The Daily Swarm

David Bowie’s next big screen role has him starring as a hard-assed dot-com CEO in the now-in-production indie flick, August.

According to a news report on Bowie’s website, the singer-actor-curator took some time off from his Highline Festival schedule last week to shoot scenes in New York.

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This is odd…

Styx bass player Chuck Ponozzo recently penned his autobiography, The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life With Styx, in which he documents his life in the band and the big secret he kept from all involved. Surely its a compelling read.

But we noticed that in the Amazon.com customer reviews, the G-word is selectively redacted. Does Amazon censor reviews, and can they really be red-flagging the words “gay” and/or “homosexual?”

Update: the Wall Street Journal has more.

Well, isn’t this precious:

This email just came in from our friends in Norway:

MENTAL OVERDRIVE LAUNCH “EXCLUSIVE MUSIC” SERIES

After almost two decades in the game of electronic music, Norwegian producer Per Martinsen aka Mental Overdrive will pursue a slightly different solution for some of his forthcoming releases.

Hot on the heels of the much acclaimed 12inch single “Spooks”/“Original Material”, recently released on fellow nordmann Prins Thomas’ Full Pupp label (the track “Original Material” was also featured on the recent Sunkissed compilation on Smalltown Supersound along with a Mental Overdrive remix of 120 Days) – the brand new Mental Overdrive track “Elephantastic!” will be put up for sale in early June.

But this time we’re not talking about a regular release in the sense of vinyl, cd or digital download – the track will simply be put up for grabs on eBay – plainly auctioned off to the highest bidder – in 1 copy only.