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Hal David RIP, New Releases, dB's, David Byrne + St. Vincent, Kitten + Skunk   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, September 04, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

HAL DAVID (Right, with Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach), whose heartfelt lyrics merged with Burt Bacharach's quirky melodies to produce dozens of hit songs, not to mention Oscars, Grammys and Tonys, died Saturday. He was 91.  If the David and Bacharach catalog was "more cosmopolitan and less hip than that of the Beatles or Bob Dylan, their ruminations on love and heartbreak have nonetheless endured"; decades after their heyday, there's always something there to remind us how great the songs are. Say a little prayer for him this Twofer Tuesday.

NEW RELEASES from Black Mountain, Two Door Cinema Club, Stars, Deerhoof, Sondre Lerche, Jens Lekman,Two Gallants and many more are streaming this week via Spinner.

DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT are advance streaming Love That Giant.

THE dB's hit World Cafe Live for a set of songs spanning its career; you can stream the gig on demand.

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH stopped by World Cafe for a chat and mini-set.

THE GODFATHERS: "Birth, School, Work, Death."  Post-Labor Day, school starting... we got the middle covered.

SHOES retrurn after 18 years. Is it too late?

BLOC PARTY talks to Morning Edition about the recording of Four.

STEVIE WONDER talks to The Guardian about Motown, Jacko and Winehouse. He later clarified his remarks about homosexuality.

THE ROLLING STONES: In addition to recording new music in Paris, the band will play its first shows since 2007 later this year to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: The Possession tops the Labor Day weekend chart with 21 million against a 14 million budget, despite an adult cast of known actors. Lawless places with 13 million against an undisclosed, but almost certainly higher, budget; the Weinsteins took this one to Cannes, but ended up dropping it on a traditionally slow movie weeekend.  The Expendables 2 drops from the throne to show with 11.2 million, till lagging the original domestically, but chugging away nicely worldwide.  The Bourne Legacy takes the fourth slot with 9.4 million; it nears th 100 million mark, but may not recoup its 125 production budget stateside.  ParaNorman rounds out the Top 5 with 8.9 million; although it did not drop dramatically, it seems unlikely to turn a profit as Coraline did.  Below the fold, The Dark Knight Rises crossed the one billion dollar mark worldwide, while Oogieloves In The BIG Balloon Adventure debuted at No. 22, in one of the worst wide openings in recent history.

MICHAEL CLARKE DUNCAN, the 6-foot-5, 300 pound actor nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Green Mile, has died while being hospitalized following a July heart attack. He was 54.

TOM CRUISE & KATIE HOLMES: The latest Vanity Fair cover story has Scientology auditioning his girlfriends, an claim unsurprisingly denied.

SEAL accused HEIDI KLUM of "fornicating with the help" before their separation is final.

PRINCE HARRY is further embarrassed by a Vegas party girl.

RANDY JACKSON is out as an American Idol judge, but will remain on as a "mentor."

SIMON COWELL saved 9 people on a sinking ship.

TORI SPELLING & DEAN McDERMOTT had a baby boy.

JENNIE GARTH & LUKE PERRY may not be dating, but they are co-starring in a new sitcom.

KRISTEN STEWART's mother files for divorce.

IRAN & NORTH KOREA have signed an agreement to cooperate in science and technology. Iran's leader Ayatollah Khamenei said North Korea and Iran had "common enemies."

EGYPT's new defense minister retired 70 army generals as well as members of the former ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.

PAKISTAN: A Christian girl who was arrested under Pakistan's controversial anti-blasphemy law may have moved a step closer to freedom on Sunday after police detained a Muslim cleric on suspicion of planting evidence to frame her. Some Muslim neighbors insist she should still be punished, and said the detained imam was a victim.

AFGHANISTAN:  The US has suspended the training of the Afghan Local Police due to the spike in green-on-blue attacks.

KITTEN & SKUNK, cuddling together...Mass hysteria!

THE SQUIRREL THREAT: A militant rodent disrupts the US Open.

A COW had to be rescued by fire crews in Cumbria after getting stuck in a tree.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: The Venezuelan poodle moth.

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