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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE BLACK KIDS bring the powdered wigs and the cheerleaders for "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend," which falls somewhere between The Go! Team and The Cure.

NEW RELEASES:  Albums from Gnarls Barkley, De Novo Dahl, the B-52s, reissues from The Lemonheads and the JAMC, plus more are streaming from Spinner this week.  Elf Power releases their new album, In A Cave.  The surrpise LP from The Raconteurs still sprung a couple of leaks, like "Salute Your Solution" and "Top Yourself."

R.E.M. has started advance streaming the Accelerate LP via iLike.  Michael Stipe talks to Pitchfork about the recording of the album and their cool supporting bands on tour.  Stipe is joined by Peter Buck and Mike Mills for an interview on NPR's Morning Edition.

OF MONTREAL frontman Kevin Barnes gives Paste magazine a progress report on the band's next album, including the title, Skeletal Lamping.

THE REAL FIFTH BEATLE:  Neil Aspinall, who left an accounting job to become the Beatles' road manager when the group was still a local dance band and who went on to manage the band's production and management company, Apple, died Sunday night in Manhattan. He was 66 and lived in Twickenham, England.

THE OHIO PLAYERS perform "Love Rollercoaster" and "Fire" on the Midnight Special for an especially funky Twofer Tuesday.

RYAN ADAMS has started a blog, with video, wackiness and the occasional news about his current recording sessions.

THE WALKMEN did four free Leonard Cohen covers for Daytrotter.  Says Hamilton Leithauser: "It was -20 degrees the day we did these songs in the Quad Cities. We decided to do Leonard Cohen songs rather than our own...honestly I don't know why but it sounded fun to all of us..."

JENS LEKMAN has delightful stories for the SFBG Music Blog, including someone at US Customs checking him on Wikipedia.

BE YOUR OWN PET:  Three tunes from the Get Awkward album were removed from the US version at the last minute, having been deemed too violent by Universal Records.

BRITNEY SPEARS made her much-hyped cameo on CBS's How I Met Your Mother.  Clips at the link, but I wouldn't be haning 'round the phone for that Emmy nomination.  Meanwhile, a California court denied an attorney's bid to challenge an order that gave control of the pop wreck's personal and business affairs to her father, Jamie Spears.

PRISCILLA PRESLEY had her face injected with industrial, low-grade silicone similar to what's used to lubricate auto parts in Argentina.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE made two separate donations of 100K each to his hometown's Memphis Rock 'N' Soul Museum and the Memphis Music Foundation on Thursday.

DENISE & CHARLIE:  Denise Richards is working on erasing Charlie Sheen from her life.  On Friday, Richards formally requested a family court to legally restore her maiden name from "Denise Sheen." Over the weekend, she also visited a tattoo parlor where she had her "Charlie" tattoo changed into a fairy.

RYAN SEACREST:  Don't bother accusing him of ambitiousness, megalomania or delusions of grandeur. Don't charge him with furtively plotting to become the next Dick Clark, either. Seacrest is plotting, all right, but there's nothing furtive about it.

PAM ANDERSON & RICK SALOMON have had their marriage anulled on the grounds of fraud on Monday.

OWEN WILSON & KATE HUDSON spent Easter weekend together in Miami - and this time, the on-again duo were joined by Hudson's son, Ryder, for a holiday bike ride.

LINDSAY LOHAN's grandmother drove into a tree.  Can you blame her?

THE DARK KNIGHT:  Maggie Gyllenhaal talks to Superhero Hype about replacing Katie Holmes in the upcoming sequel: "I'm Rachel Dawes now. I mean, how many Batmen have there been? Lots of them!"

TINTIN:  Georges Remi's comic books are headed to the big screen in a performance-capture-based film trilogy, to be directed by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

HEIDI KLUM: Body painting. Gratuitous Tuesday.

EX-AL-QAEDA:  The Washington Post profiles Khalid al-Hubayshi, who trained for religious warfare, never fought in combat (he was abandoned by bin Laden at Tora Bora) and now says he believes in the political process.  Former 9/11 Commission counsel Michael Jacobsen argues that we need to study those who leave terrorist organizations

IRAQ:  Sunni militia employed by the US to fight AQI are warning of a national strike because they are not being paid regularly.  Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia ordered shops to close in some Baghdad neighborhoods on Monday in what they said was a peaceful protest against what they claim are indiscriminate arrests.  The Interior Minister survived an assassination attempt.  Michael Yon's latest dispatch is from Niveheh province, with the Darkhorse Blackhawk helicopter troop, which is supporting Iraqi army and militia forces: "Combat is likely to heat up in Mosul and western Nineveh by about May. There likely will be some reports of increased US and Iraqi casualties up here, but this does not mean that we are losing ground or that al Qaeda is resurging - though clearly they are trying. If there is an increase in casualties here as we go into the summer of 2008, it is because our people and the Iraqi forces are closing in."  Bill Roggio has photos of a suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint on the road from Mosul to Tal Afar.

DONKEY SHOW:  Monika the dancing donkey takes a final bow after retiring from a Russian ballet troupe.

FISH can count, according to scientists, who have found that North American mosquito fish have the ability to count up to four.

CAT STOPPED BY HOMELAND SECURITY in a "dirty bomb" investigation.

ANIMAL PLANET craves young adult viewers, so it is promising "gripping entertainment" and is trying new series that "bring out the raw, visceral emotion in the animal kingdom."

GOPHER HUNT causes a massive grass fire in Springbank, Calgary. The silver lining is that Danny Noonan won the high-stakes golf tournament held nearby.

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