Daily Dose: June 18th, 2008

Featuring Tom Waits, Radiohead, Bob Geldof, Bono, Tokyo Police Club, J. Lo, Bad Religion and Joe Strummer

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Well, it looks like MP3s are slowly killing the radio stars, as music sales fall to their lowest level in over twenty years. It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

Pitchfork has some pretty awesome photos of the first night of the Tom Waits “Glitter and Doom” tour. I hope he comes to Toronto. I haven’t had a chance to see him since Mule Variations, and I was in the second last row of the balcony (and it was still an awesome show).

 
Radiohead have narrowed down the finalists for their animated video contest. You can find out more details at the band’s MySpace page.
 
Bob Geldof’s going to save Africa again, and he’s got Bono along for the ride to make sure he gets it right this time.
 
Tokyo Police Club have a friend, P, who has Lupus. So they’ve covered “Friends of Mr. P.,” originally by The Rentals, and set up this website to encourage donations to the Lupus Foundation of America. Mighty righteous!
 
Not to be outdone, J. Lo shook her booty for some autistic kids.
 

Epitaph is putting out a deluxe reissue of Bad Religion’s New Maps of Hell just in time for my daughter’s birthday (I don’t think she’d like it, though). This time around it comes with a bonus acoustic album and a live DVD (among other things).
 
There’s going to be a new documentary about Joe Strummer coming to DVD in July entitled The Future is Unwritten. The short list of contributors includes Mick Jones, Steve Jones, Bono, Topper Headon, Pearl Harbour, Don Letts, Joe Ely, John Cusack, Johnny Depp, Flea, Matt Dillon, Martin Scorsese, Steve Buscemi, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Courtney Love, Anthony Kiedis, Jim Jarmusch and Lucinda Mellor (Joe’s widow).