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.
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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.
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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.
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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, margarita-swilling Parrotheads" in response. Could this be the start of perhaps the greatest copyright-related beef ever? [NYP]
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.)
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I-banker icon Jimmy Buffett has filed a trademark-infringement suit against UnderOneHut, which, at first, seems like a poorly designed gift/houseware outpost. Dig deeper, though, and you'll find some "Buffett-inspired" items that made us kind of sympathize with the beleaguered billionaire—sure, he's been responsible for some horrible aesthetic crimes, but we suspect that even he wouldn't want to be responsible for people using ornaments that have tiny, glittery flip-flops on them to decorate their Christmas trees.
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Last week, Page six reported that Jimmy Buffett had been busted with 100 Ecstacy pills at a French airport. Now, Buffett has posted an explanation of what happened on his website, www.margarita-themedshit.org:
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Ah, October baseball; we love its crispness and high stakes, especially when the right teams are fighting their way to the top. But a good game can be tainted by its attendant musical performances—those requisite patriotism-stoking warbles of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America"—if the wrong singer is asked to step in.
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Ever wonder how middle-aged I-banker icon Jimmy Buffett always manages to keep it so chill? How he looks as though he could strum a ukelele, pilot a low-range chopper, and belly-rub a manatee—all at the same time? Well, now you know:
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