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Vampire Weekend, Hold Steady+Art Brut, NPs, Cowboy Monkey   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

VAMPIRE WEEKEND is a combo from Columbia U that's getting plenty of blog buzz for a sound that's sorta the indie rock version of Paul Simon's Graceland album.  Their first video is for "Mansard Roof."  Though they don't have a proper album release until next year, you can find plenty of audio to jukebox on the ol' HM at the moment.

THE HOLD STEADY and ART BRUT played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream them both on demand via NPR.  Plus: Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler talked to Austinist about Art Brut and evocative bands.

OF MONTREAL frontman Kevin Barnes talks to Pitchfork about political songs, funk music and exploring the dark and gloriously detestable sides of his consciousness.  Idolator has posted the band's T-Mobile commercial.

THE TOP 12 VIDEOS of 2007, as nominated for the Plug Independent Music Awards.  Brooklyn Vegan rounds 'em up off the Tube.

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS did an interview and unpluggedy mini-set for KEXP you can stream via NPR.

ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS... and producer T-Bone Burnett talk to the Scotsman about making the Plant/Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand, which to their surprise is turning out to be one of the most talked-about albums of the year.  The piece mentions that Burnett, Buddy Miller and Mark Ribot are all in the band.

THE PIPETTES:  I'm seeing them tonight, so I note that RiotBecki tells Spinner that fans are turning up knowing both their moves and their songs.  I guess I'll be brushing up with The Pipettes' instructional dance video.

SPLINTERS of ROCK:  David Brooks writes in the NYT about the fragmentation of American music and notes that Steven Van Zandt has drawn up a high school music curriculum that tells American history through music.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE previewed new material on the BBC, which you can jukebox on the ol' HM (via GvsB.).

BOB DYLAN:  At ComingSoon.net, the director of the bizzare biopic I'm Not There, Todd Haynes, explains what he wants audiences to get out of the movie: "I just want them to have a really rich experience, and an experience that is not dissimilar from a musical experience, like listening to a whole record, listening to all of Blonde on Blonde."  I'm Not There opens on 125 screens today.

DAVID BOWIE was a ratings bonanza for Spongebob Squarepants last week.

AIMEE MANN embarks on her second annual Christmas variety show tour next week, with Josh Ritter, Ben Gibbard, Nellie McKay, and members of The Decemberists slated to cameo at various dates.  Links to Tube clips from last year's tour at the link.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  US Weekly has posted a teaser for their cover story on Britney's Twisted Childhood.  The pop tart has decided to hire a driver to avoid more dangerous incidents with the paparazzi.

THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS have sued Showtime Networks and others over the new television show called "Californication," the same name used by the band for their Grammy-nominated 1999 album.  The show has been on for months, so the RHCP is really up on things.

MARY-KATE OLSEN has been hospitalized with a kidney infection.

DENNIS QUAID's newborn twins are fighting for their lives after being inadvertently overdosed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

BRADGELINA:  Star magazine is hopeful for a disfunctional Thanksgiving at the Pitt family home in Missouri.

MADONNA hubby Guy Richie reveals they banned Christmas presents several years ago.  Does Kabbalah include Hannukah?

THE McCARTNEYS:  Heather Mills former sister-in-law says the accusations Mills leveled at Sir Paul during her recent television rants are the carbon copy of stories she made up about her ex following their divorced in 1991.

OJ SIMPSON is pleading with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to let him move to the Socialist island nation, which has no extradition treaty with the US -- according to the ever-reliable National Enquirer.  Probably untrue, but too funny to not share.

WILL SMITH tells Men's Vogue that he's studied Scientology through Tom Cruise, while a source tells US Weekly that Jada Pinkett Smith is "more gung-ho about Scientology than Will."

SIENNA MILLER is the first to enlist in the cast of Paramount's big-budget 2009 tentpole "G.I. Joe."

GEORGE CLOONEY & RENEE ZELLEWEGER talk about their upcoming movie, Leathernecks, and their longtime friendship, in W magazine.

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL trailer is online.  Looks like it's good to be the King.

PAKISTAN:  Bill Roggio argues that the Taliban appear to have gained the upper hand in the fight against the Pakistani military in the settled districts of Swat and Shangla in the Northwest Frontier Province.

IRAQ:  Newsweek's Rod Nordland, who has periodically been to Baghdad during the past four and a half years, notes the "New normal" in the capital: "For the first time... returning to Baghdad after an absence of four months, I can actually say that things do seem to have gotten better, and in ways that may even be durable."  He notes that volunteer forces have even calmed neighborhoods like Ameriyah, where AQI fled when the Anbar sheikhs turned on them.  NPR has a similar report on Ameriyah.  Nordland reports that the US military says it has forked over about 17 million to the volunteers to enroll some 67000 fighters -- less than the cost of one Apache helicopter.  The terrorists are also cash-driven, looking more like The Sopranos than jihadis.  Iraqi refugees are returning home in dramatic numbers, concluding that security in Baghdad has been transformed.  On Monday, Iraqi Army forces killed and arrested over 75 terrorists in separate military operations in Mosul, Baghdad, Diyala, Kirkuk and Salahdin.  A mass grave full of dozens of bodies of men killed during the 1991 Shiite uprising against Saddam was found on Tuesday near the Shiite holy city of Najaf, an Iraqi official said.

WHIPLASH the COWBOY MONKEY:  Let's go to the video, y'all!

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  A militant squirrel knocked out electricity to 177 customers in Ashland, WI on Monday, while "by coincidence," another squirrel took dowwn the grid for 1,400 customers in Ironwood, MI the same morning.  And yet another squirrel forced the early closing of the main campus of Lewis and Clark Community College in St. Louis.  Someday, Congress will investigate how Homeland Security failed to connect the dots.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:  A cat with three eyes and two faces.

A PIGLET was discovered in a truck loaded with toilet paper.  Ella Herring, deputy manager for the Radcliffe-on-Trent animal shelter, said: "There is no doubt the piglet's ordeal would have been traumatic and stressful...."

A JUVENILE HUMPBACK WHALE got tangled in fishing gear and had been stranded off the Rhode Island coast over the weekend, but freed itself and swam off Monday as rescuers sought to aid it.  Kids! What are you going to do?

PETRA UPDATE:  The black swan from Münster, Germany who fell in love with a swan-shaped pedal boat, will once again be allowed to spend the winter with her heartthrob.

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