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RIP Dobie Gray, Mates of State, Honeydogs, Giant Weta   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, December 07, 2011 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE RAVEONETTES finally drop a video for 2001's "The Christmas Song."

MATES OF STATE played a Tiny Desk Concert at the offices of NPR.

THE HONEYDOGS stopped by The Current to put their spin on three classic Beatles songs.

AUSTRA stopped by the KEXP studios for a session. Katie Stelmanis talks to the Star Observer about the gay band label. (Thx, LHB.)

TRENT REZNOR drops six tracks from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, in return for an email address.  he talks about the project at the L.A. Times.

THE BREEDERS: Last Splash demos.

DOBIE GRAY, who released hits like "The In Crowd" and "Drift Away," passed away in his sleep on December 5, 2011, at age 71 after a short illness.

BEN FOLDS talks to PopMatters about the music biz, the TV biz, new songs for his old band, and more...

LOS CAMPESINOS! Tom talks to Drowned In Sound about the less pretentious third record.

GARY NUMAN discusses tracks spanning his career with The A.V. Club.

BOY GEORGE explains to The Observer why he finally feels proud of himself at 50.

ASHTON KUTCHER snapped getting cozy with Glee's Lea Michele on the red carpet for New Year's Eve.

RYAN REYNOLDS & BLAKE LIVELY were... wait for it... caught canoodling on camera over the Thanksgiving weekend.

ALEC BALDWIN was kicked off an American Airlines flight Tuesday afternoon in Los Angeles because he refused to turn off his cell phone and became abusive and aggressive. So out of character for ol' Arec.

CHARLIE SHEEN will not go to court to seek custody of his twin sons, Bob and Max, after his ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, relapsed and was arrested for drug possession.

JESSE JAMES is talking trash about Sandra Bullock. PR genius.

SEX IN THE CITY creator Candace Bushnell is divorcing her handsome ballet dancer husband Charles Askegard, sensationally alleging in court papers he had an affair with ballerina Georgina Pazcoguin.

BRITNEY SPEARS has reportedly fired her trainer Derek DeGrazio because he made her eat nutritious foods in moderate portions.

KRISTIN WIIG talks women in comedy at Paper magazine.

DECEMBER 7, 1941: A "date which will live in infamy." I'll be watching Tora! Tora! Tora! on tonight. BTW, the first nation invaded by the US after entering WWII was Morocco, then Algeria, iirc.

TERROR in SWEDEN: A district court charged three men, Abdi Aziz Mahamud, a Somali living in Sweden, and Salar Sami Mahamood and Abdi Weli Mohamud, both Swedish citizens, with plotting to murder cartoonist Lars Viks.

TERROR in DENMARK: Prosecutors announced that charges are "imminent" for four Swedish-based men arrested last year for plotting an attack on the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Copenhagen.

IRAN: The US Sentinel drone which crashed there has cutting-edge stealth and surveillance technology that other nations could exploit.  Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been put on a war footing amid increasing signs that the West is taking direct action to cripple Iran's nuclear program.

AFGHANISTAN: A suicide attack killed dozens of Shi'ite Muslims at a crowded Kabul shrine on Tuesday, and four others died in a smaller blast in a key northern city, in the worst sectarian violence Afghanistan has seen since the fall of the Taliban.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: The Cook Strait Giant Weta.

FLORIDA CROCODILES love nuclear power.

ROMY the RED SETTER had a litter of 15 pups. Aww...some pics at the link.

PUSUKE, who was listed as the oldest living dog in Guinness World Records, died on Dec. 5, 2011 in Sakura, Japan. He reached the ripe old age of 26 years and 9 months.

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