Music Report

Welcome to the yuletide edition of The Report.

Let’s begin with side projects:

There Will Be Blood Soundtrack
Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood doubles as a proper composer on the side. He composed the “stunning” string score for the upcoming Paul Thomas Anderson/Daniel Day-Lewis film about turn of the century oil prospecting. The BBC orchestra plays the recorded score but the Wordless Music orchestra will be performing a Greenwood selection live Jan. 17th at The Church of St. Paul the Apostle on Columbus Avenue & West 60th Street as part of the Wordless Music Festival.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/dj8c/
http://www.wordlessmusic.org/schedule.html

Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
This past Tuesday, Weezer’s Harvard-educated frontman released an album of his solo work including robot voices, barbershop-quartet harmonies, over-emoting, and an Ice Cube cover. It’s basically a bunch of demos so the recordings are very polished.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47569-alone-the-home-recordings-of-rivers-cuomo

Public Enemy is reportedly playing the Warsaw in Brooklyn 2nite.
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00003F66D759A763?artistid=702514&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=3

RZA, who sometimes goes by the pseudonym Bobby Digital according to the flyer, will be doing a show at the intimate Hiro Ballroom 12/29. Tickets are a mere $10.
http://newyork.going.com/therza

To follow up on a previous story, the same ad in Rolling Stone that got Camel smokes in trouble for using cartoons to sell tobacco is also getting them sued by indie bands for “unauthorized use of artist names for commercial advantage (right of publicity)”
http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/indie-rock-universe-fucked-and-xiu-xiu-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-camel-and-rolling-stone/

From the “If you don’t know it, it’s new to you” department:

Canadian Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac is a weird dude. He is a self-described lover of watersports (I don’t mean wakeboarding) and put his genitals on display during a kilted performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Nice enough music though. See especially “Sleepy Maggie” a song in Gaelic from his 1996 album Hi, How Are You?
http://www.amazon.com/Hi-How-Are-You-Today/dp/B000002G5C