Going a bit Bowie: Bianca Casady

Bianca Casady has announced an art show in New York: Lil Girl "Cosmic Willingness" Pipe Dreamz A Revelation runs at the Deitch Gallery between the 6th and 20th of October. If that's not enough for you, Casady will be giving numbers a boost on the 19th of October with a Coco Rosie set.

Rosie and Rio

This is Danielle Techhomsy, who - as mainstay and most of Rio En Medio - will be touring the UK with CocoRosie next month. Her MySpace can show you what to expect.

The dates:
12th June - Brighton Komedia
13th - Nottingham Trent University
14th - Bristol Anson Rooms
15th - Glasgow The Arches
16th - Manchester Academy 2
17th - Bloomsbury Ballroom

Coco pops: US tour pulled

Presumably the reasons will trickle out through a mixture of gossip and idle speculation, but for now all anyone seems to know about the New York arrest and subsequent axing of Coco Rosie's US tour is what the band have said:

“We are so sorry to announce that we cannot play the rest of the US tour dates. The band got arrested, that’s all I can say.

“We are crying. Say a prayer for our band.”

Since someone's got to start the idle speculation somewhere: outraging public decency, anyone?

Why CocoRosie are smarter than Joss Stone

It could just be because they've got a smarter mother.

Joss canned her ma, because she wanted a "proper" manager.

Sierra and Bianca Casaday, though, put their faith in their mother...:

"We recently hired our mom to manage us," Sierra announces. "She sent us a message today to tell us she got us our first contact in the record industry, a producer."

"Rick Rubin," Bianca says, questioningly. "What records did he do?"

Several multi-million-selling albums by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Bianca screws up her face. Beastie Boys. System of a Down. Johnny Cash. She looks rather nonplussed. "Did he do anything that's not rock?" she asks. Johnny Cash? Still no reaction. Johnny Cash is apparently not "not rock" enough.

"We don't like rock," she continues. "I think the electric guitar solo thing is... a little too macho. Dudes with guitars... not our thing."

Maybe they could pass their mother on to Joss Stone?