This weekend's Summercase festival in Barcelona should have been what most festivals are: A celebrations of commerce intermixed with music you sort of enjoy. But John Lydon apparently couldn't let people enjoy their three-euro water bottles and Bloc Party.
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Over the weekend, Courtney Love took to her MySpace page for the purposes of calling out fellow blogger Ryan Adams, thanks to some mysterious American Express bills from 2003 that she believes are evidence that some $858,000 that went into the making of his 2003 album Rock N Roll was funded by Frances Bean Cobain's inheritance. (I guess that's why Frances is trying her hand at journalism-type stuff this summer.) Not only is she appalled by the theft, which was apparently part of the identity-theft issues she's been blogging about and facilitated by her ex-boyfriend/Rock N Roll producer James Barber, she's irritated that her funds were used to make such a crappy, poorly named album: "Ryan Adams worst record and one of the worst records i can think of in rock and roll history ironically called'Riock and Roll '... yeah you listen to this shit im listening to my i tunes on right now who names a record 'Rock n Roll' what assholes do that? ... with these trebled up guitars my bandmate said sounded like 'really horrific rem on steroids' all treble and compresssion and shit wirtten songs - but so what?"
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Last month, Joe Elliott told an Irish newspaper that he thought his former Headbanger's Ball cohorts Poison, Winger, and Warrant were "shite bands," and that he was too busy chasing after the latest tunes by the Stereophonics to even think about touring with them. Well, Poison members Rikki Rockett and Bret Michaels were not happy to hear that news, especially since they've been doubting the veracity of his band's live performances as of late. And Rockett wasn't afraid to say something about that on his blog!
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Khia, disqualified Miss Rap Supreme contestant and author of "My Neck, My Back," has launched a busload of blog beef, occasioned in part by her leaving Big Cat Records two weeks before the release of her new album, Nasti Muzik 08. She claims that the label wrote her a bad check and gave her nothing in the way of promotion. "So guess what????? Say hello to my little Jewish friend........ You know dat Im gonna laugh all the way to the bank dontcha??? Yall betta have all yall receipts, invoices and budgets together.... Cuz Im bout to sue the hell out yall assess!!!!!!" Khia also takes issue with those who haven't signed her, like Jermaine Dupri, who claimed on Hot 97 that Khia was "ungrateful" for the attention she received from being on Janet Jackson's 2006 flop "So Excited." Khia, unsurprisingly, thinks the real problem is that Dupri's gay and Jackson's menopausal. "Now run and tell dat!!!!!! Nasti Muzik 08!!!!!"
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Ne-Yo is denying claims that his pretty decent "A Milli" freestyle was meant as a shot at Chris Brown. "That is not a Chris Brown dis," he told MTV. "I'm not shooting at nobody... Chris, I ain't shooting at you. That's my homeboy. It is not a Chris Brown dis!" OK, so then who is the opening line "To whom it may concern, you might sell a million more than me/ But you ain't got a million more than me, let's be real" directed at? Taylor Swift? Chad Kroeger? [MTV Newsroom Blog]
Ne-Yo tries an "A Milli" freestyle of his own, and the apparent target of his rhymes is none other than Chris Brown. Yes, he raps; he did say he was bored with R & B, after all. He has kind of a high voice, but I like how unhinged he sounds. [Year Of The Gentleman Blog]
So that lighthearted, if kinda stupid, offer from Taco Bell to 50 Cent, in which the MexiMelt pushers offered to feed a restaurant and given $10,000 to charity in exchange for a 24-hour name change and a widget-inspired freestyle? Curtis has gotten wind of it, and he is is not pleased. "This is a sleazy and ill-conceived publicity stunt by Taco Bell's president, Greg Creed, whose disingenuous offer was leaked to the press before it was even presented to 50 Cent's agent yesterday," one of 50's PR reps told AllHipHop.com. Yes, how dare anyone try to garner attention from the use of your client's name without his permission! I mean, talk about nerve!
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Several Web sites are reporting that Gene Simmons is angry at Radiohead, based on this quote: "The record industry is dead. "It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They've decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we're going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilized. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we'll record new material." OK, so greedy fans are keeping us from songs that rhyme "hot" with "got," but what does that have to do with Radiohead? Are we taking his disappointment with the band on faith?
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50 Cent—who apparently still records music, despite what he might have said previously—has decided to take on T.I., because the Atlanta MC isn't going to spend as much time in prison as Curtis would like. To spare you the trouble of picking up the new G-Unit disc, the "controversial" lyrics regarding T.I. are below the cut.
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Lily Allen, who's in LA recording her new album right now, is apparently ticked off that Capitol Records is putting all of its weight behind Girl Gone Wild of the moment Katy Perry, including—oh, the humanity!—a big picture of Allen being taken down and one of Perry being put up in the halls of her label, Capitol Records. Picture replacements, having to downgrade her LA hotel room out of concern for expenses... it all sounds lifted from the end of Soapdish, except I would definitely consider Perry more of the blowhardy Montana Moorehead type. (Look for her at a dinner theater near you soon!) [Page Six / Lily Allen's MySpace Blog / Photo: WENN]
Jill Sobule on Katy Perry's deathless "I Kissed A Girl," which nicks the title of her 1995 alt-rock hit: "Katy Perry's song is a kind of catchy party song, although I will admit that I do smile when a critique mentions my version in a more favorable light. Is that wrong?" Not at all, Jill, but just be aware that any "favorable light" shone your way by this site is the result of Katy's song being the worst thing ever (summer '08 edition), and yours being a mildly aggravating bump in the radio road while waiting for "Lump" to come on. [Hollywood Insider]
It all started when Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman mocked Disturbed's sound check, claiming the body-modification champions were "practicing where they were going to walk and when they were going to put their leg up on the monitor and pose." Disturbed has since responded, saying a) all they do is make sure the guitarist is under the spotlight for his big solo and b) how the hell did some dillweed punk guitarist get into the room during their sound check anyway? Sez the happy dude pictured to the left: "It's called production — it's what any big professional band that isn't just punk rock... Not to say that there is anything wrong with punk rock, because I have my roots in it, but you can't compare the two styles of a show." But Weinman isn't buying it.
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Apparently the legal wrath of Cash Money Records parent company Universal Music Group isn't too much of a concern for South Carolina mixtape DJ Chuck T, who said that he was responsible for this weekend's leak of Lil Wayne's The Carter III as revenge for DJ-disparaging comments Weezy made to the mixtape-centric magazine Foundation. (When the mag asked him about the first mixtape DJ he enjoyed listening to, Lil Wayne replied "I don't remember the mixtape deejay—tell this dude who he talking to. I'm not into all that shit. I don't know no mixtape deejay. I am the originator.") Carter's release date is next Tuesday, so the likelihood of Chuck T being the sole source of the leak is, to put it mildly, a little low. But that didn't stop him from sending an e-mail blast inviting his fans to drink from Wayne's 192kbps milkshake.
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