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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

CARIBOU:  The BBC Collective has a mini-documentary on the one-man-band turned live performer.  Ex-Dictators frontman Dan Snaith spins some inspiring songs from Wire and Lothar and the Hand People, shows his recording process and invites you to meet his new band.

NEW RELEASES:  In addition to the Rilo Kiley album linked here yesterday,  New Pornographers, Architecture in Helsinki, Caribou, Imperial Teen, Earlimart, Kinski, Patrick Park and Galactic are streaming in full this week from Spinner.  Minus the Bear releases Planet of IceThe Mendoza Line documents the breakup of Tim Bracy's and Shannon McArdle's romantic and working relationship on the double-disc 30 Year Low (the 2nd disc being rarities and covers). The Mekons return with Natural -- their first LP since 2005.  And Josh Ritter releases The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter.

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS frontman A.C. Newman talks to New York magazine about doing your best, but preparing for the worst.

DEVENDRA BANHART has two new tracks streaming at HisSpace.

LES PAUL:  The guitar legend -- still working at age 92 -- was interviewed on NPR in connection with a new documentary from the PBS American Masters series called Les Paul: Chasing Sound.

THE HOLD STEADY and ART BRUT will tour together; I don't post many tour dates, but I highly recommend this bill.

OKKERVIL RIVER frontman Will Scheff talks to Pitchfork about his populist leanings, the joys and dangers of fandom, and the neutering of indie rock.

JOHNNY RIVERS plays his smash "Secret Agent Man" and "The Snake" (a hit for Al Wilson) live at the Hollywood Palace n the day before I was born.  That's your Twofer Tuesday.

CAT POWER:  Rolling Stone has more details on the two new albums of cover songs Chan Marshall has been recording in Brooklyn, Miami and Dallas.

EDDIE VEDDER:  Spinner is streaming a track from his soundtrack to Into the Wild, titled "Hard Sun."

BILL MONROE:  Newsweek has a web exclusive -- with audio clips -- explaining why "The Father of Bluegrass" was one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB talk to PopMatters about not selling their music for commercials: "That's our big thing and why the label and publisher remind us we're not a big band. We always say no to that stuff. It's as important how you're giving it to people, as what you're giving them. Almost as important."  Embedded video at the link, too.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The troubled singer is back with ex-girlfriend Irina Lazareanu - the girl the supposedly sober supermodel chose to model Moss's Top Shop collection.  Doherty and his Babyshambles bandmates leapt to the aid of a motorway car crash victim after playing a set at the V Festival -- and before he was arrested yet again for drug possession.

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE was spotted with a bronze-skinned brunette with long brown hair all night at an HBO party on the roof of the Tribeca Grand.  Reputed girlfriend Jessica Biel may find that "exciting."

DONALD TRUMP is trying to get Britney Spears, the French Hotel and Lindsay Lohan to appear on his upcoming Celebrity Apprentice show.

BRITNEY SPEARS is trying to look like a Mom as her custody battle continues to heat up, with the uber-reliable News of the World claiming that Fed-Ex has testimony from a stunning dancer who allegedly shared a lesbian romp with the pop tart after a night at a gay club in Copenhagen.

THE FRENCH HOTEL, however, is in talks to appear in the new series of British reality show Celebrity Big Brother after being offered more than £300,000, according to the ever-reliable Sun in London.

LINDSAY LOHAN is looking to rehab her recording career, amid reports that insurance companies were afraid to bond her movies following her latest DUI arrests and a charge of cocaine possession.

WOMEN IN FILM are the subject of a morphing video from Mary Pickford to Halle Berry, by Philip Scott Johnson -- who previously morphed Women In Art.  Premiere magazine looks at 100 women making an impact in film in 2007.

TOM-KAT UPDATE:  Eleven extras were injured during the filming of Valkyrie, in which Cruise plays anti-Hitler plotter  Col. Claus Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg.  Neither Cruise nor director Bryan Singer were on-set at the time.

JENNIFER ANISTON joins Courtney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette on vacation in Hawaii.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY dons period swimwear for Joe Wright's adaptation of Ian McEwan's best-selling novel Atonement.

THE DARK KNIGHT:  Warner Bros. has apparently given up on trying to stop that leak of production photos from next summer's sequel to Batman Begins, so the whole batch can be easily found now.

HAROLD & KUMAR are back with a teaser trailer for their sequel to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

PAKISTAN has decided to accelerate the development of its nuclear and missile program after the finalization of nuclear deal between India and the US.  The gov't is also releasing a senior al-Qaeda operative and computer expert.

IRAN has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, according to London's Observer.  The theocracy's sacked oil minister has issued a parting warning to Pres. Ahmadinejad, predicting a looming 'catastrophe' in the Iranian energy sector because of high consumption.  Iranian forces are shelling villages in the remote Kurdish border area of north-east Iraq, where Tehran has recently deployed thousands of Revolutionary Guards.

IRAQ:   Al-Hayat reported that the new alliance between the pro-government parties will be soon followed by a radical "reconsideration" of the cabinet's structure, and, probably, the formation of a new government, "consisting of technocrats."  But the real news may be that Iraqi reports that major tribal figures in Anbar and its tribal councils were unseated for making statements supportive of Prime Minister Maliki and showing readiness to replace the Sunni-based Iraqi Accord Front in the cabinet.   Az-Zaman said that the parties left out of the new pro-government coalition are readying to create a counter-alliance, with the aim of overturning al-Maliki's cabinet (though they are united on little else).  The Pan-Arab paper al-Quds al-'Arabi reported that Ayatollah Sistani, the highest Shi'a cleric in Iraq, has expressed his disapproval of the demarche of the government and its Shi'a parties, reportedly saying "they have filled my heart with pus."  Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John Warner (R-VA) of the Sen. Armed Services Cmte have returned from Iraq encouraged by the effects of the recent US military "surge," but their enthusiasm is tempered by concerns about Iraq's political climate.  Sen. Levin went further, telling reporters that he hoped the Iraqi Parliament will vote the Maliki government out of office.  I'm not sure that sort of public statement from an American won't backfire, but that milk is spilt, so I hope it spurs them on -- though (as noted above) it's far from clear what the alternative to Maliki is.

IRAQ II:  On Sunday, the New York Times published a piece called "The War as We Saw It" by seven men serving with the 82nd Airborne.  "Grim" has posted a civil response at the milblog Blackfive.  US Army Reserve Col. Austin Bay -- who was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Iraq -- lists a "rough draft" of "rough metrics" he thinks Gen. Petraeus will use in his interim assessment in mid-September.  Over the weekend, Coalition forces around Iraq killed three terrorists and detained 28 suspects while putting pressure on terrorists facilitating the movement of al Qaeda senior leaders.

IRAQ and the MEDIA:  The newshole devoted to three story lines of the war -- the debate over policy, events in Iraq itself, and the situation with veterans and families on the homefront -- fell in the second quarter of the year by roughly a third.

A SOLDIER'S CAT is recovering after falling out of an 18-story window in Chicago.  The plunge left Maxim with several broken bones, but he's expected to be back on his paws in no time.  Pics, video at the link.

CROCODILE vs. BULL SHARK in the Daly River of Queensland.  Pics at the link.

A RANDY CAMEL killed its owner after apparently trying to mate with her.  The animal had a history of erratic behaviour, often trying to straddle other species, including the family's pet goat.

A BABOON SPIDER does not make a good pet.

BEARS ate a 23-year old Serb at Belgrade Zoo over the weekend during the annual beer festival.

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