Posts Tagged ‘Steven Tyler’
Baseball season kicks off in Boston with a little Dr. Dre, Steven Tyler, and Neil Diamond
The 2010 baseball season hit the ground running last night as the Yankees faced off against the Red Sox in Boston. In a perfect world, neither of these two annoying big-money teams would do well, but when you can more or less buy your way into the playoffs every single year, that’s not really likely.
And yes, I’m from New England, and I realize that not liking the Sawx is tantamount to blasphemy in these parts. Oh well, go Cardinals!
Anyhow, last night’s game featured a lot to talk about in regards to music.
If you watched any of the pregame, you probably saw Dr. Dre, decked out in a personalized Sox jersey, taking batting practice and promoting his custom Red Sox Beats headphones. But the interesting news came when he was being interviewed alongside record executive Jimmy Iovine. When asked which song they would suggest a batter use as his at-bat music, they both said “Under Pressure” which is an as yet unreleased song by Dre and Jay-Z, presumably off Dre’s Detox album, which has long been talked about but still has not seen the light of day. But the way Iovine described the song made it seem like it’s completely finished. Perhaps, then, we’ll get a firm release date sometime in the near future? I hope so.
Today’s Quickies
Diligent.Me gives us his February 2010 mixtape. I’m getting pretty addicted following his mixtape releases.
Luke Lewis, of NME.com, talks about music you once loved, but now can’t stand to listen to. Mine would have to be the entire ‘Purple’ album by the Stone Temple Pilots. As much as I loved that album, I can’t get myself to turn that baby on any longer. What’s yours?
Here’s a brief discussion on the pirate’s guide to paying for music. The authors touch base on Zune, Spotify, and Play.me.
Frances Bean Cobain, yes the daughter of Courtney Love and the late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, is getting set to make her singing debut. We’ll see the track in late March.
We learned, from guardian.co.uk, of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler had auditioned for a possible Led Zeppelin reunion. And Tyler was rejected because he barely knew the Zeppelin catalog.
Justin Timberlake will be heading to Harvard to be honored as Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. The Grammy and Emmy award winner will receive his pudding pot from the nation’s oldest undergraduate drama troupe at a roast scheduled for Friday.