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This Saturday night, Lou Reed will launch his satellite radio show Lou Reed’s New York Shuffle. According to Reed, the Sirius show will feature “audio from all parts of the world that covers the whole musical spectrum.”
Courtney Love has abandoned Nobody’s Daughter, the album she was working on with Linda Perry and Billy Corgan, and will instead start over.
The Dave Matthews Band is a “long way” from completing their new album, but violinist Boyd Tinsley says they hope to finish it after DMB’s tour ends in September.
Santogold, Pharrell Williams and the Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas have come together to work on a new song for Converse shoes.
Bummer. Courtney love has put out some good if not great music. You got to give her that. I was curious to hear what the follow up to “america’s sweetheart” would sound like. Oh well, guess i’ll have to wait a little longer.
IN the second of two separate shows in the capital, the MTV2 Spanking New Music Tour took a more dance-orientated turn with New York psych-rock duo MGMT kicking off proceedings.
Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden glided through their latest album, Oracular Spectacular, with tracks swirling effortlessly into one another. The salacious funk of Electric Feel doubled up into the psychedelic wig-out of single Time To Pretend – a monstrous tune that narrates the duo’s dream of living the hedonist lifestyle.
Pos-punk revivalists The Futureheads followed with rollicking opener Decent Days Decent Nights signalling what was to follow – agitated guitar work-outs that barely bruised the three-minute mark.
Lead singer Barry Hyde was as animated as ever.
The collective movement was a lot more sweaty than Hyde expected as Skip To The End ushered in the first pogo session of the night. The band’s new album, This Is Not The World, follows the same statement-waving template as previous efforts but Radio Heart hinted at a more expansive sound.
The set ended with the hyper reworking of Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love as a series of uncontrollable yelps flittered across the crowd.
After the recent departure of former bassist Iracema Trevisan, it was interesting to see how Brazilian funk-punks CSS would adapt to the change in personnel.
Vocalist Lovefoxxx pounced onto the stage in her signature spray-on outfit and a floral hat that dwarfed her minuscule frame. The band motored through tracks from their forthcoming album, Donkey, with recent single Rat Is Dead (Rage).
The woozy Off The Hook showcased the band at their most sedate until Alala turned the venue into a full-on South American rave. Their encore began with Alcohol rolling into brilliant set-closer, Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above, a fine indie-dance crossover tune that sent the crowd into meltdown one last time.

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What’s awkwarder than awkward?
“The Office” has been answering that question for some time now, but last night’s episode took uncomfortable office relations into “The Dinner Party.”
Michael and his confounding love match, Jan, decide to host a couples night in their home, giving Jim and Pam, Angela and Andy a view into their distressing relationship.
Jan sets the tone for the evening when she accepts Pam’s gift of wine:
“Wow, this will be great to cook with,” she says, before taking the guests on a tour of their home.
The dinner hasn’t been prepared, so charades and other entertainments ensue; Jim’s attempt to escape, by claiming his apartment has flooded, fails.
When Dwight and his date (his aged, one-time baby-sitter) show up uninvited, Michael and Jan begin to bicker, revealing more about their history (think Michael’s three vasectomy procedures) than their colleagues would ever want to know.
Angela, meanwhile, refuses Dwight’s salad:
“The thought of popping one of your beets into my mouth makes me want to vomit.”
In the end, Jan throws a trophy of Michael’s into his plasma TV; the cops show up to check up on the dispute and Michael goes home with Dwight before anybody got to eat dinner.
Jim and Pam, ever-cute, go get burgers.
AMERICAN IDOL: AND THEN THERE WERE 7
We are so upset that all we can say is Michael Johns was voted off.
(Carly and Syesha joined him in the Bottom 3).
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Miss your favorite show last night? No problem. Check out our super-condensed recaps.
Scrubs — Elliot gets mad at J.D. for not taking her advice, but she helps him get a burn victim to graduation because something’s going on between them. Turk learns Spanish for Carla, but instead of telling her, uses it to eavesdrop.

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For the second season in a row, it looks like Bret Michaels might make the sensible choice, by selecting Ambre Lake over bat-shit crazy Daisy De La Hoya.
But should he?
Sure, Ambre is sort of sweet, brutally honest and much closer to Bret in the age department, presenting experience over Daisy’s naïve instability. But she is also an actress.
And judging by this interview it could have just as easily been “Spock of Love” with Leonard Nimoy and Ambre would still be in the mix, hoping for an erotic mind meld from the aging actor.
Watch out Bret!
I hate when people get up on their high horse about reality tv and the downfall of society. If you don’t like it, don’t watch. If you don’t like the blog, don’t read it. Do yourself a favor and lighten up. You might find some humor in the world instead of getting all worked up about a show you don’t even watch.
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The superb musicians of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, led by Geoff Nuttall, first violin, who is described by St. Lawrence cellist Christopher Costanza as having “rock-star status in the classical music world,” will perform Tuesday in the Peace Center’s Gunter Theatre.
The event is co-presented by the Peace Center and the International Chamber Music Series.
Reached on tour, Costanza says the first thing he noticed after he joined the group in 2003 was the very high energy of the players. “I said to myself, ‘I can’t wait to be part of it.’”
Case in point is the high physicality with which Nuttall, with long, flowing locks and perpetually dancing feet, leads the foursome that he co-founded with violist and fellow Canadian Lesley Robertson.
The other co-founders, violinist Barry Shiffman and cellist Marina Hoover, have left the group and were replaced by second violin Scott St. John and Costanza on cello. A Utica, N.Y., native, Costanza is the only non-Canadian in the group.
“This particular group of musicians is unique,” he says. “I jumped on a moving train, so to speak. They are full of intensity and focus, and the level of activity — we perform well over 100 concerts per year — is something I had not experienced before.”
On the other hand, when the opportunity reared its head, Costanza says he couldn’t have been happier to embrace it. The program
Two Haydn string quartets will bookend the St. Lawrence program at the Gunter.
They are the C major Op. 54, No.2, and the G major Op. 77, No.1. The latter was recorded by the quartet last week.
The “77,” says Costanza, is one of the last string quartets that Joseph Haydn wrote in 1799. As expected of the founder of the string quartet form, it begins with the allegro (fast) movement, followed by the adagio (slow) movement.

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n “The Biggest Loser: Couples,”8 p.m., NBC. The contestants return from Australia and attempt to work out without the help of their trainers; Rocco DiSpirito teaches the contestants to make a healthy version of their favorite dish; the third finalist is determined by viewers.
n “NCIS,” 8 p.m., CBS. The team stakes out a warehouse to catch a suspected thief, but ends up witnessing a murder instead; Ducky keeps a secret from the team.
n “Hell’s Kitchen,” 9 p.m., FOX. Each team must accurately slice a halibut into six-ounce fillets; one member of each team must work as the maitre d’ while the others staff the kitchen; one chef is eliminated from Chef Gordon Ramsay’s hellish competition for an executive chef position.
n “Secret Talents of the Stars,”10 p.m., CBS. Singer Clint Black performs stand-up comedy; figure skater Sasha Cohen performs as a contortionist; singer Mya tap-dances; actor George Takei sings; viewer votes determine two semifinalists.
n “Boston Legal,” 10:02 p.m., ABC. Alan and Jerry take on a tabloid talk show when a woman is murdered after declining her ex-boyfriend’s marriage proposal on television; when Shirley invites Denny to dinner, he goes to extreme measures to win back her affections.
n “Good Morning America,”7 a.m., ABC: Carpenter/designer Ty Pennington; author Trisha Yearwood (”Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen”); author Rosie O’Donnell (”Rosie O’Donnell’s Crafty U”).
n “Today,”7 a.m., NBC: Actress Melora Hardin (”The Office”); author Marilu Henner (”Wear Your Life Well”); Gloria Gaynor performs.
n “The Early Show,”7 a.m., CBS: Safe travel for pets; consumer issues.
n “Live with Regis and Kelly,”9 a.m., ABC: Journalist Diane Sawyer (”Primetime: The Last Lecture: A Love Story for Your Life”); Leona Lewis performs; the staff’s fitness challenge; author David Bach (”Go Green, Live Rich”).

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My friend Alex, in New York, grew up with grandmothers whose idea of fun was taking Alex on special shopping trips for clothes and makeup and shoes. “They made me feel cared for, and I loved being with them,” Alex says. “It was so much fun for me to spend the day with them and come home with new clothes.”
Alex introduced her now 14-year-old daughter, Grace, to such pampering when Grace was about 3, expecting, she says, that “we could build this idyllic mother-daughter experience over beauty and fashion. She tolerated it for a while, but by the time she was 5, she was done.”
Today, Grace would rather perfect her basketball jump shot than fuss with shopping for clothes.
“This has been very hard for me to let go of,” Alex says. “If she just said, ‘I read about this great shampoo,’ I’d be over the moon. I’d say, ‘Let’s go!’ “
My friend Grace says her husband bought their young sons a Thomas the Tank Engine table and all the accoutrements. “He loved trains as a kid and envisioned playing with our sons for hours on end,” she says. Now, though, the table is collecting dust in the basement, “and the trains — who knows where the heck they are. My husband doesn’t say it in so many words, but I know he was sad when he realized the boys didn’t harbor the same love for trains.”

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On ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike in the Morning, also simulcast on ESPN2, Knight made his debut as a Disney employee Friday by saying, “I don’t really consider myself to be a media person.” When co-host Mike Greenberg asked the obvious question — what does Knight, a longtime Indiana coach think of the school firing coach Kelvin Sampson for recruiting violations? — Knight was succinct: “I haven’t paid any attention to that.”
It was reminiscent of Bill Parcells’ various star turns as a TV analyst, where he didn’t feel compelled to talk about everything. When Greenberg followed up, Knight took charge: “I appreciate your doggedness, but we’re done with that subject.”
This could get interesting. Knight isn’t just any ex-coach-turned-TV talking head. After Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski got his 800th win Saturday, he said on CBS, “One person that I want to just say ‘thank you’ to — I’m going to get emotional because I love him — is Coach Knight. I wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am if I wasn’t his point guard at West Point and he wasn’t my friend for my entire life.”
Maybe future Knight will be more mediagenic. After getting 902 wins, Knight resigned his Texas Tech job and his son Pat took over. But on Fox Sports Radio, Pat said he sees potential in punditry: “I’m going to get a few hundred (wins), then get a job like you guys on radio and TV and enjoy the rest of my life.”
MLB.com, besides streaming regular TV coverage of about 160 spring training games, is producing 14 Internet-only game webcasts this year. Harold Reynolds, who is suing ESPN for wrongfully firing him in 2006 as ESPN counters he was fired for sexual misconduct, begins calling game action with MLB.com’s online Chicago Cubs-Seattle Mariners game Monday (3:05 p.m. ET).
Another comeback of sorts: When ESPN’s Baseball Tonight returns March 18, so will analyst Fernando Vina, despite being named in the Mitchell Report and, subsequently, admitting to taking human growth hormone.
After Mark Calcavecchia, then tied for the lead in Sunday’s PGA Tour Honda Classic, put a shot into the water at No. 15, NBC’s Johnny Miller said it was “just a slap in the face. It’s like walking down the street and some guy whacking you in the back of the head and you didn’t even see him.” Who knew that happened in golf? Calcavecchia finished tied for fourth. … CBS’ Gus Johnson, during Georgetown’s overtime basketball win Saturday against Marquette — “They say pressure either bursts pipes or makes diamonds.” That’s what they say? … New York Yankees executive Hank Steinbrenner, son of George, talks about a “Red Sox Nation” in The New York Times Play’ magazine out Sunday: “What a bunch of (expletive) that is. That was a creation of the Red Sox and ESPN, which is filled with Red Sox fans.” Huh? … TNT’s Charles Barkley’s reaction to Houston Rockets center Yao Ming’s season-ending foot injury: “I physically got ill because that’s not good for basketball.”
NBC announces Monday that it will begin weekly Web-isodes of a series called The Family Room, on NBC-owned iVillage.com, that will follow about eight U.S. Summer Olympic hopefuls. The idea, NBC executive producer David Neal says, is to “create a strong connection for our viewers with these athletes.”
After asking NASCAR drivers on-air for suggestions and getting about 1,600 online ideas, the wait is over. Fox has named its animated gopher character, who pops up when Fox is using cameras in the surface of tracks, and it’s “Digger.” Now, let’s name the various NASCAR onscreen graphics. … Fox’s Chris Myers, during an old replay Sunday of a fiery NASCAR crash: “Reminds me of my wife’s cooking.”
The Nielsen Co. is looking at new ways to track viewer habits. It has given viewers GPS devices to track where they go, The New York Times reports, and is “working to observe people in their homes.” It’s invested in a company trying to track “people’s eye movement, brain waves and perspiration while they watch TV.” Imagine how much better TV could be when networks get the ability to analyze, say, how Terry Bradshaw or Dick Vitale affects our brain waves.

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