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For The Record: News on Heroes, Britney Spears, American Idol, Black Francis and More

Posted 2/28/08 5:33 pm EST by in For The Record


Drummer Dude

· Buddy Miles, RIP. Tonight we will play Band of Gypsys and dance around the fire in your honor.

· While fans await the return of the strike-delayed next batch of “Heroes” episodes in the fall, the Hollywood Reporter reports that a CD soundtrack will drop on March 18 with songs from Wilco, Panic at the Disco, Imogen Heap, Death Cab for Cutie, New Pornographers, My Morning Jacket, Bob Dylan and the first new studio recording from Jesus and Mary Chain in a decade, “All Things Must Pass.” This is a good thing.

· The LAPD confirmed that they're looking into allegations that someone drugged Britney Spears. You think?

· Kids, you're not buying CDs! Well, 48% of you aren't, according to one report.

· It's not a scandal on par with Antonella Barba's or Corey Clark's, but TMZ has uncovered "American Idol" hopeful Amanda Overmyer's October 2006 DUI. The so-called "rock-and-roll nurse" was placed on 180 days of probation, which ended in August 2007.

· Pixies frontman Black Francis has a new EP coming out. Two things: First, what's an EP? Second, guess there will never be a new Pixies album, but maybe that's a good thing at this point.

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The Wire On Demand...But Not

Posted 2/28/08 5:20 pm EST by in For The Record


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Some of the folks in the Newsroom wait up 'til round midnight Sundays to catch the next week's episode of The Wire, On Demand. But then there's a contingent of folks who wait 'til Monday, maybe Tuesday, sometimes even Wednesday to watch. And it creates this unbelievable tension around here about who can say what when, who might be in earshot, . Like yesterday we were getting into that whole, "Yo, [redacted] getting shot was waaaaay crazier than Omar being bodied!," and one of the writers ran crying into the next room. (Pour one out for [redacted], btw).

Well, next week, there will be no tension. HBO sent out a press release saying Season 5 / Episode 10, the final episode of The Wire forever-ever, will NOT BE AVAILABLE ON DEMAND this week. You're gonna have to watch it with all the common folk, Sunday March 9th (9pm).

Also, if you haven't read Shaheem Reid's piece on Omar actor Michael K. Williams (who also makes a cameo in Style P's new video), then you're sleeeeping.

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Filipino Prisoners "Superman" Soulja Boy, MC Hammer

Posted 2/28/08 4:19 pm EST by in For The Record


Tell Em

From Jim Fraenkel, MTV News executive producer:

Michael Jackson may have avoided prison but that didn’t stop a bunch of guys in orange jumpsuits from gettin’ busy with him. Seven months after showing Naomi Campbell how it should be done and after dazzling more than 12 million YouTubers with their monochromatic interpretation of the "Thriller" video, the world’s most lovable crew of criminal offenders is back and stomping the yard again.

This time around, the 1500 inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention & Rehabilitation Center in the Phillipines are crankin' out that Soulja Boy. Maybe it’s the fact that prisoners aren’t allowed cell phones that they only choreographed the first few bars of the year’s biggest ring-tone but they’re certainly not phoning it in when Hammer-time comes knockin’.

“There’s a time to dance and a time to sing,” a chief administrator of prison operations in the Phillipines told ABC News back in April, while Byron Garcia, who runs the detention center, told Sun Star publication, “While the goal is to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, such may not happen if it is done in a manner deemed unpleasurable. Music, being the language of the soul, is added to that regimen.”

Ok, some of you might have seen this already. But even if you have, here's a question: Do synchronized Soulja Boy routines constitute rehabilitation or cruel and unusual punishment?



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Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox Going On A Grizzly Fantasy Fling to Morocco

Posted 2/28/08 12:34 pm EST by in For The Record


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Don't know if we'll ever see a Deerhunter vid on MTV but there's a few of us here in the Newsroom who love this band to no end. At the 2006 Corndog O Rama in Atlanta (a fantastic music festival, if you ever get the chance to go), Bradford inexplicably yelled at my then-girlfriend after she introduced them on stage. He apologized immediately afterwards, and really I couldn't be that mad because they were fantastic.

But that's neither here nor there. This dispatch from John Norris on his weekend before Bradford's Atlas Sound shows in NYC:

This weekend I got the chance to sit down for an extended chat with the inimitable Bradford Cox of Deerhunter/Atlas Sound/Ghetto Cross, and the subject of a million blog entries and dozens of side projects – and I’m working on a story from that interview right now. But one of the most exciting collabos he told us about is an upcoming album he’ll be doing in Morocco at the end of March, with Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett. They’ll spend two weeks in an Ed-rented villa working on a ‘pop record’. That’s quite a threesome – Cox, Droste and Pallett. Kind of an indie Hope, Crosby and Lamour in “Road to Morocco”? (IMDB it) Will there be houseboys, I had to ask? “Um, no” said Bradford, “I’m told there is a house girl.” The better to focus on work.

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For The Record: News on The Verve, Radiohead, Pam Anderson, Michael Jackson and More

Posted 2/27/08 6:50 pm EST by in For The Record


In addition to their appearance at this year’s Coachella Festival on April 25, the Verve will also be playing two other U.S. dates – one in Sin City, and the other in the Big Apple. The band plays Las Vegas’ Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms on April 26, and New York’s WaMu Theater at MSG on April 28 and April 29.

Faith No More’s Mike Patton has teamed up with Dan the Automator to form a new project called Crudo. While little is known about the band or its sound, Crudo will be making their live debut during the Sasquatch! Music Festival in Seattle in late May.

After the jump, more news on Radiohead, All Points West, Rocket From the Crypt, Kittie and Michael Jackson. For serious.

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