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Breaking: Kim Kardashian was spotted in France enjoying not one, but two ice cream cones. It is unknown whether the weather was hot, fair or cold or whether or not Kim felt refreshed. We will keep you updated as this story develops.

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Shia LaBeouf has apologized and feels embarrassed for using the word “faggot” in an old tape of him and a friend slapping each other. What was meant to be video to remember a night of erotic sadomasochism turned into something else completely as Shia was derided for using the anti-gay slur.
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Sub Pop’s celebrating its 20th Anniversary: We told you about that and the SP20 festival. Blender did an oral and visual history titled “Going Out of Business Since 1988!” to honor the occasion. It’s not Please Kill Me-sized or on the scale of Thurston Moore and Byron Coley’s upcoming No Wave book, but it’s a fun read with bits from Chris Cornell, Lou Barlow, Mark Arm, Greg Dulli, founders Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman, the aforementioned Moore, Jack Endino, Isaac Brock, etc. A tidbit from Arm:

Cameron Crowe put Mudhoney on the Singles soundtrack, and in typical wiseass fashion, we wrote [the scene-eviscerating] “Overblown.” Were the lyrics [”And you’re up there, shirtless and flexin’/Display of a macho freak”] really inspired by a Soundgarden video? Well, Chris Cornell was taking his shirt off from day one. It just seemed kinda gross, like, I’m a good-looking model rock guy. But if I had it to show, I’d probably do it, too.

There are others.

CTV is reporting that Canadian Idol season 5 runner up, Jaydee Bixby, will soon be releasing his debut album! Recorded in Vancouver, BC, his album “Cowboys and Cadillacs” stays true to Jaydee’s country vibe. The first single to be released is called “Old Fashioned Girls“, which you can listen to in the photo montage below.
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The 26-year old London-based guitarist James Blackshaw has been putting together haunting and invigorating (and just flat-out stunning) compositions for solo 12-string guitar for quite some time. In 2007 it was his excellent The Cloud Of Unknowing. This month he’s back with the intensely beautiful, insular sixth album Litany Of Echoes. To keep it in close to the same generation, you could liken him to the Ben Chasny of For Octavio Paz and Compathia, etc. — and, like Chasny, Blackshaw also dives headfirst into deep, dark resonances and drones — but then, his label’s dead-on when they reference Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine (see, for instance, Litany’s opener, “Gate Of Ivory” and sister closer “Gate Of Horn”). Robbie Basho should be there, too. Adding to the intensity this time out, Blackshaw’s threaded piano into his finger-picking and resonances and Fran Bury deepens the atmosphere with buzzing and sawing viola and violin. That said, we’re presenting you with the sunnier, pastoral “Infinite Circle,” its delicate notes of guitar, piano, and bowed strings working as one, well, infinite circle.

We weighed in early and positively on the Hold Steady’s Stay Positive. Since then, we’ve had more time to soak-up the lyrics, figure out interconnections, and chart continuing threads from earlier albums. At the end of the day, in the midst of this close listening, “Constructive Summer” remains a personal favorite, but “Yeah Sapphire” and “Magazines” have moved way up in the rankings, as have “Lord, I’m Discouraged” and “Slapped Actress.” (The title track, i.e. the best nostalgia track in recent memory, goes without saying.) Part of our investigation included reading your Premature Evaluation comments, which was kinda like doing research at a Hold Steady-themed library. That said — props in their proper place — those of you who haven’t heard the album in full can now stream the entire thing at the band’s MySpace (thanks for the tip, Kim) and join in the discussion. Stay Positive (and the Hold Steady in general) are largely about community, scenes, people digging in and interacting in both good and bad ways, so take a listen and get thematic.

American Idol winner, David Cook, will be singing the national anthem at the Staples Center tonight for Game 2 of the NBA Finals when the Boston Celtics take on the LA Lakers! 
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Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like.

We’ve suffered through some half-assed list issues here at the OldStand, but RS 602 (”New Faces ‘91″) has a compelling mixture of the thoughtful, the prescient, and the ridiculous. On the plus side: David Fricke’s trip inside the acid-fried mind of Ministry’s Alain Jourgensen, the patron saint of Chicago’s Wax Trax records, and a primer on independent labels which, in the days before the internet, might have been a suburban kid’s first exposure to Matador, Sub Pop, Creation, and Flying Nun.

As with any exercise in picking the “next big thing,” there are some hits and some misses. The Charlatans UK (lead singer Tim Burgess looks “like New Kid on the Block Jordan Night on ecstasy”) and De La Soul are still active 17 years later, and it’s hard to argue with the Chris Isaak pick. Even the obligatory artists-recommend-artists section has a few gems, including Brian Eno on My Bloody Valentine: “[Soon] sets a new standard for pop … it’s the vaguest piece of music ever to have been a hit.”

And then there’s New Faces cover boys Extreme. Allow me to transcribe:

“There are lines you draw, Paul, no matter what you do,” Bettencourt is saying. “We could sell a million records, but if it’s all twelve-year-old girls who think that one of us is pretty, what the fuck kind of audience is that to have? Of course you want to be rich, but how far would you go, you know? Would you suck dick to do it?”

“Thaaat’s debatable!” barks Cherone happily.

Bettencourt and Geary shoot irritated glances at Cherone, then get back to the topic at hand.

“Seriously, what’s the most important thing to you?” asks Geary. “Maintaining your integrity? What I’m saying is, if you’ve got your bottom line, then shut up. You want your cake and eat it, too.”

The two continue to hammer away at each other; apparently neither realizes that although they’re approaching the argument from different angles, they’re both making the same point.

“I recently read this thing,” Geary says. “The guitar players in Warrant were in Guitar Player, and I notice that they’re struggling for respect from their peers. That’s a big major problem for them. They have all the money, and they’ve got success, and…”

“I’m just making a point,” says Geary. “Warrant is saying, ‘Jeez, I got a million dollars, but I don’t have any integrity,’ and you’re saying you’d rather have what you have than what they have.”

“Okay, then be quiet,” says Bettencourt sullenly.

More than words, indeed!

And it gets even more embarrassing, with a not-nearly-ironic-enough pullout fashion spread featuring dueling MCs Hammer and Van Winkle and a shitload of Z Cavaricci (Hammer: “Contrary to the Media, Vanilla Ice and I have actually been friends for about three years”). Now, I don’t know much about fashion, but I do know that in 2-4 years, when the coming early-90s nostalgia apocalypse comes, we will all look like idiots. Except, apparently, for Vanilla Ice, who will look like Frank Sinatra.