Music Notes: All Points West highlights, RHCP to end hiatus in October

I have Internet off and on right now... so even though I didn't do a new music post, here's a round-up for the day:

- SPIN has this photo gallery capturing moments from this past weekend's All Points West festival, which was held for the second year in a row at New Jersey's Liberty State Park. [SPIN]

- Pitchfork also has a report here. [Pitchfork]

- The festival featured Coldplay covering the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right." Check it out here.

- The Red Hot Chili Peppers plan on ending a two-year hiatus by getting started on new material this October. Drummer Chad Smith told Billboard, "It'll be two years in September, so now we're ready. You can't force people to play when they don't want to play or aren't ready to play or whatever – not in our band, anyway." [NME]

- Check out the cover of Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 here. [Pitchfork]

- Michael Jackson's mother Katherine Jackson received permanent custody of his children. [CNN]

- Modest Mouse will release their Heath Ledger-directed video for "King Rat" tomorrow. [SPIN]

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus at Comic-Con

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus will always be remembered as the last film Heath Ledger worked on before his untimely death in 2008. Because of the fantastical nature of the film, writer/director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) was able to complete work on the project, with actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell stepping in to portray Ledger's character Tony at various points in the movie.

The Imaginarium panel at Comic-Con was a mix of humorous and somber moments. Gilliam made sure to manage expectations by reminding the audience that the movie is Dr. Parnassus' (Christopher Plummer) story, not Tony's. The clips we saw had a distinctive visual look and were tantalizing snippets that gave only hints of the worlds to which the Imaginarium leads. Gilliam said that he had done the opposite of most Comic-Con presenters by choosing "boring" clips from the film so those of us in attendance would "get our money's worth" when the movie opens, but the footage we saw was far from boring.

Three clips from the film can be viewed at Yahoo! Movies. Four high-definition video clips of Terry Gilliam and Verne Troyer (Austin Powers trilogy) at the Imaginarium panel are now available on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/popwenches. Here are a couple for your viewing pleasure:

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