The beloved motley crew known as the Muppets will continue its curious hookups with the pop-music world next year with the release of Muppets Remastered, a covers album on which artists of today will cover Muppets-warbled tunes of yore. According to a Muppets fansite two tracks on the comp have been announced: Weezer will pay homage to its music-video co-stars with their take on “The Rainbow Connection,” while the Fray is going to take on “Mahna Mahna” (which I fear will have the unfortunate side effect of putting poor old Rowlf to sleep). I guess it wouldn’t be too far of a stretch to think that the always-synergistic Lady GaGa will somehow be involved—perhaps she will sing, and perform a water ballet, to “Miss Piggy’s Fantasy”, and thus spark a big Lady-on-Miss row? More »
Oh, c’mon Alice! Can’t you and the dudes in Vampire Weekend at least bond over your shared love of wearing brightly colored shirts under your sweaters? Jeez. [Noisecreep] More »
In today’s wrapup of headlines: Alice Cooper prepares to come face-to-face with fried foodstuffs, Lil Wayne gets litigious, Chris Brown goes back to court, and the Wu-Tang Clan is still together. More »
