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WILD BEASTS drop a video for "All The Kings Men," and I think they get that it's kinda funny. Their upcoming LP is streaming via SoundVenue.
STARS OF TRACK AND FIELD is advance streaming the A Time for Lions album.
MOUNTAIN GOATS: John Darnielle talks to Pitchfork about his semi-Biblical album, The Life of the World to Come (due in October).
A.A. BONDY talks to Aquarium Drunkard about his new album, the battle between artist intent and audience interpretation, recording…and whether cashing in on the Twilight vampire craze is something in which he's interested in. Streaming audio included.
THE BEATLES: The Telegraph lists 20 things you didn't know about the Fab Four (I knew most of them). The Salt Lake Tribune names the best Beatle book (and I recommend it, too). The Observer dares imagine a world without the Beatles.
BIG STAR: "September Gurls" do so much. Throw in The Bangles and it will be the like Twofer Tuesday I skipped yesterday.
46 ESSENTIAL ROCK READS, listed by the L.A. Times. Oddly, the first two in alphabetical order may be the two most essential.
FALL PREVIEW, courtesy of Paste magazine.
ECHO and the BUNNYMEN maestro Ian McCulloch talks to Rolling Stone about the band's new album, and milestones.
DANIEL JOHNSTON is profiled by Vue Weekly.
NINE, which opens today with a borderline fresh rating on the ol' Tomatometer, has another clip online.
JANET JACKSON is rehearsing for a Michael Jackson tribute at the MTV Video Awards this weekend.
TILA TEQUILA claims she is allergic to alcohol, which would tend to contradict the defense of NFL star and boyfriend Shawne Merriman to her claims of battery and false imprisonment.
GEORGE CLOONEY went public with his new galpal, Italian TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis.
TERI HATCHER is training for a triathalon.
THE BEE GEES — or what's left of them — are set to reunite for a series of live shows, six years after the death of their bandmate and brother Maurice Gibb.
JOHN MAYER and… Kristin Cavallari?
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ, elegendary celeb photog, was in talks with a creditor owed 24 million dollars as a deadline passed for her to repay the money or risk losing the rights to her life's work.
KEVIN SMITH did a 24-hour tweet-a-thon with fans. /Film collected the interesting movie tweets.
IRAN: France and Israel accuse UN watchdog Mohamed El Baradei of deliberately hiding evidence of Iran's work on a nuclear bomb. Ahmadinejad says negotiations over his country's right to a nuclear program would be off the table.
AFGHANISTAN: Ahmed Rashida Pakistani journalist who has covered Afghanistan for 30 years, argues for a "Keep it Simple" strategy. He also correctly notes that contarry to the popular view, Afghanistan was not a failed state for most of the 20th century.
A NEW SPECIES OF GIANT RAT, has been discovered deep in the jungle of Papua New Guinea.
FANGED FROGS, from the same jungle.
THE SWAMP is friendly!
RHINO treated for flaky skin problem in Atlanta.
A NEWLY-DISCOVERED YELLOW SPIDER has been named after David Bowie. I'm hoping it's not from Mars.
