Jill Scottand her 9-month-old tot Jett Hamilton Roberts appear in the May issue of Essence. Jill opens up about “the difficult road that led her to single motherhood, the sister circle that helps her get by, and the perfect life she enjoys today” in the article.
And congratulations are in order for Paula Patton and Robin Thicke who welcomed their first child, Julian Fuego, on Tuesday. No picture of this newborn yet, but if he looks anything like his parents he’ll surely be a cutie!
We don’t mean to imply anything about the finger-waving kid who lip-syncs to Ke$ha’s “Blah Blah Blah” in the video below—but YOU WORK IT, GIRL! Just when you thought no YouTube clip could surpass the six-year-old girl bumping and grinding to “TiK ToK,” along comes this sassy fan-imal to brighten our Friday. “I’m just going to, you know, rock out to this new jam,” he warns at the beginning. Watch below—and prepare to be awed by this guy’s naughty strut at 2:14 in.
This dublab documentary film features four amazing, LA-based beat makers: Daedelus, J-Rocc, Nobody and Ras G in a secret mission to create new musical magic from the dusty remains of thrift store vinyl.
To celebrate the release of Secondhand Sureshots on DVD we will be expanding the film in its full glory on the big screen.
$10 / ALL AGES
8 pm = Doors
9 pm = Secondhand Sureshots screening.
10 pm = Bonus film clips & Live beat session. Bring surprise vinyl sources for the film’s stars to sample.
11 pm = Rooftop party with drinks, dj sets and live screenprinting by HIT+RUN!!!! Bring your secondhand t-shirts, bags, slipmats, thrift store album covers, etc to get a special Sureshots design printed on the spot!
+ A Secondhand Sureshots art installation with production portraits and creatively recycled record art will be on view throughout the evening in the lobby.
We can’t help but imagine we’re watching a lost Glee episode as we take in the new video for Macy Gray’s optimistic, jingle-like single, “Beauty in the World.” We’ve got tons of dancing, singing, smiling kids, not to mention a cheerleading squad that could be the Cheerios’ stunt doubles. All that’s missing is a tedious subplot about a teenage pregnancy, Macy Gray, and the kids performing at sectionals and we’re pretty sure we’ve got the season finale right here. Check out the happy-go-lucky vid, directed by Adria Petty (yes, Tom Petty’s daughter) below and try not to crack a smile.
Macy Gray – “Beauty In The World”
And here’s the album cover to Macy Gray’s The Sellout, due June 21. It’s much more flattering than Macy’s Wikipedia photo, no?
Pete Wentz directs Train's video for "If It's Love" Photo: Matt Elias/ MTV News
How did Pete Wentz prepare himself to direct the video for Train's "If It's Love"? He read a book.
"Yeah, I did ... it was pretty good too. It was called 'The Film Director's Intuition,' " Wentz told MTV News recently on the set of the video in Los Angeles. "I learned you're not going to go through film school overnight — in 24 hours you're not going to become this guy who knows this lens from that lens. But I always know how I want something to look, and what I learned from the book is that if you have the best director of photography and a great first assistant director, that you're going to end up with a good video."
And while the idea of Wentz directing a clip for Train seems like it was anything but by the book (get it?) it's not as far-fetched as you might assume. Both Fall Out Boy and Train are managed by the same company, and Wentz and Train mastermind Pat Monahan both know what it's like to live life beneath the glare of the spotlight.
"I got to know Pat and realized that we were kind of kindred spirits. I've been through the wringer, but he's been through the wringer, like, 20 times more than me, and he shared a lot of experiences and told me a lot of stuff," Wentz said. "And since early on in Fall Out Boy, I'd write the treatments with [director] Alan [Ferguson]. And [Fall Out Boy's] 'I Don't Care' video, I co-directed with Alan. So it's something that I've always had a passion for."
And Wentz is definitely drawing from his past for Train's "If It's Love" — the follow-up to their massively successful "Hey, Soul Sister" single — but he's not stopping there, either. The video also recalls great moments from the storied history of music videos as well.
"I talked to Pat for a little bit, then wrote the treatment — I wanted to know where they'd be willing to go and how involved they'd want to be. And after it comes out, I think people will see they were pretty involved," Wentz said. "It's based off videos like [Michael Jackson's] 'Leave Me Alone,' or 'The Real Slim Shady' ... it's a bit of a parody, you'll see Pat and the guys parodying themselves a bit. That's what I've always found from [Fall Out Boy's] videos. If you take the piss out of yourself, people like it."
What do you think of Pete Wentz working with Train on their new video? Let us know in the comments below!
On this season of "The Celebrity Apprentice," '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper is battling it out for business supremacy against Sharon Osbourne, Bret Michaels and other stars. A few years down the road, when Trump is still pitting celebs against one another to test their business savvy, the tycoon is hoping Lady Gaga will fill Lauper's shoes.
"Well, he self-destructed. Jesse really self-destructed," Trump said. "He was on 'The Apprentice,' and he did a really good job. He's a tough guy. He's very sullen, but he's tough. But he really did self-destruct, and I can't imagine after what he's been with and what he's done that he gets Sandra back."
Do you think Lady Gaga could win "The Celebrity Apprentice"? Tell us in the comments!
Every so often there’s a show in NYC so seismic that RSS and Twitter feeds become hostile places for anyone not lucky (or whatever) enough to be there. I’m aware of the phenomenon, and sorry to do this to you, but LCD Soundsystem at Music Hall Of Williamsburg was that show, and this is that post. Everything James said from stage last night has been quoted repeatedly in every review and tweeterism since, but that’s because the guy knows how to say quotable things. Straight away, there was “the good news/bad news” bit: “The good news is, we’re here. The bad news is, I’m wasted.” (Champagnes and whiskeys, if you’re one to try things at home.) He tried to pitch it as “not really a show,” as a rehearsal, really, though a friend told me they’d been in rehearsals in MHOW for the past three days. And that’s somewhat comforting if you’re in a band, because any septet that can pummel their dance-punk and sail their more emotional stylings that freakishly well after three years off is a band to be feared. The focus was on the new stuff, because even inside a room full of the more connected music goers in the city, few have actually spent time with This Is Happening, a fact about which James was mindful (comparing it to being a kid and traveling to a Smiths show only to be bummed they’d played “Panic” instead of “This Charming Man”; charisma-plus, every second), and this was a room full of people that will listen to very little else once they finally do (the record’s a beast). So only two songs came from the new: one called “Change,” and then the divisive but rousing in the flesh summer-party jam “Drunk Girls.” Otherwise it was a setlist of older triumphs — name your favorite three LCD songs and they played them — though the room lost it hardest for “Losing My Edge,” lyrics tweaked here and there, introduced by James saying “I’m 40. You know how old that is? That means most of the shows I saw when I was a kid were opened by Fishbone.” The self-aware/self-deprecating shtick runs into a wall though, with the new millennial life-rule that occurred to me last night: If you wrote “Losing My Edge,” you will never actually do so. (Applies to a population of one.) LCD hadn’t played it in five years. It was a moment. I was there. So was YouTube:
We saw the Franz-less Hold Steady play “Barely Breathing” at their tour kick-off show in Ardsley. Craig Finn looked like he was having a great time, but it was hard to hear him singing over the video crackle. Now that we have this track, it’s clear that, once again, nostalgia plays a big part, as it does in “Hurricane J” and “The Weekenders.” Finn seems to be saying that audiences aren’t the same anymore, but neither are the bands (more “Rock Problems“). Also, with the live version we posted, you didn’t get to hear the smooth-as-silk clarinet that comes in the second half of this song. It’s a delicate touch on this more polished Hold Steady record.
It’s
February 2010 and we’re back with ChartWatch.Know I know we usually only talk about Hip Hop here but my favorite
artists just hit number one this week so I’m making an exception (plus not too
much is going on this week so why not show some love to R&B in the Hip Hop
charts column?).Sade’s Soldier of Love comes in at number one
selling 481,000 copies.(Flip over to
album reviews if you want to see our take on her latest offering.)Not bad for an someone that hasn’t released
an album since 2000.
Leading
the way for Hip-Hop is Lil Wayne with his rock experiment Rebirth.The Crescent City
MC sells another 83,000 copies and drops two spots to number four.
Rounding
out the top ten is The Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D.This album really
refuses to die and moves another 65,000 copies helping The Peas grab the number
eight spot.If you really want to get
technical the only Hip Hop in the top ten is the Black Eyed Peas which is kind
of sad.
There
are only two albums representing Hip Hop as we move from the top ten into the
top fifty.The first is from Lil Wayne’s
Young Money.We Are Young Money sells 19,000 copies and dips down to the 39th
spot.They are followed by Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 which sells 17,000
copies this week but also takes a drop moving from twenty-seven to forty-four.
Dropping
This Week
We
have a few albums coming up this week.First, if you liked the The
Freelapse mixtape (which is available for free in Music Reviews) then you
may want to pick up Freeway’s collaboration with Jake One titled The Stimulus Package.The album features Beanie Sigel, Raekwon,
Young Chris, Birdman, Bun B, LaToyia Williams, Omilio Sparks, and Mr. Porter.
Next
up is Return of the Wu, an album
composed of older songs as well as unreleased material mixed by Wu Tang
affiliate DJ Mathematics.It’s not a new
Wu Tang album but it may hold fans over until the group comes out with a new
one (if they ever come out with a new one.)
I
didn’t even think this next artist was still doing stuff but apparently I was wrong. Tone Loc
(that’s right “Funky Cold Medina” and “Wild Thing.” THAT Tone Loc) drops Tone Loc T.V. 2 featuring Bavgate, Guce, Goldtoes, Jimmy
Roses, Boss Hogg, Mac Mall, Freddy Chingaz, Napalm & Eruption, Beeda Weeda,
Berner, and Stuntman.
That’s it for the week.We’ll see if any Hip Hop is on the charts
next week.
Erykah Badu was charged with disorderly conduct for her nude music video shoot in Dallas on Friday. On March 13, Badu was shooting the video for her song “Window Seat,” performing a walking striptease in front of tourists and pedestrians that culminated with the singer acting out being shot in the same spot where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor with a fine of up to $500. [AOLNews.com]
Michael Jackson’s family will face Dr. Conrad Murray in court at his Monday hearing for his charge of involuntary manslaughter of Jackson. At the hearing, which more than a dozen of Jackson’s family members will attend, a judge will be assigned to try the case, a preliminary hearing date will be set, and there will be a request to revoke his license to practice medicine. [Billboard.com]
LCD Soundsystem is gearing up for a summer tour of North America. James Murphy and crew, who will release their upcoming album This is Happening on May 18, will play the Coachella Festival, then spend a month in Europe, then return to the States for a whirlwind jaunt that includes dates at the Sasquatch and Bonnaroo Festivals. [Pitchfork.com]
Dr. Dre announced at Sunday night’s baseball season opening game between the Red Sox and the Yankees that a new single with Jay-Z, “Under Pressure,” is on the way. Dre and record executive Jimmy Iovine were at Boston’s Fenway Park promoting a Red Sox edition of Beats by Dre headphones. “Under Pressure” is expected to be the first single from Dr. Dre’s album Detox, which has been delayed for over two years. [RollingStone.com]
Gang of Four will give their fans almost anything — if they help finance the band’s latest album. The post-punkers have teamed with Pledge Music to help raise funds for the upcoming Content. Those who donate to the album’s budget will receive perks like extra artwork, a scratch and sniff booklet, and … vials of the band members’ blood. [DigitalMusicNews.com]
Silly as the tucked-in tie look is, however, it pales in comparison to the hobo chic being sported by Fatso the Drummer:
Not to mention the poor, dumb bass player, who was somehow convinced that dressing up like a nun didn’t stop being funny after Benny Hill:
And hey–what’s a young Lars Ulrich doing here?
While all this “rock” “wackiness” is going on, Jimi’s stalking his girl toward the back of the train. Ladies, be honest: Riding public transit at night, you know you wouldn’t be able to resist a man with this look on his face:
Of course, it isn’t long before they’re totally making out.
It’s too good to last, though–just as suddenly as we found ourselves at the concert and on the train, we’re back in the bookstore. Perhaps sensing that a restraining order or expensive alimony payments loom in Jimi’s future, the band grabs him and drags him away:
What immediately follows is a scene that anyone who lived in the 1980s watched 10,000 times before, in 10,000 different videos–the guys pull their friend down the street, he continually looks over his shoulder at the girl, he eventually breaks away, etc. He takes off running after her, but she’s gone to the train station (wouldn’t you know it?) and, even though she only had a lead of maybe a few seconds, his tubby ass shows up too late to make the train.
The final shot sums up not only this stupid, disjointed video, but the rest of Survivor’s career:
Last week, we announced that the fourth annual Pitchfork Music Festival would jump off at Chicago's lovely Union Park July 17-19. If the mere fact that our festival is happening again wasn't enough to convince you to save the date and book any necessary flights, this should. We can now announce a few of the bands who will play this year's fest, as well as a truly badass new feature.
Starting on Friday night, we're kicking off a new series called "Write the Night: Set Lists by Request." You, the audience, vote on which songs all four bands-- Built to Spill, the Jesus Lizard, Yo La Tengo, and Tortoise-- will play. It'll work like this: When you buy your ticket, you'll get a confirmation email. That confirmation email will include a link to a page where you can vote on which songs from each band you want to hear. The bands will tailor their set lists accordingly. Oh, and did we mention this is the Jesus Lizard's first American show in a decade? Righteous, yes?
Tickets go on sale March 13, and voting starts the same day. Voting ends June 12.
Of course, we'll announce a ton more bands in the coming months.
:: All four judges (and Ryan!) will be Simpsonized for the Idol finale, while poor Paula Abdul misses out on all the fun. (Maybe the eventual judges of The X Factor can be turned into Seth MacFarlane characters?) [American Idol Buzz]
:: Kara DioGuardi (who looks kind of wonky as a Simpsons character, we have to admit) will make her public singing debut in Atlantic City this weekend at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa. That is, it would be her public singing debut if she didn’t randomly burst out into song during the show. [Idol Tracker]
:: It’s a Season 7 reunion—David Cook, David Archuleta and Brooke White have dinner together. Cue a giant “awww.” [MJs Big Blog]
:: Randy Jackson explains why the judges saved Michael Lynche from elimination: “He sang his brains out.” [MTV]
:: David Cook discusses his upcoming sophomore album, and the chances of him performing a new single on Idol this season. [EW Music Mix]
There’s clearly an element of cheeky humour in this – the scratch-and-sniff booklet has to be a joke – but it’s indicative of a serious and meaningful development in the industry: fan-funded music, which until now existed primarily as a chin-strokey blog topic rather than an actual thing, is starting to pick up real-world momentum.
Every so often there’s a show in NYC so seismic that RSS and Twitter feeds become hostile places for anyone not lucky (or whatever) enough to be there. I’m aware of the phenomenon, and sorry to do this to you, but LCD Soundsystem at Music Hall Of Williamsburg was that show, and this is that post. Everything James said from stage last night has been quoted repeatedly in every review and tweeterism since, but that’s because the guy knows how to say quotable things. Straight away, there was “the good news/bad news” bit: “The good news is, we’re here. The bad news is, I’m wasted.” (Champagnes and whiskeys, if you’re one to try things at home.) He tried to pitch it as “not really a show,” as a rehearsal, really, though a friend told me they’d been in rehearsals in MHOW for the past three days. And that’s somewhat comforting if you’re in a band, because any septet that can pummel their dance-punk and sail their more emotional stylings that freakishly well after three years off is a band to be feared. The focus was on the new stuff, because even inside a room full of the more connected music goers in the city, few have actually spent time with This Is Happening, a fact about which James was mindful (comparing it to being a kid and traveling to a Smiths show only to be bummed they’d played “Panic” instead of “This Charming Man”; charisma-plus, every second), and this was a room full of people that will listen to very little else once they finally do (the record’s a beast). So only two songs came from the new: one called “Change,” and then the divisive but rousing in the flesh summer-party jam “Drunk Girls.” Otherwise it was a setlist of older triumphs — name your favorite three LCD songs and they played them — though the room lost it hardest for “Losing My Edge,” lyrics tweaked here and there, introduced by James saying “I’m 40. You know how old that is? That means most of the shows I saw when I was a kid were opened by Fishbone.” The self-aware/self-deprecating shtick runs into a wall though, with the new millennial life-rule that occurred to me last night: If you wrote “Losing My Edge,” you will never actually do so. (Applies to a population of one.) LCD hadn’t played it in five years. It was a moment. I was there. So was YouTube:
hey byron, this is g deps real personal phone number (like he would have more than one lol) i got it from doing a whois inquiry on his website rofl... i just pranked him and said that i was kain cioffee... since i have a white guys voice and he believed it lol.. i think i woke him up.. he sounded cracked out, but his voice sounded happy when he remembered who Kain was and he said "kain cioffiee from bad boy? whats good" I was laughing so hard i had to hang up, i said i had another call comin in.. feel free to share his number, or call and prank him, it would make a sweet internets video
plz believe this is real - hit me back with an email if you had a laugh from this
I’m in love with NPR, and in particular the podcasts “This American Life” and “Radiolab.” They should be mandatory listening, as far as I’m concerned. Apart from featuring incredible stories, and addressing fascinating questions, they also contain really, really good music. As you may know, “This American Life” recently became a TV series on Showtime (you can stream on Netflix!), and their soundtrack includes some music from the band, Pale White Moon. If you are a fan of instrumental music definitely check out the debut album that released today called, Call of The Wolf Peach.
Pale White Moon’s music has an elegant, baroque sound that I really enjoy. “Heirlooms” and Yann Tiersen-esque “Sir Basil Humphrey’s House Oh The Hill” are my two favorite tracks on the album. And believe it or not, the band was able to somehow pull off using cicadas as instruments in the song, “The Seven Year Cicadas!” It’s actually enjoyable to listen to and they get major points for quirkiness. Instead of buying a sound sample of cicadas, frontman, Doug Slawin, went around New Haven, Connecticut to record. Awesome.
I think the story behind this album is really cool. Instead of Pale White Moon being a band, it’s more of a collective started by Slawin. He dedicated the album to his hometown of New Haven, CT and got various people around his community to contribute. Read more about Pale White Moon at the New Haven Register.
This Hallow’s Eve, The Cinefamily joins forces with Dublab to throw the best Halloween party ever, Bollywood-style! One thing they really understand in India: every movie’s better with song-and-dance numbers — even horror movies! In that spirit, the Cinefamily premieres Bollyweird: The Movie, a feature-length video mash-up celebrating the most horrifying, fantastic, costume-crazed and outlandish moments of vintage Indian musical madness ever. This isn’t just Bollywood, it’s Bollyweeeeeird. Then, once the movie’s over, they’re gonna clear the couches, light the incense, make a dance floor, start doing the electric vindaloo, and have a real monster mashala! There will be drinks and dosas provided by the Dosa Truck, ghoulish giveaways, costume prizes and more! For all the details, click here.
Photograph by Jon Wilde “I have good news and bad news,” James Murphy said as LCD Soundsystem took the stage for the first time in over two years last night in Brooklyn. “The good news is, we’re here. The bad news is, I’m wasted.” No no, dude — that’s the great news. The New York punk-funk heavyweights have an early single-of-the-year contender with the irresistible rock anthem “Drunk Girls,” but it’s a totally different song when several hundred drunk girls are there screaming along. Though Murphy kept cautioning the sweat-drenched crowd at Music Hall of Williamsburg that this triumphant hometown gig was more a rehearsal than a show (”This is you trusting us and us trying to work out being a band again”), the seven-piece band didn’t sound rusty at all — they attacked each electro-funk workout like a pit bull on a porkchop. In 2007, LCD Soundsystem were the planet’s most ferocious live band — yet in the past three years they’ve just gotten better. Lord help us all.
Singer/producer/tai chi madman James Murphy was coasting on adrenaline all night — plus, as he admitted, his signature tipple of champagne and whiskey. The band did only two songs from their upcoming and even-awesomer-than-everyone-hoped This Is Happening, which comes out on May 18th: “Drunk Girls” (”Drunk boys like to steal from the cupboards / Drunk girls like to file complaints” — true that) and “I Can Change,” which sounds like Brian Eno taking Ecstasy on the beach with Morrissey and Depeche Mode. Drummer Pat Mahoney and bassist Tyler Pope were on fire, while synth wizard Nancy Whang had some choice words for the dudes trying to slamdance into people: “Look at the two people on either side of you. If one of them is not a girl, you are dancing incorrectly.”
LCD Soundsystem revisited club classics like “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House,” “Yr City’s A Sucker” (”my city’s a freak”), “Someone Great” and the epic “All My Friends,” a song that always turns any room into a boozy Irish wake. But the sentimental highlight was the 2002 single “Losing My Edge,” which Murphy said the band hadn’t played in five years. “I’m 40 now,” he explained. “That means every band I saw had Fishbone opening up.” The band vamped as Murphy ran through his sardonic bitter-hipster rant, updating the lyrics to make fun of bands with Macbooks. The whole crowd chanted along when he yelled the namecheck for Seventies jazz-funk poet Gil-Scott Heron. It was as funny as ever, but also bittersweet, because (as we all now know), around the time Murphy wrote the song, Heron was a prisoner in Rikers Island on cocaine charges. In 2010, not only is Heron a free man — he’s making indie rock records. In other words, the whole freaking world is turning into an LCD Soundsystem song. Which is great news for the drunk girl in all of us.
Set List:
“Yr City’s a Sucker”
“Us V. Them”
“Drunk Girls”
“Losing My Edge”
“All My Friends”
“I Can Change”
“Tribulations”
“Movement”
“Yeah”
Encore:
“Someone Great”
“Daft Punk Is Playing At My House”
“New York I Love You”
And I'm probably going to hell for saying it, but I'm way, way more amped for the imminent release of "Guitar Hero Metallica", especially now that Activision, the game's developer, has announced the tracklist.
"Guitar Hero Metallica" hits stores on March 29, and it's available on Xbox 360, Nintento Wii, and Playstation 2. The game allows plastic axe-slingers to play along with 28 songs from the band's discography, and it also features songs from other bands that Metallica hand-picked for the game. (As with recent "Guitar Hero" games, you'll be able to drum and sing along, as well.) The "Guitar Hero" folks tried the same trick last year with an Aerosmith-themed game, but that one had to deal with the fatal flaw of Aerosmith sucking.
Metallica's game, of course, includes plenty of tracks from the band's not-so-great recent years, but there's also an impressive amount of material from their utterly badass do-no-wrong first four albums. My fingers already hurt thinking how hard it's going to be to play "Creeping Death" and "Whiplash".
The tracklist of songs from other bands is likewise jammed with classics. Say what you will about Metallica, but they have good taste. "Ace of Spades"-- with an animated Lemmy appearing in the game! Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder"! Corrosion of Conformity's "Albatross"! Social Distortion's "Mommy's Little Monster"! Seger! Priest! Kyuss! Uh, Foo Fighters!
Metallica's messed around with the "Guitar Hero" franchise before. On the same day that they released last year's not-terrible Death Magnetic as a proper CD, they also released it in downloadable "Guitar Hero 3" form. And people who bought Death Magnetic on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 2 will have access to it on this game. Also, people who buy it on Wii or PlayStation will get three bonus tracks, all from Death Magnetic: "Broken, Beat & Scarred", "Cyanide", and "My Apocalypse".
As we previously reported, Metallica will enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4. And on March 31, they will release a 163-track digital box set of their entire discography on iTunes. (It will hit other digital retailers on April 28.) Also, they've got a run of European shows coming up, including some with well-chosen openers Lamb of God and Mastodon.
It’s
February 2010 and we’re back with ChartWatch.Know I know we usually only talk about Hip Hop here but my favorite
artists just hit number one this week so I’m making an exception (plus not too
much is going on this week so why not show some love to R&B in the Hip Hop
charts column?).Sade’s Soldier of Love comes in at number one
selling 481,000 copies.(Flip over to
album reviews if you want to see our take on her latest offering.)Not bad for an someone that hasn’t released
an album since 2000.
Leading
the way for Hip-Hop is Lil Wayne with his rock experiment Rebirth.The Crescent City
MC sells another 83,000 copies and drops two spots to number four.
Rounding
out the top ten is The Black Eyed Peas album The E.N.D.This album really
refuses to die and moves another 65,000 copies helping The Peas grab the number
eight spot.If you really want to get
technical the only Hip Hop in the top ten is the Black Eyed Peas which is kind
of sad.
There
are only two albums representing Hip Hop as we move from the top ten into the
top fifty.The first is from Lil Wayne’s
Young Money.We Are Young Money sells 19,000 copies and dips down to the 39th
spot.They are followed by Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 which sells 17,000
copies this week but also takes a drop moving from twenty-seven to forty-four.
Dropping
This Week
We
have a few albums coming up this week.First, if you liked the The
Freelapse mixtape (which is available for free in Music Reviews) then you
may want to pick up Freeway’s collaboration with Jake One titled The Stimulus Package.The album features Beanie Sigel, Raekwon,
Young Chris, Birdman, Bun B, LaToyia Williams, Omilio Sparks, and Mr. Porter.
Next
up is Return of the Wu, an album
composed of older songs as well as unreleased material mixed by Wu Tang
affiliate DJ Mathematics.It’s not a new
Wu Tang album but it may hold fans over until the group comes out with a new
one (if they ever come out with a new one.)
I
didn’t even think this next artist was still doing stuff but apparently I was wrong. Tone Loc
(that’s right “Funky Cold Medina” and “Wild Thing.” THAT Tone Loc) drops Tone Loc T.V. 2 featuring Bavgate, Guce, Goldtoes, Jimmy
Roses, Boss Hogg, Mac Mall, Freddy Chingaz, Napalm & Eruption, Beeda Weeda,
Berner, and Stuntman.
That’s it for the week.We’ll see if any Hip Hop is on the charts
next week.
The trip to our Chicago fest didn't only result in an amazing set. While visiting the Windy City, Jarvis and his band holed up in Steve Albini's Electrical Audio studio to test out a couple new songs. They liked the sound (and the price: "it was very cheap," says Cocker in a statement), so the crew returned in January to record Further Complications, due out May 19 (May 18 in the UK) on Rough Trade.
Though Jarvis claims he hasn't "gone rock," hard-nosed studio rat Albini seems like a fitting choice for the album, considering the increasingly roughed-up tunes Cocker has been peddling since parting with Pulp. Don't expect any of those We Love Life Scott Walker strings here. Do expect some songs he debuted on tour last year, like the incredible soul number "I Told You Twice (Leftovers)", "Angela", "Fuckingsong", and the title track.
More track titles with priceless notes from Jarvis himself: "Slush" ("I guess that slush will be the ultimate outcome of global warming"), "Caucasian Blues" ("an attempt to understand the pain of a man whose Honda Goldwing has run out of petrol"), "I Never Said I Was Deep" ("the phrase that I would like carved on my tombstone"), "The Night They Let Me Out of the Home" ("portrays the difficulties of using public transport whilst on crutches"), and "Homewrecker!" ("an absolute racket featuring saxophone from Steve Mackey [he played on The Stooges' 'Funhouse', you know]"). If there was a Grammy for song-explaining notes, Jarvis would win every time.
Apparently, all those songs won't be on the final LP-- the tracklist is still being sussed out. "Apparently" is also the title of another new song "about how you can be in love with someone without realising it." Is it me or does this sound like year-end material right here? No pressure!
Most importantly, Jarvis finally explains his recent abundance of facial hair: "I grew it to keep my face warm in the Arctic and then I kind of got attached to it. (The amount of grey in it horrified me at first but now I think it acts as a handy reminder of my own mortality.)" No Just for Men for this man.
Jarvis is taking his show on the road all over Europe this summer. He probably won't play any Pulp songs, so stop asking:
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Bob Dylan’s tour of east Asia has been canceled after he was banned from playing in Beijing and Shanghai by Chinese officials. China’s ministry of culture was apparently wary of Dylan’s reputation as a counterculture icon in the ’60s. Said Jeffrey Wu of the Taiwan-based promoters Brokers Brothers Herald, “With Beijing and China ruled out, it was not possible for him just to play concerts in Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. The chance to play in China was the main attraction for him. When that fell through everything else was called off.” Wu added that officials had become more cautious after Bjork drew attention to the plight of Tibet during a 2008 concert. [
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Aussie warbler Sarah Blasko launched her bid for UK stardom last night, playing a short, 40-minute set in London's wintry Soho. After last week's Gagavaganza, this was a simple, stripped back affair, with seven musicians elbow-to-elbow on a tiny stage - but it was no less impressive. 
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