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  Into The Groove

By Paul V.

If you caught the smokin’ Superbowl halftime show with Prince, you were probably surprised when he launched into “The Best of You” by the Foo Fighters. Well, no one was more surprised than the Foos themselves, who had no idea it was going to happen. Apparently Prince hated the Foo Fighters’ version of “Darling Nikki” they put out a couple of years ago, but drummer Taylor Hawkins took it in good spirit. “It was pretty amazing to have a guy like Prince cover one of our songs, and actually do it better than we did!”

Trip hoppers Massive Attack are readying their new CD, and cool guest vocalists collaborating with them include Damon Albarn, Liz Frasier, Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval and Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio.

Morrissey wowed Los Angeles with his recent shows in Pasadena, and he’s looking to the future—for when he kicks the bucket! Recently, Moz shared he wants to be buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, next to the grave of Johnny Ramone. As for his tombstone, he quipped, “I’d thought of ‘Home at last,’ but Bela Lugosi already used it.” Perhaps ‘Pretty Girls Make Graves’ would be more appropriate?

Erasure will release album number 12 this spring, entitled Light at the End of the World, which is set for a May 22 release.

Fresh from masterminding David Beckham's lucrative move to America, U.K. pop-culture svengali Simon Fuller is turning his hand to another important project, Spice Girls—The Musical. After seeing the success of Dreamgirls, Fuller and his scriptwriter brother Kim are busy constructing the Spice Girls story as a musical movie. You have been warned.

Congrats to all the Grammy Award winners, but a special nod must go to the Dixie Chicks, who won in every category they were nominated. Natalie Maine’s “Simpsons laugh” when they accepted their first trophy was priceless!

And finally, in our Britney Spears Watch: It’s already splitsville for her and boy toy Isaac Cohen (who recently spilled every juicy detail about their sex life to a U.K. rag), and Brit recently had to fight off rumors that she was having wild sex parties in her Malibu home with—gasp—lesbians. If that’s not scathing enough, she just got sent a gnarly letter from Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a former Michael Jackson confidant. He chided her for her very less-than-motherly behavior, saying, "We can all pretend that life is one big party devoid of responsibility, but coming home drunk, or letting your kids see you in a degraded state, will permanently scar them.” Hmm—just like Michael Jackson’s face.

 
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