TOM WAITS announced the dates for his upcoming "Glitter and Doom" tour. Pehdtskajmba!
LOU REED played DC's 9:30 Club April 22, but you can stream the gig now via NPR. (Steve Hunter joins on gtr.)
MAN MAN gets a segment on All Things Considered, plus streaming music tracks and live video. "Everybody thinks that they're a joke band, but they're really not," says Jessica Suarez, a music writer for Pitchfork and Fader. "If you listen to their lyrics, they're super-emotional lyrics."
SHE & HIM talk to Alex Cohen on NPR's Day to Day, with a streaming track.
BEULAH frontman Miles Kurosky has posted a new song from his upcoming solo album at HisSpace.
CURTIS MAYFIELD is the focus of a new DVD that gets a rave write-up from Robert Hilburn in the L.A. Times.
THE REPUBLIC TIGERS show you "Buildings & Mountains" from their new album, which is streaming in full via Spinner this week.
BON IVER: Justin Vernon talks to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Drowned in Sound about his raved-about debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, recorded during a solitary stint of over three months in his father's log cabin, outside Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
THE POLICE will cap their reunion tour with a final concert this summer in NYC, where they started their first US tour 30 years ago. They said they would donate a million dollars to a city program that aims to plant one million trees by 2017.
IT MIGHT GET LOUD: Davis Guggenheim has completed filming on a documentary that will look at the story of the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
PETE DOHERTY has rescheduled his headline solo show at the London Royal Albert Hall for July 12.
BRITNEY SPEARS has gained more visitation of her two young sons, three days supervised visitation a week, significantly more face time than she gets now.
JOHN MAYER spoke to Entertainment Tonight about the recent tabloid photos of him with Jennifer Aniston in Miami.
AMY WINEHOUSE's junkie husband has reportedly sworn his undying love to a secret mistress – and vowed to run away with her and a chunk of the singer's £10million fortune.
PAM ANDERSON sold off the contents of one of her LA homes — including furniture, Baywatch memorabilia, books, clothing, shoes, and even her used underwear — over the weekend as she 'spring cleaned' her life following the end of her third marriage.
LINDSAY LOHAN apparently left a private birthday party on Jan. 26 wearing an 11K blond mink coat belonging to a Columbia co-ed.
IRON MAN: The Atlantic's Ross Douthat despairs of the movie's success because it means more superhero movies (I would say that's fine if they are good movies). Hitsville's Bill Wyman notes the movie's records are inflated — as is the overall box office. The New Yorker's David Denby wonders if Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark has the emotional depth to justify an Iron Man franchise (A: Yes, if you know the comic book). The L.A. Times gives "Ten reasons Jeff Bridges is underrated," but there are eleven, which is one more.
UMA THURMAN: Jack Jordan — Thurman's stalker — has been found guilty of fourth-degree stalking and one count of second degree aggravated harassment by a Manhattan jury. The aggravated harassment conviction can mean up to a year behind bars.
THE BATMOBILE is for sale. I would prefer the Tumbler model, but if someone wants to get the old school version for me, I would still be pretty happy.
SEINFELD: Ten years later, Newsweek's Marc Peyser questions whether the show should be considered a classic, let alone the best sitcom ever.
PULP FICTION fans may want to read Bridget Johnson's account of a screening and panel discussion with Quentin Tarantino.
STAR TREK: J.J. Abrams talks to the AP about why a self-professed "Star Wars" kid is directing the "Star Trek" reboot. William Shatner believes as long as he keeps having fun, it will be impossible for him to die — which is a good excuse to roll the "He's dead, Jim" video.
GLOBAL WARMING: The Daily Mail charts some of the leading celebrity ecological hypocrites.
IRAN & IRAQ: As American strikes on Shiite fighters in Baghdad have widened, Iran has suspended talks with the US on Iraqi security, with the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday citing the continued offensive as the reason. The Americans believe that Iran is supplying weapons and training to Shiite militias in Iraq, but the Iranians have denied that they are interfering. The Iraqis are forming a committee with experts from Interior and Defense Ministries to look into the allegations against Iran. Elements of the Mahdi Army seem to be tellling the L.A. Times that they are getting their weapons from Iran.
IRAQ: The US military says 3500 soldiers sent to Iraq last summer as part of the "surge" will soon be leaving. Suspected AQI operatives kidnapped a pro-US tribal chief and family members in a village north of Baghdad on Tuesday. Iraqi security forces found documents purported to belong to AQI in Diyala province, which include names of 6000 alleged suicide bombers in Iraq, an official newspaper said Tuesday. The official spokesman for the Iraqi government said nominees submitted for ministerial posts by the Sunni Iraqi Accordance Front were "unqualified." The Christian Science Monitor reports on people moving back into the now-walled neighborhoods in Baghdad. The CSM likes to do this story every few months. Of course, once an area becaomes safe, like Ramadi, the walls can get dismantled.
GOOSE ATTACK: Let's go to the video. What say you, Police Chief Brody? (nsfw)
THE BIRDS: When the Andersons walked into their house after a neighborhood barbecue, they never expected to find 200 birds inside.
CAMEL punched on a dare at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.
COWS shut down the M2 Motorway, one of the main arterial routes in and out of Belfast.
CROCODILE takes boy's arm, saves his soul.