Check out Lady Gaga performing The Sound of Music at Oscars

  Lady Gaga performing at Oscars. Source I think that an introduction to the Oscars is redundant – but Lady Gaga performing live songs from the well known classical movie, The Sound Of Music, at the Oscars, that is really something that is worth sharing. The singer performed four songs from the musical, The Sound Of Music, My Favourite Things, Edelweiss and Climb Ev’ry Mountain, as the event actually coincided with the movie’s 50th anniversary. [caption id=”attachment_13160″…

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Arctic Monkeys at Finsbury Park

Alex Turner and co have, over the last few years, made the transition from great rock band to true artists. With their most recent album, AM, going straight to number 1, their headline Glastonbury set alongside the Rolling Stones last summer, and now their sold-out 45,000 capacity shows at Finsbury Park in London, Arctic Monkeys have made sure they won’t be forgotten about any time soon. www.gigwise.com The Finsbury Park shows took place on the…

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Check out the video of the Drum Battle between Will Ferrell and Chad Smith(RHCP)

Will Ferrell and Chad Smith from RHCP Source I think that the resemblance between Chad Smith from Red Hot Chili Peppers and the well known actor Will Ferrell is no longer a surprise for anyone. It seems that in the past it happened very often for these to guys to be confused for one another, so they finally decided to run a big drum battle at the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon…

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Duncan Brookfield, The Troubadour, London

I caught Duncan Brookfield at The Troubadour Club in Earls Court the evening after what had been a warm but cloudy day in the city. Please excuse my weather forecast, but the mood of the day captured Duncan’s sound perfectly. He began with ‘Hurt’, a song which started slowly and immediately showed off the warmth of Duncan’s voice and the poignancy of his songwriting, however as the song progressed and the rumble of the drums…

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Frank Turner at the O2 Arena

On February 12th, 2014, Frank Turner played his biggest headline show to date, accompanied by the Sleeping Souls, at the O2 Arena in London. To say he looked at home on such a huge stage would be an exaggeration, but he absolutely knew how to handle it. After support from Beans on Toast and Flogging Molly, the crowd were more than ready for Frank to start his show, a near 2 hour set combining all the classics,…

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Clean Bandit – Live version of ‘Rather Be’

    Clean Bandit are one of the hottest acts in the UK right now.  The single ‘Rather Be’ is currently sitting at Number 1 in the midweeks for the UK single charts, it’s the most blogged track on Hype Machine as well as topping the iTunes chart and the band are set to become one of the cross over acts of 2014.   This innovative electronic collective are built around a string quartet and recently performed at Fred Perry’s Sub-Sonic Live show alongside fellow up and comers Gorgon City and Javeon and…

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Check out Metallica’s performance in Antarctica

Source On Sunday, Metallica actually performed a 10-song show in Antarctica, which made them set a new world record becoming the first band in history which performed on all the continents in under a year. Source Talking about the show the band said that: The band, contest winners, research station scientists (from Russia, South Korea, China, Poland, Chile, Brazil and Germany), and the ship crew, all crammed…

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Pixies perform two new songs at surprise LA gig, unveil new bassist

The Pixies are on fire! Just a week after releasing their new video ‘Indie Cindy’, they performed two brand new songs at a surprise concert ahead of their forthcoming world tour. The two songs are “Blue Eyed Hexe” and “Green and Blues”, and you can see some fan footage of the band performing the songs here. This was their first live appearance together in almost two years, since November 2011, but fans need not worry:…

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Video: Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler on stage with Marti Friedriksen in Nashville

Steven Tyler joined the band’s frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter Marti Frederiksen, on stage last night in Nashville, to perform two classic Aerosmith songs: “Dream On” and “Jaded”. “I have been working AEROSMITH now since the late ’90s. My first time was with the album ‘Nine Lives’ and I was the co-writer on that. And then I got to co-produce on ‘Just Push Play’. And I have worked on a couple things between that and now. So…

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Manowar are going to release a new EP: The Lord Of Steel Live

Source The EP is going to feature performances from Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden and Czech Republic ( a lot). The album is going yo be mixed and mastered and whatever they do to their music in the studio, at the Manowar’s studio, Hell and Haus Wahnfried by Joey DeMaio (I love this guy, even if his old). Below is a list with the featured tracks: 01. El Gringo  02. Expendable  03 Hail, Kill…

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