Too Poppy favorite Brendan Benson is featured on the new iPod Touch commercial. What I'm Looking For is now the most popular Brendan Benson song in iTunes. This is great exposure for a talented artist. In the last six months there were over 1 million searches for iPod commercial songs.
The busy boys of Wilco performed last night in DC and NPR has the concert in its entirety. They streamed it live, but considering I received the email from Wilco saying it would streaming live at about 11pm, it did me little good.
They play SNL on - you guessed it - Saturday night. Ellen Page is the host. Honest to blog? Yes, honest to blog.
And of course they hit the rockin' Des Moines scene on March 9. I will be there! Good times.
The Des Moines Register has an article today about Rain: The Beatles Experience, which comes to the Civic Center next Tuesday. Sounds great. They've also put together a fairly simple Beatles quiz (with a couple out there questions), which is a nice distraction on a Thursday. I'm a Beatlemaniac (surprised?) - how about you?
Okay, I'm sure I'll get slammed by TooPoppy, but I really like McFly. This BritPop band is Jellyfishesque in the truest sense. Listen to Transylvania. They've either ripped Sabrina, Paste & Plato or are frighteningly channeling Jellyfish.
If you like retro, gooey, sugary, high fructose corn syrupy power pop, you'll love McFly. And yes, they're named after Michael J. Fox's character in Back To The Future.
Oh, uh, gee, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh yeah...
fuck."It's something we've waited for for seven seasons now. Sony has agreed to release the Lennon and McCartney songbook to us," producer Nigel Lythgoe told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show.
I don't get it. They're rightfully so protective of the Beatles catalog that you never hear the originals in commercials and rarely in movies. Hell, they're not even digital yet. But Sony is willing to whore the songs out to a shitty reality show with a pitiful track record of producing, er, idols? Does not compute.
I sense I'm overreacting.
It seems to be the season for tribute bands. Rain: The Beatles Experience is coming to the Des Moines Civic Center on March 4.RAIN covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups.
Love it, and I'd love to take my kids. Just wish tix weren't over $40 each. Sigh. More here.
Here are previews:
