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Tegan & Sara, Cass McCombs, Glam Xmas, Rudolph   Printer-friendly page   Send this story to someone
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 08:00 AM
Posted by: Karl

Karl

TEGAN & SARA argue as sisters do, and play a bit of "Missing You," in the latest installment of "Trailer Talk," which the Quins have been recording on tour.

NEW RELEASES:  Daft Punk's live album and the 20th anniversary edition of NWA's Straight Outta Compton are among the slim pickins at Spinner this week.  Holiday LPs from Ella Fitzgerald, Relient K, Rick Springfield, Merle Haggard, Sinatra and more are streaming in full from AOL.  The Nick Drake box set, Fruit Tree, is out today.

CASS McCOMBS did a segment for Morning Becomes Eclectic you can watch or listen to on demand via KCRW.

BEST OF 2007:  Picks from David Byrne, Marissa Nadler and Kim Gordon for Artforum are reprinted at the 'Gum.   Amazon has posted an overall list and lists in several genres.  The Current has lists from host Steve Seel, staff picks and a listener poll.  And don't forget Largehearted Boy's continuously updated list of lists.

HOLIDAY SONGS:  NPR has rolled out a variety of holiday-themed features, including the Klezmatics performing new settings for recently-discovered Hanukkah lyrics by great American songwriter Woody Guthrie, and a Christmas concert by the Blind Boys of Alabama at Disney Hall.

U2:  Bono has warned fans they will "feel the difference" with the material they are working on for their next album.  But at home in their native Dublin, U2 have become embroiled in a row with Irish environmentalists over two building projects, with Bono & Co. accused of arrogance.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER ONES:  At the Guardian's music blog, John Moore touts Christmas Number One by the Black Arts -- a collaboration including the surviving members of Moore's Black Box Recorder and Art Brut's Eddie Argos.  But BBC Radio 1 heavyweights are all backing former Arab Strap star Malcolm Middleton's bid for the UK's Christmas Number One single, "We're All Going to Die."

GLAM XMAS:  Wizzard's awesome "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and Slade's "Merry Christmas Everybody" (1973's UK Xmas No. 1) are your Twofer Tuesday.

PATTERSON HOOD:  Southern Shelter is streaming Hood's selections from Bruce Springsteen's Darkness On The Edge Of Town, performed at a benefit for AIDS Athens.

RADIOHEAD:  The Sydney Morning Herald has some backstory on the making of In Rainbows, while Dorwned In Sound breaks word that new ownership was the reason for their split with former label EMI.  RELATED:  Sir Paul McCartney tells the Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot that old ownership was the reason he left EMI for Starbucks.

BON IVER:  It's an old story: guy's life falls apart, he holes up in a remote cabin to mend his broken soul, and returns to civilization three months later with a fine new album for his troubles.  You can still stream that whole album at Virb.

RICHARD HAWLEY was chopping firewood outside his family's home in Sheffield, England, while his 5-year-old son fielded questions from a Boston Globe reporter over the phone about whether dad's on the premises for a scheduled interview about his critically acclaimed new album.

ANDREW BIRD talks about his methods -- both musical and lyrical -- with Laura Barton of the Guardian.

AMY WINEHOUSE emerged from a friend's house in Bow at 5.45am on Sunday -- clad only in her bra and jeans -- looking distressed and agitated, as her mother-in-law says she taking more drugs than ever. The troubled singer's drug habit is taking such a bad toll on her health that it is causing her teeth to fall out.  And she looks to be sporting "crack finger."

JESSICA SIMPSON & TONY ROMO were... wait for it... officially caught canoodling Saturday at a Hollywood nightclub.

THE McCARTNEYS:  Sir Paul is "spending more time" with Rosanna Arquette, according to the latter's sister.  Arquette's rep says the two are "good friends," who share a common love of Rock and Roll.  I guess I should note for you youngsters out there that Arquette was the inspiration not only for Toto's hit "Rosanna," but also for Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes."

BRITNEY SPEARS pulled the plug on a potential Rolling Stone cover, after Jann Wenner refused to promise her it would actually land on Rolling Stone instead of Us Weekly.

FALLEN IDOL:  Fmr American Idol finalist Jessica Sierra was charged with disorderly intoxication, violation of probation -- and obstruction of justice, after an episode involving a racist tirade, an offer of a Lewinsky, and plenty of vomit.

ETHAN HAWKE, it turns out, has been with the woman who used to be his children's nanny - when he was married to Uma Thurman - for two years.  Friends insist she had nothing to do with the divorce, and they started seeing each other after she was no longer the children's nanny.

KATHERINE HEIGL is knocking her summer hit Knocked Up for being "a little sexist."  But I think this may be a case of where you sit.  As a guy, I thought the guys came off just as bad in their own way as the women, overall.  BTW, Vanity Fair has posted a slideshow and video from the photoshoot accompanying said interview.

LANCE ARMSTRONG has a new gal-pal who is not a member of the Olsen family.

JUSTICE LEAGUE:  Aint-It-Cool-News has the latest casting rumor for Wonder Woman, while IESB has the latest casting rumor for Batman.  Dark Horizons has some confirmation and other tidbits.

THE DARK KNIGHT:  Speaking of the Batman, AICN can also point you to new promo pics of the Dark Knight and The Joker.

HOLLYWOOD INTELLIGENCE:  Entertainment Weekly has a feature on "The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood," though you will often search in vain for evidence to support their picks, other than having recently produced a hit movie or critics' favorite.  The NYDN took on the far more difficult task of rooting out The 50 Dumbest People in Hollywood.

RUDOLPH SELLS OUT to AFLAC:  But good to see the gang working again.  At least it's not going to cause children to beg their parents incessantly for insurance.

TEDDY BEAR JIHAD:  A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the Sudanese president.  How magnanimous.

ISLAMISM in the UK:  Britain's largest Muslim organisation is to end its boycott of Holocaust Memorial Day.  How magnanimous.

ISLAMISM in the NETHERLANDS:  The city museum of The Hague has decided not to include in an exhibition a work of art that may offend Muslims.  The Gemeentemuseum's director said the museum is interested in purchasing Hera's complete series, which he called "high quality works of art," but added he will not exhibit "Adam and Ewald" in the next few years because "certain people in our society might perceive it as offensive." 

AFGHANISTAN:  Frustrated by ongoing violence and uneven development, Afghans have grown sharply more critical of US and NATO efforts in their country - and in the beleaguered southwest, support for the Taliban, ousted from power six years ago, is on the rise.  Criticism of the United States is largely focused on its performance, not its presence.

IRAN:  According to the latest National Intelligence Assessment on Iran, the US intell community judges with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program; they also assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons.  This contradicts a 2005 assessment that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.  While this will cause many to breathe a sigh of relief, there's no guarantee that the new report is any more right than the old one.  Indeed, the intell community has only moderate confidence Tehran has not restarted its nuclear weapons program.  We know that Iran is busy enriching uranium, though it does not have a nuclear power plant and Russia is supplying uranium for the plant being built at Bushehr.  We also know that Iran is not playing it straight with UN inspectors.  It's also amusing that the intell community is ascribing the supposed shutdown of the program to international pressure without mentioning that the US toppled the government next door to Iran in part over the WMD issue in 2003.  You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word.

IRAQ:  Hundreds of Iraqis displaced by fierce battles between al Qaeda militants and US and Iraqi security forces began receiving humanitarian aid on Monday at a camp set up on Baghdad's southern outskirts.  Operation Iron Reaper is  continuing the pursuit of Al-Qaeda and set the conditions for continued reconciliation efforts in key northern provinces.  A mass grave containing the remains of 12 people, including a paramedic who disappeared more than a year ago, was unearthed in central Iraq in an area long controlled by al Qaeda, officials said Monday.  Blogger Michael J. Totten has a piece in the New York Daily News about th progress he has witnessed.

A BENGAL TIGER at a Thai zoo takes care of piglets as if they were her own.  Let's go to the video.

...AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT:  A puppy with six paws... for now.

ROGUE CROC UPDATE:  He's dead, Jim.

A CHEEKY MYNAH BIRD was put in solitary confinement at Yuelishan Park in Changsha city, China, for being abusive to tourists.

AN ELECTRIC EEL gets into the holiday spirit in Japan.

A SHIVERING DACHSHUND PUP rescued from a hole by a News 8 photojournalist, after Ionia County (MI)  Animal Control failed.  I certainly hope we can have a symposium about the ethiscs of a reporter getting involved in the story.

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