Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive , Q + A Herfitz PR On May 22, the Cult will be releasing 'Choice of Weapon,' the group's first studio album in five years. For the new collection, they started the project with producer Chris Goss ( Queens of the Stone Age ) and closed it out with their longtime collaborator Bob Rock ( Metallica , Bon Jovi ), who also [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Deborah Lopez Mike Doughty isn't going to kid you: "I can't renounce drugs. I love drugs," he writes early in his new memoir, ' The Book of Drugs .' It's a frank chronicle of the early part of Doughty's career, from working as a doorman at the Knitting Factory in the early '90s to assembling, almost by accident, the musicians who became [...]
Filed under: News Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images You can now add Survivor to the list of artists ( Tom Petty , Sheryl Crow , Bruce Springsteen , John Mellencamp and the New Pornographers to name a few) irked by politicians using their songs during election campaigns. According to The Guardian , Newt Gingrich is being sued by Frankie Sullivan, co-writer of Survivor's classic '80s rock [...]
Filed under: News Frazer Harrison/Getty Images The Beatles ' legendary rooftop concert at Abbey Road is one of the most iconic moments in rock 'n' roll history, but the Fab Four originally had other plans for their last performance. Ringo Starr stopped by SiriusXM's Town Hall event on Jan. 30 to promote his 17th studio album, 'Ringo 2012,' which is out now. After being introduced by jester Russel Brand, Starr was [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Awards , Television Getty Images Hey, remember Adele ? Well, she's back! And she'll be making her way stateside to sing at the upcoming 54th Annual Grammy Awards . This will be the British beauty's first live performance in almost five months, following surgery to repair her vocal cords. As Spinner previously reported, Adele was forced to cancel her [...]
Filed under: News Jonathan Short, AP Florence Welch doesn't need to watch those ' Hangover ' movies -- while she's on tour, she lives them. Consider a recent trip to New York City, where she turned into Florence the Drinking Machine, left a tea light burning overnight and nearly burned down the Bowery Hotel . "I think I must have had about 17 dirty martinis," the Florence and the Machine singer [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Joel Sage, AFP/Getty Images If a cover is the highest compliment one songwriter can bestow upon another, then few songwriters command as much respect as Leonard Cohen . It seems like thousands of artists have interpreted his work, especially his signature late-career song 'Hallelujah' which Cohen once told the CBC could use "a break." With the release of ' Old Ideas [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Television Kevin Winter, NBCUniversal/Getty Images If you're betting on a nipple flash during this year's Super Bowl halftime show, you should probably put your money on Nicki Minaj instead of Madonna . During an appearance on ' The Tonight Show ,' Madonna told Jay Leno that her performance at Sunday's big event will be decidedly nip-free. When Leno asked what rules [...]
Filed under: News Larry Busacca, Getty Images Being a coffee connoisseur has become all the rage among the creative set with folks like Bonnie Prince Billy and David Lynch getting their brew on . Now former LCD Soundsystem main man James Murphy wants in on the coffee craze so he's developing his own signature espresso blend. "I make a lot of coffee," Murphy told New York [...]
Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Colin Schiller and The Reactions Video: 'Dizzy' Highlight: "'Dizzy' is a song about having a super crush on someone who you only get to see in short spurts," Colin Schiller tells Spinner. "When she's around it's intoxicating and when she's not the mind goes wild with fantasies! Who knows if she notices but it's more about the chase and the eventual victory! The video brings the song into a visual experience and focuses on the [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , New Music Jonathan Mannion Artist: Yuna Hails From: Malaysia Song: 'Live Your Life' Prod. Pharrell Williams Sounds Like: Little Dragon , Fiona Apple In Their Words: "Working on 'Live Your Life' was a lot of fun. It was really spontaneous how the song came [...]
Filed under: News , Video Steve Jennings, WireImage The last time we saw Feist she was wandering around a black and white forest with Rapunzel -like locks kickin' it to 'How Come You Never Go There.' For her latest video, though, she's turned up the Technicolor and seemingly taken a page from ' No Country for Old Men .' (Come on, don't you half expect Javier [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. AP Photo, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Camilla Williams, the first African-American singer to appear with a major American opera company, died at 92 in Bloomington, Ill., according to the Associated Press . The soprano singer passed away on Jan. 29 due to cancer-related complications. The opera pioneer made her historic debut on May 15, 1946 with the New York City Opera performing the title role in Puccini's [...]
Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , Movies , Q + A Adam Smith For the forthcoming Chemical Brothers concert film 'Don't Think,' shot at the 2011 Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, longtime visual collaborator Adam Smith used 20 cameras and employed avant-garde techniques. His goal was "to perfectly capture a fan's-eye view of the heightened emotional reactions of the audience seeing the band at their very best." As the Chemicals [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News WireImage (2) Elton John has some advice for Madonna concerning this Sunday's Super Bowl halftime show: "Make sure you lip-sync good." Yes, the Rocket Man chose that pearl of wisdom when asked by ' Good Morning America ' host Chris Connelly if he had any insight for Madge. "I've never seen a decent one -- never ever," he told Connelly Jan. 30. "Of course [...]
Filed under: News Nasty Little Man Jack White is perhaps the busiest dude in music. Since the White Stripes went on a hiatus that eventually ended in their dissolution, White has engaged himself in numerous collaborations and side projects, as well as plenty of Third Man projects ranging from inventing new types of vinyl to creating tons and tons of tchotchkes . White has been so ubiquitous in the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Wire Image | bauergriffinonline.com In January 1992, Nirvana 's 'Nevermind' album toppled a four-week holiday-season reign by Michael Jackson 's 'Dangerous' atop the Billboard 200 sales chart. The Alternative Revolution had stormed the barricades. Grunge, goth, pop-punk, industrial and electronica suddenly all came together to a degree, as outsider acts from outsider genres broke through to the mainstream in [...]
Filed under: News Getty Images 'Abbey Road' is revered by Beatles fans the world over. It was the last album they ever recorded, and its sequencing and construction are so tight it's difficult to imagine any second of this album being different than it is now, almost as if it sprung fully formed from the minds of John, Paul, George and Ringo. Yet, 43 years after its making, a lost George Harrison guitar solo for [...]
Filed under: News Alan Weller, FilmMagic U2 's latest 360 world tour grossed nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in ticket sales alone, so clearly the biggest band knows how to keep their fans happy. But what's going to happen when U2 supporters learn the band's manager Paul McGuinness wants Google to fall in line with SOPA/PIPA Internet piracy legislation? "It amazes me that Google has not done the right thing," McGuinness said at [...]
Filed under: News , New Music David Ramos/Getty Images Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A. , is back on the radar with her first release since late 2010. Her new single 'Bad Girls' is a "return to form" of sorts, leaning on careening beats and daisychained hooks without the degraded fidelity of her last effort, '/\/\/\Y/\.' The Danja-produced track made its first appearance on her late 2010 mixtape 'Vicki Leekx' and debuted on Pitchfork earlier today. [...]
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