Pete Doherty – late of the Libertines, more recently of Babyshambles – has now firmly established his position as a complete and total fuck-up…so much so that even people in the US who don’t know a lick about his music will soon know him as “the guy who shot one of his fans up with heroin while she was unconscious.”
Are the pictures real? And if they’re not, why would you fake something like that…?
I’ll believe it when it happens, but there’s a rumor going around that Johnny Depp is being considered for the starring role in a planned Michael Hutchence biopic.
Okay, I’ll buy it.
They’re also saying that Siena Miller, Eric Bana, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Griffiths are being considered for the roles of Paula Yates and Bob Geldof. That’s a shame. I’d love to see the screen credit that read, “…and Sir Bob Geldof as himself.”
Linda Perry, late of 4 Non Blondes (whose song “What’s Up” is now and will forever be the worst song of all time), is taking on the Herculean task of reviving Courtney Love’s musical career.
Why…?
“That woman is brilliant,” says Perry, “and I can’t allow myself as a music lover and someone who really respects that artist to go down with America’s Sweetheart. That record sucked. She knows it. The world knows it. It was a horrible, crap-ass record.”
Perry, by the way, is the person whose ass you want to kick if you’re sick of hearing James Blunt, as it’s her label that put out his disc…but for someone who’s been responsible for aiding the careers of both Pink and Christina Aguilera (and at least trying to aid the career of Kelly Osbourne), she seems woefully ignorant of the current music scene when speaking of one of her latest label signings: Big Elf.
“They are the Black Sabbath of today,” she says of the group. “Nobody’s doing old-school rock and roll, like with the vibe, the look, the whole thing. So Big Elf is that band.”
Actually, I’m pretty sure Wolfmother is that band…
As with so many UK bands, Bell X1 – who hail from Ireland – haven’t managed to properly release an album here in the States yet…but they did, at least, score inclusion on the 4th volume of The O.C. Mix, which came out in mid-2005. (Their song, if it rings any bells, is “Eve, the Apple of My Eye.”) It’s a shame no-one’s latched on to their disc, Flock, for domestic release; you’d think the buzz of its premiering atop the Irish album charts would be enough to raise eyebrows over here…
…but, then, that’s what you’d get for thinking. Also, it could have something to do with the fact that, when the band came to the States to play the release party for the “O.C.” disc, they met members of the cast…and had absolutely no idea who they were. Oops. There’s a nice faux pas for you.
Fortunately, you can at least check out their previous album, Music in Mouth, via iTunes, where you can download it for a pittance – the current defintion of “a pittance,” by the way, is $9.99 – and find out what other songs surround the aforementioned “Eve.”
Check out their MySpace page here, where you can hear four of their songs, or investigate their official site here.
It was announced today that 50 new records are being added to the National Recording Registry, and, in the article on Yahoo! News, particular note is made of the inclusion of the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced, Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, and B.B. King’s Live at the Regal. What’s mentioned far more casually, however, is the much more interesting news that among those 50 records are Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, We’re Only In It For The Money, by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and the Firesign Theater’s brilliantly titled Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers.
To see the whole list and a brief description of the importance of each entry, click here.
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