‘Stand By Me’ Web Video

I wanted to post an interesting video I found while surfing around. This clip comes from a group called “Playing for Change,” on its posted page, the author says this is the first of many “songs around the world” being released independently. The song covered is the classic “Stand By Me” by musicians around the …

Jimmy Eat World to Perform Live Online

I know we haven’t been posting many “music” related news in the past few month, but I thought this one was of note. Jimmy Eat World recently completed a 10 city tour marking the 10th anniversary of the release of their ‘Clarity,’ record, an album some consider to be among their best. On the last …

Missing Beatles Track Coming to ‘Light?’

‘Carnival of Light,’ a track recorded by the Beatles January 1967, might be released soon.  In an interview, Paul McCartney has said that he has the master tape in-hand, and thinks that now might be the time to offer this track to the public. ‘Light,’ is one of the few Beatles tracks that has eluded …

Ross & Maguire Team Up for ‘Crusaders’

Gary Ross (Pleasantville, Seabiscuit) and Tobey Maguire will be teaming up again for Universal’s ‘The Crusaders,’ a drama about the Brown v. Board of Education case. Maguire is set to play Jack Greenberg, a newly graduated lawyer who joins with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund head Thurgood Marshall to win the landmark Supreme Court case …

Hayden Panettiere Tards Things Up

Hayden Panettiere may have written the most asinine song since, well, I want to say ever. Her song “Wake Up Call” sounds more or less (think “more”) like throwing up down a garbage disposal to a reggae beat. She could have taken a giant hose and sprayed cat feces on us and I would have …

John Woo to adapt “Caliber”

John Woo will be directing an adaptation of the comic book “Caliber.” The film, a co-production of Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil, Barry Levine’s Radical Comics, and Lion Rock, Woo and Terence Chang’s US production company. The comic book sets King Arthur and his knights as gunslingers in the west. Though, this film probably won’t be …

Feist Knows How to Count

Musician Leslie Feist knows how to count. Well, to four at least. (You ever notice she skipped 7 & 8 in that song? Did she forget? Not like those numbers? No matter.) Feist appears in the new season of ‘Sesame Street.’ And just so you don’t have to watch the whole show to see her, …