SHE AND HAIM
Tired of the high sausage quota at music festivals, Haim are dreaming of bringing back Lilith Fair, the all-female touring fest created by Sarah McLachlan. Theirs would feature Savages, Chvrches and Taylor Swift, a lineup almost certain to be better than next year’s Glasto headliners.
MISTY EYED
Guys, it’s okay to own up to liking Red Hot Chili Peppers now. In a Pitchfork interview, Father John Misty called the funk-rockers “misunderstood”. “Everything else around that time was so joyless”, he added, while wearing nothing but a gym sock.
NINE OUT OF TEN
If a cast of Woody Harrelson, Kate Winslett, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Aaron Paul isn’t enough to get you excited about Atlanta cop thriller Triple 9, the trailer – severed heads, gunfights, trap soundtrack – should do the job.
POP WILL REPEAT ITSELF
In “our nostalgia is being exploited for commercial gain” news, Pepsi is to release a version of the Pepsi Perfect drunk by Marty McFly in Back To The Future II. It’ll cost $20 and taste the same as normal Pepsi (ie not as good as Coke).
PUNK LUNK TALKS BUNK
Taking Jim from the Corrs’ crown of pop’s premier tinfoil hat-wearer is Rage Against The Machine’s Tim Commerford, who reckons that both the moon landings and the Isis beheading videos were faked.
PHONING IT IN
ITV is making a gameshow based on QuizUp, the general-knowledge app where users have to answer questions faster than their opponents. So, erm, just like every quiz show in existence then, guys?
