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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

R.E.M. has posted "Leaving New York" from the upcoming live CD/DVD coming out on October 16.  'S okay.  Didn't change my life, but maybe you will like it more.

NEW RELEASES:  The Go! Team, Animal Collective, Joe Henry, Shout Out Louds, Claire & the Reasons, Ani DiFranco and more are streaming in full via Spinner.  Black Francis, a/k/a Frank Black, has a Bluefinger.  And songwriter Vic Chestnutt returns with North Star Deserter.

JOY DIVISION, meanwhile, has its catalog reissued on vinyl today, with double-CD deluxe editions rolling out at the end of October.

VHS OR BETA stopped by The Current for a chat and miniset you can stream via MPR.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE:  NOW Toronto lists the reasons the band has all the buzz at the moment (Thx, Chromewaves.)

INDIE SELLS OUT:  If you watched any football Sunday or Monday, you may have noticed that Feist stars in the new iPod Nano ad.  The song/video is "1 2 3 4."  I recently linked the all-indie choir version featuring members of Broken Social Scene, New Pornographers, Grizzly Bear, The National, Mates of State and Nicole Atkins.  Feist also got a little "musical" in the video for "Mushaboom" from her first solo LP.

ROUGH TRADE:  The revered British store-turned-label, its revival, and its new relationship with Beggars Banquet are covered by the Times of London.

CASTANETS:  Ray Raposa has posted a demo of a song titled "Glory B" at CastanetSpace.

THE PHIL SPECTOR TRIAL:  The jury in the music producer's murder trial ended its first day of deliberations, while the judge imposed a gag order on Spector and his wife.

JIMMY REED:  You can stream tracks from the Big Boss Man and tribute tracks from Omar Kent Dykes and Jimmie Vaughan via NPR.

SOUND TEAM is disbanding after this weekend's ACL Fest gig, but bassist Bill Baird says the band's catalog will be available on their website, completely free, and in high quality digital format. Unreleased material will also be available, including live recordings, radio session, b-sides, and outtakes.

BRITNEY SPEARS was spotted "crying badly" after her dismal performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.  Poor woman can't even cry well.  The pop tart's defenders have no shortage of excuses.  And she went right back to wearing no panties.

TOMMY LEE talks to the Insider about his fight with Kid Rock at the VMAs; Rock was reportedly cited for misdemeanor battery.  MTV has the video.

KANYE WEST says he will never return to MTV, clearly suggesting that MTV doesn't care about Black people.

BRADGELINA:  Pitt picks his nose and ear for the paprazzi, while Jolie continues her disapppearing act.

JESSICA SIMPSON's creepy dad-manager Joe is still creepy.

 

IRON MAN:  The official teaser trailer can be seen in glorious Quicktime at Apple.  Not down with the QT?  Try here.  Still has the Black Sabbath, too.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY:  The Daily Mail has unearthed her first ever television appearance at age seven.

RENEE ZELLEWEGER admits she has a crush on Sir Paul McCartney: "I do have a big crush on Paul McCartney. I feel quite embarrassed saying it because I haven't even told him yet!"

OWEN WILSON is "doing great," according to Woody Harrelson, who reportedly tried to stage an intervention before Wilson's O.D./suicide attempt.

REESE WITHERSPOON picked up Jake Gyllenhaal after his Italian dinner in Toronto, where both are promoting their upcoming pic, Rendition.

9/11 + 6:  According to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, 71% of Americans called the terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 people the most memorable news event of their lifetime. Asked whether 9/11 changed the way they live, 29% said yes - up from 18% five years ago.  However, only 6% said they would observe today's anniversary in a formal way, such as attending a memorial event or taking the day off. Most - 71% - said they would mark it informally, perhaps by praying, keeping a moment of silence or watching news coverage. Almost one-quarter said they didn't plan to observe it at all.  There is a lot of video from the day posted o­n the Tube. WCBS in NYC has also posted raw video and a collection of video reports.  You may not have seen the photos taken by Bill Biggart, who was crushed when the second tower fell.

9/11 and EUROPE:  Europeans for the most part are looking inward to explain why Islamic extremists have made the Continent a favored target, while the US has been spared - despite its leadership and the anger it has stirred waging wars in two Muslim countries.  Questions about how minority populations of Muslims are integrated into the mainstream are coming to the fore, along with basic questions about Islam itself. Less attention is being focused on finger pointing at the US, analysts say.

OSAMA BIN LADEN apparently has another video coming, which introduces the prerecorded martyrdom video of one of the 9/11 hijackers, Waleed al Shehri.  Last year, AQ released statements of two 9/11 attackers saying that that their actions were inspired by an urge to avenge the suffering of Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya.  It's a reminder that the jihadis will always have a grievance, and don't really care which infidels they kill. As bin Laden said in October 2001, "This battle is not between al Qaeda and the US. This is a battle of Muslims against the global crusaders."

IRAQ:  Key members of Iraq's Shiite-dominated government made a rare trip to Anbar province to pledge more than 120 million in reconstruction money.  In Diyala province, 40 tribal leaders recently gathered to continue their discussions about the importance of reconciliation.  Moqtada al-Sadr is trying to overhaul the Mahdi Army, though to what purpose remains unclear.  The Counterterrorism Blog has Gen. David Petraeus' testimony before Congress and accompanying slides, as well as Amb. Ryan Crocker's testimony, downloadable as Adobe Acrobat files (.pdf).  One of the few new points to come out in the Q&A -- Gen. Petraeus said the flow of Iranian weapons into Iraq has increased but that Iranian Quds force and the Lebanese Hezbollah trainers had withdrawn.  And MoveOn questioned the general's patriotism in a full-page newspaper ad.  Yesterday, Democratic leadership aide on Capitol Hill said that the ad was "not helpful," but on Friday, one Democratic senator, who spoke on the condition on anonymity, said they expected outside groups to attack Gen. Petraeus so they wouldn't have to themselves.

IRAQ and the MEDIA:  ABC and the BBC have a poll of Iraqi public opinion saying that everything is getting worse and the "surge" has failed.  The poll was completed on Aug. 24, but the media decided to release it 17 days later -- on the day Gen. Petraeus testified before Congress.  BTW, if you download the ABC version of the poll report, you find that this poll claims that Shiites comprise only 47% of the population and Sunni Arabs comprise 33%, rejecting the generally accepted figures of 60% and roughly 15-20%, for no reason other than that's how their sampling comes out.  Though ABC complains about the unsourced data in the CIA Factbook, the State Dept. also says the best estimates are 60-65% Shia, 12-15% Sunni Arab.  Both ABC and the BBC have relied on the generally accepted numbers, so why this change wouldn't be a big story in itself is left to the reader to decipher.

ALFIE, a three-year-old Shetland pony, is Jonesing for Guinness and cheese crisps at The Woodman in Woodmansterne, Surrey.

FRODO, a Welsh springer spaniel, got the kiss of life from a prison guard.  NTTAWWT.

SHERRI TIPPIE of Lakewood, CO, embraces and kisses a female beaver: "I love that smell. Don't you just love it? Nothing smells better to me."  NTTAWWT.

LAND LEECHES have become a problem in 29 of Japan's 47 prefectures.  Ew.

TREVOR the TURKEY CHICK has been fitted with webbed slippers to try to straighten out his deformed toes.  Awww...some photo at the link.

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