One of James Brown‘s illegitimate daughters, LaRhonda Pettit, told news organizations last week that his body has been removed from the temporary crypt where it was awaiting permanent burial because of a conspiracy theory involving “enablers who helped cause his death.” Gossip Wolf wants to know—who turned it loose?
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Local industrial-grindcore duo Plague Bringer haven’t brought much since the 2008 release of their sophomore album, Life Songs in a Land of Death, but the band is almost finished with the follow-up, One in Two Parts, and shopping for a label for a summer release. Meanwhile Mark Solotroff’s BloodLust! label is releasing their new, limited-edition CD single seven-inch at the band’s April 17 Record Store Day gig at Reckless Records on Madison. A tribute to Ministry’s classic “Burning Inside,” it features guest vocals by Chris Connelly, who cowrote the original, and comes packaged with handmade cards and other goodies. PB is also playing Milwaukee’s Midwest Fuckfest in May and opening the Cap’n Jazz/Gauge show at Bottom Lounge on July 17.
Cursive’s Tim Kasher, who left Omaha for LA in 2007, has retreated to an undisclosed small town in Montana to “get away from it all,” a source told Gossip Wolf.
Too legit, please quit: This week Ryan Adams announced via Twitter that he’ll be releasing a “legit metal record,” offering an unnamed track and asking fans to vote on whether they’d buy the record. Sadly, you could only vote “no” once. Adams’s legit metal sounds an awful lot like weak-sauce ’88-style grunge. Adams should leave metal to the professionals, or at least someone who’s written an interesting song since 2001.
