Bono and the Edge have found their lead for the Spider-Man musical, Run-DMC are teaming up with a Hollywood producer for a possible Broadway run, Regina Spektor is writing songs for a Sleeping Beauty adaptation, and now Green Day’s Berkeley-based...
The Simpsons may have landed a Coldplay guest spot for their forthcoming 20th anniversary episode, but Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad! is going a much more indie route for their next musician cameo show. In upcoming episode “My Morning...
Remember that minor blogospheric meltdown when it was revealed that MGMT were to appear on Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3? Yeah… what a summer. Well, as we all know by now, the MGMT bros were left off Hova’s final tracklist (I figured they were bumped off by...
Graphic novel and music lovers rejoice, for Alan Moore and Gorillaz are planning some very nifty projects for your consumption. Moore's new bi-monthly magazine, Dodgem Logic (out just this month), will feature contributions by Gorillaz in the third...
The Carter, a documentary about Lil Wayne, which reportedly reveals the rapper’s dire addiction to cough syrup, was originally touted by film industry sources for a possible wide theater release. The film, however, hit a bumpy road after its...
"Why prowl around and make a spectacle of yourself when you can lay in wait under some darkened bridge and swill whiskey like a troll full of hate until your victim appears?" That's the Dead Weather's Alison Mosshart in this cinematic spoken word...
Nick Cave and director John Hillcoat are developing quite the symbiotic relationship: Cave wrote the script for (and scored) Hillcoat’s The Proposition (one of our favorite movies here at 24b) and scored Hillcoat’s upcoming The Road. Now the pair...
As previously reported, NIN’s Trent Reznor, Rage’s Tom Morello, R.E.M., Pearl Jam, the Roots, Rise Against, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne, and other famous musicians have joined the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo and released a string of...
While the Pixies were onstage in LA last night, they dropped a little surprise for Twitter and Facebook followers that were likely wishing they were at the show (via SUE):“FREE Doolittle Live EP!” the Twitter announcement reads. “Four tracks taken...
The Internal Revenue Service has thwarted Echo & the Bunnymen's invasion of the United States before they even ventured beyond the West Coast. Despite having played two successful shows, including performances of Ocean Rain in its entirety in Los...
Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but with new albums on the way from Arcade Fire (likely), LCD Soundsystem (def.), Spoon (yup), Leonard Cohen (?), and M.I.A. next year, it’s shaping up to be an epic ‘10. The anticipation for M.I.A.’s upcoming third LP...
Now that the New Moon soundtrack has been leaked, officially released, and reviewed, hype has already begun for Eclipse, the next film in the Twilight saga. No talk of the soundtrack yet, thank god, but the musical world will likely take notice of a...
Bloc Party drummer Matt Tong pretty much called it earlier this summer when he said that the band members “definitely need to have a break and gain a bit of perspective on life outside of the band.” Not only that, but Tong seemed to have a hunch...
There was something about the trailer to Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of a musical adaptation of a Fellini film, Nine, that just didn’t sit right with me. I mean, the cast includes the actors behind two of the best performances of 1997 (Daniel...
In a previous report on Ray LaMontagne’s split from longtime collaborator/producer Ethan Johns for his next LP, I neglected to point out that Johns did a rare run of solo performances this fall in the UK as one of Ray’s opening acts (the other was...
In case you haven’t heard, David Byrne takes his blogging very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that past entries to his official journal have taken on Czech Republic steel foundry/coal mine complexes, “The Kindle Experience,” and Bono. But in his...
Radiohead and MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) have won their 16th award for their “All I Need” video, which depicts, as Thom Yorke said last year, “two parallel stories running, one of a little boy in the West and one of a little boy in...
Aside from her duet with Ryan Adams on Jacksonville City Nights, “Dear John,” I can’t say I’ve listened to much Norah Jones over the years. Now that Marc Ribot, my favorite living guitarist, Joey Waronker, of Thom Yorke’s still nameless supergroup,...
Ready for another unusual surprise from Jack White and company? Third Man Records have announced the upcoming 7-inch vinyl release of "A Glorious Dawn," an Auto-Tuned remix of Carl Sagan's dialogue from his "Cosmos" television series; the remix,...
David Lynch Foundation Television, aka DFL.TV, followed Billy Corgan around recently and have posted a great HD video (via Flavorwire), which includes footage from the recording studio, the audition of 19-year-old Smashing Pumpkins drummer Mike...
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