The Music Tank

So I’m sitting around, watching SportsCentre and it hit me. I haven’t written up STF yet and it’s almost noon! So, here I go!

QUICK TECH BITS

• Sony is buying out Gracenote
• An Irish ISP is being sued by The Big Four Record companies
• Apple is gearing up for an iPod slump

SHIT THEY PASS OFF AS NEWS

• Snoop Dogg is allowed back into the UK. Woo.
• The Smashing Pumpkins now have a place on the Rockwall. Woo.

IF HALF BAKED DID A WEEKLY PIECE, HE COULD HAVE TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS

From allhiphop.com:

Legendary rapper, KRS-One has a fractured hand this morning after being hit by a bottle by an upset fan Friday night. The incident took place in New Haven, CT Friday night. As fans began to grow more rowdy in regard to the action, KRS-One urged the fans to “Let it go.”

“Let it go. When negativity comes your way, let is go.” The MC is currently on his Stop the Violence Movement tour, that includes stops in some of the hardest neighborhoods in the country.

Who throws shit at the act? Honestly. If Nickleback was up there, fire away. But it’s KRS-One for fuck’s sake!

I wonder how times I’ve mispelled Nickleback in these articles.

BEATLES RELATED NEWS

From 411mania:

BBC ran a documentary last night which reported that Heather Mills used to be a high priced call girl to some of the world’s richest men including a Saudi Prince, Australian tycoon Kerry Packer and Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. The documentary also featured photos of a much younger Mills in various states of undress. Mills has since gone on to marry and divorce Paul McCartney and getting $50 million out of him.

Hookers with wooden legs are what the royality enjoys, eh? I picture the scene from Planet Terror, except Mills isn’t as good looking as Rose McGowan. Poor Paul. I wonder if he knew?

Also from 411mania:

Amazing video footage of John Lennon smoking pot, writing songs and discussing putting the hallucinogenic drug LSD in President Richard Nixon’s tea will be at the centre of a dramatic court case to start next week.

In a bid to keep the tape private Yoko is set to go against Lawrence, Massachusetts-based World Wide Video, which claims ownership of nine hours of raw footage of the former Beatle and Ono filmed only weeks before the legendry band parted in 1970. World Wide, a consortium of Beatles collectors, are looking to release the historical footage as a 2 hour film “3 days in the life” detailing the break-up and mind set of Lennon at this crucial time. Rolling Stone magazine dubs it “the most awesome John Lennon footage you might never see.”

Having paid $1 million for the tapes after legal costs and other expenses, it was almost premiered last year but the showing was pulled after Yoko’s lawyers asserted her copyright ownership of the videotapes. The tapes were filmed between 8 to 11 February 1970, and show Lennon composing two hits, “Remember” and “Mind Games,” whilst openly discussing his drug use in scenes that World Wide describe as “intimate and no-holds-barred.”

2 hours of Lennon talking about LSD? Go ahead and show that in theatres! I’d pay money to watch it. I’d call it the best comedy of 2008.

GUILTY PLEASURES

We all have them. Mine currently is “I Wanna Drive The Zamboni” by the Gear Daddies. Don’t judge me. Another guilty pleasure of mine is “Beat It” by Micheal Jackson. Say what you want, but Eddie Van Halen plays a wicked solo in that song. Anyway, here’s the story I wanted to get into from 411mania:

Fall Out Boy will pay homage to the career of Michael Jackson in the video for the new single – a cover of the singer’s hit, ‘Beat It’.

Patrick Stump, the band’s frontman, said the video had been inspired by all Jackson’s videos but made “on a Fall Out Boy budget, so it’s not quite as fancy.”

The band’s cover of the song has become a firm favourite with fans and recently featured on their live DVD ****

Speaking about the concept of the video, bassist Pete Wentz said: “If there were all these places where MJ can make his comeback, I would suggest this video.

“He should really let the world know he’s still around. I don’t know what our budget is, but I know it does not include enough to get him here. Multiple calls were not returned. I don’t think Michael Jackson has a number.” Fall Out Boy’s video for ‘Beat It’ is expected to premiere over the coming weeks.”

Gross. I’m going to seek out this cover just to see how it turns out. You’ll be hearing about it.

THE AMY WINEHOUSE REPORT

That picture cracks me up. Anyway, there was a lot of news about Amy this week, so I’ll just sum it up for you.

• Lost keys to her house
• Broke into her own house
• Another picture of her using drugs surfaced
• Attacks an artist in a bar, demands the bar be cleared so she can do drugs in it, headbutts a man hailing her a cab
• Before turning herself in to get arrested, stop at a hair dresser, bar and a McDonalds
• Was interviewed high

Good times.

CKY?

Alright, I posted this on the main page already, but I’m bringing it up again. Deron Miller posted somewhere, if I had to guess on his MySpace page or the World Under Blood page (they might be one and the same, I can’t be bothered to check) the following:

“ITS OVER

the fighting and feuding…is over.

we’re coming back”

I can only imagine he means CKY. The band’s Ask CKY page hasn’t been updated in some time I would have thought some of the fan base would have sent in a question by now. So, still just speculation at this time.

SHE’S RICHER THAN j00

Fox News makes me sad:

Miley Cyrus is already way richer than her dad, Billy Ray, and she’s only 15. People magazine reports that the Miley Cyrus franchise will be worth a projected 1 billion dollars by the end of the year. She tops the magazine’s list of the richest teen celebrities.

Not that Miley is seeing much of the money. Her mom says most is invested and Miley can’t touch it until she’s 18.

The Jonas Brothers are also on the list, making 12 million dollars a year. Fourteen-year-old Dakota Fanning makes 4 million dollars a movie. Twelve-year-old Abigail Breslin makes 2 million a film, but has to live on an allowance of $11 a week. Thirteen-year-old Mark Indelicato makes nearly a half million dollars for a season of “Ugly Betty,” but he has an allowance of $50 a week.

Sweet Jebus that’s a lot of money. 15 years old don’t even know what to do with all of it. I know what I’d do though. You know, all I could think of was “If You’re Not Famous At 14 You’re Finished” by TISM the whole time I read this. Go acquire that song somehow.

FUCKING METALLICA

From Rolling Stone:

Believe it or not, Metallica drummer Lars Ullrich recently hinted that the band is open to new methods of distribution for their next album.

“We’re looking at how we can embrace everything. We want to be as free players as possible. We’ve been observing Radiohead and Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails) and in 27 years or however long it takes for the next record, we’ll be looking forward to everything in terms of possibilities with the internet.”

Of course, Radiohead gave their last album away for free on the internet and Metallica has been fighting free distribution of music, going as far as to sue Napster in 2002.

If you hear something explode in Boston, it’s Shawn Fanning.

SHOUT OUTS

Half Baked wrote his review of the recent Saul Williams show he attended. Look at it. Love it. Cherish it as your own.

I’m out fuckers and by fuckers I mean “lovely people who read my article!”