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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

ARCADE FIRE venture again into the crowd after a concert, this time to cover "Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes.  BTW, did you check out their new interactive video site?

NEW RELEASES:  Jens Lekman, Band Of Horses, Cut Off Your Hands, Enon, Deborah Harry, Eric Clapton and more are streaming in full via Spinner.  Radiohead is selling downloads of In Rainbows for whatever you want to pay above the credit card processing fee.  Robert Pollard releases both Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love and Standard Gargoyle DecisionsBeirut officially releases The Flying Club Cup.  The Fiery Furnaces go to Widow City.  Sunset Rubdown releases Random Spirit Lover.  And for late night listening -- depending on the kind of night -- you might check out Doveman or Scout Niblett.

JENS LEKMAN talks to Pitchfork about his samples, badminton and the ire of the South Swedish Elvis Society.

JOHN FOGERTY:  All Things Considered has an audio feature on the onetime CCR frontman's return to Fantasy Records, plus audio and video links to a track from that album, Revival.  Amber Taylor will be thrilled.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE and Vampire Weekend's NYC gig is reviewed by David Byrne.  AC just made its national TV debut.  Oh, to have an audience rection shot!

THE FLAMING LIPS have a new song, "The Tale Of The Horny Frog," on the soundtrack of The Heartbreak Kid; you can stream it via the 'Gum.

SPOON rocked "The Underdog" and rolled "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" on a late night comedy program Saturday night.  And it's your Twofer Tuesday.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN just released Magic, but apparently has enough material in the can for another LP already:  "There's another group of songs that exist that I think are great songs and should end up somewhere, but they just didn't quite fit with this group," says producer Brendan O'Brien.

THE RAMONES:  That Truncheon Thing has posted a gig from New Year's Eve 1979 at the Palladium in NYC.  You can jukebox it via the ol' HM.

ERIC CLAPTON:  Spinner has an excerpt about the breakup of Cream from his new autobiography, as well as video of Slowhand talking about "Layla."

PETE DOHERTY UPDATE:  The troubled singer's manager denies that Doherty took an overdose at the Clouds House clinic in Wiltshire.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Sources tell TMZ the real reason the pop tart didn't answer her buzzer when her kids came to visit last Thursday is because she wants nothing to do with anyone who tries to tell her how to be a good parent.  But Sean P. and little Jayden were escorted into the house Monday, along with what appears to be the court ordered parenting coach.  Spears has reached the point where people scream at her on the street to get out of the neighborhood, and throw hot coffee on her car.  For her part, Spears has become obsessed with Princess Diana and now believes she will meet the same tragic fate as the People's Princess.  And uber-reliable BANG Media reports that burglars are believed to have made off with Britney's collection of raunchy homemade sex tapes, uniforms Britney allegedly wears for kinky sex games, as well as a selection of the singer's steamiest photographs.

VANESSA HUDGENS:  The High Scool Musical starlet took time off from e-mailing dudes nude pics of herself to come down hard on the "stupid" behavior of rehab-devotees Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.

PRINCE HARRY was snapped snorting vodka in a drinking game medical experts warn could kill.

HALLE BERRY loves morning sickness and vomiting and hot sweats.  I guess that's why she got pregnant.

JESSICA SIMPSON may be getting back to her country roots, but she has her sights set on a NYC apartment, ostensibly to be close to her record label.

DENISE RICHARDS & CHARLIE SHEEN:  She has listed her 5,188-square-foot house for 3.9 million, having moved into a nearby five-bedroom, 5,600-square-foot house with a pool for about 4.6 million.  There's not a lot of high-profile projects on her resume at the moment, so I have to think she's doing personal appearances.  Meanwhile, he  is so serious about fiancée Brooke Mueller, he's promised to remove his 13 tattoos, which she hates.  He doesn't remember getting some of them.

BRADGELINA:   Little Zahara Jolie-Pitt flips off the paparazzi.  Wonder where she learned that!

P. DIDDY is taking legal responsibility for his sixth child... after DNA tests proved he was the father, natch.

HUGH GRANT looks like he's dating an entire sorority.  NTTAWWT.

THE DARJEELING LIMITED:  Owen Wilson made a brief public appearance at the Los Angeles premiere of Wes Anderson's latest.  Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman talk to MTV about the movie and how Schwartzman got cut out of The Royal Tenenbaums.  The A.V. Club lists "16 Films Without Which Wes Anderson Couldn't Have Happened."

THE HOBBIT:  Entertainment Weekly reports that the bitter legal feud between Rings Of The Rings director Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema may finally be nearing resolution, which would pave the way for Jackson to helm J.R.R. Tolkien's maiden Middle-Earth masterpiece.  It's a lengthy piece with lotsa juice, too.

FILM THREAT has a four-part series documenting The 50 Best Breasts in Movie History, with embedded video.  Because October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  And who can object to raising... awareness?

CARTOON JIHAD:  A new documentary shows that several of the instigators behind the violent Mohammed cartoon demonstrations never even saw the drawings.  Shocka!

IRAN:  More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted "Death to the dictator" outside a hall where the Iranian president spoke.  Students and activists say some of those who have spoken out against the president and his government in the past two years have been detained or blacklisted from university courses.

MIDEAST MYSTERY:  The Israeli strike on Syria in September -- and the ensuing silence from everyone --  leads inexorably to the conclusion that the implications must have been enormous.  A "very senior British ministerial source" tells the UK's Spectator: "If people had known how close we came to world war three that day there'd have been mass panic. Never mind the floods or foot-and-mouth - Gordon really would have been dealing with the bloody Book of Revelation and Armageddon."  And buried in Jim Hoagland's Sunday WaPo column is the claim that "highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may have been intended to produce plutonium..."

IRAQ:  Some Iraqi leaders, arguing that sectarian animosity is entrenched in the structure of their government, now stress alternative and perhaps more attainable goals to reconciliation.  The Iraqi Jihad Union becomes the latest militant faction to criticize AQI.  An Interior Ministry official has accused former Prime Minister Allawi and Hareth Al-Dhari, the leader of a mainstream Sunni movement, of having links with a militant group.  Gen. Petraeus accuses the Iranian ambassador to Iraq of belonging to the Qods force.  The Times of London follows jihadis to Iraq from Syria.  The NYT reports that Syria is encouraging Sunni Arab insurgent groups and former Iraqi Baathists with ties to the leaders of Saddam Hussein's government to organize there.

SEPARATED AT BIRTH:  Babies and kittens.  More awww...some pics at the link.

HONEY the GOLDEN RETRIEVER started producing milk due to an orphaned kitten's cries.  Awww...some pic at the link (and possibly still on the front page through the link).

A LLAMA brought the Virgin Trains service to a halt outside Stoke-on-Trent, but was not interested in boarding.

HAMSTERS on V1AGRA bounce back from jet lag faster than their unmedicated friends.  So. Many. Punchlines.

CROWS stare unamazed as they are outfitted with tiny cameras for their own reality TV show.  But will they sing?

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