The man who brought sexy back is now bringing a record label: Justin Timberlake has formed Tennman Records, joining with Interscope and distributed by Interscope Geffen A&M(remember when those were three separate entities? Ah, the '90s). JT will serve as chairman/CEO, and I bet he'll succeed at corporate affairs as he's done well in entertainment. The kid has style. No artist signings have been announced as yet. [R&R]
Alkaline Trio have landed on their feet after the dissolution of V2 Records a while back, signing with Epic. The band's last album, Crimson, was released in 2005 on Vagrant, and was awesomely awesome. [soundthesirens]
For the first time since 1998, the Goo Goo Dolls have written a song for a movie soundtrack, composing 'Fiction' for the new Transformers flick(which will be awesomely awesome). Stream the song over here.]
Australian veterans Silverchair are back - funny, I was just talking about them a week or so ago with Spoken bassist Brandon. The band will release their fifth album, Young Modern, in July on Warner Records. [Decoy]
Has anyone noticed a lot of '90s bands being talked about around here lately?
Well, in keeping with that, a dude from the latest season of American Idol apparently had a song written for him by two seminal '90s dudes: 311 singer Nick Hexum and Better Than Ezra(BETTER THAN EZRA!!!)'s Kevin Griffin. Surreal.
"Sweeeeeeeeet souuuuuuuul sisterrrrrrrrrrrrr...." The Cult have signed with Roadrunner Records for their first album since 2001. The band will spend the summer/early fall opening for some band called The Who. I've heard good things! [Billboard]
One of the Seattle's best bands ever, period, have a new song online! Finally. Check out Fair's brand-new tune 'Once Again'.
Ouch - after racking up(you'll see what that's funny in a second) thousands of dollars in damages after colliding with a deer while on tour last fall(SEE now why "racking up" is funny??), Set Your Goals had to bail themselves out of arrest charges for disturbing the peace in Georgia over the weekend. Good thing they'll probably make it back in merch sales THIS week. [punkbands]
Director Tim Burton wants to make a movie about Marilyn Manson. I'd probably watch it. [antimusic]
We reported a while back now that a movie about Joy Divison was in the works - the low-budget flick is now an award winner at Cannes.
Scene.
Posted by mike at May 29, 2007 11:25 PM