It seems all [tag]Metallica[/tag] members are working hard on their ’08 album, spending long hours in the studio to bring the best out. [tag]Velvet Revolver[/tag] drummer Matt Sorum, good friend of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, is amongst the first to listen to a few of the tracks from the new album. He describes them ‘sick’, ‘long’ and ‘fast’, with awesome solos of epic lengths. Don’t belive me ? Read on: “Lars is a good friend…
As previously reported, Green Day was set to do a punkified version of the famous theme song for one of the most popular TV shows of all time: “The Simpsons”. The The Simpsons soundtrack was released yesterday, containing 15 tracks mastered and “baked” by orchestral composer Hans Zimmer, whom you may remember as the man who made the O.S.T for such movies as Gladiator, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Rain Man and a lot more. The…
Vegoose is the ultimate Halloween festival extravaganza, providing quality live gigs from top bands in the sinful city of Las Vegas for the past 3 years now. This year, however, promises to be the wildest and most awesome year, with bands like [tag]Rage Against the Machine[/tag], [tag]Daft Punk[/tag], [tag]The Shins[/tag], [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] or [tag]Muse[/tag] as headliners, joined by Iggy & The Stooges, who will perform the ’70 acclaimed album “Fun House”, in…
Haven’t had enough of [tag]Rihanna[/tag] yet ? Well we haven’t. After her smashing hit “Umbrella” scored the longest Number One position in the UK since 10 years ago, for a period of 10 weeks, it was obvious that this success had to be marketed. And thus Rihanna has recently announced her own collection of umbrellas, devised in collaboration with Totes clothing company. Currently the Rihanna umbrella collection has 5 models, all in different color. It…
British ex-Beatle [tag]Paul McCartney[/tag] has just tied up the issues concerning his divorce with his former wife Heather Mills. Heather is set to receive, a whooping, 140 million dollar divorce settlement; 30 million now and 7 million each year, until their 3 year old daughter turns 18. Macca’s fortune is evaluated at 1.4 billion dollars. The couple first announced their breakup in May 2006 and since then loads of posts on various tabloids and newspapers…
Today, ‘Punk’s Not Dead’, a documentary that covers the punk scene from its inception in 1976 to the present, makes it’s screen debut in Siskel Film Center, Chicago. The documentary, directed by Susan Dynner, an self-proffesed American hardcore punk fan, consists of interviews with great personalities from the punk scene, together with some live performances from the major punk artists. Green Day, Sum 41, Ramones, Billy Idol, My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte and Bad Religion…
Acclaimed singer-songwriter Lori McKenna, a plumber’s wife and mother of five from tiny Stoughton, MA was thrust into the limelight when Faith Hill included “Stealing Kisses” and two other songs on 2005’s #1 pop/country Fireflies. With 4 albums under her belt, Lori is now ready for her first major label debut album, dubbed “Unglamorous”, set to be in a store near you on August 14. Produced by Tim McGraw and Byron Gallimore for their Stylesonic…
As some of you may know, pop super boy [tag]James Blunt[/tag], is planning to release his second full length studio album called “All the Lost Souls”, after the his debut smashing hit record “Back To Bedlam”, the record of the millennium from a sales point of view. The LP release date is set for September 17, 2007 and so far a total of 6 tracks have been confirmed (1973; Annie; I Really Want You; Same…
It seems every where i turn i can’t shake Billy Corgan, the man’s everywhere. This time he sheds some light on the much controversial Tarantula single cover, depicting Paris Hilton holding a BlackBerry with the Zeitgeist album cover on the screen, and a low-resolution image of a mushroom cloud in the background. Here’s how Billy convinced the oh-so ‘popular’ Paris Hilton to pose for the cover: ( via Blabbermouth) Actually the original idea was we…
In another publicity stunt, [tag]Smashing Pumpkins[/tag]’s frontman Billy Corgan is apparently looking the two twin Siamese girls, that were featured on the cover of SP’s most acclaimed and best album “Siamese Dream”. As seen on stereogum, quoting Corgan’s camp: In a bit of a fun story, The Smashing Pumpkins are looking for the young girls that adorned the album cover of their record, SIAMESE DREAM. They have most definitely aged to their teens at this…
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