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Tegan & Sara, John Vanderslice, Spoon, Ryan Adams, Devo, Fugitive Cow   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TEGAN & SARA play for balaclava-bedecked crowd in the video for "Back In Your Head," from The Con LP.

JOHN VANDERSLICE drops his live video for "White Dove" at GvsB as the second stop on his tour of blog love.  He talks about music blogs, business and the world scene at PopMatters, which also links to a full album stream.  And he shuffles his iPod for The A.V. Club.

JENS LEKMAN will finally have his next LP out in October, according to Pitchfork (which rightly raves about his 2006 Pitchfest set in general and "A Postcard to Nina" in particular).

BISHOP ALLEN is streaming The Broken String album in full via Virb; two tracks are offered as free downlaods.

I SAW THEM WHEN:  At The Current's blog, Jaquie Fuller asks, "when you discover a band, isn't there a part of you that feels like a kid who found a chest of pirate loot buried in your backyard?"

SPOON:  The City Paper's Michaelangelo Matmos goes ga-ga for frontman Britt Daniel's solo cover of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me."  Which seems like a good excuse to point y'all at Spoon's take on "The Underdog" from The Late Show.

GRIZZLY BEAR answer nine questions posed at Ptichfest by Muzzle of Bees. (Thanks, Chromewaves.)

RYAN ADAMS:  Heather Browne is streaming an alternate version of the Easy Tiger LP, as well as the gig she caught in Santa Cruz on July 21st.

WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS:  The Boston Globe surveys various Sgt. Pepper's tribute albums, finding that the 1988 compilation, Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father, ramains one of the best.  One highlight of that LP is Sonic Youth's version of "Within You, Without You."

DEVO returns to help sell Dell Computers with a song called "Work It."  There's even a cowbell in it!

LINDSAY LOHAN proclaimed her innocence in a missive Billy Bush, though it lacks any reference to that alcohol test.  TMZ claims that mega-lawyer Blair Berk was desperately seeking Lohan after getting the signal from Lohan's SCRAM braclet.  Lohan's DUI and cocaine arrests endanger two pictures, including the opening of I Know Who Killed Me; comic Rob Schneider dressed in drag to fill in for her on The Tonight Show.  Mega-manager Bernie Brillstein told the NYT: "I hope they put her in jail for as long as they can. Maybe she'll realize how serious it is. I believe she's uninsurable. And when you're uninsurable in this town, you're done."  Li-Lo's inner circle is ripping her parents and say she is less capable of doing jail time than the French Hotel.

THE FRENCH HOTEL:  Speaking of which, it appears that the heirhead has been sampling very sloppy seconds from former O.C. hottie Mischa Barton.  Oh, she's a changed woman after prison, alright.

OPRAH WINFREY tops TV Guide magazine's list of the highest-paid television stars in the United States.

DAVID CRAIG has become the highest paid actor in the UK after signing a £13m contract to reprise his role as James Bond.

BEOWULF:  A hyper-violent and highly sexualized adaptation of the oldest story in the English language (by screenwriters Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary) was served up in digital 3-D projection at Comic-Con in San Diego  last night before screening again in standard digital projection for thousands of genre fans today.  Who wants to see Angelina Jolie emerging naked from a pool of dank cave water, rivulets of gold streaming gently down her body? In 3-D?  Is there a market for that?  ALSO:  Gaiman talks about Comic-Con hits and misses with THR.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  The NYDN has the lowlights from the OK! magazine story on the pop tart's disastrous interview and photo shoot, including letting her puppy poop on a $6,700 Zac Posen gown.  Her latest round of erratic behavior has estranged hubby Fed-Ex wanting sole custody of their two children, according to Life & Style.

DAVID HASSELHOFF admits there are some Baywatch episodes he doesn't even remember filming.  So only the audience suffered.

MADONNA will get you fired for mouthing off about her son.  Frankly, this was a surprise only to the now-unemployed idiot.

STEVEN SPIELBERG, contra a prior report in Business Week, is said to be quite happy with Paramount these days.  A source tells Nikki Finke: "Understandably, Brad Grey's head right now is so far up Steven Spielberg's a$$ that the Paramount chief may never see daylight again."

ALYSSA MILANO:  The former Charmed one is a baseball blogger and -- apparently -- a bit of a baseball Annie as well, having been been previously linked to pitchers Barry Zito, Carl Pavano and Brad Penny.

JESSICA ALBA dumped longtime boyfriend Cash Warren over the phone, and had her people packing his things hours later.  Warren thinks another guy is involved, but I have no comment on that.

9/11 TRUTHER Korey Rowe, who helped produce the conspiracy documentary Loose Change, was arrested Monday for allegedly deserting the Army.

MUSLIM PUBLIC OPINION:  The percentage of Muslims saying that suicide bombing is justified in the defense of Islam has declined dramatically over the past five years in five of eight Muslim countries where trends are available.  The decreasing acceptance of extremism among Muslims also is reflected in declining support for Osama bin Laden.  That still leaves too many potential jihadis for my taste, but it suggests that the unpopularity of the US in the region isn't swelling support for jihad.

IRAN and IRAQ:  People are wondering what to make of the US-Iran agreement to agreed to form a security committee,which will -- according to Amb. Ryan Crocker, "address at an expert or technical level some issues relating to security-be that support to violent militias, Al Qaeda, or border security."  IraqSlogger wonders whether Iran will turn against al-Qaeda.  The analysts at Stratfor wonder whether the US and Iran will create a "purge committee," with the US killing any Iraqi Sunnis who do not cooperate, while the Iranians do the same to rebellious Iraqi Shia.

IRAQ:  Another 18 tribal chiefs signed an agreement to fight terror at a meeting with Iraqi and US officials in Diyala province.  Iraq's largest bloc of Sunni politicians suspended membership in the government.  According to Az-Zaman daily, a major meeting between the heads of political coalitions, scheduled for next Friday, has collapsed due to "Iranian interventions" that were rejected by the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front, and a disagreement over the presence of Iyad 'Allawi in the talks.  Parliament has approved a law privatizing the country's oil-refining sector in order to lure investment and stem a fuel shortage.

IRAQ in the MEDIA:  ABCNews covers the controversy over The New Republic's "Baghdad Diarist."  The Weekly Standard's blog notes problems with some of TNR Editor Franklin Foer's comments in that piece.  John Barnes writes that he is "fairly indifferent to the clash," but offers a semiotic profile of the pseudonymous "Scott Thomas."  Mackubin Thomas Owens (a Vietnam vet and professor of national-security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport) notes that the "Baghdad Diarist" -- as well as a recent article in The Nation -- carry a whiff of the the so-called "Winter Soldier Investigation" during the Vietnam War -- an effort later debunked by James Reston Jr. and Neil Sheehan.  BTW, that article in The Nation is analyzed at The Sword of Achilles.  That The Nation piece is authored by the factually-challenged Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian (daughter of Sami Al-Arian) does not inspire confidence that the claims made were thoroughly investigated.  And Hollywood is jumping on the bandwagon.

A FUGITIVE COW kept the Miami-Dade police on the run most of Tuesday morning in Miami Lakes, FL.  Video at the link.

INVASION of the JELLYFISH:  A plague of stingers is causing havoc at beaches around Europe.  Global warming is blamed -- without any quotes from scientists, natch.

CATS and RATS have teamed up to sniff out the more than 100K landmines planted mostly by leftist rebels across Columbia.

NIMRA the CAT has adopted seven chicks to rear alongside her own litter of kittens.  Awww...some pics at the link.

OSCAR the CAT, otoh, seems to have an uncanny knack for predicting when nursing home patients are going to die, by curling up next to them during their final hours. (Thanks, Lance.)

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