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“Dirty City” is an escalating, hypnotic opus, featuring Win-wood on B-3 organ and a solo by his Blind Faith buddy Eric Clapton; “Fly” sounds like his mellower hits from the Eight¬ies. “I’ve tried to combine in¬gredients of Latin music, gos¬pel, bebop, and add them to the folk-rock-jazz elements I’ve al¬ways tried to have,” Winwood says. “It becomes a soup, and hopefully it’s a tasty soup.”  Samson: Regina Spektor:

MUDCRUTCH

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When Tom Petty reached out to the former members of Mud-crutch, his pre-Heartbreakers band, about a reunion, they thought he was joking. Support Tickets “But once they really believed me, they got gung-ho,” Petty says. Keyboard¬ist Benmont Tench and guitarist Mike Campbell went on to join the Heartbreakers, but drum¬mer Randall Marsh and guitar¬ist Tom Leadon hadn’t played with Petty since Mudcrutch split up in 1975. The disc’s four¬teen new songs (every group member sings at least one) were cut in just two weeks at Petty’s Malibu home studio. “It has an edgy country-rock feel,” Petty says. “I had to calm myself down at night, I was having so much fun.”

Let’s Get Physical

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“Why?” But I see it and ask, “Screech, again? Joanie /”"J j from Happy Days? Sommore from The Queens of Com.’ ^^■^ edy?” Even awesomer than the season with Willie Aames. Wait — who is this furry-headed angel that appears before me? Willie Aames! This is the best Celebrity Fit Club ever! It’s amaz­ing that nothing can kill this show, and that after five seasons of mayhem, it keeps scaling new heights of Z-list agony. It looks like America can’t get enough of watching yesterday’s beloved TV stars don sweatsuits of redemption-scented Lycra and go to boot camp to regain the eye of the tiger. We, the viewers, play Paulie to their Rocky, watching ringside as they endure ridiculously point­less torments – obstacle courses, muddy stick-fights, listening to Toccara Jones scream “Kiss my ass!” at the judges – while follow­ing some dumb diet nobody really gives a vegan crap about. VHi knows who’s watching, and how deeply we care about fitness, judg­ing from all the ads for Oreo Posted September 17

VHI knows we care about fitness, judging from that Oreo ad.

The Raveonettes

They like dark music and darker clothes

SUNE ROSE WAGNER, OF DEN-mark’s Raveonettes, had a recent epiphany at the New York Philharmonic. “There were seventy people onstage, and they were all wearing black,” the singer-guitarist recalls. “Maybe that’s why the music was so intense.” The Raveonettes use a similar wardrobe for their own noirish songs, which singer Sharin Foo says “seek the darker and seedier side of life.” Electronics Their third album, Lust Lust Lust, blends fuzzed-out Sixties girl-group melodies with mountains of distortion and bleak lyrics (“The first love you can’t escape/The second love feels like rape”) to provide a cinematic aura that would fit a Wim Wenders road movie. Foo says she looks to Michelangelo Antonioni muse Monica Vitti for inspiration. “I’m wearing more mature clothes now,” she says. “I wear clothes a woman would wear.” WAGNER “My style is classic with a twist.” 1. “This cardigan is from H&M in Europe. Their collections are very different.” 2. “I got this Hawaiian shirt for five dollars. It’s got cars, suns and surfboards on it – there’s a party going on!”

CHANGES Pumpkins Sue Virgin Records

The Smashing Pumpkins filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against their former label, Virgin Records, on March 24th in Los Angeles. The suit claims that Virgin illegally Find latest lyrics used the band’s name and music in a recent Pepsi and Amazon.com promotion, which offered consumers discounted song downloads. According to the suit, the Pumpkins “convey a message of honesty, artistic integrity and alternative, nonmain-stream culture. Virgin’s con­duct has irreparably harmed [the band's] reputation.” Billy Corgan tells Rolling Stone, “We didn’t say yes to this. [It's an example] of them getting sneaky, because the only place they’re going to get money now is from corporate sponsors.” A Virgin represen­tative declined to comment. Schola Gregoriana Vilnensis lyrics