Eddie Vedder ?Guaranteed? Video To Premiere, Clapton/Townshend/Starr Play Secret NYE Show, Flo Rida Sets Digital Record and More
4 January 2008
- Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder will unveil his first solo music video for “Guaranteed,” taken from his Into the Wild soundtrack. The video, shot by director Marc Rocco and featuring “striking silhouettes of Vedder with translit still frames from the film in a powerful and simple way,” will premiere on VH1 on January 7th. The song has already been nominated for a Grammy and a Golden Globe, and is a frontrunner for an Oscar nod.
- According to reports, Pete Townshend, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton played a secret show together on New Year’s Eve. The trio, performing under the name Totally Abandoned, played a show comprised of “mostly old classics” at a club in Surrey, U.K., with proceeds from the £50 tickets going to charity. A post dated today on the Who’s official site confirms the show, and adds, “the rumour’s now going around that Who guitarist Pete Townshend is going to be performing at ‘a much larger gig’ in New York sometime before March.”
- U.K. space-rockers Spiritualized have been “sittin’ on a finished (and mastered) record” for the past few months while Universal Music “try to sort out their shit.” Once the shit is sorted, you’ll have it, says a post on the band’s Web site. Frontman Jason Pierce also contributes some music to the soundtrack of Harmony Korine’s film Mister Lonely.
- Rapper Flo Rida is having a much better week than his frost-covered namesake state: He set the record for most (legal) downloads in one week as his “Low” was MP3ed roughly 470,000 times last week, crushing the single-week record previously held by Fergie’s “Fergalicious” at 294,000.
- Snoop Dogg claims that a video of his fight with security guards at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2006 (which ultimately got him banned from the U.K.) will lead to his unbanishment, as he aims to return to Britain in time to promote the March release of his new album Ego Trippin’.
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on January 4th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
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