In November, the folks at Harmonix are following up their recent release of The Beatles: Rock Band with Lego Rock Band, in which the normal “play this song right” challenges will be made “Lego-centric” and led by blocky avatars, including the toy Iggy Pop shown at left. And if you just put a hat and a vest on him and give him a whip, he can export himself to Lego Indiana Jones! OK that’s not true, but it should be. [Vulture / EW] MORE »
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Nice Abs: The Debut Of Lego Iggy Pop
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I Wonder If You Can Buy The “Candle In The Wind” CD Single There
The former Virgin Megastore site in Orlando’s Downtown Disney is now a shrine to the late Princess Diana; it costs $14.50 to get in if you’re older than nine, i.e., if you were actually a sentient being when she died in 1997. The limited-time museum houses dresses, handwritten letters, and other Royal-related effluvia. [Disney Unplugged; HT popbytes, who noted that the Hollywood Virgin Megastore is now a shrine to that overpromoted guinea pigs-in-the-FBI movie G-Force] MORE »
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Corporate Rock: Not Selling As Much As It Used To
Boston-area rock stalwart WBCN is going off the air later this summer, with its Linkin-Park-and-Led-Zep playlist being shoved aside in order for parent company CBS Radio to make room for a new, all-sports yakfest on the area’s radio dial. (WBCN had broadcast New England Patriots football.) The flip is scheduled for August. MORE »
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Aly & AJ’s Breakup With Their Name Inspires A List Of Other Artists Who Have Changed Their Monikers Mid-Stream
Earlier this week, the blonde pop duo Aly & AJ announced that they had changed their name to 78violet. (”Fyi…..u pronounce #78violet as seventy eight violet:),” they helpfully added.) The sisters are calling their renaming “an exciting new beginning,” although given that they’ve already achieved some chart success under their old name, one wonders if this change might hurt their fledgling pop career more than it helps. As a way to assist these young ladies through this crucial stage in their career, Idolator presents a few stories of artists who changed their names–and how their careers fared once all the paperwork with the local DMV had been signed. MORE »
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Panic! At The Disco Post New Music, Restore Their Exclamation Point
Spencer Smith has posted a snippet of a new song by him and his Panic! At The Disco bandmate Brendon Urie on the band’s official site; it’s called “Oh Glory” and it’s upbeat and dancey, and would seem to bear out Pete Wentz’s claims that this album would feel like more of a natural progression from their first full-length A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. MORE »
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The Case Against Phish’s Name: Why It Seems Like PETA’s Press Releases Are Being Written By “The Onion” Editorial Staff
So People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals has taken time out from defending the honor of houseflies against President Barack Obama to give some shine to its Sea Kittens campaign, in which it tries to get people to call fish “sea kittens” because then who would want to fillet, saute, and feast on an adorable little kitty cat? (An example of their felinized version of the sea’s creatures is at left.) To spearhead this campaign, they have asked the jam-band titans Phish to temporarily rename themselves “Sea Kittens.” (The regular spelling would, oddly, be intact.) Feast on PETA’s open letter to Trey et al after the jump. MORE »
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The Jonas Brothers: Assisting In The Liberation Of Irving Plaza?
Time to bust out siren.jpg: The Jonas Brothers are playing a free show in New York City tonight, where they’ll preview tracks from their forthcoming album Lines, Vines, and Trying Times for a crowd of fever-pitched fans, who will get in on a first-come, first-served basis. (And I’d already made plans to hang out in the Union Square area anyway! Awesome!) In addition to the idea that I might be able to get tickets, of particular interest to me is just where Billboard says this show is happening: MORE »
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Noted personal-finance columnist Duff McKagan gets his first New York Times byline via this week’s installment of the paper’s business-travel column, although the Gray Lady’s policies have forced him to use his mom-given name: “The musician and songwriter Michael McKagan, known as Duff, recorded and toured with the rock band Guns N’ Roses. He now performs with Velvet Revolver and his own band, Loaded,” says the credit. During the course of his musings on bribing South American officials and not wanting to talk about music, he reveals a key detail about his travel preferences: He enjoys sitting next to people who are crossword enthusiasts. All I’m going to say is that I’ve almost finished the Times Saturday puzzle twice in the past month… [NYT] MORE »
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Freestyle Music Park: If It’s Too Nauseating, You’re Too Old
The rebranding of the befallen-by-bankruptcy Hard Rock Park concludes this Saturday, when Freestyle Music Park opens its doors in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Above, an ad for the park and its sickness-inducing Time Machine Coaster. Will the promise of getting one’s hair and innards completely whipsawed around result in people snapping up enough $29.95 tickets to at least keep the park open until Labor Day? Well, given the promise of throwing up offered by the ad above and the fact that one of the new “premier attractions” is something called CSI: Live!–it “incorporates cutting-edge forensic science, unparalleled audience interaction and amazing visual effects into a fast-paced production”–I’m going to guess that the park’s success is going to be directly correlated to how much it’s planning to spend on cleanup crews for guests’ vomit. [YouTube] MORE »
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Freestyle Music Park Apparently Has No Interest In Being An Amusement Park About Freestyle Music
The above clip, Dan Hartman’s “Name Of The Game,” is being embedded in honor of this kinda-sad news about the recently rebranded Freestyle Music Park: “John Stine, the director of sales and marketing for the park, said the park’s new owners, FPI MB Entertainment, was aware that the genre existed, but it did not have any impact on the renaming of the park. … He said there are no plans to incorporate the genre into the park, which officials have said would include country, reggae, beach music, pop, R&B, alternative, Christian and disco music. That doesn’t mean, though, that it may not be incorporated in the future.” John Stine, all I am going to say is, we have some ideas that could make Freestyle Music Park a lot more fun than whatever Margaritavilled horrors a park about “beach music” might result in. [The Sun News / YouTube] MORE »
