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Lily Allen Performs on NBC's 'Today' Show 4/13
Who says Friday the 13th is bad luck?
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Rihanna's New Single "Umbrella" Featuring Jay-Z From Her Forthcoming Album "Good Girl Gone Bad"
Due in stores June 5th, 2007!
Umbrella featuring Jay-Z
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: Echo & the Bunnymen
Title: Songs to Learn & Sing
Date: 1985
Label: Sire Records 25360-1
Notes: Consisting of cuts previously released in 1981 thru 1984 this collection demonstrates the lighter edge of eighties angst. Melodies, fantastic guitar sounds and electronics all blend to make for a delicious stew. This is all in retrospect of course, I kind of dismissed these guys the first time around as disco marketed electo-dance. But no, on recent listenings these songs can stand on their own as classics of the period. I remember an ethereal video for the "Dancing Horses" cut and it was very similar to the shadowed front cover. Very nice indeed boys.
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Title: Songs to Learn & Sing
Date: 1985
Label: Sire Records 25360-1
Notes: Consisting of cuts previously released in 1981 thru 1984 this collection demonstrates the lighter edge of eighties angst. Melodies, fantastic guitar sounds and electronics all blend to make for a delicious stew. This is all in retrospect of course, I kind of dismissed these guys the first time around as disco marketed electo-dance. But no, on recent listenings these songs can stand on their own as classics of the period. I remember an ethereal video for the "Dancing Horses" cut and it was very similar to the shadowed front cover. Very nice indeed boys.
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: U2 Title: War
Label: Island Records
A1-90067 Boy
Photograph: Ian Finlay Band
Photograph: Anton Corbijn: RX
Notes: This was the record that brought the band their worldwide appeal. With material like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "New Years Day" the record couldn't help but be a hit. Intelligent vocals, spare, thoughtfully placed guitar accents. Still a record to hold up for comparison with other classics. This was before the band grew too large for small crowds and fashion and a dance beat weren't part of the program. I believe that I've read that the cover subject was a neighbor of Bono's and it was a matter of the photographer just being in the right place to capture the shots. Excellent album and a great cover. Can't ask for more than that can ya?
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: Meat Puppets
Title: "Huevos"
Date: 1987
Label: SST Records SST 150
Cover: Curt
Sleeve Drawing: Cris
Sleeve Photo: Joe Cultice
Notes: From out of the scrub brush on the edge of the desert comes a trio who were making their brand of music well before alt-country and Americana were the new thing to come down the 'pike.
Don't get me wrong, I love the alt-America stuff, but there is something right and real about the Puppets and the songs they sing. This record is a bit more mellow than I remembered the first time around, but that in no way reduces the amount of pleasure to be gotten from a few repeated listenings.
The cover art appears to be painted in thick layers in a slightly southwestern palette. Hey, any cover with a bottle of Tabasco on it is welcome at my table, any meal of the day.
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: Jimmy Cliff
Title: The Harder They Come
Date: 1972
Label: Mango Records/Island Records MLPS-9202
Cover Artwork: CCS Associates
Notes: A Mango Records release. This reggae record skanks along and drags you with it. The title track alone is reason enough to own this one. Plus the cover has enough 70's nostalgia to make you want to go watch Starsky & Hutch just for the few moments with Huggy Bear. The musical line up is fantastic as well. Find it and give it a listen.
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: The B52's
Title: Party Mix
Date: 1981
Label: Warner Brothers Records MINI 3596
Cover: Tony Wright
Photograph: Lynn Goldsmith
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Retro Album Cover of the Day
Artist: Rod Stewart
Title: Sing It Again Rod
Date: 1973
Label: Mercury Records SRM-1-680
Album Design: Shakey Pete Corriston
Photography: Cosimo Sciana, Emerson, Loew and Steve Azzara
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Title: Sing It Again Rod
Date: 1973
Label: Mercury Records SRM-1-680
Album Design: Shakey Pete Corriston
Photography: Cosimo Sciana, Emerson, Loew and Steve Azzara
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Wynonna Judd Files For Divorce
Country singer Wynonna Judd has filed for divorce from her estranged husband, Dan R. Roach.
The news comes one week after he was arrested in Texas on charges of sexual abuse of a child.
He is reportedly held at Taylor County Jail and being held on $750,000 bond.
Nashville police stated that Roach was arrested Thursday in Abilene and charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child younger than 13.
Judd released a statement on her website, "I am obviously devastated. Our family will pull together, begin the healing process and hopefully - by the Grace of God - become stronger. We will move forward with our faith, family and our friends to find resolution to this difficult situation."
She has named irreconcilable differences as the reason for the dissolution.
Roach had been in rehab for drugs and alcohol at the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas since February 21, 2007. The same treatment center that Wynonna attended in the past for food addiction.
The couple were married on November 22, 2003.
Source: Playfuls.com
Picture Credits: GettyImages/Canada.com
The news comes one week after he was arrested in Texas on charges of sexual abuse of a child.He is reportedly held at Taylor County Jail and being held on $750,000 bond.
Nashville police stated that Roach was arrested Thursday in Abilene and charged with three counts of aggravated sexual battery against a child younger than 13.
Judd released a statement on her website, "I am obviously devastated. Our family will pull together, begin the healing process and hopefully - by the Grace of God - become stronger. We will move forward with our faith, family and our friends to find resolution to this difficult situation."
She has named irreconcilable differences as the reason for the dissolution. Roach had been in rehab for drugs and alcohol at the Shades of Hope Treatment Center in Buffalo Gap, Texas since February 21, 2007. The same treatment center that Wynonna attended in the past for food addiction.
The couple were married on November 22, 2003.
Source: Playfuls.com
Picture Credits: GettyImages/Canada.com
Rock Stars Who've Caught Fire Onstage
Being a rock star is all about going that extra mile for the fans.
Frequently it seems that extra mile involves massive pyrotechnic displays supervised by stringy-haired heshers who say things like, “Dude, this is going to be so f*ckin’ rad!” Surprisingly enough, sometimes these displays don’t go exactly as planned. Here are 10 artists who learned the hard way that “If you play with fire, you’re going to get burned,” is more than just a tired old cliché.
By David Peisner
James Hetfield of MetallicaMetallica was onstage at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in 1992, when their frontman accidentally stepped into the path of one of the 12-foot towers of flame that had been rigged to shoot from the lip of the stage. His guitar protected him from the full force of the blast, but fire still engulfed his left side, burning his hand, arm, eyebrows, face and hair. He suffered second- and third-degree burns, but was back onstage 17 days later. Guns N' Roses, who were co-headlining the show, rose to the occasion in typical fashion by cutting their set short after less than an hour, leading angry fans to riot.
Michael JacksonJacko was filming a Pepsi commercial in front of 3,000 fans in 1984, when a fireworks display behind him malfunctioned, shooting a shower of sparks down upon the singer’s head and setting fire to his hair. Jackson was apparently unfazed by his blazing locks, calmly covering his head with his jacket while his brothers rushed to help. He did suffer second-degree burns and subsequently wore a hairpiece when collecting Grammys later that year.
Wyclef JeanWyclef Jean was hoping to conjure the spirit of Jimi Hendrix when he set fire to his guitar after playing “The Star Spangled Banner” at the three-day Woodstock music festival in 1999. But much like everything else at that ill-fated festival, things got out of hand, and Jean — ever the third-rate mimic — torched his fingers in the blaze. Fortunately, the fire was extinguished quickly, leaving concertgoers plenty of time to light their own far more impressive blazes later in the festival.
Arthur BrownBefitting a character whose biggest hit (with his group, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown) was “Fire,” and who billed himself as the "God of Hellfire," this pioneering shock-rock shaman used to arrive onstage in the late '60's wearing a flaming crown. On separate occasions he accidentally set fire to his robes and burned his face. But perhaps his most memorable mishap occurred in Windsor, England, when the methane that fueled his crown poured over his head and caught fire. Fortunately, two bystanders doused the flames by pouring beer on Brown’s head, preventing any serious injury.
Gene Simmons of KissAs the bombastic Kiss bassist certainly knows, one of the perils of breathing fire is that you can’t always control where the fire goes. Problems arose the very first time Simmons attempted the stunt onstage on New Year’s Eve 1973, in New York City. Toward the end of “Firehouse,” Simmons walked offstage to fill his mouth with kerosene, but when he returned to the center of the stage and blew a large fireball, it set his copiously hair-sprayed locks ablaze. A roadie quickly extinguished the flames with a wet towel, but Simmons hardly learned his lesson: He’d repeat the mishap another half-dozen or so times in his career.
Till Lindemann of RammsteinRammstein’s first pyrotechnic foray involved pouring gasoline on the stage and then lighting a match. The German industrial-metal outfit’s stage show has come a long way since then. Frontman Till Lindemann is now a licensed pyrotechnician who spends entire songs engulfed head-to-toe in flames. For his trouble, he has burned his ears, his hair and his arms. But since the band frequently incorporates fake accidents into their stage show, it’s unclear just how often he actually gets singed. As bandmate Christoph Schneider puts it, “Till gets burned all the time, but he likes the pain.”
Aldrin Montecinos of MegiddoMontecinos, the singer for Chilean black metal band Megiddo, was performing in Valdivia, Chile, in 2004, when his fire-breathing routine went awry. He unleashed a fireball mid-song that quickly set his long beard and hair alight, turning his head into a torch for several seconds. His bassist and guitarist helped beat back the flames, then quickly showed their metal chops by carrying on playing. Montecinos suffered first-degree burns, but vowed not to ditch the pyro from the band’s act. Watch it here!
Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P.Metal provocateurs W.A.S.P. never met a stage gimmick they wouldn’t try. When they set out on tour in the mid-'80s, frontman Blackie Lawless strode onstage wearing a codpiece that shot flames into the air. The first night he tried to use it, though, the codpiece exploded, lifting him a foot and a half off the ground, catching his pants on fire and burning his legs. Nursing his wounds that night in the dressing room, Lawless sagely commented to his bandmates, “If we wrote better songs we wouldn’t have to resort to stunts like this.”
Bob Bryar of My Chemical RomanceFor their video for “Famous Last Words” in 2006, My Chemical Romance were filmed performing the tune on a barren wasteland while the set from their previous video “Welcome to the Black Parade” burned all around them. Unfortunately for drummer Bob Bryar, a flare-up during the final take of the day set his pants on fire, a conflagration that can be seen when watching the finished video closely. Bryar needed a skin graft to repair the damaged skin, and the wound subsequently got infected, requiring an extended hospital stay and the canceling of three tour dates. Watch it here!
Source: Blender
I Love the 80's - Roxy Music
Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). The band existed from 1971 through 1983, then reunited for a concert tour in 2001, and have announced that they will be recording a new album in 2005-2006 for a 2007 release.
The group's name was partly an homage to the titles of old cinemas and dance halls, and partly a pun on the word 'rock.' (Ferry first named the band Roxy, but learning of an American band with the same name prompted the alteration of the name.)
The juxtaposition of nostalgic and contemporary (or futuristic) themes was a distinctive feature of the band, particularly in their earliest incarnation. The group is noted for their combination of idiosyncratic experimentation and sophisticated wit, evident in their literate lyrics, restrained instrumental virtuosity, and highly developed visual presentation (mainly directed by Ferry) which expropriated imagery from the realms of high fashion, kitsch, and commercial photography.
Roxy Music were a significant influence on the early English punk movement, as well as providing a model for many "New Wave" acts and the subsequent New Romantic and experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. Ferry and co-founding member Brian Eno have also had broadly influential solo careers, and Eno in particular has emerged one of the most significant record producers of the late 20th century, with credits including landmark albums by acts such as Devo, Talking Heads and U2.
Sources: YouTube/Wikipedia
The group's name was partly an homage to the titles of old cinemas and dance halls, and partly a pun on the word 'rock.' (Ferry first named the band Roxy, but learning of an American band with the same name prompted the alteration of the name.)
The juxtaposition of nostalgic and contemporary (or futuristic) themes was a distinctive feature of the band, particularly in their earliest incarnation. The group is noted for their combination of idiosyncratic experimentation and sophisticated wit, evident in their literate lyrics, restrained instrumental virtuosity, and highly developed visual presentation (mainly directed by Ferry) which expropriated imagery from the realms of high fashion, kitsch, and commercial photography.
Roxy Music were a significant influence on the early English punk movement, as well as providing a model for many "New Wave" acts and the subsequent New Romantic and experimental electronic groups of the early 1980s. Ferry and co-founding member Brian Eno have also had broadly influential solo careers, and Eno in particular has emerged one of the most significant record producers of the late 20th century, with credits including landmark albums by acts such as Devo, Talking Heads and U2.
Sources: YouTube/Wikipedia
Whitney Houston Works Hard For Comeback
Whitney started working on a new album in the studio yesterday.
BMG's Clive Davis, who has supported Whitney through her recent divorce, helped the diva choose seven songs to work on. Jermaine Dupri, R. Kelly, John Legend and Johnta Austin who co-wrote "Be Without You" and "We Belong Together" are in line to assist Whitney with her big comeback. And Whitney has enlisted Diane Warren, ("If I Could Turn Back Time", "How Do I Live" and "Un-Break My Heart") to help write lyrics.
According to NY Daily News, Whitney's voice might not possess the strength or range it once did due to age and drug abuse, but no one can dispute Whitney's talent. With a little help Whitney will make one of the greatest comebacks ever in the entertainment industry.
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Jared Leto Channels Chris Robinson
Jared Leto and 30 Seconds to Mars in Miami on March 9th.
And performing at Manchester Academy..
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Sources: ONTD/YouTube
Chris Daughtry in LIFE Magazine
You're on a U.S. tour with your band. What can't you leave home without?
A picture of my wife [Deanna], my computer, razors for my head, a Bible . . . and I obviously have to get the clothes right.
Do you have any preshow rituals?
Normally I do push-ups. I’ve been told that when you get the blood flowing through your body, you have more energy to sing better.
How many pushups can you do?
I don’t know. I just do three or four sets of 30. Who knows, it may even make me look better onstage.
What made a rocker like you want to get married at age 20?
I felt like I didn’t need to look anymore, that this was the person I was supposed to be with. If you know that, then you just go with it.
Do your kids (Hannah, 10, and Griffin, 8) like to rock out?
Absolutely. My daughter loves Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood.
Then surely you could introduce her.
There are so many singers my daughter wants to use me for—Hilary Duff, everybody in High School Musical, Hannah Montana. You name it, she’s all over it.
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Sources: ONTD/Life
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