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White Stripes, Coldplay news this week
Review bv Sean Mihlo
staff writer
The White Stripes Name New Album, Release
First Single
Detroit's finest candy-stripers, The White
Stripes, will release their fifth full-length
album. "Get Behind Me Satan,” on June 7 via
V 2 Records. Recorded in Detroit at Third Man
Studios, the album features thirteen tracks
written by the Stripes. The LP’s first single,
“Blue Orchid,” was released on iTunes
Tuesday and will eventually be available in
stores May 31. Currently, the duo is in the
midst of a Central and South American tour
but will be back in the States for a gig in
Atlanta on June 10.
Coldplay Con firms Details of New LP
Coldplay will release “X&Y,” their follow
up to 20()2's platinum-selling and Grammy
award-winning “A Rush of Blood to the
Head." June 6 via Capitol Records. The band
recorded the twelve tracks that appear on
“X&Y" over the past year in the United States
and in the United Kingdom. “Speed of Sound"
will officially be released on May 23 but if
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What is a Bluetooth virus and why do they spread
like viruses in humans?
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Dear Bluetoothless,
Just like real viruses - the biological ones - only
affect certain species, computer viruses only affect
certain types of computers. Some viruses only attack
computers running the e-mail program Outlook, like
the "Love Bug" of a few years ago. Most viruses only
invade pne operating system, like Windows,
Macintosh or Unix. Bluetooth viruses target computers
and other electronic devices with Bluetooth capabili
ties. So far Bluetooth viruses only infect cell phones.
Bluetooth is a protocol which allows devices to com
municate with each other wirelessly, eliminating the
need for a cable. You can use Bluetooth to type on your
laptop keyboard text-messages that will be sent on
your phone. But Bluetooth has a very limited range:
about ten meters (32 feet). Because of this limit, you
would have to bring your cell phone into the same
room as the laptop to get them to talk to each other
through Bluetooth.
The range is also the reason why Bluetooth viruses
spread like biological viruses. With both types, one
needs to come close to someone (or something) infect
ed to catch a virus. Now when you ride the subway,
you have to worry about the little kid who keeps sneez
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phone. The kid could give you the flu, the cell phone
could erase your hard disk.
Bluetooth viruses have largely been confined to
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you can't wait until then, the first single from
“X&Y" is currently available for download on
Coldplay's official website. The band has
scheduled a European tour for most of June
and July; as of today, no U.S. dates have been
confirmed.
Cat Power Kicks Off
Continues Work on Album
The elusive Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat
Power, will begin a short, two week tour
across Europe beginning this week. Cat Power
has recently been playing scattered shows
throughout the U.S., no doubt testing out new
material. According to Matador, Chan is still
working on the new Cat Power record, which
she began recording last year in July, but no
release date has been set.
In October of 2004, Cat Power and director
Mark Borthwick released the film “Speaking
for Trees,” a 2-hour documentary that captures
Chan playing solo outdoors in various natural
settings. Cat Power's most recent album, “You
Are Free." was released in February of 2003
on Matador (her label for the past seven
years); it landed on many year-end top 10 lists
and was a finalist for the Shortlist prize.
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cities. Because of their limited range and the lower
density of Bluetooth-enabled devices in rural areas, it’s
harder for them to spread there; They have jumped
continents though, probably the same way the flu (toes:
on a trans-Atlantic flight from London to New York.
Cabir, the first and most widespread Bluetooth
virus, does nothing more than change the the screen
you see when you turn on your cell phone and drain
your cell phone battery by constantly trying to spread
to other devices. It only affects phones running the
Symbian Operating System (Nokia, Panasonic, Sony,
Motorola and others all have phones running
Symbian.)
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information on their cell phone than on their comput
ers. However, we may have a significant problem if a
virus arises that can jump from cell phone to PDA to
laptop. Fortunately, such sophisticated viruses are very
hard to write and are therefore quite uncommon.
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Coldplay’s new CD, “X&Y,” is to be released June 6. The new songs are already available for down
load on Coldplay’s official website and will be perfomed on their tour this summer.
Last year, Chan offered her vocals to the
song “I've Been Thinkin',” from Handsome
Boy Modeling School's 2004 album, “White
People.” Since then, Ms. Marshall has been
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Badu dresses
By Ellise Pierce
The Dallas Morning News
(KRT)
DALLAS - Erykah Badu's mushroom
cloud of hair bounces as she moves,
with the grace of a dancer, into the liv
ing room of her East Dallas home. She's
a diminutive 5-2, so the oversize pouf
dwarfs her, yet softly frames her face.
With delicate features and a powerful
sense of self-assuredness, she is arrest
ingly beautiful. Yet Badu doesn't play it
up. She wears no makeup; she doesn't
need to.
Her wraparound skirt, an asymmetri
cal patchwork of frayed vintage plaid
upholstery pieces, is something she
made herself, on the sewing machine
against one wall. For a top, she wears a
navy “Catch a Fire” Bob Marley T-shirt,
but turned inside-out and worn back
ward, with the oversize tag in front.
Orange henna covers her arms, as do
dozens of plastic black bracelets - gas
kets from an auto store - that she con
stantly pulls on and off and twists
together to make something new.
"I call it functional art," she says of
her outfit. "I love deconstruction.
Period. I'm sort of a deconstruction war-
rior princess."
Whether she's wearing an African
headdress, long braids or a puffy Afro,
Badu's iconoclastic style has set her
apart in the music world, which is often
about mimicking a certain look. And
sound, for that matter. But if everybody
else is doing something, then Badu
wants to do something else, wear some
thing else or wear the same thing, but in
her own way.
Vibe magazine recently named the
four-time Grammy winner - along with
Beyonce, Gwen Stefani and Jennifer
Lopez - one of its 25 Style Icons, pro
claiming her "the queen of anti-bling"
for her thrift-with-a-twist aesthetic.
Soon, if we so dare, we'll be able to buy
Badu-wear. With the help of local and
national talent, she is designing her own
line of clothes, which she plans to show
case in a storefront space in Dallas later
this year.
And that's just one of the projects
she's juggling. She has formed her own
record label, Control Freaq ("So I can
control the frequency," she says, "not
just for me, but for each individual artist
who wants to be part of the label, to con
trol their own image, their own
music.”), and she's working on her fifth
album, scheduled for release in late fall.
This spring, she'll appear with Robin
Williams, Te'a Leoni and David
Duchovny in the comedic drama "House
of D."
Flash forward: It's just past 2 p.m.,
two weeks before she will be going on
tour in Japan, and Badu has just awak
ened.
She worked through the night, until 6
a.m., recording in her upstairs studio
with one of her new label's artists, Jay
Electronica, a rapper from New Orleans.
She sits on an orange midcentury sofa
across from two plastic chairs, a giant
Clifford the Big Red Dog, two beaded
African dolls, bongo drums and car-
Friday, April 22, 2005
and, um, working. And, would you believe it?
Cat Power is launching a tour of Europe!
Fortunately for me, while European
Cat Power fans are watching her work some
musical magic, I'll be writing papers and
studying for finals in Pennsylvania! Mais,
c'est la vie.
without fear
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Erykah Badu at home in East Dallas,
Texas. Her crocheted pants by
Nacinimod Naree, vintage yellow
crinoline, “Catch A Fire" jacket and
beaded necklace, all her own.
toonish, vinyl platform go-go boots. The
playthings serve as inspiration for her
self and her two children - Seven, who is
7, and whom she home-schools (the
periodic table of elements is taped to
one wall), and 7-month-old Puma.
Wisps of strawberry incense fill the air.
An old Mary McCreary record (vinyl),
one of her favorites, plays.
Part hippie, part 70s funk, Badu's
environment is a reflection of her own
fearless style, which is as hard to define
as her sound. Musically, she's been com
pared to Billie Holiday and Angela
Davis. She's also been deemed the
"queen of neo-soul," a title she quickly
denounces.
Her last album, released in fall 2003,
is raw and energetic, a combo platter of
old-school hip-hop; Stevie Wonder-style
choral arrangements; unmixed,
impromptu sessions that came from her
second-floor studio; and collaborative
pieces with Lenny Kravitz, Queen
Latifah and Angie Stone. She admits it
was more of a peek at a process than a
finished, polished product.
I hand her my pad.
She writes: "Travel like water under
ground, to push up daisies from the
soil."
"Gotta get it when you can," she says.
"Thank you for inspiring me."
Badu herself is mentoring South
Dallas kids, speaking to them about
AIDS and teen pregnancy, but she's
loath to discuss any of this because she
doesn't want to appear to be using the
philanthropic platform to further her
music career.
She never invites the media to attend.
The talks are something she has done
for years, and one reason she stays in
Dallas.
Where she is, right now, is a very
interesting place - mixing motherhood
with concurrent music and acting
careers, balancing her celebrity and pri
vate life.