Music Blog Today
Music News and Commentary.
September 04, 2010
Grab Our Feed
Grab Our Feed
Music News and Commentary.
September 04, 2010
Crazy Heart is one of the best movies this year, and was certainly deserving of all its Oscar nominations. Jeff Bridges carried the day by actually doing his own singing, which helped garner the Best Original Song Oscar.
”The Weary Kind”, which was a shoe-in for the Best Original Song Oscar, was written by Ryan Bingham, a rising country music star, and T Bone Burnett, who has prior connections with Jeff Bridges on the film The Big Lebowski.
Bridges, who has always been musically inclined, performed the Oscar-winning song with the help of voice coach Roger Love. Collin Farrell also did his own singing in Crazy Heart. Having non-musical actors actually doing their own musical performances has always been a big plus for Oscar-worthy films.
Congrats to Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett for winning a well-deserved Oscar!
Want me to review some music or write something specific? Hit me up on Facebook!
It doesn’t matter how popular you are. If you get busted on criminal weapons charges you’re going to jail, even if it’s later rather than sooner. I caught the news last night about the latest delay in the Lil' Wayne sentencing while watching some celebrity news on satellite TV.
A fire at the courthouse in Manhattan caused yet another delay in wrapping up the criminal weapons possession charges against Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., a.k.a. Lil Wayne. The self-proclaimed “gangsta” rapper is expecting to spend the next 12 months behind bars, and will eventually get there.
In the meantime, he decided to show up at Jay-Z’s NYC Music show at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night and kicked it with fellow rapper Jeezy. After the set Lil Wayne told Jeezy he was a real gangsta. Jeezy was only too happy to repay the compliment and told Wayne he was with him 100%. The crowd erupted, knowing the dude is no doubt going to jail in the morning.
Want me to review some music or write something specific? Hit me up on Facebook!
So, the big question is, did Billy Joel pull the plug on a summer tour with Elton John because of bad blood between the two? To hear about it on TV, or read about it in the tabloids, you’d think that’s exactly what happened. However, here’s the real story, and sadly, it’s a lot less juicier.
Elton John made the comment that he had been looking forward to some concerts this summer with Billy Joel, and was disappointed that Joel had decided to take a year off from touring and traveling. That made it into the tabloids as something far more insidious than it really is, or ever was.
Joel says there was never a tour planned for the summer, and that through some miscommunication, and perhaps some made-up hype from overzealous concert promoters, turned all of this into something it never was. Joel says he’d love to tour again with John, but it won’t be in 2010.
So, there ya have it. Like much of life, not what it first seemed. Maybe I can find some real dirt for Wednesday’s column!
Take it from a guy who likes all sorts of pickles, I’m not the least surprised the Canadian rock band Nickelback fared so poorly in a recent Facebook contest. Seriously, walk into any music store and you’ll find a handful of Nickelback CDs, but walk into a grocery store and there’s literally shelf after shelf of pickles. Sweet, dill, bread and butter, gerkin, Polish, spicy, whole, sliced, chunked, slicers. I could go on and on, but I won’t.
Here’s how it all unfolded. A Facebook user, Coral Anne, ran a contest called, “Can This Pickle Get More Fans Than Nickelback?”, and today we found out the answer. Yes, yes this pickle can. But it’s not all bad news for Nickelback as they did very well in the contest, garnering 1.38 million votes. That’s not too shabby at all. However, the pickle grabbed 1.4 million, winning by a margin thinner than a sandwich stacker.
The guys in Nickelback shouldn’t feel too bad. Pickles have been around for a long time and their appeal is like that of country music. Its appeal cuts across all demographics!
Want me to review an album or cover a band? Drop me a line on Facebook!
Heavier Than Heaven, the book of Kurt Cobain’s life by music journalist Charlie R. Cross, is about to become the long-await biopic courtesy of Universal Studios.
Universal Studios has tapped Oren Moverman, the Oscar-nominated director of The Messenger, to direct and work on the screenplay. Cross is attached to the project as a “factual consultant, is excited about the project because Universal has secured all the necessary rights to Nirvana’s material for the movie. This means whoever plays Cobain will actually get to sing these songs in the movie.
No timeline has been given for the project, but Universal signaling this much interest in the project is definitely the most activity this long-overdue project has seen in quite some time. News of the project came just days before what would have been Cobain’s 43rd birthday.
Cobain, who supposedly took his own life on April 8, 1994 (many still suspect he was actually murdered), is regarded by journalists, musicians, and fans alike as one of the greatest and most influential musicians of his generation.
Want me to review an album or cover a band? Drop me a line on Facebook!