The Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch told Entertainment Weekly last week that he was finally recovering from cancer after undergoing surgery for a salivary gland tumor last year. He said,
I feel better. It was touch and go there for a while, but I am finally getting my energy back.
He and his band mates Adam Horovitz and Mike D are now deciding whether or not to release their new album this year. According to him, the status of the album will depend on his health in the coming months.
Madonna’s mini boyfriend (who friends say plays pre-recorded CDs and pretends to DJ at his gigs), has just landed himself a record deal with Warner Brothers.
His first single called “We Came From Light” will drop in May, and the full album will be out by the summer.
In other Jesus Luz music news, the fake DJ was recently forced to stop his show in Brazil after someone in the audience threw a drink in his face. Jesus reportedly ran off into a corner and broke down in tears.
John Mayer put his douchebag self aside to bring an 11-year-old kid named Austin on stage to play Belief with him at his show in Philly the other day.
Austin was plucked out of the crowd after he showed up with with a sign that read “Can I please play Belief with you?”
His mom later wrote a letter to John’s management team, saying,
John made an 11-year-old’s dream come true. John gave him the guitar after the show and we needed security to get out of the stadium.
Everyone wanted a picture with him. If you get a chance watch some of the videos on You Tube, it is touching. As John said, ‘The kid pulled through.’ I just wanted to thank JM for pulling through for Austin.
Because Kirsten Dunst has nothing better to do with her time these days, director McG and artist Takashi Murakami were able to convince her to don some weird outfits and dance around like an idiot for their artsy music video.
This piece was apparently first screened last year at some art show in London.
Note that the beginning shows a second or two of anime boobs, so it’s possibly NSFW.
Frances Bean Cobain is set to appear on the debut album for Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer and Seattle punk musician Jason Webley’s new band, Evelyn Evelyn.
Like many of Amanda Palmer’s previous ideas, this project is a little off the rocker. The band is supposedly made up of a pair of conjoined twins who were raised in the circus after their mother died during childbirth. Apparently the twins began their music career when Amanda and Jason discovered them on Myspace.
Frances will sing on a power ballad appropriately titled “My Space”, alongside My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, Andrew WK, and Weird Al Yankovic.
The album drops on March 30, and will be accompanied by a graphic novel.
Bruce Springsteen has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the owners of a New York bar for hiring a band to play some of his songs without his permission.
According to the suit, Connolly’s Pub & Restaurant charged customers a fee to watch the band perform three of his songs during a concert over the summer. He claimed that they did not however, pay a licensing fee to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), as required by the law.
No word yet on how much Bruce is suing them for.
Update: Bruce has just removed his name from ASCAP’s suit, and released a statement through his publicists, saying,
ASCAP was solely responsible for naming Bruce Springsteen as a plaintiff in the lawsuit. Bruce Springsteen had no knowledge of this lawsuit, was not asked if he would participate as a named plaintiff and would not have agreed to do so if he had been asked.
Upon learning of this lawsuit… Bruce Springsteen’s representatives demanded the immediate removal of his name from the lawsuit.
MTV has just released this sneak peek video of the new “We Are The World” recording which was made earlier this week to benefit the crisis in Haiti.
Celine Dion, Lionel Richie, Usher, Justin Bieber, Pink, Lil Wayne, and The Jonas Brothers, and many others came together to make the emotional recording.
Steven Tyler, fresh out of rehab, popped up at a Home Depot in Rancho Mirage, CA on Saturday, and reportedly began singing Dude Looks Like a Lady and I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing to confused shoppers over the sound system.
He later came out and signed autographs for fans. This incident comes just days after Steven showed up at a random bar in Palm Desert, CA to sing in a karaoke contest.
According to sources at Nielsen Soundscan, 658 people accidentally downloaded Heidi Montag’s new album, Superficial on it’s first week of release.
Heidi had previously claimed that she had dropped almost $2 million of her own money into the making of the album, and that her recent plastic surgery procedures were done to help build her image as a pop star.
Jessica Simpson and her new boyfriend, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan are reportedly working on some music together - this according to Jessica’s personal Twitter account.
In case you missed it, here’s the Michael Jackson/Lenny Kravitz single that was leaked online over the weekend.
Lenny first mentioned the single in a letter published in Spinner right after Michael’s death back June, saying that he and Michael had an “amazing experience” working on a track together in the studio.
A few days ago, we mentioned that Spencer Pratt had registered his own music company, King Spencer Music last month. Well, now we have the first monstrosity to be born from that new venture.
Behold: the new album cover of Spencer’s new single for his ear-crushing single, I’m a Celebrity. It’ll be available for purchase on iTunes on 12/22.
On November 19, 2009, Spencer Pratt filed papers to register King Spencer Music as his new business.
The filing cost him $23. No word yet on what he plans to do next with it, but hopefully it doesn’t involve his wife.
Here’s the awesome Taylor Swift imitating a barbie doll in the new issue of T Magazine.
Accompanying interview here.
Good morning. In case you haven’t already seen it, here’s Rihanna, topless for the album cover of her new single, Wait Your Turn. Enjoy.
