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THE BEES, a/k/a Band of Bees release their Octopus in the US today, so here's their countrified-bus-tour-through-The-Life-Aquatic video for "Who Cares What The Question Is?" Add in the more soul-influenced "Listening Man" and you have your Twofer Tuesday.
NEW RELEASES: Paul McCartney Chris Cornell, Marilyn Manson and more are streaming from AOL; the increasingly net-friendly Sir Paul offers track-by-track commentary at Spinner, which is also streaming the Cute One, along with The Long Blondes, a Tom Petty Special Edition, the first Police album and more. The Afghan Whigs have a retrospective out today. Hallelujah the Hills has a debut, Collective Psychosis Begone, with a lo-fi feel recalling GbV and Neutral Milk Hotel. The Ladybug Transistor welcomes more than a few guests on its 6th album, the poppy Can't Wait Another Day. Sean Na Na also has a cameo-filled full-length LP. P*ssed Jeans has an LP out on Sub Pop that sounds more like Mudhoney-era Sub Pop than Shins-era Sub Pop. And if that's not rough enough for you, there's a new album from Steve Albini's Shellac.
ART BRUT frontman Eddie Argos is blogging weekly for London's Guardian, though the latest entry is about missing his deadline.
SUMMER MIX: You can stream one from The Late Greats that includes the Talking Heads, Paolo Nutini, the Starlight Vocal Band and even the dreaded Mungo Jerry.
THE NATIONAL looked to be playing a wedding on the cover of their new Boxer LP; in fact, they did take the stage at producer Peter Katis' wedding, though they were supposedly just there as guests.
BE AFRAID. Be very afraid. Especially in Kansas.
WILCO plays a live set for AOL Sessions. Or you can hear tracks from Sky Blue Sky in a round of ads for Volkswagen; video at both links.
SGT. PEPPER (REPRISE): Idolator looks at the venerable album's "dubious legacy" and "the rise of the once-underrated Revolver."
STEVE EARLE tells The New Yorker that he has "finally tested positive for ProTools", and is recording nearly all of the guitars, mandolin, bouzouki, harmonium, etc. for his upcoming LP, Washington Square Serenade, himself.
THE ARCADE FIRE: Win Butler and Regine Chassagne were interviewed yesterday on Fresh Air via NPR. Jeremy Gara and Tim Kingsbury talked to the Brisbane Times about quitting your day job. Kingsbury gave a wider-ranging interview to Georgia's Straight.com.
PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: At PopMatters, Julia Yepes argues that "Some people may neglect to take him seriously because of his antics, but Pete Doherty may be one of the best lyricists of his generation."
LINDSAY LOHAN is still in rehab, but her Mom is mulling a reality TV offer, her sometime beau Callum Best is taking a paternity test for some other woman, and other young celebs are now being turned away from nightclubs.
THE FRENCH HOTEL at the GRAYBAR HOTEL, Day One: The Los Angeles County Sheriff put out the wrong mug shot, though both were relatively flattering… as mug shots go, anyway. The jail staff is calling her a "model citizen" — though she is in jail precisely because she was not a model citizen.
BRITNEY SPEARS is using both an amphetamine prescription diet pill as well as a powerful prescription diuretic to lose weight, according to the ever-reliable National Enquirer.
ROSIE O'DONNELL is promoting her memoir, Celebrity Detox, due in stores Sept. 18th; it's about her tenure on day The View, which raises the question of how much of her antics were merely fodder for the book. I would guess she meant most of it, as the Queen of Nice totes up US troop deaths in Iraq by painting toy soldiers red and gluing them to a piece of wood… when she's not watching Noam Chomsky DVDs.
COURTNEY LOVE plans to give up smoking after nodules were discovered on her throat.
BRADGELINA: Jolie, who was going to take time off for family, found a few moments for the cover of Esquire magazine. She tells Marie Claire magazine that Pitt is sexiest when he's with their four children, but otoh says, "Mommy and Daddy need to try to figure out more time right now."
JACKO, still following old advice from Sir Paul, has purchased the Famous Music LLC catalog from Viacom, which includes tunes from Beck, Björk, and Eminem. Given the periodic reports of financial woe, one wonders where Jackson got the scratch.
IRON MAN: Video of footage and on-set visits has been aired on Entertainment Tonight and MTV.
JUDD APATOW, hotter than ever after the release of Knocked Up, has all sorts of film projects in the works, including Superbad, Walk Hard, Pineapple Express, Step Brothers, You Don't Mess With the Zohan and now Year One, which he will produce and in which Harold Ramis will direct Jack Black and Michael Cera.
HARRY POTTER and TONY SOPRANO: Newsweek claims there are many parallels between the mob boss and the boy wizard.
JESSICA BIEL and SARAH SILVERMAN almost kissing seems to have been the highlight of the MTV Movie Awards.
WHAT CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING on Neptune? Insert Uranus punchline here.
TERROR in the US: The FBI had hoped to bag al Qaeda's so-called nuclear whiz kid, Adnan Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, in their 18-month JFK-plot probe, which is why the feds allowed the probe to continue until one of the suspects boarded a plane in Trinidad headed for Venezuela – where the US has no extradition agreement. He was then headed from Venezuela to Iran. BONUS: A remote Muslim commune nestled in the Catskill Mountains has come under the scrutiny of state and federal authorities for possible ties to terrorism, according to law-enforcement sources. DOUBLE-BONUS: the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North American Islamic Trust were named as "unindicted co-conspirators" in connection with a trial planned in Texas next month for five officials of a defunct charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development.
TERROR in the PA: The Righteous Swords of Islam, a relatively new group believed to have links with al-Qaeda, issued a death threat over the weekend against women working for the official Palestinian Authority television station, accusing them of dressing immodestly and behaving in a way that violates the teachings of Islam. Members of the group are also responsible for splashing acid in the face of a number of young women who had been accused of "immoral behavior."
IRAQ: The al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has posted ID cards of two missing US soldiers it claims to have executed, along with video of a night-time attack. Iraqi soldiers have killed a second senior Al-Qaeda street captain in a clash inside one of Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood. Multi-National Division-Baghdad attack helicopter crews killed four insurgents and destroyed five enemy vehicles carrying heavy antiaircraft weapons systems May 31 in Baghdad. The Iraqi government is planning a prisoner release as part of their national reconciliation program, one day after the American ambassador publicly indicated support for amnesty. Michael Yon has a photo-filled dispatch addressed to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
VETS had to pop the hedgehog to save it.
FAINTING GOATS have been bought by Carly Simon. They probably think that song is about them.
THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant squirrel was caught shredding American flags in Queensbury, NY.
LEOPARDS are being trapped by cellphones with animal sounds for ringtones. People are trapped by their cellphones, but only figuratively.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY for the PROTECTION of BIRDS has banned the name of a certain bird from its website, prompting cries of political correctness run amok.
