Are Lollapalooza Line Up Hints Popping Up Around Chicago?
Some of us like playing detective, trying to sift through hints and clues on the Internet, and then spread these rumours in a game of broken telephone, so that the end product is nothing like the fact. Guessing festival line ups is often a popular game, with people photoshopping fake posters and rumours of line ups, trying to convince people they have a scoop, or just being mean little trolls. As Pitchfork, via Wine & Pop, points out, there have been ads popping up at Chicago train stations, with lyrics from bands that might feature at Lollapalooza. The lyrics are also accompanied by the hashtag #Lolla. The hints point to Jack White, Justice, The Weeknd, and Die Antwoord, which would make for an interesting set of headliners – but they can’t be the headliners, can they? The official line up is announced on April 11 (despite the fact that tickets went on sale, with NO knowledge of the potentially shitty line up), so keep looking for those rumours/rumors.
Listen! The Flaming Lips / Bon Iver – Ashes in the Air. Plus Get the Blood of Flaming Lips Collaborators?!
You’ve gotta hand it to the Flaming Lips – they certainly like doing abnormal things. From gummi bear skulls and USB stick music releases, to rowdy concerts and the Zaireeka album (where you play 4 individual CDs in 4 stereos at the same time for ‘full effect’), the band are always pushing boundaries. The Wayne Coyne-led band are putting out a special record store release, and it will feature the blood of people like Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Bon Iver, Neon Indian, Nick Cave, and Erykah Badu (via Hollywood Reporter). Yup, sounds about par for the course.
The special release will be out on April 21, and is called The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. In an interview with MTV Hive, Wayne Coyne said “I don’t have everybody’s blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it’s actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak.” I guess collaborations are giving more than they bargained for when they agreed to help out the Lips. Check out the track listing of the Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends below, and also listen to Ashes in the Air, featuring Bon Iver.
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Morning Music Notes – In the Year 3000
The headline refers to a description of where Kanye West’s music apparently sounds like it’s from, not the year it is expected that the Toronto Maple Leafs will finally win the Stanley Cup. Although after last night’s horrific collapse, I’m not sure which one is the more accurate Year 3000 description.
Travi$ Scott Says New Kanye West Album is ‘Already in the Year 3000′
G.O.O.D. Music’s Travi$ “the $ is actually part of my name” Scott has heard the new Kanye West album. Apparently it’s recorded on some kind of micro chip that gets inserted into your brain. If not, then maybe it just sounds futuristic, as Scott has said “We’re already in the year 3000 fucking with that shit and that’s why I love hanging out with those guys over there. You get caught on to that new shit extra fast” (via MTV). Translation: It sounds fresh.
West tweeted June 18, which is likely when they mysterious new album will drop. Hudson Mohawke played a couple new tracks during a DJ set, so you’ll have to deal with those poor audio clips until we know more.
Justin Bieber’s Tour Hit By Gang of Thieves
Could the life, and specifically this tour, get any weirder for Canadian pop star Justin Bieber? I only blog about Biebs when something bad happens, and he’s been having a lot of bad things go his way. The latest mishap – while playing in South Africa, a gang targeted Bieber’s concert in Johannesburg and made off with about $100,000 from the FNB Stadium (via Billboard).
It is believed that thieves might have chiselled through a thick wall at the venue and then used a rope to lower themselves into the room used to store cash. Are you sure someone didn’t just leave the back door unlocked? Stadium officials didn’t realize the money was missing until the day after the concert.
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Friday Afternoon Funnies: Oliver Wilde Reads Justin Bieber Fan Tweets
I never thought that Jay Leno would feature in Friday Afternoon Funnies, but rest assured when I note that he is merely the conduit for Oliver Wilde’s humour on this segment. In case you didn’t hear, Twitter and those stupidly named Beliebers were all up in arms because Olivia Wilde called Justin Bieber out for walking around frigid London, England like it was sunny Barbados. She tweeted “put your fucking shirt on” and the world went ape shit. Why do fans care if someone gives him clothing advice? Why did they get soooo mad? Makes zero sense, but then again, I’m not a 16 year old girl (at least not mentally).
Anyway, Olivia Wilde went on Jay Leno to talk about the situation, and read some of the hate tweets (or advice tweets as she calls them). We get gems like “Are you a lesbian or are you too old?” which makes zero sense, as well as a generally entertaining two minutes of discussion. Check it out below, and be careful if you tell Justin Bieber anything.
Morning Music Notes – Beyonce to Sing!
How to destroy angels_ Gives Some More Album Details, Plus a Creepy New Video
Trent Reznor’s post-Nine Inch Nails band, How to destroy angels_, are dropping their new album Welcome oblivion on March 5. This much we already knew, when we saw the video for The Loop Closes. Now we have artwork and tracklisting. Just give us the whole damn thing already!
Those of you who are vinyl lovers will get 2 extra tracks – Unintended consequences and The province of fear, as well as a slightly different order of the tracks. Plus vinyl lovers will have to stop what they are doing and flip over the record, making millions wonder “Why bother?” Check out the tracklisting for both mediums below. But before that, we have the depressing, apocalyptic-like new video for the track How long?
How to destroy angels_ – How long?
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2 Men Arrested in Bizarre Justin Bieber Murder and Castration Plot
The only times I seem to blog about Justin Bieber is when he’s getting made fun of, or there’s some ridiculous lawsuit that is comical. I didn’t think I’d be blogging about Justin Bieber because of a planned murder attempt and castration plot. Yup, you read that correctly.
Two men have been arrested after getting hired to murder and castrate one Justin Bieber (via National Post). The men accused are 41 year old Mark Staake and his 21 year old nephew Tanner Ruane. How did they get caught? Bieber’s bodyguards? Suspicious hotel staff? Nope – the guy who hired them ratted them out. Did I mention the guy who hired them, Dana Martin, is serving two life sentences for raping and murdering a 15 year old girl? Did I also mention this guy HAS A JUSTIN BIEBER TATTOO ON HIS LEG?!
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Zack Morris and Justin Bieber: More Alike Than You Think
Yes, this is over a week old. Yes, that thereby renders this post in the snobby, speedy social media world we like in useless. But I don’t play by the rules (said in tough guy voice that I don’t have).
The American Music Awards were last Sunday. Justin Bieber (somehow) won an award. He was sporting a hip and stylish new look. But perhaps the look isn’t as new and hip as everyone might think. Actually, it bares a great resemble to one hero of mine, Mr. Zack Morris from Saved By the Bell. He might be from the 80s, but he was either ahead of his time or Bieber just recently watched the DVD boxset. Either way, this is why the Internet is awesome.
Morning Music Notes – Re-Enter the Wu-Tang
New Wu-Tang Album Coming Soon – Don’t Lie to Me, Internet!
Last month, we reported that RZA was keen on doing a new Wu-Tang Clan album as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations. It appears that it might’ve been smoke and mirrors for a recording process that was already happening. The band posted on their Facebook page, “New WU TANG CLAN Album coming soon.”
No details were released along with the short Facebook post. Instead, hundreds of fans battled to see who could write “First!” in the comments section.
Unofficial Justin Bieber Sex Doll Being Made
Pipedream Products have make an unofficial Justin Bieber blow-up sex doll which will
fulfill my fantastiesno doubt bring some kind of lawsuit. At least the sex doll and Bieber have similar personalities. For $26, you could owe the Just-in Beaver sex doll, which gets no points for original puns.And since you wanted to know, the company’s product blurb notes that “Beaver” is a “barely legal boy-toy who’s waited 18 long years to stick his lil’ dicky in something sticky! When he’s not busy beating up paparazzi or beating off, he’s up to his high-tops in hot Hollywood tail!” (via NME)
Sold! To you, not me.
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Friday Afternoon Funnies: If I Was Your Droidfriend
Fact: I didn’t knowingly hear a Justin Bieber song for well over a year after he made it big a few years ago. I rarely listen to the radio, and certainly not any stations that would play Justin Bieber. Someone started singing a Bieber song to me, and thought I was joking that I hadn’t heard it and couldn’t sing along.
I read that Justin Bieber’s latest album displays a musical jump akin to what Justin Timberlake did post-N Sync (from shit boy band to talented artist). So any good music blogger would check out such a song, would they not? This is my roundabout way of saying that I’ve heard the new Justin Bieber song, Boyfriend. It’s okay – that’s all I’m giving you.
Being the mega-popular Bieber, he’s ripe for the picking for parodies, and his latest song doesn’t escape unscathed. The spoof is of Boyfriend, and the end result is Droidfriend – a story of
C3POC3-Bieb-O (MAN, that’s terrible) and Star Wars. The song includes lines such as “I’m the droid you’re looking for, Ben Kenobi knows; I’ll protect you even better than a TaunTaun in the snow.” And I thought they smelled bad on the outside. Check out this week’s Friday Afternoon Funnies.(via Gizmodo)
Friday Afternoon Funnies – Celebrities Read Your Mean Tweets (Again)
Back in March, we showed you an awesome segment that Jimmy Kimmel did, where celebrities would read some of the mean tweets that people on
the TwitterverseTwitter have sent to them. There are a lot of haters in the world – one love, people! The segment proved so popular that Jimmy Kimmel did it again, allowing me to showcase it on our Friday Afternoon Funnies yet again. Thanks Jimmy! This goes to show you that when you make millions of dollars, your feelings don’t matter, as long as you have a sense of humour. Actually, I feel sorry for Katy Perry – that was one fuckin’ mean tweet. And yes, I tweeted that.Morning Music Notes – The Neverending Jubilee
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert Tonight
Queen Elizabeth II just celebrated 60 years of being the Queen with a massive 1000 boat flotilla, the biggest event on the Thames in 350 years, the last being her birthday parade 350 years ago. Yes, she is a robot. Tonight, there will be a massive concert outside of Buckingham Palace featuring performances by Paul McCartney, Elton John, Tom Jones, Kylie Minogue, Annie Lennox, Cliff Richard, and other artists that you likely don’t care about. Everything kicks off around 7:30pm local time, so brush up on your time zone knowledge to figure out when it starts in your area.
Gary Barlow’s Diamond Jubilee Song Hits Number One
Did anyone hear that terrible Diamond Jubilee song, Sing, that Take That singer/dancer Gary Barlow put together? I do feel a bit bad after watching a television special on the making of the song last night, showing Gary travelling the world to villages and meeting some of the musicians in less fortunate circumstances than us who are reading and writing this on computers/phones. That being said, you can’t let your emotions take over your brain, and an average song is just that. Well, monarchy and Take That lovers helped propel the single to number 1 on the UK charts (via NME), continuing to prove that you don’t need talent to be rich and famous.
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Morning Music Notes – Putting Sweat and Especially Blood into Your Music
Are Lollapalooza Line Up Hints Popping Up Around Chicago?
Some of us like playing detective, trying to sift through hints and clues on the Internet, and then spread these rumours in a game of broken telephone, so that the end product is nothing like the fact. Guessing festival line ups is often a popular game, with people photoshopping fake posters and rumours of line ups, trying to convince people they have a scoop, or just being mean little trolls. As Pitchfork, via Wine & Pop, points out, there have been ads popping up at Chicago train stations, with lyrics from bands that might feature at Lollapalooza. The lyrics are also accompanied by the hashtag #Lolla. The hints point to Jack White, Justice, The Weeknd, and Die Antwoord, which would make for an interesting set of headliners – but they can’t be the headliners, can they? The official line up is announced on April 11 (despite the fact that tickets went on sale, with NO knowledge of the potentially shitty line up), so keep looking for those rumours/rumors.
Listen! The Flaming Lips / Bon Iver – Ashes in the Air. Plus Get the Blood of Flaming Lips Collaborators?!
You’ve gotta hand it to the Flaming Lips – they certainly like doing abnormal things. From gummi bear skulls and USB stick music releases, to rowdy concerts and the Zaireeka album (where you play 4 individual CDs in 4 stereos at the same time for ‘full effect’), the band are always pushing boundaries. The Wayne Coyne-led band are putting out a special record store release, and it will feature the blood of people like Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Bon Iver, Neon Indian, Nick Cave, and Erykah Badu (via Hollywood Reporter). Yup, sounds about par for the course.
The special release will be out on April 21, and is called The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. In an interview with MTV Hive, Wayne Coyne said “I don’t have everybody’s blood just yet, but I collected quite a few vials of blood and it’s actually sitting in my refrigerator as we speak.” I guess collaborations are giving more than they bargained for when they agreed to help out the Lips. Check out the track listing of the Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends below, and also listen to Ashes in the Air, featuring Bon Iver.
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