17 March 2004
Wicked Wisdom
Janet plans to perform "live" on Good Morning America on March 31st. Her portion of the show will air on a five-second video and audio delay and ABC's trigger finger she'll be lucky if she can get her booty to shake on screen but you can head down to Battery Park on the 31st to check out the action. In addition to the ABC performance, Jackson will also be appearing as both the host and the musical guest on Saturday Night Live Apr. 12.
NME reports that Indie Labels Threaten To Boycott MTV (Europe).
THE WHITE STRIPES, PRODIGY, CRAIG DAVID and BASEMENT JAXX are among a huge number of artists set to boycott MTV in Europe in an escalating row over how much money the music channel pays to broadcast videos.
MTV Networks Europe has set a deadline of March 31 for independent record labels representing artists to agree to a new rights contract worth less than half of the previous deal, reports The Guardian. If agreement isn’t reached, the music channel could lose access to around 20 per cent of releases.

The Neptunes to change their name (link MTV News)
A panel of superstars have voted for their favourite NIRVANA songs of all-time – a list which will be exclusively counted down on NME.COM. (link NME)
Talib Kweli Recording Angry, Anti-Tech EP - (link Sohh)
RZA is back again as producer for Kill Bill. Here are the track listing for "Kill Bill Vol. 2":
- A Few Words From the Bride - Uma Thurman
- Goodnight Moon - Shivaree
- Il Tramonto - Ennio Morricone
- Can't Hardly Stand It - Charlie Feathers
- Tu Mir - Lole Y Manuel
- Summertime Killer - Luis Bacalov
- The Chase - Alan Reeves, Phil Steele and Philip Brigham
- The Legend of Pai Mei - David Carradine and Uma Thurman
- L'arena - Ennio Morricone
- A Satisfied Mind - Johnny Cash
- A Silhouette of Doom - Ennio Morricone
- About Her - Malcolm McLaren
- Truly and Utterly Bill - David Carradine and Uma Thurman
- Malaguena Salerosa -Chingon
- Urami Bushi - Meiko Kaji

Listen to some choice MP3's:
CocoRosie-Good_Friday.mp3
CocoRosie-By_Your_Side.mp3
CocoRosie-Madonna.mp3