NEW YORK (Billboard) – The members of Atlanta-based Mastodon have a strange story to tell on their new seven-song, 50-minute heavy metal opus, “Crack the Skye.” And the best way to hear the whole twisted tale will be live and direct: the band plans to perform the album, due March 24, in its entirety on their upcoming tour.
Hometown fans will get a preview Saturday night (February 28) when the band headlines a free, 40-band
On March 24th, Capitol Records will release The Decemberists’ The Hazards Of Love, the follow-up to the group’s 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife, which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year.
With their fifth full-length album, the Portland-based quintet of Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen solidifies its standing as one of the most innovative creative forces in music today. In an age when singles rule and the death of the album
Homme and Hughes bring their two man, sex-drenched cabaret back with a mix of authentic 60s blues rock, and a generous sprinkling of glam-pomposity.
Having fulfilled his obligations to one musical family, Josh Homme returns to the bosom of the other, changing into his satirical hat on the way. The twoing and froing might have put obstacles in the way of the Eagles’ touring potential but his creative double-life evidently provides
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Sting drew cheers with an impromptu jam session at the Sundance Film Festival, but his real purpose was to bring attention to a film dealing with the singer’s other passion: rainforest preservation.
Joe Berlinger’s “Crude” traces 15 years of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ecuador residents who claim that oil producer Chevron Corp. is liable for contaminating water supplies around the headwaters of the Amazon River.
Sting and wife
NEW YORK – Run-DMC once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it’s fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Run-DMC joins the heavy metal band Metallica, guitarist and former Yardbirds member Jeff Beck; soul singer and guitarist Bobby Womack and doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials as this year’s inductee class.
Though Run-DMC wasn’t among the first
NEW YORK (AP) — Run-DMC once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it’s fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Run-DMC joins the heavy metal band Metallica, guitarist Jeff Beck, soul singer Bobby Womack and doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials as this year’s inductee class.
Rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson gets a nod for the early influence category,
NEW YORK (AP) - Run-DMC once hailed themselves as the Kings of Rock, so it’s fitting that the pioneering rappers have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Run-DMC joins the heavy metal band Metallica, guitarist Jeff Beck, soul singer Bobby Womack and doo-wop group Little Anthony and the Imperials as this year’s inductee class.
Though Run-DMC wasn’t among the first rap acts, they were the first to achieve widespread mainstream success, and the first
ARTIST: JAMIE FOXX
ALBUM: INTUITION
NEW YORK (Billboard) – Tapping his musical side, actor/comedian Jamie Foxx debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with this latest outing. That ascent was no doubt buoyed by the infectious first single, “Just Like Me” featuring T.I., and the remix “She Got Her Own” with guests Ne-Yo and Fabolous. Sporting production by Chris “Tricky” Stewart, Terius “the-Dream” Nash and Timbaland (on the
Coming from a lineage of ‘icy’ (read: an easy label for any female voice that’s both pure and hails from somewhere near the Arctic Circle) singers such as Sidsel Endreson or Stina Nordenstam, Norwegian Susanna Wallumrod’s timbre and range are naturally given to investing anything she sings with pathos and aching longing. Flower Of Evil, a collection of cover versions (with two originals) has this in spades.
As with her Magical Orchestra’s
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was pelted with custard pies during a concert in California - to celebrate his 40th birthday. The musician will reach the landmark age on December 26 and the rest of the band decided to mark the occasion during their final gig of the year at Oracle Arena in Oakland, California on Saturday.
During a break in the show, the band’s crew ran on to the stage and chased Ulrich with armfuls of the desserts, finally trapping him and covering him in custard
