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Damn, I couldn’t be more excited. Coming in the summer next year, the movie “Fix: The Ministry Movie” will be released on Ministry with interviews from Motorhead, Dead Kennedys, Korn, NIN and others. Check out the trailer.

FIX – THE MINISTRY MOVIE TRAILER #1 from Gigantic Pictures on Vimeo.

Here’s Julian Casablancas’ new video for ’11th Dimension’, the first single off his solo album ‘Phrazes for the Young’.  It’s aight I guess.   What do you think?

On January 25th a limited edition vinyl package and CD will be released of Jimi’s shows from 1967 and 1968.  It will have the recording of the Paris L’Olympia Theatre show from January 29, 1968 and the Ottawa show at Capitol Theater on March 19, 1968 and the recording of L’Oympia show on October 9, 1967 which was recorded for French radio.  On top of these great recordings the set will have a T-shirt, guitar picks, an iPod skin, badges, poster and a postcard set.  Sweet.

On January 19th the PBS Series Independent Lens will air ‘Copyright Criminals’, a new documentary examining music sampling, copyright law and money.  It will trace hip-hop from the streets of New York with groups like Digital Underground and Public Enemy on up to labels like Definitive Jux and others.  Here is a sample of the show.

Yep you read it right.  Billboard magazine has name Nickelback band of the year for selling more records than any other band from 2000 to 2009.  They sold more than 30 million albums worldwide with their four albums during the same time.  Some other noteworthy items:  Eminem is Billboard’s top artist of the decade, NSync’s ‘No Strings Attached’ was the top selling album of the decade.  Wow, just Wow.

For their 25th Anniversary Agnostic Front will be re-releasing their first 2 albums ‘United Blood’ and ‘Victim in Pain’. They will also be getting the original lineup together and headlining a show on February 26th at The Bell House in Brooklyn. The albums will have the original inserts, embossed covers and printed dust jackets and be available on CD for the first time.

This sounds interesting.  David Byrne of Talking Heads and Fatboy Slim have a concept album coming out on February 23 titled ‘Here Lies Love’.  The album will document the life of Imelda Marcos the former first lady of the Philippines.   It’s coming out as a 2 CD/100 page book/DVD boxset and will have such guests as Santigold, Tori Amos, Florence Welch, Martha Wainwright, Cyndi Lauper and many others.  David Byrne says in the introduction to the book:

“The story I am interested in is about asking what drives a powerful person, what makes them tick? How do they make and then remake themselves?”

I never understood how this happens when you have money.  A law firm has sued Vince Neil of Motley Crue for $62,000 for refusing to pay for 4 months of work back in 2008.  He could have disputed the fees but he never did.  Is he really that busy?

Billboard put out a top 100 list of producers of the decade and I’m sure there will be some heat for this list.   People are pist that Dr. Dre or Just Blaze didn’t even get on the top 10.  Here’s the top 10.

I don’t know about this one but Ozzy Osbournes new album is due to hit in June 2010 and the name is……’Soul Sucka’.  I can’t find any other information other than this will be the first album with his new guitarist Gus G.  I’ll keep you updated.

A really interesting survey was put on by Bridge Ratings on what medium people listen to music these days. It’s nice to see that Internet Radio has jumped up 5% in the last 2 years. I really think thats the future of radio. For me, as of now I listen to Sirius and MOG at work and at home. The only time I ever listen to radio is when I rent a car. Check out the graph.

Last week John Frusciante, guitarist for Red Hot Chili Peppers, said he has quit the band after about 12 years with the band.  Don’t trip though, everything is fine with him and the other members.  He just wants to move on and do his own thing.  Here’s what he said:

“To put it simply, my musical interests have led me in a different direction. Upon rejoining, and throughout my time in the band, I was very excited about exploring the musical possibilities inherent in a rock band, and doing so with those people in particular. A couple of years ago, I began to feel that same excitement again, but this time it was about making a different kind of music, alone, and being my own engineer.”

On February 15, 2010 Peter Gabriel is releasing a covers album called ‘Scratch My Back’ and was recorded only an orchestra and vocals.  Here’s the tracklisting

Heroes (David Bowie)
The Boy In The Bubble (Paul Simon)
Mirrorball (Elbow)
Flume (Bon Iver)
Listening Wind (Talking Heads)
The Power Of The Heart (Lou Reed)
My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire)
The Book Of Love (The Magnetic Fields)
I Think It’s Going To Rain Today (Randy Newman)
Apres Moi (Regina Spektor)
Philadelphia (Neil Young)
Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Radiohead)

MusicRadar.com has given us a nice present for the holidays.  They have kicked down 1,000 free drum samples and split them into 3 folders:  Assorted Hits, Drum Kits and Rex Loops.  The Hits and Kits are WAV files and the REX loops are REX.  Plus they are royalty free so use ‘em up!

1,000 Drum Samples

Drive-By Truckers are on a new label, ATO Records, and will be putting out their label debut.  It’s their tenth album titled ‘The Big To-Do’ and we’ll have to wait until March 16, 2010.  Patterson Hood says “It’s very much a rock album.  Very melodic and more rocking than anything we’ve done sicne disc 2 of Southern Rock Opera.”