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Sharon Van Etten, Fleet Foxes, Love Language, RIP Poly Styrene & Phoebe Snow   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

POLY STYRENE, fmr frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, succumbed to cancer at 53. P-Fork has your A/V linkage, including "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!"  Her latest LP, Generation Indigo, dropped yesterday and is streaming via Spinner, which also collected remembrances from musicians, while NPR has a piece from Robert Christgau.

SHARON VAN ETTEN, Live at Brighton Music Hall, April 14, 2011.

FLEET FOXES performed a session for Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show live at Maida Vale Studios.

BRIGHT EYES played a mini-set at the World Cafe.

THE LOVE LANGUAGE did the four free songs thing for Daytrotter.

PHOEBE SNOW, a bluesy singer, guitarist and songwriter who had a defining hit of the 1970s with "Poetry Man" but then largely dropped out of the spotlight to care for her disabled daughter, has died at 60. For whatever reason, I more clearly remember her singing covers with Linda Ronstadt on a Saturday Night in 1979.

JEFF TWEEDY talks to SPIN about Wilco's "obnoxious and irreverent" next album.

BRAIDS are profled at The Guardian.

THE KINKS: A "Kinks Kook" critically revisits the band's re-issued first three albums.

HIT SONG LYRICS show a statistically significant trend toward narcissism and hostility over the last 30 years.

LINDSAY LOHAN taped a surprise appearance on Leno, during which she complained about her jail sentence.

NICOLAS CAGE: A child abuse detective was called in to investigate the actor on the night of his drunken arrest.

CHARLIE SHEEN bailed out his pal, Lenny Dykstra, after the fmr baseball star was busted on federal embezzlement charges.

KRISTIN CAVALLARI & JAY CUTLER (a/k/a Jerkface) got engaged in Mexico.

ROB SCHNEIDER swapped vows with longtime girlfriend Patricia Azarcoya Arce on Saturday.

ROBERT PATTINSON & KRISTEN STEWART strip for their final Twilight scene.

KATIE COURIC announces she's leaving the CBS Evening News. Most of the press makes no mention of her bad ratings.

IRAN warned it would retaliate for Bahrain's expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Manama.

SYRIA: With reports emerging that at least one high-ranking Syrian military commander refused to participate in a bloody, predawn raid that left dozens dead in the southern border city of Daraa -- the heart of Syria's weekslong civil unrest, questions are being raised about possible cracks in President Bashar al-Assad's hold over the military.

LIBYA: Forces loyal to Gaddafi shelled the city of Misrata despite withdrawing from the center of the town just days ago. Children as young as eight are being raped in front of their families by Gaddafi's forces, according to reports made to a leading charity.

AFGHANISTAN: How many al Qaeda leaders are left in-country?

A CALICO CAT gave birth to a puppy in Yangshan, eastern China's Jiangsu Province. Reportedly. (Thx, Lance.)

MAYBE THE DINGOES ATE YOUR BABY: Two dingoes that mauled a 3-year-old girl on an Australian beach have been caught and destroyed, officials said Tuesday.

SOME DOGS aren't much of a threat.

TWIN BOY & GIRL POLAR CUBS are the first to survive in China.  Aww...dorable.

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