Paul McCartney presents an award at the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Paul McCartney made a funny comment in his speech that he is known to the younger generation now as the guy from Rock Band.
Styx's Tommy Shaw and REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin performed their new song, "Keep On Rockin'." on the CBS Early Show. The two bands will tour together this summer.
Billboard reports that Prince is planning three back-to-back concerts at three separate venues in Los Angeles on March 28th to promote the three albums he plans to release. Billboard also says that Prince is releasing a $77 subscription service for the lotusflow3r.com website.
Prince is hoping the live appearances will help build anticipation for the March 29 release of his two new albums, "LOtUSFLOW3R" and "MPLSoUND." Both CDs, along with a third by new artist Bria Valente, will be available as a three disc set exclusively through Target for a price of $11.98.
Prince is also launching a fan subscription service called Lotusflow3r.com. For $77 a year, subscribers will get an as yet not fully outlined set of content that will include exclusive music, video, lyrics, artwork and photos.
On March 28, Prince is scheduled to perform three full-length concerts at Los Angeles' $2.5 billion L.A. Live sports and entertainment project, which is owned and being developed by AEG. Doors for the first show at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live will open at 5:30 p.m.; doors at the Conga Room open at 8 p.m.; and doors at Club Nokia will open at 11:30 p.m.
Prince has also teamed up with Target for the release of his three albums. One of the albums is by Prince's protege, singer Bria Valente.
Lars Ulrich welcomes peeps to Meticalla's YouTube Channel in the video below. He also said some YouTube users look great playing Metallica songs. Metallica's new album "Death Magnetic" was released on September 12th, 2008. Lars says he is "mighty, mighty proud" of what YouTube users have been doing. Lars even goes on to name drop a few Youtuers.
Reuters reports that R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots will play at the Voodoo Music Experience festival in New Orleans' City Park this October.
New Orleans' Voodoo Music Experience festival will marks its 10th anniversary in October by hosting three of the biggest bands of the 1990s: R.E.M., Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots.
The three-day event kicks off on Oct. 24 at New Orleans' City Park; tickets start going on sale on Friday, priced at $100 for the three days.
Additional acts include hometown heroes the Neville Brothers, making their Voodoo debut, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Irving Mayfield’s New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and the New Orleans Bingo! Show.
The exact date for the three-day concert are October 24th, 25th and 26th. You can find more information on the website located here.
Madonna has entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The VOA reports that she was inducted in her first year of eligibility. Selling over 200 million albums (and still counting) doesn't hurt.
There's no doubt Madonna is one of the most successful rock acts of the past 25 years. With more than 200 million albums sold, Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the very first year of her eligibility. The former dancer made her recording debut in 1982, opening the door to a career that has included acting, writing, producing and directing.
Artists become eligible for induction 25 years after their first recording. It's been more than 40 years since fans heard the first song by 1960s British band The Dave Clark Five.
The Dave Clark Five, featuring Dave Clark, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley, Denis Payton and lead singer Mike Smith, was at the forefront of the "British Invasion" with one of its biggest hits "Can't You See That She's Mine." The group's induction came less than two weeks after losing Smith to pneumonia at age 64.
According to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation president Joe Peresman, the 23rd annual induction ceremony paid tribute to those who offered a unique contribution to the rock era.
Justin Timberlake made the introduction. He recalled during the introduction that Madonna once injected him with a B-12 shot in his buttocks.
John Mellencamp and Dave Clark Five were also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. You can find the Rock Hall's website here.
Rev Theory's Light It Up Official Wrestlemania XXIV Theme Song
The WWE needs some serious rock anthems. They have announced that Rev Theory's "Light It Up" along with the Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Snow (Hey Oh)" will be this year's theme songs for Wrestlemania XXIV.
These songs were selected from thousands of recent rock anthems. The WWE says "Light It Up" has gotten wrestling fans "pumped up and raving." The song is included in Wrestlemania ads and will be played during the Wrestlemania event and on the WWE website.
You can hear "Light it Up" here on YouTube. There is also a video about the writing of the song here on YouTube. Rev Theory has an album coming out in June on Interscope Records.
People has an article about Heroes star Hayden Panettiere's upcoming album that says she is into pop, rock, hip-hop and R&B.
"Like pop, rock - maybe more of an R&B thing," the 18-year-old actress-activist (and now singer) told PEOPLE Thursday at the Stuart Weitzman Oscar suite in West Hollywood. "I have such eclectic tastes in music. I love rock, hip-hop, I like pop. I love Natasha Bedingfield and [singer-songwriter] Anna Nalick."
People says the album is due out this spring from Hollywood Records. There are a few songs already on Hayden's MySpace page. There haven't been any episodes of Heroes lately but Hayden keeps busy - such as appearing in ads for Candie's with a cute little puppy.
Def Leppard has announced the tour dates and cities for its 2008 concert tour. The tour will start on March 27th, 2008. This is the North American leg of Def Leppard's world tour so it is not the complete list of worldwide cities.
March 27 - Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, NC
March 29 - Hard Rock, Hollywood, FL
March 30 - Germain Arena, Estero, FL
April 1 - Bi-Lo Center, Greenville, SC
April 3 - Sovereign Arena, Reading, PA
April 4 - The Borgata, Atlantic City, NJ
April 6 - Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH
April 8 - Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT
April 9 - Dunkin' Donuts Center, Providence, RI
April 11 - Colisee Pepsi Arena, Quebec City, QC
April 12 - Scotiabank Place, Ottawa, ON
April 13 - Copps Arena, Hamilton, ON
April 16 - MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB
April 18 - Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI
April 19 - Joe Louis Arena, Detroit, MI
April 22 - Idaho Center, Boise, ID
April 23 - Spokane Arena, Spokane, WA
April 25 - The Pearl, Las Vegas, NV
April 26 - Coors Amphitheatre, San Diego, CA
Led Zeppelin is finally going to be selling its albums online. Warner Music Group confirmed in a statement that Led Zeppelin would be going digital through mobile phones. CNN's Media Biz called Led Zeppelin one of the few remaining holdouts and says there will also be iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody availability in addition to the mobile outlets in Warner Music's statement.
Led Zeppelin, one of the few remaining holdouts in the digital music age, said Monday that it is finally releasing its catalog digitally. The only official announcement from the group's record label, Atlantic Records, which is owned by Warner Music Group (WMG), discussed how songs would be available through the V CAST music service of Verizon Wireless, the mobile phone service owned by Verizon (VZ) and Vodafone (VD).
But a spokesman for Warner Music Group confirmed to me Monday that other reports about Led Zeppelin's music becoming available on other major music stores on Nov. 13 were true. That means people will be able to download "Stairway to Heaven," "Kashmir" and other Zeppelin hits from Apple's (AAPL) iTunes, Napster (NAPS) and RealNetworks' (RNWK) Rhapsody for their MP3 players beginning next month.
This is big news for all the online music stores since Led Zeppelin, according to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America, is the fourth-biggest selling artist in U.S. history. Only The Beatles, Elvis Presley and Garth Brooks have sold more albums.
It's also good news for Warner Music Group since it opens up yet another way for the company to cash in on Zeppelin's back catalog. The big record labels may increasingly find that their livelihood will depend on nostalgia.
Best Week Ever notes that the day Led Zeppelin's music is available on iTunes is the same day their double-Greatest Hits album comes out. Gizmodo writes that the Led Zeppelin digital music will be available at all online music stores. Sounds good but this is 2007 -- it's about time Zeppelin.
The Associated Press says the diverse list shows how much the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has modified since its early days.
The nominations illustrate how far the Hall of Fame has stretched its definition of rock 'n' roll to incorporate a variety of musical styles.
It's certainly the case with Madonna, the Detroit-area native who burst out of New York dance clubs in the early 1980s with "Holiday" and soon became a pop culture icon. She scored 17 Top Ten hits in the 1980s alone and is due to put out an album next year, working with the likes of Timbaland and Justin Timberlake.
The Beastie Boys molded punk rock and rap into the goofy hit "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right to Party." They became critical favorites and are still together, releasing an instrumental album this year.
Indiana’s own Mellencamp can fill a barrel with rock hits like "Hurts So Good," "Pink Houses" and "R.O.C.K. in the USA." Like Chic and the Dave Clark Five, he’s been nominated before without getting into the hall.
Last year the following artists were inducted into the Rock Hall.
The Sun is reporting that Nine Inch Nails singer Trent Reznor has written a tv show about the band's latest album (Year Zero) and the group is trying to pitch the idea to tv networks.
It is a concept album about the singer's forecast of the America in 20 years time, and Trevor is currently pitching the idea to TV networks.
He said: "We've got a producer on board and have met with writers.
"We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."
Nine Inch Nails the tv show? Like Trent says, "If it works, it works and if it doesn't, it doesn't." Nine Inch Nails also has an official site on YouTube. There's nothing there about a tv show but here is a video of NIN performing in Stockholm, Sweden.
Van Halen and David Lee Roth have announced their first tour in 22 years on their website at van-halen.com. Van Halen is best known to most people for their 1984 album which stayed at number one on Billboard's charts for five start weeks. 1984 included the hit songs "Jump, "Panama, "Hot For Teacher" and "I'll Wait."
Tickets for the first Van Halen tour in more than 22 years with David Lee Roth as lead vocalist went on sale this weekend and resulted in immediate sell outs in multiple markets around the country, including Charlotte, Detroit (Palace), 2 shows in Toronto, 2 in Chicago and one in Philadelphia. Tour producer Live Nation immediately added additional shows in Philadelphia (Wachovia Center 10/3) and Detroit (Joe Louis Arena 10/20) which will go on sale this Saturday, August 25th.
An additional stop was also scheduled for Washington, DC's Verizon Center (11/1), extending Van Halen's historic trek to 29 dates in all. Tickets for the Washington, DC date will go on sale this Friday, August 24th. In addition, tickets for the band's October 30th show at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden go on sale this Saturday, August 25th.
SFGate.com's culture blog predicted this even earlier this year. Are people still listening to Van Halen. Yes, they are. They have been able to add tour dates because of strong ticket sales. YouTube shows 12,500 results for a Van Halen search. This video for "Jump" has over 1.6 million views.
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