Manic Monday: Tom Petty, Keith Moon, U2

Items galore this Monday a.m.:

• First of all, just wanted to make sure everyone reading this is tracking on the Daily Vault's September retrospective featuring Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. There are some big TP fans around these parts, so the forecast is for heavy coverage all month long...
  
  
• On the 30th anniversary of Keith Moon's death, the Arizona Republic kindly offered a summary of "13 Essential Keith Moon Moments" from the life and career of The Who's explosive drummer. Essential reading indeed...
  
  
• You won't hear the rest of that rumored (and partially leaked) new U2 album until 2009, reports the LA Times -- at least, if Bono can remember to keep the stereo turned down.
  

Friday Roundup: TV is the new radio, Fleetwood Mac attack, Bono's boo-boo

• This morning's USA Today profiles the new generation of mellow, sunny singer-songwriters (Colbie Caillat, Marie Digby, Meiko, Brett Dennen, Sara Bareilles, Yael Naim, Greg Laswell), but what struck me about the article is how many of these folks experienced a very much 21st-century phenomenon: TV is the new radio. Never mind pitching to radio station music directors; it's the music producers for One Tree Hill and Grey's Anatomy you want to get your stuff to when you're shooting for the big career bump.

• Don't invite Lindsey Buckingham and Sheryl Crow to the same beach party anytime soon. From the sound of the Fleetwood Mac guitarist's latest comments, he's still pretty cheesed off at Crow's previous and apparently quite premature announcement that she was going to be joining the Mac for a new album and tour.
  
  
• Surely by now you've heard the one about Bono accidentally leaking tracks from the new U2 album by cranking his stereo a bit too loud. The new media paradigm -- all access, all the time -- is pretty unforgiving...