The Idie News Round Up

It Wednesday March 21th

and it was cool today
but a warm up is coming and
it was spring 24 hours ago

a few local notes

today metrotimes have the full warp-up of SXSW
and go to the metrotimes.com and look at more pictures of the SXSW

Also were a week and a half away until the 3rd Annuls Detroit News battle of the bands at the state theater and the detroit news the news paper is doing profiled of all the bands who is playing the battle at the state theater downtown detroit in the newspaper.

i know i be down there and hoppeing to post the winners on the blog sight on saturday night.

Judging the battle will be Record producer Jim Diamond, DJ Salaam Wreck of D12, Epic Music's Artist Development Rep. Ben Beverly, and Detroit News staffer and musician Melody Baetens.

and also there will be some guest at the battle of the bands, six WWE superstar will be at the battle of the bands [hey it WrestleMania 23 weekend that same weekend]due to appear will be WWE "SmackDown!" stars Matt Hardy, Deuce, Domino and Cherry,"Raw" Diva Maria and ECW's CM Punk they will be on hand between 1:30 and 2 PM to give away last minutes to the big show on April 1st.

Now on to the Indie news out side the 313

Still hung over from SXSW coverage

well there will be some more tomorrow on "The tonight show with Jay Leno" Flaming Lips Front man Wayne Coyne will played man on the street reported to all the going on at last week SXSW, this will be good, mean Whield in a interview with EW.com Wayne also revield a stage play on the 2003 album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and he have his sight headed for Broadway.

What the story will be about, what Wayne told EW.com "There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of something. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that."

Aaron Sorkin from "West Wing" have been ask to pen the script.

i know it a little mainstream but Starbucks Corp.'s have announced that it from it own record label, they have from a partnership with Concord Music Group to launch the Hear Music label and one of there 1st artist that will sell there CD will be Sir Mecca[AKA Paul McCartney}

Why i put this up? Who Know it probable a slow news Day.