"With this new thing, we're going to spend a lot of time recording at our houses or wherever we are at. We'll try to release a song a month and document the song in the making, whether it takes us three or five days or a week. It's gonna be, 'We're working on a song and it's gonna be up by Friday.' We just want to [release material] some other way."
Flaming Lips to release song per month in 2011
That's their New Year's resolution, anyhow. According to singer Wayne Coyne:
Previewing The Cape
NBC has a new superhero-themed show premiering this Sunday. Will it be good? Will it not? We'll have to see. Here are the basics:
More details here.
"The Cape" is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons ("ER") as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, "Life on Mars") and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, "Flash Forward"). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Vince Faraday becomes "The Cape" - his son's favorite comic book superhero - and takes the law into his own hands.
Rounding out the cast are James Frain ("The Tudors") as billionaire Peter Fleming, The Cape's nemesis who moonlights as the twisted killer Chess; Keith David ("Death at a Funeral") as Max Milani, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape; Summer Glau ("Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles") as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City; Dorian Missick ("Six Degrees") as Marty Voyt, a former police detective and friend to Faraday; Martin Klebba ("Pirates of the Caribbean") as Rollo, member and unassuming muscle of the circus gang of bank robbers; and Vinnie Jones ("Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels") as Scales, resident thug and cohort of The Cape's nemesis Chess.
More details here.
French mag spills beans on new Captain America film
If you don't like spoilers, be warned: L'Ecran Fantastique has revealed a whole mess of details about the upcoming film. Translated here.
Vintage Comics Journal interview with Zany Bob Haney
Here's the first of a five-part interview with one of my favorite comics writers as a kid. Haney was known for turning in off-beat scripts, often for off-beat characters such as Metamorpho. And, of course, he had a long run on one of my favorite titles of my youth, Brave and the Bold.
Set photo of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in new Spidey pic
Via Superhero Hype, a shot of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone in the upcoming big screen Spider-Man reboot. Dude needs to comb his hair....
Free download of new Marianne Faithfull song
"Why Did We Have to Part," the first track of Faithfull's new album is available here, courtesy of Mojo mag.
The new album is titled Horses and High Heels, out March 7. According to Mojo:
The new album is titled Horses and High Heels, out March 7. According to Mojo:
The album was recorded in New Orleans with local musicians led by Meters bassist George Porter Jr. The record is made up of eight covers and four original songs and features contributions from Lou Reed, Dr. John and Wayne Kramer .
Doctor Who marries "daughter"
Not as twisted as it sounds, but still convoluted: Former "Doctor Who" David Tennant is marrying Georgia Moffett, who played the doctor's lab-grown daughter opposite Tennant a couple seasons back. But, not only that, Moffett is the real daughter of Peter Davison, who played the Doctor back in the 1980s.
In addition:
In addition:
Moffett's mother is Davison's ex-wife, American actress Sandra Dickinson, who split from the actor when Georgia was ten years old.
And she too has starred in Doctor Who - Sandra played the character Maggie in the 1996 radio serial The Ghosts Of N-Space.
Doctor Who channel ebuts on YouTube today
The channel features clips from the series debut in 1963 through today and will be updated regularly.
Billy Wyman rejoins Rolling Stones for tribute track
The Stones' retired bassist rejoins the band for a cover of Bob Dylan's "Watching the River the Flow," which features on a tribute album to the late Stones' keyboardist Ian Stewart. Wyman left the Stones in 1992.
The album, Boogie for Stu, which also includes performances by PJ Harvey and other artists, is out in March.
The album, Boogie for Stu, which also includes performances by PJ Harvey and other artists, is out in March.
No rainbow bridge for these guys: Racists to boycott Thor movie
It'd be funny if it wasn't so hateful: The Council of Conservative Citizens has planned a boycott of Marvel's Thor movie. Why? Because the great actor Idris Elba, who played Stringer Bell on best show ever "The Wire," has been cast as Thor's fellow god Heimdall. And Elba happens to be black.
The CCC says:
Hard to believe there are still folks around who see the world in such terms. And sad. But it makes me want to see Thor all the more, and movie adaptations of comics usually fill me with dread (but not for the same reasons as these loons).
The CCC says:
It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves. An upcoming movie, based on the comic book Thor, will give Norse mythology an insulting multi-cultural make-over.
Hard to believe there are still folks around who see the world in such terms. And sad. But it makes me want to see Thor all the more, and movie adaptations of comics usually fill me with dread (but not for the same reasons as these loons).
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