Just in case you can't get quite enough hot awards action between last weekend's Teen Choice Awards, the nomination process for the Video Music Awards, and the mystery surrounding the Mercury Prize, the shortlist for the Vodafone Live Music Awards was announced today! Apparently, this is a British award designed to remind people that live music is awesome. And the nominees are:
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Amy Winehouse will not be singing the theme to the next James Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace, because producer Mark Ronson is "not sure she's ready to work on music yet." Winehouse's spokesperson is disputing this claim, saying that the recording sessions fizzled because of "artistic differences." Whichever side is right, the Web producer who put together the linked article and its photo should get some sort of "Not Very Subtly Indicating Which Side Of The Argument He's On Through Photo Editing" award for today. Yeesh. [Press Association]
Mark Ronson wants to lay down some Christmas and Hanukkah tunes with Amy Winehouse in time for the '08 holiday season. Given that no one knows whether she'll even make through the summer, an Arbor Day EP might be a safer bet. [Yahoo]
The Mark Ronson remix of Bob Dylan's "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," which hits radio tomorrow: Finally, 2007 has its own "A Little Less Conversation." [dylan07.com]
In this week's edition of On The Shelf, Idolator's weekly look at select releases coming out on Tuesday: Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero at long last arrives, as do new albums from Avril Lavigne, Mark Ronson, and Bucky Covington.
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