Vampire Weekend's new video for "Giving Up the Gun" features an all-star cast of RZA, Joe Jonas, Lil Jon and a drunk Jake Gyllenhaal....
News
Internal Microsoft e-mails in 2003 show that they knew Apple had beaten them to the punch in digital music services with the release of iTunes....
Feb
10
The 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival takes place June 10-13 in Manchester, Tennessee. Instead of releasing the lineup all at once, the Bonnaroo website and MySpace page are unveiling artists from noon to 9 p.m. Eastern time today....
Lil Wayne was supposed to start his year-long prison term yesterday after pleading guilty to an attempted weapons possession in 2007. According to MTV News, Wayne’s sentence has been delayed has been delayed to March 2 because of a c...
You have to do more than collect a few records nowadays to be the coolest hipster on the block. Fortunately, Gakken has come to the rescue with their Premium Gramaphone Kit....
With The Who set to take one of the biggest stages of their career this weekend during halftime of Super Bowl XLIV, Sirius XM Radio will celebrate the music of Townshend and Daltrey by launching a limited-run station called the Who Channe...
Feb
3
25 years after the original, every freakin' celebrity in the world is getting together to remake "We Are the World" in order to raise money to help with the devastation in Haiti....
The nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards were announced this morning, and in the Best Original Song category, Jack White, Karen O, Paul McCartney, Lykke Li and Linkin Park were… all snubbed. Even though those five artists all appeare...
Filmaker Spike Jonze has asked for the help of Red Hot Chili Pepper’s bassist Flea and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ guitarist Nick Zinner to work on a song for the soundtrack to Jonze’s new short film, “I’m Here”. F...
Steven Tyler’s new manager has sent a letter to Aerosmith’s management threatening legal action if the band makes good on their promise to tour with a new singer, Billboard reports. In the letter, manager Skip Miller asserts that Tyler...
The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards aired yesterday from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. I personally didn't catch the program last night, but here are the winners. I assure you they are correct. I looked it up. ...
Jan
29
A few days ago, I wrote about Pete Townshend’s interview with Billboard in which he talks about what songs his band, The Who will play at Super Bowl XLIV. It seems that the band, and Townshend in particular, aren’t welcomed by ...
Sheffield’s popular rock group, Arctic Monkeys seem to have a new fan, UK’s Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. At a charity event to raise money for Haiti, she compared the band to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. “Leonard Cohen&...
Jan
28
Massachusetts electro pop group Passion Pit have reworked Lady Gaga’s “Telephone.” The band was asked to create the official remix for the latest single off her album The Fame Monster. The song, featuring Beyonce, gets...
Arthur von Poppel is a man with a dream. A dream that every single type of vehicle man has ever created can be modified to play music, one-man-band style....
If you want a different looking speaker, you have a few grand to spare, and you also like things that are made out of freaking diamond, the Bowers & Wilkins 800 Series Diamond Speakers may be for you. Okay, the whole thing isn’t ...
It’s official. The Department of Justice is approving the merger of ticket king Ticketmaster and concert promotions giant Live Nation. The joining of the two companies was announced last February, but has caused concerns that the com...
Jan
26
In an interview with Billboard, Pete Townshend talked about what his band, The Who, will be playing during the halftime show of Super Bowl XLIV. “We’re kinda doing a mashup of stuff,” the guitarist tells Billboard. ̶...
Let this be a warning to everyone whose names starts with “Mc”: MCDONALD’S OWNS YOUR NAME. 19 year old Lauren McClusky of Chicago decided a few years ago that she wanted to put on some concerts to raise money for charity....
Radiohead played at the Music Box at the Fonda in Los Angeles last night. Drummer, Phil Segway, announced the show only two days earlier on the bands blog, Dead Air Space. The concert managed to raise $572,754 for the Oxfam Haiti relief ...
Prince recently penned a song for his purple comrades, the Minnesota Vikings. The song, “Purple and Gold” was written by Prince after viewing the Viking’s 34-3 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. Prince, who was in attendanc...
Soundgarden fans woke up to incredible news this New Year’s morning: the band, which split in 1997, is officially reuniting. Frontman Chris Cornell confirmed the reconciliation via Twitter, writing, “The 12 year break is over & sch...
Cross Lenny Kravitz off the list of potential singers to fill in for Steven Tyler as he takes his two-year hiatus from Aerosmith....
Nov
20
Nick Drake was easily one of the most influential english songwriters of the last century, but he was relatively unknown throughout his life. Although the shy, troubled artist has been named as an influence by artists such as Kate Bush, P...
The network that introduced millions to Michael Jackson will also air his final performance. MTV Networks has acquired the exclusive U.S. television rights to the posthumous documentary "Michael Jackson's This Is It."...
