- Whatever hope we may have once had for actresses-turned-rock-stars was dashed by seeing Minnie Driver and Julie Delpy perform during the same SXSW one year. This is why it’s with trepidation that we report Halle Berry is apparently going to release a record of her own, entitled Halle. (Vomit.) Halle: You are super-smart, gorgeous, date that hot model guy and have a freaking Oscar. Is this really necessary?
- Incredibly depressing reality: The officially-recognized oldest record store in the world — Spillers Records in Cardiff, Wales — which opened in 1894, is facing potential closure. No one should be surprised by this but it still feels … wrong.
- Want to breed your goths right? Get your hands on the Rockabye Baby’s newest rock lullaby collection, which features Nine Inch Nails songs redone in rather soothing xylophone plunking.
- Puffy’s next Making the Band Project? A collection of pop-swill-singing, invariably chart-topping dudes. The ad on MySpace explains this better than we ever could: “If you can sing, dance, look hot and are a male who is at least 18 …Diddy wants you!” Note: You are not wanted by Diddy if you are an MC or a rapper.
- U2 concluded their apparently close to twenty month-long Vertigo tour last night in Hawaii, where guest-performers included Pear Jam’s Eddie Vedder and Mike McCready, plus Billie Joe Armstrong. Check out the set list, then hate yourself for not having been there.
- Dolly Parton: Only woman on earth who could defend Jessica Simpson and look cool doing it. Parton, recently commented on Jessica’s embarrassing botched performance of “Nine to Five” at the Kennedy Center, where Parton was one of several honorees. “Jessica is so talented that I’m sure that someday they will be paying tribute to her, and I would be honored to perform for her,” Parton apparently said. “But I’ll probably be so nervous that I’ll forget my wig!” Be serious. Nothing could make Dolly Parton appear wigless.
- The Arctic Monkeys have apparently collected enough tales of botched pick-ups, and pensive voice-of-our-generation-type observations for album number two. They’re reportedly in the studio now.
- The man who goes by eBay screenname “mechadaddy” sold his rare, first-ever Velvet Underground recording on eBay for $155,401. Moral of this story: Buy vinyl you think is shitty, you could become an eighth-ish-of-a-millionaire.
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