Gnarls Barkley have stormed into existence in the last six months; massive single 'Crazy' was numero uno in the UK for nine weeks - online! - until it was removed by the "band", and currently has a US-only audience of almost a hundred million - and now the video has been nominated for three MTV Awards. All you need to do is see the thing - it's a play on Rorschach testing - to appreciate its genius. Great work. Congrats to Danger Mouse(producer/beatmaker) and Gnarls frontman Cee-lo Green.
Needtobreathe are a band from the southeastern US somewhere who get a lot of play at the radio station I work at here in Ottawa, and for good reason. They're pretty catchy. Check out 'Don't Wait For Daylight' over here. Too bad their Myspace has one of those idiot popups that hold up the process for thirty seconds.
I saw Lady In The Water and Miami Vice yesterday in a little last-minute double-bill matinee showing. Lady was by far the better of the two - not that it's a fantastic movie(though it was fairly cohesive and well-acted for what the director himself called a 'fairy tale'), but Vice sucks, kids. Believe that. Nothing of interest happens until the last quarter of the movie, and even that(a gun battle and so on) is trite. Badly written, competently acted, but badly written. So much for the hype machine - even I'd been tricked into thinking it'd be a fun popcorn movie. I'm pissed. Lady In The Water star Paul Giamatti is a terrific actor, by the way, if you weren't already aware. Too bad his role as Pig Vomit in that Howard Stern movie from ten years ago will follow him everywhere.
Veteran(understatement) Orange County band Social Distortion are starting on their next record. Frontman Mike Ness had this to say: "We are working in the studio now, writing and rehearsing. We'd like to be in the studio next year putting out another album. The last one was such a good experience for us, we still feel inspired. We've always taken a long break after an album, but now I realize you just can't assume everyone is going to be waiting there for you five years later." Good plan, homeboy. [soundthesirens]
Posted by mike at July 31, 2006 09:31 PM