Scott Shetler
Courtney Love Sued by Former Law Firm
It can’t be easy being Courtney Love‘s attorney. Her former lawyers, Keith A. Fink & Associates, are suing the troubled singer, claiming she stiffed them on more than $466,029.41 for work they performed for her in 2009.
Black Keys Sue Home Depot and Pizza Hut For Unauthorized Song Use
It seems everybody wants a piece of the Black Keys‘ music these days. The rockers aren’t above licensing their songs for use in commercials, but they claim in a new lawsuit that two large companies – Pizza Hut and Home Depot – borrowed their music without compensating them.
Kings of Leon’s Caleb Followill and Wife Welcome First Child
It’s a girl! Kings of Leon frontman Caleb Followill and his wife, model Lily Aldridge, are parents for the first time. Us Weekly reports that Aldridge gave birth to a baby girl at Vanderbilt University & Medical Center in Nashville on Thursday morning.
‘Assassin’s Creed 3′ Trailer
The dramatic music of Bat for Lashes can be heard in the trailer for the ‘Assassin’s Creed 3,’ an adventure video game set in New Orleans in 1768.
‘Max Payne 3′ Trailer – What’s the Song?
Video game commercials look a lot like movie trailers these days, with quick cuts between realistic-looking scenes that tell a story. The action-packed ‘Max Payne 3′ promo features the music of a Los Angeles indie band.
Family Asks Bono to Help Find Their Missing Daughter
An Irish family frustrated by the lack of attention given to the disappearance of their teenage daughter four years ago is turning to the one person they believe can give their tragedy the amount of publicity it needs: U2 frontman Bono.
Flaming Lips, Erykah Badu Release NSFW ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ Video
The unusual cover of ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ by the Flaming Lips with Erykah Badu now has an appropriately unusual video featuring nudity, glitter and blood.
Black Keys Release Lo-Fi, Baby-Themed ‘Gold on the Ceiling’ Video
The unreleased second music video for the Black Keys‘ ‘Gold on the Ceiling’ has finally surfaced. Directed by oddball filmmaker Harmony Korine, the unconventional clip features the duo dressed in baby onesies, carried around by their much larger doppelgangers.
Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne Tweets Nude Pictures of Erykah Badu
Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips are filming a video for their remake of ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,’ featuring R&B star Erykah Badu. Coyne has been tweeting pics from the shoot, many of which show a nude Badu alternately covered in glitter and a red paint that looks like blood.
Beck to Release New Song ‘I Just Started Hating Some People Today’ on Third Man Records
Beck is set to release a country music-flavored single called ‘I Just Started Hating Some People Today,’ his first song for Jack White‘s Third Man Records. The new song arrives on May 28 via the Third Man website and retailers across the country.
Jack White’s Concert Metaphors Too Numerous for Guinness World Records to Count
Jack White is having a lot of fun with this whole Guinness Book of World Records chase. After Guinness stopped recognizing his one-note concert with the White Stripes as the shortest concert in history, White claimed he was going for a new record: most metaphors in one concert. But that effort ended in disqualification when White “trivialized a metaphor by saying it too quickly.”
Pearl Jam, Santigold + Miike Snow Reportedly on Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival Lineup
If an early leak is correct, the lineup for Jay-Z‘s Made in America Festival this September in Philadelphia will feature Pearl Jam, Santigold and Miike Snow in addition to the superstar rapper.