Archive for June, 2008
Lady GaGa - biography
It’s no wonder that little girl from a good Italian New York family, turned into the exhibitionist, multi-talented singer-songwriter with a flair for theatrics that she is today: Lady GaGa.
“I was always an entertainer. I was a ham as a little girl and I’m a ham today,” says Lady GaGa, 22, who made a name [...]
Rivers Cuomo kicks out song written with YouTube fans
Rivers has been teaching fans how to write songs while getting them to help him write a song. It’s a great idea.
Radiohead releases ten live videos
Radiohead has released ten live performance videos recorded at The Hospital studio in Covent Garden with the team from the band’s longtime producer Nigel Godrich’s ‘From the Basement’ TV show (http://www.fromthebasement.tv/).
The collection is now available exclusively through iTunes. The videos feature live renditions of songs from ‘In Rainbows’ and the bonus CD included in its [...]
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles - review
I grew up a Crue fan… and would have never predicted that they would ever disappear. They seemed like a franchise that could never die.
The Kooks Announce Fall 2008 US Tour
Fresh off wrapping up their Sold-Out May/June US tour, we are very pleased to announce The Kooks will return to the States in September for an extensive Fall 2008 tour, their biggest US tour to date. The tour will include cities the band has never played before, giving fans all over the country a chance [...]
Aimee Mann on tour of U.S.
Aimee Mann’s seventh solo release to date, @#%&! Smilers, is a return to form after the artistic detours of 2005’s concept album The Forgotten Arm and 2006’s Christmas CD One More Drifter in the Snow.
Featuring thirteen new original songs, producer Paul Bryan describes the record as “deceptively powerful…very rich and grand sounding”. The songs range [...]
Year Long Disaster to open for Foo Fighters
Year Long Disaster have been selected by the Foo Fighters, one of the world’s biggest rock bands, to take the opening slot on five dates during their Midwest run. The shows also feature special guests, Supergrass.
Year Long Disaster, the three-piece blues-based rock band of Daniel Davies (son of Dave Davies from The Kinks), [...]
Ice-T to release new album
Hip-Hop veteran Ice-T has released a special edition of his eighth studio album Gangsta Rap.
The Gangsta Rap Special Edition is available on digital download now, and features two previously-unreleased tracks, as well as an alternative silhouette version of the album’s original controversial cover. Last Tuesday (June 17), Gangsta Rap Special Edition was made available exclusively [...]
Black Light Burns featuring Wes Borland releasing album
Former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland and his band BLACK LIGHT BURNS is preparing for the release of Cover Your Heart and The Anvil Pants Odyssey, a combination CD and DVD package on August 5, 2008 on I Am: Wolfpack/YMA Music Group. Packed with reinterpreted songs of bands including Duran Duran (”Hungry Like the Wolf”), [...]
Moby opens video competition to fans
Moby announces details of an exclusive global $10,000 video competition going live on mobygratis.com. Directors are invited to submit their films for the track Ooh Yeah and the winner, chosen by Moby, will win the $10,000 prize money and have their video used as the official music video for Ooh Yeah from Moby’s latest album, [...]