- The Beastie Boys are planning to take their instrumental new album The Mix-Up and vocalize it … without using their own voices. The trio has thus far recruited M.I.A., Lily Allen, and Pulps Jarvis Cocker (”a bunch of British people,” as MCA put it) to contribute vocal tracks to the remixed version of the June release. The Beasties will re-enter the studio to work on a new, new album after their current tour ends September 27th.
- Depending on where youre looking, the final tally of ballots entered for a chance to get Led Zeppelin tickets were somewhere between one million and 120 million. Ahmettribute.com, where the ballots were posted, reported that the Web site received a “thousand million” visits over the duration of the lottery process.
- Think Akon is excited about working with Michael Jackson? Asked about his recent studio session with the King of Pop, Akon said, “Hes incredible. Hes a genius.” Akon also made the god-like claim that MJ “thinks planets. Its on another level.”
- The Jams Paul Weller has come to the defense of Amy Winehouse, calling the beleaguered British diva “a great role model.” One assumes Weller is referring to her musical abilities, and not her drug- and husband-brawling problems.
- The first annual Lilith Fair-esque GirlFrenzy concert, scheduled for October 27th in California, has been postponed until sometime in 2008. Refunds for tickets already purchased for the fest, which was to feature Sheryl Crow, Avril Lavigne and Fiona Apple, are available at point of purchase.
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