She had opposed a reunion of the Spice Girls but now she has changed her mind. “For the first time ever, there is some truth in the rumours. We’ve been discussing it and it could possibly happen,” the 33-year-old singer, known as Sporty Spice, told British Broadcasting Corp. radio. Never trust a pop star.
She said [...]
The boy bands come and go but the people behind them stay there and take care of more boy bands. The big fish are not the singers; the big fish are the managers.
Such a fish is Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman . He was was forced out of hiding Thursday after being expelled by [...]
We have ROME. Not us but British rocker Rod Stewart has. The news reports in in Italy say that he married model Penny Lancaster.
The private ceremony was in Santa Margherita Ligure, just outside the posh Portofino resort on Italy’s northwestern coast. Not to many downsides when you are a huge rock star even at 62. [...]
Artist name: Avril Lavigne
Album name: The Best Damn Thing
Label: RCA Records
Gender: Pop-Rock/Punk-Pop
Release date: April 16, 2007
ZMErating: 4/10
Website: www.avrillavigne.com
The goth phase didn’t last long and the rock chick as she names herself has went to the well-scrubbed mosh pit for her third album. [...]
Artist name: Black Sabbath
Album name: The Dio Years
Label: Rhino Records
Gender: Heavy Metal
Release date: April 3, 2007
ZMErating: 7/10
Website: http://www.black-sabbath.com/
The original lineup is mythic and any change is probably a sacrilege but it’s easy to overlook how far they slid by the time Ozzy [...]
Artist name: Beyonce
Album name: B’day
Label: Colubia (USA)
Gender: R&B/Pop
Release date: Septembre 4, 2006
ZMErating: 3.5/5
Website: http://www.beyonceonline.com/
Everything the singer touches turns to gold thanks to her talent and already experience. But behind her albums and shows there is a careful strategy and just about every move she makes is a tactical one. This is the music [...]
Artist name: Marilyn Manson
Album name: Eat Me, Drink Me
Label: Interscope Records
Gender: Metal/Alternative
Release date: June 5, 2007
ZMErating: 3/5
Website: http://www.marilynmanson.com/
The artist first showed himself as a transgressive force but after a lifetime crafting a persona as a rock & roll boogeyman it may be a surprise that he can get away with the eternally adolescent behavior. His [...]
They did it all and not for a short while. The good news is that after giving themselves room to roam with an acoustic album, a cover album, solo albums, and a slew of live albums, Erasure return to their comfort zone of distrust, disgust, and despair set mostly to a disco beat with the [...]
The first album called In My Own Words was a major hit and it launched the singer into the big world; it was a a number one album supported by two Top Ten singles and a third that peaked in the Top 20. Working for others like for Rihanna’s Top Ten “Unfaithful” and Beyonce’s number [...]
Until about ten years ago, metal meant just hardcore instrumental and fast guitar playing. Mostly, it is the same today, but some changes in the genre delivered albums which in the early ’90s would just not be possible.
A thing which probably nobody could have predicted is for a band to merge heavy metal with a [...]
Monday, June 18, 2007
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