Imported gossip rag OK! is "revealing exclusively" (has a more noxious phrase ever been coined?) the rumor that Britney Spears is going to let her ex-beau Justin Timberlake guest on her forthcoming album, which is being worked on now for a December release. Why you'd want someone who dissed you in public whose most recent collaboration was a semi-dud Madonna song to be on your "comeback" record is beyond me, but I guess I'm writing about it, so we all know where the joke's landed, no? [OK! / Photo of happier times: Getty]
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The Presidents Of The United States Of America (authors of "Lump") were joined by not just one, but two formerly Jewfro'd musical legends at LA's The Roxy last Friday: Satirical visionary Weird Al Yankovic, who reworked the Presidents' big hit as the Forrest-saluting "Gump," assisted in what was an undoubtedly transcedent cover of "More Than A Feeling"; and MC5 axeman Wayne Kramer, who helped essay the perennial "Kick Out The Jams" earlier in the night. Preliminary YouTube searches provided no documentation of either performance, but they did reveal another run through the anthem courtesy of Kramer and three other goofballs who've seen better decades.
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I've been pretty vocal about my enthusiasm over Kylie Minogue's latest album X, on which she plays vamp and storms Star Wars conventions. It's finally getting a Stateside release; X's April 1 release date is a good five months after it came out overseas, presumably because Minogue's label, Capitol Records, needed to find the perfect guest star to help launch the album on this side of the pond.
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After mixing "Umbrella" up with The Time's "Jungle Love" at last week's Grammys, Rihanna is set to perform the umpteenth "live remix" of the song at Wednesday's Brit Awards. Her foils this time: The Klaxons, who told Radio One that their take on the still-pretty-ubiquitous hit will be "an electronic version with guitars on it." Which sounds to me like it could describe the original take on the song, but apparently Rihanna's people disagree in a hilarious way! "They've got this funny idea of what our band sounds like and we've done three or four different versions," the band said. "Her people kept sending versions back going 'No, this sounds more like you.'" Perhaps her management thought that she would actually be working with the Jacksons? [Guardian / Photo: AP]
Vanessa Carlton, of mobile piano fame, recently put out a new album on The Inc., formerly known as Murder Inc., and in a desperate ploy to get people to care about That Girl Who Sings That Song With The Video Where She Rides The Piano, label head Irv Gotti has trapped and domesticated Stevie Nicks, somehow convincing her that Vanessa Carlton is worth her time and effort. In an interview Carlton talks about the new album, that dude from Third Eye Blind, and the great and powerful Nicks.
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The next Disney Channel movie/mega-marketing event, Camp Rock, will star the oh-so-adorable teen troupe the Jonas Brothers and debut on the tween-focused channel next summer. But the important part of this story, aside from the fact that the Brothers may finally see some Miley Cyrus-level record sales, is that the flick's music is going to be written by Julie Brown, a.k.a. Just Say Julie Brown, a.k.a. the woman who was pretty much my No. 1 funny-lady hero of middle school. Julie, if you can get some evil-girl foil type to warble her way through "'Cause I'm A Blonde" as part of this production, I will not only watch the movie the night it premieres, I'll buy the soundtrack album, full price. (OK, OK, you'll probably have to clean up the lines about loving to "jiggle," but come on.)
Right on the heels of the announcement that former Scorpions guitarist Uli Jon Roth will be performing with the current iteration of the Smashing Pumpkins at two shows in Germany, Scorpions news blog Scorps News is reporting that the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan will be providing backup vocals on the next album by the German metal band, Humanity—Hour 1. We've been mulling over this news for a good while now, and we're still stumped by it. Perhaps Corgan is trying to figure out how to get his overblown album-title mojo back?
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Imported gossip rag OK! is "revealing exclusively" (has a more noxious phrase ever been coined?) the rumor that Britney Spears is going to let her ex-beau Justin Timberlake guest on her forthcoming album, which is being worked on now for a December release. Why you'd want someone who dissed you in public whose most recent collaboration was a semi-dud Madonna song to be on your "comeback" record is beyond me, but I guess I'm writing about it, so we all know where the joke's landed, no? [OK! / Photo of happier times: Getty]
