NEWS ROUNDUP: DON HENLEY, KANYE WEST, BECK, JERRY GARCIA – AMERICAN SONGWRITER
Posted by maureen on August 6th, 2010 filed in Hot News
The talons were out, as well as they were sharp. Don Henley one after another his power as a Eagle we don’t wish to disaster with when he reached a allotment with U.S. Senate claimant Chuck DeVore, who was guilty of parodying Henley’s hits, “The Boys of Summer” as well as “All She Wants to Do is Dance” during his California-based campaign. Henley settled that a actuality DeVore is a Republican is not because he pulpy charges, observant that it “was not a subject of domestic ideology, though a right of artists to carry out a have make make use of of of of a functions they create, as well as strengthen their livelihoods.” In brand brand new years, such justice cases have been apropos some-more as well as some-more common, many particularly Jackson Browne settling with a McCain debate for regulating his song, “Running upon Empty” though correct accede during a 2008 Presidential Elections.
Somewhere a hipster is screaming in joy, as well as not only about a stand in rainbow. Devendra Banhart and Beck collaborated upon a track“Life During Wartime,” done for a Todd Solondz movie of a same name. However, conjunction Banhart or Beck essentially wrote any partial of a song. Solondz wrote a lyrics as well as Marc Shaiman wrote a music. Aside from a anxiety to “throwing out your iPhone,” a strain seems flattering undying as well as overall, flattering good.
A programmed Jerry Garcia biopic will not be means to have make make use of of of any strange Grateful Dead music. Garcia’s estate released an fatiguing statement, saying, “We wish to have transparent that conjunction Grateful Dead Productions nor a Jerry Garcia Family LLC have been in any approach operative with — or have been in any alternative approach dependent with — a ostensible arriving Amir Bar-Lev-directed biopic about Jerry Garcia.” Variety reports that Bar-Lev still has a intensity to have make make use of of of songs Garcia lonesome early in his career, a preference that by my equate spans from Otis Redding’s “Cigarettes & Coffee” to “Dear Prudence” by The Beatles. The genuine subject is who would fool around Captain Trips in such a film? We’ll have to wait for as well as see, though a money’s upon Jack Black. He’s got a chops to lift it off.
American Songwriter’s favorite swat star Kanye West took a theatre in Singapore final night to perform a little brand brand new material. This continues his windstorm tour, that has strike a offices of Twitter, Facebook, as well as Rolling Stone Magazine—though sadly not ours. The video for a initial singular of his brand brand new album, “Power,” debuts tonight (!!!) right after Jersey Shore (!!!!!!). Boasting a tagline, “IT’S NOT A VIDEO…IT’S A PAINTING,” expectation is already mounting, even between those though spray-on tans as well as Ed Hardy shirts.
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