Music Mates – Ghostface?s Guide to Life: MC Gives Rolling Stone Readers a Peek Inside the Mind of Pretty Toney

Ghostface?s Guide to Life: MC Gives Rolling Stone Readers a Peek Inside the Mind of Pretty Toney

During Austin Scaggs’ recent chat with Ghostface Killah for the current issue, the Big Doe Rehab MC flipped through his new book The World According to Pretty Toney — a sort of Chicken Soup for the Hustler’s Soul based on a character he played in a series of MTV2 shorts — and highlighted a few passages. Click here to check out a gallery of photos from the book, complete with additional explanations from Ghostface (his bon mots include “Take a shit before you leave the house — nothing is worse than having to doo-doo when you have important shit to do” and “Why you gonna fuck up the crackheads?”).

As a bonus, listen to Ghostface talk about finding happiness and forging his own unique style. “I don’t want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing. I’ve got stories on every one of my albums, big ones. I write stories, I don’t just write rhymes, I write books. You feel me?”

• Ghostface says he finds pleasure in the simple things: a good haircut, exercise, “beautiful shit.”

• Reading books like the Koran has changed Ghostface: “I don’t do a lot of stupid shit I used to do … [like] wilding out, punching niggas trying to interview me in their fucking face, that type of shit, feel me?”

• Ghostface’s gibberish-poetry flow was an intentional attempt to forge new ground: “That was a style. I wanted to be the first person to do that, and that’s what I did. ‘Scientific/My hand kissed it/Robotic/Let’s think optimistic/Watch me dolly dick it’ … It wasn’t meant for you to understand what the fuck I was saying, because I just wrote a rhyme.”

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Tom Morello?s Monster Jam: Slash, Serj Tankian, Wayne Kramer, Mick Mars and More Join Nightwatchman at Tiny L.A. Gig

Tom Morello gave an early Christmas present to the 100-plus fans packed into Hollywood’s Hotel Café last night. As a send-off for his final gig of the year as the Nightwatchman, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist assembled an eclectic group of music legends that jammed on inspired covers and collaborations for more than four hours.

Morello’s weekly appearances at the cozy venue serve as an opportunity to raise money and awareness for his social-action foundation Axis of Justice, which provides aid to the homeless and hungry. The evening began in the normal fashion with Morello playing a handful of acoustic songs. His small set complete, Morello recounted a story about a man with a great voice at a Woody Guthrie tribute. The man turned out to be Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins, who then climbed onstage and proved he was worthy of Morello’s praise with a solid, albeit lyrically altered rendition of Phil Ochs’ classic protest tune “State of Mississippi” and the Christmas staple “Silent Night.”

Serj Tankian, who along with Morello co-founded Axis of Justice, next appeared at the piano for two songs, then Switchfoot’s John Foreman, rising songwriter Elijah Forrest and Richard Patrick of Filter. It didn’t seem realistic when Morello took the microphone at this point and joked that the evening was just getting started, but two and half hours later it was clear he had been dead serious. Moments later Perry Farrell brought his Satellite Party onstage with Morello accompanying on electric guitar to play two songs before closing with a spot-on version of “Jane Says.” The evening then slipped into high gear when Morello introduced Alice in Chains which entailed Jerry Cantrell and new singer Will DuVall. The two played a brilliant version of “Nutshell” that was a deft replication of their MTV Unplugged performance and followed with a cover of the Who’s “Squeeze Box.”

Most of the crowd, already stoked about the incredible lineup, had assumed the Alice in Chains duo was the finale, until Mick Mars of Mötley Crüe slowly emerged to join Morello and the assembled house band for “Dr. Feelgood” and “Girls, Girls, Girls.” It was borderline excessive when Slash appeared onstage to help Morello and Cantrell rip through the Thin Lizzy classic “Jailbreak.” The evening pressed on with more jamming and a late appearance by Wayne Kramer of MC5 who led the now-supersized group in a spirited version of “Kick Out the Jams.”

Almost an hour past midnight Morello called the entire night’s lineup back to the stage and introduced Woody Guthrie’s definitive American anthem “This Land Is Your Land.” Morello, ever articulate and thoughtful, implored the audience to heed Gutherie’s poignant lyrics and “grab the wheel of history to reclaim your land.” Each verse was sung by a different star with Tim Robbins and Farrell leading and Slash providing intermittent hillbilly-inspired solos. The ensemble rocked out to the revised ballad for more than ten minutes before Morello thanked his gracious guests and the adoring audience for providing an unforgettable night of music.

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Snow prevents fans from Boston (Music Mates) game

Snow prevents fans from Boston game
Jamie Langenbrunner scored two goals to lift the New Jersey Devils to a 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night in a game played in front of about only 1,500 people due to a major snowstorm.

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Peter Travers Video Review: ?I Am Legend? and ?The Perfect Holiday?

Which film was sent by the movie gods to punish Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers this week? The Perfect Holiday starring Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard, a picture that will actually make you feel horrible about the holidays. Will Smith fares far better (with a fantastic dog named Sam), commanding the screen in the first hour of I Am Legend, a sci-fi film set in a Manhattan that has been depopulated by a plague. To watch Travers’ full reviews, click above.

Plus: Read Travers’ review of I Am Legend here.

>> Watch every episode of our weekly Peter Travers video podcast by subscribing via iTunes (when prompted, click “Launch application”). Every Friday, a new episode will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don’t have iTunes, download it here.]

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Coldplay Gifts Fans With Pretenders Cover, Thom Yorke to Release Remixes, Jay-Z?s ?Gangster? Meets the Real ?Godfather? and More

• With only twelve days to go ’til Christmas, Coldplay has posted an early present on their Web site for their fans: “2000 Miles,” the band’s cover of the Pretenders song. “We love Christmas songs, but every time we try and write one it’s awful,” Chris Martin writes. Maybe Martin could learn a thing or two from the Killers.

• Thom Yorke will revisit his solo career early next year as he releases three 12′’ singles featuring nine remixes of tracks from his debut album The Eraser. Among the remixers are the Field, Burial, Four Tet and Modeselektor.

• The seventh annual Ponderosa Stomp is branching out to include conference panels next year. The American music fest will take place April 29th and 30th in New Orleans and feature performances by Ronnie Spector, Roky Erickson and more.

• To celebrate getting picked up for another season on HBO, or because they’re just overflowing with humor, mock rockers Flight of the Conchords will release a full-length album in April 2008.

• From Broadway to the Mafia way: After Jay-Z’s American Gangster received the show-tune treatment, now DJ Skee has mashed-up Jigga’s new album with the score from The Godfather.

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Ohio State’s Gee not big fan of playoffs
Gordon Gee, 63-year-old president of Ohio State, is an avid fan. But he’s not enthused about an idea of a playoff system. As Dennis Dodd says, Gee is also not happy with the Bobby Petrino ordeal — ‘just another idea of what is wrong with the profession.’

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Kill fits bill: N. (Music Mates) Illinois looks south for coach

Jerry Kill is the new football coach at Northern Illinois, less than a week after he had Southern Illinois in the FCS semifinals.

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Gordon Gee, 63-year-old president of Ohio State, is an avid fan. But he’s not enthused about an idea of a playoff system. As Dennis Dodd says, Gee is also not happy with the Bobby Petrino ordeal — ‘just another idea of what is wrong with the profession.’

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Peter Travers Video Review: ?I Am Legend? and ?The Perfect Holiday?

Which film was sent by the movie gods to punish Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers this week? The Perfect Holiday starring Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard, a picture that will actually make you feel horrible about the holidays. Will Smith fares far better (with a fantastic dog named Sam), commanding the screen in the first hour of I Am Legend, a sci-fi film set in a Manhattan that has been depopulated by a plague. To watch Travers’ full reviews, click above.

Plus: Read Travers’ review of I Am Legend here.

>> Watch every episode of our weekly Peter Travers video podcast by subscribing via iTunes (when prompted, click “Launch application”). Every Friday, a new episode will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don’t have iTunes, download it here.]

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New Documentary Explores Superfans? Obsession With ? Tiffany

I Think We’re Alone Now, a new documentary set to screen at Slamdance 2008 (January 17th-25th in Park City, Utah), examines the sometimes-obsessive relationship between fans and artists. But the two subjects profiled in this film aren’t bonkers for current pop idols like Britney Spears — they still, to this day, worship Eighties teen queen Tiffany. The movie, by first-time feature director Sean Donnelly, hurls you into the worlds of Jeff, an Asperger’s-inflicted fifty-year-old from Santa Cruz, California, and Kelly, a thirty-five-year-old intersex person from Denver, both of whom claim to share a bond with the thirty-six-year-old singer who now records dance music. So why Tiffany? “It’s more about where they were in the lives when they first heard about her,” Donnelly tells Rock Daily, “I don’t think it’s anything special about Tiffany herself.”

The idea for the film was born when Donnelly stumbled upon Jeff (the two live in the same town), and noticed Jeff’s shrine to the pop star on a visit to his new acquaintance’s apartment. Jeff’s fervor for Tiffany was once so severe, the pop star’s aunt filed a restraining order against him until it was ultimately revealed that he was harmless. “Jeff now is in love with Alyssa Milano,” Donnelly says, “because Tiffany is married. Kelly, on the other hand, is really in love with Tiffany, and is hoping that she gets a divorce.”

The delusion still runs deep, as Robert felt that the reason the singer appeared in Playboy in 2004 was because “she dedicated that to me, she wanted to declare our love to each other to everyone.” At the film’s climax, Jeff and Kelly (who meet for the first time) go to Las Vegas to catch a Tiffany performance, as the ultra-competitive Kelly tries to prove she’s the better suitor. While it’s easy to focus on the pair’s troubling obsessions, Donnelly says his project is more of a story about unrequited love. “After you watch the movie, it’s just a story of two people liking somebody that doesn’t like them back, and that’s a universal thing that many people can relate to.” For more information, check out the film’s Web site here.

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Watch Wyclef Jean Play ?Fast Car,? Chat About the Fugees, Paul Simon, Christian Rock: Exclusive Video

Wyclef Jean stopped by the offices for lunch early this week, and he brought his guitar, which made everything even more exciting. Here’s him performing “Fast Car,” from his new album Carnival Vol II: Memoirs of an Immigrant , which just came out. Also check out below to see Wyclef retelling the story of making “Fast Car” with Paul Simon, plus a bonus video of him talking about his secret Christian rock history.

Click here to watch Wyclef discuss Making “Fast Car” with Paul Simon.

Click here for Wyclef on the Fugees and his Christian rock past.

Download the MP3 of “Fast Car” Live at Rolling Stone here:

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Coldplay Gifts Fans With Pretenders Cover, Thom Yorke to Release Remixes, Jay-Z?s ?Gangster? Meets the Real ?Godfather? and More

• With only twelve days to go ’til Christmas, Coldplay has posted an early present on their Web site for their fans: “2000 Miles,” the band’s cover of the Pretenders song. “We love Christmas songs, but every time we try and write one it’s awful,” Chris Martin writes. Maybe Martin could learn a thing or two from the Killers.

• Thom Yorke will revisit his solo career early next year as he releases three 12′’ singles featuring nine remixes of tracks from his debut album The Eraser. Among the remixers are the Field, Burial, Four Tet and Modeselektor.

• The seventh annual Ponderosa Stomp is branching out to include conference panels next year. The American music fest will take place April 29th and 30th in New Orleans and feature performances by Ronnie Spector, Roky Erickson and more.

• To celebrate getting picked up for another season on HBO, or because they’re just overflowing with humor, mock rockers Flight of the Conchords will release a full-length album in April 2008.

• From Broadway to the Mafia way: After Jay-Z’s American Gangster received the show-tune treatment, now DJ Skee has mashed-up Jigga’s new album with the score from The Godfather.

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Dewey Cox: The Rolling Stone Interview

An intimate Q&A with the protagonist of “Walk Hard” Listen to a special audio documentary on Dewey Cox featuring RS contributing editor David Wild. Dewey Cox is one of the legends of rock & roll: the center of seemingly every musical movement from the Fifties…

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The World’s Greatest Heartbreaker

Tales of Ike & Tina Turner, God Knows How Many Ikettes, and the Closed Circuit TV System From Issue 93, October 14, 1971 Walk into what, from the outside, looks to be another well-paid, well-kept home in suburban Inglewood, California, and you’re hit: a huge, imperial oil painting of Ike and Tina Turner, dressed as if for a simple, private wedding, circa 1960, modest pompadour and formal mink. A thriller? The killer, honey … Also in the foyer, under the portrait, a small white bust of John F. Kennedy. Next to him, the Bible, opened to Isaiah 42-A New Song to the Lord….

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Breaking Artist: Gucci Mane

Who: Dirty South rapper Radric “Gucci Mane” Davis, who after spending some time behind bars, has learned to translate a life of crime into lyrical street anthems. Sounds Like: Gucci’s new album Back to the Traphouse finds the Bessemer, Alabama native unleashing crime-thick lyrics with his patented Southern drawl over explosive synth beats and sing-song hooks. The album, a sequel of sorts to his debut Traphouse, features guest spots from Ludacris, Lil’ Kim, Rich Boy, the Game and late UGK rapper Pimp C. Three Things You Should Know: 1. Gucci killed a man — in self-defense. While visiting the home of a female friend in 2005, Gucci was forced to shooter down an intruder after the man (an associate of Young Jeezy, with whom Gucci has an ongoing beef) stormed into the room, guns blazing. While Gucci didn’t serve time for that incident (again, self-defense), he did serve six months in the slammer for beating another man with a pool stick. 2. Gucci passed time in the pen (he was locked-down twenty-three hours a day) writing a screenplay about his life. The son of an Atlanta hustler nicknamed “Gucci Man,” Mane started out on his father’s path by dealing crack at the age of nineteen. After his release from prison, Mane got an important pep talk from another rapper. “Ludacris told me to keep my nose clean,” Gucci says, “I plan on doing that.” 3. He may have a rep as a thug, but Gucci says he’s laid-back and isn’t afraid to show off his sense of humor. He even got his start as a rapper doing comic remakes of hit songs. “I would remake ‘The Humpty Dance’ as ‘The Gucci Dance,’” he says, chuckling. “I was like a ghetto Weird Al.” Get It: Gucci Mane’s Back to the Traphouse hit record stores yesterday. Click above to check out his video for “Freaky Gurl.”
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Hair-Metal Highlights

Wielding guitars, Aqua Net and mascara, they terrorized the land in the late Eighties. The outrageous fortunes of six hair bands. L.A. GUNS HIGH Four years after Axl Rose split from the band to form Guns n’ Roses, the 1989 power wailer “The Ballad of Jayne” hit Number Thirty-three on the Hot 100. LOW Their 2005 album, Tales From the Strip, doesn’t feature the band’s founder Tracii Guns — or any other member of the original group. OUTRAGEOUS MOMENTOriginal vocalist Paul Black got arrested along with G n’ R’s Izzy Stradlin for copping heroin, nearly costing both…

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Madonna, John Mellencamp, Leonard Cohen Lead 2008 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees

Madonna and John Mellencamp will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year, alongside Leonard Cohen, the Ventures and the Dave Clark Five. Philly Soul songwriter/producer team Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff will be presented the Ahmet Ertegun Award (previously known as the non-performer category) and blues harmonica player Little Walter will be inducted in the sideman category. This is Madonna’s first year of eligibility; her debut single, “Everybody,” was released twenty-five…

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The 100 Best Songs of 2007

As you may have already noticed, the new issue of Rolling Stone is our special Yearbook 2007, where we chart the year’s best releases, rock-star rants, reunited bands, Amy Winehouse meltdowns, dickheads (according to Bill Maher) and much more. Keep watching this site for all our year-end lists. Up first is the 100 Best Songs of 2007 — from Jay-Z and Rihanna to Feist and Nickelback (seriously), it’s the ultimate 2007 playlist. Click here to check out the list, and listen to (and watch!) the songs for yourself.

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Eddie Vedder, Flaming Lips, Roger Waters Lead Long Short List of Oscar Hopefuls

The committee that hands out Oscars has narrowed down a year’s worth of film soundtracks and end-credit music into a fifty-nine track “short list” of songs that will be eligible for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards. Eddie Vedder, who contributed solo tracks to the Sean Penn film Into the Wild, and Sondre Lerche, who recorded the Dan in Real Life soundtrack, both have three songs on the list. Vedder will most likely get some definite Oscar nod love, as his “Guaranteed” was nominated for Best Song at the Golden Globes this morning (he’s also up for Best Original Score at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s January 13th ceremony).

August Rush leads all films with four potential nominations, with John Legend’s “Someday” the favorite of that bunch. Other interesting inclusions: Roger Waters’ “Hello (I Love You),” which we’re assuming is not the Doors’ song (original music only is considered) from The Last Mimzy, plus there’s the Flaming Lips’ oddball “I Was Zapped by the Super Lucky Rainbow” from Good Luck Chuck and “The Tale of the Horny Frog” from The Heartbreak Kid, and Rufus Wainwright’s “Another Believer” from Meet the Robinsons.

Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger will once again vie for an Oscar statuette, as two of his Wham!-inspired contributions to Music and Lyrics are on the short list. Schlesinger almost took home the Academy Award in 1997 for penning the song “That Thing You Do!” from the film of the same name, but Madonna’s “You Must Love Me” from Evita pulled an upset victory. The upcoming Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story also had three songs on the list, meaning that it’s likely John C. Reilly will have to appear as Cox to perform in front of millions of people Oscar night.

So how does the Academy pick five finalists from this enormous list? The whole thing sounds very complex: On January 15th, they’ll screen clips featuring each song in random order, and then vote. Though a better question may be what happens to the Oscars if the Writer’s Strike keeps going?

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Goldfrapp Talk Lush February Album ?Seventh Tree?

On Goldfrapp’s forthcoming fourth full-length album Seventh Tree, the duo of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory move away from the cold glam of 2005’s Supernature for a more lush, softer sound. Swift genre shifts have become second nature to Goldfrapp, whether it was moving from their ambient debut, 2000’s Felt Mountain to the electroclash of 2003’s Black Cherry. “We’re always searching for different ways to express ourselves. You want to feel like you’re moving on and doing new things,” Alison Goldfrapp tells Rock Daily. “If you keep hanging on to a formula you found, life gets boring pretty bloody quickly.”

From the first note on Seventh Tree opener “Clowns,” it’s clear there’s nothing bloody boring about the duo’s new album. The song trickles in with the gentle plucking of an acoustic guitar (it’s the first time the pair have used the instrument), before Alison’s cooing vocals enter. Soon, walls of strings swell as the group conjures up picturesque images of their native Bath, England, where they record all their albums. “We did want to have a warmer sound, but a warmer sound that didn’t sound too pretty, so that was something we concentrated on quite a bit,” Goldfrapp says.
To accompany the warmer sound, the duo also wrote their most personal batch of lyrics yet. The end result is a cinematic experience, especially on first single “A&E,” which examines “a very desperate situation in a very humorous way.” “A&E,” by the way, does not stand for “Arts & Entertainment” (like the TV channel); Goldfrapp explains it means “Accident & Emergency.” As for the album’s title, Goldfrapp says, “I had a dream about a very large tree. There was beautiful sunshine, and the tree was waving in the wind and said it should be called it the ‘Seventh Tree.’ And you can’t argue with a dream.” Seventh Tree is out February 26th, and Goldfrapp have “a short tour of the U.S. in the spring and a much longer tour in the autumn” on tap.

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