OTIS REDDING at the MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL: An uncle gave me the Criterion Collection for Monterey Pop at Christmas, so I looked to see whether you too could chase away the Winter doldrums this week with music from the Summer of Love. Lo and behold, here's Otis with Booker T & the MGs and the Mar-Keys, playing "Shake," "Ive Been Loving You Too Long," "Respect" ("a song that a girl took away from me... a good friend of mine..."), "Satisfaction" and "Try a Little Tenderness." The clips vary in quality, but Otis never did. RON SEXSMITH, championed by folks like Elvis Costello, Steve Earle and Chris Martin, has a new LP, Time Being, coming out this week. You can see the video for "All In Good Time" at his website and stream "Some Dusty Things" (which I might prefer) from HisSpace (which is also streaming his cover of "I Don't Like Mondays"). THE JACKIN' POP CRITICS' POLL results and ballots for 2006 are posted at Idolator. DAVID BOWIE turns 60 today. London's Independent had a bref career overview on Sunday. I surveyed rare and odd Bowie videos last week. ELVIS PRESLEY, coincidentally, would have turned 71 today -- most of the links from this video roundup still work. RYAN SHAW, whose debut album doesn't arrive until March, brought his classic Soul sound to the World Cafe Friday, so you can stream his full set from NPR now. CAMERA OBSCURA has a trippy new video for "If Looks Could Kill," the Motown-influenced third single from Let's Get Out Of This Country. (Thanks, Chromewaves.) CANUCK ROCK: Emily Haines of Metric talks to the Boston Herald about her excitement over the Canadian music scene: "This is maybe the first generation of Canadian musicians that don
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