Other artists on the shortlist include Katy Perry ("Wide Awake" from Katy Perry: Part Of Me); Fiona Apple ("Dull Tool" from This Is 40); and Adele ("Skyfall" from Skyfall).

The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live Thursday, January 10th.

On the set of 'The Client List' w/ @TheReal_Jlh. She is so lovely. We'll be scoring this season! #3headedmonster

She is headed to Shanghai to promote the Dreamland documentary. More details to come...

Liz: Ben Harper and me after rad jam sesh!!

Liz: @BenHarper @tomfreund when good music happens to good people

Ken: Working on your new album or making cameos on others?
Liz: Cameos . Pure spontaneity

Liz Phair raps on "Bollywood" (2010)
Perhaps invigorated by the spontaneous MC presence of M.I.A., who had just released Maya, rocker Liz Phair unexpectedly dropped the Internet album Funstyle, her first work since 2005 (even taking time to emulate — or mock? — M.I.A.'s album artwork). Over a tabla-sampling beat, Phair confusingly tries her hand at rapping for the first time in 17 years, at least on record, after a reportedly tumultuous break from her management and other powers that be. "This is my journey," she wrote. "I'll keep sending you postcards." After revisiting "Bollywood", we hope those postcards include singing, exclusively.

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Liz Phair, Musician: "The only bad thing about the Rainbo was a flip side of the best thing: it was always the same crowd. So if you were feeling great that night and sociable, it was like drinking in your living room. But if you were in the dog house with anybody, say, for being loud and arrogant while intoxicated the night before, it was a real gauntlet. And on a cold winter's night, who could be bothered trudging any farther to reach a more anonymous establishment?"

"Basically, Matador (Records) hated the cover I'd originally sent and asked Nash Kato from Urge Overkill to stage an intervention. We had to turn it around immediately and he art directed a photo booth shot because it was what was available at that hour. Truthfully, we were just sitting there drinking with him bossing me around. Necessity is the mother of invention."

"Everybody making music in the area showed up there at least some of the time so it was a nexus of idea exchange: biz, art, gossip, what's new, etc."

"The members of Urge Overkill and Material Issue, Red Red Meat and Eleventh Dream Day, among others, were regulars. Sometimes Drag City Dan K and Dan O. Johnny, Jimmy and Janet were my favorite representatives behind the bar. They were all musicians as well. I loved how the Rainbo was musical in front of and behind the bar. You could always count on the bartenders to play killer music you may not have heard before. That was half of its appeal — the playlist."

"Saturday nights were when the neighborhood regulars left the Rainbo to the touristy suburbanites and headed deeper into the sketchy Western parts where car-jacking and real alcoholism lived."

Read the rest of the interview at Eater Chicago.

Liz: At Pax Am. Paul Cutler and I just fully fusion jammed with P Cutler. says, "this sounds like,"In A Silent Way"

Rumor has it that Ryan Adams is playing drums in all-star band session featuring guitarist Paul B. Cutler (of 45 Grave fame) and Liz. A 7" single is in the works from this project.