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…
That’s apparently the mindset taken by a bunch of fellers who took it upon themselves to pretend to be the ’70s band Redbone, best known for their hit single, “Come and Get Your Love.”
The imposters ended up playing the Butte-Silver Bow Fair in Montana…which rather pissed off the actual band, who were playing in Wisconsin at the time…but, frankly, I think the fault lies with the fair organizers, who probably could’ve avoided the incident if they’d just done a little research. I mean, here’s the real Redbone…
…and here’s the fake Redbone:
File under ‘strange but true’: Johnny Marr has officially joined Modest Mouse.
Seems an odd fit, at best…but at least the members of Modest Mouse acknowledge how ridiculously blessed they are to have landed the famed former Smiths guitarist:
In an interview with “Rolling Stone,” Brock said Marr “made a cautious commitment to write and record with us, and then the tighter we got, he was like ‘OK, let’s tour too.'”
Modest Mouse, with newby Marr, will tour in support of their forthcoming album, “We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank,” which Marr helped write and record.
Brock told “Rolling Stone” that after the decision to have Marr tour with the Modest Mouse, “he was pretty much a member of the band—not pretty much. He’s a full blown member of the band. It’s really fuckin’ nice.”
Really fuckin’ nice. Still somewhat of an understatement (particularly since the phrase “lucky bastards” appears nowhere in that sentence)…but it’s a start.
Huzzah to Donna Da Iguana for introducing us to The Superficial. It’s just like Defamer, only less chatty. And, like Defamer, they love the rack. I know, I know, who doesn’t? Especially Jessica Simpson’s, when it’s popping through her dress?
“Man, have you tried that sudoku game? It’s HARD.”
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And the joke this time – and a not very funny one, at that – is that, for the third time, Elvis Costello’s early catalog…his first 11 albums, to be specific…are being reissued, this time by Universal Music Enterprises. Shockingly, although the albums were previously put out in special editions by Rykodisc and Rhino (the latter including an entire second disc’s worth of bonus tracks), Universal assures us that these will be the “definitive reissues.”
Backed into a corner, Costello admitted he’d spent the money from the Rykodisc and Rhino reissues maintaining his nasty Faberge Egg habit.
Equally, I can assure Universal that, although I have all of Elvis’s albums (and, quite frankly, have had no real aversion to sticking with the Ryko reissues of those initial 11 albums, bonus disc or not) and have seen him live multiple times, there’s just no way in Hell that I’m going to buy these things again.
By the way, the above lyric is from Elvis Costello and the Attractions’ “It’s Time,” from All This Useless Beauty, an album not included in the reissues. (It’s from 1996.) Still, it was that or once again use Morrissey’s all-too-apropros line, “Reissue, repackage, repackage…”
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