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MY MORNING JACKET and KATHLEEN EDWARDS: Monday night's gig at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club was streaming from NPR. I don't know if NPR will have the gig available for on-demand streaming today, but there are plenty of other streamables at the link. MMJ has a free download of “Off the Record” (which quotes the “Hawaii Five-O” theme) up at Amazon. That track is from Z, which is getting good critical buzz. Chromewaves is killing music with a MMJ's mournful cover of “Suspicious Minds” recorded at a prior 9:30 Club gig. I would add, that, like MMJ, Kathleen Edwards turns up on the Elizabethtown soundtrack.
DAVID BYRNE turns a factory into a musical instrument.
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS FEST: There's a full-length wrap-up at PopMatters.
ROBERT CHRISTGAU thinks that CBGB and New Orleans may have been resting on their musical laurels.
RINGO STARR thinks that the Liverpool council plan to dismantle, move and rebuild his birth home like London Bridge is silly.
JOHN LENNON gets a 65th birthday tribute from a Russian city's Yellow Submarine made from drinks cans and plastic.
MICK JAGGER and JERRY HALL's kids were put off drugs by the example of Keith Richards, Lord of the Undead.
BLENDER'S TOP 500 SONGS SINCE 1980 is the good, the bad and the ugly, but mostly the last two.
THE Q AWARDS played it safe, but gave Coldplay's Chris Martin the chance to say, “Some of you probably hate us but I couldn't give a f*** because we're the Best Act In The World.”
BRITISH GOV'T PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR INDIES: Small music firms are “vital” for the economy and for nurturing bands like Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party, says music minister James Purnell, who has launched a study into the support independent companies need.
GbV: Someone has posted a Guided by Voices t-shirt gallery on Flickr.
SONIC YOUTH: L.A. City Beat has good news and bad news. The good news: the band has recovered their stolen cutomized gear. The bad news: it seems that guitarist Jim O’Rourke is “moving on.”
DEERHOOF: Their latest album, The Runners Four comes out today. It's an arty band, but think Sonic Youth, not Yes. The album gets a 9.0 on Pitchfork, though the reviewer was clearly a fan beforehand. You can stream four from the album via MySpace. The band has also made available a big cache of downloadables, including a cover of The Shaggs' “My Pal Foot Foot.”
PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE: London's Sun has the W magazine cover that may launch the shamed superwaif's comeback in November. The even more reliable News of the World claims Moss has had no contact with Doherty since entering rehab.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA sings “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
MADONNA: A song on Madge's upcoming album dedicated to a Kabbalist rabbi is drawing criticism from other rabbis; one suggests it could lead to divine retribution.
BILLY JOEL reportedly used to drink furniture polish, which explains a few things.
DAVID LEE ROTH will be filling Howard Stern's seat in NYC.
WALLACE AND GROMIT lose their home in a devastating warehouse fire.
FIFTY GREATEST HORROR MOVIES as compiled by Total Film magazine.
BRADGELINA UPDATE: Pitt has instructed his bodyguards to take pictures of any paparazzi who follow him and Jolie. He may have retained Sunset Protective for such services (see the video). Jolie is pushing Pitt to become a pilot like her. Pitt is teaming with Ed Norton to produce a ten-part miniseries adaptation of the Stephen Ambrose book about explorers Lewis and Clark.
REESE WITHERSPOON photog charged with child endangerment and battery for allegedly striking a five-year-old child with his camera and shoving another out of the way to snap Witherspoon and her children.
CARMEN ELECTRA and DENNIS RODMAN give us too much information about their brief relationship.
GEORGE CLOONEY is planning a live TV update of the 1976 movie Network. This is a follow-up of sorts to his live version of Fail-Safe, a movie that came out in 1964. It fits nicely with his remake of 1972's Solaris and his remake of 1960's Ocean's Eleven. Not to mention his current gloss on the McCarthy era. The guy just seems to spend a lot of time doing period pieces.
TOM-KAT UPDATE: Folks are gossiping that Holmes looks more than three months pregnant. Conan O'Brien has an “If They Mated” for Tom-Kat, prepared before the pregnancy announcement — though I don't know whether Conan would drop that “If” even now.
KEVIN SMITH takes on the uberdorks at Aint-it-Cool-News. You would have thought that defining the Internet as “a communication tool used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with one another” would have covered it already.
STATE OF THE MOVIES: Teenage boys and young men lead disillusioned US movie-goers in staying away from theaters, though they seem to be the studios' target demo.
THE PUFFY SHIRT: Last worn by the homeless on Seinfeld, it's now available in the International Male catalog.
COMMANDER IN CHIEF: Steven Bochco takes control of the hit show from creator Rod Lurie, perhaps because Lurie was stretched to thin, perhaps due to “creative differences.” L.A. Weekly columnist Nikki Finke had dirt for Drudge regarding the latter. Defamer reports that the show will be recasting a major character and doing some re-shoots.
MEAN GIRLS: I missed the part where Lindsay Lohan puts Vaseline on her face to give attackers' nails the slip. Oh, wait… that's a real thing?
CULT OF THE iPod: Apple may sell as many as ten million Nanos this quarter. Japanese music labels call for an iPod tax. US labels battle iTunes and demand a bigger slice of digital profits generally. And you can get Halloween costumes for your iPod (Mini and Shuffle, too).
BLOGS: There are only 60 that are “hot,” according to a study done by according to AskJeeves' Bloglines. This is not one of them, though the study would classify this site as one that “matters.”
BLOGGERS AS JOURNOS: Sen. Richard Lugar (R.-IN), says that bloggers would “probably not” be considered journalists under a proposed federal press shield law he is co-sponsoring. Mighty 20th century of you, Dick. Oddly, journos seem to be getting it: “A key reason some journalists oppose the popular federal shield proposal is fear that giving Congress the power to define who is and isn't a journalist could lead effectively to the licensing of journalists.” Exactly. The First Amendment is for everyone.
IRAQ: Iraqis continued to hold talks aimed at meeting Sunni Arab concerns over the draft constitution. The Reuters story at the link nicely refers to “Iraq's U.S.-backed leaders,” as though there had been no election this year. It's an odd phrase coming from a wire service that tries to avoid labels. Bill Roggio updates news on Operation Saratoga, a search-and-clear operation in north central Iraq, and provides a Flash-based mutimedia presentation summarizing operations along the Euphrates River this month.
TERRORISM: A French terror cell suspected of plotting attacks on the subway and other targets in Paris had contacts with Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a leading French counterterrorism official said Monday. These attacks must have been planned to punish France for invading Iraq. ALSO: Terrorists have been networking in Belgium.
BLACK HELICOPTERS? The United Nations launches an air war on the Smurfs. See the video.
DOMESTIC TERROR? Following the still murky story of Joel Hinrichs III blowing himself up at the University of Oklahoma, we have explosive devices found at Georgia Tech, one of which detonated, and an IED found near UCLA. So far, it all looks to be coincidental, but the secrecy of the FBI investigation at UO doesn't help dispel rumors to the contrary.
BURGER KING has snubbed the British government’s attempts to reduce levels of salt, fat and sugar in food to make it healthier. The chain will instead concentrate on making its burgers and other products as tasty as it can.
A HOUSTON DATING SERVICE reportedly forced its employees to date clients. Kinda filling a niche between dating services and escort services.
EDUCATION: Lowell Monke, who has taught young people with and about computers for seventeen years, currently gets paid by Wittenberg University to confuse aspiring teachers as to what education is all about. He argues that students should have fewer computers and more recess.
PYTHON vs. CAT: Elidia Rodriguez of Miami Gardens had been looking for her year-old Siamese cat for two days when her son pointed out the bulging Burmese python slithering in her backyard. This marks the second time this month that a python in Miami-Dade has tangled with another animal. Capt. Al Cruz of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue antivenin unit said Sunday's case can likely be blamed on the recent rains.
GATOR vs. COCKER SPANIEL: Caught on video, too. But the gator remains at large.
DOGS seeking chipmunks attack downspouts. This is news? This happens in my Dad's backyard!
