Juno

“Juno” Soundtrack Was Almost Devoted To Yo La Tengo

anthonyjmiccio | June 26, 2008 2:00 am
anthonyjmiccio | June 26, 2008 2:00 am

yolatengooo.jpgWhile the contents of the Juno soundtrack have probably made little difference to most Idolator readers’ lives (unless you didn’t know about the Moldy Peaches and, honest to blog, cried when you finally heard “Anybody Else But You”), there are at least three people who might be upgrading their furniture if director Jason Reitman had stuck with his original plans for the flick’s musical motif. “We started to realize there was this rebirth of lo-fi music that had the same energy as punk music, but nowhere as angry. The first band we discovered was Yo La Tengo and so I started to think that was the sound of the film.” Then Diablo Cody stormed in the room and went “blah blah I used to be a stripper and this isn’t sticky edgy sweet enough blah blah listen to this song on my Oh My iPod (get it?) it’s the biggity bomb!” Or rather Ellen Page downloaded “Anybody Else But You” for Reitman when he asked her what Juno would listen to. But it’s fun to pretend.

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Feist Feels The Weight Of Toting Around Five Juno Statues

noah | April 7, 2008 9:15 am
noah | April 7, 2008 9:15 am

AP080406025512.jpgStarbucks fave and allegedly swoonworthy singer-songwriter Feist was the big winner at last night’s Juno Awards–you know, the Grammys of Canada?–sweeping the Single of the Year, Album of the Year, and Pop Album Year categories and taking home the awards for Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year as well. But the fans were not having any of it, handing Michael Bublé his only award of the night through voting on the Juno Web site. Yeah, you tell them what side of the smooth-music coin you like, people of Canada! Full list of winners–which is absent of the words “Avril,” “Lavigne,” and “Celine,” but does have Finger Eleven and Ozzy Osbourne–after the jump.

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Idolator Pays Tribute To 2008 Canadian Music Hall Of Fame Inductees Triumph

anthonyjmiccio | April 7, 2008 2:15 am
anthonyjmiccio | April 7, 2008 2:15 am

Triumph.jpgThought Leonard Cohen, Madonna, and the Coug were a bit B-list for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame? At least last month’s ceremony didn’t feature Tom “Life Is A Highway” Cochrane inducting arena demigods Triumph. That happened at the Juno Awards last night. Oh, Canada! Are we already praising those inspired by Rush up there?

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Ellen Page Sings Diablo Cody’s ‘Zub Zub’ On Soundtrack Sequel

anthonyjmiccio | March 31, 2008 12:45 pm
anthonyjmiccio | March 31, 2008 12:45 pm

juno.jpgJuno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs, a sequel to the chart-topping Juno soundtrack, will be released on April 8 as an iTunes exclusive before hitting other digital retailers in May. “None of these songs made the movie, but they are all essential members of the Junoverse,” says Juno director Jason Reitman, who will pay dearly for coining the term “Junoverse.” Dearly.

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Phyllis Schlafly Still Alive, Not A Kimya Dawson Fan

Dan Gibson | March 17, 2008 2:30 am
Dan Gibson | March 17, 2008 2:30 am

lesskimyadawsonmoremotthehoople.jpgGoogle searching for material occasionally leads you to some odd places, and today it took me to Human Events, a publication that apparently has been “leading the conservative moment since 1944” for a Phyllis Schlafly review of the movie everyone was talking about several months ago, Juno! It turns out that Phyllis and I, despite otherwise sharing zero in the way of opinions, both disliked the film, but in the midst of an anti-feminist screed, there was one delightful, sorta music-related paragraph. So, you’ve probably been wondering…what does an 83 year old ERA foe think is wrong with today’s youth? Well, she’d be happy to tell you!

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noah | February 25, 2008 9:15 am
noah | February 25, 2008 9:15 am

Courtney Love blogs the Oscars before heading out to “Eltons Party”: “i love dthat tattoo on her ( Dibalo) and her cute thigh and the wietzman shoes were actually pretty unnatractuve really,. More »



Dear David Carr: You May Want To Check Your Dictionary’s “R” Section

noah | January 30, 2008 4:20 am
noah | January 30, 2008 4:20 am

oxford_english_dictionary.jpgA note to Times awardsblogger David Carr, who decided to indulge his rockcrit side in today’s broadside against Juno haters as such: “But to suddenly kick something to the curb because it found an audience is the height of ‘rockism,’ a critical mindset that suggests if a lot of people like something, there must be something terribly wrong with it.” Actually, no. (Please trust me on this.) Rockism is–c’mon, say it with me, everybody–“The theory that traditional rock music is a more authentic form of popular music than pop music.” Or: a just as annoying, yet totally different, sort of reactionary attitude exhibited by people who “know culture.”* Maybe next time you should check with your colleagues before embarking on music-crit-related vocabulary lessons? Otherwise, love your work, that No Country acronym contest was killer! [The Carpetbagger]

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That Old Mid-January Sales Malaise: It’s Back

noah | January 11, 2008 2:50 am
noah | January 11, 2008 2:50 am

From Hits: “[Next] week’s chart will probably be topped by Rhino’s soundtrack to the universally adored* Juno, with a projected 70-75k. It should be followed by a still-robust Alicia Keys (J/RMG), who’s headed toward 60-65k, with Radiohead (TBD/ATO/RED) and Mary J. More »


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