1. This year’s BAFTA longlist has been announced, with My Week With Marilyn and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy leading the pack with 16 mentions a piece. The narrowed down pool of nominees will be named on January 17, and the awards show will take place on February 12. [via Deadline]

2. Famed photo journalist Eve Arnold — who is perhaps best known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe and was the first woman admitted into the Magnum photo agency — has died at the age of 99. [via Art Daily]

3. Van Halen played a reunion show last night at a tiny club in Greenwich Village where they announced a 45-date tour that will begin in February. Find what a bunch of music critics had to say about their performance here.

4. Jack White has recorded a cover of Howlin’ Wolf‘s “Evil (Is Going On)” with Tom Jones that will be released later this year on Third Man Records. [via 24Bit]

5. Barnes & Noble says that it plans to break off the brick and mortar bookstores part of its business — which stands to lose twice as much money this year as was previously expected — from its growing Nook digital-book business. [via WSJ]

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The History Channel’s American Pickers shares the exploits of two guys who travel across the U.S. searching for antique gems in heaps of trash, garages and basements. Next Monday, hosts Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz will be heading to Third Man Records headquarters in Nashville to pay a visit to Jack White. The White Stripes, Dead Weather, and Raconteurs founder will be bargaining with the duo, offering his personal artifacts. The photo booth used in Dead Weather’s video for “Hang You From the Heavens” will apparently be on the bargaining table. THR reports that White will make an exchange for one of the most “memorable” treasures ever to appear in the series. Tune in January 9 at 9PM to find out more, and reacquaint yourself with the video past the break. Read More »

Today at Flavorpill, we weren’t surprised to find out that almost all of America’s favorite songs are about sex. We went for a walk down memory lane with Zack Morris and his enormous cell phone. We took a closer look at Museo, a font that’s quickly becoming as ubiquitous as Comic Sans. We needed to own this lovely, minimalist map of NYC’s bike lanes by Pop Chart Lab. We visited a few of the country’s most beautiful college campuses. We were excited to watch the latest video of Drew Droege doing his best Chloe Sevigny impression. We learned the new rules of wine. We were amazed by some of the work in this year’s Small World Photomicrography Competition. We got some sex advice from the Occupy Wall Street protestors. We wondered what brilliant studio exec decided that the world really needed a Mr. Ed movie. And finally, we listened to Jack White’s take on “You Know That I Know,” just one of the many songs that Hank Williams left behind when he died at 29.

Mick Jagger hasn’t been in a movie since 2001′s The Man from Elysian Fields. Yesterday, Deadline reported that the Rolling Stones frontman may be in line to play a Rupert Murdoch-like character in Tabloid, which is being written by A History of Violence scribe Josh Olson. This got us thinking about other musicians who made the crossover into film. Jagger’s played everyone from Turner in Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg’s excellent Performance, to a “bonejacker” (oof) in Freejack — which currently holds a shameful 15% rating at Rotten Tomatoes. Here are other songbirds that also made the leap from stage to screen, in order from best to worst. Leave us your list in the comments.

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August 31st, 2011 will go down in history as the day Jack White became the James Franco of music. You see, now that the White Stripes are over and he’s celebrated the end of his marriage to Karen Elson with a big, ol’ divorce party, he’s got time for more ridiculous projects than ever. In addition to his other bands, the Dead Weather and the Raconteurs, the label he founded (Third Man Records), and his prolific producing, White has been making music with such unlikely collaborators as Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert. And that was just fine with us. But now he’s gone a bridge too far — kind of like when the also-ubiquitous Franco had “Brad” (as in Renfro) carved into his arm as part of an ill-conceived art project.

What, you ask, could Jack White do that would even compare to pseudo-artistic self-mutilation? Well, friends, he could start producing Insane Clown Posse — and that is exactly what he has done! Seriously. You can see video evidence of the project after the jump. Here is an excerpt from the press release, which also mentions that JEFF the Brotherhood play on the single, presented without comment: “Back in ’82, ahem, 1782, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote a piece that’s been left out of the spotlight ever since. The title of the piece is ‘Leck Mich Im Arsch’ or literally translated to English as ‘Lick me in the arse.’ Understandably this piece has figuratively been swept under the rug. So who better to give this piece it’s due respect than the wildly successful, much misunderstood, and divisive Southwest Detroit rappers Insane Clown Posse?”

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The first album from Mister Heavenly, Out of Love, officially dropped this week, heralding the official arrival of Sup Pop’s newest indie rock supergroup. Now, though a supergroup, especially in the obsessive fan atmosphere of indie rock, always sounds like a good idea — take four musicians from great bands and they’re obviously make a great band, right? Right — they can run the gamut from wonderful to acceptable to underwhelming to just plain bad. However, since we’ve been digging Mister Heavenly’s new release these past few days, we’ve been inspired to chronicle some of the best indie rock all-star teams in recent history, from the very large and very famous to the more obscure. Click through to see some of our favorites, and let us know which of yours we’ve missed in the comments.

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If the idea of a Daytrotter-style acoustic session in the back of a London taxi sounds like your idea of a good time, then you’re probably already familiar with The Black Cab Sessions. This British-based web video series has taken an unlikely idea and turned it into a hit, recording 99 episodes since May 2007 and featuring artists like Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, Brian Wilson, and Jens Lekman (who performed, of course, “Black Cab”). In fact, the concept’s been such a success that a TV show is in the works, and it involves the series coming to the US. They’re bringing the taxi to tour Nashville, New Orleans, NYC and various other locations, and artists scheduled to perform include Kyp Malone, Lambchop, and Jack White. It looks way cool — check out the trailer after the jump.

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America’s most famous street artist, Shepard Fairey, has always been a big music fan. As he mentions on his website, it was album cover art — not graffiti — that first caught his attention. “Album covers conjured a euphoric association with the listening experience. Most of my earliest home-made tee shirts were stencils based on punk album covers,” he writes. Fairey channeled his love of music into REVOLUTIONS, an exhibition of original album covers, which showed in March and April at Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica.

Now, the artist is releasing the works in two 36-print box sets, each with a run of only 150 copies. Dance Floor Riot, composed mostly of revolutionary-tinged punk, New Wave, and funk images, will go on sale here some time between 10am and noon PT (that’s 1-3pm ET) today for $950. Tomorrow, collectors will have a chance to buy the scuzz-rock-and-metal-obsessed Party at the Moontower set (yes, that’s a Dazed and Confused reference) at the same time, place, and price point tomorrow. See some of our favorite works from the box sets, depicting everyone from Joan Jett to Jack White to Little Richard, after the jump.

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1. Last night Stephen Colbert debuted his new Jack White produced-single on The Colbert Report. Watch a clip of him performing “Charlene II (I’m Over You)” with some help from the Black Belles here, and if you live in New York, head over to 10th Avenue and 30th Street, where Colbert and White will be selling copies of the 7″ starting at 11am.

2. MGM is planning to reboot WarGames, with Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, The King of Kong) attached to direct. Considering that the 1983 original, which starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy, was a movie about the Cold War, we wonder if they’re planning to shift its focus to the Middle East to make it feel more relevant. [via Variety]

3. Remember how we told you yesterday that the beefy Winklevoss twins had dropped their case against Facebook? Well, it turns out that it was because they are launching a brand new suit that will determine whether Mark Zuckerberg “intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence” during settlement proceedings. [via The Daily Beast]

4. Word has it that the lovely Emma Thompson may write the screenplay for the Will Smith/Jay-Z film adaptation of Annie that will feature Willow Smith in the titular role. Seriously guys, is there any way this movie can fail? [via Vulture]

5. We suppose it was bound to happen eventually, but it looks like Cars 2 will be Pixar‘s first “rotten” movie on Rotten Tomatoes — not that what the critics think will affect sales of tickets/merchandise tie-ins. [via Slashfilm]

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On the same day that Demolished Thoughts, the album he produced for Thurston Moore, hits stores comes news of yet another high-profile Beck collaboration: He’s producing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ new record, Mirror Magic. To tide us over until that album’s release, August 23, we’re taking a look back at Beck’s rich history of working with other artists. From Calvin Johnson in 1994 to Moore in 2011, we present a fairly comprehensive guide to Beck’s collaborations.

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