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Lou Barlow, Grant Lee Phillips, JBM, Cats and Dogs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 23, 2009 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

VAMPIRE WEEKEND plays with a dolly in the video for "Cousins."

LOU BARLOW stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set streaming now via MPR.

BOB SCHNEIDER and GRANT LEE PHILLIPS played the World Cafe on Friday; you can stream the gig now via NPR.

JBM (a/k/a Jesse Marchant) does the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

IMELDA MAY, bringing modern Rockabilly from Ireland, gets a feature plus tracks from NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.

NO AGE rocks out with Bob Mould, Bradford Cox and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch at ATP 2009. (language)

THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS went to these folks, in a general indictment of the mainstream music biz.

STEVE LILYWHITE talks to the Daily Swarm about working with U2, The Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Johnny Thunders, Ultravox, Guster, She & Him, XTC, Jason Mraz, The Pogues, Counting Crows, Siouxie and the Banshees, The La's, David Byrne, Morrissey, Chris Cornell, Phish, Matchbox 20 and many more.

DEVENDRA BANHART is profiled by the Boston Globe.

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: The Nuns Are on the Sea Wall points you to audio and video recordings which have "not been officially released." (Thx, LHB.)

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: To no one's surprise, The Twilight Saga: New Moon dominated the cineplex with 140 million in sales.  It had an all-time record opening day of 72.7 million, but falls behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3 for record-setting opening weekends. It's the biggest November debut also, easily beating out Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire's 102 million.  The first Twilight opened with 69.6 million.  Sandra Bullock's true-life sports drama The Blind Side was impressive counter-programming, earning 34.5 million against a 55 million budget. 2012 dropped 59 percent to the third slot, making 26.5 million -- it clears the 100 million barrier in the US and has made another 160 million or so worldwide.  Planet 51 debuted in fourth place with 12.6 million against a 50 million budget (ouch).  The 3-D CGI mocap Christmas Carol rounds out the Top Five, with 12.2 million -- its 45 percent drop looks ugly, but it's the sort of flick that may well perk up again over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Below the fold, Precious continued a successful platform release, taking in 11 million in the No. 6 slot -- it has already made 21 million against a 10 million budget, with plenty more to come.  Overall, this was the second biggest weekend in US movie history, falling only top The Dark Knight debut.

MILEY CYRUS' tour bus driver was killed after one of the buses in her 4-vehicle caravan flipped over on a highway in Virginia.

MICHAEL JACKSON: A decision on whether to prosecute Jacko's doctor will not be made until 2010.  The sparkly glove worn during the moonwalk seen 'round the world (at Motown's 25th anniversary special), was purchased by a Hong Kong businessman on Saturday for 350K.

MICHAEL BAY defends Megan Fox.

OPRAH WINFREY: Nikki Finke has more details on Winfrey's next show and desperation to leave Chicago.

50 CENT vs. MARV ALBERT: Who you got?

THE TEN BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS OF THE DECADE, according to Paste, with audio.

IRAN is conducting a five-day military exercise to prepare for any possible attack, state media said.  A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to intimidate the political opposition and quell pockets of ethnic unrest around the nation, human rights groups and Iran experts said.

AFGHANISTAN: American and Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of the country.

SHYLA, a chihuahua-fox terrier cross, nurses seven abandoned kittehsMass hysteria!

MARY THE TORTOISE found to actually be Terry the Tortoise.  Only took Cleveland Zookeepers 50 years to discover this, making them slower than...

HEY, ARE THOSE 15 LIZARDS strapped to your chest, or are you just happy... oh, wait.

HUNDREDS OF SHEEP die in Australia after a livestock carrier rolled.

A CAT is rescued after three days in a tree.

WHEN A POLAR BEAR ATTACKS, it's an awww...some photo op.

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