- Everything you need to know about Jay-Z's seven-city publicity-tour: "Jay rolls out '99 Problems' for the first time all day. During the second verse DJ Green Lantern switches the beat to the instrumental of Lynyrd Skynyrd's redneck anthem "Sweet Home Alabama" while Jay raps and the Hiltons throw up Roc-A-Fella signs." [
MTV]
- Bryan Ferry's first solo album in five years, tentatively titled
Do These Pants Make My Ass Look Classy?, will be released in March. [
NME]
- A six-year court battle over the copyright to more than 600 Cuban-music songs—including numbers made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club—has finally ended in London. [
BBC News]
Perhaps Bryan Ferry should be grateful for his low profile here in the states. The former Roxy Music singer—already in semi-hot water for releasing one of the worst album covers of the year—is all over the European press today, thanks to remarks he made during an interview last month:
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Yes, that's Roxy Music bon vivant Bryan Ferry—a man who taught an entire generation of '70s British rockers how to keep up with the rigorous standards of high fashion—modeling Burberry in this week's New Yorker. Look, the guy helped write "Virginia Plain," so he can wear whatever the hell he damn pleases, but doesn't he realize that Burberry is pretty much written off in the U.K. as low-rent thug wear? Can't someone get Jeffrey Sebelia to intervene?
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