News Roundup: 11/12/2009

Taylor SwiftRecent Saturday Night Live host Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music Awards, becoming the youngest artist ever to win the Entertainer of the Year award, beating three-time winner Kenny Chesney. Swift also snagged the awards for Female Vocalist of the Year, Music Video of the Year for her clip for “Love Story” and Album of the Year for Fearless. Quipped Swift, “I want to thank every single person here tonight for not running up on stage during this speech.” [Billboard.com]

The Aerosmith drama isn’t over yet: Despite the group’s Tuesday night reunion, guitarist Joe Perry says the band is still considering working with a new lead singer. “He wants to take two years off from the band … The rest of the band wants to keep on working,” Perry said. [RollingStone.com]

Wayne Coyne wears his birthday suit in the Flaming Lips’ new video for “Watching the Planets,” which features the singer being stripped down by a gang of nude people in a forest. [NME.com]

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ music for The Road, which Cave describes as “a light, haunting, simple score with a sense of absence and loss at its heart,” will be released on its own on January 4 of next year. [Prefixmag.com]

Called “the Dig! of the black metal scene,” the black metal documentary Until the Light Takes Us features interviews with Varg Vikernes, Darkthrone’s Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell and director Harmony Korine, as well as music from Burzum, Gorogoth and Mayhem. The film opens in New York and Los Angeles in December. [TwentyFourBit.com]

Check out Solange Knowles’ cover of the Dirty Projectors’ “Stillness is the Move.” [Pitchfork.com]

In other cover news, Slash has re-recorded “Paradise City” with Fergie and Cypress Hill for a Japan-only single. NY Mag’s blog The Vulture has the scoop. [NYMag.com]

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