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Morrissey, Georgie James, Tilly & the Wall, Grafitti Snails   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 - 08:00 AM
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MORRISSEY has a new video for "All You Need Is Me," the single from his forthcoming album, Years of Refusal.

GEORGIE JAMES plays a set for Oregon Public Broadcasting, including originals and covers of songs by The Zombies and The Flamin' Groovies.

BONNAROO & ACL FEST have posted their schedules here and here, respectively.

TILLY & THE WALL:  You can stream and download "Pot Kettle Black," a stompin' new track from O, the outfit's third full-length due June 17, via SPIN. Anyone who knows this band knows that when I say stompin' I mean stompin'.

AIMEE MANN talks to MSNBC about her new album, and being recognized from her role in The Big Lebowski.

THE RACONTEURS played "Many Shades of Black" (w/ a shout to Bo Diddley) and "Old Enough" for the redhead on the peacock network the other night.

SAID THE GRAMOPHONE blogger Sean Michaels writes about Six Free Songs (downloadable) every month for Canada's National Post. (Thx, LHB.)

ALL SONGS CONSIDERED:  A new track from Dr. Dog, plus Thao Nguyen, Atlas Sound and more appear in the latest installment of the long-running NPR series.

JON LANGFORD of The Mekons and The Waco Brothers talks to the Village Voice, mostly about the Wacos' 15th anniversary, but also talks about the Chicago scene circa 1993 and answers some fairly random questions.

WHITE RABBITS, who meld jagged rock with bits of calypso, ska and reggae, are profiled in Denver's Westword.  And they're big in Germany!

GINA GERSHON is denying the suggestion that she hooked up with Bill Clinton and is demanding a correction of the controversial Vanity Fair story by Todd Purdum, whom the former president called "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag."

R. KELLY TRIAL: Lisa Van Allen, who had a relationship with the R&B singer, testified under a grant of immunity about videotaped trysts with an underage girl, sex on a basketball court, a duffel bag of homemade pr0n and a stolen Rolex.

TATUM O'NEAL claims the death of her Scottish terrier from cancer sent her spiralling out of control, and thanked the NYPD for busting her before she could smoke the crack she bought from a vagrant.

CAMERON DIAZ, fresh off a rumored tryst with P. Diddy, was spotted dancing, flirting and dining with model Paul Sculfor who briefly dated Jennifer Aniston last year.

BRADGELINA: Entertainment Tonight finally retracted its story that Jolie had given birth. Jolie's legal camp at the LA firm Lavely & Singer has reportedly circulated a letter to various media outlets warning of an impostor who's been dishing out erroneous info under the guise of Jolie's longtime assistant, Holly Goline.

GEORGE CLOONEY didn't just break off his fairy-tale romance with Sarah Larson -- he did it abruptly, leaving the former cocktail waitress shocked, heartbroken and moving back to Las Vegas, friends of the former couple told FOXNews.com.

ALEC BALDWIN is literally throwing the book at ex-wife Kim Basinger in his new no-holds-barred diary of their bitter divorce and custody battle.

THE LOHANS: Lindsay's ex-con dad Michael is reopening his divorce from Dina, because she won't let him see their younger children, Cody, 11, and Aliana, 14, whose career Dina is trying to launch on the E! reality show "Living Lohan."

GWYNETH PALTROW talks to Harper's Bazaar about balancing motherhood, romance and work.

SEX & THE CITY is a big hit -- so why isn't Warner Bros. jumping all over the long-awaited remake of The Women, starring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Bette Midler, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Debi Mazur, Joanna Gleason, Carrie Fisher, Lynn Whitfield and Cloris Leachman?

MEGAN FOX explains in FHM magazine why she is not out on the town much: "I have the libido of a teenage boy. I'd rather have sex all the time than leave the house."

BRIGITTE BARDOT was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.  Bardot, an animal rights campaigner, wrote a letter to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy protesting the Muslim feast of Aid el-Kebir, celebrated by slaughtering sheep.

ISLAMISM in the UK: Islamic extremists could receive counselling instead of criminal charges under new Government plans to 'deradicalize' religious fanatics issued Tuesday.

TERROR in the US: An Ohio man who is an admitted member of al Qaeda has pleaded guilty to a federal terrorism charge and could spend 20 years in prison for the crime. Christopher Paul pleaded guilty to one count of "conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, namely explosives to be used as bombs" against US citizens and property outside the US.

SYRIA has told fellow Arab countries that it will not permit an International Atomic Energy Agency probe to extend beyond a site bombed by Israel, despite agency interest in three other suspect locations, diplomats told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

IRAN: The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that "no wise nation" would pursue nuclear weapons but his country will continue to develop its nuclear program for peaceful purposes.

IRAQ: Lawmakers allied to Prime Minister al-Maliki said Tuesday that negotiations over a US-Iraqi security pact and the future status of American troops in Iraq were stumbling, with "almost all points under dispute." The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdish region said on Tuesday Kurds were willing to share power with Arabs in the city of Kirkuk -- a focus of rivalry between ethnic groups, largely because of its considerable oil wealth.

GRAFITTI SNAILS, courtesy of an artist known as Slinkachu.

EATING BUGS: Slate recommends it. So does the Daily Mail. Time magazine has a video on "How to Cook Bugs."

PETA has sent a proposal to commissioners Somerset County, ME, to lease their jail for the world's first Lobster Empathy Center.

A MONSTER BEETLE has been found in London, amongst a delivery of bananas from Costa Rica in Central America.

ASSAULT with a fish?

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