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Animals, Pipettes, Flaming Lips, Cutout Bin, Dog Tails   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Friday, April 27, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

THE WEEKEND STARTS HERE:

...with THE ANIMALS!  Because nothing fuels a Friday like "Don't Bring Me Down"  and other classics like "We Gotta Get Out of this Place" (on an odd set), "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (at the 1965 NME poll-winners concert), "It's My Life" (on another weird set for Hullaballoo), and "House of the Rising Sun" (natch).

THE PIPETTES announce US tour dates and release dates for an EP and their album.  Do I have my ticket?  Why, yes. (If you haven't heard them, visit their website.)

THE FRAMES played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the gig on demand from NPR now.

20 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW about Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, excerpted from The Act You've Known For All These Years, due on June 1 -- the 30th anniversary of the LP's release.  Take it with a grain of salt; No.2 -- "Paul hadn't taken LSD when he wrote 'Lucy'," overlooks the fact that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was written mainly by John.

THE FLAMING LIPS:  Stereogum can hook you up to streams of "The Supreme Being Teaches Spiderman How To Be In Love," which will appear on the Spider-Man 3 soundtrack.  Because it would be just too weird -- even for the Lips -- to have that on the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack.

SEEN YOUR VIDEO:  A guilty pleasure just popped up on the Tube -- "Baker Street," by Gerry Rafferty.  BONUS:  Foo Fighters.

PHIL SPECTOR may be facing a murder rap, but it didn't stop him from trashing Jacko, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen and more in an upcoming biography.  Meanwhile, the first witness in his trial, Dorothy Melvin, testified this afternoon that the music legend pulled a revolver and assaulted her in his Pasadena home in 1993.

GIANT DRAG:  Annie Hardy talks to LA Weekly about soldiering on without multi-instrumentalist Micah Calabrese, and about her imaginary boyfriend.  The article mentions GD's raw cover of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game," but their stripped-down cover of "God Only Knows" is pretty good, too.

SOPHOMORE SLUMPS?  MTV News suggests that second albums from buzz bands like the Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah have landed "with a thud."  But the Arcade Fire scores an 87 on Metacritic and debuted at No.2 on the Billboard chart, with the Arctic Monkeys scoring 82 on Metacritic.  Bloc Party scored 65 and debuted at number 12 on the Billboard chart,  CYHSY scored 63 and debuted at 47 on the Billboard charts -- their debut has sold three times as much, but never made the US charts.  So in MTV's haste to point out that the hype machine worked so well that nothing these bands did could possibly live up to the expectations, their continued success is unfairly discounted.

THE CUTOUT BIN:  This Friday's fortuitous finds from the ol' HM are:  Bernard Herrmann - Twisted Nerve;  Otis Redding - I Can't Turn You Loose; Wilson Pickett - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love; Cheap Trick - Surrender; Urge Overkill - Sister Havana; Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town; Van Halen - You Really Got Me; The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society; The Feelies - Let's Go; The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep; Mando Diao - Long Before Rock 'n' Roll; The Jesus & Mary Chain - Taste Of Cindy; Teenage Fanclub - Like A Virgin; Snow Patrol - Crazy In Love; Arctic Monkeys - Baby, I'm Yours; The Zombies - When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through Your Eyes; The Detroit Cobras - I Wanna Know Whats Going On; Space Negroes - In A Gadda Da Vida; and Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate.

HUGH GRANT was arrested after allegedly hurling a tub of baked beans at a paparazzo.  He also reportedly kicked snapper Ian Whittaker.  Alleged pics at the link.

BRITNEY SPEARS:  Speaking of paparazzi, her hostility toward the press makes a lot more sense once you see her convertable trailed by eight carloads of photogs.  But it would be less crazy if she wasn't phoning the paps before she goes out.

NOW SHOWING:  The weekend before Spider-Man 3 finds studios dumping the following into wide release:  Nicolas Cage and Jessica Biel in Next, currently scoring 33 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; WWE Films' The Condemned, scoring 12 percent; the supernatural teen thriller The Invisible and Jamie Kennedy Kickin' It Old School were not screened for critics.

ROSIE O'DONNELL'S departure from The View was triggered when when Barbara Walters failed to defend her against Donald Trump?  Or was it because Rosie wanted Barbara's job?  I don't pretend to know, and tend to believe the obvious answer that she didn't want to be locked into a three-year deal if she thought she could make more money doing other things.  But I also think these ruminations are a fitting way to bid adieu to TV's biggest conspiracy theorist.

EVE was busted on suspicion of DUI after she crashed her gold Maserati on Hollywood Boulevard, but the really odd part of the story is the early-hours jailhouse visit from Sean Penn.

LINDSAY LOHAN, consistent with a prior rumor, reportedly "made out" with her female DJ best friend in front of Japanese clubbers.  DJ Samantha Ronson was certainly there when Li-Lo told Nylon magazine: "I will say, though, that it's so much harder to stay sober in New York. Though it's hard in L.A. not to go out, it gets lonely. Being an actress is lonely, and I never want to be alone. I hate sleeping alone."

THE FRENCH HOTEL was publicly dissed by the Artist Currently Known As Prince during a Vegas club gig.

SHARON STONE, otoh, publicly dissed Barry Manilow at a charity event raising cash for the Women's Sports Foundation.

RICHARD GERE and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty are now subject to arrest warrants issued by an Indian court after the two (gasp) kissed in public.

KATE BECKINSALE may be a former anorexic, but was nevertheless accused of insensitivity when she likened anorexic girls to "crack whores" and said family problems were often to blame, rather than pictures of skinny celebrities.

BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID:  ICYMI, Celine Dion duets with Elvis Presley on "If I Can Dream."  You could probably feel the spinning in the backyard at Graceland.

THERE IS STILL GOOD IN HIM:  I really want to see this on the big screen.

GLOBAL WARMING:  The Financial Times has an in-depth feature on carbon offsets, including articles suggesting that millions have been spent on "carbon credit" projects that yield few if any environmental benefits, including paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.  Progressive political consultant Matt Stoller worries about the global cap-and-trade program, too.  And when you hear Al Gore touting offsets, keep in mind that Al Gore is the chairman of a carbon offset intermediary.

SUICIDE BOMBERS:  There's an interesting story at NPR on research into a single neighborhood in the Moroccan village of Tetuan that produced over 30 suicide bombers, sent first to Spain and later to Iraq.  In particular, we should take note of the connection with the non-jihadi criminals in the drug trade, as there are people who will argue that jihadis do not work with infidels.

IRAQ:  The Interior Ministry says the Adhamiya Wall has led to a substantial drop in sectarian killings, a claim disputed by human rights groups and the local press -- and they are probably right, at least as to the magnitude.  A joint US-Iraqi force, backed by military choppers, stormed Sadr City early Thursday.  The Baghdad operations command claimed it had arrested 217 suspected militants in various parts of the capital over the past 24 hours -- which is as-yet unconfirmed and would represent a massive sweep.  Bill Roggio looks at al Qaeda in Iraq's capaign in Diyala province, while IraqSlogger looks at the US and Iraqi forces building up there, including a search for the self-appointed leader of the so-called "Islamic State of Iraq."  J.D. Johannes blogs on the tough but necessary job of taking the census in Fallujah.  A representative of the Anbar Salvation Front recently called for the Iraqi government to allow them to pursue al-Qaeda elements into strongholds in neighboring provincesCNN's Michael Ware -- who is no fan of current US policy in Iraq -- talks about Diyala and also says that a US pullout will hand Iraq to Iran and al Qaeda.

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT:  The New York Times covers breakthrough research into dog body language.

THOUSANDS of rich Japanese women were conned by a firm into believing lambs were valuable miniature poodles.  A must-see pic of a lamb shaved like a poodle at the link. 

COWARDLY CANINES are being taught to face their fears at a self confidence course designed to bring out the inner wolf.  No word as to whether it's taught by Toto.

KNUT UPDATE:  Berlin zoo chiefs have slammed a sick and/or funny Internet game that encourages players to kill cuddly-wuddly polar bear Knut.

A MAGICAL SNAKE appears when a self-proclaimed Zimbabwean prophet is accused of rape.  Yes, an actual snake.

116-YEAR-OLD GOATHERD claims his long life is down to never having had sex with a woman.

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