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Via Exclaim:

Sofia Coppola has some amassed some stellar musical ties over the years, recruiting Kevin Shields to write songs for 2003’s Lost in Translation and tapping her husband Thomas Mars’ band Phoenix for Somewhere. Now, she’s recruited a similarly impressive lineup of musicians for her upcoming flick, The Bling Ring.

The soundtrack is due out on June 11 through Def Jam, and it will include a heap of tunes from well-known artists like Kanye West, Frank Ocean (featuring Earl Sweatshirt), M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, Rick Ross (featuring Lil Wayne), Phoenix, Can, deadmau5, and Azealia Banks. Nearly all of the material on the soundtrack has already been released, however, and the tracklist includes some extremely famous songs (Kanye’s “Power” and “All of the Lights,” and M.I.A.'s “Bad Girls,” for example).

Via Exclaim:

Sofia Coppola has some amassed some stellar musical ties over the years, recruiting Kevin Shields to write songs for 2003’s Lost in Translation and tapping her husband Thomas Mars’ band Phoenix for Somewhere. Now, she’s recruited a similarly impressive lineup of musicians for her upcoming flick, The Bling Ring.

The soundtrack is due out on June 11 through Def Jam, and it will include a heap of tunes from well-known artists like Kanye West, Frank Ocean (featuring Earl Sweatshirt), M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, Rick Ross (featuring Lil Wayne), Phoenix, Can, deadmau5, and Azealia Banks. Nearly all of the material on the soundtrack has already been released, however, and the tracklist includes some extremely famous songs (Kanye’s “Power” and “All of the Lights,” and M.I.A.'s “Bad Girls,” for example).

Via Pitchfork:

The next chapter in the politically active part of Thom Yorke’s career is a score for a documentary on tax avoidance, The Telegraph reports. The UK Gold, a feature-length film set to premiere in London on June 25, chronicles the history of tax avoidance in Britain. Yorke teamed up with Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja and Elbow’s Guy Garvey for the music for the film.

Written and directed by Mark Donne and narrated by Dominic West (who played McNulty on “The Wire”), the film focuses on the “dramatic battle of a vicar from a small parish in the London Borough of Hackney as goes head to head with an ancient and mighty heavyweight, revealing its central status as the tax-haven nerve centre of the world.”

A Memphis woman has come out claiming that rapper Tim Dog faked his own death to avoid repaying fraud victims. Dog was convicted for fraud, after meeting women on dating sites then scamming them out of money. The woman make the allegations, Esther Pilgrim, was one of his victims.

Tim Dog, who was known best for the song “Fuck Compton”, was busted in 2011 for a financial scheme in which he defrauded women he met on online dating sites. Pilgrim was one of the victims, and a court ordered Blair to pay her back, at a rate of $100 per month, Pilgrim told WREG.

When Pilgrim learned of Tim Dog’s death in February, the repayments stopped. According to WREG, Pilgrim began looking into his death. “There was nothing of what you would normally find. What city? Who found him? There was nothing with any type of concrete details,” she said. She sent a friend to Atlanta, who reportedly couldn’t find a death record for Blair. An investigator sent by WREG allegedly tracked down an address for Blair in Atlanta that was “active” as of April, but there is no word on what, exactly, “active” means.

Dog was ordered to pay Pilgrim $19,000.

By this point, hip hop fans are pretty used to hearing about rappers pushing release dates back. J. Cole has taken a page from Kid Cudi’s book, instead, and has bumped up the release date of Born Sinner, his sophomore full length. Via Hollywood Reporter:

Jay-Z’s protege J. Cole has bumped up the release of his sophomore album, Born Sinner, to June 18 — one week earlier than announced, a source close to the rapper tells The Hollywood Reporter.

“I wanted to come out earlier, but I kept hitting these creative zones where I couldn’t finish,” Cole said to THR in November. “Cause I kept making more and more and more. It

Pogues guitarist Phillip Chevron has been diagnosed with terminal head and neck cancer. Chevron fought the same disease in 2007. Via Exclaim:

The head and neck cancer for which he received treatment in 2007 and a clean bill of health in April 2012 has in fact returned. In August 2012, Philip and his doctors noticed a new tumour and this one is in a position whereby treatment is seriously ill-advised and would almost certainly cause a stroke or worse. The cancer is, in short, inoperable and will prove fatal in time, though it is at present impossible to measure life expectancy. Chevron, who was last year part of the releases The Pogues In Paris and The Radiators’ Sound City Beat, is currently taking a break from both bands. The Pogues are on a prolonged time out, emerging only in support of matters relating to their 30th anniversary this year, while the Radiators From Space have formed a splinter group, The Trouble Pilgrims, in which Chevron plays no part. In recent times, Chevron has accepted several theatre music commissions, including the Old Vic Theatre in London and Galway’s Druid Theatre.

Philip thanks his friends, colleagues, family and management team for their enduring support and hopes to make some notable musical contributions before, as he puts it, the cancer becomes “lethal.

Chevron played in Irish punk band Radiators from Space prior to joining The...

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