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Richard Gehr | August 13, 2007

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  • Exceptionally cool actor Michael Caine, 73, will release Cained, a compilation of some of his favorite "chill-out" tracks, in Britain on September 3:

    "I've loved this type of music for years and have literally hundreds of CDs," Caine said of the mellow, generally slow-tempo genre. "I've been buying them for about 15 years and really know my way around."

  • Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett has been banned from Umbria's jazz festival for taking cellphone photographers to task in rather salty language (consider this an advisory). His message, in short: turn off the cameras now or we're leaving town. It was all captured on YouTube, too. [via Idolator]

  • Don't hold your breath for Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary Shine a Light. Its release has been delayed to sometime in 2008.

  • CMT editor-in-chief Chet Flippo touts female country singers Ashton Shepherd ("stands to become a major new country artist"), Sonya Isaacs ("a truly gorgeous vocalist), Suzy Bogguss ("one of the best singers Nashville has ever produced"), and Jackie Bristow ("totally occupied my car's CD player for the past week or so ") unto thee.

  • Video footage of the recording of John and Yoko's "Give Peace a Chance" (recorded on the final day of their week-long 1969 "bed-in," with backing vocals by Petula Clark, Timothy Leary, and Tommy Smothers) will be released for the first time August 28 on DVD in Britain.

  • Do we hear digital music differently than we hear analog sounds? Do our brains, forming fewer neural connections due to compression, actually need to work harder to process digital music? Should you maybe not have given away your turntable? The San Francisco Chronicle's Joel Selvin offers a pretty good introduction to the world of digital sound and neuroscience. [via Idolator]

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