– Another track from Jay-Z’s American Gangster album has leaked. It’s called, “Roc Boys,” it was produced by P.Diddy’s hitmaker stable (though Diddy likes to take all the credit), and sounds like early J with lots of punctuated horns, and ’70s soul inflections and black Jewish toasting. Hov has also regretted announcing his retirement. “I was watching “Fade to Black” on VH1, and I was cringing, because I kept saying, ‘It may be the last album’ — I’ve made two albums already!” [Mixtape Maestro] The video for “Blue Magic” is out too (see below)
– ‘The last I heard, the lead singer was dead but I’ll give them a ring and see if anything has changed’,” Some ignoramus jackass film distributor asked Peter Hook if Joy Division would play the New York premiere of “Control.”[Spinner]
– Michel Gondry is going to co-direct an animated film with his 16-year-old son Paul. “We’re translating our relationship into a futuristic story with a dictator and a rebel,” he explained of the film’s rudimentary outline. “He’s the dictator in the story [and] it will be based on [his] art.” Gondry is currently shooting a 30-minute segement for ashort-film vignettes series called, “Toyko.”[MTV]
– Lou Reed sullies his career (a meditation record, c’mon! that much by recording with the Killers. To be fair the tune isn’t as wretched as we thought it would be. [YouTube]
– J.J. Abrams has cast “Hot Fuzz”‘s Simon Pegg as Scotty in the upcoming Star Trek reboot? [Ain’t It Cool] Oh the guy from “Harold & Kumar” is also gonna be Sulu, heh.
Hunter S. Thompson’s widow is writing a book about her experience of being married to “journalism’s” wildest writer. “I don’t deny his lifestyle, because his lifestyle was pretty extreme,” she said. [AP]
Download: Jay-Z – “Roc Boys”
Jay-Z – “Blue Magic” video
Born in Chile, raised in Canada, now living in Brooklyn, NY, Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2008. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, MuchMusic, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
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