Gosh, I must be way far out of the gangsta rap loop. I had no idea that the late Eazy-E even had a son until I saw this report on how he was arrested after he was pulled for a traffic violation and turned out to be in possession of a concealed weapon.
Oh, did I mention he goes by Li’l Eazy-E and his debut album is entitled Prince of Compton…? Here’s his picture:
Way to carve your own niche and not totally and utterly use your dad’s reputation to build a career…
If you don’t know what I’m referring to by the subject’s title, kids, I’m talkin’ ’bout when the four members of KISS each released a solo album of their very own back in the late ’70s all at the same time. Well, now they’re going a step further by releasing their very own cologne and perfume. Ladies and gentlemen will be able to choose their favorite KISS member when buying the products, as the bottles will feature the different band members’ heads as bottle tops. Let’s hope Peter Criss fares better this time around.
Apparently the guys never watched the fine Penn and Teller show Bullshit!, because the products, including Party Shower Gel, Lovin’ Body Lotion, and Rockin’ Bath Splash contain pheromones, which have been proven to not actually be any sort of aphrodisiac whatsoever when it comes to humans. But hey, when it comes to KISS, they gotta throw it all in there.
Ah, and if that’s not good enough for ya KISS Army members, the band is also releasing its own denim line and opening its very own coffeehouse on June 27th in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
It’s funny, but when kids and other folks bitch about bands “selling out,” KISS never gets mentioned once, and they’ve been doing it since people actually listened to them. Ha!
Billy Bragg, often referred to by the British press as “the big-nosed bard of Barking,” has pulled all of his music from his official MySpace page, citing statements in the company’s contract which allow News International – the Rupert Murdoch company that owns MySpace – the right to reuse content without any payment to the artist.
“The real problem,” says Billy, “is the fact that they can sub-license it to any company they want and keep the royalities themselves without paying the artist a penny. It also doesn’t stipulate that they can use it for non-commercial use only, which is what I’d want to see in that clause. The clause is basically far to open for abuse and, thus, I’m very wary.”
Good on you, Billy…though what’s most surprising about this story is that no-one else has ever noticed this information before. Guess that shows how closely people read the fine print on MySpace…
A duet between Chris Martin and Nelly Furtado was dropped from the latter’s new album because Martin’s voice was deemed “too rocky.” Wait a minute! Could this have been the moment Martin went legit and stopped completely with the wimp pop? We’ll never know.
Furtado says, “Chris’ label didn’t want his voice sounding so rocky, so they said we couldn’t use the song.”
Wait, though. Is this “rocky” as in “rockin'” or “shaky?” Doesn’t matter. Anything different from Martin would have been better than what he does currently, which is make yours truly instantly switch him off whenever his songs are within earshot.
At age 59 no less. Preston had had a kidney trasnplant in 2002, but the organ began to fail him and put the artist into a coma last November. My fave Billy single has always been “Outa-Space” b/w “I Wrote A Simple Song.” It was in a pile of 45s of my older brother’s and I grooved to both tunes as a young lad. I shall refrain from any cliched sentiments such as “Get back to where you once belonged, Billy. RIP” and other such silliness. I will even refrain from a “Nothin’ From Nothin’ Leaves Nothin'” sentiment. Man, I still dig “I Wrote A Simple Song.” Those horns in it pwn.
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