Update: It was a fake!
Earlier tonight, we posted about what appeared to be a clip of CNN airing Berkeley rapper Lil B's "Wonton Soup" over a regular news segment of a 103-year-old female driver.
Turns out the clip wasn't real -- it appears to have been a marketing stunt.
The actual CNN clip (from 2010) is here, sans "Wonton Soup" -- although CNN's Kyra Phillips did apologize for the song played during the segment.
Of the 365 days in a year, maybe post-punks Explosions in the Sky shouldn't have picked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to play a concert.
Why? This marquee, spotted in Boise, Idaho, advertises said concert. The words "SEPT 11" next to "EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY" caught the attention of NBC New York, which noted (helpfully!) that the show has "the unfortunate timing of taking place on the 10th anniversary of the terror attacks that killed more than 2,700 people at the World Trade Center."
We're not really sure what's going on here, but something stinks.
Former Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi reportedly told the British Birmingham Mail that the original Black Sabbath lineup would be back for the first time since 1979 with a new album next year.
''It's all been very hush-hush," Iommi supposedly said. "Ozzy's been the worst at trying to hold it back. He's doing a lot of TV and he's being asked stuff about a reunion and he's going, 'Well, I never say never.'"
Big news, yes?
Well, maybe not.
List of things you don't want to say onstage: "Hello, New York!" when you're in Boston; "How about them Dodgers?" when you're in San Francisco; and "The tragedy is Norway was way less serious than the way fast food chains operate every day" when you're pretty much anywhere.
Alas, Morrissey seems to have forgotten the most important item on this list.
Before playing "Meat Is Murder" at a show in Warsaw on Sunday, he said, "We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 dead, though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Shit every day," according to the U.K.'s Mirror.
As if his foot weren't far enough down his throat and out his ass already, he released a comment today through fan site True-to-You.net:
Of all the ways to promote beer, a song called "Too Drunk to Fuck" seems like a pretty dumb way to do it.
Earlier this month, complaints forced Heineken to drop a beer ad on Spotify that featured a lounge-ish cover of the Dead Kennedys' classic punk song by Nouvelle Vague, the U.K. Guardian reported. Now, the Dead Kennedys themselves are venting their (sometimes intimidating) anger at Heineken for using the cover for promotional purposes.
Things not to do before your gig: cut off your fingers, get lost backstage, get arrested.
The list is short, but Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd allegedly forgot to follow the rules before his band was scheduled to open for Soundgarden last night in Massachusetts. The 30-year-old rock star apparently has a soft spot for Oxycontin -- so much of one that he allegedly held up a Walgreens on his way to the show to get a fix.
SF Weekly's own Exhibitionist uncovered a "Secret Admirer" mix CD (double disc!) found in the used bin of a Valencia Street bookstore, complete with a (possibly unopened) note giving track-by-track commentary, and saddest of all, a date of creation: May 2011.
Highlights include:
The whole thing is painstakingly documented at the Exhibitionist.
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In this weeks issue of SF Weekly, we ran a story about music festivals in Northern California, but unfortunately, there was (hopefully no more than) one glaring omission: the second annual Huichica Music Festival, which takes place on Saturday, June 4th at Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma.
