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Timberlake and Others Asked to Skip Grammys, Pepsi Partnering With Amazon for Giveaway, Missy Working With Timbaland and More

1/15/08, 9:37 am EST

Confirming last week’s speculation, the WGA is asking SAG-affiliated musicians (including Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent) not to attend next month’s Grammy Awards, Ad Age reports. A WGA spokesman told Ad Age that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has not requested an interim agreement for the Grammy broadcast, but “if a waiver is requested, it is unlikely to be granted,” meaning the award show may see the same fate as Sunday’s no-frills Golden Globes.
Pepsi-Cola will re-launch its campaign to give away 100 million digital tracks at this year’s Superbowl, but the 2008 version finds the soft drink company partnering with Amazon.com’s music store rather than Apple’s iTunes, the New York Times reports.
Missy Elliott is allegedly reuniting with Timbaland for her upcoming as-yet-untitled LP. The pair will reportedly enter the studio soon.
Pete Wentz and the Arcade Fire’s Win Butler finally have something in common: their support for Barack Obama. Wentz announced he will be commandeering an Obama fundraiser in Chicago next Tuesday, while Butler posted on his blog, “Barack is the first candidate in my lifetime to strip some of this bullshit away.”
Fifteen previously unreleased Beatles tracks, recorded live in Germany in 1962, have been sold to an entertainment group that plans to release them, CMJ reports. The songs are the first recordings that feature then-new drummer Ringo Starr.