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Lester Bangs, Advance Wilco and Bjork, Dungen, Knut   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, May 02, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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CHUCK BERRY and JOHN LENNON, along with Yoko and Elephant's Memory, play "Johnny B. Goode" on The Mike Douglas Show.

LESTER BANGS:  Portrayed by Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman in Almost Famous, and paid tribute in song by musicians as diverse as the Ramones, Bob Seger, R.E.M., the Buzzcocks, the Mekons and Big Audio Dynamite, his iconoclastic rock criticism remains inspirational 25 years after his death.  So much so that PopMatters has posted an anguished open letter to Bangs on the sorry state of rock criticism.  BONUS:  The final chat with Lester Bangs from 11/99.

WILCO is now streaming Sky Blue Sky in full on demand ahead of the May 15 release date.

FEIST is offering three bonus downloads... if you get her new album through Best Buy!  What will this do to her indie cred?

BJORK'S new album is due next week, but you can stream the whole thing now from NME, in return for your e-mail address.

SEEN YOUR VIDEO:  Since we're between the new Son Volt album and the upcoming Wilco album, I was in the mood for "Chickamauga" by Uncle Tupelo.

BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT, whose dead-on Boris Karloff impression propelled the Halloween anthem "Monster Mash" to the top of the charts in 1962, making him one of pop music's most enduring one-hit wonders, has died of leukemia. He was 69.

DUNGEN has released "Familj" as an advance track from Tio Bitar, due May 15th.  Brandon Stuosy recently talked to guitarist Reine Fiske about his day job as a Swedish postal worker.

THE PHIL SPECTOR TRIAL has been canceled until Monday, May 7, because of problems with defense attorney Bruce Cutler's diabetes medications.

NEIL YOUNG:  The Age notes that the recently released Crazy Horse at the Fillmore 1970 and Live At Massey Hall 1971 are just appetizers for a 10-disc box of CDs and DVDs due in September, The Archives Vol. 1, 1963-1972. That box, in turn, is one of "four or five" that Young has up his chequered flannel sleeve for future Christmases.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Sean Ghent, hired last May to head up a new three-man close protection team for the couple as they prepared to announce their divorce, says Heather blames Sir Paul's broken promises over changing his boozy, dope-smoking lifestyle for splitting them up.  He also claims Sir Paul was depressed and seeing a shrink after the split.  Meanwhile, speculation is growing over the "deepening friendship" between the Cute One and brewery heiress Sabrina Guinness.

TOM POSTON, a comic TV fixture from "The Steve Allen Show," "To Tell the Truth," "Mork & Mindy," "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart," to name but a few, died Monday at his L.A. home after a brief illness; he was 85.

BRITNEY SPEARS was the victim of attempted blackmail after a fan gave her a bugged teddy bear in order to eavesdrop on the pop tart's private conversations.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Cruise seems to have made a friend of former target Brooke Shields, as the two (and their spouses) were betting their blues away in Sin City.

NO SECRET:  Gisele Bundchen is giving up her wings as lead angel for lingerie giant Victoria's Secret because it wouldn't up her $5 million-a-year salary.  A source told Page Six: "Her demands were outrageous. She got a new lawyer who was unrealistic."

ROSIE O'DONNELL says "you'll hear very soon" about her post-View plans.  In the meantime, she's using the show to suggest that Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11, that the gov't made things up to invade Iraq (though Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) would disagree), that the "vast majority" of the US military join because they are poor and uneducated (all data to the contrary), and remind us that terrorists are "mothers" and "fathers."  Osama bin Laden has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children, so what's not to like?

LINDSAY LOHAN admits that part of her loves being a paparazzi target -- but she wishes the photogs would stop bothering her for a while so that she can win an Oscar.  I don't think she could live without the cameras for that long.

ORLANDO BLOOM hugged an angry stalker who broke into his hotel room.  He may end up regretting telling that story.

BRADGELINA:  Angelina Jolie has more pull with the US Marshals than Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito.

KIM KARDASHIAN:  The celebutard has dropped her lawsuit against Vivid Entertainment over the release of her sex tape with former BF, R&B artist Ray J... and will reportedly receive close to five million in the settlement.

IRON MAN:  There's a "first look" at the superhero movie -- including quotes from Robert Downey Jr. and director Jon Favreau -- in the USA Today.  Actually, I'm digging this picture of the original armor from the movie.

RATATOUILLE:  It's not due until June 29th, but you can see nine minutes of Pixar's next picture (with intros from director Brad Bird) at Uncle Walt's place now.

GLOBAL WARMING:  During the last 10,000 years climate has been seesawing between the North and South Atlantic Oceans, according to a new study.  The results imply that Europe may face a slightly cooler future than predicted by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

TURKEY'S three-way standoff between the government, opposition and military over the next president moved to the nation's top court, where an expected ruling could send the nation to early elections - or to continued parliamentary balloting under the shadow of disapproving generals.

IRAN:  A grand coalition of anti-government forces is planning a second Iranian revolution via the ballot box to deny Pres. Ahmadinejad another term in office and break the grip of what they call the "militia state" on public life and personal freedom.  Meanwhile, the First International Congress on the Culture of Resistance got under way with a discussion of "The Islamic World, Victim of Terrorism."  Since yesterday was May Day, it's worth noting that Tehran has not been shy about partially severing the tongue of a labor organizer, or arresting the head of the bakery workers, or jailing striking teachers, and banning labor activities by metal and electrical workers.

IRAQ:  An Iraqi Interior ministry official announced the death of Abu Ayyoub al-Masri, known also as the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, but uncertainties have emerged and the claim is denied by  the "Islamic State of Iraq."  Shaker of salt.  A rumor is circulating in Baghdad that Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered the Mahdi Army to attack trucks transporting concrete blocks, in order to frustrate the plan to build a wall separating the area of Adamiya from the rest of the capital, according to IraqSlogger.  Bing West, on his 13th trip visiting with units in Iraq, reports from Combat Outpost Fort Apache in Adamiyah.  Owen West (Bing's son), who has served two tours in Iraq, has a NYT op-ed on the "surge."  Nationwide, it appears that US casualties were up and civilian casualties were down this month.  Prime Minister al-Maliki said that the Iraqi Cabinet accepted a draft law which states how Iraq's oil profits will be shared and outlines terms of how foreign oil agencies will be able to operate in the country.

KNUT UPDATE:  The polar bear's days of extreme cuteness are numbered now that he is gradually mutating from a fluffy porridge-lapping cub into a heavy bruiser with a penchant for meat off the bone.

LITTLE DEBBIE vs. THE BEAR -- and the snackcake wins!

REGGIE RETURNS!  Reggie the alligator reappeared Monday after vanishing for 1 1/2 years in L.A.'s Lake Machado, where the reptile turned up in 2005 and repeatedly skunked would-be 'gator wranglers.

DUCKS have evolved complicated genitals in what appears to be an "arms race" between the sexes, researchers reported on Tuesday.  Yeah, that's it... an "arms" race.

THE FASTEST CHIHUAHUA IN AMERICA competition has started up again.  Here's some video from last year.

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