Is ESPN becoming the new Starbucks and horning in on the music industries lucrative song licensing deals? The sports network is going to try something rather unique in debuting new music during their Monday Night Football game broadcasts. ESPN, who has already showcased Kanye West’s “Stronger” plans on featuring new songs by Foo Fighters, Kid Rock and apparently next week’s Eagles/Redskins game will feature Eddie Vedder’s “Rise” and “Hard Sun,” from his original soundtrack for Sean Penn’s film “Into the Wild.” Want to hear the entire soundtrack now? The whole thing is streaming right here.
Chicago industrialists Ministry are only one week away from their final album, but that’s not slowing down frontman Al Jourgensen. The dreadlocked industro-goth has been tapped to score, music supervise and create the soundtrack for the upcoming horror feature film “Wicked Lake” (which frankly, looks rather ghetto). Tentatively scheduled for spring 2008, Wicked Lake” is directed by Jourgensen’s good friend, filmmaker Zach Passero, the auteur whose past credits include the blockbuster classics we all know and love,”The Big, Weird and Normal,” “Motel: Glimpse,” and the Ministry video “Lieslieslies“.
AT&T is launching a new campaign of ads designed to convey a “younger, edgier style.” The spots will include six television ads overseen by quirk director Wes Anderson (the upcoming “The Darjeeling Limited”). Wes were the reviews really that bad? Or is it just that AT&T has boatloads of money to burn? [Reuters] Of course this isn’t the first time Anderson has done commercials. Outside of the more famous and well-loved American Express commercial, Wes has also directed ads for Ikea, Dasani and Avon (note the driver blown up in the Amex ad is ‘Darjeeling’ co-writer Roman Coppola).
Speaking of Wes Anderson, if his ‘Darjeeling’ short, “Hotel Chevalier” is getting an R-Rating does that mean it is going to hit theaters? [Video ETA]
Download: Eddie Vedder – “Hard Sun” (featuring Corrin Tucker)