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Neko Case, Georgie James, Ryan Shaw, Sgt. Podge   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, November 19, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

JENS LEKMAN, playing Dallas last week, explains his unorthdox cover of Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al."

ST. VINCENT:  Annie Clark tries to explain the black humor in the title -- and title track -- of her album, Marry Me, to the Scotsman.

THE POLYPHONIC SPREE leader Tim DeLaughter talks to the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette about the band's upbeat image: "I didn't realize how much being optimistic was something that would stand out so much. It's really been a very big deal. We've been ridiculed for it. It's been kind of debilitating at times, only because it's kind of disheartening that some people would be upset about it."

NEKO CASE played Disney Hall in Los Angeles on Friday; you can stream the whole gig (and an interview) on demand via NPR.

YO LA TENGO bassist James McNew talsk to Gothamist about the acoustic+Q&A "Freewheeling Yo La Tengo Tour," where each gig starts with a two-song playlist: "The only thing I can liken it to is getting up and doing improv comedy for an hour and a half..."

THE MAGIC NUMBERS:  Daytrotter rolls out four free songs, two of which are unreleased, one of which is a cover of Lee Greenwood's "The Night Before."

LED ZEPPELIN:  A fan from Glasgow has shelled out more than £80,000 for two tickets to see the band's reunion concert next month, after they were auctioned for charity.  No wonder Jimmy Page is hinting he would like to tour.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE announced UK dates curated by All Tomorrow's Parties.

GEORGIE JAMES have a new video out for "Need Your Needs," from the album Places.

ART BRUT:  Eddie Argos and Jasper Future talked to Kansas City's Pitch about touring America, favorite bands and more.

RYAN SHAW:  The soul revivalist is profiled in the Pasadena Weekly and is slated to appear alongside Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow and Lyle Lovett on Ellen DeGeneres' special "Ellen's Really Big Show," scheduled to air on TBS tonight.  You can stream a few from his debut LP at ShawSpace.

LYLE LOVETT, btw, was recently interviewed on Talk of the Nation, which you can stream (with songs) via NPR.

INDIE SELLS OUT:  According to the 'Gum, Of Montreal and Art Brut have been shooting T-Mobile commercials in NYC.  They asked Of Montreal frontman Kevin Barnes about it; he responded with an essay titled, "Selling Out Isn't Possible."

THURSTON MOORE, out on a solo tour, talks to Harp magazine about the reax to the celebrity-chosen collection of Sonic Youth songs that will be sold through Starbucks, noting that the band "got a lot of heat when we left Homestead for SST."

FEIST:  Grayson Currin has a piece in the Nashville Scene arguing the downside of commercials replacing radio as the place where new music gets exposed:  "If '1234' had started as a commercial radio smash, it's not impossible to imagine an FM programmer at least testing the waters with Feist's boyfriend, Kevin Drew, one of the principals in Broken Social Scene. Feist's '1234' success doesn't mean Dell is fawning over songs by her electronic pop collaborators Stars."

AMY WINEHOUSE was dealt another blow Friday after her tour manager quit amid drugs accusations.  Thom Stone found working with Winehouse and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil (now in jail), was causing traces of heroin to turn up in his blood from second-hand smoke.  Guards at Pentonville Prison searched Winehouse's trademark beehive for drugs when she visited her hubby -- and if you think that is overly-suspicious, you should watch this video of Winehouse in Zurich.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:  Beowulf won the weekend with 28.1 million -- which is probably a mild disappointment.  I wonder whether those who couldf not see it in 3D syated away.  The Coen Bros' No Country for Old Men took the seventh slot with a little over 3 million -- which is remarkable from a mere 148 screens.  The weekend was pretty bad for everything else.  Bee Movie was No.2 with 14.3 million, but its 44 percent drop is a lot for a family film in its third weekend.  Indeed, Bee Movie has yet to cross 100 million, as the R-rated American Gangster did this weekend in third place and a 45 percent drop.  Fred Claus slipped to fourth place with 12 mil; Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium debuted in fifth place with 10 mil, which makes it a likely flop.  Dan in Real Life dropped about 25 percent. making 4.5 million in the sixth slot.  Lions for Lambs continued to flame out, dropping 57 percent from fouth to eighth in its second weekend with 2.9 mil.  Saw IV dropped to ninth place with 2.3 mil.  Rounding out the Top Ten was the debut of Love in the Time of Cholera, with 1.9 million.

BRITNEY SPEARS has been ordered not to drive with her sons in the car, after the judge in her custody dispute was informed that the pop tart blew a red light with her kiddies in the car last week.

JESSICA SIMPSON co-hosted The View last week, but stuck to plugging her new collection of "fashions" instead of bantering over current events - which left her with a blank-eyed stare.  To be fair to Simpson, she very often has a blank-eyed stare, even when current events are not being discussed.  Moreover, I'm pretty sure I have a stunned look on my face whenever I hear what passes for discussion of current events on The View.

ROSIE O'DONNELL was attacked by an eagle.  Video at the link.  I'm guessing the eagle had seen Ro on The View.

KANYE WEST dramatically broke down in tears onstage in Paris, after trying to dedicate "Hey Mama" to his late mother.

JOHN TRAVOLTA kissed 90-year-old Kirk Douglas on the mouth at a Los Angeles awards ceremony.  NTTAWWT.

LANCE ARMSTRONG says, "Ashley Olsen and I are strictly friends," while his ex-gf Sheryl Crow denies being upset over Armstrong's rumored relationship with Olsen.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Heather Mills had her new publicist attacking Stella McCartney as cheap and spiteful, despite attempts by Mills to forge a relationship with Stella during her marriage to Sir Paul.  Meanwhile, Mills stars in an unusual anti-global warming campaign.

JACKO turned up in an urban burqa on Melrose Ave. in L.A. on Friday.

JUSTICE LEAGUE:  IESB, AICN and CinemaBlend have casting rumors aplenty, some of them conflicting.

THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW doesn't air on television until Dec. 4, but there are already scads and scads of pictures on the Internet.  Which I note because it's gratuitous Monday.

PAKISTAN:  The Pakistani Army is pressing its offensive against Taliban forces in Swat and Shangla.  US envoy John Negroponte pressed Pres. Musharraf to revoke emergency rule and make peace with opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.  Pres. Musharraf defended his decision to declare emergency rule, saying Pakistan's nuclear weapons could fall into the wrong hands if elections led to disturbances.  Over the past six years, the Bush Admin. has spent almost 100 million on a highly classified program to help secure Pakinstan's nukes.

IRAN:  Reports that Pres. Ahmadinejad is to discuss with Arab nations a plan to enrich uranium outside the region in a neutral country such as Switzerland have been nixed by Iranian and Saudi officials.

IRAQ:  Bill Roggio argues that Wednesday's closure of the headquarters of the Association of Muslim Scholars marks a dramatic shift in the Sunni religious establishment.  Iraqi and US forces have made significant progress against AQI in four northern provinces during "Operation Iron Hammer," according to Multi-National Forces Iraq.  Iraqis across Baghdad describe a welcome drop in violence in their city in recent weeks.  Rivalry between Iraq's two main Shiite movements vying for power in the south of the country has hit a danger point, sparking fears of violence ahead of the handover of Basra by British forces.  Speaking of the Brits, five British hostages who have been held in captivity in Baghdad since May could be freed within days... or held for years.

GEN. PETRAEUS has been summoned back to DC by the Army to preside over a board that will pick some of the next generation of Army leaders, an unusual decision and a sign of the Army's new commitment to encouraging innovation and rewarding skills beyond the battlefield.

SGT. PODGE disappears at around 6 p.m. every day, only to reappear a mile and a half away the next morning, when his owner picks him up and drives him home, where spends much of the time sleeping.

AN ORANGUTAN is stealing jelly doughnuts in Baker County, FL -- though some think it's just a spider monkey or a squirrel. Others are seriously investigating whether it was a "baby Bigfoot."  In any event, he wants to be like you.

A TROPICAL FISH that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago.

A DRUNKEN, LATE-NIGHT RABBIT SHOOT ends very badly.  Who'da thunkit?

SAHARA the SEAL has been found in Spain, 1,000 miles away from his Arctic home waters.

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