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Paul Westerberg, REM Tribute, Springsteen, Rat Island   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Wednesday, October 03, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

PAUL WESTERBERG performed a new song, "Everyone's Stupid" and previously unreleased late-Replacements song, "Make The Best of Me," at that event for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame noted here earlier.  (via Heather Browne.)  Meanwhile, Captain's Dead seems to have posted all of the audio from the event; you can jukebox it via the ol' HM.

THE ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME:  Speaking of which, the 2008 nominees were announced the other day... and metalheads are displeased.  Gotta say it's not a banner year for the noms.

AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE:  Stereogum celebrates the 15th anniversary of the REM classic with a freely-downloadable tribute album, Drive XV.  Artists contributing tracks include the Meat Puppets, Wrens, Rogue Wave, Shout Out Louds, Dr. Dog, and more...

JOSE GONZALEZ:  The Swedish singer-songwriter most know from Sony's "bouncing balls" ad, played DC's 9:30 Club last night, so you should be able to stream the whole gig on demand via NPR.

HAS FREE MUSIC become a listener's birthright?  The Seattle Times looks at Internet leaks from the perspectives of indie lables, bands and fans.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN:  Spinner has a behind-the-scenes video from the band's tour practice sessions at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, NJ.

LED ZEPPELIN will not tour after the Ahmet Ertegun tribute show at London's O2 Arena on November 26, according to Robert Plant, who is increasingly looking like one of those shrunken heads kids used to make out of apples.

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE:  the canadian musical collective's next project is a book.

JOE HENRY does an interview and mini-set for the World Cafe you can stream from NPR.  Turns out he and his wife are living in a house built for the widow of assassinated Pres. Garfield.

PETE DOHERTY-KATE MOSS UPDATE:  The troubled singer has tested negative for drugs for six weeks.  That is news!  Meanwhile, Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan says that Doherty and the supposedly sober supermodel "were one of those couples that would argue loads but when they got back together they would have mind-blowing sex."

BRITNEY SPEARS:  All that has been missing from her continuing train wreck was a sex tape, and the ever-reliable InTouch Weekly claims there is one -- though it may never be seen because the dude was so disappointed by his own performance.  There are two stories explaining how the pop tart lost custody of her two sons to Fed-Ex.  Her lawyer claims she temporarily lost custody because she couldn't provide a California driver's license and was accused of not taking a random drug and alcohol test.  OTOH, TMZ claims it was because she totally ignored L.A. County Commissioner Scott Gordon's orders to meet with a drug counselor, submit to drug testing, enroll in parenting classes and to sign the order.  Plus, both parents were barred from driving the children unless they could show a valid CA driver's license... which Spears still lacks. The pop tart has checked into the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, where a member of hotel security was knocked out -- allegedly by a trespassing paparazzo. That Other Blog has some seedy backstory related to the latter incident.

PAM ANDERSON:  There's speculation in OK! magazine that her and Rick Salomon's bizarre almost-wedding in Vegas may be due to pregnancy.

MAD MEL UPDATE: Gibson may not have fallen off the wagon, but he often looks like it.

BRADGELINA:  Actress Bai Ling claims that she and Jolie shared a "special attraction" while filming  Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow and Jolie's documentary A Place in Time.

JENNY McCARTHY tells Extra TV that she couldn't have asked for God to bring her anyone better than Jim Carrey.  And was abruptly struck by lightning.

EVA LONGORIA has an interesting response to the rumored sex tape floating around the Internet.  I give it an "E" for effort.

LINDSAY LOHAN not only tested positive for cocaine recently, but is also combining prescription drugs to get high and has arranged for people to sneak vodka to her in water bottles while she's attending AA meetings in the Cirque Lodge rehab facility...when she's not sneaking out to see a new boyfriend.  All of that according to the ever-reliable Star magazine.

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY & JAMES McAVOY apologized to each other after shooting their love scene for Atonement.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG said on The View that she might like a threesome with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband... while Pelosi was a guest on the show.

SYLVESTER STALLONE says he and his Rambo sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Burmese border: "This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams..."  About 4000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests.  They will be sent to prisons in the far north of the country, sources have told the BBC.

SEAN PENN defended Venezuelan Pres. Hugo Chavez's shutdown of RCTV while talking to David Letterman, claiming the station called for the assassination of Chavez "every day."  Groups like Reporters Without BordersHuman Rights Watch and The Carter Center disagree, but maybe Penn thinks they are all part of the vast, right-wing conspiracy.

"TERRORIST 007":  Buried in FBI Dir. Mueller's remarks to the CFR is the story of a 22-year-old student allegedly at the center of three different terror cases, spanning at least seven countries.

PAKISTAN: Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday positioned his former spy chief to take over Pakistan's army if he steps down following presidential elections this Saturday.  The Leavenworth-educated Lt. Gen. Ashfaq Kiani is widely considered to be moderate and pro-Western.

IRAQ:  The ruling Shiites are opposing arming "Awakening" councils and the integration of militant Sunnis into the national police force.  But if you doubt the action is shifting toward the provinces, follow the moneyIraqi interior ministry commandos said they captured the local head of AQI operating in northern Babil province's "Triangle of Death."  Soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army Division, with US Special Forces as advisers, detained 23 suspected AQI terrorists during an intelligence-driven raid in Sharkat.

IOWA's STATE FAIR may drop KGGO's erotic corn dog-eating contest.  It's the end of an era.

BEER ME, FLASH:  Life imitates commercials.

RAT ISLAND:  Two centuries after rats first landed on a remote Aleutian island from a shipwreck, wildlife managers in Alaska are plotting how to evict the non-native rodent from the island that bears their name.

ANOTHER GRIM REAPER DOG:  Libby, A 14-year-old therapy poodle, won't pass the threshold of those about to die.

A CRIPPLED COW MOOSE nursing its calf in west Anchorage, Alaska, is showing such a knack for survival that state biologists have so far avoided the normal course of putting her down.

SURPRISED DUCK HUNTER bags a 25-lb alligator in Farmington, Wisconsin.  Hence the surprised part.

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