Popsofa Entertainment Lounge - Tues May 13, 2008

Here’s a rundown of entertainment tidbits for Tues May 13, 2008.

Remy Ma faces eight years in jail for shooting a former associate last year. The quarrel was over $3,000 that went missing from her purse. She had initially faced up to 25 years, and prosecutors asked for thirteen years. Her lawyers plan to appeal. [via […]

REM Open Sources Their Music Video Footage

Skimming through my feed reader, I see that I missed something important: R.E.M. have gone a step further than Radiohead’s approach to their In Rainbows album, which was released online on a pay-as-you-like basis. Instead, R.E.M. have open-sourced the music video footage from their latest album, Accelerate.
The 11 MP4-format HD videos were released on Feb […]

Amy Winehouse Succeeds at the Grammy Awards

Amy Winehouse, who performed live via satellite at the ultra-boring Grammy Awards on Sunday, and who took home awards for five of the six nominations she’d received, is getting clean. And incarcerated hubby Blake Fielder-Civil might be getting worried that she’ll dump him - despite previous plans to renew their vows in prison. (She was […]

Free Full-Length Music Albums on Last.fm?

Richard Jones of Last.fm is reporting that, as of yesterday, you can listen to full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. Wow. Does this spell the end of profit for musicians? No. Artists and labels will get paid for every streaming of a song. That’s actually even better than when a […]

PopSofa Entertainment Lounge - Fri Jan 18, 2008

Here’s a roundup of this week’s celebrity madness.

The B-52’s Funplex, releasing March 25th, is their first in sixteen years. Here’s hoping that the songs - which all band members participated in writing - are as fun as anything they’ve done. [Celebrity Smack]

Celebabies: Britney Spears and Beyonce might both be pregnant.
The San Diego County Coroner report […]

Avril Lavigne vs. The Rubinoos vs. The Rolling Stones vs. The Ramones

About face: Songwriters Tony Dunbar and James Gangwer of the Rubinoos are now saying Avril Lavigne’s song “Girlfriend” is not a ripoff of their 1979 song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”  I wonder how much they got paid to say that, because if you listen to both songs, it seems as if Lavigne’s song was […]

EMI Could Cut 2,000 Jobs in Recorded Music Division

EMI, the British company that the Sex Pistols sang about in the late 1970s, and who were the home to the Beatles, is planning to cut as much
as 2,000 jobs in their recorded music division. They’re claiming reasons such as online piracy, falling CD sales, a poor release schedule, and losing two of its biggest […]

Is Pandora Back For International Listeners?

Pandora is amongst one of the best music recommendation websites available, but for some reason no one courted them with enough money to cover the new Internet Radio royalty fees. So they had to say goodbye to non-U.S. listeners last year.
Many diehard international fans would likely have been willing to pay some coin each month […]

Sez Annie Lennox, Focus on Amy Winehouse’s Music

Annie Lennox, who was just dropped by her record label Sony BMG, has been urging people to listen to Amy Winehouse’s music instead of focusing on her troubled personal life. Admittedly, Winehouse is very talented (see video clip on this page), but sorry Annie… us mere mortals have to have something to sneer at - […]

New Death Cab for Cutie Album and Solo Project

Death Cab for Cutie is one of those bands that you probably have heard without knowing, and whose songs you actually like. Their new album is due in late May, and apparently it’s recorded live to analog tape with minimal overdubs. There’s even a nine-minute jam and several guests. Should be very interesting for a […]