News Roundup: 7/10/2008
July 10th, 2008 | 12:50 pm est |
The Smashing Pumpkins will begin their string of 20th anniversary shows at Hammond, Indiana’s Horseshoe Casino on August 9. [NME.com]
Lil Wayne continues to dominate: Not only is Tha Carter III back at the top of the charts, a Time Magazine essay compared him to Bob Dylan and his own champagne brand is in the works. [AOL.com, HipHop.DX.com, Vibe.com]
Spike Lee plans to film the Tony Award-winning Broadway rock musical Passing Strange. [VH1.com]
Jazz bassist Charlie Haden is going country on his upcoming album Ocean of Diamonds, which will feature Ricky Skaggs, Vince Gill, Dan Tyminski and Elvis Costello, as well as his daughters Petra, Tanya and Rachel. [CountryStandardTime.com]
Stephen Stills has discovered an album he recorded with Jimi Hendrix. [XFM.co.uk]
A list of what could be the songs featured on Rock Band 2 has leaked. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Gold Lion” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” just might be on the setlist. [Idolator.com]
Shootin’ at the walls of heartache, bang bang: Patty Smyth and Scandal have reunited and are working on their first new material together since 1984’s self-titled album. [Billboard.com]
Pop divas helping each other out: Britney Spears is filming a performance that will be shown during Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet tour. [Guardian.co.uk]
Lil Wayne is to Bob Dylan what Hitler is to Peanut Butter. There’s no relationship, and more and more often it’s apparent Rolling Stone’s “critics” are on some serious drugs. Or they just suck.
Patty Smythe and Scandal are back together? YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
hey CC, the piece is attributed to Time Magazine, not Rolling Stone. Dylan has said that the next version of him would be in the form of a rapper. this was around the time of Eminem being compared to Bob.
That’s funny, Seymour Stein compared Ice T to Bob Dylan when he first signed the gangsta rap pioneer back in the mid 80s.
how do you forget you recorded an album with jimi hendrix? i want to know what you take to make something like that just disappear.
and you know, it’s possible everyone was so high it all sucks. i’m not sure that matters to some people.
Oops. Okay, so Time’s music writers are nuts. Maybe I’m sick of Lil Wayne. Still seems silly to me that yet another guy that raps about being a badass, having lots of money and women and getting f%^&ed up, no matter how “creative” his flow, gets compared to Dylan. And Lil Wayne cannot play the guitar, despite what’s been reported lately. Check out the youtube footage- he can’t even find the volume knob. Oh well…