Briefly News and Comment: "A family of freaky slashers ..."
plus: McCartney and others pay tribute to Sun Studios. Unreleased David Gray . Members of Devo reunite. Platinum "Jazz," sort of.
Universal Pictures will not be releasing Rob Zombie 's movie, "House of 1000 Corpses," because the film is too "intense" for the corporation to market, the Associated Press reported. According to the article, the movie "is about two young couples whose car breaks down in a small town filled with homicidal lunatics. A family of freaky slashers tortures and kills the youths in the graphic climax."
Paul McCartney , Bob Dylan, the Who and Elton John are among the musicians who will be covering songs from Memphis' Sun Studios--the studio that introduced Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis to the world--for a soundtrack to a forthcoming documentary on Sun, RollingStone.com reported.
ATO Records will release "David Gray's Lost Songs 95-98" in North America on April 17.
Devo members Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Mothersbaugh and Robert Casale have recorded a surf album under the name the Wipeouters. The group's debut, "P'Twaang," is due on April 24.
Columbia Records says that the 5-CD companion to Ken Burns's documentary "Jazz" went platinum. Now, according to Columbia, "This is the first time in history that a jazz boxed set has reached the feat of over one million shipped units, as the 5-CD boxed set has shipped over 200,000 copies." We didn't know this before, but apparently, like, if a double-CD sells 500,000 copies, the Record Industry Association of America, which does the certification, counts each CD as a unit, so it's like the double-CD sold 1,000,000 copies. So a 5-CD set only has to sell 200,000 copies to go platinum. Or something. It sounds pretty cheesy.
And to all you jazz fans who don't like the documentary: do you guys like the attention that your music is now receiving? Be honest.
Paul McCartney Back In The (Former) USSR [June 2008]
Paul McCartney Receives Honorary Doctorate [May 2008]
Paul McCartney Returns To The Former USSR [May 2008]
Live Review: Ozzy Osbourne in Glendale, AZ [November 2007]
David Gray maps short tour for 'Greatest Hits' [November 2007]
Ozzy outraged over Fargo sting operation [November 2007]
Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" tour
The Duke Spirit on stage and in the studio
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks
Metallica at the KROQ Weenie Roast in Irvine, CA
R.E.M. at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA
Herbie Hancock at the Sonoma Jazz Festival
Brad Paisley, Jack Ingram and Kellie Pickler
Dengue Fever at The Independent, San Francisco, CA

