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Pop Levi, 3x3, Dinosaur Jr., Peter Case, Knut Update   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

OVER THREE MILLION PAGES SERVED:  Thanks again.

POP LEVI:  An Aquarium Drunkard says "The T. Rex inspired production and latter era Robert Plant vocals cannot be ignored... But get past the obvious inspration-on-sleeve references and you're left with a fun rock record..."  "Blue Honey" certainly has those influences (and more than a whiff of James Bond movie credits), while "Sugar Assault Me Now" adds a dash of dance music to the mix.  And yet he seems so mild-mannered in this interview for the DL recorded at SxSW.  There's plenty more Pop Levi to stream via the ol' HM. 

THE ROSEBUDS get the latest audio twofer on the World Cafe via NPR.

BRYAN FERRY is apologizing for saying nice things about Nazi iconography, i.e., calling "the films of Leni Riefenstahl and the buildings of Albert Speer and the mass marches and the flags -- just fantastic.  Really beautiful."

3 x 3 is currently featring video of live tracks from The Annuals, Maximo Park and The Horrors.

THE DECEMBERISTS' multi-instrumentalist Chirs Funk gets some hometown love from the Northwest Indiana Times in a profile going back to his days at Valparaiso High School and interviews with his band teacher and the manager of Front Porch Music in Valparaiso.  Dan Pritchett, a 32-year veteran of Valparaiso High School's Band Department, recalls: "What I remember most about Chris, was that the minute he saw an instrument that he was not familiar with, he had to pick it up and learn how to play it..."

SEEN YOUR VIDEO:  Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore -- and his daughter Coco -- have cameos in the new Dinosaur, Jr. clip for "Been There All The Time."

PETER CASE is finishing his first record of new material in five years.  Titled Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, it's his first album for Yep Roc, and includes a duet between Case and Richard Thompson.

MICK JONES, TOPPER HEADON and BILLY BRAGG are among those signed on to appear at the Joe Strummer tribute concert, "Arms Aloft in Acton Town," scheduled for November 15th in London.

GUITAR HERO THRASHERS:  FHM has embedded video of their Top Ten wailers on the popular videogame.

MY OLD KENTUCKY BLOG is streaming more SIRIUS Blog Radio tracks, this time from Josh Rouse and David Vandervelde.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The Daily Mail writes that stunning, previously unseen photographs of the supposedly sober supermodel now up for auction show that hooking up with the troubled singer has taken away her looks.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Heather Mills took her first tumble this week on Dancing With The Stars; she managed to laugh it off and, more importantly, still impressed the judges.  Embedded video at the link.

RICHARD GERE and SHILPA SHETTY are now the subject of judicial complaints accusing them of indulging in an 'obscene act' during an AIDS awareness program held in Delhi, India.  And thanks to the Interweb, we now have video of their hug and kiss.

BRITNEY SPEARS reportedly fired her manager of several months, Larry Rudolph, and re-hired her one-time PR flack, Leslie Sloane Zelnik.

SPIDER-MAN director Sam Raimi is seriously interested in directing The Hobbit, a choice that could potentially leave Spidey 4 without a director - and potentially without lead actors.  Or it could be that with Spider-Man 3 coming out in a few weeks, ol' Sam is drumming up PR or increasing his bargaining position (iirc, most of the original Spidey contracts were three-pic deals).

THE HULK is getting a sequel with Edward Norton to play Bruce Banner.  You won't like Ed's hair when it gets angry!  The Incredible Hulk is set for a June 13, 2008 opening, directed by Louis Leterrier (Transporter 2, Unleashed).

McGOSLING BREAK-UP WATCH:  I largely dismissed this as a joke yesterday, but now a there's a second story claiming that Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling are on "a break, not a breakup,"  but that the pair are both miserable without each other.  McAdams' rep calls the story "completely false."

LINDSAY LOHAN: Former publicist  Jonathan Jaxson said on his blog that Li-Lo is allegedly getting down with her new BFF, DJ Samantha Ronson.

JOHN TRAVOLTA says he is as big as Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe... and he's not referring to his weight, which would be a more credible claim).  No, he is claiming he escaped their untimely fates due to the wonders of Scientology.

HARRISON FORD and CALISTA FLOCKHART are finally headed for the altar.  Hey, when you're already dressing alike, what's left?  UPDATE: Reps for both deny the story.

BRADGELINA:  Jolie's animosity toward her dad, Jon Voight, might have something to do with a rumored  180 grand in unpaid spousal payments.

WILL FERRELL, icydk, has gotten into the viral video biz with longtime collaborator Adam McKay.  They have posted a video of their own to get the ball rolling.  McKay talked to the L.A. Times about working with his two-year-old daughter.

SPANISH TERROR TRIAL:  Reuters headlined their story "Spain al Qaeda man says 2004 bombs were due to Iraq," but the story actually reports that he said he did not know the suspects accused of planning the Madrid train bombings.  The speaker in the video claiming responsibility for the attack said it was revenge for the involvement of Spanish troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.  At the start of the trial, investigators argued that planning for the bombings began long before the Iraq war and were related more to exhortations from bin Laden to revive Al-Andalus, as Spain's Muslim kingdom was known in the Middle Ages.  As noted here last week, a new al-Qaeda-linked organization again called for the reconquest of Spain.  And since the Madrid bombings, at last three major terror plots have been thwarted in Spain.

IRAQ:  Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki looks set to buck the sectarian quota system and select non-partisan independents to replace the withdrawn Sadrist ministers.  ITM's Omar Fadhil suspects that the Sadrists withdrew to go into total opposition and escape political responsibility for the faults of the current gov't.  PM al-Maliki revealed that his government is conducting discussions with armed groups in the country, and that there is an opportunity for reconciliation through the conference on Iraq which will be convened in the Egyptian town of Sharm al-Shaykh this next month.  Ramadi has stabilized as thousands of police -- some believed to be former insurgents and most loyal to local sheiks -- have poured into the once-lawless city.  The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq tried to patch up rifts with Sunni insurgent groups in an audiotape released Tuesday.

KNUT UPDATE:  The Berlin Zoo reassured alarmed fans on Tuesday that the polar bear cub is back on his paws after he had been feeling so poorly that worried vets had cut short Monday's public viewing and taken him back to his cage.  "It was only toothache," said a spokeswoman for the zoo.

A SUICIDE SQUIRREL takes down the grid in Great Falls, Montana, but the locals remain defiant in the face of the squirrel threat.

A RAMPAGING HARE had to be shot after attacking an elderly couple and the Vienna police:  " I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? "

...AND THERE WERE RABBITS all over the highway...

MR. PEEPERS, a duck, survives a hit-and-run by a getaway car in in Snohomish County, Washington.

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