Have you ever wondered exactly how a commercial for Real World/Road Rules Challenge set to "I Against I" would break your brain? Well, next week is your chance to find out: Bad Brains will be the next featured artist in MTV's 52/52 Bands promotion, the channel's new way of promoting musicians without actually adding said musicians' videos to rotation. Instead, Bad Brains songs will score MTV's commercials and PSAs, and the performance clips that will air during commercial breaks will singlehandedly raise the average age of musicians featured on the channel by about five years. [Bad Brains' MySpace Blog; HT Joe Gross]
Billboard is reporting that, after their three sold-out performances during CBGB's last week, the original Bad Brains lineup has decided to start working together once again; they'll be heading into the studio with the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch to record a new album. Will 2006 be remembered as the year when everyone decided to bury the hatchet? And if so, who's next?
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- Diddy gives an inexplicably press-worthy speech at a Philadelphia high school, during which he preaches the value of not dropping out, as well as the importance of milking your friend's untimely death for all it's worth. [People]
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