- Four years after releasing an album as their secret side project the Network, Green Day appear to be at it again. This time, the American Idiot trio is reportedly operating under the pseudonym the Foxboro Hot Tubs, a fake Sixties garage-rock band who just this weekend launched their own Web site with a free six-song EP to download. Are the Sixties-tinged Hot Tubs actually Green Day in disguise? Listen to the song “Ruby Room” and it seems pretty evident that Billie Joe Armstrong is handling the singing duties.
- German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, an electronic-music pioneer who was also featured on the cover collage of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s, has died at age seventy-nine. Artists as diverse as Björk, Kraftwerk and Miles Davis cited Stockhausen as an influence.
- Record producer Phil Spector has hired a new lawyer, Doron Weinberg, to lead his legal team after Spector’s previous murder trial ended in mistrial. Weinberg told the court that he requires at least five months to properly prepare himself and read through over 10,000 pages of trial transcripts, meaning the Spector retrial will likely begin in autumn 2008.
- Members of rapper Fabolous’ Street Family Entertainment are being investigated for a string of robberies of professional athletes, according to the New York Police Department. Among the victims are former New York Giant Frank Walker, basketball player Sebastian Telfair and boxer Zab Judah, who was allegedly robbed by the Street Family twice.
- The late Joe Strummer’s wife has discovered drawings, lyrics and recordings by the Clash frontman, and is planning on releasing a book/CD combo of unearthed Strummer material.
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