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This weekend, Jimmy Buffett will strap on his boat shoes and head down to Tampa so he can play a free concert in support of Barack Obama‘s attempt to take the crucial swing state of Florida on Election Day. But what will the slogan for this show be? Oh wait, I know.
Just as quickly as The Sun created a frenzy on the Coachella rumor front with an article proclaiming that the Smiths were close to reuniting for this year’s festival, NME comes along to dash those hopes with a post proclaiming that neither the band nor the festival were in negotiations.
The major labels’ latest attempt to jumpstart the physical-media market, the microSD card-with-album format known as SlotMusic, will start trickling into Best Buy and Wal-Mart outlets this week. The cards will retail for… $14.99. For a one-gigabyte memory card and an album, and the possibility of liner notes or cover art or that old standby of uselessness, cell phone wallpaper also being included. Sure, $14.99 is lower than the price of some one-gig microSD cards, but at a time when Americans are cutting back on spending, you’d think that people would be more likely to try a new format of entertainment–even with music files that are free of DRM–if they thought they were getting a deal of some sort. Especially since the cards are teeny tiny, and the whole “you can sync it with your portable music player right away” chatter doesn’t hold water with iPods and iPhones, which don’t have microSD slots. Oh, music industry, you never fail to misunderstand how real people who don’t get promo copies of every CD under the sun actually, you know, consume your product. Anyway, if you want to be the first on your block–or, hell, in your zip code–to try this new format out, the full list of “the 40 top artists” involved in this boondoggle after the jump.
Jimmy Buffett alleges that Six Flags’ Bugs Bunny-themed “Carrothead Club,” where kids wear foam hats and have the occasional brunch with the wascally wabbit, is infringing on the term “Parrotheads”; Six Flags rep calls Buffett’s fanbase “significantly older Hawaiian shirt-wearing,… More »
Jimmy Buffett alleges that Six Flags’ Bugs Bunny-themed “Carrothead Club,” where kids wear foam hats and have the occasional brunch with the wascally wabbit, is infringing on the term “Parrotheads”; Six Flags rep calls Buffett’s fanbase “significantly older Hawaiian shirt-wearing,… More »
YouTube and other video sites are often used for evil, but sometimes you find clips that you immediately can’t live without, specifically old or obscure musical performances that would otherwise never see the light of day, except for maybe on a more serious-minded VH1 nostalgia program. Also, tribute videos. In an attempt to curb my compulsion to write four or five individual posts about my favorite online video finds, I have complied the essentials for you. After the jump: Dolly, Stevie, hot Latinos.
Welcome to On The Shelf, Idolator’s weekly look at the new releases hitting stores on Tuesday. This week sees the deluxe edition of B’Day, which is laden with Shakira cameos and lots of videos, as well as the new album by grillmeister Paul Wall, whose list of cameos is almost as overloaded as his MySpace page. (Warning: If your computer isn’t Army-grade, don’t click that link, or you’ll be doomed to Crash City.)
After the jump, we look at new releases by Timbaland, Sick Puppies, Hilary Duff, and the trio of Alan Jackson, George Strait, and Jimmy Buffett.
I-banker icon Jimmy Buffett has filed a trademark-infringement suit against UnderOneHut, which, at first, seems like a poorly designed gift/houseware outpost. More »
Last week, Page six reported that Jimmy Buffett had been busted with 100 Ecstacy pills at a French airport. More »
