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The soundtrack to the vampire movie Blade II has been finalized. The compilation will feature hip-hop/electronic pairings of Fatboy Slim and Eve, Redman and Gorillaz, and Mos Def and Massive Attack, and others. “I liked his stuff, but had never done anything with him,” Eve says of her collaboration with Fatboy on the track “Cowboy.” “It came out really hot. I’d like to work with other producers like that.” The Blade II soundtrack is due March 19th. The film, which stars Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson, is the second film based on the vampire-hunting title character created by Marvel Comics.… Read more »

Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington recorded vocals for “System,” a song written by Jonathan Davis and Richard Gibbs for the movie Queen Of The Damned. The song was originally sung by Davis for the main character Lestat. The Korn singer’s version is still in the movie, but was not included on the soundtrack, due to Davis’s contract with Epic Records. Bennington replaced Davis’s vocals on the soundtrack and said he paid a lot of attention to Davis’s lyrics. “One of the things I noticed when I was listening to the versions that he had sang over was the lyrical content… Read more »

The Foo Fighters, Oasis, and Bjork are among the acts set for the third Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, taking place at the Empire Polo Grounds in the Southern California desert city of Indio on April 27-28. Bjork will headline the first night and Oasis the second, according to various reports. Others on board include the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Queens Of The Stoneage, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, KRS-One, Dilated Peoples, Basement Jaxx, Paul Oakenfold, Ozomatli, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and Belle & Sebastian. Tickets will be $65 per day, with two-day passes featuring a discount still to be determined.… Read more »

Victoria Beckham, aka “Posh Spice,” gave a broad hint Monday that the Spice Girl phenomenon could finally be at an end. As she embarked on her latest solo outing, “Posh” admitted that the world may have finally lost interest in the Queens of British pop music. “A lot of people are saying ‘Have you split up? Haven’t you split up?’,” she said in an interview with Sky TV. “If we came out and said to everybody we’ve split up, everybody would say ‘we knew that anyway and what do we care’ so we can’t win whatever we say. “What we’re… Read more »

Musicians often view lyrics as vehicles to express their innermost thoughts or frustrations. Orange County, California, combo Fu Manchu prefer to use them to talk about cool stuff, and the impetus for their scorching vocals often comes from their favorite films, toys or pastimes. “We’ve all grown up surfing, skateboarding and being around cars, so a lot of those things have been used in the band since we started,” singer/guitarist Scott Hill said. While Fu Manchu might not have a lot to say lyrically or in interviews, their simplistic sentiments complement their crunchy, chugging guitar rhythms, insistent beats and powerful… Read more »

Your copy of Nas’ Stillmatic is a collector’s item. And not just because some critics have lauded it as a classic – new pressings of the album will not contain the track “Braveheart Party,” which features Mary J. Blige and the Bravehearts. According to a spokesperson for Nas, Columbia Records is obliging Blige’s request to have the track, produced by Swizz Beatz, removed from the album for what she calls “personal reasons.” Blige’s spokesperson at MCA was unaware that M.J.B. wanted the song removed. Nas had no comment on the matter. Copies of the new version of Stillmatic have been… Read more »

Chris Blackwell knew he wanted to be a part of the documentary 1 Giant Leap as soon as musicians Jamie Catto (Faithless) and Duncan Bridgeman played him the rough demos of songs they’d written for the program. The same man whose gut feeling led him to sign Bob Marley and U2 to his Island Records imprint heard what the two musicians had to offer and gave them the green light. “I loved the music of it,” says Blackwell of the documentary due out in March. “I loved the way the music was put together. I loved the different influences of… Read more »

Marilyn Manson, Disturbed’s David Draiman, Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, Static-X’s Wayne Static, and Orgy’s Jay Gordon have been drafted to sing five tracks co-written by Korn’s Jonathan Davis and multi-instrumentalist Richard Gibbs for the upcoming “Queen of the Damned” soundtrack. The Warner Bros. album is due Feb. 19; the film, starring the late Aaliyah and based on the novel by Anne Rice, arrives three days later in U.S. theaters. “Queen of the Damned” also stars Stuart Townshend as the vampire Lestat, who becomes a rock star with the band Satan’s Night Out. As previously reported, contractual restrictions prevented Davis from… Read more »

Korn vocalist Jonathan Davis will not appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming movie Queen Of The Damned due to a stipulation in his contract with Epic Records, which prevents him from working for other labels. To solve the problem, Davis and Warner Bros., the label which is putting out the movie’s soundtrack, have assembled various stars of today’s alternative music scene to cover the five tunes, which Davis sings in the movie as the voice of the Lestat character. Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington, Disturbed vocalist David Draiman, and Static X singer Wayne Static are set to lend vocals… Read more »

Korn’s Jonathan Davis has co-written the score for the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned, due out February 22nd. Collaborating with Oingo Boingo keyboardist Richard Gibbs, Davis composed the score for a ninety-two-piece orchestra and penned five songs for the soundtrack. Among them is one particularly poignant track: a tune with lyrics by Rashad Haughton, brother of the late singer-actress Aaliyah, who portrays the film’s title character. Davis also provides the vampire Lestat’s singing voice. “I’m not the happiest guy in the world,” he says. “So it was really easy to play this character. I’m down with… Read more »