The
Grand Ole Opry, which was supposed to celebrate its
85th birthday party May 25, is currently
underwater, like
most of Nashville (above). Nashville Public Radio is reporting that the Cumberland River crested at a whopping
52 feet. When does hurricane season start again?
Hirsute music writer
Mills McCoin follows up Rocks Off's post on
Concert Etiquette for Dummies with some
tips of his own.
Ever wonder what happened to
Pale after they left Houston for Los Angeles? Houston Calling
has an update.
And this is last week's news, but Steven Drozd of the
Flaming Lips was
hospitalized in Florida, causing the band to cancel their appearance at Palm Beach's Sunfest and well as the Memphis in May Festival this weekend.
Omar Afra of the
Free Press writes on the
Hands Up Houston board, "We have been more than assured by the band and mangagement [sic] that they are good to go for Houston... Steven's hometown." No information about Drozd's hospitalization has been released, but the musician's lifelong battle with heroin was the subject of the 2005 Lips documentary shot by fellow Oklahoman Brad Beesley,
The Fearless Freaks. The film is available
on HULU.
Broken Record blogger
Jeff Balke has an
interesting breakdown of Apple's purchase of and decision to shut down
Lala the online music streaming service which our own Craig Hlavaty is addicted to.
Erykah Badu has pled not guilty to
charges of indecency stemming from her amazing nekkid Dealey Plaza music video. The ever-fascinating blog MetaFilter breaks down the Dallas native's defense - does nudity always equal indecency? Also,
money quote:
"There's a certain irony here that people who didn't want to see a naked Erykah Badu are pressing charges while thousands of people on the Web who do want to see a naked Erykah Badu get the pixellated version."
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