It seems that the Rio de Janeiro concert, part of the ample [tag]Live Earth[/tag] Festival set rock the world at 07.07.2007, is in serious jeopardy of not taking place, for security reasons. Brazilian officials claim they do not have enough police staff to ensure safety for the swarms of people expected to take part at the hugh concert at the Copacabana Beach and that they have to cancel the event. Live Earth officials, however, are…
NY favorite rockers [tag]Yeah Yeah Yeahs[/tag] will embark on a late summer tour in the US, to promote their soon to be released EP “Is Is”, due to be released on July 23 in the UK, and a day later in US. The band will tour for a period on two weeks, beginning from the 1st of August in Lawrence, Kansas, spanning until the 18th of August when they’ll play at the grand Download Festival…
Artist name: Velvet Revolver Album name: Libertad Label: RCA Records Gender: Hard Rock Release date: July 3, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.velvetrevolver.com/ If [tag]Velvet Revolver[/tag] never made it to its second album, i would be any thing but surprised. I mean face it when you have such a conglomeration of stars and egos from the ’80 hard rock times, featuring ex-members of Guns N’ Roses and fronted by arguably the biggest ego of the grunge…
The top British rock band [tag]Editors[/tag] have mapped the dates for what seems to be a massive October tour all around the UK. During the tour Editors will play a 2 nights in a row show at London’s Brixton Academy, featuring tracks from their UK number 1 LP “An End Has A Start”.
The famous [tag]Metallica[/tag] drummer Lars Ulrich has stated, in a interview done after attending Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium, that the band has finished recording the backing tracks for its, not yet titled, ninth studio release. The band last album “St. Anger”, was launched in 2003 and was dubbed by hardcore fans as a disaster naming it unpolished and under-produced. Ulrich said that they will return to the recording studios in August, estimating that it…
OK … here’s an “interesting” video for you guys from Rilo Kiley called “The Moneymaker”, from their upcoming forth album “Under the Blacklight” (due Auguts 21). The video is centered around a porn shop, with Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis singing a blues style melody, with a squitchy guitar on the background, while explicit erotic scenes unfold. If you have the patience to listen to the 10 minute intro, featuring some porn stars interviews then…
Here’s one for all you FOB fans out there, it seems they’re set to perform this Friday in New York at the Rockefeller Plaza. The emo rockers will play a gig as part of their appearance on NBC’s The Today Show and fans are invited to join the show as spectators free of charge. Here the catch though, the show’s really early in the morning, at 7 AM, so if your a late sleeper forget…
[tag]Ash[/tag] releases their long awaited LP “Twilight Of The Innocents”, i just hope it at least matches “Meltdown”. Here’s something interesting [tag]Crowded House[/tag] have released today their reunion album “Time On Earth”, their first album since “Together Alone” in 1993! Although i like Ash a lot, this weeks favorite release for me has to be [tag]Velvet Revolver[/tag] with “Libertad”, will be receiving the recor soon so I’m pretty exited . Unkle- ‘War Stories’ Velvet Revolver-…
Reports say the largest record label, Universal Music, won’t renew its contract with the highly popular download store iTunes. I see this as a strange move by Universal. Universal Music has contracts with the majority of big names out there in the music business, from [tag]U2[/tag] to [tag]Eminem[/tag]. This recent action comes some what as a shock to me. This is a no win situation for either sides; iTunes loses money because people won’t find…
There are not so many things Kelly Clarkson did this year. That is Aside from the widely reported tete-a-tete with legendary music executive Clive Davis over her new album My December. She fired her manager, Jeff Kwatinetz and the planned North American summer tour was axed. She claims that “I think it has been a fabulous creative year for me, but at the same time I think it has been a testing of my patience…
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