News Roundup: 7/24/08
July 24th, 2008 | 6:14 pm est |
50 Cent is suing Taco Bell over a “guerrilla advertising campaign” that implied the rapper endorsed the fast-food chain. [Idolator.com]
A plan to tax music lovers for downloading music is being discussed in the U.K. [Independent.co.uk]
The tracklisting to Metallica’s Death Magnetic has been revealed. [Billboard.com]
Playing to a crowd that included Jason Schwartzman, Anna Waronker and Mandy Moore, Randy Newman debuted songs from his upcoming album Harps and Angels at L.A.’s Largo on Wednesday night. [RollingStone.com]
Liz Phair is extending her Exile in Guyville tour to include dates in Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. [Pitchforkmedia.com]
“Journey to the East,” an animated short produced by Gorillaz’ Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, has debuted. The sequence will introduce BBC Sport’s coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Bejing. [BBC.co.uk]
Check out a sneak peek of Daft Punk’s Electroma video here. [Spinner.com]
Gaahl, the vocalist for Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth, is developing a line of women’s fashion with modeling agent Dan DeVero. Named Wynjo (which means roughly “the pursuit of happiness” in ancient Norse), the line will debut in 2009. [Blabbermouth.net]






“A plan to tax music lovers for downloading music is being discussed in the U.K. [Independent.co.uk]”
I agree that the music industry lost a lot of money with the internet file sharing software since 1998.
A little tax could be the solution without close file sharing because is a great instrument to find any song very fastly.