Photographer Bobby Grossman will be appearing at tomorrow’s opening of the Shepard Fairey exhibition at Deitch in New York City.  They worked together to create an approved portrait of Debbie.  You can see it on the OBEY Giant website.

Three Fine Art prints and limited edition posters will be available.  The exhibition will run until May 29.

Don’t forget, tonight’s the broadcast of the 8th Annual TV Land Awards.  Blondie will be performing two songs and receiving the Icon Award!

For those of you who can’t wait for the broadcast of the 8th Annual TV Land Awards next Sunday (April 25), you can see some press photos from tonight’s event on the Getty Images website.

BLONDIE, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL LEGENDS, TO PERFORM AND RECEIVE THE ICON AWARD AT THE “8th ANNUAL TV LAND AWARDS”

Award Show to Premiere on TV Land on Sunday, April 25th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT

April 15, 2010, Los Angeles, CA —   Blondie, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and the pioneers of rock and new wave, will be honored at the “8th Annual TV Land Awards” that will be held on Saturday, April 17th, 2010 on the historic stage 15 of the Sony Studios Culver City lot.  The band will receive the Icon Award for its contributions to music and pop culture through their long and successful career in the music industry.  In addition to receiving the Icon Award, the band will be performing one of their classic hits.  The TV Land Awards premieres on Sunday, April 25th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.

Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006, music, style and pop culture icons and best selling recording artists, Blondie emerged from the late ’70s new wave punk scene in New York City and defied easy categorization. With great rock hooks and brilliant, ironic lyrics, they were also known for their hip clothes and the cool hair.  Lead singer, Debbie Harry went from the pages of Punk magazines to the cover of just about every mainstream publication on the newsstands. With multiple #1 smash hits like “Heart of Glass,” “One Way Or Another,” “Call Me,” “Rapture” and “Maria,” the band has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.  Their “Maria” made Blondie the only artist to have a #1 hit in the UK in each of 3 decades, further proving their relevance and staying power. Blondie is currently finishing a brand new album to be released later this
year, their first release with new music since The Curse of Blondie in 2003.

Blondie will be heading out on a world tour beginning in June. For more information on Blondie, please visit https://blondie.wpengine.com/.

TV Land announced yesterday that some of television and film’s most iconic names — Billy Crystal, Jane Leeves, Jay Leno, Wendie Malick, Bob Newhart, Betty White and more will be presenters at the “8th Annual TV Land Awards.” 

The following honorees were announced to participate in the “8th Annual TV Land Awards” including the entire cast of “Everybody Loves Raymond” who will receive the Impact Award, “Glee” which will receive this year’s Future Classic Award and Mel Brooks (“Blazing Saddles”) and Carl Reiner (“The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “Ocean’s Eleven”) who will each receive the Legend Award.  Stars of the 1970s TV phenomenon “Charlie’s Angels” will be on hand to receive the Pop Culture Award and to pay tribute to their cast member Farrah Fawcett, who passed away in June 2009.  Also scheduled to appear are Academy® Award-winner Tom Hanks and Emmy® Award-nominee Peter Scolari who will reunite to accept the Anniversary Award for the 30th anniversary of the comedy, “Bosom Buddies,” along with fellow cast members Donna Dixon, Telma Hopkins and Holland Taylor, marking the first time that the cast has been together publicly since the show went off the air.  The cast of ” The Love Boat” will be on hand to receive the Fan Favorite Award, which was executive produced by Aaron Spelling and set on a cruise ship where the boat’s crew encouraged its weekly guest stars to find romance on the high seas, usually on its voyage between Los Angeles and Puerto Vallarta.

Now in its eighth year, the “TV Land Awards” pays tribute to classic and contemporary luminaries of television, music and movies. The ninety-minute telecast will feature exhilarating musical performances and will reunite some of the most iconic celebrity TV casts.

Michael Levitt (“Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List,” “Billboard Music Awards,” “Scream Awards”) is executive producer; Emmy® Award-winning Jeff Margolis is director (“Academy Awards,” “American Music Awards,” “Screen Actors Guild Awards”); Greg Sills serves as supervising producer (“VH1 Rock Honors,” “The Teen Choice Awards,” “Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards”); and TV Land’s Larry W. Jones and Sal Maniaci are executive producers.

Press credential applications for this year’s show may be obtained via the channel’s press Web site, tvlandpress.com. 

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would you trust this guy…

to write a song lyric?  this is my pal Gilles Riberolles, he lives in Paris… one of the songs i worked on for the record is an homage to Jacques Brel and Serge Gainsbourg amongst others… soo i guess about, damn… maybe 8 months ago i sent Gilles a copy of the track and he wrote a beautiful lyric and vocal melody for it as well as helping with the arrangement

the song is called “Le Bleu A L’ame” or “Blue In The Soul” or maybe “… In The Heart” its a bit idiomatic… its one of my favorites of the new batch… its entirely en Francais

i produced a record for Gilles’ band Casino Music in 1979 for ZE records… i had met him earlier in France where he worked as a journalist for the music press; Rock and Folk etc… his latest endeavors are with his current group Jumbo Layer

Matt here saying hello to everyone on the new website. I hope to be posting pictures and videos soon as well.

Here is a feature on me for Propellerhead, the makers of the software plugin Reason, which I use with Blondie. If you use Reason, you can use these patches as well. They’re great:

Blondie – Matt’s Top 5 at Propellerhead

I’ll be playing drums at two shows coming up in southern California with Terence Sheehan & His Band:

April 16, 2010 at TAIX Lounge in Echo Park, and
April 23, 2010 at Key Club in West Hollywood.

For more information, visit http://www.myspace.com/terencesheehan

and…

we are still buzzed about the site… through all of this i have neglected to thank Allen K our prime mover behind all of this stuff… so dude! awesome!

you too Dave!

We’re having some technical difficulties with the ticketing links and hope to have those resolved tomorrow.  Some of the shows are going on sale tomorrow, so for now, just check at the usual ticket sites or look up the venues and find a ticketing link.  Thanks for your patience everyone, we’re glad you’re here.

one more thing is that im sorry there isnt a better version of the Chris Berens cover art up yet… it should be up later in the week

meanwhile go to http://chrisberens.com/ and check out his artwork