Category: Music
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Lucas Cruikshank aka Fred biography
Lucas Cruikshank is a high school student who has come to international attention as the creator of the wildly popular YouTube series, FRED. As the number one subscribed site in YouTube history with over 303 million views and over 1.3 million subscribers, FRED has launched sixteen year-old Cruikshank into super stardom with a world-wide fan…
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Fred releases “Christmas is Creepy” video
YouTube sensation FRED has released a new video for the song “Christmas is Creepy,” from his holiday EP It’s Hackin’ Christmas. The video combines live action, CGI, animation, and stop-motion to illustrate that popular Christmas stories are actually a little weird when it’s all said and done – Santa sneaking into houses, snowmen coming to…
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Three Days Grace announce tour with Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace will begin a co-headline tour with Breaking Benjamin in Peoria, IL on January 15th at the Peoria Civic Center. The band’s most recent release Life Starts Now debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 charts making it the highest debut ever for the band. “Break” the first single from Life Starts…
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Air announce tour of America
Following the October release of their fifth studio album Love 2, French electronic pop duo AIR (Nicolas Godin and JB Dunckel) return to the U.S. for their first live shows in three years. The “Pocket Symphony” tour of 2007/08 saw the band travel to the Far East and beyond, stage their largest New York play…
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Alicia Keys to stream “The Element of Freedom” on Facebook
Alicia Keys’ upcoming album, “The Element of Freedom,” exclusively to the artist’s fans on Facebook (www.facebook.com/aliciakeys). RCA Music has partnered with Involver, the leading social media technology firm, to allow Keys’ 1.2 million Facebook fans to stream the tracks from her new album directly from her Facebook Page. Visitors can listen to tracks for free…
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The Rocket Summer announce “Of Men and Angels” release date
Another successful tour wraps up this weekend for The Rocket Summer, as frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumental mastermind Bryce Avary looks ahead to the release of his long-awaited second major label album release on Island Records, “Of Men and Angels,” scheduled to arrive February 23, 2010. In advance of the album release, the 4-song EP You…
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Watch Lifehouse behind the scenes of “Halfway Gone”
Lifehouse recently premiered the music video for “Halfway Gone,” the first single from their upcoming release Smoke & Mirrors. Now, the band has released a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the video, directed by the talented Frank Borin (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Good Charlotte). In this clip, the guys discuss the concept for “Halfway…
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Chris Brown “Graffiti” review
Preparing for his 2009 release Graffiti, Chris Brown has crossed the threshold from teenager to young man. Experiencing the growing pains, challenges, loves and losses of the past year, Chris has found his way as an artist.
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Liam Gallagher brings Andy Bell and Gem Archer for new band
According to NME.com Andy Bell will join Liam Gallagher in his new band. The band is still in need of a bass player for the new group which will feature Bell and guitarist Gem Archer. NME states that “members of Oasis live band, drummer Chris Sharrock and keyboard player Jay Darlington.” “It’s me, it’s Gem,…
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Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo hurt in bus accident
The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accident Sunday. Rivers Cuomo, 40, complained of rib pain and was transferred, along with one other passenger, to St. Mary’s Hospital in Amsterdam, New York. Cuomo’s wife, daughter, and a fifth passenger on the bus were uninjured. The bus was traveling from…