Holy Fuck we told you so! Van Halen in full effect fo sho’! Yeah, Wolfgang Van Halen is on the bass instead of Michael Anthony, but the kid is almost as wide. Guess he got the Bertinelli genes. Let’s hope this shit stays together come November 20. [Spinner]
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If you couldn’t tell by the opener, this video is a waste. A waste of my time, the band’s time, and the director’s time. ((Sorry fellas.)) Is it as bad as Cat Solen’s “Naked Sun shot? Oooh, thats a close one. But hey, maybe I’m cranky because it’s hot, lets look at this on paper.
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Universal as a whole is a cranky company. In particular they will swim agianst the stream of popular opinion to spite other companies. Currently two divisions are doing this. Their home video division refuses to sell high definition versions of their movies on the more popular Blu-ray format and instead goes exclusively with the less popular HD DVD format. They are the only large, major movie studio with this stance: the other studios either support Blu-ray exclusively (Sony, Disney, Fox) or support both (Warner Bros., Paramount). There’s been much speculation as to why Universal continues down this path and the consensus seems to be that Universal is less interested in succeeding than they are in Sony failing. That, and Toshiba pays them to support HD DVD exclusively. You see, Toshiba hates Sony too…
As for Universal’s Music Division, their “Sony” is Apple. They don’t like Apple. To be fair, most major labels stopped liking Apple the minute they realized they accidently gave Apple the keys to the castle, the castle being online distribution. If you haven’t figured it out yet, a record label amounts to nothing more than shady suits, Advertising money, CD replication plants, and distribution channels. Online distribution is making the latter two, plants and distrubition channels, obselete. You don’t need a CD plant when the music is sold online and you don’t need a bunch of stores when your music can be sold to everybody in the world from the same web page. By letting Apple have online distribution rights, which Apple quickly built into an empire, the record labels burnt one bridge (CD replication) and gave one to Apple (Apple being the world’s most popular online distribution channel). This shift, which everybody but the record labels have been expecting since 1996, has left the labels with their suits and advertising dollars. The suits are a dime a dozen and things like myspace have begun to erode the importance of corporate backed ad-money.
RJD2’s newest album, The Third Hand — not so much. Maybe it had something to do with him leaving Def Jux and moving onto XL Recordings, or maybe he was just experimenting with some new sounds, but either way it was a step away from being one of the hottest indie hip-hop producers. The album is leaps and bounds behind the enjoyment that Deadringer and Since We Last Spoke bestowed upon me and never comes close to even reproducing moments like ‘The Horror’, ‘Silver Fox’, ‘1979′ or ‘Since We Last Spoke’.
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Wow, it hurts that it won't be out for another year. But we'll take it as a vote of confidence that Spike Jonze's version of Where The Wild Things Are is gonna be phenomenal. Check out the interview. [Ain't It Cool News]
- #Looks like Rivers and his band of merry men have realized that they've hit rock bottom. Looks like it's time to get an old friend back to help their cause. Guess who? [Slashfilm]
- #We're so glad that someone has the balls (and most especially the mind) to recognize a Doucher when he sees one. Not to mention our glee at his breaking down the species altogether. [POTW]
- #It's about damn time L.A. in film got some props thrown its way. It's unfortunate that it took its own paper to do it. It's also unfortunate that Crash is on the list. Why lord, why? [LA Times]
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