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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.

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Gwen on Nylon TV Interview

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

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Because the Night Belongs to Rock Goddesses

Gwen Stefani came to her LAMB after-party without her flashiest accessory—18-month-old son Zuma, who’d been with her at her show earlier that day at Milk Studios in a matching leather jacket. She had her hands full without him, though—the cocktail hour at Milk’s eighth-floor Surf Lodge Outpost was as much a receiving line as anything, with publicists and security guards telling photographers to cool their jets and let people like Estée Lauder’s John Demsey in for a chat.

“It was a challenging couple days with the blizzard, Chinese New Year, Federal Express, child with an earache,” Stefani told us. “But I feel like all that stuff brought on a lot of creativity. We came up with a lot of looks that we wouldn’t have thought of without the pressure.” The show must go on, right? “It crossed my mind that we didn’t have all our looks, but I didn’t think about canceling,” she said, adding that she’d managed to get to bed around 1:30 the night before her presentation. She seemed intent on setting an earlier curfew this night and was long gone by the time Josh Hartnett came by and got a kitchen tour from Surf Lodge chef Sam Talbot.

Also party-hosting within the multi-space Milk location were LnA’s Lauren Alexander and April Leight. The L.A.-based designers celebrated their first-ever New York show with a crowd that included Heidi Mount, Ally Hilfiger, and Genevieve Jones. Late night, the suddenly ubiquitous Patti Smith took the stage for a set that included crowd favorite “Because the Night” and a song she dedicated to Alexander McQueen. She left the crowd with this: “If we have lost loved ones, the best way to cope is to celebrate life.”

From Style.com

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Fab Exclusive! Gwen Stefani Talks L.A.M.B, Trends, Trousers

Gwen Stefani left her LA life behind temporarily to attend the Fall presentation of L.A.M.B. at New York Fashion Week. How cool is this shot of her with her models? But before we check out her latest rockin’ chic designs, let’s hear what one of the coolest mommies in Hollywood said about her Fall inspirations, her favorite trends, and design aspirations.

Her design aspirations:
I just want to make stuff that I want to wear . . . Stuff I want to wear every day that’s to the left enough that it makes you feel unique and individual, but also you can wear it. That’s my ultimate goal . . . I think the collection has a lot of that in it . . . That’s the hardest thing to do. It’s easy to make some glamorous dress and put all of your energy into that. To make that T-shirt that you just throw on that’s actually cool and funky and makes people go, “Whoa!” When they’re jealous, that’s what I want to do.

To hear what else Gwen said and to see her Fall ’10 line, read more.

On the Fall collection:
The collection is kind of based on this vintage, naughty Hollywood girl — starlet girl, and then a little bit of a modern, futuristic girl, and a little bit of a soldier girl . . . What I’ve learned is that you kind of have the inspiration, you have the picture, you have an idea, and what I love about fashion and about doing it is that it just sort of evolves into whatever it’s going to be . . . A lot of things drop out, a lot of things don’t make it, but at the end of the day it’s like the creative process of that picture and that drama that makes you very creative and come up with things that you wouldn’t. And some of my favorite looks of the show are things where we were like, “There’s nothing on this rack!” And then you put it together, and there is actually something on the rack. I can’t wait to see it all together, with the music, and the girls, and the girls look so beautiful. They blow my mind.

On trend she’s looking forward to:
I just love when things that I love come back into trend. It’s funny because it does recycle, doesn’t it? I don’t really know what the trends, are; obviously my team kind of does that thing and I listen, whatever I like I just kind of go for.

Current trends she’s loving:
My whole life I always wore men’s pants, trousers, and would be that look. And I had to fight for years to try to get people to like want me to — and now they’re in. They’re gonna always be in for me. Like when they’re out, I’ll still wear trousers.

From Fab Sugar

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