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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT: So, what do Keith Moon and Pete Townshend play while waiting for the movie folk to get fully set up? This outtake from The Kids Are Alright isn't a Who song, but you probably know it. And Keith sings the lead.
THE BEACH BOYS — including the obscure David Marks — appeared together in public for the first time in a decade on top of the Capitol Records office tower for the presentation of double-platinum plaques for the band's 2003 collection, Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of the Beach Boys. Brian even thought they might get around to a musical reunion, though that's Brian, so take it with a shaker of salt. Capitol also announced plans for a 40th-anniversary release June 27 of a deluxe CD single of “Good Vibrations,” followed by a CD/DVD reissue of Pet Sounds.
MISSION OF BURMA: Clint Conley talks to PopMatters on a variety of subjects, including taking his 15-year-old daughter to the Warped Tour. You can still hear the new MoB at the Obliterati site.
BOSTON: Remasters of the first two albums were released this week, so even though the second one is titled Don't Look Back, two critics from the Boston Globe do just that. Joan Anderman, who believes that “30 minutes worth of ideas is all that this band has,” nevertheless agrees with an anonymous quote that “These songs stick in your mind like dirt to a dog,” They also discuss whether Boston influenced Nirvana. No, really. And of course I'm hooking you up with “More Than A Feeling.”
THE CUTOUT BIN — Another cross-section of songs I found on the Hype Machine while looking for something else: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' “American Girl”; James Brown's “Cold Sweat”; The Jayhawks' “I'd Run Away”; Robert Johnson's “Traveling Riverside Blues”; The Rolling Stones' “2000 Light Years From Home”; The Left Banke's “Sing Little Bird, Sing”; The Magic Numbers' cover of Beyonce's “Crazy In Love”; Tom Tom Club's “Genius Of Love”; The Association's “Along Comes Mary” and the New Pornographers' “Use It.”
RONNIE WOOD reportedly had to check into an alcohol rehab clinic the other night. Best wishes to him; maybe Keef can teach him the secrets of the Undead.
SEEN YOUR VIDEO: A stripped-down formation of Broken Social Scene appears in the video for “Fire Eye'd Boy”… and so does Rush's Geddy Lee.
BOB DYLAN has a new album, Modern Times, coming August 29th. It's his first studio album in five years.
KIM GORDON of Sonic Youth talks to PopMatters about recording Rather Ripped and having to play more bass with the departure of Jim O'Rourke. Remember, the whole album is streaming from AOL Music this week.
PAUL SIMON is supposed to be promoting his new album, but can't stop talking about Art Garfunkel: “I could have used Artie's voice. But if I'd done that, every conversation I'm now having would be about the disagreements the two of us had in the past.” Which he's doing anyway. So let's balance off two new Simon tunes, “How Can You Live in the Northeast?” and “Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean,” with Simon & Garfunkel's “The only Living Boy in New York” and — just for Royal — Simon's “Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard.”
TILLY AND THE WALL have a tap dancer for a percussionist because “there weren't that many drummers around.” You can hear 'em on MySpace, with the tap pronounced on the Flamenco-tinged “Bad Education.”
PETE DOHERTY UPDATE: Don't know how I missed it, but the troubled singer's rehab treatment in Portugal consisted primarily of putting him to sleep for a week or so.
THE McCARTNEYS: Heather Mills McCartney, estranged wife of Sir Paul, plans to sue the News of the World over that hooker story… after her divorce is finalized? Hmmm. Meanwhile, the NotW's sister, the Sun has pics of Heather from two more porn books. And you just know the folks at the Sun must be laugh-snorting when they type up phrases like “many pictures too filthy to print in a family newspaper.”
GWEN STEFANI, GAVIN ROSSDALE and baby Kingston photos can be found on a No Doubt fan site.
JACK BLACK and wife Tanya Haden are the new parents of a baby boy. Black himself announced the arrival during Monday's Hollywood premiere of his new comedy Nacho Libre — the man has even better PR timing than Tom Cruise.
WHEN CELEBS COLLIDE: Tom Cruise would like to convert Bradgelina to Scientology. He called Jolie and Pitt in Africa to congratulate them on the birth of Shiloh — and invited them to his Beverly Hills home when they returned to the US. This was reported by the Enquirer, but it's at least consistent with reports that Bradgelina chartered Cruise's private jet back to L.A. to avoid the paparazzi.
NICOLE KIDMAN: Cruise's ex, however, is returning to the Roman Catholic Church on the eve of her marriage to country singer Keith Urban. I suspect she was never heavily into Scientology. Besides, maybe The Da Vinci Code has hipped-up Catholicism.
JENNA ELFMAN and her husband blew up at indie film director John Roecker after spotting him wearing a t-shirt saying “Scientology Is Gay!” Guess who is pictured on the shirt? Not the Elfmans. TMZ hastens to add, “For the record, both Cruise and Travolta have said repeatedly they are not gay.” NTTAWWT.
CELEBRITY CARICATURES: It's Photoshop Phun over at Worth1000.
ORLANDO BLOOM is supposedly in a longterm relationship with Kate Bosworth (a/k/a Lois Lane). But lately, he's been seen getting cozy with Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst and Clare Danes. Page Six claims he was snacking on Danes' neck while dirty dancing last Saturday night.
DAVID LYNCH files for divorce from Mary Sweeney after a month of marriage. But that wouldn't be odd enough for the director of stuff like Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks. So note that the pair have a 14-year-old son together.
ZACH BRAFF is rumored to have been dumped by Mandy Moore, according to blogger Perez Hilton. Moore, in turn, sent the blogger a non-denial.
DARYL HANNAH had to be removed from a walnut tree by L.A. firefighters. Turns out it was part of a political protest, not general craziness.
JESSICA SIMPSON: If she's still mooning over soon-to-be-ex Nick Lachey, is it worse to read that gay men think she could drive him to their team, or the ever-increasing reports that he's getting cozy with Entertainment Tonight infobabe Vanessa Minnillo?
SPEED RACER: IGN FilmForce was recently informed by a longtime source that Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creative force behind The Matrix trilogy, may write and direct the live-action, feature film version of the classic Japanese cartoon. The Mach 5 in “bullet time”… Mmmm. Maybe they could use Matthew Sweet's cover of the theme. BONUS: The blog post from which that's taken has much more Sweet-ness, including a cover of “Magnet and Steel.”
WARD CHURCHILL UPDATE: A University of Colorado committee has recommended firing the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims “little Eichmanns,” citing repeated research misconduct. Inside Higher Ed has a column by University of Illinois Prof. Dennis Baron arguing that it's not just about professional malpractice, but also about academic freedom, while admitting he doesn't “know enough about the situation to support or challenge the panel's unanimous findings, or to suggest what the university should do about them.” I wonder why; the summary of the committee's findings is easy to find — and highly incriminating. It's one thing to be concerned about academic freedom, but it's hard to argue for the freedom to commit gross academic conduct — or that misconduct should be shielded by thrusting oneself into a political controversy. Much easier to ignore that part, as Prof. Baron does.
IRAQ: At ITM, Omar rounds up reports of growing anti-jihadi and anti-Hamas sentiment in Iraq and Jordan. Mohammed notes that the World Cup and David Beckham may bring a temporary truce in Basra. Oil officials said that exports from Iraq's northern oil fields have resumed, more than four months after insurgents sabotaged twin pipelines carrying Iraqi crude to Turkey. Thousands of Iraqi and U.S.-led forces are reportedly prepared to mount a major security crackdown in Baghdad. The L.A. Times reports that fear of an imminent Coalition offensive on the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi is causing residents to flee what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis.
SPAIN: A few days ago, between 200K and a million people flooded Madrid to protest the Socialist government's plan to negotiate with the terrorist ETA. Spaniards should not be surprised that the gov't that won on a platform of fleeing Iraq wants to chat with the ETA.
LIVE SEX SHOWS featuring bulls and a steel cow are hitting the National Fieldays in New Zealand.
A DOG WAS TAGGED with graffiti by vandals sought by the police in Colorado.
MIGHTY MOUSE: A tiny mouse the size of a human toe short circuited a 40-megawatt power plant, cutting the power to more than 40 percent of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. No word on the mouse's condition.
THE WORLD'S PRICIEST SHEEP DOG is headed to Tazmania.
DOES A BEAR go to the mall? Of course he does, in Gwinnett County GA. The bear was tranquilized, held overnight and released Monday morning in Habersham County. Video and pics at the link.
