Edith Frost released It’s a Game on Novemebr 15. Songs Illinois has a few MP3′s here. And there are a few outtakes here.

Download the hilarious Goldfrapp video “Number 1” from her upcoming Supernature. [Via Brooklyn Vegan]

Because God would prefer people die of AIDS

A Brazilian singer who promoted the use of condoms in an anti-AIDS campaign has been dropped from the lineup of next month’s Christmas concert at the Vatican, organizers said Friday.
Daniela Mercury was dropped after Vatican authorities read statements by her in the Brazilian press that went “against the moral doctrine of the church,” said Eligio Ermeti, a spokesman for the agency organizing the event. [continue reading]

They’re one of the most underated bands in indie rock. We’re glad to see them getting some props on Brooklyn Vegan and elsewhere.
Check out their new single: Gore Veil (from Porcella)

Evidently, Bush Inc is now censoring Vietnam era documents to save face on Iraq. Perhaps we should censor history text books too. Those darn Crusades could “prompt uncomfortable comparisons” too:

[Frank Rich via TruthOut] If Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney believe they were truthful in the run-up to the war, it’s easy for them to make their case. Instead of falsely claiming that they’ve been exonerated by two commissions that looked into prewar intelligence – neither of which addressed possible White House misuse and mischaracterization of that intelligence – they should just release the rest of the President’s Daily Briefs and other prewar documents that are now trickling out. Instead, incriminatingly enough, they are fighting the release of any such information, including unclassified documents found in post-invasion Iraq requested from the Pentagon by the pro-war, neocon Weekly Standard. As Scott Shane reported in The New York Times last month, Vietnam documents are now off limits, too: the National Security Agency won’t make public a 2001 historical report on how American officials distorted intelligence in 1964 about the Gulf of Tonkin incident for fear it might “prompt uncomfortable comparisons” between the games White Houses played then and now to gin up wars.

Ted Koppel’s final show will air tonight. Thanks for a classy, distinguished career, Ted. You’ll be missed.

Somehow we missed this column by former Senator Bob Graham on Sunday. It further implicates Bush Inc of intelligence manipulation. Evidently, there were twointelligence reports:
The classified version most senators did not see:

“contained vigorous dissents on key parts of the information, especially by the departments of State and Energy. Particular skepticism was raised about aluminum tubes that were offered as evidence Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program. As to Hussein’s will to use whatever weapons he might have, the estimate indicated he would not do so unless he was first attacked.”

The unclassified version most senators did see:

[It was] titled “Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.” It represented an unqualified case that Hussein possessed them, avoided a discussion of whether he had the will to use them and omitted the dissenting opinions contained in the classified version. Its conclusions, such as “If Baghdad acquired sufficient weapons-grade fissile material from abroad, it could make a nuclear weapon within a year,” underscored the White House’s claim that exactly such material was being provided from Africa to Iraq.

Read the full story here.

We sadly missed the American Analog Set shows when they recently came to New York, but the kind people at Bradley’s Almanac have got our back. Check out a complete set of MP3s from their recent live show in Cambridge. [Via Brooklyn Vegan]

We don’t usually do posts to promote other blogs, but if you haven’t discovered Songs Illinois do yourself a favor and check it out. It’s the perfect antidote to the New York blogs that are always discussing the same two or three bands. Their specialty is alt-country and folk—in the realm of Will Oldham and Mendoza Line—and best of all, they always turn us onto music (and labels) we’ve yet to discover by providing lots of free downloads. Check ‘em out here. We recommend downloading Arena Rock’s Winechuggers, as per their suggestion.