everyday over the aspirational and ersatz, finding romance in little lives and big dreams... Exactly who buys his music was, initially, a puzzle to Mute. That Lady's Bridge reached the Top Ten shows there is no shortage of fans, and Hawley is proud to have confounded conventional marketing demographics..."

THE BOY LEAST LIKELY TO has finished their sophomore album and are hititng the road for a few dates.  That's good enough to relink to the charming video that helped grab attention for their debut, "Be Gentle With Me," a song I hear in the ads for the adorable Juno.  We got us a puppet theme going today.

FEIST talks to the Associated Press about songwriting advice she got from her sound man, her Grammy nominations and -- of course -- her videos: "The videos are there to make the songs visible, to manifest something audible in a visible way... For me, what better way to do that for a song that's really child-like and joyful than to dance around in a blue-sparkled pantsuit?"

TYLER RAMSEY:  The folksy singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist recently invited to join Band of Horses  stopped by the World Cafe for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via NPR.  He was also blurbed recently by Harp magazine.

THE BEATLES:  Previously unseen photos from the day The Fab Four first hit No. 1 -- and memories of the day by photographer Michael Ward -- appear at the Times of London.  Embedded video also.

ADELE is topping the UK charts this week, but her meteoric rise is stirring all sorts of debate about the British hype machinery.  The Independent has not only an overview, but also a round-up of reviews and Andy Gill's lament that her success is "depressingly inevitable."  You can stream her album this week via MuchMusic.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  The restraining order against Sam Lufti alleges that Lufti drugged Spears, cut her home phone line and removed her cell phone chargers, took over her life and finances, and controlled the paparazzi who pursued her for months.  The order reminds us that Sam's real name is Osama.  The conservators of her estate have been trying to serve Lufti with the order, to no avail, yet.  Britney's married paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib was turned away when he tried to pay her a visit at the hospital.

JAMIE LYNN SPEARS, Britney's 16-year-old knocked up sister,  is leaving mama Lynne to live with dad Jamie in L.A., to be closer to work and to circumvent Lynne's disapproval of baby daddy Casey Aldridge.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is apparently winning back Jessica Biel, after getting caught cheating twice. (2nd item.)

HEATH LEDGER:  Autopsy results in the 28-year-old actor's January 22 death should be available within the next 24 hours or so.

LINDSAY LOHAN is opening up to Glamour magazine about her party-girl image, getting back to work and how she's ridding her life of bad influences.  Of course, "That's not to say I'll never go to a club again, because I'd be lying."  Well, yeah, given that you have been caught plain falling off the wagon several times already.  Lohan talks about some of her old and new bad habits in the March issue of Harper's Bazzar.  Also, it seems Li-Lo has visited the trout pout shop again.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Next Monday, Heather Mills is set to cross-examine Sir Paul in a courtroom showdown to win a hefty slice of his £825 million fortune.  Literally.  Mills has apparently spent so much of the interim money she already received that she plans to represent herself in the five-day High Court battle next week - giving her the opportunity to grill 65-year-old Sir Paul.  There is an old saying about people who represent themselves having a fool as a client that is appropos here.

JENNIFER LOPEZ is officially pregnant with twins, according to her father.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie may be preganant with twins (or not), but was spotted boarding a British Airways flight to Amman, Jordan at LAX.

BRUCE WILLIS celebrated Ashton Kutcher's 29th birthday with his ex and Kutcher's current wife, Demi Moore.

ROSIE O'DONNELL claims that President Bush almost killed her, though it was really her own clumsiness.

VANITY FAIR issues its annual Hollywood issue nationwide February 12, but you can see, the cover and the gatefold now.  Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Jessica Biel, Anne Hathaway, Alice Braga, Ellen Page, Zoë Saldana, Elizabeth Banks, Ginnifer Goodwin, and America Ferrera are the "Fresh Faces" photographed by Annie Leibovitz.  The mag is also hosting a "behind the scenes" video of the photoshoot, and a gallery of her past Hollywood photos.  However, the mag has cancelled its traditional A-List Oscars bash in solidarity with the writers' strike.

ISLAMISM in the UK:  A radical preacher who heckled the British Home Secretary tried to recruit Muslims to fight British soldiers in Iraq and raise money for terrorists, a court has been told.  In a video played to the jury, one his co-defendants praised Osama bin Laden and said Islam was a "religion of terrorism."

AL QAEDA, increasingly tamped down in Iraq, is establishing cells in other countries as Osama bin Laden's organization uses Pakistan's tribal region to train for attacks in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa and the United States, the US intelligence chief said Tuesday.

PAKISTAN:  The US said "vulnerabilities exist" regarding the security of Pakistan's nuckes.  Al Qaeda still has a safe haven in northwestern Pakistan.  Only six of the 24 districts in the Northwest Frontier Province are considered to have a "normal" security situation to allow elections.  The government may launch a "search operation" to clear al Qaeda from Mardan.

IRAQ:  On Sunday, Shiite and Sunni religious figures from across Iraq met in Baghdad, along with other Muslim leaders from across the Arab and Islamic worlds, to help save their country -- and others -- from sectarian conflict.  Residents of the northern city of Mosul are hastily stocking up with supplies ahead of what Prime Minister al-Maliki has called a "decisive battle" against AQI, traders said yesterday.

STRANGE NEW CREATURE discovered in Tanzania may be a giant shrew or a tiny elephant.

...AND EVERYWHERE that Steve Eddy went, the "free range chicken" was sure to go.

YEAR of the RAT:  An animal rights group called Monday for China to treat rats with kindness and respect, as millions across the nation begin to celebrate the coming Year of the Rat.  "Rats sing, they dream, and they express empathy for others," Coco Yu of PETA's Asia-Pacific branch said in a statement.  Occasionally, they cook gourmet food, too.  I'm sensing a royalty opportunity for Al Stewart.

CROCODILES can eat 23 percent of their body weight at once, bones and all.  The secret is in their hearts.

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