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Tuesday, June 12, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS have released a stop-motion clip for "With the Dark" from the forthcoming album, The Else.

NEW RELEASES:  Queens of the Stone Age, O'Death, Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, country legend Porter Wagoner, Sonic Youth's DayDream Nation re-issue and more are streaming in full via Spinner.  Previously unseen video of the Traveling Wilburys accompanies re-issues of their two albums.  Tuatara -- another project of REM guitarist Peter Buck and Minus 5 frontman Scott McCaughey (and many more) -- release On East Of The Sun, with guest vocals from Mark Olson and Gary Louris (Jayhawks), Sufi Poet Coleman Barks, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Jessy Greene (Geraldine Fibbers), Dean Wareham (Luna, Dean & Britta), John Wesley Harding, Gina Sala, and Victoria Williams.  Indeed, Mark Olson releases his first solo LP (produced by Ben Vaughn), also with a guest appearance from Gary Louris.  John Doe (of X) releses his seventh solo disc, with cameos from Dan Auerbach (Black Keys), Aimee Mann, Kathleen Edwards, and Jill Sobule.  And in a similar Americana sorta vein, Blitzen Trapper, who just got off tour with the Hold Steady, release  Wild Mountain Nation, the band's third album. 

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS:  Matador is offering two bonus options for pre-orders of the NP's Challengers LP under the label's "Buy Early, Get Now" program.

THE CONCRETES have been posting new songs at TheirSpace, including "Oh Boy and "A Whale's Heart."

MOUNTAIN GOATS mastermind John Darnielle talks to CokeMachineGlow about the upcoming album and his upcoming book for the 33 1/3 series on Black Sabbath's Master of Reality.

FEIST plays three songs off her new album, The Reminder, for the DL via AOL.  It's Twofer Tuesday and then some.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE:  Pitchfork has news on the Kevin Drew solo LP, due in September and apparently part of a new series.

THE ARCADE FIRE did some subliminal advertising for their album on The Price Is Right.  Video at the link.

RICHARD THOMPSON explains the title of his Sweet Warrior album to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS:  NineBullets.net is streaming live takes of new songs the band is testing on the road.

THE FRENCH HOTEL at the GREYBAR HOTEL:  The heirhead told Barbara Walters in a collect call from the LA County jail that God has given her a second chance to help people with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.  You can watch Baba Wawa explain it all on The View.  Sister Nicky and sometime bf Stavros Niarchos got preferential treatment while visiting the jail.  Tommy Chong and writer Christopher Hitchens take her side; Jamie Lee Curtis does not.  The Rev. Al Sharpton met with Sheriff Lee Baca today to discuss how the case has exposed "unfairness" in the jail system.  BTW, it costs more than ten times the normal amount to jail the celebutante.  Former Hollywood publicist Jonathan Jaxson thinks he knows why she was shaking, twitching, sweating, crying, and limp upon being sent to jail, though TMZ reports that she is taking Adderall for ADD and that she was not receiving all of her medications at Lynwood.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG is probably Rosie O'Donnell's replacement on The View, with an insider telling Star magazine Goldberg has all the right qualifications: "She also is liberal and outspoken but not crazy like Rosie was."  BTW, The View's ratings increased when O'Donnell left the show.

MADONNA reportedly halted a full-blown sex romp in a no-tell motel with John F. Kennedy Jr. because he didn't have protection.  That Madge was still legally married to Sean Penn, and JFK, Jr. had a steady girlfriend were not deal-breakers.  Soft Cell frontman Marc Almond says Madge lived in his flat with junkies and hookers when she was starting out.

EDDIE MURPHY was set to appear in court to provide a DNA test to finally clear up the mystery of whether ex-Spice Girl Mel B's baby is his Golden Child.

JENNIFER ANISTON:  British model Paul Sculfor was spotted leaving Aniston's Malibu pad on Sunday, after the two spent the previous night on the town with Posh Beckham.  The uber-reliable News of the World quotes "friends" as claiming that Sculfor was a raging cocaine fiend who snorted the drug with Kate Moss before they met Nelson Mandela, not to mention is a serial womanizer.

BRITNEY SPEARS, after weeks of secret meetings and tearful late-night discussions, is set to reunite with Fed-Ex?  Somehow, I doubt it.  VIDEO BONUS:  I'm sure it's pure coincidence that former Spears bf Justin Timberlake was throwing bits of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" into his live show and changing the lyrics of both to refer to a "she."

LINDSAY LOHAN is "doing great" in rehab, according to stage mom Dina, who finally decided to visit her daughter ten days into her treatment.

RICHARD DREYFUSS does not like President Bush, but he really hates Thomas Jefferson, who Dreyfuss calls "the worst person in American history. All he did was defend slavery."

MISS CONDUCT:  If rehabbed ex-Miss USA Tera Conner wants to clean up her image, she may want to avoid photo oops with pr0n queen Tera Patrick.

KATHERINE HEIGL has laid down the law to her pop-star fiancé, Josh Kelley -- keep girls off the tour bus: "If the boys in the band want to meet girls, they can go to a local bar."

JESSICA ALBA says she can't understand why actresses choose to have plastic surgery.

THE DARK KNIGHT:  Watch Christian Bale and director Chris Nolan do a presser with Chicago's Mayor Daley about making the Windy City into Gotham City over the summer.  Batman-on-film has an extra's set report.  And while Nolan says he plans to use five times the locations this time around, the movie trucks were again parked a block west of my day job yesterday.

THIS is CNN... where a reporter apparently paid off gunmen to put on a show for a story about Nigerian resistance fighters.  The reporter's former lover further claims that the reporter said it "was done in agreement with CNN and in accordance with their usual standards."

AUSTRALIA'S NEW TOP MUSLIM CLERIC got off to a controversial start yesterday, refusing to accept Osama bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.  His stance flies in the face of bin Laden's own confession, aired in a December 2001 video.  He also said his predecessor's comments comparing scantily-clad women to "uncovered meat" who invited rape was meant only for a Muslim audience... to which the response should be, "that doesn't make it right."

al-HURRA:  The editorial director of the US taxpayer-funded, Arabic-language TV station resigned after being "professionally and personally attacked" in the media "for reasons I still don't understand."  According to news reports, the station gave airtime to Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hasan Nasrallah, Hamas leader Ismail Haniya and an al Qaeda operative, and none of the senior news managers at the station spoke Arabic at the time.  Not understanding these criticisms would probably be grounds for firing in and of itself.

THE GAZA STRIP:  Militants battling on the rooftops of Gaza fired on the Palestinian government headquarters on Monday, forcing the ministers to flee the building.  Fighting between Fatah and Hamas forces resumed over the weekend; on Sunday, two militants from the rival sides were dragged onto high-rise rooftops and thrown to their deaths.

IRAN:  A prominent Iranian-American scholar being held on spy charges here is being treated well and may be released in coming weeks, a senior Iranian official told FOX News.  Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is holding a conference aiming to promote religious tolerance and affirming the reality of the Jewish Holocaust -- an "anti-conference of Tehran", where a December 2006 meet cast doubt on the genocide of Jews during World War II.

IRAQ:  The top US military commander for the Middle East has warned Prime Minister al-Maliki that the Iraqi government needs to make tangible political progress by next month to counter the growing tide of opposition to the war in Congress.  Moqtada al-Sadr visited top Shiite cleric ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf and both discussed the latest security and political developments in Iraq.  US military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.  The co-chairs of the Iraq Study Group said they were unsure whether the goal of pulling combat troops out of Iraq by March 2008 remains valid.  Dr. David Kilcullen, an authority on counterinsurgency appointed to advise Gen. Petraeus, is talking about recruiting more Iraqi soldiers and increasing their divisions from 11 to 20.  There's also a cautionary note: "Everybody knows that July and August are going to be bad months," said Dr. Kilcullen, reminding several company commanders and other officers that Petraeus' plus up report, expected in September, will be a target for insurgents.

DAISY the COW presumably stares unamazed as Crackling and Porkchop tap that udder in the the South-West dairy town of Harvey, Australia.  "Their relationship is very strange, but not really part of the dairy farm scene, or at least it shouldn't be," co-owner Jennifer Maughan laughed.

A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN blasted one snake while escaping a gang of them, including the rattler that bit him, in Billings MT.

WORD to the WISE:  Never bring a cottonmouth water moccasin to a bar fight.

A FROG with fluorescent purple markings and 12 kinds of dung beetles were among two dozen new species discovered in the remote plateaus of eastern Suriname.  Looks trippy, but no word on whether you can lick them.

BLUE-EYED CICADA, lovely cicada.  Child of nature, but not friend of man.

ALMOST CARNIVAL SEASON:  A dozen riders on an Arkansas roller coaster spent half an hour hanging upside down - 150 feet above the ground - after a power outage shut down the attraction.  But were they charged extra?

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