It has been revealed that Scottish group Franz Ferdinand were offered $50m to have their music used in an advertising campaign but the band turned it down, because they wanted to keep their integrity.
This comes just a week or so after Jack White’s work for Coca-Cola was premiered and reports are that doing this campaign would have quadrupled sales of Franz’s last album You Could Have It So Much Better. Frontman Alex Kapranos said:
“It wasn’t Coca-Cola or anything like that. It was just a thing that needed some music associated with it. We just had to say no because of the gut reaction.”
Now I admit, I’m not the biggest De La Soul fan in the world. I like a fair few of their songs, but I wouldn’t put them in any of my top artists lists, but after seeing them rock the Jazz Café for almost 2 hours, I now know they are definitely on a must-see artists list.
Victory Records quintet Hawthorne Heights, last seen on these shores supporting Bullet For My Valentine as part of the Kerrang! XXV tour, are releasing their debut UK single ‘Saying Sorry’ on the 22nd May. You can check them out at 
Thrash metal legends Slayer are to be honoured in the most bizarre of fashions this year, with June 6th (06/06/06) set to be proclaimed ‘National Slayer Day’.
The Like are back with a new single, entitled What I Say And What I Mean, which will be out on May 15th. In addition to this, they’ve also announced some tour dates. The dates are:
Striding on-stage with pride in their hearts and co-ordination in their track-suit tops – to celebrate Celtic clinching another Scottish Premier League title, apparently – Mogwai make for a slighly-less-than rock ‘n’ roll sight. Follically challenged, almost wholly devoid of style and with facial features perhaps only a mother could love, they represent the antithesis of pre-packaged pop clone nonsense. Then they plug in and play and suddenly things begin to make sense.
When Damon Albarn’s animated group blew everyone away with their last album Demon Days, it didn’t seem possible that people would have the chance to hear the record live. However, Gorillaz managed to get almost every performer on the album to come together for five nights in Manchester, and put on a show that was recorded in its entirety for this DVD.
The prison that houses Lil Kim has been put on lock down after a visitor to the jail tried to smuggle in a mobile phone. Over half the entire population of the prison is on lock down and has been since 21st April.
White Stripes’ Jack White has had his Coca-Cola advert showing on channel 4 on Sunday morning. And whilst there are no plans for it to be shown again on UK television, you can check it 
Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards has been hospitalised in New Zealand after injuring himself in Fiji. However, the injury isn’t what you might think, in fact, it happened after he had climbed a tree and a resort on the island and fell from it, hurting his head.