Tireless alt-metal upstream swimmers the Melvins are releasing their 24th studio album, Hold It In, this October — a wildly diverse, heavily crunching project that recalls the freewheeling experimentalism of their mid-Nineties Atlantic Records run. As the Big Business bros (bassist Jared Warren and co-drummer Coady Willis) are sitting this one out, King Buzzo……
If the Grammys are “music’s biggest night,” then the MTV Video Music Awards are music’s most memorable. For three decades, the VMAs have had an incomparable ability to distill a year’s worth of pop music into a single killer ceremony-opening performance. Things don’t always turn out well — Britney’s 2007……
The NFL’s reported plan to get major pop stars to pay for a coveted halftime appearance at next year’s Super Bowl will work only if the pop stars participate. And several outraged music-business sources predict they won’t. “Halftime’s for sale,” says Dennis Arfa, agent for Metallica, Billy Joel and Rush…….
When Basement Jaxx first rose to stardom, the duo was unsatisfied with the state of dance music, describing it as “linear” and “close-minded” and giving their debut album a bold title: “Remedy.” “Most dance music is very shiny and so robotic,” Simon Ratcliffe, one of its members, told Rolling Stone……
Troy Verges humbly credits his success to serendipity. The Louisiana native was a student at Nashville’s Belmont University when he saw a flyer posted on a corkboard for an internship at Patrick Joseph Music, which at the time was on a hot streak with a roster that included Matraca Berg,……
Kathy Griffin has issued a challenge to rapper Nicki Minaj – and it involves butts, not ice buckets. “Of course, everyone’s talking about that ‘Anaconda’ video, and it’s fantastic,” the comedian told The Associated Press in a new interview. “It’s a lot of boo-tay, and I would like to challenge Nicki to a……
With his new single “Neon Light,” Blake Shelton is renewing his vows to country music. But he’s doing it his own way. “The song, the melody, the chorus is so George Jones or George Strait. It really is,” the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year tells Rolling Stone Country. “Of……
The PlayStation 4 is a big hit with 10 million systems sold in nine months, but like any piece of technology, it’s also faced its fair share of technical troubles. The latest example is error CE-33945-4, a major glitch that recently kept some PS4 owners from doing anything on their consoles. Sony told Kotaku earlier […]
The influential music career and turbulent private life of pop-country entertainer Glen Campbell has been chronicled in the documentary film I’ll Be Me, which will be released October 24th in New York and Nashville. Following the performer during his Goodbye Tour, the film also features footage of Campbell’s doctor visits……
Each year, the Emmy Awards celebrate television’s best and brightest. As the 2014 Emmys show quickly approaches, it’s time to take a trip down memory lane. From the very first broadcast from Los Angeles, in 1949, to Bill Cosby’s historical win, in 1966, the Emmys makes for a night to remember, celebrating shows like “I […]
