Seriously? OMG! WTF?

 

Erasure have announced the details of their forthcoming album. ‘Light At The End of The World’ is due out in the UK on May 21, and in the US a day later. This is the twelfth studio album for the veteran electronic dance-pop duo. The 10-track album was recorded in Maine in a private home that was converted into a studio. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell worked with long-time producer Gareth Jones, who is also known for his work with Depeche Mode and Nick Cave. They wrote the album over a month’s time in the fall of last year. The album’s first single, ‘I Could Fall In Love With You’, is scheduled to be released on April 2.

NME (story) and Erasure Information Service (photo)

Erasure is one of my favorite concerts of all time! So I can’t wait for this album!

Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to make a film about Milli Vanilli, the duo that rose to the top of the pop charts and fell just as quickly when they were exposed as frauds. Jeff Nathanson will write the script and direct the film. Kathleen Kennedy will produce. Nathanson, who presented a sympathetic look at a check forger in “Catch Me if You Can,” became intrigued with the notion of taking a similar tack on the music industry tale. He has secured the cooperation of Fabrice Morvan, as well as the estate
of Rob Pilatus, who died in 1998 as the pair were attempting a comeback. Their Grammy Award was rescinded, class action lawsuits were filed, and Milli Vanilli was dropped from the Arista roster. Morvan took it hardest, falling into drug abuse and serving time for robbery before dying from a drug overdose right before a reunion album could be released. “I’ve always been fascinated by the notion of fakes and frauds, and in this case, you had guys who pulled off the ultimate con, selling 30 million singles and 11
million albums and then becoming the biggest laughing-stocks of pop entertainment,” Nathanson said. “Fabrice had always refused to sell their rights; he was very cautious of Hollywood after all he’d been through. But my intention is to tell this story from their point of view.” Nathanson will begin writing as soon as production is completed on “Rush Hour 3,” which he scripted.

Variety

This would be better on VH1 than the big screen.

Rick Schroder has ditched his adult name for the one that made him famous as a child star. For his upcoming stint on hit drama 24, the actor will be credited as Ricky Shroder – the name he grew out of in his late teens. He says, "My agents said, ‘You know, you should change your name to Rick. It’ll help grow up from a kid to an adult.’ I’ve learned in the last 20 years it takes more than dropping a letter from your name to help you grow up. And so I’m more comfortable being called Ricky. My wife, my mom, everybody calls me Ricky… Rick never felt right. I felt like I was trying to be something I wasn’t."

Starpulse

He was always Ricky to me, same way Joseph Lawrence will always be Joey to me!

Depeche Mode have announced the release of a massive download-only "box set". The career-spanning retrospective, appropriately titled ‘The Complete Depeche Mode’, is available now for download on US iTunes. Following on the heels of a more modest ‘Best Of’ collection released last November, the mega-retrospective contains 644 tracks. The set features all 11 of their studio albums, all of their singles and B-sides, and two live albums, as well as rare and previously unreleased material. In addition to album tracks it features rare and deleted recordings, 19 digital-only remixes, and previously unreleased rehearsal recordings. It comes packaged with a 62-page downloadable booklet featuring images by renowned photographer Anton Corbijn. Depeche Mode released their first single in 1981, and have spent more than 400 combined weeks on the UK charts.

NME 

I bet you several other bands are going to follow suit! Hopefully The Police, Duran Duran and Go West will not be far behind!!!

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