A few news items that you might have missed while sleeping off your cranberry-sauce-and-stuffing coma:
• Ne-Yo is going to bring his grown sexiness to the next Marilyn Manson album. [Hollywood Insider]
• There’s a Grammy Museum opening! It’ll be like a Hard Rock Cafe, except more self-important and with fewer franchises. [Variety]
• The latest ’90s band to have reunion rumors swirl around it: Faith No More. Don’t mess with my heart, you guys. [Blabbermotuh]
• And finally, lots of American breakfast tables were no doubt filled with confusing conversations about “this Internet thing” as Rick Astley came out to lipsync “Never Gonna Give You Up” during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, much to the delight of the Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends cast. Clip after the jump.
Marilyn Manson announced last night that he’d hired a new guitar player for his band, and that man is Wes Borland, late of Limp Bizkit and Black Light Burns. And from the way Manson referred to Borland’s previous musical exploits in the announcement, I wouldn’t expect Fred Durst to be invited backstage to any upcoming shows: “He used to be in a really terrible band that he left because he felt that it was a destructive force in art, and he has his own band, Black Light Burns, but now he is in Marilyn Manson,” Manson told a press assemblage in Seoul. “We don’t know how permanent that is, but starting tomorrow will be the first step. So this will be the most indestructible Marilyn Manson.” It can’t even be stopped by a horde of red-baseball-cap-wearing angry dudes, or even by people who think that Manson’s schtick is pretty tired by this point! Clip of Manson’s press conference after the jump.
When an audience member recently flung a bottle at Marilyn Manson during a gig, beaning his bassist in the process, MM took great pains not to repeat the error of the recently indicted Akon. (Who, as you may recall, dealt with a similar bottle-thrower last summer by pulling him onto the stage and then ejecting him onto the concrete, earning Akon a misdemeanor harrassment charge.) Why the caution? Because someone was filming the incident on a cell phone, of course!
Remember a few months back when Stephen “Madonna Wayne Gacy” Bier, possibly better known to you as Marilyn Manson’s ex-keyboardist, sued Manson for skimming band profits to buy knickknacks like “African masks made of human skin, a full skeleton of a 4-year-old Chinese girl that Manson is said to have turned into a chandelier, and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair”? As it turns out, Manson and his girlfriend spent a lot of weekends antiquing, because Bier’s amended his complaint with more “transgressive” home furnishings.
Marilyn Manson’s old keyboard buddy, Madonna Wayne Gacy, recently hit the gaunt cradle robber and former rock star with a breach-of-contract lawsuit, complaining that Manson had been skimming profits rightly owed to the band to buy stuff that makes Elephant Man-era Michael Jackson look like a quaint collector of roadside folk art:
– Tour partners Marilyn Manson and Slayer are not in full-born feud phase yet, but they’re getting close! [MTV] – 50 Cent may have to ready an exciting new flavor of Glaceau water: “Child-Support Strawberry.” [Page Six] – The Killers. Panic! More »
Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today’s entry is Marilyn Manson’s Eat Me, Drink Me, which is released tomorrow:
A question for the music bloggers WTF-ing themselves into a tizzy over Marilyn Manson’s Justin Timberlake cover: Heh? Are you really that surprised by the notion of an “edgy” musician doing a semi-ironic cover of a pop song? More »
– The Game was arrested in Los Angeles Saturday morning for making criminal threats; the resulting local-news broadcast may be honkier than anything you can possibly imagine. [KABC-TV] – Did Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood, you know, do it while filming their new music video? More »
