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New B-52s & Shearwater, Wilco & John Doe, Sea Rex   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

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THE B-52's have a new album Funplex, -- the band's first collection of fresh material since 1992 -- coming next month.  Kate Pierson says it's influenced by New Order, but the advance download of "Hot Corner" is accurately described by guitarist Keith Strickland as "loud, sexy rock & roll with the beat pumped up to hot pink."  You can stream it via the ol' HM.  To balance it off, I went with the video for the wistful "Deadbeat Club."

SHEARWATER has a new album, Rook, coming in June on Matador, which posted "Rooks" as an advance track for download.

WILCO & JOHN DOE played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand now via NPR.

NICOLE ATKINS stopped by The Current for a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

THE RAVEONETTES continue their blog interview tour at Chromewaves.

BUDDY MILES, who co-founded and played drums in Band Of Gypsys with Jimi Hendrix, passed away Feb. 26 in Austin, Texas, at the age of 60. A cause of death has yet to be announced.

SUPERGRASS has a little harder edge in the new video for "Bad Blood" than I remember them having in the past... but it has been awhile, hasn't it?

JEFF MANGUM, formerly of Neutral Milk Hotel, is profiled in Slate as the J.D. Salinger of Indie Rock.

BASIA BULAT, the singer-songwriter first promoted by Arcade Fire member Howard Bilerman, gets a twofer at the World Cafe, which you can stream via NPR.

LOU REED, JOHN FOGERTY and TOM HANKS are among the presenters at this years Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

CULT of the iPod:  Apple has become the second largest music retailer in the US, only trailing Wal-Mart.

AMY WINEHOUSE is being begged by friends to return to rehab - fearing that she is "getting back to her worst," according to the ever-reliable Sun.  The troubled singer reportedly will launch a line of cosmetics and clothes for all the teenage girls who want to look like her.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Paparazzo bf Adnan Ghalib is reportedly bragging to friends that she is going to have his baby, according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.  Which leads the tab to point to a current bulge which may be a bag of Chee-tohs, natch.  Meanwhile, a federal judge officially rejected a civil rights challenge to the pop wreck's conservatorship case, allowing her father to maintain his temporary control of her $100 million estate.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Intimate details of Sir Paul's divorce from Heather Mills will be made public by a High Court judge, due to the "overwhelming interest" the case has attracted.  Sources close to the case have said they expect Mills to receive between £20 million and £30 million - a huge sum, but less than some estimates.

JACKO will avoid foreclosure on his Neverland Ranch property with a new loan, a Jackson insider told CNN Wednesday.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Holmes' rep denies OK! magazine's new cover story, which asks whether the Stepford wife of Cruise is expecting.

NICOLE KIDMAN's rep says the pregnant star didn't down wine at the Academy Awards, denying a Cindy Adams item in the New York Post.

BRADGELINA will have their next child in France to honor the actress's late French-Canadian mother, according to the ever-reliable Sun, which also reports Jolie is not pregnant with twins.  The Daily Mail, otoh, claims Pitt has confirmed to friends that they are having twins.  US Weekly speculates that Jolie's last-minute backing out from a pre-Oscars party where she and Pitt would run into Pitt's ex, Jennifer Aniston, was "either very Machiavellian or very passive-aggressive."

THE SIMPSONS:  Jessica is headed for Kuwait to do a show for the troops on March 10.  Sister Ashlee was spotted with what appears to be an enagement ring at a signing of her new CD in NYC.

ORLANDO BLOOM may need to shower more often to keep his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr -- according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.

DUMBLEDORE!  Irish actor Michael Gambon, 67, who plays the Hogwarts headmaster in the Harry Potter franchise, is involved in an unusual love triangle with his wife of 45 years, Lady Anne Gambon, and movie set designer Philippa Hart, who's 25 years his junior and gave birth to his baby last May.

JENNY McCARTHY will not be be walking down the aisle with Jim Carrey: "What is it a guarantee of? I'll be yours forever? I'll be faithful? Bull!"

SUMMER GLAU talks to The A.V. Club about going from a ballerina to the human weapon River Tam in Firefly and Serenity and the "good" Terminatrix on The Sarah Connor Chronicles.  She really wants to be in a Western.

ISLAMISM at HARVARD:  Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six hours a week to accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men.

TURKEY is preparing to publish a document that represents a revolutionary reinterpretation of Islam - and a controversial and radical modernization of the religion.  According to Fadi Hakura, an expert on Turkey from Chatham House in London: "You can't say, for example, that the verses of violence override the verses of peace. This is used a lot in the Middle East, this kind of ideology."

IRAN:  Russia threatened to back further UN sanctions over Iran's nuclear program unless it halted uranium enrichment in the next few days.  Pres. Ahmadinejad said that Iran's recently launched research rocket was built in just nine months without using any foreign models.  A top cleric criticized Pres. Ahmadinejad for his ongoing "coarse" verbal assaults against Israel, the AFP news agency reported.

IRAQ:  The presidential council rejected the bill setting up provincial elections, sending it back to parliament for further review.  The three-member panel, however, approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody.  The leader of the Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq called for the creation of an autonomous Shia region to help quell the ethnic conflict in Iraq.  Baghdad's chief intelligence officer said Iran is working to destroy the Awakening movements, while raids against the Special Groups terror cells have not abated.

A GIANT PYTHON ate Scotty, a silky terrier-cross chihuahua.  I'm just spitballing here, but maybe the Peric family might have wanted to pick up the phone when other pythons entered their garden, near the northern Queensland city of Cairns, and swallowed the family cat and a guinea pig.

"SEA REX":  A fossilised pliosaur unearthed on an Arctic island in Norway, measures 50ft from nose to tail and is the largest marine reptile known to science, capable of crushing a car between its massive jaws... if there had been cars 150 million years ago.

MALE SPIDERS play dead to get the chicks.  Males that played dead were also allowed to copulate longer than males that did not.

CINDY the SPANIEL can balance almost anything on her tiny paws and nose.  Pics at the link.

DAISY the GOAT may be the answer for Mr Charles Tombe, the Sudanese man who was forced by village elders to marry a goat, but who was goat-widowed in 2007.

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