Members of the Wailers will be accompanying Lauryn Hill on a few tracks on her follow-up to the 1998 breakthrough album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Hill has been producing the new record herself and the album is described to be more rock and soul than hip-hop. As or now, there are no official release dates for the record. Source Rollingstone.com.
The script for the long-awaited Tenacious D feature film, “Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny,” is about halfway complete. Shooting will hopefully begin by the end of the year for the film, which Lynch says “follows the stages the D had to go through, as well as one of their first character-building quests, to help prepare them to be the greatest band in the world.” Lynch says initial script ideas pitched from writers outside the D camp were “funny,” but failed to capture the comedy rock duo’s hard-luck essence. “Part of what is funny about the D is them being the underdogs and thinking they’re awesome, but you’re in the reality of what they actually are,” he says.
Music will naturally be a major part of the film, the soundtrack for which may double as the follow-up to Tenacious D’s 2001 self-titled Epic debut. “As we’re writing, we’re recording all these little crumbs of song ideas,” Lynch says. “There are obviously several musical scenes and some that are almost like a musical or a video. There are other scenes of them in their apartment working on a tune.”
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Radiohead, the Flaming Lips, Jamiroquai, Diane Schuur, George Benson, Craig Van Morrison and Jethro Tull are among the many acts on display at Switzerland’s 37th annual Montreux Jazz Festival. Set for July 4-19, the event will feature most artists performing in three venues: Auditorium Stravinski, Miles Davis Hall, and Casino Barriere.
For the majority of the performances, each venue will host a musical genre for the evening, such as a rock’n’roll night with the Pretenders and Van Morrison at Auditorium Stravinski on July 19. Other themes include hip-hop with Gang Starr, RJD2, El-P & Murs, and the Streets July 5 at Miles Davis Hall and “Bireli Lagrene: Tribute to Django Reinhardt” with Philip Catherine, Christian Escoude, Didier Lockwood, and Martin Weiss on July 12 at Casino Barriere.
Source Billboard.com.
