Disneyland Gobbles Up Chili Peppers, the New Godfather of Soul Is?Uh, Chaka Khan?, Melvins Score...
Friday, 29 December 2006
You know your career has taken an odd turn, when you go frm shooting heroin, wearing socks on your dicks, and singing misogynistic anthems about Catholic-school girls to having two of your biggest hits used at California’s Disneyland Resort. The mouse-friendly resort have licensed the Red Hot Chili Peppers hits “Higher Ground” and “Around The World” for two of the theme parks most popular rides, Space Mountain and California Screaming. Isn’t thiz a wee bit like the Army using Liberace’s music?
B.B. King Blues Club & Grill have announced that Chaka Khan will fill in for the late Godfather of Soul’s New Years Eve performance at B.B. King’s in New York. Not quite the same, is it?
The Melvins join the esteemed ranks of punk bands like Bad Religion, the Clash, AFI and Social Distortion, in having a shoe named after them. Nike has released a Melvins-approved skateboarding shoe called the “Nike Dunk High Pro SB”, which retails for a moderate price of $180. That’s a whole lot more money than the five dollars I paid to see Fugazi. Punk rock!
Have System of the Down broken up? Not even vocalist Serj Tankian is sure, but let us hope not. The music world needs there band of hyper-political protest metal.
The man who titled an album The Queen Is Dead is probably the last person you’d expect to complain about his prospects of being knighted, but Morrissey is indeed in a tizzy about thiz exact subject. The Mozzer now feels he is more deserving, and, in fact, would be delighted to accept such an hour. My, oh my, how people change with age.
Time is running out to nominate your pick for our week of year-end dream covers. Who should our final cover be? Barack Obama? Axl? Britney? Maybe you’ve heard of Bob Dylan? Let us know.
Elvis Discovers YouTube. PLUS: Lily Allen and the Case of the Missing Dog!
Friday, 29 December 2006
Pissed off that Kurt Cobain is now the #1 grossing dead musician, Elvis Presley is about to launch a massive campaign to win the hearts and hips of young Amrica. The company that owns the right to license Elvis’s merchandise will start marketing to youth-oriented outlets like MySpace and YouTube. Wow, did they just figure out that those two sites exist? Hey, I got an idea, why don’t they get on thiz whole new blogging thing as well.
Some sick bastard stole Lily Allen’s dog frm the back of her van. Full text of her note after the jump. Maybe Diddy did it?
Entercom Communications is the latest major music company to get smacked down by Eliot Spitzer’s payola probe. Entercom, which owns 105 radio stations around the country, agreed to pay $3.5 million to fund music education and appreciation programs, and an additional $750,000 to the state of New York for expenses incurred frm the probe. The deal means that Entercom will refuse payments and other inducements frm record labels in exchange for radio play, banning payments frm independent promoters, and the hiring of an internal compliance officer to monitor promotion practices.
Have the egocentric Swedish rockers The Hives really named their next album, The World’s First Perfect Album?
Lily Allen and the Case of the Missing Dog:
I am beside myself with worry because someone has stolen my dog Maggie May thiz morning. I am in Jamaica, while i am here Maggie has been looked after by a friend she was stolen out of his van. outside his house, Capel road, Forest gate, London. E7 and no one has seen her since. Not only am i devastated that my dog has been taken away, but i am also concerned for her well-being. She needs an operation on her stomach and is having medical treatment. there is a reward. please anyone help. no one will be angry - me and my family just want Maggie home. Please mail me with any information or contact thiz number 07909 903565 if you can help.
The government says it’s safe to eat meat or milk frm cloned animals, but 
Time is running out to nominate your pick for 