Music Shuffle: 8/8
News and notes from the week in music.
Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman Maynard James Keenan has recorded the vocals for the song "I Don't Have an Excuse, I Just Need a Little Help" from the new band Jubilee, featuring Aaron North from Nine Inch Nails and The Icarus Line and Michael Shuman of Queens of the Stone Age. "I Don't Have an Excuse" will be the B-side of the band's second single, "In With the Out Crowd". The band's first single was "Rebel Hiss". Keenan is also currently working on new material for his Puscifer project. Within the next two years we should see new material from both his other bands (Tool and APC) as well.
Jay-Z has confirmed rumors that he's well underway on his new album, The Blueprint 3. During Wednesday night's Kanye West concert at Madison Square Garden. West asked the audience if he could play a few beats that he recorded while in Hawaii recently, including a song tentatively called "Jockin' Jay-Z." As the track played, the Hova himself crossed the stage and began rapping, "That bloke from Oasis said I couldn't play guitar // somebody shoulda told him I'm a f*cking rock star / today is gonna be the day that I'm gonna throw it back to you."
The Police played their final show last night at New York's Madison Square Garden, bringing an end to a tour that ranks as the third highest-grossing of all time with $358,825,665 at the box office, according to Billboard Boxscore. Yup, all about the music, kids. Right?
Universal Music plans to re-release Guns N' Roses' classic debut album Appetite For Destruction on vinyl. Tuesday, September 9 is the date and the cover features the tasteful artwork by Robert Williams.
Kanye West took a moment out of his Glow in the Dark concert at NYC's Madison Square Garden this week to do his part rid the world of homophobia: "Open your fucking minds. Open your minds. Be accepting of different people and let people be who they are. You know how many people came to me calling me gay cause I wear my jeans the fresh way? Or because I said hey, dude, how you gonna say 'fag' right in front of a gay dude's face and act like that's ok. That shit is disrespectful. Coming from Chicago, where if you saw somebody that was gay you were supppoed to stay ten feet away. It should be time to break out of the intuitions that I was sayin', the steretypes, or the fear, the backlash that I would get if you don't believe in what I believe in, acceptin' people for who they are…they're very talented and if they do something special in the world and they're discriminated. I've flown across the world y'all, and I've come back here to tell you — open your minds and live a happier life…" No word yet on the date of the funeral for the word "faggot."
Sirius radio king Howard Stern is about to produce a remake of the 1979 movie Rock N Roll High School, it has been revealed.
Stern will work with producer Larry Levinson on the project, and Alex Winter (he was the blonde partner in idiocy to Keanu Reeves in the Bill & Ted movies) been commissioned to write the script.
Jay-Z was top dog in a parade of special guests last weekend during the Rock the Bells festival at Jones Beach on Long Island, N.Y., joining Nas for two songs during his set ("Black Republican" from 2006's "Hip-Hop Is Dead" and a portion of "Success" from Jay-Z's 2007 album American Gangster) Busta Rymes, EPMD, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch and Slick Rick also made appearances.
Following their near-riot-inducing performance at this weekend’s Lollapalooza, Rage Against the Machine have scheduled another concert they probably hope has similar results.Rage Against the Machine
announced that they’ll perform in Minneapolis’ Target Center on September 3rd, which happens to fall during the same week the Republican National Convention rolls into the same town: St. Paul. Tickets for the show go on sale Saturday.
