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Peaches Honored by Harvard, and Other News

Peaches If you’re like me, you didn’t realize that Peaches was funny enough to be inducted by Harvard’s Comedy Publication as an honorary member. We haven’t seen a whole lot of the chanteuse these days, but she’ll be sworn in, figuratively speaking, this Monday on the campus, before she embarks on tours of Europe and Australia. (Chart Attack)

Rolling Stone magazine is opening a restaurant chain, the first location to be in Hollywood. Publisher Jann Wenner said he’s been wanting to expand the brand for some time now. (Guardian)

J Mascis has formed yet another band, this one named Sweet Apple. While Mascis is primiarly the drummer in this new outfit, is also said to be singing and handling some guitar duties as well. (Pitchfork)

Eddie Argos of Art Brut fame announces details of his side project, Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now, London tour details. (NME)

Liam Clancy, the Irish folk singer who Bob Dylan once called “the best ballad singer I’ve ever heard” just died in County Cork, Ireland at the age of 74. (NPR)

Since I’ve been keeping you updated every step of the way so far, here’s still more news about Liam Gallagher’s post Oasis plans. (Strange Glue)

Marilyn Manson was released from his contract with Interscope and seems to be quite happy about it. (Daily Swarm)

Smashing Pumpkins Settle Lawsuit, and Other News

by: Angela Zimmerman

Whatdya know, Billy Corgan is pissed again. Or, was rather. The Smashing Pumpkins just settled a lawsuit with Virgin Records. Or, two lawsuits rather. Billy Corgan filed his own lawsuit, while other Pumpkins members James Iha and D’arcy Wretzky-Brown filed one as well. The suit involved royalty payments and promotions. Here’s to hoping that everyone is walking away satisfied. (Yahoo)

Yesterday I briefed you in on the bizarre news that Pete Doherty (who is partly of Jewish descent, I may add), sang a Nazi anthem at a German show the other day. Doherty has publicly apologized, alleging that he was not aware of the Nazi implications of the “rarely used first verse.” (BBC)

The Killers are acting charitable for the holidays, giving proceeds from their new Christmas single to the (RED) campaign, a global fund to fight AIDS in Africa. Luke Perry (aka Dylan McKay) randomly stars in the video. (Idolator)

Shane MacGowan is so entertaining he’s set to star in a reality show about growing vegetables. No joke. (NME)

Rumors have begun circulating about a forthcoming Arcade Fire record. Stay tuned for more concrete details on this one. (Strange Glue)

Snoop Dogg (along with Bob Dylan) will be a new optional voice behind your car’s GPS system. (Chart Attack)

Liam Gallagher Reveals Post-Oasis Plans, and Other News

by: Angela Zimmerman

Liam Gallagher dishes about what caused Oasis to split in September (was sorta a sparring over guitars, with lots of built up animosity in the mix), and reveals he currently works with all the other members still, but for his brother Noel. He also says that within a few months, he plans on playing his first post-Oasis gig. (NME)

Some reading material for the weekend: A nice lengthy interview with most everyone’s favored producer, Steve Albini. (Daily Swarm)

It’s being widely rumored that before too long, MySpace Music, who currently pays $20 million a month on streaming royalties, will be charging for the music. (Hypebot)

Crawdaddy! favorite Skip Spence will be honored in an all-star tribute organized by Beck, who has also gotten Feist, Wilco, and Jamie Lidell on board. (Stereogum)

King Khan, known for riotous live shows, has been arrested in Kentucky. No one really knows why yet. Here’s to hoping he still makes it out to his SF gig next week, and isn’t in too big of trouble. (Pitch)

Panda Bear, who never ever tours without his band Animal Collective, has revealed a short string of European tour dates coming up next month. (Pitchfork)

Wear Your Beatles on Your Sleeve: Dr. Dog vs. Oasis

by: Lavinia Jones Wright

During an argument about Dr. Dog that I was listening in on between my roommate and a friend of his, the friend happened to say in a derogatory tone that they sounded “just like the Beatles.” To that my roommate replied, “Don’t we love the Beatles? Why is that a bad thing?”

I thought his point was valid, and rare. We are so quick to fault bands for borrowing from their influences, when any one of us would be hard pressed to name a band that hasn’t gotten at the very least a concept and at most a whole career from some other artist or genre.

Courtesy of Oasis I’m going to boldly say that the Beatles are responsible for about 50 percent of the music that I listen to both personally and indirectly. But the more interesting point about the Beatles, which is totally singular to their influence, is that it is possible to take two bands of our generation who are known for sounding like the Beatles, put them next to each other, and have them sound nothing like each other.