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| The Crawl: The Boss to play Super Bowl |
| Posted 9/29/2008 1:07:00 PM by Nisha Gopalan |
| Filed under: 50 cent, Andre 3000, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Katy perry, Meg white, Nas, Prince, Ray LaMontagne, Sex pistols, T.i., The crawl, Toby Young, White stripes, Young Jeezy |
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 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band will imbue the Super Bowl with liberal subtext (see "Born in the U.S.A.," "Sinaloa Cowboys") when they perform at the half-time show in Tampa. [Pitchfork]
Singer Katy Perry, immortalized in doll form, encourages minds to sink deeper into the gutter.
[Prefix]
Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3 will drop Dec. 3 and boast another mix of “Swagger Like This”—his track with T.I.—this one, featuring André 3000, Young Jeezy, and Nas.
[Hypetrak]
Meanwhile, the Vitamin Water’d 50 Cent is still attempting to bump up sales of his upcoming album by persevering with his Jay-Z “feud.” [Prefix]
Prince apparently goes door to door to spread the holy word. [Bossip]
Toby Young, the writer behind How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, explains how he and one of the movie’s producer locked horns over the soundtrack. At the center of the dispute: those clamorous, former whipper-snappers the Sex Pistols. [The Guardian]
Soulful singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne penned a new track about the White Stripes’ Meg White. And it sorta rules. [Stereogum]
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 <<The Jonas Brothers on VMA host/coitus enthusiast Russell Brand: “I think he did a good job [at the show].” Hunh?
[MTV]
+ Kanye West jumps on stage at last night’s G.O.O.D. music showcase, the kids go apeshit. [Nah Right]
+ David Gilmour nixes Pink Floyd reunion tour. Why? He still sorta hates bandmate Roger Waters’ guts. [MSNBC]
+ More hate! The Elton John–Lily Allen feud escalates as Elton nixes any potential collaboration with her. Says Lily: “I’m not defending my drunkeness [sic] because I don't need to.”
[NME]
+ Leighton Meester—who plays bitchy Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl and guest-stars as a pop star on Entourage this season—to release an album. Sometime. And in the future. [MSNBC]
+ Preview footage from Common’s futuristic, blanched-out new video for “UMC (Universal Mind Control).” It's Hype Williams directed, naturally. [Hypetrak]
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 << Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake plan to duet on a track for
Brit's new LP. It can't be worse than that Madonna/JT song. [NME]
+ Nickelback enlist uber-producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC's Back in Black,
Def Leppard's Hysteria) to produce their forthcoming album. If any 2008
album will go on to sell 10 million copies, it's this one. [Billboard]
+ The internet says Kanye's album will drop in December. We say he should consider taking his time. [Nah Right]
+ T-Pain will attempt to save every whale, panda and monkey on earth during this Sunday's Video Music Awards. [MTV]
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 << World-class bullshitter Bono claims U2's new album "is of the same order as the transition that took us from The Joshua Tree to Achtung Baby" while blowing all kinds of smoke up fans' asses in an entertaining update on the band's site.
+ Now we know what the other dudes in No Doubt have been doing — propping up Scott Weiland in the studio! [Billboard]
+ Cover of the Day: Wilco and Fleet Foxes show off the best harmonies we've heard since *NSync's first album on their live take on the Band's "I Will Be Released." [Fader]
+ Michael Jackson, 50, needs to look up the words "best" and "humble" in a dictionary, ASAP. [AP] |
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 << R. Kelly needs some drama to sing about now that he's off the hook for
child pornography, so he went ahead and got involved in a $1.5 million
South African fraud plot. [NME]
+ Ok, so only 37 seconds of the new Fall Out Boy song "America's Sweetheart" can be heard on their new mixtape, but we're going to go ahead and predict huge things for this surefire single off their upcoming album, Folie a Deux. [Billboard]
+ Odd Couple of the Day: Arctic Monkeys head out to the California desert to record with Queens of the Stone Age main man Josh Homme. [Blabbermouth]
+ A professionally recorded live video of My Bloody Valentine playing "To Here Knows When" from last month's Fuji Rock Festival. Turn it up:
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 << Jack White turns into the worst press release ever written while
talking about his new James Bond duet Alicia Keys: "Alicia put some
electric energy into her breath that cemented itself into the magnetic
tape. ... We joined our voices and screamed and moaned about these
characters in the film and their isolation, having no one to trust, not
even themselves. Maybe we became them for a few minutes." [NME]
+ If you told us Da Brat would be the Surreal Life 4 cast member sent to jail for three years, we would not have believed you. Verne Troyer, you win this round. [MTV]
+ Future fashion icon Katy Perry rocks a Mr. Goodbar shirt. [TMZ]
+ Britney Spears can't sing. Still.
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 << Is it a sword? A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure accessory? A Mortal
Kombat prop? No! It's the ugliest guitar ever made! [Music Thing]
+ According to rumors, Rihanna has less money in the bank than your alcoholic uncle. [NME]
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Sheryl Crow calls her new free MP3/voting strategy the the "Tupperware party
approach," officially making it uncool to give away free MP3s and/or vote. [AOL]
+ Paramore's Hayley Williams becomes the first emo blogger to dedicate a post to how not depressed she is. [Paramore Blog] |
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 << Lily Allen attempts to punch a "skinny bitch," sets French-English relations back
a couple hundred years and once again becomes our favorite pop star in
this wildly entertaining TMZ video.
+ New Wilco album: Now with 30 percent less jamming! [Billboard]
+ Googling yourself will not get you a date but it will get you lots of Diggs according to this nerd-hop internet smash.
+ Some dude records new U2 songs outside of Bono's vacation home. Audio quality is predictably garbage but just listen to that old-U2/Coldplay/Arcade Fire "oh oh" sing along bit and try not to feel a little hopeful. [AOL] |
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 << Forbes reveals 50 Cent's recent adventures with a billionaire South
African mining baron. You read that right: millionaire South African mining barons
actually exist in real life, and 50 Cent is chilling with them. [Forbes]
+ Deadpan comedy legend Norm MacDonald needs to get off his ass more. [Videogum]
+ 30 Seconds to Mars are sued by their former label for $30 million, a
figure nearly as bloated as Jared Leto's guylinered ego. [Billboard]
+ Peter Saville, the man who crafted Joy Division's visual aesthetic,
declares the death of album art. Obviously he hasn't seen the cover of
Jason Mraz's new CD. [The Independent]
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 << Thirty-seven-year-old crunk goblin Lil Jon is planning to release a "world" album. So expect 12 variations of the "Yeah!" beat with congas. [AOL]
+ Tabloids claim the new U2 album will be called No Line on the Horizon
and will include songs called "For Your Love," "Love is All We Have
Left," "One Bird," "Moment of
Surrender," "If I Could Live My Life Again" and "The Cedars of
Lebanon." This could very well be the most U2-y album of all time. [The
Daily Swarm]
+ Michael Phelps has won 235 gold medals, but does he have anyone
drying him off when he gets out of the pool? Didn't think so. [TMZ]
+ Full House's Uncle Joey reminds people that he had sex with Alanis Morissette back in the day. [People]
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