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Break-Up Songs, Advance Dinosaur Jr., Paul Weller, Cats and Dogs   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: kbade

Karl

BREAK-UP SONGS for the day after Valentine's Day are listed (with some streaming) at NPR, categorized as "sad" or "angry." Obviously, the list includes the Greg Kihn Band's "The Breakup Song," but some of them -- like Willie Nelson's "You Were Always o­n My Mind," also appeared o­n yesterday's list of the Top 100 Greatest Love Songs; go figure. BONUS: Getting Over The Dork (You Used to Call a Boyfriend) is devoted to posting post-break-up songs including the J. Geils Band's "Love Stinks" and Art Brut's "Emily Kane."

ROGUE WAVE has posted a galloping cover of "All You Need Is Love" o­n TheirSpace; nice to hear Pat Spurgeon back o­n the throne with his new kidney.

FACE THE MUSIC, a new column for the o­nline Wall Street Journal, begins with a comparison of The Shins and Nirvana.

DINOSAUR JR. has released the details o­n the Beyond album, due o­n May 1st. You can download "Been There All the Time" directly from that link. You can also download "Almost Ready" from Pitchfork. You can stream both from TheirSpace, where you will also find the band's cover of The Cure's Just Like Heaven."

THE SILVER JEWS are the subject of a documentary debuting at SxSW next month. An Aquarium Drunkard has the details and a/v linkage.

SEEN YOUR VIDEO: The freaky clip for Grizzly Bear's "Knife" has a (for me) unexpected sci-fi flavor.

PAUL WELLER, o­ne of the most influential Britpop acts of the past 30 years, gets an audio feature from the World Cafe you can stream from NPR.

BONNAROO is not o­nly getting the Police reunion, but also a White Stripes reunion. Full (and diverse) fest lineup at the link.

DAN WILSON of Semisonic and, before that, of Trip Shakespeare, gets an audio feature at MPR, talking about his Grammy win for writing Song of the Year "Not Ready To Make Nice" for the Dixie Chicks.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE: The troubled singer got off with a stern warning from the judge for driving without insurance and an appropriate licence. The supposedly sober supermodel, otoh, is the latest star attraction at Madame Tussauds.

THE 2007 SI SWIMSUIT ISSUE website has photo and video galleries of the bathing beauties with musicians including Aerosmith, Gnarls Barkley, and more...

ANNA NICOLE SMITH IS STILL DEAD: TMZ has an affidavit by the spokesmodel's former nanny, which contains allegations of suicide attempts, sex romps, and a claim that Smith dangerously starved five-month-old Dannielynn because "She wanted her baby to be 'sexy'." The site also published documents showing how the 8-months pregnant Smith scored Demerol and methadone thru possibly illegal prescriptions. A Bahamian judge slapped Smith companion Howard K. Stern with a court order preventing him from whisking the late centerfold's baby out of the Caribbean country. Judges in FL and CA ruled o­n what to do with the corpse.

HOWARD (not K) STERN: The shock jock got engaged to his longtime girlfriend, model Beth Ostrosky -- adding that his proposal was "so gay" and that it's likely to be a long engagement.

BRITNEY SPEARS spent last Sunday night at a NYC club, where she drank shots of tequila and ended up naked in the dancers' dressing room, trying o­n their bikini costumes. Egotastic has video and sceencaps.

VAUGHNISTON couldn't have ended that badly, as Vaughn showed up to Aniston's birthday party.

DAVID HASSELHOFF received zero votes from 5000 Australians polled in an o­nline survey of who they would most like to take o­n a romantic Valentine's Day getaway. Granted, it's an unscientific poll, but no o­ne was hooked o­n a feeling? BTW, if you watch his new video of "Crazy for You" (not the Madonna or Heart songs), it's no coincidence that the Village People's "YMCA" pops up in the "related videos" box.

PIRATES of the MULTIPLEX: Vanity Fair has a lengthy piece o­n the US-led attempt to shut down Pirate Bay, the popular site for illegal trading of video files.

DAME JUDI DENCH will be watching her likely Oscar loss from a hospital bed.

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL joins Rachel McAdams in the running for a role in the Batman Begins sequel.

STUDIO 60 is going o­n hiatus a week earlier than previously announced, renewing questions about the show's long-term fate.

UNDERDOG: If the movie is as good as the teaser trailer, it might be worth seeing. But with seven writers and ten producers, I'm not holding my breath.

INDIA: 150 religious hardliners are arrested after protests against Valentine's Day turned violent.

IRAN: In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Pres. Ahmadinejad was asked whether Saddam Hussein had been Iran's enemy, to which he replied: "Yes, but who equipped this enemy? Who made him fight with us for eight years? Who supported him? The US administration. The US administration could support us." I would direct him -- and you -- to this chart showing that the US accounted for a whopping o­ne percent of Iraq's arms imports from 1973-2002. Too bad Sawyer seemed oblivious about this, but it's pretty much what I expect from Sawyer, who asked Syrian President Bashar al-Assad what was o­n his iPod.

IRAN and IRAQ: After US military officials implicated Iran in shipping advanced IEDs used to kill US troops in Iraq, critics argued there is no evidence that this is Iranian policy, and Pres. Bush stated at yesterday's presser that "we know they're provided by the Quds force," but that "I don't think we know who picked up the phone and said 'the Quds force, go do this." However, a senior defense official said that one of the six Iranians detained in January in the northern city of Irbil was the operational commander of the Quds Force. Moreover, Pres. Ahmadinejad reportedly helped found Quds Force, which reports directly to the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Thus, Pres. Bush's comments probably are a recognition that war with Iran is in no o­ne's interests. RELATED? A car bomb killed 11 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards; a Sunni militant group claimed responsibility, but Iran accused the US of backing them.

IRAQ: Prime Minister al-Maliki announces the official start of the new Baghdad security plan. Thousands of US troops swept house-to-house virtually unopposed through mostly Shiite areas. Moqtada al-Sadr's aides insist he is in Iraq, while the military stands by the earlier claim that he fled to Iran. A high-level Iraqi official told London's Guardian that senior commanders of al-Sadr's Mahdi army have been spirited away to Iran to avoid being targeted in the new security push. Iraqi forces captured a Mahdi Army arms merchant-financier and a cell member in Baghdad. Twenty-seven al-Qaeda were detained in Baghdad, Ramadi and Karma. Jordanian intell helped defeat an al-Qaeda in Iraq operation that was supported from Syria and Lebanon. Top House Democrats, working in concert with anti-war groups, have decided against trying to directly defund the US involvement in Iraq, and instead will pursue a slow-bleed strategy designed to gradually limit the administration's options. Left unmentioned is who will do the actual slow bleeding under that strategy.

CATS and DOGS, living together -- it's a disaster of biblical proportions.

BEST IN SHOW: An English springer spaniel named Diamond Jim beat out a Dandie Dinmont terrier co-owned by Bill Cosby to make best in show at the Westminster Kennel Club. I credit the buzzy bee.

BLIND SNAKE rediscovered after 100 years. We can o­nly hope it's another century before people rediscover Whitesnake.

ROTTING CHICKENS and COW DUNG: It's a raging bull market, thanks to global warming fears.

SQUIRREL TERROR: Finally, someone else recognizes the threat.

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