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Fred Schneider Is Not An Everyday Person


In this fan-recorded clip from a few weeks ago, the B-52's, Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, and others come together to belt out a gleeful version of Sly and the Family Stone's inclusive anthem "Everyday People." It seems like a blast, but the amusing thing about the clip is the way every time Fred Schneider perks up and sings louder, it feels as though you've just bitten into something weird and unexpected. Sort of like finding a Gummi Bear in the middle of an Italian hero. [YouTube]

2:30 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By fluxington
154 views, 6 comments

Latest by cheesebubble: @Chris Molanphy: good lord, i believe you're right. you have a good eye for the queer guy. more »

Emmy nominations are out, and the folks at Sub Pop are no doubt enjoying the two nods garnered by songs from Flight Of The Conchords ("The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)" and "Inner City Pressure"). Too bad both of them are probably going to lose to that beaten-to-death song about Sarah Silverman boinking Matt Damon, which after listen two is just as insufferable and annoying as her "comedic" persona. Ah, well, now that she's done with Kimmel, there's always next year! [emmys.tv]

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videodrone

Rick Springfield Hoping That Whoever Does Victoria's Secret's Licensing Has Fond Memories Of "Jessie's Girl"


And here I thought that being back on General Hospital would be a good thing for Rick Springfield (and his bank account), but apparently returning to his role as Dr. Noah Hunter isn't enough. He wants to be the next Bob Dylan, but instead of trying to go that route by working on the poetry of his lyrics, he's releasing "What's Victoria's Secret," a "Jessie's Girl" rewrite that's clearly meant to be played while women in Swarovski-covered bras shimmy down the runway on the next "fashion show" sponsored by the lingerie chain. Don't believe me about the rewrite thing? Play the above clip and the below clip simultaneously and marvel at Springfield's utter chutzpah. Which in this age will probably work for him all the way to the bank. More »

9:00 AM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Maura Johnston
184 views, 3 comments

Latest by ObtuseIntolerant: @Thierry: Wife beating, last I heard. Prick. more »

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The Shit Box: For Those People Who Really, Really Can't Stand Festivals' Reliance On Porta-Potties

How to make your day at a music festival even more cumbersome: Tote around The Shit Box, a portable toilet that you carry around in the form of a 14-inch flat pack. Honestly, the only "advantage" to this box that I can see is the ability to stick all those free flyers and pieces of swag that are forced upon me during the course of the day inside, but perhaps you can come up with an alternate use for the thing. [The Brown Corporation (oh, come on now) via Can't Stop The Bleeding]

3:30 PM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
481 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: Those wacky Brits. more »

allegedly upcoming releases

Britney Spears Is Ready To Give Us More Music

Now that she's sort of returned to the arena-tour world, Britney Spears is back in the studio and working on the follow-up album to last year's album Blackout, according to her no-doubt-thrilled label Jive Records. "Britney Spears is spending her summer in the recording studio, working with a team of top-notch producers and songwriters. We're very excited about what she's accomplished so far," says the statement, which is co-signed by Spears manager Larry Rudolph. I really liked Blackout's "dancefloor of the millennial apocalypse" feel, I'm cautiously optimistic about this album, although I know fully well that a few ill-timed run-ins with paparazzi could scotch the whole project. But no matter! Entertainment Weekly got on the horn with Sean Garrett, who's one of the producers attached to the record, and he burbled some similarly enthusiastic words, promising that he's going to "come up with something crazy" for Spears. Which is something to look forward to, given that he's helped pen a few of the past few years' more delicious pop treats. A few are are after the jump. More »

11:00 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
436 views, 11 comments

Latest by Chris Molanphy: @Maura Johnston: I'm with you on those two (meh on "Buttons," yay! on "Lose My Breath"), but I gotta say I always saw Brown's "Run It!" as son-of-"Yeah!" (complete with exclamation point). I'm only now warming to Brown because that more »

hey, it's enrico palazzo!

Sheryl Crow Tunes Her Guitar To "The Star-Spangled Banner"


Something tells me that Sheryl Crow was thrilled by the almost-five-hour duration of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game, if only because each half-inning that passed without a team bringing a run home meant even more time between her mewling version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and the game recaps. More »

8:53 AM on Wed Jul 16 2008
By Maura Johnston
456 views, 8 comments

paul mccartney's gotta pay that alimony somehow

Did Bloomingdale's Leak Beatles/iTunes News?

If you're a Beatles fan, prepare to be either horrified or economically exploited by the holiday lineup at Bloomingdale's; the retail chain has gone frantic for the Fab Four. Between Beatles t-shirts designed by Marc Jacobs and St. Pepper's jackets by Met View, there's something for nearly everyone with money to spend and dubious tastes in aesthetics. More surprising is the announcement that the store will sell "an exclusive limited-edition Beatles iPod has been created, stocked with the band's classics." Only a thousand of these iPods will be available, apparently—but is this some sign of more Beatles/iTunes crossover to come? [Fashion Week Daily]

4:45 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Dan Gibson
318 views, 9 comments

Latest by davidm: I may be wrong, but I thought you couldn't pre load an iPod, since you're supposed to sync it with you machine which would wipe whatever was preloaaded? Which is why the U2 iPod came with a certificate to download more »

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Canada's "Idol" Hopefuls Try To Emulate The Thin White Duke

There are moments when I really think Canada is cooler than these United States, like when I dig out my Eric's Trip discs to have something to listen to as I write out the check that pays for my health insurance. However, last night's Canadian Idol was a mixed bag. Sure, the night was dedicated to the music of David Bowie, but as is sometimes the case with Idol tribute nights, the contestants got in the way. More »

12:30 PM on Tue Jul 15 2008
By Dan Gibson
771 views, 3 comments

Latest by joshservo: OMG THEY HAVE A FAKE RANDY. I'm gonna go ahead and say this Earl kid isn't so bad. Maybe he could be Buck 64? more »

this one's [not] for the children

Tough Break, Kiddos: Kidzapalooza Los Angeles Is Off

Speaking of festivals and children, if you were planning on seeing Slash and Gary Oldman (?!) at Kidzapalooza in Los Angeles later this summer, make other plans. Artist scheduling conflicts are forcing a postponement of the West Coast festival until 2009, although it appears the Chicago version is still on. This is just like in 2004, when I had my hopes up to see Bumblebeez 81 at Lollapalooza and that ended up getting cancelled. Perry Farrell, you've hurt me before. Why must you take it out on my kids as well? [NME]

2:30 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
89 views, 5 comments

Latest by bcapirigi: oh, i was hoping it was going to be the tiny masters of today and jew on jew action. more »

let's skip the arctic monkeys and get the kids to bed

Festivals Are For Old People

Sure, you're outside, the sound is lousy, and he bands are terrible. But if you're one of the attendees at a European music festival, you have to admit that the experience has gone from "stuck in a torrential downpour in a field full of fecal matter" to something more sophisticated. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Dan Gibson
586 views, 6 comments

give cash a chance

They're Only In It For The Money: "Sgt. Pepper" Drum Head Fetches $1.067M

Well, someone out there still has discretionary income: The drum head that appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band went up for auction yesterday at Christie's London outpost, and it realized a price of £541,250, or $1,067,346. Imagine if that money had been used to, you know, buy actual Beatles albums—I'm sure the halls of EMI are filled with people fantasizing that exact scenario. The price of the drum almost makes the £421,250 ($830,706) that John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for "Give Peace A Chance" went for seem quaint, no? Details on the drum skin's measurements and materials after the jump. More »

9:30 AM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Maura Johnston
213 views, 1 comment

Latest by Big Gray.: I've always thought that there was a missed licensing opportunity out there with that drum head. Hell, I'd buy one for my bass drum. more »

not really the best damn thing

Avril Lavigne's Clothing Line Just As Awkwardly "Punk Rock" As Its Designer

Avril Lavigne's clothing line for the discount chain Kohl's, Abbey Jane, has made its way to outlets of the department store, and while I guess it's nice that not all the clothing lines for juniors these days are automatically going the spendaholic-bimbette-in-training route, the clothes look a bit, well, uninspired. Sure, they're not exactly designer duds—prices range from $24 for t-shirts to $40 for hoodies—but wouldn't it have been nice to see some sort of creativity from Lavigne beyond reappropriation of The Best Damn Thing's imagery? It's almost as if she was cheating off Pete Wentz on an essay test, but being careful to change just enough details so that she could feel OK about passing off the work as her own. A few sample pieces after the jump. More »

9:00 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,026 views, 12 comments

Latest by ThreeBirds: but being careful to change just enough details so that she could feel OK about passing off the work as her own Just like her music! more »

Sarah Jessica Parker-approved discount clothing chain Steve & Barry's, which brought many a lamely innuendoed $7.99 T-shirt to malls around the country, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company's "strategy of operating on razor-thin margins and of adding stores in distressed locations with special payments from landlords"—which, I guess, sounded a lot more solid before hindsight kicked in—will result in many, if not all, of its stores closing. Why is this business tidbit on a music blog, you may ask? Because the clothing chain was supposed to move into the old Tower Records space at Broadway and E. 4th Street in Manhattan this fall. (That's the former Tower in the pic there.) This bit of news can mean only one thing for New Yorkers: Get ready for another huge Duane Reade. [NYT]

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2009's just an excuse

Smashing Pumpkins Celebrating Lots Of Anniversaries In Coming Months

Billy Corgan has pushed back Smashing Pumpkins' tour honoring the band's first full-length, the 1991 album Gish, to "distant 2009" in order to focus on two things: A tour of smaller-sized venues next month which will stop at a casino in Hammond, Ind., among other places in the lower 48 states; and a smattering of shows this November that will "focus on the band's history, legacy, and accomplishments over their career" and will be billed as a 20th-anniversary tour. Which I guess makes the Gish tour an 18th-anniversary tour? Oh man, does this mean I have to send him something porcelain and something platinum? I hope he's registered somewhere, at least! More »

2:00 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Maura Johnston
375 views, 6 comments

Latest by FionaScrapple: They should do Gish and Siamese Dream in their entirety and hit the bar. more »

High gas prices bring the pain to Nashville acts big and small: "To illustrate the situation touring artists now face, [booking agent Keith] Case recalls a recent Ralph Stanley swing into Texas. 'It was just a straight run, not a lot of geography,' he explains. 'He went from home [in southwest Virginia], played three dates that were all closely routed in Texas. He came back and his [roundtrip] fuel bill was almost $2,000.'" [CMT]

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guess who's back

Another Day, Another Reunion: Shudder To Think Reunites


In a move that probably shocks no one, but likely pleases some of you, Shudder to Think is following up a February appearance at a Barack Obama fundraiser with a smallish tour this summer that starts at the Virgin Mobile Festival in Baltimore and works its way across our fine nation to San Francisco's Fillmore. I would regale you, the reader, with a number of Shudder to Think videos from the band's Epic Records era, but as those videos (including the splendid "X-French Tee Shirt") are property of the embed-hating Sony/BMG, I've placed a clip of Craig Wedren performing "Suffragette City" with Of Montreal above. I hope you're happy, Sony, because I'm certainly not. [Billboard]

5:00 PM on Tue Jul 8 2008
By Dan Gibson
295 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! That is all. more »

let's just be friends!

Eminem Sued For Two-Year-Old Strip Club Punch-Up

Miad Jarbou claims he was punched by Eminem in the bathroom of a Detroit strip club on July 15, 2006. So how does he plan to celebrate the event's second anniversary? By going back to the club and telling a fresh batch of strippers about his violent brush with fame? Well, probably, but in 2009 he might have more dollars to show for it: Jarbou is now suing for $25,000 in damages. I'm surprised Eminem wouldn't give someone more than that just to remind everyone that Shady is a bad ass who will knock you out if you even look at him funny... when he's not crying about his daughter in front of a piano. More »

2:00 PM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Anthony Miccio
142 views, 3 comments

Latest by Clevertrousers: But seriously, what kind of fucktard approaches another man at a urinal for anything. Even Larry Craig restricted his cruising to the stalls. It's just not done. more »

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Is "American Idol" Regretting Its Errors?

Auditions for season eight of American Idol kick off next week, and a slight alteration to the rules means that we may see some of the faces from last year again come January. The only people from last year's show who are barred from trying out again, aside from those who have signed to a record label like car-dwelling hopeful Josiah Leming, are those who made the top 24—a change from previous years, which barred people who placed as low as 44th. Does this mean that the Idol producers are so scared of the unplumbed talent reserves out there, they're looking to go back to the well of people who were OK, but not as charismatic as Ramiele Malubay? Is Paula getting tired of having to remember so many new people? Or do the powers that be really want to play up Kyle Ensley's political leanings in the wake of the Presidential inauguration? More »

11:30 AM on Mon Jul 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
547 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: Can we PULEEEEZ start voting people off instead of voting for them to stay? Way more fun. more »