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- News Roundup: 8/4/2010
Singer/songwriter Bobby Hebb died on Tuesday of lung cancer at a Nashville hospital. He was 72. Best known for penning the song “Sunny,” Hebb was also one of the first African American artists to perform at The Grand Ole Opry, which he did as a member of Roy Acuff’s Smokey Mountain Boys in the early ’50s. Hebb’s own recording of “Sunny” became a hit after reaching number two on the Billboard pop charts in 1966. Many other artists covered the song over the years, including Marvin Gaye, Jose Feliciano, Frank Sinatra, and guitarist Pat Martino, which helped seal the song’s reputation as a pop and jazz standard. [LATimes.com]Hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean is expected to announce his plans to run for President of Haiti on Thursday. Best known as a founding member of the Fugees, Jean was born in Port-au-Prince and moved to Brooklyn with his family at age nine. An outspoken proponent for Haiti, he was one of the first high-profile celebrities to offer support after the country’s devastating earthquake in January. Jean has apparently filled out the necessary paperwork to run for political office and will announce his intentions this Thursday on CNN’s Larry King Live. [CNN.com]
The Kings of Leon have announced the title of the band’s upcoming album. Come Around Sundown will be the Nashville group’s fifth studio effort and the follow-up to 2008’s multi-platinum Only By the Night. Come Around Sundown is set for release on October 18th. [NME.com]
Aretha Franklin has canceled her upcoming Brooklyn concerts after breaking two ribs in a fall in her home on Sunday. The performances, which had been scheduled for Aug. 9th and 12th, would have been the legendary soul singer’s first concerts in Brooklyn. [Detnews.com]
MTV has announced the nominees for this year’s 27th annual MTV Video Music Awards, with pop singer Lady Gaga nabbing a record-high total of 13 nominations. Eminem is right behind her with a total of eight nods. Both artists will vie for Video of the Year along with Florence and the Machine, 30 Seconds to Mars, and B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams. The Music Video Awards will air live from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 12th at 9pm. [MTV.com]
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With Lollapalooza just around the corner, Yoshiki Hayashi — drummer, pianist, and main songwriter for X Japan, the biggest rock group in Japanese history — is gearing up for his band’s first show in America. The heavy metal group, which formed during the 1980s and single-handedly pioneered the Japanese glam-metal movement known as “visual kei,” is currently putting the finishing touches on a new album. Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell recently talked with Yoshiki about X Japan’s history. [SunTimes.com]Brian Eno will release his next album through Warp Records, the label that pioneered UK techno. Although Eno and Warp remain tight-lipped about the project, some details can be gleaned from a blog post written by guitarist Leo Abrahams, who says the album is a collaborative project between himself, Eno and classical composer Jon Hopkins. [Spinner.com]
You can pay what you’d like for Radiohead’s last album, In Rainbows, but you can’t download it illegally. The RIAA and IFPI have both sent letters to Google, asking the company to cancel bloggers’ accounts for offering the album as a free torrent.[NME.com]
Susan Boyle and Paul McCartney are among the musicians rumored to be making appearances in the second season of Glee, which kicks off this Fall. [EW.com]
Is Kid Rock going indie folk? Not quite, but Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold recently put their own folksy spin on “Picture,” originally recorded by Rock and Sheryl Crow. Watch the duo’s surprisingly poignant performance here. [Pitchfork.com]
Only days after selling his memoirs to HarperCollins, 16 year-old Justin Beiber has made a deal with Paramount Pictures to turn his life into a 3D biopic. Beiber will play himself in the film, which will also feature snippets of his current concert tour. Look for the biopic to premier early next year on Valentine’s Day weekend. [Deadline.com]
Dee Snider talks to Billboard about his new reality show, “Growing Up Twisted.” [Billboard.com]
Переслать - Video Jams Two for Tuesday – New Order
Coming in to work I heard New Order’s “Round & Round” on the weird and awesome radio station that plays No Doubt back to back with Usher, old Prince next to Drake, and well, New Order! Hearing the song out of context I remembered why I love the group so much. The way they blended clunky new wave synths, propulsive rhythms, and incredibly hooky tunes with Hooky’s brilliant basslines and Barney’s oddly emotional lyrics and endearingly wimpy vocals always hits my heart just the right way every time. (That’s the two-second version — if you want the two-hour version, call me at 1-800- NEW-ORDR.) The band’s videos were often kind of lame, so I went deeper and dug up some interesting footage.The first is of the band in 1985 performing “The Perfect Kiss” live in the studio. It’s nine plus minutes of the best things about the 80s rolled up into one great clip.
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Next we have the band on Top of the Pops miming(?) to “Round and Round” and having a load of fun doing it. Check out Barney’s rings and Stephen’s shirt, they sure weren’t feeling very dour that day. (You’ll need to crank the volume on this one)
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Breaking the rules of Two for Tuesday (and why not, really?), we have the band sweating through a raw and thrilling version of “Ceremony” recorded in NYC during 1981.
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And finally, the band in the studio wearing some fine shorts and ripping off an incendiary version of “Age of Consent.”
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