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Indeed, he did. But that’s not goint to stop Paul Stanley from releasing his second solo album entitled Live To Win this October 24. Will it be better than his 1978 solo debut? Well, let Paul take it from here: “It’s not 1978 anymore,” Stanley told Billboard.com of the album last November. “It’s certainly the same mentality, and certainly I’m a better singer today. My perspective and where I’m at in my life at this point, and what I’ve experienced and seen, brings something else to the table that wasn’t there then. But I still look back on that album as a really great snapshot of who I was and what I was doing then.” So basically it’s going to be another party record. Yay, Paul. |
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Sweet Jesus. Madonna’s cameltoe has its own MySpace page.
I worried that Madge would have me killed for reporting this bit of “news,” until I saw that Madonna is friends with her cameltoe on MySpace. But hey, for as much as she exploits her body, it’s only fair that her body exploits her back. |
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The fine folks at RememberTheEighties.com have sent out another newsletter. Here are a few news bites: * DEPECHE MODE are to release a new single in October. The track ‘Martyr For Love’ was recorded as part of the sessions for the band’s recent ‘Playing The Angel’ album but was left off the album because it was ‘too upbeat’ for the rest of the album. The single is expected to precede yet another Depeche Mode best-of collection. (Yeah, because we really need another Depeche Mode best-of.) * NIK KERSHAW’s forthcoming album will be called You’ve Got To Laugh. The twelve-track collection will be released independently by Kershaw and although no release date has been set it is hoped that the album will see the light of day in the next few months. * SIMPLE MINDS’ ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me)’ is to be immortalised in a forthcoming documentary of the same name focusing on film director John Hughes’ coming-of-age teen movies from the eighties - including “The Breakfast Club,” “Pretty in Pink,” “Ferris Buller’s Day Off,” “Weird Science” and “Sixteen Candles.” Simple Minds are to be filmed for the documentary which will also feature interviews with Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Kelly Le Brock (”Weird Science”), Mia Sara and Alan Ruck (”Ferris Buller’s Day Off”) along with more interviews still to be scheduled. And, lastly, an announcement which may lead to a duel between The Chauffeur and yours truly: DEPECHE MODE, THE SMITHS, JAPAN and ERASURE are among artists featured on a new interactive DVD music quiz from Q Magazine. ‘The Essential Music Quiz’ will be released on November 27th after being launched at the annual Q Awards on October 30th. The quiz features audio and video snippets from over a hundred bands across the history of music and also includes material from ART OF NOISE, BRONSKI BEAT, SIMPLY RED, DEAD OR ALIVE and ADAM AND THE ANTS among many others. |
 The Knife * The Slits * Hot Chip * The Black Keys * Madlib * Ben Lee * Deerhoof * Blonde Redhead * The Boy Least Likely To * Blue Cheer * Joseph Arthur * Erase Errata * Green Milk from the Planet Orange * Cold War Kids * Silversun Pickups * Califone * White Whale * hellogoodbye * Anathallo * Dr. Dog * Professor Murder * Archie Bronson Outfit * Keren Ann * Jucifer * David Bazan * Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin * Oakley Hall * These Arms Are Snakes * Micah P. Hinson * Portastatic * Cloud Cult * Jason Forrest Band * Thunderbirds Are Now! * Strike Anywhere * Percee P * Mute Math * Suzanne Vega * Extra Golden * 120 Days * The Fever * Girl Talk * I’m not totally and utterly underwhelmed by the number of big names - CMJ is all about breaking new artists, after all - but I did immediately raise my eyebrows at two of those listed: the Slits and Blue Cheer. Fans of ’70s punk and ’60s garage rock are twitching with glee… The panelists this year, however, are the real cause for celebration, if only for their diversity. Names include Chris Stein (Blondie), Pat DiNizio (the Smithereens), Janeane Garofalo, George Clinton (Parliament Funkadelic), Roger O’Donnell (the Cure), Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big), and…wait for it…Don fucking DOKKEN, baby!
Get more details about this year’s festival here. |
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Britney Spears has announced that her second child was unplanned and a complete surprise. We are not surprised at all, given how basically everything since her first marriage has been completely unplanned. From the marriage to K-Fed with the bridesmades in pink sweatsuits to the post marriage buffet of fried chicken, Zingers and Tab to Sean Preston’s birth to Sean Preston’s near death experience to Britney’s gum chewing interview to her new video featuring her amazing I.Q. and so on. “It is now starting to get a little tiring, holding (Sean Preston), but the whole pregnancy I’ve done it a lot because he’s very attached,” she tells the magazine. “It makes me feel needed and wanted, so I like it too.” Yeah, because God knows your fans have loudly walked out the back door and K-Fed is only in it until his album debuts and dies, so keep pumping out those kids, Brit. |
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Well, it will be cool if that turns out to be the case. YouTube co-founder Steve Chen hopes to have every music video ever created on the site in 18 months. Granted, there are tons of them already on there, but of course they’re unauthorized and all that hoo-ha. According to the story, the videos would all be offered for free, which is a step better than Google’s current video vault, which offers a lot of videos for 99 cents in a similar iTunes fashion. “Right now we’re trying to very quickly determine how and what the model is to distribute this content and we’re very aggressive in assisting the labels in trying to get the content on to YouTube,” said Mr Chen. |
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As everyone knows, today is my older brother’s birthday (Happy Birthday, Chris!). On a side note, it’s also the day Elvis Presley died all those years ago. Now, I don’t usually pimp my own product around here, but every now and then I sit around and make music videos that I then upload to YouTube. Many folks have enjoyed my tributes to The Velvet Underground, my surreal clips for Billy Joel and Todd Rundgren, and the little girls totally loved my video for the “Totally Spies!” cartoon. Well, my latest endeavor is one called “Viva Fat Elvis.” It’s atribute to the King and hisfinal glory days in 1977. It hasn’t been rated well, and the comments are possibly more entertaining than the clip itself. Nah, scratch that. Bloated E.P. looking totally out of it is always funny. Anyway, enjoy the clip, the comments, and the groovy cheeseball graphics. |
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Believe it or not, I first heard this gem on a recent American Airlines flight, as part of their 33 1/3 onboard radio programming. I haven’t dug into much of the Who’s work, but this funky track from 1982’s It’s Hard just might change all of that. Listen to a sound clip here. |
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…and so shall we. Yes folks, Britney Spears has a hot new video out. In it, she belches, pigs out, talks about time travel a-la Back To The Future and scratches her foot. All this while absotootley shitfaced. At least I’m assuming she’s on something here. Perhaps she’s just high on life. You go, girl! |
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…and, hello, Chauffeur, I’m looking in your direction…you’ll have a major laugh over this clip, where two old blokes you may or may not recognize by their faces (though you’ll certainly recognize their songs) see which of them can make the most money while playing their hits as they busk on a street corner in London. |
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You just have to see it to believe it. |
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Can I piss and moan for a moment? I bought a pair of tickets for the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah show at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, and here’s the fee breakdown: Full Price Ticket: $20.50 x 2 = $41.00 Getting bent over by a company with a monopoly? Priceless. Here is a description of the fees from Ticketmaster’s website: Convenience Charge Order Processing Fee These two fees sound a lot alike. For some reason, I find it difficult to understand why it costs almost $10 per ticket for Ticketmaster to sell me a pair of seats when it only costs $20.50 per ticket for the band to put on an actual show. Certainly, it must be more than twice as expensive to transport a band, its roadies and its equipment to a venue, and set up and put on a concert than it does to print out a ticket. For many moons, Ticketmaster has held a monopoly in cities across the country by taking all of this extra revenue and giving some of it to the venues as part of an exclusive contract, which makes it impossible for the venues to use a Ticketmaster competitor to sell tickets. I’m almost used to the “convenience charge,” but this “order processing fee” is new. I wonder what a Ticketmaster receipt will look like in 10 years. Will the fees actually surpass the ticket price? |
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Ah, Boy George, you poor bastard… The man named by his mother as George O’Dowd has begun his community service task: cleaning up the streets of New York.
Predictably, the media is all over George as he goes about his court-required civic duty, leading him to yell out such comments as, “”You think you’re better than me? Go home. This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this. I just want to do my job.” Gosh, I remember when it was his job to look like this…
How times change… |
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The website Classic Rock Revisited has ten likely suspects…but some of them, methinks, are a bit iffy. Lord knows, however, that 8 - 10 are absolutely spot on…and #1 would be a lock in most folks’ lists:
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As if Meat Loaf’s upcoming Bat Out Of Hell III wasn’t enough, Elton John will also be going back to the well for a sequel to his classic 1975 album, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy.
Due for release on September 19th, the disc’s first single, “The Bridge,” will be available for download via iTunes on August 22nd. What a nice birthday present, Elton! You are just so sweet… |
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