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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

R.E.M. continue their collaboration with La Blogotheque with a Take-Away Show; watch all five videos at the link.

NEW RELEASES:  Obvs, the R.E.M. album is the big release this week.  The Black Keys release Attack & release -- the duo's first album for Nonesuch.  Albums from Los Campesinos! Gnarls Barkley, Moby and a Willie Nelson compilation are streaming in full this week via Spinner.

STEREOGUM has posted a downloadable 15-year anniversary tribute compilation of Björk's Post album.

FEIST has enlisted the help of the Calgary-based The Old Trout Puppet Workshop for the video of her latest single, "Honey, Honey," off the Grammy-nominated album The Reminder.

THE HEADLIGHTS brought their light, dreamy melodies and male-female harmonies to The Current or a chat and mini-set you can stream on demand via MPR.

KEITH RICHARDS, LORD of the UNDEAD, tells The Sun: "I smoke my head off. I smoke weed all the d*mn time. There, you've got it..."  But he claims that's his strongest drug.  He also lashes out against anti-smoking laws and says he is finding writing an autobiography difficult, thus bringing us full circle.

STEPHEN MALKMUS talks about The Jicks with the Boston Globe, and more than holds his own on FNC's demented late-night gab fest Red Eye.

STEVE EARLE & ALLISON MOORER are the musical guests on this week's edition of Sound Opinions.

THE GUILLEMOTS frontman Fyfe Dangerfield shows the Independent around the synagogue turned art gallery turned Batcave that serves as the quartet's recording and rehearsal space.

DEAN WAREHAM appears on WNYC's Soundcheck to discuss his memoir, Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance.  There is also an excerpt of the book, allong with tracks from Wareham's band's -- Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta -- at the link.

MOUNTAIN GOATS mastermind John Darnielle talks to io9 about his dystopian affinity in explaining why Ozzy Osbourne is a Sci-Fi visionary.

KATHERINE HEIGL talks to the Times of London about her TV and movie career, as well as newlywed bliss with musician Josh Kelley and her newfound desire for kids: "I think we're both on such a career trajectory right now, it would be foolish to waste the opportunities. I think he'd prefer to wait a little more time, but I kind of wouldn't, so I think we'll meet somewhere in the middle."  That is generally what produces kids.

JOHNNY DEPP has been offered ten million dollars to become the "face" of American birth control giant Trojan.

PAUL McCARTNEY was caught canoodling heiress Nancy Shevell on a paradise isle.

AMY WINEHOUSE has almost become a recluse since contracting an ugly skin condition and friends are terrified about her negative state of mind.

EDDIE VAN HALEN is just fine, thank you very much, says his son, Wolfgang.

MADONNA is the cover story of this month's Vanity Fair magazine, in which she talks about her new album, her adoption from Malawi, her directorial debut, Kabbalah, etc.  Elsewhere, Madge bizzarely compares the paparazzi's treatment of Britney Spears to the cruel conditions in Africa.

JESSICA SIMPSON was sent home from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being treated for a kidney infection.

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD returns to make television a little bit less watchable.

WOODY ALLEN is suing the skinny jeans off of American Apparel over the use of his image on billboards and on the Internet.

LARA FLYNN BOYLE:  Plastic surgery victim.

NICKELODEON'S TEEN CHOICE AWARDS winners are here.  But it's really just an excuse to see Jack Black and Orlando Bloom get slimed.

AFGHANISTAN:  NATO leaders holding a summit in Bucharest this week are unlikely to fully meet the military requirements of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, US SecDef Gates said Monday.  This is the theater that is supposed to have multi-lateral support.  Fortunately, there has been a dramatic fall in the number of trained Afghan soldiers leaving the Afghan National Army over last couple of years.

IRAQ:  Sources in Basra tell TIME magazine that there has been a large-scale retreat of the Mahdi Army in the oil-rich Iraqi port city because of low morale and because ammunition is low due to the closure of the Iranian border. That Iraqi lawmakers traveled to the Iranian holy city of Qom over the weekend to win the support of the commander of Iran's Qods brigades in persuading Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr to order his followers to stop military operations also speaks volumes as to the real source of the fighting and thuggery in southern Iraq these past months.  Supporters of the Sadrist movement believe the failure to rout the Mahdi Army is a humiliation for Prime Minister al-Maliki.  It is certainly true that al-Maliki seems to have blundered his way into a full-scale battle without adequate preparation and loses for failing to decisively beat the Sadrists, particularly in the context of the fall provincial elections.  But al-Maliki said Monday that security operations in Basra will continue "to pursue criminals and to stop terrorist activities," and the retreat of the Mahdi Army make it a non-victory for the Sadrists also.  Either way, there seems to be unfinished business.

A STUBBORN CAT trapped in the drywall of a Gilbert, AZ, home has finally been rescued from that house.  The owner thinks the cat could have been in the walls since mid-January.

PLANE HITS DOG, skids off runway in Bangalore.  None of the passengers or crew on the Kingfisher Airlines flight IT 2427 to the neighbouring southern city of Hyderabad were hurt and they were immediately evacuated.

THE PAPILLION DOG that vanished after the manager of a doggie day care claimed a hawk carried her off was found wandering at a nearby school Thursday afternoon.

A ROGUE BULL has been jailed in a southern town in Mexico for devouring corn crops and destroying two wooden shops.

A CROCODILE THIEF walked unnoticed out of a Norwegian aquarium at the weekend and now risks losing a finger or two, the head of the aquarium said on Monday.

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