Posts By Nick Minichino

We didn’t get a chance to see Rosanna Scotto’s interview with Jay-Z on Monday’s Good Day New York until this afternoon, but once we did, we knew we had to share it here. In the live interview, Jay-Z revealed, prior to the press conference, that the New Jersey Nets would be renamed the Brooklyn Nets when they relocated to the Atlantic Yards Arena, and that he would inaugurate the arena’s opening, scheduled for September 2012, with a series of concerts. News That much we knew. What MTV News didn’t mention is that, after pressing the rapper on the sex of his and Beyoncé’s child (they know but aren’t saying), and the new colors of the Brooklyn Nets (same answer), Scotto excitedly sang the hook of “Empire State of Mind,” changing “New York” to “Brooklyn.” (This happens three minutes into the interview.) “Alright, alright,” Jay-Z discouraged her good-naturedly. Scotto bounced right back, and by the end of the interview Jay-Z was complimenting her on her cellphone’s bunny-eared protective case.

When Tanning Goes Wrong: News Reporter Sings “Empire State of Mind” For Jay-Z [Tanning of America]

After touring the festival circuit, an acclaimed film starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová is set to open next month. Deja vu? Not quite. The big-screen return of the Once co-stars (and Academy Award winners) is in a black-and-white documentary named for their collaboration, The Swell Season. The trailer, embedded above, reveals The Swell Season to be a reflection-in-reverse of Once‘s love story: a no less honest portrayal of Hansard and Irglová falling out of love. What must have started as a boilerplate pitch about how the duo struggled with their newfound fame and mainstream acceptance became a window into the true-life love story that blossomed from the fictional one in Once, and the couple’s inexorable drift apart. We know how the story ends—Hansard and Irglová broke up, but remained musical collaborators—but not how they got there. For more, check the sneak peek at Vulture dating from the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April.
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Nearly half a year since the band’s highly ambitious single-take “You Are A Tourist” (and four months since their appearance on Storytellers), Death Cab For Cutie are back with another single—Codes and Keys closer “Stay Young, Go Dancing.” When the band performed the song on Storytellers, frontman Ben Gibbard quipped, “I think as a relatively recently married [to Zooey Deschanel, no less] man, I’m allowed one love song.” The Claire Carre-directed, Rob Reiner-meets-Benjamin Button clip that premiered yesterday certainly fits the bill, as an older couple dances barefoot in the grass and reminisces on a life of love and dancing together.

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Adele doesn’t need a music video to hit #1—she accomplished it with a single VMA performance—but that’s not to say she didn’t want a video. In fact, “Someone Like You” has a Jake Nava-directed clip set to premiere Thursday at 7:56PM ET/PT on MTV. The sneak peak, above, is a fairly straightforward affair—a slightly distressed black-and-white clip of a slightly distressed Adele, walking on a road alongside the Seine. The clip doesn’t quite reach the song’s bridge, so where the video will go from here is a bit of a mystery, but the sneak certainly suits the song. Tune in on Thursday for the rest of “Someone Like You.”
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