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Cheap Trick, New Meat Puppets, Live Sonic Youth, New Leopard   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, March 19, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

CHEAP TRICK:  Robin Zander and Rick Nielsen duet on "Voices" for Kids Are People Too, then answer questions from the kids, circa 1980.

SxSW REDUX:  At Chromewaves, Frank has link-laden posts from Day2, Day3, and Day 4 of the big fest.  Don't forget that NPR has archived a bunch of gigs, including sets from Robyn Hitchcock, The Stooges, Steve Earle, and The Ponys.  The Current also posted a bunch, concluding with three unplugged songs from Sweden's Mando Diao.

THE PIPETTES played a bunch at SxSW -- even 'net gossip Perez Hilton got his picture taken with them.  But they are mostly playing hard-to-get until their album comes out in the US later this year.

THE MEAT PUPPETS played a Sterogum-sponsored gig at SxSW, so the 'gum has pics and a video of "Plateau" for you watching pleasure.

SONIC YOUTH will be performing Daydream Nation in its entirety at the summer's Pitchfork Music Festival.  I will be there.  Ken King will be unable to attend but alerted me that rbally is back with Sonic Youth at the Roseland Theatre from July 2006, which you can jukebox via the ol' HM.

JIMI HENDRIX & DUSTY SPRINGFIELD:  There apparently only 49 seconds of their take on "Mockingbird" left in existence.

THEY WILL ROCK YOU: 10 New Artists for 2007, with free MP3s, courtesy of Spinner.

THE HOLD STEADY keyboardist Franz Nicolay:  "This is going to sound like the most retarded quotation ever, but rocking is harder than it looks..."  Inasmuch as my Dad has overlooked this band. I must re-link to their performance of "Stuck Between Stations" on Letterman and these live videos on the Tube.

BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES is a documentary indicting the music business for its core failing: it couldn't care less about good music, while it spends millions and millions peddling disposable crap that doesn't stand a chance of being passed from one generation to the next.

MAN MAN front man Honus Honus (a/k/a) Ryan Kattner tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review about the band's experimental brand of pop music:  "The only thing we actively think about is that we don't want to be 'another band.' We didn't want to be a rock band. I don't know if we are or not, but I don't think so."  The writer finds them difficult to describe, and rightly so... so you're best off watching their video for "Engrish Bwuud" and their live take on "Van Helsing's Boombox" for Dutch TV.

LINDSAY LOHAN reportedly was drinking champagne with Jude Law at NYC hotspot The Box both Friday and Saturday nights.  She also barred her felon-turned-preacher dad from a party she was deejaying.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  300 dropped 56 percent, but still took the weekend with about million bucks, a hefty $9,500 per screen average and a $127 million total so far on its $60 million budget.  Wild Hogs continues to surprise by placing with $18.8 million.  This weekend's new releases, Premonition, Dead Silence, and I Think I Love My Wife rounded out the Top Five, though there was a big gap between Premonition's $18 million and the other two grossing $7.7 and $5.7 million, respectively.  Bridge to Terabithia hung in at sixth dropping only 24 percent and grossing over $74 million so far.  Ghost Rider dropped 40 percent, but has at least grossed its $110 million budget.  Zodiac made $3 million and its $29 million total looks like a dud against a $65 million budget.  Norbit and Music and Lyrics complete the Top Ten.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie has apologized for exposing her new son to the media frenzy that greeted them in Vietnam - and has vowed to focus on her growing family and be a stay-at-home mom, according to a Vietnamese newspaper.

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD, but a Bahamanian judge has ordered DNA testing in the custody suit over Smith's 6-month old daughter, Dannielynn.

SIENNA MILLER has hired two bodyguards to protect her from a transvestite stalker, according to Britain's uber-reliable Daily Star.  I guess if you're going to have a stalker, he might as well be a transvestite.

ROSE McGOWAN was recently in an auto accident that pushed her eyeglasses into her face, slicing her under the eye.  She was terrified of scarring, but found an excellent plastic surgeon.  That explains why McGowan looked so terrible at the Golden Globes, but looks so much better copping a feel from her Grindhouse co-star, Rosario Dawson.

UMA THURMAN is reportedly planning to wed on-off boyfriend Andre Balazs after ex-husband Ethan Hawke gave his blessing for the union.

KID ROCK won't be charged with assault, after prosecutors couldn't confirm the claim from a woman who visited his Detroit house last week.

GOODBYE, NORMA JEAN:  A newly-released -- but unsourced an unauthenticated -- FBI report suggests that Bobby Kennedy, Peter Lawford, Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist, staff and publicist were aware of -- and perhaps even participants in -- a plan "to induce" Monroe's suicide.

GISELE BUNDCHEN does not look pregnant by Patriots QB Tom Brady.

ROSIE O'DONNELL defends 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.  And she's apparently a 9/11 conspiracy theorist.

ISLAMISM in the UK:  The Three Little Pigs got a reprieve from councillors, who reversed a Yorkshire school's politically-correct decision to call them the Three Little Puppies to avoid complaints from Muslims (who, in fact didn't complain and thought the decision was silly).

AFGHANISTAN:  Taliban terrorists cut off the noses and ears of three Afghan drivers supplying US military bases.

IRAQ:  Most Iraqis believe life is better for them now than it was under Saddam Hussein, according to a new British opinion poll.  Despite the ongoing violence, only 26% preferred life under Saddam, with 49% preferring life under the current political regime of Noori al-Maliki.  The Maliki gov't is trying to stave off a challenge from more secular blocs.  Gunmen seriously wounded the mayor of Sadr City Thursday.  A statement from Moqtada al-Sadr urging his followers oppose occupying troops was read out at prayers in Sadr City on Friday, leading to street demonstrations.  A curfew was imposed all over the city of Hilla to block similar protests.  A "security plan" for Diyala Province is also underway, Iraqi sources say.  At ITM, Omar opines that Al Qaeda's exploding chlorine trucks will cause the local Sunnis to redouble their war against the terrorists.

IRAQ in the MEDIA:  How does the New York Times report dropping US casualties in Iraq?  By immediately adding that "a higher proportion of the American deaths have occurred in Baghdad."

LEOPARDS may not change their spots, but the Borneo Clouded Leopard is a new type of cat.

SUPERMARKET EGGS hatch into cute ducklings.  They sell duck eggs in the UK... who knew?  Cute pics at the link.

MORE THAN 50 REPTILES, including a freshwater crocodile, two pythons and three bearded dragons, were stolen from an Australian animal education center established to continue the work of wildlife crusader Steve Irwin.

SCOTTISH SHEEP are shrinking; scientists suspect global warming is to blame.  No, really. (Thanks, Dad.)

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