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Lou Reed & Bright Eyes, Hallelujah the Hills, Yeasayer, Sprinkle   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Thursday, June 07, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

LOU REED joined BRIGHT EYES for a cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man" at NYC's Town Hall on May 25th.  Here's a longer, alternate take with less distorted sound, but further away.

FROM a WHISTLE to a SCREAM:  Yuppie Punk lists the the ten wettest whistles in rock history, while Paste magazine lists the best screams in rock history.

HALLELUJAH THE HILLS co-founder Ryan Walsh is interviewed by author Jami Attenberg at Largehearted Boy.  Guess I'm not the first to notice the GbV vibe, but Walsh says HtH is usually more sober live: "Bob & GBV stumbled upon some kind of blissful, fulfilling relationship between alcohol and live performance that has not been replicated since. It looks like a lot of fun but I feel like 99/100 bands who try it come off terribly."  You can stream a few from their debut at TheirSpace.

LISTEN... to what the Flower People say: "I'm sick of stepping over gangs of kids, only to be told 'Die, yuppie!'"

TV on the RADIO:  Pitchfork has the B-side from the upcoming single, "Dumb Animal," streaming in the Forkcast.

SEEN YOUR VIDEO:  The original Byrds perform "Turn! Turn! Turn!" on a TV show that must remain nameless.

PHIL SPECTOR TRIAL UPDATE:  The coroner who conducted Lana Clarkson's autopsy stuck to his conclusion that the actress' death was a homicide, saying that e-mails written by Clarkson did not change his opinion.  The jury has been shown autopsy photos showing that Clarkson's hand lacked blood spatters typical of a self-inflicted gunshot.  A former lawyer for Spector could be cited for contempt after she refused to testify Wednesday that she saw defense expert Henry Lee take part of Clarkson's acrylic fingernail from the crime scene.

SMASHING PUMPKINS: Culture Bully has posted new songs played at last weekend's Rock AM Ring festival, held in Nürburg, Germany.  You can jukebox 'em via the ol' HM.

SQUEEZE:  Glenn Tilbrook tells Billboard that the upcoming reunion tour is "gonna be quite a lot more visual" than anything they've done before, but not to expect anything past the tour. 

YEASAYER is building blog buzz, starting with the seminal Said the Gramophone, and spreading to Culture Bully, An Aquarium Drunkard and GvsB.  The pick-to-click "2080" and "Sunrise" have elements of art rock and world music that have people reaching for references like Peter Gabriel and Roxy Music.

THE FRENCH HOTEL in the GREYBAR HOTEL:  The jailed heirhead has been has been crying on the phone, saying she's not sleeping or eating, and complaining that her cell is "freezing cold."  All this, even though her fellow inmates seem to be playing nice and deputies have rolled out the red carpet and extended VIP courtesies, including skipping the cavity search.  This may make those deputies among the few left in LA County to have not given her a cavity search.  UPDATE:  TMZ claims that she DID have to undergo a cavity search as part of the booking process at the jail.  Did the cops wear their spelunking gear?  BONUS:  The NY Post has a downloadable postcard you can send to the prison.  And the LA Times has "The Paris Hilton Prison Diaries," by John Kenney.  UPDATE:  TMZ is claiming that the heirhead has been sprung from jail and that the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. will hold a news conference this morning to discuss what went down.  UPDATE:  She has been fitted for an ankle bracelet and reassigned to house arrest, after authorities determined to release her from prison due to... wait for it... medical reasons!  UPDATE:  The official explanation is available for download.  UPDATEThe Rev. Al Sharpton and even the ladies on The View are on the warpath.  UPDATE:  Law enforcement sources tell TMZ the celebutante's medical condition was purely psychological and that she was in peril of having a nervous breakdown.  UPDATE:  Sources close to the Hilton family told ET the medical reason was actually an extreme rash she developed on her body.  UPDATE:  The release is condemned by L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and L.A. County Supervisor Don Knabe.

GIRLS GONE WILD founder (and former Hilton beau) Joe Francis, otoh, is voluntarily keeping himself behind bars in a Reno jail -- so he won't have to face another round of charges in Florida.  Besides, he probably likes the view of the train... oh, wait, that's Folsom.

MAD MEL UPDATE:  Mel Gibson reportedly walked into an AA meeting near his Malibu home, stumbled over a row of seats and crash-landed atop them, with a source telling the ever-reliable National Enquirer's Mike Walker: "He looked so out of it."

JESSICA SIMPSON and JOHN MAYER are "definitely over, " a source close to Mayer tells People magazine, though a a Simpson source says, who knows what the future will hold."  The story suggests they split on Sunday, though Simpson wasn't looking good Friday, and was seen checking out ex-beau Adam Levine's Maroon 5 last Saturday.

BRITNEY SPEARS reportedly threw a butter knife at a stage manager's head at the House of Blues... but has apparently fallen far enough that she got weepy when the manager threatened to make sure she was barred from the Hob and other venues.  Meanwhile, the Malibu mansion she shared with Fed-Ex isn't selling, due to their trashtastic taste in decorating.

GEORGE CLOONEY, BRAD PITT & MATT DAMON, promoting Ocean's 13, stopped by Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood with producer Jerry Weintraub to immortalize their hand and footprints in cement.  Clooney quipped: "If I had to be on my hands and knees with three other guys, it would be them. And I mean that in every possible way."

LINDSAY LOHAN:  Mom Dina Lohan has worked for Entertainment Tonight and is trying to get her own reality TV show, but who is so desperate as to falsely claim that she was a Radio City Music Hall Rockette?

CUBA GOODING, JR. may have saved a shooting victim's life on Memorial Day, outside Roscoe's House of Chicken 'n' Waffles in L.A.

PAULA ABDUL:  Defamer previews the upcoming Bravo reality series, Hey, Paula!!!, "in which the American Idol judge unscrews the top of her head and allows the world an opportunity to climb inside and stroll around the church-parking-lot-quality carnival that is her mind."

STEVE MARTIN will be sharing memories of child abuse and Elvis Presley in his upcoming autobiography.

PETER O'TOOLE is playing Pope Paul III on the second season of  Showtime's The Tudors.

LIV TYLER kissed KATE BOSWORTH on the lips... and not for a movie, but just because she's friendly.

GLOBAL WARMING = More Kittens!

WAR REPORTING:  Robert Haddick, a former US Marine Corps infantry company commander and staff officer, argues that the days of the neutral war correspondent, objectively reporting from the front, are quickly coming to an end.  Which may be optimistic.

OUR FRIENDS, THE SAUDIS:  As a woman in the male-dominated kingdom, LA Times reporter Megan Stack quietly fumed beneath her abaya. Even beyond its borders, her experience taints her perception of the sexes.

IRAQ:  US forces have begun conducting joint patrols with Sunni resistance fighters in the Sunni enclave of Amiriyah where a group of local leaders have banded together to fight al-Qaeda.  OTOH, there are reports that one of the major Sunni groups in the Amiriyah fight, the Islamic Army in Iraq, has reached a ceasefire deal with al-Qaeda.  In Najaf, three gunmen in a speeding automobile shot and killed a junior aide to Iraq's pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.  Bill Roggio notes that a recent NYT story claiming the "surge" is falling short may turn out to be as wrong as the Washington Post story last Fall claiming that Anbar province was hopeless.  JD Johannes has random observations, including: (a) more of the grunts are reenlisting than he expected; and (b) US rewards for tips were lower than what al-Sadr's Mahdi militia and al-Qaeda in Iraq pay.

SPRINKLE -- a 1-year-old white Chihuahua -- considers Bindi -- a 2-week-old black kitten -- her new puppy.

CANE TOADS should be forced into cannibalism to control their population explosion in northern Australia, according to the latest research.

SEVEN PEACOCKS get the death penalty, after a neighbor of Britain's Paignton Zoo complained about the noise they made.

THE SQUIRREL THREAT:  The AP headlines a story "'Critters' blamed for missing U.S. flags," but the only kind of "critter" actually mentioned in the story is the squirrel.  This is your politically-correct media at work.

LITTLE GODZILLA, a two-foot, four-inch long Nile crocodile, escaped from its cage and swam away during a publicity show on a Ukrainian beach.

LIONS and TIGERS and... Oh My!  We don't even get to the bears.

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