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Feist, Bon Iver, Dr. Dog, PJ Harvey, Gibson & Boo-Boo   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, November 08, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

FEIST, icymi, played the Peacock last weekend, with Leslie bringing a nasty guitar sound on energized versions of "I Feel It All" and -- of course -- "1 2 3 4."

KURT COBAIN:  Widow Courtney Love packaged the rights to Nirvana's music with the rights to the Cobain biography, Heavier Than Heaven, for the upcoming Cobain biopic from Universal.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE has reunited in the studio for the first time since 1995, recorded new material, with an album release forthcoming, possibly as soon as this year.

BON IVER:  Reveille magazine has video from Justin Vernon's first performance in Minneapolis on Friday, October 26.

DR. DOG is described by DC's Express as "a strange amalgam of '60s Beatles pop, '70s classic rock and Beach Boys-style vocal harmonies.... played through an off-kilter filter... in a blender... set to puree."  You can stream their current album, We All Belong, in its entirety.

ELVIS COSTELLO has broken up with Britain.  Apparently, he finds the US to be younger and hotter, even though he disagrees with its politics.

JENS LEKMAN talked to Exclaim about sampling and lifting melodies, to the Cleveland Scene about Lekman impersonators, and to Cleveland's Free Times about finding inspiration in hair salons and bingo halls.  (Thx, Chromewaves.)

THE ROYAL WE may have broken up shortly after making this video for "I Hate Rock and Roll," but it sounds like they didn't mean it about the hate.  Idolator focused on the "blend of girl-group harmonies and chaotic violin parts that recall the Raincoats," while the Guardian placed their sound "between the riotous twang of the B-52s and the ragged insouciance of Blondie's Rip Her to Shreds."

THE OWLS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

PJ HARVEY talked to Pitchfork about the upside of writer's block, among other things.  You can stream an entire concert from Polly Jean via Yahoo! Music.

HELLO, BLUE ROSES -- a duo comprised of Dan Bejar (Destroyer, New Pornographers) and Sydney Vermont -- have provided an advance track from their LP, called "Shadow Falls."

STEVE EARLE did an interview and mini-set for the World Cafe you can stream on demand via NPR.

TALKIN' BOUT THEIR GENERATION:  At Inside Higher Ed(!), an associate professor at Cornell University writes about what he learned when his students wrote about the personal meaning of any song of any genre.  I don't often recommend reading the comments to online pieces, but it works here.

PETE DOHERTY is headed back to rehab, but it is voluntary, which means he may continue to perform with Babyshambles on tour.

BRITNEY SPEARS has been ordered to pay 120 grand immediately for Fed-Ex's legal bills pertaining to their custody battle.  Fed-Ex's lawyer is going back to court today, arguing that Spears is violating the Commissioner's drug testing order.
 "Sources" tell US Weekly that the pop tart's problems are psychological, not pharmacological.  Spears' mother blames herself for the pop tart's woes in an exclusive interview with Life & Style magazine.

LIONS FOR LAMBS - the first movie to come out under Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's resurrected United Artists label - opens Friday, but the initial negative reception to it could harm parent studio MGM's own attempts to raise money for film productions.  So far, the movie is tracking the worst among audiences for any Cruise movie to date,

NICOLE KIDMAN insists to Marie Claire magazine that she hasn't had plastic surgery.  M'kay.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Married American millionaireness Nancy Shevell, who was seen kissing Sir Paul, does not wear a wedding ring and has confirmed that she is legally separated from her husband of 23 years.  Heather Mills reportedly was in a "blind rage" over The Sun's photo of Sir Paul kissing Shevell.  Fortunately, Donald Trump has weighed in with his expert opinion on the bust-up.

GEORGE CLOONEY and FABIO got into a shoving match at L.A. eatery Madeo.  Shockingly, alcohol was involved.

MANDY MOORE and MATTHEW PERRY?  The pair were spotted on a date at Amici Trattoria in Beverly Hills.  This news is really going to crush The Rock.

JESSICA SIMPSON & OWEN WILSON are still flirting, but are not yet an item.  Owen is talking to lots of girls, while Jessica is interested in Boston men.

LINDSAY LOHAN is in "serious talks" to take a guest role on ABC's hit comedy Ugly Betty.

ROSIE O'DONNELL is no longer in serious talks to host a prime-time show on MSNBC.

JIM KRASINSKI & RASHIDA JONES:  The Dunder-Mifflin "Office"-mates were... wait for it... caught canoodling at Bon Appetit Supper Club for last week's "SNL" after-party.  The pair previously dated in 2005.

EVANGELINE LILLY may be done with her hobbit-like fiance, Dominic Monaghan, who was... wait for it... caught crying and canoodling with another woman at at El Coyote restaurant in L.A.

IRON MAN:  The new international teaser trailer has more Gwyneth Paltrow and no Black Sabbath.  On balance I prefer the original teaser trailer, but hope the final film has both Paltrow and Sabbath.

FRANCE:  Pres. Sarkozy told the US Congress that America is "the greatest nation in the world": "America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who-with their hands, their intelligence and their heart-built the greatest nation in the world: 'Come, and everything will be given to you.' She said: 'Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent.'"

PAKISTAN:  Pres. (and Gen.) Musharraf is likely to end the state of emergency in three weeks, according to Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, and a close aide of Musharraf.  Hussain added that after the lifting of the state of emergency, political parties would start a full-fledged election campaign.  Meanwhile police swung batons and fired tear gas at 400 supporters of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, who were headed to parliament, where lawmakers moments earlier had rubber-stamped the emergency declaration.  Bhutto penned an op-ed for the NYT, while Lee Smith makes a case for Musharraf at Slate.  The state of emergency has done little to halt the Taliban, who have taken control of two more major towns in the settled district of Swat, while attacks continue elsewhere in the Northwest Frontier Province.

IRAN:  An official with knowledge of Iran's nuclear activities said that Iran has nearly 3000 centrifuges operating at Natanz, but that it would take years for all the centrifuges to run smoothly without frequent breakdowns.  The number 3000 is the commonly accepted figure for a a full industrial-scale program that could churn out enough enriched material for dozens of nuclear weapons.  Experts have estimated Iran would need only 1,500 centrifuges to produce one such warhead.  It is worth asking (again): why is Iran in such a rush to enrich fuel, when it has no nuclear power plants?

IRAQ:  Death squad killings in Baghdad are down 80 percent from their peak while roadside bombings fell 70 percent, according to Major-General Joseph Fil, commander of US forces in the capital.  Fil thinks the drop in violence is sustainable as "surge" troops gradually leave, because: (1) Iraqi security forces had become "much, much more effective," (2) volunteers who patrolled their own neighborhoods in coordination with the Iraqi security forces had had a positive impact; and (3) most of the Mehdi Army in Baghdad was honoring al-Sadr's order to stand down.  Declining violence has prompted Iraqi refugees to pack up and return home, with the government claiming 46030 people crossed back over the borders in October alone.  The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction offered a generally optimistic picture of security developments in Iraq in his quarterly report to Congress, but noted that while violence was down, one of every seven Iraqis - 14 percent of Iraq's population - is now displaced by the war.  The report said that electricity production in Iraq reached its highest level since early 2003, in part because insurgent attacks on power-lines and repair crews have declined. Corruption, however, remains a major problem, the report said.  John Matel, a career Foreign Service Officer serving as the leader of a Provincial Reconstruction Team embedded in Anbar Province, blogs an open letter to his Foreign Service Officer colleagues about the controversial issue of directed assignments in Iraq.  BTW, the State Department's blog is named Dipnote.  Really.

GIBSON and BOO-BOO met up to celebrate Guinness World Records Day 2007.

DOGS may possess a functional theory of mind, and attribute states of knowledge to humans, according to experiments carried out by Canterbury University psychology student Michelle Maginnity.

A CAT gets mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from an EMT.  Let's go to the video.

DIXON the WHITE-CHEEKED GIBBON busted out of the Nashville Zoo Wednesday morning, placing the facility on code red.  Dixon was unsuccessful in a prior escape attempt in September.

"DO NOT OPEN: LIVE GATOR."  Mt. Kisco, NY's  Water Dept. received a homemade plywood crate so marked, but none of the workers believed it, because it was the morning after Halloween,

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