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The Streets new music video for their single “Blinded by the Lights” has been banned due to its explicit content. The video reveals frontman Mike Skinner taking drugs at a wedding, at which he is left beaten up after a fight. To add to that, it features a friend of Skinner receiving oral sex and filming the incident with his cell phone.
While most stations won’t be able to play the video, “Blinded by the Lights” will be played on MTV after an 11 p.m. watershed, and you can also view it on www.NME.com.
“Blinded by the Lights” will be released September 27.
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The Pixies have announced they will reissue their first three albums on vinyl. The three albums – 1987’s “Come On Pilgrim”, 1988’s “Surfer Rosa” and 1989’s “Doolittle” – will all be re-released on 180-gram vinyl after years of being out of production.
All albums come backed with the original artwork, except “Doolittle,” which will have an insert featuring the lyrics.
This is a great move for the Pixies, considering their recent reformation tour has prompted them to discuss the possibility of a new album.
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Artists Interpol will be opening a gallery in London on Friday Sept. 24. “The Interpol Space London” will display what the band describes as “the vision of the band and band’s close associates.”
The gallery will feature prints, limited edition posters, band member playlists and ten short films commissioned by the band.
Corresponding galleries providing the Interpol musical and visual experience will be taking place in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Berlin over the coming months.
Interpol’s newest album “Antics” will be released on September 27.
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Johnny Ramone, after battling with cancer for a number of years died on Sept. 15 in his LA home.
The band’s singer Joey Ramone and bassist Dee Dee Ramone have both already died.
Joey succumbed to cancer in 2001, while the bassist died from a drug overdose the following year.
Ramone was 55 years old.
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Original footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert that were thought to have been destroyed after broadcast, has been discovered in Sweden.
56 minutes long, the recording of the concert was from a Stockholm show in 1969. It was unearthed by technicians in the archives of public television channel SVT.
The tape should have been destroyed after it was broadcast, as raw footage was too expensive to keep in 1969. It is thought that a worker at the station hid the tape on the shelf where it remained for 35 years, according to the reports by the BBC.
SVT will find out shortly if they still have the rights to broadcast the footage.
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According to a coroner’s report, Rick James had nine drugs in his body including cocaine, valium, vicodin and methamphetamine when he died in his sleep in August.
It was said that the funk legend passed away in his Los Angeles home of a heart attack, but the report released Sept. 16 said that the drugs in his system most likely contributed to the organ’s failure.
The report said: “None of the drugs or drug combinations were found to be at levels that were life-threatening in and of themselves.”
Best known for his 1981 hit “Super Freak,” the star had been hooked on crack-cocaine and once proclaimed himself an “icon of drug use.” James’ family attributes his death to natural causes.
- Aerin Raymond
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