Check it out – it’s The Chairman of the Board, Big Snoop Dogg dropping the That’s Tha Homie, the 1st track off his new album Malice N Wonderland (due out Dec 4th).

and he’s namechecking Aussie superstars along the way….

I got a homie in Australia
He showed me where to go
You know him as Gladitator
I call him Russell Crowe

Fo Shizzle my Nizzle

word,

Dirty Projectors premiered a brand new song on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight (it was amazing), the video will be available tomorrow. After the show The Roots (the house band) asked them to play the song again in their practice room because they loved it so much, here is Questlove’s iPhone video of the impromptu performance (he posted it Twitter).

Check it out!

I’m feeling very proud to be from Brisbane today.

It was announced by the Brisbane City Council that the new link from Hale Street in Brisbane (that’s the street next to Lang Park for the football fans) to West End in South Brisbane will be named after out very own Go Betweens.

I feel proud because Brisbane has come ahead in leaps and bounds in acknowledging their cultural heritage. The Go-Betweens, The Saints and others had to leave Brisbane for Sydney (and latter London) to further their career. The late 70’s and early 80’s in Brisbane were ruled by a peanut farmer from Kingaroy names Joh Bjelke-Petersen. Brisbane was an oppressive society. A group of three people in one place at the same time constituted an illegal assembly so you could imagine how difficult it was for musical artists with punk leanings to actually be able to play live shows.

Fast forward some thirty years and we now have a bridge named “The Go Between Bridge” acknowledging the artistic success of Robert Forster and the late Grant McLennan and their influence on music in Queensland. Now that’s progress!

A little birdie told us some very good and some very sad news today…

Electro-glam-pop-oh-so-sensual duo Goldfrapp are set to score the upcoming film Nowhere Boy – a biopic about John Lennon’s childhood and teen years.

“We have written the score for a film called Nowhere Boy. It’s about John Lennon as a boy.” Alison Goldfrapp wrote on her blog.

The film is based on Lennon’s half-sister Julia Baird’s book Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon. Appropriately, the score was recorded with a full orchestra at Abbey Rd studio. As for Goldfrapp’s follow up to last year’s sun-drenched, ethereal Seventh Tree, that’s in the works too – no ETA just yet.

Nowhere Boy was scripted by Matt Greenhalgh, who proved his merits with the stunning Anton Corbijn biopic on Joy Division’s Ian Curtis, Control. Can’t wait for the London Film Fest premiere and local release! It really is Beatle-mania out there…

And in less-cheery Beatles news, the very Lucy of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds fame has passed away at the age of 46 of the autoimmune disease lupus. Lucy O’Donnell went to school with John Lennon’s son Julian. In 1966, Julian took his painted picture of the three year old Lucy to his father and explained “it’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds”.

Not a bad legacy, eh? Rest In Peace.

So as awesome as it would have been to have David Bowie grace our shores for Australia’s biggest touring festival, unfortunately yesterday’s lineup leak (featuring Ziggy Stardust, Massive Attack, & Jet) was well… a load of bollocks.

We can now announce the official REAL Big Day Out 2010 lineup below:

Just quietly, I am ridiculously excited about The Decemberists. The fantastical and deliriously complex rock-opera epic The Hazards of Love has found itself  on high rotation on my stereo of late, and Shara Worden’s forest Queen in The Wanting Comes In Waves / Repaid is a powerful fave.

Make sure to follow frontman @colinmeloy on twitter. There’s a good reason he has 1 million + followers.

Two down, three to go – for this festival anyway… there’s a whole lot more to come. This weekend marked the very first (and ridiculously anticipated) Empire of the Sun live appearances ever.

We saw a black & white preview of Empire on stage during the Eclipse of the Sun broadcast, but that ain’t nuttin’ compared to the bizarre and wonderful spectacle (all the heart/brainchild of Luke Steele and Empire video director Josh Logue) that burst onto stage for the Brisbane Parklife punters on Saturday.

So these are the stats we have for the Empire of the Sun live show – and it shows…

• One tonne of costumes
• A feature film’s worth of visuals
• 1.21 jigawatts of lighting
• Dancing swordfish
• Part-Pantomime / Part-musical
• Evangelical narration
• Four pink guitars
• 28,000 crazed fans
• … and one Emperor

The incredible set list began with Standing On The Shore, moved into Breakdown, Half Mast, We Are The People, and most of the album tracks including Without You before climaxing with crowd favourite Walking On A Dream. As the set drew to an end the crowd witnessed the destruction and re-birthing of “The Emperor with a digital heart”. A.MAZ.ING.

We’re counting down to Sydney’s Parklife next weekend, and one mind-blowing treat!

Triple J’s Zan Rowe gave the Empire show a big thumbs up in her Parklife blog.

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Our favourite bloodthirsty, depraved, Australian musical genius Nick Cave has penned his second novel The Death of Bunny Munro. (His debut 1989 novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, has sold over 100K copies)

Watching Cave read chapter excerpts from Bunny Munro (on www.thedeathofbunnymunro.com), it looks to be every bit as lyrical and dark and passionate and libidinous (and sometimes hilarious) as his musical efforts. i.e, NOT suitable for children or your workstation speakers.

The Death of Bunny Munro is available in Oznow – check out Text Publishing for local details.

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The next round of winner’s are up from the Peninsula’s Got Talent Competition.

Congrats to Matt Dewar:

& Cameron and Katy: