posted by Robert on Apr 27
Yes, ladies and gents the purple one has the balls to cover such a depreciating song like Radiohead’s Creep.
Prince surprised the crowd at Coachella tonight with the Radiohead cover as well as singing his greatest hits out there in the Californian desert. We wonder how Thom Yorke and the band would feel that someone like Prince would do something like this.
Decked out in a white suit, he also covered the Beatles’ Come together¯ and ralied everyone to chant War No More. After all the politics is done, he goes straight into the old bin and cranks out 1999¯, Little Red Corvette, Cream, Purple Rain¯, and Let’s Go Crazy¯.
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posted by Robert on Apr 20
Amy Winehouse seems to be attracting quite a lot of bad media and karma for the last few weeks. She got invited by the London police to spend a night in their offices, soon to be ex-hubby is asking for millions in the divorce settlement, and now this: she’s pulling out of doing the theme for the new Bond movie; Quantum of Solace.
Mark Ronson, who produced much of Winehouse’s Grammy-winning Back to Black, said the soul diva is not ready to record any music.
Ronson said the two started work on the track for the upcoming Bond movie Quantum of Solace but it would take some miracle of science to finish it, he said in an interview with Sky News.
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posted by Robert on Apr 12
A rumors going around that Axl Rose finally finished Chinese Democracy. Its been sixteen years in the making and a lot of things have changed since then.
Is Axl Rose still relevant to the 21st century and its mp3 kids? Most of his fans back in the late 80s have moved on to become corporate employees and have no time for rock music or slackers with no money to buy a CD. The kids these days will have to be totally blown away with the album or they’ll just think its grandpas old shtick.
The record cost a lot so Axl had better deliver. According to reports, it cost Geffen an arm and two legs: $13 Million. Currently, they are hammering out money and rights issues with the singer.
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posted by Robert on Apr 7
For British insomniacs, Coldplay may just be your ticket to La-la land.
In a survey carried out by Travelodge, the four-piece band is the top choice of most people who want to fall asleep to. The other choices were James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Take That, and Norah Jones. According to Travelodge representative, Leigh McCarron,
“The research shows that we are increasingly relying on slow, sleepy music and unchallenging books to take our minds off the pressures of modern living, to help us switch off and get to sleep at night.ā€¯
The study was polled across the UK with 2,248 participants.
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posted by Robert on Apr 2
If you were kicked out of a band, how would you feel? Pretty much pissed, I guess. That’s how Weiland (now ex-singer for Velvet Revolver since the announcement yesterday) reacted.
I find it humorous that the so called four founding members of Velvet Revolver would decide to move on without me after I had already claimed the group dead in the water on March 20 in Glasgow, Weiland said.
He has decided to turn his back on this experience and instead focus on the future. Weiland will be touring again with his original band, the Stone Temple Pilots, saying I choose to look forward to the future and performing with a group of friends I have known my entire life.¯
What’s the future for Velvet Revolver? Will they break up or get a new singer? Watch this blog for more news on that soon.
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posted by Robert on Apr 1
The writing was on the wall. We reported a few days ago that Velvet Revolver seems to be the verge of imploding, here and here. Here’s the official announcement from the group and Sanctuary Artist Management.
Velvet Revolver founding members Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum and Dave Kushner announced today that they are parting ways with singer Scott Weiland. “This band is all about its fans and its music and Scott Weiland isn’t 100% committed to either,” said Slash. “Among other things, his increasingly erratic on-stage behavior and personal problems have forced us to move on.”
Short but bittersweet , eh? How will Weiland react? For sure we’ll be reporting that as soon as we get it.
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