So Canada’s goofiest and best-prepared music interviewer Nardwuar the Human Serviette convinced his buddy Drake to hook up an exclusive video interview with Lil Wayne during the I Am Still Music tour stop in Vancouver this week (the Young Money bus rolls to Calgary tonight), and the results are predictably entertaining.
The latest swag-tastic, low-budget video from rap cult-hero Lil B named after a white pop-culture hero is “Justin Bieber,” the first Canadian celebrity to get the Based God’s blunted blessing.
The Rolling Stones have done it, and the Police, Bruce Springsteen, A Tribe Called Quest, Bob Dylan, Metallica, even the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Now Seattle sons Pearl Jam are getting the documentary film treatment.
Rock fans gearing up for the summer concert season and hoping to stay cool - but look hip - as they hoist their three-finger devil salutes should proceed directly to guitar god Edward Van Halen’s online merchandise shop.
There, in addition to EVH-approved high tops and headgear, geeks and freaks can also find official Van Halen-issued flip-flops in three fetching colour combos (red and black, white and black and yellow and black) for $30 a pop. And no, we’re not making this up.
In (perhaps) more relevant news, Van Halen are working on a new album with producer John Shanks (Westlife, Miley Cyrus), their first full-length LP since 1998's Van Halen III. The disc will feature Eddie’s kid Wolfgang Van Halen on bass and the return of vocalist David Lee Roth.
"Dwayne Johnson is turning to country music," says film industry trade magazine Variety.
The former wrestler known as The Rock will be starring as country star Charley Pride in a biopic.
Variety says, "Country Music Hall of Famer Pride, one of 11 children born to Mississippi sharecroppers, has charted more than three dozen No. 1 singles and has sold more than 70 million records."
Apparently the role was supposed to go to Terrence Howard but Pride explained to the Telegraph Journal that "the ball got fumbled." Pride sounds like he wasn't so sold on The Rock at first: "Terrence is no doubt a more in-depth actor academically, but Dwayne is such a force on screen. It startled me a little at first, but he flew down to Dallas and spent a day with me just sitting, talking recently. And when he left it was like parting with an old friend. We had such similar views on so many things."
Philly MC Chidera "Chiddy" Anamege of Chiddy Bang has broken the Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle Rap.
When I first read this headline on Idolator, I don't know exactly what I thought, but I know I didn't think the longest rap would be over NINE hours long. NINE hours! That's nuts. I don't think I've ever done anything for nine hours except sleep, sit, watch TV or drink. I'm impressed. That's amazing dedication.
Chiddy Bang had to rap longer than the previous record of 9 hours, 16 minutes. He went for 9 hours, 18 minutes, and 22 seconds. And he doesn't even seem that tired. See the entire nine hours below. Kidding. It's the last three minutes. And it's not very good video. Sorry. It's the best I could find.
With “Hope & Ruin,” the effervescent title track of their fourth studio album securely nestled at #5 on rock radio in Canada this week, grain-fed pop-rock dandies The Trews are well situated to hit the road this summer, spreading the gospel from coast to coast and selling a few T-shirts along the way.
Just in time for their hotly anticipated North American summer tour alongside rockers Heart, Brit pop-metal kings Def Leppard are set to release their first-ever live album, Mirrorball, along with a tantalizing DVD containing rare onstage and backstage footage.
The catch: it will be exclusively available at Walmart and Sam’s Club in North America starting June 7. Oh yes, and for the kiddies, Mirrorball will also be available online, marking the first time the band's music will officially be made available for digital purchase.
Kid Rock, Sir Paul McCartney, Gnarls Barkley/The Voice star Cee Lo Green, Lou Reed, the Black Keys - although notably not Weezer - have been tapped for a forthcoming tribute album to pioneering 50s-era rocker Buddy Holly, who would have turned 75 this year.
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March 2011
