Tuesday Rock Roundup

Bob Dylan has been awarded a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer board, which annually gives out 21 awards for journalism, letters, drama and music, gave Dylan the special award "for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." There have been only 38 such citations since 1917. The administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, Sig Gissler, said, "With Dylan, we are recognizing a body of work."

The Rolling Stones new Martin Scorsese-directed concert movie, Shine a Light, was not the number-one movie this past weekend, but it did have a respectable showing its first weekend in theaters. Shine a Light earned an estimated one-point-five-million dollars from its limited release in 276 theaters. U2's latest concert film, U23D, earned 964-thousand its opening weekend in 61 theaters in January. Scorsese has used numerous Stones songs in his movies over the years, especially "Gimme Shelter," which was featured in Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed. Ironically, it's not in Shine a Light.

Queen debuted another song off their forthcoming, and as of yet untitled, album with Paul Rodgers. They did the album's first single, "C-Lebrity," Friday on the U-K comedy show, Al Murray's Happy Hour. Clips of the performance can be found on YouTube.

Today's birthdays include former Guns N' Roses slinger Izzy Stradlin, and Steve Howe from Yes and Asia.

New Releases Today:

Juno (Two-Disc Special Edition with Digital Copy)
Lars and the Real Girl
Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem (Two-Disc Special Edition with Digital Copy)
Hell's Kitchen: Season 1
The Cosby Show: Season 7
The Cosby Show: Season 8