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Arcade Fire, Paolo Nutini, Belly demos, Sloan, Polar Bear Scare   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Monday, February 05, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

ARCADE FIRE: The Gazette reviewed the band's gig at London's ornate Porchester Hall, claimin that it was the final encore of "Wake Up" that inevitably stole the night, as the band abandoned the stage and played acoustically, right in the heart of the crowd. Actually, they played in the foyer of the hall, as they do from time to time.

YOU TUBE hits a rough patch, as Viacom requests the removal of 100K videos after talks collapse. In addition, indie labels mull lawsuits to ensure they are fairly treated by the video-sharing service.

VAN HALEN: David Lee Roth has officially returned to front the band's upcoming tour.

PAOLO NUTINI: The unusually soulful 19-year-old Scot played a set for the World Cafe Friday that you can stream from NPR now.

SOUL REVIVAL: Speaking of soul music, The New York Times reports o­n the current resurgence of classic soul singers and classic soul's influence o­n new artists.

BELLY: Tanya Donnelly has posted the demos for most of Star o­n her website for your downloading and listening pleasure.

THE MONKEES: Most folks are familiar with the countrified album version of Mike Nesmith's "You Just May Be The One," but the original arrangement for TV in this (badly-synced) clip sounds more like The Searchers with John Entwhistle sitting in o­n the bass.

SLOAN: At Chromewaves, Frank rediscovers his love for the band. The power-poppers were pretty much off my radar also, but "I Understand" was certainly worth "Song of the Day" honors at NPR.

CARL NEWMAN and ROD STEWART: NOW Toronto finds similarities between the New Pr0nographer with the old o­ne.

WESTERN STATES MOTEL sounds much like The Shins, with a touch of Wilco. The o­ne-man band also scored o­ne of the "extras" for the the Walk the Line Special Edition DVD, You can stream four relaxed tracks from HisSpace.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE: The troubled singer has publicly apologized to the supposedly sober supermodel for the shocking shots of him injecting himself with cocaine.

ENNIO MORRICONE is a five-time Oscar nominee, but never won. This year he is receiving a lifetime-achievement Oscar this year -- the second ever awarded to a composer. NPR has a streaming audio feature, plus a a Top 10 list of his film scores. I (of course) will go straight for live video of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," along with a stream of "A Fistful of Dollars," plus a rockin' cover of "Fistful" from Babe Ruth, circa 1975.

MARTIN SCORSESE took the top prize from the Directors Guild of America for The Departed -- his first DGA award after six previous nominations. The award likely solidifies his odds to take the Oscar. Accepting his award, Scorsese joked that his film had been particularly well-received in US cities with an allegedly large mafia presence.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: In a weekend that was down 20 percent year-over-year, The Messengers and Because I Said So led the box office with 14.5 and 13 million, as movies for youngsters and chicks providfed effective counter-programming o­n SuperBowl weekend. Epic Movie (No. 3) and Smokin' Aces (No.5) plunged precipitously, though the latter is sure to make money. Night at the Museum (No. 4) is finally running out of steam, though a 225 million take to date is pretty sweet. Stomp the Yard dropped to No.6, but has already made 56 million o­n a 13 million budget. Dreamgirls drops to the seventh slot as it struggles toward the 100 million mark. Pan's Labyrinth holds the eighth slot and exeeds its budget here in the US, with possible Oscars poised to boost it in the DVD market. The Pursuit of Happyness slips to the nointh slot, but has made almost three times its budget. The Queen rounds out the top ten, with a 45 million US total o­n a 15 million budget.

FARRAH FAWCETT is certified cancer-free for her 60th birthday, while RYAN O'NEAL was arrested for assaulting his son, Griffin.

TOM-KAT UPDATE: The couple canoodled conspicuously in Miami Beach for some pre-SuperBowl PR.

TOMMY LEE is developing a new line of lingerie for men? Or was it just a come-on line to a waitress?

BRITNEY SPEARS: Fed-Ex's pals float the rumor that Spears has been making late-night phone calls to him in hope of a reconciliation, which other sources dismiss. The pop tart's people also rubbish reports that she will ante up 25 mil to end their marriage, suggesting 1 mill is more likely.

GIRLS GONE WILD mogul Joe Francis rates the relative skills of the French Hotel, Lindsay Lohan, Kimberly Stewart and Tara Reid o­n the Howard Stern Show. We're all shocked that Francis is the sort to kiss and tell. SEMI-RELATED: Kim Kardashian now admits that she made more than o­ne sex video with her ex-boyfriend, R&B singer Ray J. She denies any effort to sell o­ne, contary to media reports.

WHITNEY HOUSTON wants to fast-track her divorce from Bobby Brown by way of a default judgment. Who could blame her?

JIM CARREY: Radar magazine is set to report that three big Carrey films have been shelved in the last year, including o­ne with Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz, due to the actor's unpredictable and bizarre behavior and o­n-set tantrums.

STUDIO 60 o­n the SUNSET STRIP is going o­n hiatus starting March 5, but supposedly will return later this season o­n "a date to be determined."

DENISE & HEATHER & RICHIE & CHARLIE: Egotastic is not the o­nly site wondering what Denise Richards is doing o­n the beach in Hawaii.

SOMALIA: Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will be airlifted to Somalia as soon as possible, as radical Islamists regroup in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and Yemen.

LEBANON: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah publicly admitted the terror group is funded equipped and trained by Iran and Syria.

ISLAMISM in the UK: Police sources say a foiled plot to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier was orchestrated by Al Qaeda. Security forces are also praising two British Muslim soldiers who agreed to act as "bait" in the extraordinary "sting" operation. Islamic terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of this sort. British intelligence services fear that Britain could be subject to a Beslan-style siege, with multiple hostages forced to plead for their lives o­n camera. However, many UK Muslins imagine this is all a government plot. All the while, young British Muslims are becoming radicalized by anti-Western views and misplaced multicultural policies. And the Brits have foiled a terror plot about o­nce every six weeks for the last 18 months.

IRAQ: Michael Yon has another gripping dispatch, this time about a villager martyring himself to stop a suicide bomber from killing others. You can also listen to Yon give a more general overview of what he's seen since returning to Iraq. Two senior Iraqi generals -- as well as Iranians -- are suspected of involvement in the attack that killed five US soldiers in Karbala. Iraq is restricitng passage to Iran and Syria preparation for the new security plan. Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army has been instructed to lay low, not carry guns and avoid confrontations with US forces.

IRAQ in the MEDIA: In The New York Times, Stuart Elliot thinks the SuperBowl ads were subliminally about Iraq. Which probably says more about Elliot than the ads. Perhaps he will do a follow-up on the secret messages he hears when he plays them backwards.

GLOBAL WARMING: As I predicted last week, the new IPCC summary for policy makers triggered plenty of doom-and-gloom coverage in the press. Indeed, the stories that bothered to mention that the IPCC substantially reduced its estimate of global warming and sea-level rise did so in stories of alarmists complaining about the IPCC summary, though the researchers o­n a new study of accelerated sea level rise say it's too early to blame it o­n humans. There were also stories stating that "Global warming has made stronger hurricanes, including those in the Atlantic Ocean such as 2005's Katrina," though the report really doesn't say that and even the author of The Republican War o­n Science thinks the media is overstating it.

POLAR BEAR SCARE: The New York Times article o­n the aforementioned IPCC report includes the above photo of polar bears, yet the story itself makes no reference to polar bears. Indeed, the story reports that "The panel said there was no solid scientific understanding of how rapidly the vast stores of ice in polar regions will melt." Moreover, polar bears o­n melting ice floes may turn up in Iceland, which has seen increasing pack ice. Overall, since 1970, the polar pear population has quintupled. In o­ne area of Canada the polar bear population increased 50 percent in just ten years. BTW, the original photo carries a caption stating the ice floe was carved by waves. The expedition set up an ice buoy to monitor the growth and ablation of sea ice; it was tough work because the ice was so thick. Aside from the emotional appeal of the polar bear photo, the NYT piece is chockful of truthiness, such as the claim that the Bush admin. "until recently avoided directly accepting that humans were warming the planet in potentially harmful ways," when in fact it did so in 2005, 2004, 2002, and 2001. The 2002 story ran in the NYT, making the reporting twice as truthy.

CASPER the CAT got stuck 50 feet up a tree in greater Manchester during six days of stormy weather. They don't have a fire department there?

ENDANGERED WHOOPING CRANES led south to Florida from Wisconsin last fall were all killed in storms.

WILD EAGLES attacked a paraglider in Australia. Veteran Australian paraglider pilot Godfrey Wenness said eagle attacks were rare, but Moss had been flying in an area where the birds were not accustomed to human pilots.

A COYOTE swims ashore at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard... and is released in a nearby community.

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