Archive for February, 2010

Gwen Featured on new Fishbone Documentary

According to Spinner, Gwen is going to be one of the celebrities interviewed on an upcoming documentary about legendary Southern California band, Fishbone.

The film is called “Everyday Sunshine” and is due out this spring.

What do Chuck D, George Clinton and Tim Robbins have in common? The same thing that would keep Flea, Gwen Stefani and Ice-T engaged in conversation, were the three ever to find themselves trapped in an elevator: Fishbone, the long-running California band that’s the subject of a new documentary due out this spring.

The film, ‘Everyday Sunshine,’ will feature interviews with all of the aforementioned stars, as well as a handful of other famous fans. Laurence Fishburne — selected, one hopes, not just because his last name sounds a bit like Fishbone — provides narration.

“When I was a kid, I liked their stuff, and I always figured if I was going to do a music documentary, it would be Fishbone,” director Lev Anderson tells Spinner. He says the film will likely debut at SXSW in March and then see wider release later this year.

The film traces the band’s entire 30-year history, telling the story of six kids from South Central Los Angeles that dared to mix ska, punk, funk, metal, hip-hop and virtually any other genre they could think of, creating a sound no one had heard before. The final scenes focus on singer Angelo Moore and bassist John Norwood Fisher, the only two original members still part of the band. In addition to celebrity interviews, ‘Everyday Sunshine’ will include rare live footage from throughout the band’s run.

“We’ve got one show that must be before they signed to Columbia, 1984, maybe,” Anderson says. “There’s a lot of footage we’ve gotten from fans of Fishbone that have shot stuff, [plus] great Fishbone shows in ’87 that were on public TV, one in Minneapolis, one in St. Louis.”

Anderson says the diverse list of luminaries he was able to interview for the project proves what a unique group Fishbone was and continues to be.

“All of these people you can bring in, and I don’t think you can do that for too many other bands,” he says.

Gwen on Nylon TV Interview

Hanging with the Hollaback Girl backstage at her L.A.M.B. fashion show!

Gwen Stefani Talks No Doubt’s Studio Progress

Gwen Stefani took some time out from No Doubt’s studio sessions in California to visit New York City for Fashion Week last week. Rolling Stone reports that Stefani previewed her “military and punk-inspired” fall line of her L.A.M.B. clothing collection on Thursday, and then spoke at the event about No Doubt’s studio progress.

Speaking on No Doubt’s current status, Stefani noted that while her bandmates had worked on some material while she was on her solo tours, now “things are kind of starting over, you know what I mean? We might revisit some of that stuff, but it’s the same old chase. It doesn’t matter how we get there — we want to get there, we will, and we’re having fun doing it.”

Stefani also said that the band has been inspired lately by the music of the ’80s. Stefani said, “The last few weeks, we’ve been listening to the worst of the ’80s, in the sense of bad but good. Pop songs, one-hit wonders, nifty songs, things like that. You just go back and find things that you love, and try to figure out how they made them. We just listen to good songs, and then writing our own stuff, we try to pull it out wherever we can.”

When asked, “What was the last thing I was listening to?,” she replied, “Lionel Richie. I love him.”

From FMQB

Gwen Stefani Fears the Runway

Gwen Stefani admits she was a bag of nerves when she had to hit the runway in front of an audience during one of her L.A.M.B. fashion shows at New York Fashion Week.

The No Doubt star says she’s no catwalk queen.

“I do get nervous right before the girls go out, and I don’t like going out there myself,” she said.

“The catwalk is just a different place to the stage. I find it so much more scary. Everyone is there and can be critical about your work. I’m proud of my work but it’s a daunting place to be.”

Stefani recently admitted the success of her fashion line has taken her by surprise.

“I’m still so blown away that we’ve got this far,” she said in September last year.

“When I first started, I really didn’t know what I was doing at all.

“I mean, I’ve made clothes my whole life, but I was just naïve about the fashion world. “But I think it’s [successful] because I’ve been really involved, you know?

“Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette. I have a great team of people helping me.”

From Showbiz Spy

L.A.M.B. At Fashion Week

On Thursday, Gwen debuted the Fall 2010 L.A.M.B. collection during New York Fashion Week! I have just added 50 photos of Gwen at the presentation and reception for the line – you can view all the photos by clicking on the previews below…