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Roy Orbison, Pipettes, Weakerthans, Cutout Bin, Speed Racer   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, December 07, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with ROY ORBISON! The man with the soaring bel canto left us 29 years ago yesterday.  How legendary is he?  For his 1987 "Black & White Night" at the since-demolished Coconut Grove in L.A., Orbison's stage band included Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, J.D. Souther, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, and Jennifer Warnes, along with the rhythm section from Elvis Presley's fabled late '60s and early '70s touring band.  The set list included "Only The Lonely," "Dream Baby," "Blue Bayou," "The Comedians" (written by Costello for Orbison), "Ooby Dooby" (quiet audio) "Leah," "Running Scared," "Uptown," "In Dreams," "Crying," "Candyman," "Go, Go, Go (Down the Line)," "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You," "Claudette," "It's Over" and -- of course -- "Pretty Woman."

THE GRAMMYS:  A short list of nominees at NPR;the full list at the Grammys website.  Aside from the flurry for Feist (and perhaps not even then), the industry was as unadventurous as usual, perhaps even moreso.  Best record?  No noms for Wilco or White Stripes, not even Springsteen.  Best Alternative Music Album nominees are Lily Allen, Arcade Fire, Bjork, The Shins and the White Stripes.  And I daresay that if you surveyed all of the musicbloggers' year-end lists, Arcade Fire would be the only one to regularly place in the top five.

THE REPLACEMENTS:  Jim Walsh tals about the difficulties of writing All Over But the Shoutin': An Oral History at Crawdaddy.

ECHO and the BUNNYMEN will perform an orchestral version of Ocean Rain at London's Royal Albert Hall next September.

THE PIPETTES:  RiotBecki talked to the Sydney Morning Herald about what's going on behind the fun of their act, but you can read that after you watch the shooptastic new video for "Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling)."  BONUS:  If you want to be really hardcore about it, you may want to jukebox Gwenno's solo material via the ol' HM.  ALSO:  The ladies pop up in a NYT profile of Martin Kierszenbaum, head of international operations for Interscope Records, who signed Feist as the first artist to his own minilabel, Cherrytree Records.  It would explain the money obviously spent on the new video.

SUFJAN STEVENS talks about Christmas, carols, and more with Drowned In Sound.  PopMatters examines the genre of the Christmas carol, starting with Schroeder's Dilemma.

THE WEAKERTHANS did an interview and mini-set for the World Cafe you can stream via NPR.

BEST of 2007:  The 22 best music videos of 2007 are Tubed at Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good.  An Aquarium Drunkard, Skatterbrain and DJ-producer-musician Mark Ronson all have stuff on their lists that did not make mine, but are certainly worth a listen.  Don't forget largerhearted Boy's list of lists.

THE BEACH BOYS serve up a vintage take on "Little St. Nick."  From Shindig!, iirc.

SPRINGSTEEN & FRIENDS:  Ickmusic has posted a 2000 holiday benefit show from Asbury Park, which you can jukebox via the ol' HM.

THE GO! TEAM mastermind Ian Parton lists a few of his favorite things for Filter magazine.

VHS OR BETA did an interview and mini-set at NPR's Studio 4A, which you can stream on demand.

AMY WINEHOUSE continued her erratic nocturnal antics for the fourth consecutive night, roaming around London's Soho until 5am with a mystery white powder smeared across her nostrils.

CUTOUT BIN:  This Friday's fortuitous finds from the ol' HM are: The Polyphonic Spree - Carol Of The Bells; Oppenheimer - Merry Christmas Baby (Please Come Home); Yo La Tengo - Rock N Roll Santa; Matt Pond PA - Holiday Road (L. Buckingham); Shirley Ellis - The Name Game; Freda Payne - Band of Gold; O'Donel Levy - Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky; Milton Howard - Funky Shing-A-Ling; Alvin Cash - Funky Washing Machine; Stylistics - People Make the World Go Round; Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Beggin' (Pilooski Edit); Jarvis Cocker - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time; Candie Payne - All I Need to Hear; Tommy Keene - Carrie Anne (Hollies); The Posies - King Midas In Reverse (Hollies); Mitch Easter - Pay You Back With Interest (Hollies); Jon Brion - Sorry, Suzanne (Hollies); Material Issue - Bus Stop (Hollies); Material Issue - Diane; Tullycraft - The Punks Are Writing Love Songs; The Kinks - Picture Book; Pink Floyd - Free Four; Robyn Hitchcock & Grant Lee Phillips - Across The Universe; Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (alt. take); Cracker - The Man in Me (B. Dylan) and The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice.

GO SPEED, GO!  The first pictures from the Wachowskis' live-action Speed Racer hit USAToday, while the teaser trailer ran on Entertainment Tonight.  O...M...G.

NOW SHOWING:  This weekend's only wide release is The Golden Compass, currently scoring 39 percent on the ol' Tomatometer.  The adaptation of Atonement, currently scoring 89 percent, opens on 26 screens.  The teen pregnancy comedy Juno, currently scoring 92 percent, opened Wednesday on seven screens.

ELLEN PAGE, the 20-year-old star of Juno, is interviewed in Paper magazine -- and seems to have good taste in music.

RAY LIOTTA pleaded no contest to one count of reckless driving. He was originally charged with one count of DUI.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: Holmes designed the Cruise family's holiday card, so there are no cool pictures of aliens on it.

JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT gets backup from other female celebs on Hollywood's weight fixation.

ASHLEE SIMPSON cannot bring rocker Pete Wentz home for Christmas.  Apparently, dad Joe Simpson, a former Baptist preacher, had a problem with Wentz's interview with Blender magazine in which he claimed to have kissed other men.  NTTAWWT.  Isn't there something in the Bible about how a dad and ex-preacher-turned-manager who comments on his daughter Jessica's rack shouldn't cast the first stone?

NARNIA:  The Daily Mail has your first pics from Prince Caspian, the next installment of the Narnia franchise.  The trailer is online, too, including in hi-def.

BRADGELINA may be spending Xmas in N'awlins, but Jennifer Aniston may be spending the holidays with Pitt's parents, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.  Meanwhile Jolie is set to star as real-life intelligence operative Kathi Lynn Austin in what Paramount plans to be a Bourne Identity-like action thriller about arms trafficking and terrorism.

GEORGE CLOONEY & BRAD PITT:  Caught on video in the bathroom at the American Cinematheque tribute to Julia Roberts.  Click through to see which one has the wide stance.

MADONNA, who wanted people to call her Esther during her heavy Kabbalah phase, now wants you to call her Louise, according tot he ever-reliable Star magazine -- though her rep denies it.  I'm sticking with "Madge."

JOHNNY DEPP has a handshake deal to play John Dillinger in Michael Mann's adaptation of "Public Enemies."

JACK NICHOLSON:  Parade magazine excerpts this weekend's interview online, including comments that won't thrill feminists: "These issues between men and women are not psychological. Look, remember what a gland is. Most of these are glandular issues..."

THE VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW was broadcast earlier this week , but Egotastic has the video highlights, icymi or need to see them again... and again.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! tonight. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc.

PAKISTAN:  The military continues its slow push through the Taliban controlled regions of Swat.

IRAN:  The NYT/IHT reports that the NIE on Iran's nuke program was based on notes from the deliberations of Iranian military officials and intercepted conversations among Iranian officials.  IMHO, either some US officials are completely leak-happy, or this info -- and perhaps the declassified version of the NIE itself -- is being leaked to sow paranoia within the Iranian gov't.  Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates has impounded the cargo of a vessel bound for Iran after discovering "hazardous materials" aboard contravening UN sanctions on Iran's nuclear program.

IRAQ:  Sunni insurgents pushed out of Baghdad and Anbar Provinces have migrated to Mosul and have been trying to turn it into a major hub for their operations... which is why the US has been running ops in the north these past few weeks.  When AQ is beaten there, they will continue their retreat into Pakistan and Afghanistan.  Bill Roggio has an update on the state of Iraqi security forces.  Omar Fadhil of Iraq the Model ponders what happens after the "surge."  The Times of London reports that with security slowly improving in Baghdad, folks are having a cold one -- but keeping an eye peeled for the deadly guardians of Muslim morality.

CAT CAFES:  Calico is one of at least three cafes that have opened up in Tokyo this year where visitors can mingle with cats as they enjoy a cup of tea.

SNAKES on a HOG?  A motorcyclist was critically injured Wednesday afternoon when twine that secured an apparently dead 5-foot rattlesnake to the back of the bike he was riding may have come loose and distracted him as he entered a curve on Almonaster Avenue in N'awlins, police said.  Turns out the bike was a BMW.

DOG burns down the house in Topeka, KS after trying to steal the owner's dinner.  The dog and a pet bird escaped unharmed.

GOJIRA!  Remains of a bus-sized prehistoric "monster" reptile found on a remote Arctic island may be a new species never before recorded by science.

KANGAROO FARTS could ease global warming.

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