Say what?! Death Row, the infamous record label that rose to popularity during the mid-nineties, has found a new hustle. According to Yahoo, Death Row is getting into the movie making business. The label’s new CEO Lara Lavi plans on expanding the company with her newest division, Death Row Films. More on the story below.

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Bonnaroo 2009 has some of the biggest names in music at the head of its lineup this year, including the reunited Phish, Beastie Boys, Wilco, Snoop Dogg, Nine Inch Nails, Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mars Volta, Animal Collective, Femi Kuti and Bruce Springsteen.

“If there was such a thing as a recession-proof lineup this year, this had to be it,” said Ashley Capps, the co-founder of Bonnaroo and president of AC Entertainment.

Enticing fans to pay $250 to $300 for tickets to the festival is no easy task, and its producers have definitely played it safe, with over 100 must-see bands spread out across six stages.

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In case you haven’t had much time between watching the inauguration and laughing your ass off at Joaquin Phoenix (a.k.a. hip-hop’s newest disaster), here are some interesting news tidbits from the music world that you might have missed:

• If it wasn’t enough already that Madonna was recently renounced by religious bigwigs, it was announced this past week that full-frontal, black and white nude photo, taken in 1979 and used in a 1985 Playboy issue, is up for auction Feb. 12. The photo (which proves that “trimming the hedges” wasn’t a priority in the 70s…) and its specs are available to view online. The print is expected to sell for up to $15,000 at Christie’s auctioneers in New York. More on this story here.
• On his blog for the Seattle Weekly’s Web site, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic was able to shed a little light on the folly of music emulation games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The musician was shopping in a department store and stopped to try his hand at playing the bass line for Nirvana’s 1992 hit “In Bloom” for Rock Band 2.  Novoselic wrote that the game reminded him of Space Invaders with falling music notes, but admitted he couldn’t keep up. Hilariously enough, he passed the controller off to a waiting kid (who had no idea he was standing next to the original artist), who proceeded to shred through the rest of the bass line, leaving Novoselic deliberating the game’s authenticity. Let’s hope the poor guy hasn’t just lost his touch. Check out the entire blog post here.

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Wow. Watch out Coachella, there’s a new festival in town. Who knew that one of the most unique lineups you’d ever seen would be held at Bicentennial Park in Miama. The Langerado Music Festival is where the above photo was taken, so I guess it’s fair to say, they’ve does this kind of thing before. But they mix up everything from Flogging Molly, to Snoop Dogg, and Death Cab for Cutie, to Girl Talk. How cool is that?

Check out the lineup below:

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Snoop Dogg gets huge cheers (and praise in the YouTube comments) for waving a Dutch flag and wearing a Dutch soccer team jersey while dancing around to someone else’s song in Amsterdam.  Snoop Dogg’s probably laughing all the way to the bank for being able to so easily entertain a crowd that probably paid huge amounts of money to see him perform a short show.  This clip shows that Europeans are just as dumb (if not dumber) when it comes to paying huge fees to see big acts.