Post Up: Weeds, Jam, Jett, Apples

Good evening, Morphizm sports! Here's a grab bag of my spiels from Wired today:

Apple Bands Invade Fake News TV!
Comedy Central's twin titans of fake news are landing musical guests soon, and they're heavy with Apple. The good news is that the band Steve Jobs loves to death won't be showing up on The Colbert Report.

Pearl Jam Gets It, Expands Bootlegs for Mobile
From its early days hazing Ticketmaster to its recent efforts to out AT&T's wrongheaded censorship, Pearl Jam has just understood the business of music better than almost any band on Earth. While other artists have wasted their time (and free advertising) trying to shut down bootlegging and downloading, Pearl Jam has openly embraced and encouraged both, and still reaped mad paydays in the process.

Weeds Kills Theme Song, Repackages Covers for Digital Download
"With Nancy moving out of Agrestic and out of her 'little box,'" explains the show's music supervisor Christopher Noxon, "it just didn't make sense to stick with 'Little Boxes.' We tried to make it work, but in in the end I think it's a credit to the producers that they recognized that the show, like Nancy, has moved up and on."

An Inconvenient Distinction? Joan Jett Lands Signature Gibson
From PJ Harvey to Kim Deal and Carrie Brownstein to this shredding metalhead, there have been more than a few feminine ax grinders to fete with a custom hook-up. And while they might not all play Gibsons, one wonder whether a kind offer of the Jett variety might change their minds.