XTC Wind A Wire Around The Watchtower [Videodrone] 2008-07-24 16:00:00 So My Chemical Romance is going to perform a cover of a Bob Dylan track for the movie adaptation of The Watchmen, and initial reports that the cover would be "All Along The Watchtower" sent me to YouTube in search of other covers of the song. (There are many of them, as you probably know.) The story's since been changed to say that Gerard Way and his pals will in fact cover an unidentified Dylan
Lloyd's School Of Love Opens Up Early [Leak Of The Day] 2008-07-24 15:00:00 ARTIST: Lloyd
TITLE: Lessons In Love
RELEASE DATE: Aug. 5, 2008
WEB DEBUT: July 23, 2008
ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: In that interview with Lloyd that we posted yesterday, the young R & B singer talked about his fantasy of becoming a professor to a room of beautiful ladies, schooling them in the ways of love. Lessons In Love, his third album, is proof that he isn't kidding, as it opens with "Sex Education Read more:School
, Early
Is San Diego's House Of Blues Headed For The Chopping Block? [Rumors] 2008-07-24 14:30:00 The concert-business woes in the San Diego
market have been chronicled here in some detail, even though the closest member of the Idolator writing staff is a few hundred miles away. So it's not all that surprising that the San Diego
Reader is hearing rumors about the impending closure of its home city's House
of Blues
outpost, which, despite gaining notoriety when Britney Spears played there on he
SunTrust Bank has moved into foreclosure ... [The Curse Of Brooke Hogan] 2008-07-24 14:15:00 SunTrust Bank has moved into foreclosure proceedings on the $10.1 million dollar house of former producer-of-the-moment Scott Storch, who's been having myriad financial woes in recent months. He's been skipping his mortgage payments for most of this year, according to the Palm Beach Post, and he's also had electrical equipment and a security system seized. [Palm Beach Post via SOHH]
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, Hogan
, Brooke Hogan
Gnarls Barkley Bring Together Mumblecore, Claymation [Videodrone] 2008-07-24 13:45:00 Sure, Gnarls Barkley
's video for "Who's Gonna Save My Soul" brings together overwrought breakup conversations and singing internal organs in such a way that one wonders when the wordily bloody genre of "mumblegore" is going to begin plaguing film festivals around the world. But friend of Idolator Reed Fischer noted a curious resemblance between the clip and a scene from one of my all-time most fav Read more:Gnarls Barkley
"Project Runway" Picks Out The Brown M & Ms [This Thing Looks Like That Thing] 2008-07-24 13:00:00 On the left: The inexplicable winner of last night's episode of ProjectRunway
, which I found really ill-fitting and not as worthy of last night's title as Kenley's gorgeous design. On the right: Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" guitar, which I didn't realize was the designer's unconscious inspiration for the frock until MTV's blog pointed out that fact. (NB: That doesn't make me like it much mor Read more:Brown
, Thing
, Looks
, Project Runway
Were you one of the suckers consumers who ... [Closings] 2008-07-24 12:45:00 Were you one of the suckersconsumers
who bought music from the old Yahoo! Music store, which shut down in February? Well, Yahoo! would like to invite you to repurchase your music via its new partner Rhapsody, as the company is going to stop providing new DRM keys—which would allow users to move their music from one computer or another, or revive tracks that were "frozen"—come Sept. 30
Buried in the bottom of a retelling of her ... [Words To Live By] 2008-07-24 11:45:00 Buried in the bottom of a retelling of her feud with Trent Reznor—which includes shout-outs to Roberts Christgau and Hilburn—Courtney Love indicates that she might be taking a break from blogging: "I have a sign on my computer, 'DO NOT BLOG. EMBARRASSES CHILD. LACK OF GRAMMATICAL CORRECTNESS AND SPELLING MAKES ONE LOOK ON DRUGS FOR SOME REASON. DON'T START THINKING "BUT... BUT... BURRO Read more:Buried
, Words
Amy Winehouse's Dad Continues To Vie For "Father Of The Year" Status [Stay Classy] 2008-07-24 11:00:00 Mitch Winehouse
at the unveiling of his daughter's wax statue at Madame Tussaud's in London yesterday: "We're going to take this one home with us and take the real one back. This one does what she's told and doesn't move." But, Mitch, the wax one can't play those "two or three gigs" that you're so excited about her playing, even though she should probably just rest instead of slurring and punching Read more:Father
, Status
, Classy
, Amy Winehouse
Nick Diamonds Figures Out The Secret Meaning Of Vampire Weekend's Name [Etymologies] 2008-07-24 10:00:00 We sent Idolator videographer Alex Goldberg to the steaming hot Coney Island boardwalk for Siren Fest on Saturday, and while he was there he chatted up a few of the artists present, including Nick Diamonds
from Islands. Above, a routine "who would win in a fight" conversation about Islands and VampireWeekend
turns into a revelation of the sinister meanings behind the name of Morningside Heights' Read more:Figures
, Meaning
OMG, could Sugarland keep Miley Cyrus from ... [Early Reports] 2008-07-24 09:45:00 OMG, could Sugarland keep Miley Cyrus from the top spot on the album charts next week? Breakout was only 2,000 sales ahead of the super-deluxe edition of Sugarland's Love On The Inside through the end of yesterday, according to sales reported by Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Circuit City, Starbucks, Borders, iTunes, Target, Anderson Merchandisers, and Handleman. (Both albums officially hit Read more:Early
Russia Is Getting Ready To Outlaw Teenagers' Acting Out [They're Gonna Clean Up Your Looks] 2008-07-24 09:15:00 Over in Russia
, there's concern about the future of the country, thanks to the kids who are doing crazy things like growing their bangs long and piercing their eyebrows and listening to the Used. The adults are alarmed: Who will rule the country in 2020 if the adolescents of today are too busy rebelling through their teenage years? These tendencies are, after all, so abnormal—especially when Read more:Looks
, Teenagers
, Acting
, Clean
Some Music Business-Related Statistics Are Actually Trending Up [The Biz] 2008-07-24 08:45:00 Hey, guess what? Music
-business stocks are only doing poorly, as opposed to piss-poorly! Shares of Warner Music Group and Live Nation, both of which have taken hits lately, have sort of risen from their recent doldrums; WMG saw a five percent day-to-day increase at the end of yesterday's trading, while LYV rose "as much as nine percent" during the course of yesterday. Media attention helped out WM Read more:Business
, Statistics
, Actually
Nas Brings His 600,000-Plus Signatures To Stephen Colbert's Place [Videodrone] 2008-07-24 08:15:00 On the heels of the Fox News protest he led outside the NewsCorp Building and his album hitting No. 1, Nas stopped by the Colbert
Report to chat with Stephen
about why he was in a flame war with Fox and Bill O'Reilly in particular, the scrapped title of his album, and how the news media is somehow more sensationalist than ever before. Video of him performing his Fox News dis "Sly Fox" after the ju Read more:Signatures
, Place
, Stephen Colbert
In case you weren't irritated enough by the ... [On The Blogs] 2008-07-24 08:00:00 In case you weren't irritated enough by the DJ Khaled video that premiered yesterday, Complex has helpfully provided a list of the man's five most annoying moments. Apparently he dreams of owning gas stations someday, which leads me to believe that he needs something of a primer on the state of that particular business. [Complex]
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50 Cent Is Really Going Through With That Taco Bell Lawsuit [Yo Quiero Yum Brands' Money] 2008-07-23 17:45:00 "50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, accuses the Mexican-style fast food chain of 'diluting the value of his good name' and employing a guerrilla advertising campaign to fool consumers into thinking he had endorsed the chain, said the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court. ... 'As Taco Bell intended, many customers believed that 50 Cent had agreed to endorse Taco Bell's products. Inde Read more:Going
, Lawsuit
, Brands
, Money
"Rough"-ing It In East Africa [O.P.P., We Did It Again] 2008-07-23 16:30:00 Even in the MP3 age, there are CDs worth searching out—and that require the search. "O.O.P., We Did It Again
" is dedicated to great albums that are criminally out of print, and that aren't necessarily likely to become available anytime soon.
The album: The Rough
Guide to the Music of Kenya and Tanzania (1996), one of the many worthwhile titles to stem from the joint efforts of World Music N Read more:Africa
A Good Drum Session: It May Be Better For You Than Wii Fit [Rock For Health] 2008-07-23 16:15:00 "Dr Marcus Smith, from Chichester University, said drummers needed 'extraordinary stamina.' A hour in concert could burn between 400 and 600 calories, he said." A vigorous concert could result in drummers reaching heart rates of 140-150 beats a minute, with peaks reaching 190. As a drummer friend of mine told me when I shared these results with him, "that's why I'm such a good lay." (Ladies, he's Read more:Wii
, Health
Hey, Fortune! I know that as a Time Inc. ... [One Person Trend Stories] 2008-07-23 16:00:00 Hey, Fortune
! I know that as a Time Inc. publication in 2008, you're pretty much charged with putting a shiny happy gloss on news pegs for "interesting" business ventures out there, and doing so in word counts that are dwindling so quickly, you'll eventually be communicating via semaphore. (Or photo galleries. Or both.) But when you drop a statement like "Just as the political bloggers are alterin Read more:Stories
Is Techno In A Holding Pattern? [Arguing On The Internet] 2008-07-23 15:30:00 This may be super-last-week of me to mention, but I admired Philip Sherburne's recent Pitchfork column about what he sees as a current malaise in dance music. For one thing, it's a piece whose main body (the stuff Sherburne wrote, not the quotes beneath it) you can read and substitute your own proper nouns into: it's apt about a lot more than just dance music right now. What's most interesting, th Read more:Techno
, Pattern
, Internet
Nas Doesn't Need A Title To Wind Up On Top [Who Charted] 2008-07-23 15:00:00 Nas' new album, which was stripped of its epithetastic title in the months leading up to its release, took the No. 1 spot on this week's album charts, selling 187,000 copies in its first week out. The album, which leaked earlier this month, had a first-week total that was a little more than half of the 355,000-sold mark achieved by Hip-Hop Is Dead a year and a half ago. Nas is Nas' fourth career N Read more:Title
Lloyd Shows Us How To Do A Q & A [Quotable] 2008-07-23 14:45:00 Here at Idolator, we have a collective love for the R & B singer Lloyd
, whose forthcoming album Lessons In Love drops Aug. 5. That admiration was mainly based on his musical output, which is made up of some of the finest R & B tracks of the last few (maybe more) years. But there's a whole new reason to have a crush on him now, as this chat he had with TJ Tanner of Neon Limelight shows that his int
BREAKING: Zune Tattoo Guy Gives Up [The End Of The Line] 2008-07-23 14:30:00 "I am done. I have had the Zune
since day 1 and have noticed little improvement. I have tried my best to support them every step of the way but the recent Xbox Live announcement at E3 made me lose it. To not include Zune Marketplace or the ability to load videos from Xbox Live to your Zune made me finally give up. I am in the works of figuring the best way to get a new tattoo to cover the logo
A Real-Life Interaction With 2 Live Crew's Brother Marquis [Serve This] 2008-07-23 14:00:00 Late last week, I was out walking to a movie in downtown Seattle when I got the following text message from a friend in Minneapolis who works in a hotel restaurant: "Haha. I served and got hit on by brother marquis of 2 live crew. Get this, he was in town because he is being charged for sexual harassment by a woman from a club." I had to ask for further details. Here, pretty much verbatim, is what Read more:Interaction
, Brother
Come Back, Matisyahu, All Is Forgiven [Videodrone] 2008-07-23 13:30:00
Someone brought to our attention this morning the existence of JewTube, which is exactly what you think it is. The emphasis seems to be heavily weighted toward the Orthodox end of things, so you wouldn't think you'd find much in the way of music. However, a search for "music" brought up, Read more:Forgiven
"New York Times" Gets In On The Drum Line [Higher Education] 2008-07-23 13:00:00 Good NYT piece today by Samuel G. Freedman, who reports on the spike in enrollment for Florida A&M University's summer band camp, in which some 450 students compete for a spot in the school's famed drumline corps the Marching 100. It's an illuminating look at how stylized marching bands are continuing their work into the digital age, and often enhanced by it. (Students like the Seattle teenager Fr Read more:Times
, Higher
, Education
, New York
, New York Times
DJ Khaled Convenes (Another) Battle Royale Of Sheer Annoyingness [Videodrone] 2008-07-23 12:30:00 It has come to our attention that DJ Khaled
is screaming over giant, Jeep-ready beats that have lots of names and almost nothing else of any merit going for them. Again. Now and, apparently, forever, but instead of "We Takin' Over" the name of the new album is We Global Now, continuing the least talented man in hip-hop's impressive streak of meaningless megalomania. Oh wait—"forever" is just Read more:Battle
, Royale
, Sheer
Kid Rock has received the bill for his Waffle ... [Pay Your Waitress] 2008-07-23 12:15:00 Kid Rock has received the bill for his Waffle
House punch-up from a DeKalb County court: His immediate future will be smothered and covered by six hours of anger-management training, a $1,000 fine, and a year of probation. What, no court-ordered recording of a Waffle House theme song? [Atlanta Journal-Constitution MTV]
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