The [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag] were supposed to be relaxing this year after releasing a monster double album (In Your Honor) and touring almost every corner of the planet in 2005. Instead, frontman Dave Grohl and drummer Taylor Hawkins find themselves on a promotional tour supporting the new Foos’ record, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace which is in stores. “We started demo-ing music and we were coming up with some really great ideas and, honestly, at this…
Starbucks just makes you think about coffee or other beverages or a quick snack. But that is about to change. It is going to make you think about music. The Starbucks Corp. plans to give away 50 million free digital songs to the customers as a way of promoting a new wireless iTunes music service that’s about to debut in some markets. From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7 they will hand out about 1.5 million…
Artist name: Foo Fighters Album name: Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Label: RCA Records Gender: Alternative rock Release date: September 25, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.foofighters.com/ The [tag]Foo Fighters[/tag] have definetly left their mark in rock music for several years. With various studio album releases they were most of the time climbing the charts but few of their releases were groundbreaking. Their albums are very solid; they have quality and quantity but they just miss…
This is a few months late but the point here is not to talk about the single itself but how the talented Anette Olzon is able to replace the almost legendary Tarja Turunen; she was asked more or less politely to leave the band in October 2005. Having listened to every track they recorded and admiring their work it is hard to not talk about that. So after about a long search lasting not far…
Britney Spears spent the night partying in Los Angeles. That is after she heard the court order to undergo random drug and alcohol tests as part of her custody battle. She was having fun with friends, including Canadian singer Avril Lavigne, People.com reports. Before that she went to the Beverly Hills Police Department because a group of photographers were following her; or so she says. There was no action taken. A clubgoer told People that…
The singer/actress is due to give birth in the spring, according to In Touch Weekly. That would not be such a striking thing.However, a rep for the couple is refuting the story, telling the New York Daily News: “Everyone calls about this every month with the hopes that they’ll hit the mark.” But In Touch does not go back and it remains faithful to the story. It looks like Lopez and husband Marc Anthony found…
Artist name: Ringo Starr Album name: Photograph: The Very Best of RS Label: EMI/Capitol Gender: Rock/Pop Release date: August 28, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.ringostarr.com/ The Fab Four had such a huge impact in music that it is hard to believe that there has not been a proper Ringo Starr hits collection since the first, 1975’s Blast from Your Past. That was released just five years after his debut, Sentimental Journey, but it ignored that…
Artist name: Mark Knopfler Album name: Kill To Get Crimson Gender: Folk Label: Warner Bros. Records Release date: September 18, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.markknopfler.com/ For what concerns music history it’s just hard to talk about [tag]Mark Knopfler[/tag]. But when you think about it is harder not to talk about him. The man is a living legend and probably even more important is that his spirit is so young. He is a distinguished member in…
Artist name: Iced Earth Album name: Framing Armageddon: Sometheing Wicked I Gender: Power Meta Label: SPV Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.icedearth.com/ There are some metal bands which like to wallow in their misery, some which like to party hard, and some which refuse categoricaly to indulge in any of the aforementioned well-traveled roads. Iced Earth is that kind of band.They specialize in triumphant sounding metal and show the masterful guitar work…
About two weeks have passed since the Italian legend named Luciano Pavarotti left us and the world is still not used to that idea. His fans and people from every corner of the world go and listen to his recordings or watch bits from the opera. But for some there are more pressing problems. Like his money. His second wife has an attorney named Giorgio Bernini and he has stated that in the final months…
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