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Actor Kevin Costner is going country. He is about to release his first album after 20 years of off-screen music making with a number of bands.
His first album, “Untold Truths” is a collection of 12 songs all written or co-written by Costner and his band, Kevin Costner and Modern West.
The band plans to tour later this year and in 2009 to support the album before his next movie “The New Daughter” comes out in March. It seems he will probably go the route of actor “slash” singer, due to his dying movie career.
Perhaps Costner should be going off to school before the big tour, like Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea who is going to study music at the University of Southern California.
Michael “Flea” Balzary, founder of Los Angeles' Silverlake Conservatory of Music, wants to add to his classical knowledge. His main goal is to learn more about the "mathematics of composition.”
Flea recently stated, "Music is made up out of these building blocks. I like studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works”
Hey, someone’s gotta do it, and why not Flea? Another bandmate making a splash in the music world is Anthony Kiedis.
Over the summer, Kiedis curated the New American Music Union, a two-day summer music festival in Pittsburgh. He assembled a lineup of musicians including Bob Dylan, Gnarls Barkely, The Roots, and a second stage featuring college bands. All of this was for American Eagle Outfitters, whose headquarters are in the culturally and artistically rich community of the South Side of Pittsburgh.