Genre Report: Sleigh Bells Hope Blue Ivy's Listening & More
INDIE: SLEIGH BELLS HOPES BLUE IVY IS A FAN
Sleigh Bells had the chance to work with Beyoncé last year, and although the recording session didn't work out ("I'd love to actually work with her someday when I actually get some creative input," said guitarist Derek Miller), they hope she's still listening. Vocalist Alexis Krauss told NME, "I like to think we're on her radar. I like to think her and Jay-Z are playing Sleigh Bells to Blue Ivy." [NME]
COUNTRY: ABC GIVES REBA'S SITCOM THE GREEN LIGHTCountry legend Reba McEntire just got her sitcom greenlit by ABC. The show will be called Malibu Country and stars Reba as a woman who drops her cheating rock-star husband and sets off for Malibu to resurrect her singing career. [Country Weekly]
METAL: GENE SIMMONS TALKS ANGRY BIRDS COLLABO
Gene Simmons of KISS is really passionate about merchandising the band, and now he’s channeling that passion into online media and video games. “We’re talking with Angry Birds, KISS and Angry Birds, which will become a deal,” which sounds like a pretty rock n’ roll way to waste an afternoon. He’s also taking a step back in time: “The first issues of KISS Archie comic books hits the world this month,” said Simmons right after he mentioned the angry birds thing. [Forbes/NME]
DANCE: THE RAPTURE: "OUR SONG CHANGED THE GAME"The Rapture, that undersung band that got possibly millions of hesitant rumps in skinny jeans shaking (around the beginning of 00's) are coming back to get their respect. Lead singer Luke Jenner wrote on the band's Tumblr about the band's track "House of Jealous Lovers": "We were the first band in our generation to write a really killer song that incorporated something that you could DJ in a club full stop with a punk vibe." [Pitchfork/Rapture Randomness]
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