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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

JARVIS COCKER closed his Shockwaves NME Awards Show gig with covers of Talking Heads' "Heaven" and Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."

NEW RELEASES:  It seems that folks took the Presidents Day holiday to slack on posting good links for new releases.  There may be better links tomorrow, but for now the ones that leap out at me are: The Black Lips' Los Valentes Del Mundo Nuevo, which is Nuggets-y goodness recorded live in Tijuana; Elvis Perkins finally releasing Ash Wednesday; and Explosions in the Sky's more epic indie rock on All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.  EitS is also scheduled to visit Conan O'Brien tonight.  Plus, Southern Culture on the Skids is streaming their new Countrypolitan Favorites from their website, including covers of "Muswell Hillbilly" (Kinks), "Have You Seen Her Face?" (Byrds) and "Happy Jack" (Who).

ARCADE FIRE visited New York's Judson Memorial Church for a full concert on Feb. 17, 2007, which you can stream from NPR now.

THE HOLD STEADY frontman Craig Finn tells Ireland.com how The Replacements inspired him to become a rocker.

OF MONTREAL frontman Kevin Barnes played a solo, acoustic gig at Dallas' Good Records on Sunday, including covers of The Beatles, Olivia Tremor Control, and Neil Young.  You can jukebox it via te ol' HM, also.

VANILLA FUDGE is your Twofer Tuesday, with interpretations of "You Keep Me Hangin' On" and -- even better, imho -- "Shotgun."

DEAN & BRITTA:  PopMatters gives Back Numbers -- the upcoming album from the husband-and-wife Luna survivors -- a thumbs-up, complete with streaming audio and embedded video.

FIFTEEN UNDERRATED ALBUMS, according to The Big Takeover.

COCAINE COVERS:  My Old Kentucky Blog compiles and streams numerous versions of two songs named "Cocaine Blues," by everyone from Johnny Cash to Uncle Tupelo to Nick Drake.

CHARLIE LOUVIN:  The Village Voice reviews the country legend's cameo-studded, self-titled album.  You can stream Louvin with George Jones and Jeff Tweedy at There's Always Someone Cooler Than You --a French blog on American music, and Louvin with Will Oldham via the ol' HM.

 PETE DOHERTY UPDATE:  The troubled singer was caught on a mobile phone camera snorting a deadly mix of cocaine and the horse tranquilliser ketamin.

MARDI GRAS BIN:  I almost forgot!  Here's a quick string of musical beads: Professor Longhair - Mardi Gras In New Orleans; Dr. John - Gris Gris Gumbo Yaya; Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon; Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans; Boozoo Chavis - Zydeco Hee Haw; and Foo Fighters - Born On The Bayou.

BRITNEY SPEARS dons a wig to replace the one she just flipped.  Her shaved locks may be worth a million to the salon owners and various charities, and may cost the pop tart a fortune professionally.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Heather Mills is planning to make a Simpsons-esque cartoon series about estranged husband Paul McCartney and his family.

RAY LIOTTA:  The Goodfella was busted for DUI -- and preliminary reports show the substance which Liotta was allegedly under was not alcohol.

BRADGELINA:  Pitt hopes a new child will help heal Jolie's pain after the loss of her mother.

KATE HUDSON-CHRIS ROBINSON BREAK-UPDATE:  Hudson and Owen Wilson made a rare public appearance Down Under Sunday to attend a private screening of Matthew McConaughey's We Are Marshall.

MUSIC and LYRICS:  Hugh Grant split from his girlfriend Jemima Khan after almost three years together.  Drew Barrymore is rebuffing Strokes drummer Fabrizio Moretti's attempts to reconcile.  The video for "PoP! Goes My Heart" -- which apparently features in the new Grant-Barrymore rom-com -- is a well-fermented piece of 80s-esque cheese, with Wham! being the most obvious point of parody.

THE OSCARS:  Cinema Blend has this year's class picture from the Academy Award Nominees Luncheon.

MADONNA told Sirius Satellite Radio that she wants "to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon."  But in a 25 million dollar 18th century English mansion,

RALPH FINNES:  Qantas flight attendant Lisa Robertson claims that she did indeed induct the actor into the Mile-High Club.

MISCHA BARTON:  The former O.C. hottie was spotted over the weekend leaving L.A. hotspot Hyde, as she was apparently engaged in a questionable act with a man in her vehicle.  Ambiguous but suggestive pic at the link.  Maybe she just lost something under the dashboard.

SIENNA MILLER is not above stealing someone's dog to keep her company.

IRAN may be able to enrich uranium on a mass scale in just six months, but it could still be 10 years away from the capacity to build a nuclear bomb, the chief UN monitor said.  He said that, according to US and British intelligence estimates, Iran was still five to 10 years away from building a nuclear bomb, and warned against "hype" over Tehran's nuclear progress.  Fair enough, though I think we've seen that US and UK intell doesn't always get it right, either.

IRAQ:  60 Minutes had a nice piece on success in the Kurdish north of Iraq.  The full story is more complicated -- there was internecine and intra-Kurdish conflict and warfare as recently as 1994-96, ultimately settled in large part by an agreement for the equitable distribution of oil revenue.  That's one reason why it's good news that a draft version of the long-awaited law for developing Iraqi oil fields and distributing oil revenues has been submitted to Iraq's cabinet.  And potentially even better news that Iraq has substantially increased its estimates of the amount of oil and natural gas in deposits on Sunni lands after quietly paying foreign oil companies tens of millions of dollars over the past two years to re-examine old seismic data across the country and retrain Iraqi petroleum engineers.

BAGHDAD:  In Iraq's capital, the fifth day of the new security plan led to 103 terrorists being either killed or arrested.   Al-Sabah reported that 500 families have returned to Baghdad so far as scenes of refugees disappear.  Youths celebrated in the street in defiance of the now invisible Mahdi Army, despite unconfirmed rumors of US-Iraqi death squads. 

A TURTLE survives caesarean section surgery at the at Chengdu City Zoo in China.

GANGS of MACAQUE MONKEYS have been causing havoc in housing estates in Singapore.  Insert George Allen joke here.

THE AFLAC DUCK is going on the endangered species list.  Gilbert Gottfried is despondent.  Ben Affleck is overjoyed.

A BABY ARABIAN ORYX -- a rare species of antelope that is said to have inspired the myth of the unicorn -- debuted at the Kanazawa Zoo in Yokohama.  Awww...some pic at the link.

SUICIDE SQUIRELS were responsible for 28 percent of the power outages in Lincoln, NE, last year.

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