News in Brief: 50 Cent, Øya Festival, Maserati, Zombi, Cryptacize

News in Brief: 50 Cent, Øya Festival, Maserati, Zombi, Cryptacize

-- According to AllHipHop.com, 50 Cent is working on a song with British pop star and fellow perspective-free blowhard egomaniac Robbie Williams. This will mark the end of the absolutely hilarious rich-guy tiff the two got into a couple of years ago. (You will not regret reading that AllHipHop story.) 50 is also going to be producing movies, now, apparently. He's launching a production company called Cheetah Vision, hopefully inspired by this guy. And he's claiming that one of the first movies will be The Dance, which will star both Nicolas Cage and 50 himself. If this movie actually happens, it'll make for a truly mesmerizing clash of overacting and underacting.

-- The Arctic Monkeys and Röyksopp will headline Norway's Øya Festival this summer. Also on the bill: Bon Iver, Crystal Antlers, Monotonix, Chairlift, and a whole ton of Norwegian bands. The fest jumps off August 11-15 in Oslo.

-- Triumphal Athens instrumentalists Maserati and Pittsburgh fake-horror-movie soundtrackers Zombi will release a split EP on Temporary Residence February 3. This album, which is all new material, will doubtless be pretty badass, but Temporary Residence is limiting it to 1000 copies because they hate us.

-- Cryptacize, the new band from former Deerhoof guitarist Chris Cohen, will release second album Mythomania April 21 on Asthmatic Kitty. Even with that name, Cryptacize is unfortunately not a death metal band. You can hear a megamix (or mini-mix, if you will) of snippets of the album, created by Burning Star Core's C. Spencer Yeh, here.

Posted by Tom Breihan on Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:15pm