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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

News Today's Music News: New Order/Joy Division Master Tapes Found, Sony Music Apologizes, Some Members of Talking Heads Who Aren't David Byrne Still Want to Reunite

Posted by Jackson Hathorn on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Jamie Oliver, Rock Archaeologist: While digging up an old restaurant (to put up a new restaurant) British wonder chef Jamie Oliver uncovered guns, gold, jewelry, and some Joy Division/New Order master tapes.

“I’m not worried about bullets, I’m worried about strokes. Strokes are the new bullets.” That's Questlove talking about the death of Whitney Houston and other musicians who have passed too soon.

Sony Music Apologizes For Being Assholes: Says that increasing the price of Whitney Houston greatest hits CDs mere hours after her death was a big accident.

Chris Brown is Such a Nice Boy: Last night Chris Brown's Twitter briefly told people they can hate all they want "BECUZ I GOT A GRAMMY Now! That's the ultimate FUCK OFF!" before someone with an ounce of sanity removed it.

Billboard Tortures 3/4s of Talking Heads: Gathers up the non-David Byrne members of the band to watch a new DVD of rare live footage of Talking Heads, and reveals that Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison are still waiting by the phone in hopes of a reunion tour.

Two New Cee Lo Green Albums: One's is a solo affair, but there's also a new Goodie Mob album in the works.

La Sera's Break My Heart: Hardly Art recording artist and Vivian Girl kickballer La Sera has a new song you can listen to at Spin.com, stops by Seattle's Rendezvous on March 3rd, and will be releasing an album, Sees the Light, later in March as well.

I Keep Listening to Husker Du: But until yesterday I had never seen them perform live, and get interviewed, on the Late Show with Joan Rivers.